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Post by lasvegaskid on Mar 14, 2023 22:29:49 GMT -5
The 3/20/82 show starts with an hour long rarity block party only interrupted by 'Jenny. Then as it is about to end, the guys keep it going for a 'Minute with a rarely heard extra.
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Post by trekkielo on Mar 14, 2023 23:49:02 GMT -5
The 3/20/82 show starts with an hour long rarity block party only interrupted by 'Jenny. Then as it is about to end, the guys keep it going for a 'Minute with a rarely heard extra. I wouldn't call the Paul Davis song '65 Love Affair at #36 a rarity like those other ones by any means! |
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Post by chrislc on Mar 15, 2023 8:31:25 GMT -5
It’s like a Bizarro Top 40. Or something out of the Soviet Union. Absolutely brutal. Bobbie Sue at #12, that pretty much sums it up. Even Record World and WABC (!) said no mas. It must have been all that coke catching up with the pop music business, and the economy was in really bad shape. It reminds me of early 1974 with all these random records. It’s like that nightmare where I’m on the radio and have nothing prepared to say and nothing to play and there’s no internet to save me because it’s 1982. It’s like March 2020. Scary and depressing. Thank you England for saving Top 40! This was much worse than 1963, IMO.
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Post by retrodaddy on Mar 15, 2023 10:06:43 GMT -5
It’s like a Bizarro Top 40. Or something out of the Soviet Union. Absolutely brutal. Bobbie Sue at #12, that pretty much sums it up. Even Record World and WABC (!) said no mas. It must have been all that coke catching up with the pop music business, and the economy was in really bad shape. It reminds me of early 1974 with all these random records. It’s like that nightmare where I’m on the radio and have nothing prepared to say and nothing to play and there’s no internet to save me because it’s 1982. It’s like March 2020. Scary and depressing. Thank you England for saving Top 40! This was much worse than 1963, IMO. ^^^^ This X a skrillion. |
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Post by bobbo428 on Mar 16, 2023 0:09:11 GMT -5
“ Bobble Sue” was definitely made with crossover in mind. Many of the winter MOR songs lingered into spring. 1982 was the final year before MTV made top-40 radio more youth- oriented, and by 1983 Top 40 began to call itself Contemporary Hit Radio. In my book about 1980s and ‘90s music, I discuss this sea change in pop radio and it’s shift from Boomers to what would be called Generation X. I was in the limbo zone. It seemed that top- 40 radio shifted from a 25-35 demographic to teen- oriented within a year. Our generation got lost in the shuffle. When MTV began to dominate, I knew that I was too old for pop radio but I kept listening until hair metal and harder rap drove me away.
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Post by bobbo428 on Mar 16, 2023 0:35:57 GMT -5
“ Bobble Sue” was definitely made with crossover in mind. Many of the winter MOR songs lingered into spring. 1982 was the final year before MTV made top-40 radio more youth- oriented, and by 1983 Top 40 began to call itself Contemporary Hit Radio. In my book about 1980s and ‘90s music, I discuss this sea change in pop radio and it’s shift from Boomers to what would be called Generation X. I was in the limbo zone. It seemed that top- 40 radio shifted from a 25-35 demographic to teen- oriented within a year. Our generation got lost in the shuffle. When MTV began to dominate, I knew that I was too old for pop radio but I kept listening until hair metal and harder rap drove me away.
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Post by djjoe1960 on Mar 16, 2023 6:29:38 GMT -5
Wow! I never knew that a song that appealed to the 8-12 year old crowd (Bobbie Sue) produced such reactions. I am sure that the record company for the Oak Ridge Boys were looking for another song along the lines of Elvira--and found that Bobbie Sue fit the bill. Maybe the good thing that came about because of the song crossing over to become a hit on the pop charts is that it made Top 40 Music Directors look elsewhere for songs to fill the airwaves--and as in 1964, the British invasion 2.0 came to the rescue.
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