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Post by dukelightning on May 6, 2024 10:28:34 GMT -5
And I see that made it onto AT40. Good pickup there freakyflybry! No German artists on the AT40 from 7/10/93. Instead as Shadoe just said, the 6th set of twins to make the top 40 in the Proclaimers. The first 5 were the Kalins in the 50s, 2 sisters in the Shangra-la's in the 60s, brothers in the Whispers in the 80s, Nelson and SOHO(sisters) both in 1990. The 90s are the decade for twins since IIRC there are at least a couple more later on. Shadoe also said "I'm Gonna Be 500 Miles" reached #21 on the Modern Rock chart in 1989. Before playing "More and More", Shadoe mentioned "More, More, More" by Andrea True. This should also be a 'more times 3' titled hit because the Captain Hollywood Project sing 'more and more and more'. Shadoe answered question about the biggest audience for a top 40 hit. Answer: 488,000 in New York's Central Park for Simon & Garfunkel's "Wake up Little Susie". Recorded in 1981, a hit in 1982. Biggest live hit of 1993 is in this show too dropping from its #4 peak, "Have I Told You Lately".
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Post by dukelightning on May 12, 2024 7:00:07 GMT -5
6 months after Casey returned, he is on a much shorter hiatus as Mark Elliott hosts the 7/22/89 CT40. Not sure what the record is for this type of thing but it may very well have been set in this show. 3 superstar artists are spending their last ever weeks on CT/AT40. Show kicks off with one of them although Stevie Nicks does return with Fleetwood Mac but "Rooms on Fire" is her last solo hit and one of her better ones IMO. All 3 artists are women with Donna Summer and Cyndi Lauper also spending their last weeks on but Mark makes a mistake when he says that Donna first hit the top 40 in December 1975. She did on AT40 but on the R&R chart, "Love to Love You Baby" did not debut until January 1976...1/17 to be exact. One of the droppers was "My Brave Face" which was the last hit for Paul McCartney so mid to late July 1989 was the swan song for many artists! As on the 80s show this week, one of the R&D/LDDs is a dropper..."Wind Beneath My Wings". Unlike the 80s show and most CT40s, there is an extra too. Mark told the well known story of how Mark Knopfler wrote "Money for Nothing" in that appliance store in NYC before playing it. I see posts about Donny Osmond on the other thread. Mark told a story of how Donny met Peter Gabriel backstage once in 1987. Peter told him that back in the 70s he once flew from London to NYC to see Donny perform. How about that?! Donny ended up recording his comeback album in Peter's home studio. Doing so gave him the Peter Gabriel stamp of approval and credibility that he needed. Another unique aspect of this show is not only having a dropper as R&D but having another one that is in the countdown. Not only that, it is the biggest mover and in only its third week on, "Right Here Waiting". Earliest a song has ever been a R&D? Ironically I remember "Wind Beneath My Wings" being a LDD on AT40 as it was climbing the chart. Man, this is one strange show when it comes to rarities. Not one but two extras! I don't think there was another show that Casey or a guest host did in the 80s, 90s or 2000s with 2 extras, maybe an AT40 that Shadoe did. If I am right, the last time it happened for Casey was the 2/17/79 AT40. Second extra was "Maniac" with Mark saying that Michael Sembello recorded it for Texas Chainsaw Massacre. But then the producers of Flashdance contacted him and he started working on a different song. When he sent in the demo to them, he inadvertently sent in "Maniac" on the cassette. He was surprised that they liked it best and told them it was really about a mass murderer. So they changed the lyrics a bit and that's how it came to be. Yet another record is divulged in the promos which Mark did btw. Said there were 5 hits that were either rap itself or influenced by rap.
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Post by dukelightning on May 13, 2024 8:17:27 GMT -5
Having deferred the 7/12/97 and 7/11/98 shows because they were guest hosted and I just heard a guest hosted show yesterday(7/10/99 and 7/12/03 were also guest hosted as Casey seems to take the week off after the 4th of July week going back to the 80s), it is the 7/19/03 AT40. Casey says that "Why Don't You and I" is by Santana and Chad Kroeger on the album but Chad's label did not want it be released as a single. So they brought in Alex Band to do the vocals, a situation quite similar to what happened with Emmylou Harris' 1981 hit "Mr. Sandman" that had Linda Ronstadt and Dolly Parton on the album version but not the single. Casey says that Sarai is the female Eminem and has been referred to as 'Feminem'. I can see why they say that on "Ladies", her only hit. The real thing came a few songs later on "Sing For the Moment". That's Eminem's sampling of "Dream On", making that the second time Steven Tyler was heard on the show with "I Don't Wanna Miss a Thing" the first LDD. That's about as far away from an unsuitable LDD song as "You and Me Against the World" was in the last 80s 1985 show as you can be! Belvedere vodka seems to be the drink of choice in the summer of 2003. It is mentioned in Ginuwine's "Hell Yeah" and a month away from hitting the countdown is "Mya's "My Love is Like...Wo" that also mentions Belvedere. Train says their albums are sketches but that their concerts are the real works of art, meaning that you cannot grasp their music on albums but will when you hear them live. That is true for probably the majority of recording artists. It's also true of hockey where you cannot really enjoy it on TV as much as you can in person. Many other examples of that type of thing in society. Great story about Christina Aguilera. She was very unpopular in her high school because of her talent. She went to her prom and when the DJ played "Genie in a Bottle", everyone left the dance floor. It was one of the worst moments in her life. But it is experiences like that as Casey said that she is singing about in my fave song by her, "Fighter". 'Makes my skin a little thicker' is a great line and she got the last laugh on her way to the bank!
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Post by OnWithTheCountdown on May 16, 2024 19:08:25 GMT -5
Got a string of early morning shifts the next few days, so my marathons will progress faster. In the top 10 of the 1995 year-end currently, then on to the 1996 year-end, and then, gonna load up all the 1997-1999 shows. I can get through around 3/4 of a show per shift. 1995 was one of those years that I had somewhat lost touch with pop music, and didn't catch CT40 again until very late that year. It was good to re-live that year through the shows. 1996, I had heard just about all of them originally, and it'll be the same for 1997-1999. It was rare for me to miss the countdown; when I did, it usually was work-related.
In the car, up to mid-July in 1983 and 1984. My work marathons are progressing much quicker than the car marathons. 1983 is similar to 1995 in which I hadn't heard the shows originally, and that would also apply to almost the entire first half of 1984.
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