The Bottom Of The Charts

[dth1971]

As a FOURTH OF JULY special treat, here are the BOTTOM OF THE CHARTS from Shadoe Stevens AT40 weeks that had extra special shows seperate from the regular Shadoe AT40 shows:

5/27/1989 (Week of the AT40 World Tour special for Memorial Day weekend 1989):

Dropping to #100 from #70 after peaking at #62 is Mike and the Mechanics with "Seeing is Believing":

www.youtube.com/watch?v=KltnQkpV2FQ

9/2/1989 (Week of the AT40 Book of Records 1980's Edition special for Labor Day weekend 1989):

Dropping to #100 from its peak position at #75 is late 1950's/1960's teen idol Dion (famous for hits like "Runaround Sue") with his short lived chart comeback attempt called "And The Night Stood Still":

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q73v_H3UYXk

7/7/1990 (Week of the AT40 20th. Anniversary Special):

At #100 is "The Heart of The Matter" by Don Henley, so on to #99 and down from #84 after peaking at #62 is former Shalamar member Howard Hewett with "Show Me":

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fl-x4Vlx4T8

7/6/1991 (Week of the AT40 Top 40 American Acts Of The Past 10 Years Special to honor the heroes who took part in the original Gulf War earlier that 1991 year):

Down to #100 from #83 after peaking at #72 are the Pet Shop Boys with a 2 song medley covering U2's "Where The Streets Have No Name" and Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons' "Can't Take My Eyes Off You":

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jt2j79pca7c

[mkarns]

"Seeing Is Believing" was a followup to the #1 hit "The Living Years", though the momentum from that hit wasn't enough to make a top 40 hit out of it.

"And the Night Stood Still" was Dion's last Hot 100 single, but not the end of his career overall. Recently, he's had success with blues albums. And "The Heart of the Matter" peaked at #21, and was more successful in the AC market, where the song became something of a standard that is probably still a favourite with Henley's vast fan base.

[dth1971]

Jul 2, 2015 20:28:14 GMT -5 jmorgan said:

First, 7/10/76:

At the bottom was the g-d**n dead dog dedication song "Shannon" by Henry Gross. Movin' on to #99, and falling from his peak of #61 is French singer Michel Polnareff and the instrumental title song to the film "Lipstick."

www.youtube.com/watch?v=eITBMvJxL_k

Here's a new link to this Michel P. "Lipstick" song:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=elTBMvJxL_k

[dth1971]

Here are this weekend's BOTTOM OF THE CHARTS from Casey Kasem AT40 guest hosted episodes - This week, because I feel happy about WLS FM Chicago airing AT40: The 70's complete last weekend from start to finish, it's 2 shows from the 1970's and 2 shows from the 1980's:

1/6/1979 (Mark Elliott guest hosted for Casey Kasem that week, then Mark took a hiatus from guest hosting AT40 to do the ORIGINAL WEEKLY TOP 40 radio show from 1979 until 1982, this was also the week Mark accidentally played Andy Gibb's "An Everlasting Love" instead of Andy's then on the AT40 chart song "Our Love (Don't Throw It All Away))":

Dropping to #100 from #67 after peaking at #44 is Don Ray with a rare disco classic called "Got To Have Loving":

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dpkwiz9gTkg

4/7/1979 (NYC DJ Bumper Morgan of 99X FM fame guest hosted for Casey Kasem that week):

At #100 is "Too Much Heaven" by the Bee Gees, so on to #99 and dropping from its #70 peak is, yes, another rare disco classic, "Love and Desire (Part 1)" by Arpeggio (This is the video I could find of the single version of the song dubbed over footage of the group performing the song on a March 1979 episode of the classic TV R&B dance show "Soul Train"):

www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpsHwHG6gA4

1/8/1983 (Charlie Van Dyke guest hosted for Casey Kasem that week, though later that 1983 year he would be mostly the permament AT40 guest host for Casey Kasem for the next 5 years):

At #100 is "American Heartbeat" by Survivor, at #99 is "You Don't Want Me Anymore" by Steel Breeze, and at #98 is "Southern Cross" by Crosby, Stills, and Nash; so on to #97 and holding at that position right after peaking at #83 is a group called Rodway with "Don't Stop Trying":

www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjXDrFUHgBM

4/16/1983 (Bob Eubanks, then hosting the NBC daytime game show "Dream House" which ran for a year - Bob plugged it twice on that AT40 guest host episode - guest hosed for Casey Kasem for his second time that week):

Dropping to #100 from its #79 peak is a singer who wouldn't make the Top 40/AT40 reaches until a year later with "A Fine Fine Day" and "The First Day of Summer". This is Tony Carey with "I Won't Be Home Tonight":

www.youtube.com/watch?v=lm4M6XVOBJ0

[jmorgan]

7/18/70:

Debuting at the bottom, and peaking at #74, are The Dells with "Long Lonely Nights."

www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SY8scPYTds

7/12/75:

Also debuting are The Reflections (not the group that sang "(Just Like) Romeo And Juliet" 1n 1963, but a 4-man group from Harlem) with "Three Steps From True Love." The song would peak at #94.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=77LrQEbBk8o

7/7/84:

Falling from its peak of #70 is Tracey Ullman's follow-up to "You Don't Know." Here's "Break-A-Way."

www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_7TPGFVxLM

[dth1971]

Jul 9, 2016 16:14:02 GMT -5 jmorgan said:

7/7/84:

Falling from its peak of #70 is Tracey Ullman's follow-up to "You Don't Know." Here's "Break-A-Way."

www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_7TPGFVxLM

You mean "They Don't Know" for the pre-"Break-A-Way" song follow up.

By the way, speaking of Tracey Ullman, she later had her own FOX primetime show which introduced us to the still going strong animated Simpsons family.

[dth1971]

Here are this weekend's BOTTOM OF THE CHARTS each from a 1970's and a 1980's Casey Kasem AT40 guest host episode:

6/9/1979 (Bruce Phillip Miller guest hosted for Casey Kasem for his second time):

Dropping to #100 from #89 after peaking at #47 is Narada Michael Walden with "I Don't Want To Be Nobody Else (To Dance With You)":

www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4lZSKVG9W8

8/13/1983 (Keri Tombazian, the first female to guest host AT40, guest hosted for Casey Kasem that week for her first of 2 times; this was also the week where Keri played the wrong #38 song of "Pieces of Ice" by Diana Ross (which dropped to #52 that week for real) instead of the correct #38 song of "It's Inevitable" by Charlie - Casey noted the mistake in the show the next week):

At #100 is "Affair of the Heart" by Rick Springfield, and at #99 is "Beat It" by Michael Jackson; so on to #98 and dropping to that position from its #82 peak is the American new wave group the Plimsouls with "A Million Miles Away":

www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJ31oz0DECw

ONE FINAL NOTE FOR THIS WEEK: Speaking of Keri Tombazian, was she also the twice a year guest host for Joel Denver on the radio show "Future Hits" back in the early 1990's? I thought I remember hearing her voice in two episodes.

[Hervard]

Jul 2, 2016 23:36:23 GMT -5 mkarns said:

"Seeing Is Believing" was a followup to the #1 hit "The Living Years", though the momentum from that hit wasn't enough to make a top 40 hit out of it.

"And the Night Stood Still" was Dion's last Hot 100 single, but not the end of his career overall. Recently, he's had success with blues albums. And "The Heart of the Matter" peaked at #21, and was more successful in the AC market, where the song became something of a standard that is probably still a favourite with Henley's vast fan base.

I remember "Seeing Is Believing", as U93 played that song regularly in the early summer of 1989. They also played "Nobody Knows", which I felt was quite underrated; it should have at least hit the Top 40.

As for "And The Night Stood Still" - Sunny 101.5 played that one a lot in the fall of 1990. Definitely a great song - I even have it on one of my playlists on YouTube! Today, the song would probably be credited as Dion featuring Patty Smyth.

[jmorgan]

7/17/71:

Debuting at the bottom is the late Sonny James with "Bright Lights, Big City." While the song only got to #91 pop, the next week it would top the country chart.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJ26_x48hJk

7/20/74:

Holding steady at #100 is a child star from Britain named Lena Zavaroni. She was only 10 when she sang "Ma, He's Making Eyes At Me." Like Sonny James' song, this peaked at #91. Sadly, Lena died of anorexia on 10/1/99.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4hY2lF3JNk

7/18/81:

Falling from #96 after peaking at #57 is April Wine with "Sign Of The Gypsy Queen."

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4hY2lF3JNk

7/16/88:

Cher's top 15 "We All Sleep Alone" fell from #79, while White Lion's top 10 "Wait fell from #88 to #99. So, on to #98 where we find Depeche Mode and "Route 66 - behind The Wheel." The song fell from #90 after peaking at #61.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=occDk1-YgHY

[dth1971]

Jul 17, 2016 14:14:17 GMT -5 jmorgan said:

7/20/74:

Holding steady at #100 is a child star from Britain named Lena Zavaroni. She was only 10 when she sang "Ma, He's Making Eyes At Me." Like Sonny James' song, this peaked at #91. Sadly, Lena died of anorexia on 10/1/99.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4hY2lF3JNk

7/18/81:

Falling from #96 after peaking at #57 is April Wine with "Sign Of The Gypsy Queen."

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4hY2lF3JNk

This is the CORRECT link to Sign of the Gypsy Queen by April Wine:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDKfw5DGbPY


And since I covered Lena Zavaroni at #100 before, staying with the same 7/20/1974 chart as we head to #99 holding at that position before taking a chart run to a #46 peak is Sami "Tell Me a Lie" Jo with "It Could Have Been Me":

www.youtube.com/watch?v=__N352hBI00

Speaking of Depeche Mode's "Route 66-Behind The Wheel", 94.7 FM Chicago (then WYTZ Z-95) had it on its playlist in Summer 1989, 1 year after the song was released and charted, maybe because of inclusion in the 1989 movie "Earth Girls are Easy".

[jmack19]

#100 song 40 years ago this week was "I'll Get Over You" by Crystal Gayle. It peaked at 71.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TG43_QcowE

[dth1971]

And now for this weekend's BOTTOM OF THE CHARTS from AT40 Casey Kasem guest host episodes.

First, this week, I am wrapping up the 1970's with 2 September 1979 episodes that had 2 different guest hosts in the same month!:

9/8/1979 (Aussie born Gordon Elliott, in his first of 2 AT40 guest host stints, guest hosted for Casey Kasem that week):

At #100 is "Hot Stuff" by Donna Summer, so on to #99 and falling from its #70 peak are the UK group The Barron Knights with their parody takeoff (that was a time a year or two more or less before we started hearing Weird Al Yankovic's famous song parodies) of Supertramp's "The Logical Song" to tie in with the Summer 1979 long line gas crunch/fuel and oil shortage called "The Topical Song":

www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFzb1MMkAwE

9/29/1979 (Robert W. Morgan guest hosted for Casey Kasem for his second stint that week while Casey was recovering from a brief illness due to the Los Angeles smoggy weather at the time):

At #100 is "Ring My Bell" by Anita Ward, so on to #99 and in that position dropping from #74 after peaking at #42 are the Addrisi Brothers (who made the Top 40 in 1972 with "We Got To Get It On Again" and again in 1977 with "Slow Dancin' Don't Turn Me On" and even sang the theme to the early 1970's TV sitcom "Nanny and the Professor") with "Ghost Dancer":

www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgtFzVNPmts

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And that completes the 1970's part of BOTTOM OF THE CHARTS for Casey Kasem AT40 guest host episodes, but we still have a lot in the 1980's to go, so here's this weekend's 1980's AT40 guest host episode entry:

10/1/1983 (Charlie Van Dyke, starting his frequent 1983-1988 AT40 guest host contract, guest hosted for Casey Kasem that week):

Dropping to #100 from #71 after peaking at #52 is Sergio Mendes (at the time of his 1980's comeback thanks to the top 10 hit "Never Gonna Let You Go") featuring Joe Pizzulo with "Rainbow's End":

www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpODUoWilbE

ONE FINAL NOTE: Starting next weekend, with the 1970's AT40 guest hosts BOTTOM OF THE CHARTS now complete, the 1980's AT40 guest host BOTTOM OF THE CHARTS will be at least 2 AT40 guest host entries every week until complete.

[jmorgan]

7/22/72:

Debuting at the bottom and peaking at #91 is Albert Hammond with "Down By The River."

www.youtube.com/watch?v=CveDES1yZGU

7/24/76:

Debuting and peaking at #100 is T.G. Sheppard's version of Neil Diamond's "Solitary Man." It peaked at #14 on the Country chart.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5SNm-9-tjQ

7/22/83:

Falling from #79 after peaking at #71 is an Australian band named Goanna (which means a gimormous lizard in Australian) with "Solid Rock."

www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbASq3FMf70

[dth1971]

Since I completed the 1970's part of the BOTTOM OF THE CHARTS involving Casey AT40 guest hosted episodes, here's a bonus from the Shadoe Stevens AT40 era:

7/21/1990 (The week Shadoe Stevens on AT40 saluted the 50th. anniversary of the first Billboard pop chart):

Dropping to #100 from #74 after peaking at #72 is A'me Lorain with her follow up to "Whole Wide World" called "Follow My Heartbeat":

www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxWUGhd5F_s

[dth1971]

Starting this week, with the 1970's BOTTOM OF THE CHARTS portion of Casey Kasem AT40 guest host episodes complete, there will now be at least 2 1980's BOTTOM OF THE CHARTS posts from 1980's AT49 Casey Kasem era guest host episodes every week, so here are this week's entries:

12/3/1983 (Charlie Van Dyke guest hosts for Casey Kasem that week now that he is the frequent guest host at the time):

Better hold on tight as we go through...
#100: "Can't Shake Loose" - Athena of ABBA.
#99: "Spice of Life" - Manhattan Transfer
#98: "On The Dark Side" - Eddie and the Cruisers (would return to the Billboard chart a year later in late 1984 credited as by John Cafferty and the Beaver Brown Band and make the Top 40 that time)
#97: "The Safety Dance" - Men Without Hats

...and we go to #96 and debuting there is a novelty record that would peak at #83 by that "I don't get no respect" comedian named Rodney Dangerfield with "Rappin' Rodney":

www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-NK0r0fc-k

1/7/1984 (Charlie Van Dyke guest hosted that week for Casey Kasem again):

Dropping to #100 from #96 after peaking at #44 is Paul Simon with "Allergies":

www.youtube.com/watch?v=A45mHFAuQCw