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Post by pb on Jul 23, 2018 17:47:07 GMT -5
7/18/81 had the Climax Blues Band's "I Love You" followed by the James Brown-like "Double Dutch Bus" by Frankie Smith.
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Post by pb on Aug 2, 2018 20:40:02 GMT -5
6/24/72 had one of the most ridiculous pairings right at the beginning of the show - #40 "School's Out" (Alice Cooper) followed by #39 "Isn't Life Strange" (Moody Blues). 7/29/72 has a similar example of a rowdy song followed by a serious one - "Happy" (Rolling Stones) and then "Goodbye to Love" (Carpenters).
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Post by pb on Feb 17, 2019 13:28:36 GMT -5
This week's '70's countdown (from 1/29/1972) had two more of those fascinating contrasting pairs. (Not counting the songs before and after "Once You Understand", because that contrast would be obvious, no matter what the bookend songs may be. ) No, I'm talking about the raucous, obnoxious, yet fun Zeppelin classic "Black Dog", followed by the touching, down-to-earth country classic by Charlie Pride, "Kiss An Angel Good Morning". In addition, Mr. Pride was followed by that fun but sleazy Rod Stewart/Faces song "Stay With Me", still another study in contrast. In Charlie's song, he wants to kiss his woman in the morning; in Rod's song, he wants to kick the woman out in the morning. Needless to say, Charlie Pride is by far the more honorable, decent man. (In the context of those songs, that is. I assume ol' Rod is an OK person in real life.) 2/19/72 has Beverly Bremers's "Don't Say You Don't Remember" ("When we meet you always call me "baby"/How could it be that you forgot my name?") between "Stay With Me" and "Black Dog."
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Post by pb on Mar 12, 2019 17:48:42 GMT -5
3/11/78 had some strange juxtapositions, England Dan & John Ford Coley followed by Van Halen, and Lynyrd Skynyrd before ABBA.
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Post by 80sat40fan on Oct 10, 2019 19:39:07 GMT -5
Currently playing on SXM is an odd feline-themed juxtaposition: on 9/10/77, Ted Nugent's raunchy hard rocker "Cat Scratch Fever" debuted at #38 and was followed by Harry Chapin's soft story song "Cat's In the Cradle" as an extra. Whether this was just a coincidence I don't know, but the fact that CITC was an extra means that this can't be blamed on Billboard. Just five weeks later on the 10/15/77 countdown (the show playing the weekend of 10/12 & 10/13/19), the re-release of "Send In The Clowns" by Judy Collins debuts at #40 with "Cat Scratch Fever" by Ted Nugent dropping to #39. And then #38 is George Benson's original version of "The Greatest Love Of All", and then #37 is Foghat's "I Just Want To Make Love To You (Live)". Talk about contrasts!
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Post by johnnywest on May 21, 2022 23:56:55 GMT -5
“When I’m Gone” by Alesso & Katy Perry was recently next to (or close to) “When You’re Gone” by Shawn Mendes. I think it was AT40’s HAC version. Not long after, as Ryan noted, Shawn Mendes was back to back with Camille Cabello on the chart. The couple split up last year and both were singing breakup songs about each other.
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Post by woolebull on May 23, 2022 7:11:15 GMT -5
On the flip side of this: I love the CT 40 shows from 4/29/95 and throughout the entire month of May where the top two consisted of songs entitled, "I Know" and "I Believe".
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