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Post by Rodney on Jul 10, 2021 20:51:55 GMT -5
With all the info about Gentle on my Mind, I just had to weigh in that I LOVE that song. That is all :-)
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Post by djjoe1960 on Jul 11, 2021 6:22:10 GMT -5
Joe, this makes six published Cash Box Countdowns to include You Were On My Mind by We Five in the Top 40. Is that a record? Or maybe a record for songs that didn't reach #1? EDIT Looks like Hey Jude was on six shows too. It's hard to imagine a song on more shows than Hey Jude which was in the Top 40 for 24 weeks, pretty much unheard of in the 1960s. BTW what a great bonus countdown. There's something so intense and bittersweet about late summer. The nostalgia is painful. I always think of William Holden and Kim Novak dancing in the movie Picnic. I looked up You Were On My Mind, and Joe's Countdown featured the aforementioned song on 8-7-65's show (first week in the Top 40), and the 11-13-65 show, which was the song's final week in the CB Top 40. Truly amazing that the song didn't hit #1. All those weeks sure racked up the points because YWOMM was ranked #10 for the year. Billboard's 1965 year end chart has We Five at #4--following the #1 song of the year (Wooly Bully by Sam The Sham & The Pharaohs), both songs not making it to #1 during 1965. As a matter of fact, 4 of Billboard's Top 10 of 1965 didn't reach #1, and Cash Box also had 4 of its year end Top 10 that weren't #1 hits, as well.
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Post by djjoe1960 on Jul 11, 2021 6:23:57 GMT -5
With all the info about Gentle on my Mind, I just had to weigh in that I LOVE that song. That is all :-) Hello Rodney, Good to hear from you. By the way, I always enjoyed Gentle On My Mind, as well, and was surprised many years later when I became a chart geek to find out the song wasn't a Top 10 hit. Joe
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Post by 1finemrg on Jul 11, 2021 7:04:04 GMT -5
With all the info about Gentle on my Mind, I just had to weigh in that I LOVE that song. That is all :-) Hello Rodney, Good to hear from you. By the way, I always enjoyed Gentle On My Mind, as well, and was surprised many years later when I became a chart geek to find out the song wasn't a Top 10 hit. Joe Dean Martin recorded a version of "Gentle On My Mind" and released it as a single. It only bubbled under the Billboard Hot 100, but peaked at #2 on the UK charts in 1969. Aretha Franklin (76) and Patti Page (66) reached the lower rungs of the Hot 100 with their versions. In 2014, The Band Perry recorded a version for Glen Campbell's documentary "I'll Be Me". It charted on multiple Billboard country surveys and the group received a Grammy in 2015.
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Post by jgve1952 on Jul 11, 2021 8:12:17 GMT -5
I looked up You Were On My Mind, and Joe's Countdown featured the aforementioned song on 8-7-65's show (first week in the Top 40), and the 11-13-65 show, which was the song's final week in the CB Top 40. Truly amazing that the song didn't hit #1. All those weeks sure racked up the points because YWOMM was ranked #10 for the year. Billboard's 1965 year end chart has We Five at #4--following the #1 song of the year (Wooly Bully by Sam The Sham & The Pharaohs), both songs not making it to #1 during 1965. As a matter of fact, 4 of Billboard's Top 10 of 1965 didn't reach #1, and Cash Box also had 4 of its year end Top 10 that weren't #1 hits, as well. Still SMH that Back In My Arms Again was the #1 record of 1965 on CB, as You Were On My Mind had way more chart action that the aforementioned song.
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Post by djjoe1960 on Jul 11, 2021 13:31:00 GMT -5
Billboard's 1965 year end chart has We Five at #4--following the #1 song of the year (Wooly Bully by Sam The Sham & The Pharaohs), both songs not making it to #1 during 1965. As a matter of fact, 4 of Billboard's Top 10 of 1965 didn't reach #1, and Cash Box also had 4 of its year end Top 10 that weren't #1 hits, as well. Still SMH that Back In My Arms Again was the #1 record of 1965 on CB, as You Were On My Mind had way more chart action that the aforementioned song. Randy Price, who posted the weekly Cash Box charts on line, also questioned Cash Box naming Back In My Arms Again by the Supremes ; as the number one single of 1965.
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Post by jgve1952 on Jul 11, 2021 16:19:14 GMT -5
I am thinking Back In My Arms Again would have been at #30 for 1965.
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Post by djjoe1960 on Jul 12, 2021 2:15:39 GMT -5
I am thinking Back In My Arms Again would have been at #30 for 1965. How Satisfaction by the Rolling Stones wasn't the obvious choice for #1 of 1965 (on any year end chart) is beyond me. Of course, the song has stood the test of time and is definitely the most played song of that year (regardless of where the song ranked on any year end survey).
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Post by chrislc on Jul 12, 2021 13:37:03 GMT -5
I am thinking Back In My Arms Again would have been at #30 for 1965. How Satisfaction by the Rolling Stones wasn't the obvious choice for #1 of 1965 (on any year end chart) is beyond me. Of course, the song has stood the test of time and is definitely the most played song of that year (regardless of where the song ranked on any year end survey). One of us needs to reverse-engineer a points system that would rank these Cash Box year end charts accurately, as someone did on the other forum for the Billboard charts. I nominate....ummm....someone other than myself. Joe, it occurred to me that Hey Jude might have actually appeared in eight countdowns, as I thought it might have made the 1969 list, but I just checked and it did not. I am surprised it didn't make the Billboard 1969 year end Hot 100 but I guess their cutoffs must have been later then than they were in future years. EDIT yes Wikipeda says it was 1/4 through 12/13. Then in 1970 they cut off December entirely. So My Sweet Lord doesn't make the 1970 countdown and ends up at #31 for 1971, just ahead of Sweet And Innocent. My sweet Lord indeed! Maybe the Chiffons were happy about that, but 100 years from now, if the planet hasn't burned up by then, people who rely on the year-end surveys will think My Sweet Lord wasn't that big of a hit.
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Post by jgve1952 on Jul 19, 2021 14:34:42 GMT -5
Loved the countdown from 7-25-64 that I enjoyed this morning since it is within the week of the original chart. Loved the extended version of the Girl from Ipanema. Was this from an album as I don't remember the version of a male singing in what I presume is Spanish?
Next countdowns I will listen to will be 7-26-69 and 7-27-68. I played 7-20-68 last week, but love that year so much a week later is just as great!
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Post by djjoe1960 on Jul 19, 2021 15:03:14 GMT -5
Loved the countdown from 7-25-64 that I enjoyed this morning since it is within the week of the original chart. Loved the extended version of the Girl from Ipanema. Was this from an album as I don't remember the version of a male singing in what I presume is Spanish? Next countdowns I will listen to will be 7-26-69 and 7-27-68. I played 7-20-68 last week, but love that year so much a week later is just as great! Jeff, The long version features Astrid Gilberto's husband at the time, Joao, performing the lyrics in Portuguese prior to her performing the song in English. Glad you enjoyed the show--I recall I recorded one show for each year during the 1960's , as sort of test 'countdowns' and the show you listened to--July 25, 1964 was one of those. You can tell these test countdowns as I didn't include the 'bonus' songs as part of the actual presentations as they were recorded at another time (and generally were just the songs that were #1 in prior years). Joe
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Post by chrislc on Jul 19, 2021 19:03:17 GMT -5
I'm listening to Autumn 1968 right now, and I wonder how many radio listeners thought Bang Shang A Lang was starting when Time Has Come Today began, and vice versa. And punched up a different station. Talk about burning the ratings candle at both ends! Also when the Rascals recorded People Got To Be Free, was it not about RFK but possibly about the group People? And if so, did they want record buyers to pay nothing only for the I Love You single, or their whole album? And WHY? Also - 1968 Top 40 would have made a lot more sense if Little Green Apples and Summertime Blues had swapped chart dates. Neither song made much sense in the context of the other hits at those times.
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Post by jgve1952 on Jul 20, 2021 4:46:31 GMT -5
Chrisic--are you ready to proceed with 1966--songs that should have been higher on the chart? I have a number, but will allow you first entries since you came up with the idea.
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Post by chrislc on Jul 20, 2021 15:06:47 GMT -5
Chrisic--are you ready to proceed with 1966--songs that should have been higher on the chart? I have a number, but will allow you first entries since you came up with the idea. Hi. I haven’t done 1965 Part Two yet but I will try to get my act together over here.
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Post by chrislc on Jul 20, 2021 16:23:28 GMT -5
Chrisic--are you ready to proceed with 1966--songs that should have been higher on the chart? I have a number, but will allow you first entries since you came up with the idea. Hi. I haven’t done 1965 Part Two yet but I will try to get my act together over here. Set Me Free. Kinks One Dyin’ And A Buryin’. Roger Miller Who’ll Be The Next In Line. Kinks With These Hands. Tom Jones Dawn Of Correction Spokesmen (not taking sides but I thought they dId a really good job and really quickly with this answer song) Run Baby Run. New beats Rusty Bells Brenda Lee Where Do You Go. Cher Hole In The Wall Packers Satin Pillows. Bobby Vinton Sorry about the spacing etc but trying to do this on a tablet is a PIA. Anyway these are the hits Joe played from the second half of 1965 that I like the most and either had forgotten them or never knew about them.
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