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Post by OnWithTheCountdown on Aug 3, 2020 21:03:28 GMT -5
^ One of my favorites from AT40's debut countdown. Cash Box has it six places higher. 🙂 Thank you, djjoe1960!
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Post by djjoe1960 on Aug 6, 2020 10:17:37 GMT -5
^ One of my favorites from AT40's debut countdown. Cash Box has it six places higher. 🙂 Thank you, djjoe1960 ! You're welcpme--I guess.
Hey I don't make the charts up I just count 'em down.
Playin' the hits (and a few of the misses)--Cash Box Countdown.
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Post by chrislc on Aug 6, 2020 22:49:32 GMT -5
AT40 celebrated it's 50th anniversary on the 4th of July week end, but just for fun here are the Top 40 hits from the week ending July 11, 1970 from Cash Box Magazine. If Watermark had struck a deal with Cash Box instead of Billboard, we would've heard two songs that made the Top 40 in Cash Box (but didn't make it into the Billboard Top 40). I recorded this show as my salute to Casey & Company--so that the extras are all the same ones heard on the original broadcast (with the exception of the Bill Cosby song). archive.org/details/1970071101As some of you might have suspected, it was thanks to Casey (and American Top 40) that I pursued a career in radio for nearly 15 years. And let me add that doing these countdowns have been a labor of love , in addition, to help me better appreciate the competitive nature of the pop music world of the 1960's. Wow Joe there were quite a few different songs in that Hour #1. It seemed like there were about ten songs that weren't on the Casey show, which many of us have practically memorized by now. Hmmm I overestimated there. There were five I think (but I only listened once). Question, Everything Is Beautiful, It's All In The Game, Spirit In The Dark and Spill The Wine. We instead heard Steal Away, Canned Ham and The Letter. And two others? Or did I miss one or two above? The absence of Spill The Wine was especially noticeable, as that was one of the songs that really symbolizes that summer to me. But it's chart run was just getting started.
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Post by djjoe1960 on Aug 7, 2020 7:12:58 GMT -5
Wow Joe there were quite a few different songs in that Hour #1. It seemed like there were about ten songs that weren't on the Casey show, which many of us have practically memorized by now. Hmmm I overestimated there. There were five I think (but I only listened once). Question, Everything Is Beautiful, It's All In The Game, Spirit In The Dark and Spill The Wine. We instead heard Steal Away, Canned Ham and The Letter. And two others? Or did I miss one or two above? The absence of Spill The Wine was especially noticeable, as that was one of the songs that really symbolizes that summer to me. But it's chart run was just getting started. Chris,
The songs that AT40 played that were not in the Cash Box Top 40 were--Spill The Wine (#42 that week on CB), Spirit In the Dark (#58/CB), Everything Is Beautiful (off the chart), Love On A Two Way Street (#52/CB). The four songs that were in the CB Top 40 were--#38--The Letter by Joe Cocker, #36-So Much Love by Faith, Hope & Charity, #35--Steal Away by Johnnie Taylor, #34--Canned Ham by Norman Greenbaum.
By the way, Spill The Wine reached #1 in both Cash Box & Record World.
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Post by djjoe1960 on Aug 10, 2020 9:00:36 GMT -5
The latest countdown posted is from the week ending July 20, 1968--a week where the #1's from the country chart and the R&B chart are also in the pop Top 40. In addition, is a Beatles remake, Gene Pitney's last Top 40 hit (a song that should've made the Top 10) and a song that reached the top of the Cash Box chart by the Rolling Stones that didn't reach the top in either Billboard or Record World--
Sock it to me?!--
Joe
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Post by 1finemrg on Aug 12, 2020 12:47:12 GMT -5
The latest countdown posted is from the week ending July 20, 1968--a week where the #1's from the country chart and the R&B chart are also in the pop Top 40. In addition, is a Beatles remake, Gene Pitney's last Top 40 hit (a song that should've made the Top 10) and a song that reached the top of the Cash Box chart by the Rolling Stones that didn't reach the top in either Billboard or Record World-- Sock it to me?!-- Joe
I'm with you on the Gene Pitney song. I believe the story goes that to try and overcome the perceptions that radio stations had of Gene at this point in time, promotion copies were sent with the artist listed as "GP". Also like his original take on Randy Newman's "Just One Smile".
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Post by chrislc on Aug 12, 2020 21:16:46 GMT -5
The latest countdown posted is from the week ending July 20, 1968--a week where the #1's from the country chart and the R&B chart are also in the pop Top 40. In addition, is a Beatles remake, Gene Pitney's last Top 40 hit (a song that should've made the Top 10) and a song that reached the top of the Cash Box chart by the Rolling Stones that didn't reach the top in either Billboard or Record World-- Sock it to me?!-- Joe
I bet Nixon picked up some votes that night on Laugh-In. He would have won anyway but he might have lost Missouri which ended up the closest. That Roger Ailes was no saint by any means but he knew his stuff.
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Post by djjoe1960 on Aug 13, 2020 7:35:17 GMT -5
The latest countdown posted is from the week ending July 20, 1968--a week where the #1's from the country chart and the R&B chart are also in the pop Top 40. In addition, is a Beatles remake, Gene Pitney's last Top 40 hit (a song that should've made the Top 10) and a song that reached the top of the Cash Box chart by the Rolling Stones that didn't reach the top in either Billboard or Record World-- Sock it to me?!-- Joe
I bet Nixon picked up some votes that night on Laugh-In. He would have won anyway but he might have lost Missouri which ended up the closest. That Roger Ailes was no saint by any means but he knew his stuff. Chris,
I get the Nixon reference but not the Roger Ailes one?!
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Post by chrislc on Aug 13, 2020 16:52:40 GMT -5
I bet Nixon picked up some votes that night on Laugh-In. He would have won anyway but he might have lost Missouri which ended up the closest. That Roger Ailes was no saint by any means but he knew his stuff. Chris,
I get the Nixon reference but not the Roger Ailes one?! Ailes went from running the Mike Douglas Show to being Nixon's media adviser for that campaign.
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Post by djjoe1960 on Aug 13, 2020 17:10:37 GMT -5
Chris,
I get the Nixon reference but not the Roger Ailes one?! Ailes went from running the Mike Douglas Show to being Nixon's media adviser for that campaign. Thanks, Chris. See..you learn something new everyday.
Joe
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Post by djjoe1960 on Aug 14, 2020 8:17:13 GMT -5
And now...the last countdown from 1965--for the week ending July 10, 1965 from Cash Box Magazine. It starts with a TV star and ends with the best known song for a band out of England. In between you'll hear from the King, the Fab Four, two songs from Herman's Hermits & the first Top 40 hit for a group out of Canada. By the way, this countdown is the last of the seventeen featuring hits of 1965 (16 regular weekly charts and the year end one).
Practice social distancing and sit 6 feet (or 2 meters) from your speakers--
Joe
Oops, this is the actual last countdown from 1965--for the week ending September 4--and it features 3 Bob Dylan written songs, a Top 10 hit for the Supremes (that didn't make it to #1), and the original version of a song that was a top 10 hit for Deniece Williams in 1982.
By the way thanks to skyseth for pointing out the missing show for 1965. (Hello to France)
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Post by skyseth on Aug 16, 2020 12:56:42 GMT -5
Hello Joe, merci mon ami !
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Post by at40petebattistini on Aug 20, 2020 8:25:39 GMT -5
The latest countdown posted is from the week ending July 20, 1968--a week where the #1's from the country chart and the R&B chart are also in the pop Top 40. In addition, is a Beatles remake, Gene Pitney's last Top 40 hit (a song that should've made the Top 10) and a song that reached the top of the Cash Box chart by the Rolling Stones that didn't reach the top in either Billboard or Record World-- Sock it to me?!-- Joe
Hi Joe, First time caller here ... most music from the Summer of '68 is no longer part of a preferred demographic, so your presentation is especially appreciated by those who remember being there. While listening to your closing, I had hoped to hear a chart date preview to your next production. Perhaps that a well-guarded secret until it's actually posted. Regardless, nice work.
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Post by djjoe1960 on Aug 20, 2020 15:42:09 GMT -5
The latest countdown posted is from the week ending July 20, 1968--a week where the #1's from the country chart and the R&B chart are also in the pop Top 40. In addition, is a Beatles remake, Gene Pitney's last Top 40 hit (a song that should've made the Top 10) and a song that reached the top of the Cash Box chart by the Rolling Stones that didn't reach the top in either Billboard or Record World-- Sock it to me?!-- Joe
Hi Joe, First time caller here ... most music from the Summer of '68 is no longer part of a preferred demographic, so your presentation is especially appreciated by those who remember being there. While listening to your closing, I had hoped to hear a chart date preview to your next production. Perhaps that a well-guarded secret until it's actually posted. Regardless, nice work. Pete,
You raised a good point, and here is the explanation why I didn't indicate what week the next show would be based on--the whole concept of doing the shows wasn't developed until about a year into recording them (at which time I had probably already recorded almost 20 of the over 100 countdowns). I originally thought just 12 shows per year would be sufficient until I noticed that the charts during the 1960's were much more fluid (faster turnaround) than charts from the '70's & '80's. I wanted to make sure that every Top 20 record got played at least once and that you could see the movement of all the #1 hits, as well.
I know that was probably more information than you wanted to know, but I wanted to explain that basically the show was a work in progress during the three years that it took to record them all, covering the Beatles years (Jan 1964-Jun 1970)--and all 100+ shows should be uploaded by the end of the year.
Thanks for all the great feedback from all you that have listened.
Joe
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Post by chrislc on Aug 21, 2020 18:47:17 GMT -5
Joe it was great hearing Otis and Carla on the new show. That song should have been a huge hit IMOFWIW.
And interesting about Groovin' being #1 twice so far apart. That can't have happened too often. In BB I think of Andy Gibb/Emotions and of course Chubby.
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