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Post by pizzzzza on Aug 26, 2023 9:34:41 GMT -5
I don't know if this has been discussed before or here or not, but I think about it from time to time.
Is there a song - you feel - that was really was so out of place or didn't belong in a particular week's countdown?
It can something lyrically or musically (or whatever reason) that you think sounded odd at the time - compared to the other songs in the countdown.
I always think back to this whenever I hear "I Feel Love" by Donna Summer.
It felt so ahead of its time - there was absolutely nothing that sounded like it at the time.
A few others off the top of my head:
Shaving Cream - Benny Bell Machine Gun - Commodores Curly Shuffle - Jump N The Saddle They Don't Know - Tracey Ullman
I'm sure there are others, but those always stand out anytime I hear them on the countdown.
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Post by pizzzzza on Aug 26, 2023 9:38:24 GMT -5
p.s. I almost added "D.O.A." by Bloodrock...but I think it's more just the song that's more shock value than anything else - but then again, nothing else sounded like it at the time, especially the lyrics.
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Post by LC on Aug 26, 2023 10:02:55 GMT -5
"Rubber Duckie" is of course a charming bit of kiddie sugar-pop, but it sticks out like a sore thumb among the rest of 1970.
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Post by mga707 on Aug 26, 2023 10:14:07 GMT -5
"Shaving Cream" shared its final week on the 40 in May of '75 with another 'out of its time' record that entered the 40 that same week: Roger Whittaker's "The Last Farewell". My born-in-1922 Mom loved that song, but not what was on the rest of the chart that spring. Don't know if she recalled "Shaving Cream" from its original 1946 release, she may well have. Anyway, Whittaker's '50s or earlier-sounding sailor-going-off-to-war ditty is also a 'guilty pleasure' of mine.
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Post by pizzzzza on Aug 26, 2023 10:25:14 GMT -5
"Shaving Cream" shared its final week on the 40 in May of '75 with another 'out of its time' record that entered the 40 that same week: Roger Whittaker's "The Last Farewell". My born-in-1922 Mom loved that song, but not what was on the rest of the chart that spring. Don't know if she recalled "Shaving Cream" from its original 1946 release, she may well have. Anyway, Whittaker's '50s or earlier-sounding sailor-going-off-to-war ditty is also a 'guilty pleasure' of mine. Ah yes "The Last Farewell" DEFINITELY fits that description!
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Post by 80sat40fan on Aug 26, 2023 10:39:48 GMT -5
“Sister Mary Elephant” by Cheech & Chong would be my pick. There’s no music in it, yet it made the music charts.
Tom Clay’s “What The World Needs Now Is Love/Abraham, Martin & John”, even though there is music in the background, seemed like an odd song to make the Top 10. Meanwhile, I was fine with Paul Hardcastle’s “19” making the Top 20.
Out of place ending to a song for me is “Roller” by April Wine. A lot of rock songs on AT 40 had a pop/rock feel but the ending to Roller seemed wacky.
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Post by mrjukebox on Aug 26, 2023 10:49:23 GMT -5
How about "Once You Understand" by Think?
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Post by mkarns on Aug 26, 2023 11:11:34 GMT -5
"And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going" by Jennifer Holliday. Amazing performance of a Broadway showstopper--but not representative of 1982 pop (or even soul, where it hit #1.)
"Nadia's Theme (The Young and the Restless)". Easy listening instrumental that became a hit in 1976 due to association with the Olympics and the titular soap opera--which still uses it today.
And then there are the several rechartings of oldies due to being featured in movies, TV, or whatever. (Recently TikTok and such have brought several songs recorded years ago to pop radio, but they don't sound particularly anachronistic, which may speak to a lack of pop music evolution.)
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Post by seminolefan on Aug 26, 2023 11:42:19 GMT -5
Boston's "Amanda" always felt out of place to me whenever I listen to a show from the fall of 1986, like it was released five years too late.
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Post by dth1971 on Aug 26, 2023 12:03:20 GMT -5
Would Christmas songs in January on the AT40 chart like "If We Make It Through December" by Merle Haggard, "Please Come Home For Christmas" by the Eagles, and "Do They Know It's Christmas" by Band-Aid count?
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Post by pizzzzza on Aug 26, 2023 12:31:46 GMT -5
Boston's "Amanda" always felt out of place to me whenever I listen to a show from the fall of 1986, like it was released five years too late. This might help explain a little about "Amanda" “Amanda” was a defining song for Boston. Frontman and founder Tom Scholz wrote the song solo six years before it saw the light of day in 1986. Released as the lead single off the band’s third album, Third Stage, “Amanda” became one of the band’s signature hits and their highest-charting single to date, peaking at No. 1 on both the Billboard Hot 100 and Mainstream Rock chart. It marked their first and only appearance at No. 1 on the all-genre Hot 100, where it sat in that position for two consecutive weeks. Despite fronting a rock band, Scholz proved he knows how to write a love song with the best of them. The lyrics find him professing his love for a woman named Amanda, as captured in the unabashed lyrics, I’m gonna tell you right away / I can’t wait another day, Amanda / I’m gonna say it like a man / And make you understand Amanda / I love you. Scholz revealed that “Amanda” is one of the solos that he felt was ready on the first take, telling Music Radar that the demo had a “crude start” with just drums, rhythm, and electric guitar, and didn’t utilize acoustic guitar at first. “I played that little lead electric part after the second chorus, doing it in a hurry as I was running by, and I decided that it was exactly the way I wanted it,” he explains. “I then had to go back and play all of the other parts and keep everything in exactly the same place to match up with that one track that was not going to change. “A long time ago, I decided that whenever I recorded anything, I was always going to do it on production tape,” he continues of his process. “I never make what you would call a ‘demo’ and then go back and try to reproduce it in the studio. I always do all of my work on production tape, so if I get something on the first take, I keep it – it’s going on the record, no matter what.” Though it wasn’t released until 1986, a tape of “Amanda” leaked in 1984. The song also helped elevate the album’s success, which hit No. 1 on the Billboard 200.
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Post by mga707 on Aug 26, 2023 12:56:24 GMT -5
Would Christmas songs in January on the AT40 chart like "If We Make It Through December" by Merle Haggard, "Please Come Home For Christmas" by the Eagles, and "Do They Know It's Christmas" by Band-Aid count? I don't consider Haggard's song to be a Christmas song. If it is, then it's right up there with John Denver's "Please Daddy (Don't Get Drunk This Christmas)" as a depressing one. As for the other two, its more or an illustration of how chart dates lag actual sales and airplay.
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Post by chrislc on Aug 26, 2023 16:51:55 GMT -5
Frank Mills
Yikes
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Post by pizzzzza on Aug 26, 2023 17:24:55 GMT -5
You guys are always amazing....
I just thought of another that I felt was kind of out of place when it was released...
"I've Never Been To Me"....Charlene
Could've easily been released in the early 60s...
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Post by dth1971 on Aug 27, 2023 8:07:36 GMT -5
We also think during the early 1990's Shadoe Stevens era of AT40 that shortened on the show rap songs "The Humpty Dance", "O.P.P.", and "Mind Playing Tricks on Me" were out of place.
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