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Post by chrislc on Jan 14, 2023 14:47:17 GMT -5
Listening to January 1969 and never noticed this before. On Cloud Nine, Eddie comes in early on the line "I wanna say I love the life I live" he sings I then stops and starts again.
Also, Telstar is an extra right after that. What is the sound at the beginning and end of Telstar? It sounds like someone is starting a lawn mower. Is this how satellites worked in 1962? With pull-starts? Did NASA have Hugh Beaumont or Fred MacMurray come down to start the satellites? Or did Bub or Uncle Charley do that job for Fred?
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Post by chrislc on Jan 16, 2023 14:44:27 GMT -5
Listening now to 01/21/1967.
Spyder Turner was no Rich Little. I hope he didn't quit his day job.
This random number idea is eerie sometimes. This time it chose the same week we are in now.
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Post by doofus67 on Jan 16, 2023 15:16:39 GMT -5
Listening now to 01/21/1967. Spyder Turner was no Rich Little. I hope he didn't quit his day job. This random number idea is eerie sometimes. This time it chose the same week we are in now. No Rich Little, and no Eddie Murphy.
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Post by chrislc on Jan 16, 2023 15:43:13 GMT -5
Listening now to 01/21/1967. Spyder Turner was no Rich Little. I hope he didn't quit his day job. This random number idea is eerie sometimes. This time it chose the same week we are in now. No Rich Little, and no Eddie Murphy. Also from this show, an extra - My Dad by Paul Petersen. Or as it was originally titled, My Dad. He's The Betz! Now 04/16/1966. Al Martino at #36. "You can act like a man! What's the matter with you!" I guess the Don didn't care for country music.
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Post by djjoe1960 on Jan 23, 2023 8:20:26 GMT -5
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Post by 1finemrg on Jan 23, 2023 8:57:05 GMT -5
Listening now to 01/21/1967. Spyder Turner was no Rich Little. I hope he didn't quit his day job. This random number idea is eerie sometimes. This time it chose the same week we are in now. I like Spyder Turner's version of "Stand By Me". His take on the Temptations vocalists, Billy Stewart and Chuck Jackson were pretty good. As Sly & The Family Stone famously sang: "Different strokes for different folks!"
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Post by chrislc on Jan 23, 2023 13:57:12 GMT -5
I was just thinking of #9 Dream a couple of hours ago, having no idea this new show would be here today. Now I'm listening to #9 Dream. Scary.
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Post by doofus67 on Jan 23, 2023 14:02:02 GMT -5
I was just thinking of #9 Dream a couple of hours ago, having no idea this new show would be here today. Now I'm listening to #9 Dream. Scary. Thank goodness it's the Cash Box chart. That song will be in its rightful and proper position. What's scary is that the trickery of Bogus Bill is just beginning to rear its ugly head.
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Post by chrislc on Jan 23, 2023 14:22:09 GMT -5
I was just thinking of #9 Dream a couple of hours ago, having no idea this new show would be here today. Now I'm listening to #9 Dream. Scary. Thank goodness it's the Cash Box chart. That song will be in its rightful and proper position. What's scary is that the trickery of Bogus Bill is just beginning to rear its ugly head. Thank you. Can you provide some details about what happened with Wardlow and #9 Dream? My Google search brought up some Texas Death Row stuff. It couldn't have been that bad.
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Post by chrislc on Jan 23, 2023 14:26:42 GMT -5
PLUS Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds! Okay so was this the only week with five Beatle songs in a Top 40? Other than 1964. I wonder.
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Post by doofus67 on Jan 23, 2023 22:26:19 GMT -5
Wow, chrislc. You may want to uninstall your Google. 🙃 The big scoop is, Bogus Bill could never be as heavily into numerology as Beatle John was, especially when it came to the number 9. But he certainly did dabble. Later in 1975, for example, he made darn sure that "Eighteen with a Bullet" would be, at some point in its chart ascent, #18 with a bullet. He also arranged it so that 1975 would have the same number of new #1s (35) as 1974 had. All five #1s by Canadian acts happened in '74, which might have actually been a coincidence. Through the end of the '70s, the CBS label group's numerous #1s tended to move freely up and down the top 40, rarely sticking around longer than 13 or 14 weeks. Turn the calendar to 1980 and you see that every CBS #1 suddenly was spending exactly 19 weeks in the 40. "Rock with You" on Epic was the first, then "Another Brick in the Wall" on Columbia, then "It's Still Rock and Roll to Me" on Columbia, then "Woman in Love" on Columbia. "Keep On Loving You" on Epic did everybody one better by hanging on for 20 weeks. The only exception was "Coming Up" on Columbia, with only 16 weeks on. (Faster climb, faster drop, 'cuz it was Beatle Paul.) Here comes the doozy: At the height of Bee Gees Fever in early 1978, Bill created a stretch of 12 consecutive weeks (a multiple of 3) in which the #3 spot was occupied by a song that was peaking there. You'll notice a pattern: Feb 18 | Just the Way You Are | 1st wk at #3 | Feb 25 | Just the Way You Are | 2nd wk at #3 | Mar 4 | Sometimes When We Touch | 1st wk at #3 | Mar 11 | Sometimes When We Touch | 2nd wk at #3 | Mar 18 | Emotion | 1st wk at #3 | Mar 25 | Emotion | 2nd wk at #3 | April 1 | Lay Down Sally | 1st wk at #3 | April 8 | Lay Down Sally | 2nd wk at #3 | April 15 | Lay Down Sally | 3rd wk at #3 | April 22 | Can't Smile Without You | 1st wk at #3 | April 29 | Can't Smile Without You | 2nd wk at #3 | May 6 | Can't Smile Without You | 3rd wk at #3 |
NOTE: On every one of these 12 charts, the top two songs were performed, written, and/or produced by at least one of the Gibb brothers.
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Post by djjoe1960 on Jan 24, 2023 8:26:10 GMT -5
The biggest problem I had with 1978 was , of course, Shadow Dancing by Andy Gibb. The fact that it kept Baker Street out of the top spot and that it was the #1 song of the year for Billboard , both of which felt 'fixed' to me (before I was aware of any possible shenanigans going on with the charts). I was glad to find out years later that Gerry Rafferty's song reached #1 in both Cash Box and Radio and Records. Of course, this has been discussed on this forum several times , which made me realize I wasn't the only one who felt this way.
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Post by 1finemrg on Jan 29, 2023 13:21:13 GMT -5
Also had 2 one-hit wonder artists, Carl Douglas and Carol Douglas, in the Top 40.
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Post by giannirubino on Jan 30, 2023 9:57:44 GMT -5
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Post by djjoe1960 on Jan 30, 2023 15:45:05 GMT -5
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