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Post by chrislc on May 4, 2020 14:20:24 GMT -5
Time to catch up on another Cash Box Countdown--this one for the week ending March 9, 1968. A couple of observations--The Lettermen's medley of Goin' Out Of My Head / Can't Take My Eyes Off You--the music always sounded like the jazzy stuff played on the Jonny Quest cartoon; I wonder how many times the word 'No' is said in Nobody Like Me by the Human Beinz, and I correct Georgie Fame's poor geography in the song The Ballad Of Bonnie & Clyde. Enjoy, Joe Joe, I think that Lettermen medley must have been recorded at a Four Seasons Fan Club convention. Every time the medley goes into Frankie's song, there is wild applause, and never any applause when it goes back into the Little Anthony song. Also I was just listening to the October 65 show. and I am wondering. What is the big deal about trying to tell a stranger about rock and roll? What made that so different from trying to tell a familiar person about rock and roll?  |
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Post by mitchm on May 8, 2020 11:56:20 GMT -5
Time to catch up on another Cash Box Countdown--this one for the week ending March 9, 1968. A couple of observations--The Lettermen's medley of Goin' Out Of My Head / Can't Take My Eyes Off You--the music always sounded like the jazzy stuff played on the Jonny Quest cartoon; I wonder how many times the word 'No' is said in Nobody Like Me by the Human Beinz, and I correct Georgie Fame's poor geography in the song The Ballad Of Bonnie & Clyde. Enjoy, Joe
Thanks again for speeding up the release schedule for these shows, Joe. I'm getting spoiled by having a new show every week lately. I really enjoyed this show from early March of 1968. Not only was this a great time for music in my opinion, but you picked 4 really good extras from this same countdown: "Back on My Feet Again" by the Foundations, "Tapioca Tundra" by the Monkees, "Jennifer Eccles" by the Hollies, and "Rice Is Nice" by the Lemon Pipers. All 4 of these songs were removed from regular rotations decades ago by terrestrial radio. |
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Post by djjoe1960 on May 11, 2020 9:49:21 GMT -5
Most of us chart fanatics probably remember what was the first 45, LP, etc. we bought; and this Cash Box Countdown contains the first single I ever bought at #9. In addition, is one of my favorite Tommy James hits at #40--so here are the Top 40 hits from cash Box for the week ending April 27, 1968--
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Post by chrislc on May 13, 2020 13:16:32 GMT -5
Most of us chart fanatics probably remember what was the first 45, LP, etc. we bought; and this Cash Box Countdown contains the first single I ever bought at #9. In addition, is one of my favorite Tommy James hits at #40--so here are the Top 40 hits from cash Box for the week ending April 27, 1968-- Joe I had a feeling you had been holding back on some of these Spring 1968 shows up until now! Was it a case of "Honey-phobia"? Also, it really is amazing how the Top 40 changed between Spring and Fall 1968. From Mauriat and Goldsboro and the Irish Rovers - to Vanilla Fudge and Cream and Jimi Hendrix! What a year. |
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Post by doofus67 on May 13, 2020 13:57:43 GMT -5
Most of us chart fanatics probably remember what was the first 45, LP, etc. we bought; and this Cash Box Countdown contains the first single I ever bought at #9. In addition, is one of my favorite Tommy James hits at #40--so here are the Top 40 hits from cash Box for the week ending April 27, 1968-- Joe I had a feeling you had been holding back on some of these Spring 1968 shows up until now! Was it a case of "Honey-phobia"? Also, it really is amazing how the Top 40 changed between Spring and Fall 1968. From Mauriat and Goldsboro and the Irish Rovers - to Vanilla Fudge and Cream and Jimi Hendrix! What a year. Good observation. And chart movement-wise, things began to tighten up. |
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Post by chrislc on May 13, 2020 16:22:27 GMT -5
Joe I had a feeling you had been holding back on some of these Spring 1968 shows up until now! Was it a case of "Honey-phobia"? Also, it really is amazing how the Top 40 changed between Spring and Fall 1968. From Mauriat and Goldsboro and the Irish Rovers - to Vanilla Fudge and Cream and Jimi Hendrix! What a year. Good observation. And chart movement-wise, things began to tighten up. And by then the charts had some music to tighten up with. |
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Post by djjoe1960 on May 13, 2020 17:20:12 GMT -5
Joe I had a feeling you had been holding back on some of these Spring 1968 shows up until now! Was it a case of "Honey-phobia"? Also, it really is amazing how the Top 40 changed between Spring and Fall 1968. From Mauriat and Goldsboro and the Irish Rovers - to Vanilla Fudge and Cream and Jimi Hendrix! What a year. Good observation. And chart movement-wise, things began to tighten up. Good catch, Mike. The charts were probably most fluid (faster movement) in 1965-67--and then seemed to slow down in 1968-69, and really slowed up in the 1970's. |
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Post by djjoe1960 on May 13, 2020 17:26:53 GMT -5
Most of us chart fanatics probably remember what was the first 45, LP, etc. we bought; and this Cash Box Countdown contains the first single I ever bought at #9. In addition, is one of my favorite Tommy James hits at #40--so here are the Top 40 hits from cash Box for the week ending April 27, 1968-- Joe I had a feeling you had been holding back on some of these Spring 1968 shows up until now! Was it a case of "Honey-phobia"? Also, it really is amazing how the Top 40 changed between Spring and Fall 1968. From Mauriat and Goldsboro and the Irish Rovers - to Vanilla Fudge and Cream and Jimi Hendrix! What a year. Chris, No doubt that the 1960's were probably the most diverse decade of pop music on the radio/charts--starting with 1965 through the end of the decade with most every musical style was represented. A lot of that carried over into the 1970's and 1980's until by the end of that decade ('80's) music began to splinter into the niche formats that we have today. I guess that's why a lot enjoy the countdowns from the '60's, 70's & 80's--thanks to the musical diversity. |
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Post by djjoe1960 on May 18, 2020 10:11:34 GMT -5
Monday, Monday (not the Mamas & Papas song)--but here's another Cash Box Countdown from the 1960's; 1965 more precisely for the week ending April 10th. By now the number of foreign acts in the Top 40 almost rival the number of American acts--and the countdown begins with a parody of a #1 hit from January 1965. One of the 'bonus' songs is a rather humorous take on being the son of a major auto maker by Chuck Berry.
Joe
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Post by djjoe1960 on May 25, 2020 8:03:30 GMT -5
It's Memorial Day 2020 here in the U.S., and here is a countdown of the Top 40 pop singles from the Cash Box chart for the week ending April 16, 1966. One of the bonus songs was a song that I usually only heard on the Dr. Demento show in the 1970's. In addition, the countdown includes two former #1 hits that didn't reach the top of the chart in Billboard. archive.org/details/1966041601 |
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Post by 1finemrg on May 25, 2020 13:28:44 GMT -5
It's Memorial Day 2020 here in the U.S., and here is a countdown of the Top 40 pop singles from the Cash Box chart for the week ending April 16, 1966. One of the bonus songs was a song that I usually only heard on the Dr. Demento show in the 1970's. In addition, the countdown includes two former #1 hits that didn't reach the top of the chart in Billboard. archive.org/details/1966041601Great Knickerbocker extra! Got some airplay in Chicago, peaked at #27. Also killer Kinks klassic extra! Probably my favorite of theirs. The "B" side "Where Have All The Good Times Gone" is almost as great. |
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Post by djjoe1960 on May 26, 2020 17:30:49 GMT -5
It's Memorial Day 2020 here in the U.S., and here is a countdown of the Top 40 pop singles from the Cash Box chart for the week ending April 16, 1966. One of the bonus songs was a song that I usually only heard on the Dr. Demento show in the 1970's. In addition, the countdown includes two former #1 hits that didn't reach the top of the chart in Billboard. archive.org/details/1966041601Great Knickerbocker extra! Got some airplay in Chicago, peaked at #27. Also killer Kinks klassic extra! Probably my favorite of theirs. The "B" side "Where Have All The Good Times Gone" is almost as great. Speaking of the Knickerbockers, I was surprised that 'Lies' didn't do better (RW-17, BB-20, CB-24); perhaps if it had been on a major label or come out about 6 months earlier it would have charted higher. |
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Post by chrislc on May 27, 2020 0:08:14 GMT -5
Great Knickerbocker extra! Got some airplay in Chicago, peaked at #27. Also killer Kinks klassic extra! Probably my favorite of theirs. The "B" side "Where Have All The Good Times Gone" is almost as great. Speaking of the Knickerbockers, I was surprised that 'Lies' didn't do better (RW-17, BB-20, CB-24); perhaps if it had been on a major label or come out about 6 months earlier it would have charted higher. The competition on the 1966 chart was fierce. I think the top 40 in 1966 had the highest percentage of what would become classic much-played-through-the-years 60s songs than any year. As a contrast, on a couple of your 1969 shows there are so many songs that I either haven't heard in 50 years - or had never heard at all! Maybe that's because I listened to WABC then with their Bill Drake/Rick Sklar rotations Eight hits (maybe ten) over and over and over and over well you get the idea. I doubt any station anywhere ever had such a tight playlist as WABC in 1969. It was almost enough to make Jon Voigt stay on that bus and go back to Texas. (golly, this guy Ron Lundy is okay but the playlist is too tight for me!) But it was great anyway because Ingram. I was listening today to one of your early 1967 shows and it's amazing that the top seven CB songs stayed the same two weeks in a row at that time. I remember from the Whitburn book that 1966 and 1967 were tied for the years that had the most songs reaching the BB Hot 100 (it was 534 or something like that). So competitive! |
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Post by 1finemrg on May 27, 2020 5:48:46 GMT -5
Great Knickerbocker extra! Got some airplay in Chicago, peaked at #27. Also killer Kinks klassic extra! Probably my favorite of theirs. The "B" side "Where Have All The Good Times Gone" is almost as great. Speaking of the Knickerbockers, I was surprised that 'Lies' didn't do better (RW-17, BB-20, CB-24); perhaps if it had been on a major label or come out about 6 months earlier it would have charted higher. I've told this story before, but "Lies" was covered by Styx pretty much note-for-note. When Wooden Nickel records (whose offices were in the same building as Chicago's AM powerhouse WLS) approached the radio station to try and add the single to their playlist, they were turned down. WLS offered to play "Lady" which was released as a single 18 months previously, at 8 PM every night for a couple of weeks in an attempt to generate interest. With their 50,000 watt output reaching all states east of the Rockies at night, it didn't take long for "Lady" to be added to playlists across the US. Styx's career was launched, and their first Top 40 single peaked at #6. www.45cat.com/record/jh10027 |
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Post by djjoe1960 on Jun 1, 2020 8:20:42 GMT -5
By mid-1965, the foreign acts almost out numbered the American acts in the Top 40, as this countdown from May 1965 will reveal. There are two songs by one British group in the Top 10 and one of the bonus songs is by a singer who hosted a game show in the 1970's. Here are the the Top 40 singles from Cash Box magazine for the week ending May 8, 1965..
Enjoy--
Joe
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