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[dukelightning]

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".

[dukelightning]

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.

[dukelightning]

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!

[OnWithTheCountdown]

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.

[dukelightning]

I am in one of those years you are slated to hear going forward...1997. Got David Perry hosting the 7/12/97 show which starts with a rarity. How many superstar artists first hit debuts at #40? Matchbox 20 do so with "Push" which is probably still my fave song in this show that I am more than halfway through. Jewel has one that is very nearly as good and it is always hard to compare rockers with ballads. Anyway, "You Were Meant For Me" is great as are virtually every one of her songs. That 2003 show I heard the other day had both "Intuition" and "Hands" in it, both of which are great.
One song that is no where near great is the biggest mover 'Gotham City". This has to be one of the least impressive such hits from both a chart and a listenable standpoint. It's only moving 27 to 23 and it only peaks at 18.
David says that Paula Cole was influenced by Kate Bush and Peter Gabriel. Can hear a little of the former on "Where Have All the Cowboys Gone".
"Push" almost held up as my fave song in the show. Always hard to rank songs anyway but "Return of the Mack" and witch with a 'b' are at the same level of liking for me. Not "Mmmbop" however, the #1 song by as David says the youngest group to hit #1 with an average age of 14, beating out the J5 whose average age was 15 when they first hit #1.

[dukelightning]

What a difference 7 years make or is it makes? Anyway, it is the AT40 from 7/28/90. Heard a 1997 show yesterday and the best way to describe the difference between them is to say that the 1997 show is like an AC show while the 1990 show is like a CHR show(from the same date). Just heard the same question that Casey answered in the 1976 70s show about highest ranked year end hit that did not reach #1 with "Wooly Bully" being that same answer. Shadoe mentioned how it beat out 2 hits that were #1 for 4 weeks..."Yesterday" and "Satisfaction". Here's a factoid to add...1965 is the only year in the 60s in which no hit spent more than 4 weeks at #1. 1990 is just like 1965 in that 4 weeks was the longest stay at #1 but in this case, those 3 hits were the top 3 in the year end survey. That's according to the AT40 tabulations. Billboard saw it differently with only 1 of those 3 being in the top 3. A song I am hearing right now that did not hit #1 came in 4th and that's "Poison".
Fave song in this show is "Epic" written by all the members of Faith No More as Shadoe said.
One fact that has not changed in the 34 years since this show aired is the largest city in South America. In announcing new stations, he said it was Sao Paulo and it still is.
Talked about a band with only a few hits but a huge following. They arranged a meet and greet with fans in Los Angeles. But fans started gathering the night before and by morning, hundreds had turned into thousands. Shadoe said the figure ended up being 10,000 fans which turned into a riot when many realized that they would not only fail to speak to Depeche Mode but would not see them either. That portends the increasing popularity of alternative that was soon to become mainstream IMO. And MC Hammer had the #1 album which had been on top for several weeks speaking of genres whose popularity was increasing.
I can count on one hand the number of superstar artists whose last hit is my fave by them. Mary J. Blige is one of them and so is Billy Idol. Kind of surprising as big a hit as "Cradle Of Love" was that he had no followup hit.

[dukelightning]

Lots of posts this weekend about year end 1994 countdowns. Got a show from that year playing but it's not a year ender nor is it Casey or Rick. Not Shadoe either though I have heard his voice. This may be the only AT40 in its history in which the show's host can be heard on a guest hosted show.* Joe Cipriano is doing the 7/23/94 show but Shadoe who was in South Africa for the first of 2 weeks recorded minute or so clips for each hour from there. In his hour 2 clip, he talked about how a lot of black musicians who had fled country because of apartheid are returning.
A few comments from Joe...said that an artist being portrayed as the new Streisand is Celine Dion to which he said he hopes that does not mean $35 tickets will turn into $350 tickets. It probably did given her long stints in Las Vegas. Be that as it may, my fave song by her is "Misled" at #30. Joe also said that an artist known for ballads has an upbeat hit(a comment that could have been said about Celine) and that's Michael Bolton. He trades places with Roxette who are also in with their most rocking song IMO with "Sleeping in My Car". And Joe also said that Richard Marx' "Crazy About the Way You Love Me" is a cross between the Beach Boys and Huey Lewis. Well said!
Speaking of Richard, his "Endless Summer Nights" was an odd LDD. Odd because it came from a guy in Pennsylvania to a gal there. AT40 had ceased to be broadcast in the US a couple weeks earlier so there is no way he heard this.
Joe says that Collective Soul is a 5 man band. But I had heard Casey say later in the 90s that initially the act consisted of just Ed Roland and that the other members were not added until 1995. In any case, "Shine" is a great song.
Other great songs besides the ones mentioned are 'The Most Beautiful Girl in the World", "Back and Forth", "Anytime Anyplace"(slow jamz times 2!), "Anytime You Need a Friend", "Fall Down", "When Can I See You" and "Regulate". Not a big fan of 1992, 93, 95 or 96 but 1994 is kind of like an island in the meh waters of the mid 90s.

*It's not. Shadoe says in the last clip that more clips will be heard on the next show. These are the only back to back weeks of guest hosted shows during Shadoe's run. Happened during Casey's tenure too. And happens for longer stints every year for Seacrest.

[OnWithTheCountdown]

Joe Cipriano may be the only guest host who has subbed for both Shadoe and Casey, the latter on 8/7/1999. Finally started the 1997-1999 marathon at work, so I'll be hearing that show eventually.

[dukelightning]

With the emphasis on eventually huh! You have to go through well over 100 shows chronologically to get to it.
A first for me today. Not counting the current AT40 which I have been hearing that way, I heard my first AT/CT40 on my phone. That's 1900+ AT/CT40s before this happened! And it was the 7/25/92 CT40 which itself has a major first in it. First show with 2 female duos. Debuting to make it happen are the Indigo Girls. As the song was playing, I thought this is a nice folk song. Sure enough afterward Casey said legendary folk singers David Crosby and Jackson Browne sang backup on it, "Galileo". And Shakespeare's Sister came later with Casey telling a story of how Shakespeare was not thought to be educated enough to have written all those plays attributed to him. Leading into the story he identified Shakespeare's Sister as a group but when he got to the intro for their song, he did call them a duo. Casey made a much more egregious mistake when he said the #1 song from 10 years ago was "Up Where We Belong"! That is not even close! It hit the top in November!
I sold 1992 short and people have sold Casey short then too. But this was just as good a show musically as the 1994 one I heard yesterday and Casey was in top form. Leading into and after playing "Baby Got Back" he quipped that Sir Mix-a-Lot had backed up 11 notches!
Had fun with TLC who Pebbles picked up in 1990 to manage them. Back then Casey said that TLC stood for Totally Lacking Chili. But after losing a member and then replacing her and now with their first big hit, he said that TLC stood for thoroughly loving the chart.
Casey also said the same thing about an artist at almost the same position as an artist that Ryan Seacrest said in the last show. Each said that George Michael/Ariana Grande were looking for their 10th #1 hit. George was at #4 and failed to get it with "Too Funky" or any subsequent release. I think Ariana who was at #3 will get hers however.
Finally, Casey got it right when he listed all the live #1 hits leading into "I'll Be There". They were "Fingertips", "My Ding-a-Ling", "Coming Up", "At This Moment" and "Mony Mony". With this being the last of its 6 weeks on top and no live hits reaching #1 since that I am aware of, this is the last ever week of a live recording being at #1.

[woolebull]

I have hear a ton of shows over the last month, but the last two have particularly been interesting to me.

1) Dees 6/2/90: I get Bourgois so I am happy!
2) AT 6/6/81: I get Tagg so I am happy!

The Dees show was interesting because not only was my undergrad college radio top 40 station mentioned when they called up the winner of the weekly contest, it was mentioned AGAIN randomly as the show was going off as Dees gave a shoutout to some women in Harrisonburg, VA. Even funnier, he first said Q-101 was out of Chicago, corrected himself, and just kept on going during the second mention! Also, I vividly remember John Moschitta being on the 5/26/90 show doing all of the words to "Vogue" in less that 30 seconds. He was back for the 6/2/90 show doing all the words to "Nothing Compares 2 U" in 25 seconds.

As for the 6/6/81 show: I have a theory that during graduation month (June), high school graduates will have at least one show where there is at least one artist who had been hitting since the year most high school graduates were born. So for example, for the class of 2024, there have already been three acts who first charted in 2006 or before on the first show of June: Shinedown, Beyonce, and Justin Timberlake. Gary "US" Bonds did the trick for the 6/6/81 show. Rod Stewart and Ronald Isley did it from the 1990 show. As far as I can tell, this goes back as far as 1978 and continues to this day with people ranging from Johnny Mathis to Snow making this phenomenon happen.

[chrislc]

Summer '78.

Hey I just noticed the Little River Band was dissing the great Glenn Miller Orchestra.

They were "better than before".

So you're saying they weren't any good before? The nerve!

16 #1 songs. How many did you have, Little River Band?

On the other hand, maybe LRB was reminiscing about a time before Miller had any hits, so...maybe they were lousy at some point.

[doofus67]

Jun 6, 2024 15:22:05 GMT -5 chrislc said:

Summer '78.

Hey I just noticed the Little River Band was dissing the great Glenn Miller Orchestra.

They were "better than before".

So you're saying they weren't any good before? The nerve!

16 #1 songs. How many did you have, Little River Band?

On the other hand, maybe LRB was reminiscing about a time before Miller had any hits, so...maybe they were lousy at some point.

Not to mention, they also ripped off the writers of the I Love Lucy theme song. The guitar riff matches the melody.

[chrislc]

Jun 6, 2024 15:36:40 GMT -5 doofus67 said:

Jun 6, 2024 15:22:05 GMT -5 chrislc said:

Summer '78.

Hey I just noticed the Little River Band was dissing the great Glenn Miller Orchestra.

They were "better than before".

So you're saying they weren't any good before? The nerve!

16 #1 songs. How many did you have, Little River Band?

On the other hand, maybe LRB was reminiscing about a time before Miller had any hits, so...maybe they were lousy at some point.

Not to mention, they also ripped off the writers of the I Love Lucy theme song. The guitar riff matches the melody.

Wow I never noticed that. Intentional? Or maybe being from Australia they had never heard of the TV show or Lucille Ball and were actually ripping off the Wilton Place Street Band. What a bunch of thieves.

I didn't learn it was Secret Love in the intro to Me And Mrs. Jones for about 40 years. But subliminally I'm sure I noticed it back in 1972 and a lot of people probably did too.

[doofus67]

Jun 6, 2024 16:34:20 GMT -5 chrislc said:

Jun 6, 2024 15:36:40 GMT -5 doofus67 said:

Not to mention, they also ripped off the writers of the I Love Lucy theme song. The guitar riff matches the melody.

Wow I never noticed that. Intentional? Or maybe being from Australia they had never heard of the TV show or Lucille Ball and were actually ripping off the Wilton Place Street Band. What a bunch of thieves.

I didn't learn it was Secret Love in the intro to Me And Mrs. Jones for about 40 years. But subliminally I'm sure I noticed it back in 1972 and a lot of people probably did too.

That said, "Reminiscing" is one of my favorite songs of '78, my favorite year in music.

[dukelightning]

1978 is one of my favorite years too. Probably my favorite year in the 90s is 1991 and that's what I've got going now, the 7/27/91 AT40. woolebull was mentioning artists charting in association with graduations that had charted when the person was born. The Temptations would be an example of that in this show in their collaboration with Rod Stewart on "The Motown Song". Come to think of it Rod is too.
Before saying that "Unforgettable" was a dubbed duet, Shadoe played clips of the only other such duets in history to that point. First playing a song dubbed in 1989 between Hank Williams Jr. and Sr. Then playing a dubbed hit between 2 deceased artists, Patsy Cline and Jim Reeves from 1981, that one in the style of "You Don't Bring Me Flowers" in the sense that both artists had recorded the song originally.
Shadoe says that "I'll Never Let You Go" went from 23 to 26 back to 23 to 35 this week. By now with so much rebounding on the charts, I am guessing that every position in the top 40 has had a rebound like that. But I wonder how many positions had that distinction by the end of the Hot 100 era a few months later. Can't be too many though it certainly happened with #1 and #2.
"Gypsy Woman (She's Homeless)" is one of those songs as is the Steelheart hit that make 1991 a great year on AT/CT40 for me. It's about a woman Crystal Waters knew in NYC and was a by product of her first job in the music industry as a songwriter.
Before playing the Escape Club's "I'll Be There", Shadoe played clips of the other hits with that title. The J5, Gerry & the Pacemakes and the first one which when I heard it, I could not help but think it sounded like "Stand By Me". Sure enough it was an answer record to Ben E. King's hit from the same year, 1961. Another answer hit. Certainly had a few of those in the 60s!