The Bottom Of The Charts

[dth1971]

Now for my BOTTOM OF THE CHARTS of 2 AT40 Casey era guest hosts episodes for this week:

3/25/1972 (Dick Clark guest hosted for Casey Kasem that week - Premiere played this episode after Mr. Clark passed away back in April 2012):

Debuting at #100 is a song by Paul Anka (2 years before he would make his Top 40 comeback with "You're Having My Baby") that would peak at #65 called "Jubliation":

www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBByBFTJQXQ

3/29/1980 (Charlie Van Dyke, in his first of 30 AT40 guest host stints from 1980 to 1988, guest hosted for Casey Kasem that week):

At #100 is "I Thank You" by ZZ Top, so on to #99 and in that position, down from its peak at #63 is Crystal Gayle with "It's Like We Never Said Goodbye":

www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRbn6lCJ6Y0

[jmorgan]

Three weeks later, on 4/19/80, Crystal's song would become her 7th #1 on the country charts. That was the week when the top four spots on the chart would be occupied by solo women.

Now, back to the task at hand. Starting with 4/29/72:

Debuting at the bottom, and only going one spot higher, is Delaney & Bonnie with "Where There's A Will, There's A Way." Here is a live version of the song from the album On Tour With Eric Clapton.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOJDsfKb420

4/29/78:

Falling from #68 after peaking at #53 is Donna Summer with "Rumour Has It."

www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YffWY_dXcw

4/26/80:

Falling from #91 after peaking at #47 is the team of Roberta Flack and Donny Hathaway with "You Are My Heaven."

www.youtube.com/watch?v=EF0U9rDsA3s

5/4/85:

Kool & The Gang's top 15 "Misled" kicked off the chart, which was followed by David Lee Roth's version of "California Girls." So, at #98 is John Waite with a song that was taken from his 1982 album Ignition. The song fell from #82 after peaking at #54 and is called "Change."

www.youtube.com/watch?v=9d1bSmqA7ss

[dth1971]

May 1, 2016 14:44:16 GMT -5 jmorgan said:

5/4/85:

Kool & The Gang's top 15 "Misled" kicked off the chart, which was followed by David Lee Roth's version of "California Girls." So, at #98 is John Waite with a song that was taken from his 1982 album Ignition. The song fell from #82 after peaking at #54 and is called "Change."

www.youtube.com/watch?v=9d1bSmqA7ss

John Waite's "Change", though not making the Hot 100 in 1982-1983, finally charted in 1985 thanks to being included in the movie "Vision Quest".

[dth1971]

Another extra treat from me for this week: These are the bottom of the 75 position Billboard Radio Monitor charts used for Shadoe Stevens AT40 from 1992 from weeks with guest hosts:

1/11/1992 (Richard Marx guest hosted for Shadoe Stevens that week):

Falling to #75 from #67 is the dance group Clubland with "Hold On Tighter To Love":

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylDEUj8gJyA

3/7/1992 (Jack Wagner of soap opera fame guest hosted for Shadoe Stevens that week):

Falling to #75 from #70 is St. Etienne with their dance cover of Neil Young's "Only Love Can Break Your Heart":

www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZAajrxvDs4

4/4/1992 (Jody Watley guest hosted for Shadoe Stevens that week):

Entering at #75 is a song that made the R&R Top 40 reaches used for Casey's Top 40 and Rick Dees Weekly Top 40, but never Shadoe Stevens AT40 is rocker Ozzy Osbourne with "Mama I'm Coming Home":

www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-CRgbOteRk

10/31/1992 (The infamous Jay Thomas guest hosted for Shadoe Stevens that week):

#75 is "Mr. Wendal" by Arrested Development, so at #74 is a song that also made the R&R Top 40/Casey's Top 40/Rick Dees Weekly Top 40 reaches and never Shadoe Stevens AT40 is "How Do You Do" by Roxette:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=nx2iLOvP0rM

[dth1971]

MY BOTTOM OF THE CHARTS OF 2 AT40 GUEST HOSTED EPISODES FROM THE CASEY ERA FOR THIS WEEK:

6/16/1973 (Don Bowman, later the original host of the AT40 Country music equivelent called AMERICAN COUNTRY COUNTDOWN, guest hosted for Casey Kasem that week):

Debuting at #100 is a song by country singer Tammy Wynette of "Stand By Your Man" fame which would peek at #72, here's a song with the same title of Art Linkletter's famous phrase: "Kids Say The Darndest Things":

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovdsHtAsnt8

6/21/1980 (California DJ Dave Roberts, in his first of 4 AT40 guest host stints, guest hosted for Casey Kasem that week even on an episode where it was the last week of the AT40 #1 Archives of the 1970's before it went to the AT40 #1 Archives of the 1960's the following week):

At #100 is "The Seduction" by James Last, so on to #99 and debuting there is a song by John Denver that would peak at #97 the following week, this is "Dancing With the Mountains":

www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LmYA5l4dhg

[jmorgan]

5/5/73:

Debuting at the bottom, and only peaking at #97, is Tommy Roe with "Working Class Hero."

www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XAjDnqd8z8

5/5/79:

Falling from his peak of #72 is Rick James with "High On Your Love Suite."

www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyeOdWDBkD4

5/5/84:

Falling from #88 after peaking at #55 is John Lennon. From his album Milk And Honey, here's "I'm Steppin' Out."

www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0i7Jvmi8Ec

[pb]

May 8, 2016 20:48:15 GMT -5 jmorgan said:

5/5/73:

Debuting at the bottom, and only peaking at #97, is Tommy Roe with "Working Class Hero."

www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XAjDnqd8z8

I remember hearing this once to confirm it wasn't the John Lennon song.

[jmorgan]

5/18/74:

Last week, we heard Jim Croce sing "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown" as an extra. This time, let's hear Ol' Blue Eyes himself, Frank Sinatra, sing his version of the song. It fell from its peak of #83.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=DS3PwuVg1Ro

5/16/81:

Falling from #91 after peaking at #72 is Leon Redbone with "Seduced."

www.youtube.com/watch?v=U38gIIJYqhQ

5/14/88:

Falling from #78 is Michael Bolton's version of "Dock Of The Bay." So, movin' on as we find a song from Dirty Dancing by a gospel singer from New Orleans named Merry Clayton. The song is simply called "Yes" and it fell from #67 after peaking at #45.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqcGb83SHEo

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May 14, 2016 17:30:29 GMT -5 jmorgan said:

5/14/88:

Falling from #78 is Michael Bolton's version of "Dock Of The Bay." So, movin' on as we find a song from Dirty Dancing by a gospel singer from New Orleans named Merry Clayton. The song is simply called "Yes" and it fell from #67 after peaking at #45.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqcGb83SHEo

Merry was a member of the Raettes, Ray Charles backup group. She is best known as the female vocalist on the Rolling Stones classic "Gimme Shelter". Her vocals are also prominent on Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Sweet Home Alabama" as well as Ringo's "Oh My My".

"Yes" tied her highest charting single in the Hot 100. She also reached #45 with her version of the "Baretta" theme "Keep Your Eye On The Sparrow". Other Hot 100 hits include her own version of "Gimme Shelter", and the King/Goffin classic "Oh No Not My Baby".

She was the Acid Queen in the first London production of "Tommy", and also sang on Tori Amos's hit "Cornflake Girl".

Recommend the Oscar-winning documentary "20 Feet From Stardom" which examines the careers of singers like Merry Clayton, Darlene Love, Tata Vega and "unsung" heroines of this nature. Also keep a good thought for her as she copes with traumatic injuries suffered in an auto accident a couple of years ago.

[dth1971]

Now, here are this week's BOTTOM OF THE CHARTS by me dealing with Casey Kasem guest hosted 1970's-1980's episodes, and this week, it includes 2 shows from the same month - September 1980 - where Casey Kasem was absent on the first full and last full weekend of September 1980:

7/13/1974 (Washington, D.C. DJ (and circa late 1970's-early 1980's "National Album Countdown" host) Humble Harv Miller guest hosted for Casey Kasem that week while Casey was in Hawaii doing a guest appearance on a "Hawaii Five-O" (original CBS version) episode filming):

Debuting at #100 is a song that would peak at #91 done by 11 year old Scottish signer Lena Zavaroni (who later had stress and health problems or something like that as she grew older into adulthood and passed away in 1999 at the age of 35), this is her rendition of the 1921 song "Ma! He's Making Eyes At Me":

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qn4YUcwfruE

9/6/1980 (Aussie born Gordon Elliott, in his second of 2 AT40 guest host stints, guest hosted for Casey Kasem that week):

Down from its peak at #59 is David Hudson with "Honey Honey" (not related to the 1974 ABBA song of the same name):

www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsWTWone6J8

9/27/1980 (Los Angeles DJ Lon Thomas guest hosted for Casey Kasem that week):

Down from #87 after peeking at #66 is country singer Mickey Gilley with "True Love Ways":

www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMPczGv7pSV

[dth1971]

HERE ARE MY BOTTOM OF THE CHARTS DEALING WITH CASEY KASEM GUEST HOSTED 1970's-1980's AT40 EPISODES FOR THIS WEEK:

2/8/1975 (Legendary Los Angeles DJ Robert W. Morgan - "Have a good day and a good Morgan" - in his first of 2 AT40 guest host stints, guest hosted for Casey Kasem that week):

Debuting at #100 is a song by soul singer Leon Haywood (who later that 1975 year would make the top 40 with "I Wanna Do Something Freaky To You") that would peak at #94 called "Believe Half of What You Seen (And None of What You Hear)":

www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvfPRfy4OjM

1/17/1981 (Chicago DJ Al Mitchell, of WBBM 96.3 FM Chicago at the time guest hosted for Casey Kasem that week (Extra tidbit: WBBM 96.3 FM was carrying Casey Kasem AT40 at the 1981 time before moving to WLS 890 AM a year later, WBBM 96.3 FM would later carry from the January 1989 launch to June 1993 the Casey Kasem hosted "Casey's Top 40" and on New Year's Day 1991 and 1992 WBBM aired the Shadoe Stevens AT40 Top 100 year end countdowns, but never bothered to pick up Shadoe Stevens AT40 after the Chicago 94.7 station dropped it in October 1991 as WYTZ Hot 94.7 FM became a simucast to talk station WLS 890 AM)):

At #100 is "Out Here On My Own" by Irene Cara, and at #99 is "I'm Happy That Love Has Found You" by Jimmy Hall (formerly of the group Wet Willie), so on to #98, and there down a notch from #97 after peeking at #73 is the Manhattan Transfer and their remake of a rare late 1950's doo-wop song originally done by the doo-wop group The Videos called "Trickle Trickle":

www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6NlDK07VT4

[jmorgan]

5/20/78:

Falling two notches to the bottom was Samantha Sang's top 3 song "Emotion". That was followed by Heatwave's top 20 "Always And Forever at #99. So, at #98 and moving up from the bottom is a Canadian singer-songwriter named Jerry Doucette. Billed on the label as simply Doucette, here's the #72-peaking song called "Mama Let Him Play."

www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfW0ndxATt8

5/21/83:

Falling three spots to the bottom is Dan Fogelberg's top 30 called "Make Love Stay." Falling from #85 to #99 is Mac McAnally with Minimum Love." The song peaked as close as it could get to the top 40 at #41.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=13LG2HEQDFI

Later, Mac hit the top 15 of the country charts in 1990 with "Back Where I Come From", later covered by Kenny Chesney. In 2008, Chesney and McAnally teamed up for Mac's "Down The Road", and that went to the top of the country charts.

[dth1971]

Now for this week's BOTTOM OF THE CHARTS involving Casey guest hosted AT40 episodes, since this weekend is Memorial Day weekend, we have 2 each for the 70's and 80's which I plan to do on special holiday weekends if possible!

10/11/1975 (Memphis born DJ and game show host ("Gambit"/"Tic Tac Dough") Wink Martindale guest hosted for Casey Kasem that week):

Since "I Don't Want to Be a Lone Ranger" by Johnny Guitar Watson was covered before at #100 that week, we move on past #99 ("If I Ever Lose This Heaven" by AWB) and go to #98 where debuting at its peak position is Banzaii with an instrumental knockoff of Carl Douglas' "Kung Fu Fighting" called "Chinese Kung Fu":

www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTeZUJt4R_Y

2/7/1976 (Jerry Bishop, best known currently as the announcer on the syndicated courtroom show "Judge Judy", guest hosted for Casey Kasem that week):

Debuting at #100 is a song by Edwin Starr of "Twenty-Five Miles" and "War" fame that would peak at #98 called "Abyssinia Jones":

www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfnnvrQvQ_8

5/2/1981 (Dave Roberts, in his second of 4 AT40 guest hosts stints, guest hosted for Casey Kasem that week):

Falling from #92 to #100 after peeking at #70 is Delbert "Giving It Up For Your Love" McClinton with "Shotgun Rider":

www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4FM-hT_Osk

7/11/1981 (Charlie Van Dyke guest hosts for Casey Kasem for the second time that week):

At #100 is Don McLean with "Since I Don't Have You", so on to #99 and in that position down #87 after peaking at #72 is James Taylor with "Hard Times":

www.youtube.com/watch?v=5n3L0myy-4s

[jmorgan]

First, the BOTC from the Top Ten Producers of the 70's special (10/5/74):

It's Cher at the bottom of the charts with "I Saw A Man And He Danced With His Wife." It fell from #62 after peaking at #42.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGlL03v9jE8

5/29/76:

Debuting at the bottom, and only going as high as #98, is The Champs Boys Orchestra's disco version of Mike Oldfield's "Tubular Bells."

www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqItQ9c8jUM

5/29/82:

100. 67. Genesis "Man On The Corner" (just squeaked in at #40)
99. 66. Bertie Higgins "Key Largo" (#8)
98. 65. Huey Lewis & The News "Do You Believe In Love" (#7)

So, I have to go to #97 and falling from its peak of #64 is a band from Vancouver, Canada named Prism. Here's "Turn On Your Radar."

www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0FqtOgNO5Q

5/30/87:

Falling from #88 after peaking at #85 is Dead Or Alive with "Something In My House."

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddVKRhoXZ7w

[dth1971]

Now, for Memorial Day 2016, here are 4 more BOTTOM OF THE CHARTS from the Shadoe Stevens AT40 era dealing with special visits (3 to Disney World, 1 to Star Trek):

5/12/1990 (First Shadoe Stevens AT40 special from Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida):

At #100 is "Heart of Stone" by Cher, and #99 is "Escapade" by Janet Jackson, so on to #98 and in that position down from #92 after peaking at #73 is Pajama Party with "Hide and Seek":

www.youtube.com/watch?v=zq819xF2EPA

1/26/1991 (Shadoe Stevens AT40 special from the set of the TV show "Star Trek: The Next Generation"):

At #100 is "My Love is a Fire" by Donny Osmond, at #99 is "I Don't Have the Heart" by James Ingram, and #98 is "Pray" by M.C. Hammer, so on to #97 and peaking at the position up from #99 is The Cure with a remix of a track from their mid 1980's album "The Head on the Door" finally released as a single called "Close to Me":

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pb-rihW_SwU

5/11/1991 (Second Shadoe Stevens AT40 special from Walt Disney World):

Falling to #100 from #88 after peaking at #78 is probably the last Hot 100 hit for Mike and the Mechanics called "Word of Mouth":

www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5Mel2JLD2s

5/9/1992 (Third and last Shadoe Stevens AT40 special from Walt Disney World - from the Billboard Radio Monitor source era):

Entering the Radio Monitor chart at #75 is "If You Want It" by rap group 2nd II None (It didn't make the Top 40 reaches anyway):

www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBg7jJyNtzM