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Post by chrislc on Nov 19, 2023 17:25:14 GMT -5
Hey, Victor Lundberg!
"Some great men have worn long hair and beards
George Washington and Abraham Lincoln"
Victor, please link to a non-photoshopped bearded George Washington.
No wonder there was a Credibility Gap!
From this moment on...I - HAVE - NO - CONFIDENCE - IN - YOUR - PRESIDENTIAL - KNOWLEDGE!!!
(should have been "long hair -or- beards")
PS - wouldn't it have been confusing if there had been a 1963 supergroup of Peter, Paul, Mary and Paul Petersen?
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Post by jgve1952 on Nov 21, 2023 7:13:08 GMT -5
I am reliving the chart of 11-27-65. Wow 10 debuts, is that a record?
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Post by chrislc on Jan 29, 2024 14:50:36 GMT -5
Listening to 03/15/1969 Barbara Acklin Extra - Am I the Same Girl YIKES! It sounds like they ran out of studio time and they just went with whatever she was able to throw out there. I'm picturing her singing this in some hotel conference room for Simon and Paula and Randy. And no further. Not going to Hollywood. I think I'll take the Swing Out Sister version. And Corinne is missing some notes too, now that I listen to it. Is this song really so hard? Joe, between Acklin, and You're The Reason I'm Living, I think maybe this was your prank/troll episode. I know you couldn't avoid You Gave Me A Mountain since that was in the CB Top 40, so not playing that would have been censorship.  |
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Post by 1finemrg on Jan 29, 2024 16:37:42 GMT -5
Listening to 03/15/1969 Barbara Acklin Extra - Am I the Same Girl YIKES! It sounds like they ran out of studio time and they just went with whatever she was able to throw out there. I'm picturing her singing this in some hotel conference room for Simon and Paula and Randy. And no further. Not going to Hollywood. I think I'll take the Swing Out Sister version. And Corinne is missing some notes too, now that I listen to it. Is this song really so hard? Joe, between Acklin, and You're The Reason I'm Living, I think maybe this was your prank/troll episode. I know you couldn't avoid You Gave Me A Mountain since that was in the CB Top 40, so not playing that would have been censorship. Brunswick Records removed Barbara Acklin's vocals on "Am I The Same Girl". The resulting instrumental "Soulful Strut" became a #3 hit for Young-Holt unlimited. Barbara may or may not have married Eugene Record, lead vocalist for the Chi-Lites. They wrote several songs together including the Chi-Lites #2 hit "Have You Seen Her". |
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Post by chrislc on Jan 29, 2024 16:48:11 GMT -5
Listening to 03/15/1969 Barbara Acklin Extra - Am I the Same Girl YIKES! It sounds like they ran out of studio time and they just went with whatever she was able to throw out there. I'm picturing her singing this in some hotel conference room for Simon and Paula and Randy. And no further. Not going to Hollywood. I think I'll take the Swing Out Sister version. And Corinne is missing some notes too, now that I listen to it. Is this song really so hard? Joe, between Acklin, and You're The Reason I'm Living, I think maybe this was your prank/troll episode. I know you couldn't avoid You Gave Me A Mountain since that was in the CB Top 40, so not playing that would have been censorship. Brunswick Records removed Barbara Acklin's vocals on "Am I The Same Girl". The resulting instrumental "Soulful Strut" became a #3 hit for Young-Holt unlimited. Barbara may or may not have married Eugene Record, lead vocalist for the Chi-Lites. They wrote several songs together including the Chi-Lites #2 hit "Have You Seen Her". Oh I'm all over Soulful Strut. I was listening to WABC back then and I heard Soulful Strut once per hour for a couple of months. Funny, I was just reading about the Chi-Lites over the weekend. Not a spotless criminal record (no pun intended - record not Record). |
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Post by chrislc on Jan 29, 2024 19:17:55 GMT -5
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Post by doofus67 on Jan 30, 2024 0:37:17 GMT -5
I'll call it "Soulful Strut (The Edith Prickley Theme)" from now on. |
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Post by jgve1952 on Feb 15, 2024 7:00:47 GMT -5
Listening to 03/15/1969 Barbara Acklin Extra - Am I the Same Girl YIKES! It sounds like they ran out of studio time and they just went with whatever she was able to throw out there. I'm picturing her singing this in some hotel conference room for Simon and Paula and Randy. And no further. Not going to Hollywood. I think I'll take the Swing Out Sister version. And Corinne is missing some notes too, now that I listen to it. Is this song really so hard? Joe, between Acklin, and You're The Reason I'm Living, I think maybe this was your prank/troll episode. I know you couldn't avoid You Gave Me A Mountain since that was in the CB Top 40, so not playing that would have been censorship. Brunswick Records removed Barbara Acklin's vocals on "Am I The Same Girl". The resulting instrumental "Soulful Strut" became a #3 hit for Young-Holt unlimited. Barbara may or may not have married Eugene Record, lead vocalist for the Chi-Lites. They wrote several songs together including the Chi-Lites #2 hit "Have You Seen Her". Very sad that she died at age 54 in Omaha, Nebraska of pneumonia. I loved her song in the Summer of 1968 "Love Makes A Woman." |
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Post by chrislc on Feb 21, 2024 18:24:34 GMT -5
So I noticed a couple of examples this week of Cash Box Countdown songs that sounded similar to each other, making me wonder if one song influenced the other, or if both songs had the same song influencing them.
What do you guys think? Any other examples?
At The Scene and Just Like Me...especially the intros - same key and everything
Put Your Mind At Ease and The Ballad Of You And Me And P ooneil - not as similar as the first example but there were some moments.
Both examples make me wonder what specific song influenced both. It's like I can hear it but can't put my finger on it.
I'm really getting hooked on some of the Top 40 hits I never heard until Joe told me about these countdowns about five years ago. A couple of recent earworms have been Cat In The Window (a beautiful song) and Like An Old Time Movie.
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Post by jgve1952 on Feb 28, 2024 7:56:05 GMT -5
Joe, just a minor correction, if you don't mind me doing so--on the 3-5-66 countdown you state that "Homeward Bound" was the fastest moving song, but it really was "19th Nervous Breakdown"--17 upward (24 to 7) vs. HB at 15 (30 to 15).
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Post by djjoe1960 on Feb 28, 2024 15:39:44 GMT -5
Joe, just a minor correction, if you don't mind me doing so--on the 3-5-66 countdown you state that "Homeward Bound" was the fastest moving song, but it really was "19th Nervous Breakdown"--17 upward (24 to 7) vs. HB at 15 (30 to 15). Yes, quite often I jot down notes for a show, while watch TV (sports usually) and I MAY have made some errors.  Maybe I could send you a prize for catching those goofs; let me check the prize closet and see what I have.  Thanks for the comments (they are always appreciated)--since it tells me you are really listening. |
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Post by jgve1952 on Feb 29, 2024 5:34:50 GMT -5
As I may have mentioned, I listen to every show on the anniversary of that same show. This week, I listened to 3-5-66 (0bviosly as stated), 3-6-65 is today, since it is in the "week ending" of that same date, on the Cashbox Thread, and 3-6-82 on the Rewind Thread. No prize is needed, because the prize is the countdowns that I so thoroughly enjoy!
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Post by chrislc on Feb 29, 2024 12:06:46 GMT -5
As I may have mentioned, I listen to every show on the anniversary of that same show. This week, I listened to 3-5-66 (0bviosly as stated), 3-6-65 is today, since it is in the "week ending" of that same date, on the Cashbox Thread, and 3-6-82 on the Rewind Thread. No prize is needed, because the prize is the countdowns that I so thoroughly enjoy! Listening to shows from March are especially enjoyable for me since I find it to be an anticipatory optimistic time of year. And March 1965 through 1970 remind me of those feelings I had back then each year. Of course in the case of March 1964 there was an extra feature but it was good too. |
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Post by chrislc on Mar 2, 2024 18:49:43 GMT -5
Very short show today that ended at 4:04pm EST. Next week is 1968, and the calendar is exactly the same as 2024, so I am thinking he will do next Saturday's date of 3-9-68? #1 was "Love Is Blue" by Paul Mauriat. That record was a sensation. I remember going right out and buying a copy. It's very good, but looking back, it's hard for me to figure out just what it was that made it so huge. It was certainly different from most hits but that could also be said about so many records. But this ended up being #1 for more than a month, and possibly the #1 AC hit of all time. Folks like Ray Conniff, Percy Faith and Frank Chacksfield must have been wondering what this guy was doing that they weren't doing. |
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Post by jgve1952 on Mar 4, 2024 5:44:50 GMT -5
I remember hearing it quite often on WABC AM radio in New York, where it was #1 for 7 weeks.
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