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Post by jlthorpe on Apr 21, 2014 5:59:49 GMT -5
"Bruce" by Rick Springfield
"Baby Got Back" by Sir Mix-A-Lot
"Humpty Dance" by Digital Underground
"Piano Man" by Billy Joel
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Post by dukelightning on Apr 21, 2014 7:33:28 GMT -5
"Motown Philly"...Boys II Men
"Do Anything"...Natural Selection
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Post by jlthorpe on Apr 21, 2014 18:12:10 GMT -5
"Warm It Up" and "Jump" - Kris Kross
"Ice Ice Baby" and "Play That Funky Music" - Vanilla Ice
"Crazy Little Thing Called Love" - Queen
"Hello Dolly" - Louis Armstrong
Technically, the following also count:
"Living In A Box" - Living In A Box
"Who Are You" - The Who
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Post by beegee3 on Apr 21, 2014 19:00:01 GMT -5
How about Survivor's "Eye of the Tiger" ("...and the last known survivor stalks his prey in the night)?
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Post by pgfromwp on Apr 22, 2014 6:55:38 GMT -5
Two songs that were not technically AT40, but have notable name checks:
"Aquarius" by the Fifth Dimension -- toward the end, they want you to "sing along with the Fifth Dimension".
"LA Woman" by the Doors -- Mr Mojo Risin= Jim Morrison (unscrambled)
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Post by johnnywest on Apr 22, 2014 14:56:07 GMT -5
"Set Adrift On Memory Bliss" has the line, "I wanted her to be a big P.M. Dawn fan."
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Post by MrGeno502 on Apr 22, 2014 21:07:38 GMT -5
How about The South's Gonna Do It (Again) by The Charlie Daniels Band? The line in the song "And all the good people down in Tennessee
are diggin' Barefoot Jerry and C.D.B"
C.D.B. of course being The Charlie Daniels Band.
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Post by johnnywest on Apr 24, 2014 20:16:26 GMT -5
Nicki Minaj and Justin (Bieber) are mentioned in "Beauty & A Beat."
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Post by renfield75 on Apr 25, 2014 11:37:36 GMT -5
Jason Derulo shouts his own name at the beginning of most of his early top 40 hits (I guess he thinks his name is well-known enough now that he doesn't have to do that anymore).
"OPP" included the line "Not 'cause I hate ya, 'cause I'm Naughty By Nature"
"Calling Dr. Love" has the lyric "The first step of the cure is…a KISS"
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Post by Deleted on Apr 26, 2014 14:39:07 GMT -5
"Warm It Up" and "Jump" - Kris Kross "Ice Ice Baby" and "Play That Funky Music" - Vanilla Ice "Crazy Little Thing Called Love" - Queen "Hello Dolly" - Louis Armstrong Technically, the following also count: "Living In A Box" - Living In A Box "Who Are You" - The Who Also by The Who, "You Better You Bet" from 1981... The song makes references to both the group T. Rex, and the group's own 1971 album Who's Next, with the line: "I drunk myself blind to the sound of old T. Rex... and Who's Next".  |
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Post by johnnywest on May 5, 2014 11:34:17 GMT -5
Vienna Calling - Falco
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Post by matt on May 5, 2014 20:20:49 GMT -5
"Motown Philly"...Boys II Men "Do Anything"...Natural Selection Nice call on "Do Anything"...one of the true lost hits (and bands) of the early 90's. |
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Post by matt on May 5, 2014 20:25:07 GMT -5
"Motown Philly"...Boys II Men "Do Anything"...Natural Selection Nice call on "Do Anything"...one of the true lost hits (and bands) of the early 90's. Also, rayshae3 mentioned "Talk Talk" by Talk Talk, and "Wham Rap". Two songs that IIRC were known at the time, but didn't reach the 40 (I don't believe that "Wham Rap" was released as a single, correct?). |
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Post by dukelightning on May 5, 2014 20:48:39 GMT -5
IIRC, Natural Selection is from Minneapolis. That means you are probably quite familiar with them huh!
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Post by rayshae3 on May 5, 2014 23:05:23 GMT -5
Nice call on "Do Anything"...one of the true lost hits (and bands) of the early 90's. Also, rayshae3 mentioned "Talk Talk" by Talk Talk, and "Wham Rap". Two songs that IIRC were known at the time, but didn't reach the 40 (I don't believe that "Wham Rap" was released as a single, correct?). 12" version was released in the US on Inner Vision via Columbia (cat.# 44-03177) under "Enjoy What You Do (Wham Rap)".The speed on this single:33 1/3 rpm. But in the rest of the world the parenthesized title was the other way around: "Wham Rap (Enjoy What You Do)" |
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