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Post by jblues on Aug 28, 2023 14:50:42 GMT -5
How about the Blues Brothers charters of 1979/1980/1981 - Soul Man-14, Rubber Biscuit-37, Gimme Some Lovin-18 and Who's Making Love-39? Not representative of charts at the time but great tunes!!! (Of course I would think that )
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Post by woolebull on Aug 29, 2023 21:16:54 GMT -5
Candy Dulfer is playing at the international jazz festival, where I live, this weekend. Which took me back to the summer of 1991. That particular season had some good candidates whether it was Dulfer, Marc Cohn, and/or Natalie and Nat King Cole. They all worked, and worked well. To me, they all were outliers for 1991. Interestingly I soon will have seen both Cohn and Dulfer this year in concert.
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Post by chrislc on Aug 31, 2023 6:34:44 GMT -5
How about both versions of 1974's "Americans" by both Gordon Sinclair and Byron MacGregor? Early 1974 was the peak of "out of place" Top 40 hits, IMO. Normal acts like the Carpenters and McCartney and Chicago were practically the exception, rather than the rule. We had technocracy and the nun and the Exorcist and Don't Look Ethel and oogachaka and Scott Joplin, etc. Weird, wild stuff, Doc!
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Post by djjoe1960 on Aug 31, 2023 7:56:19 GMT -5
How about both versions of 1974's "Americans" by both Gordon Sinclair and Byron MacGregor? Early 1974 was the peak of "out of place" Top 40 hits, IMO. Normal acts like the Carpenters and McCartney and Chicago were practically the exception, rather than the rule. We had technocracy and the nun and the Exorcist and Don't Look Ethel and oogachaka and Scott Joplin, etc. Weird, wild stuff, Doc! You missed the great Cheech & Chong song (?), Earache My Eye, Chris. Of course, My Melody of Love by Bobby Vinton--maybe payola made a comeback in 1974.
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Post by cursereversed on Aug 31, 2023 11:15:21 GMT -5
Early 1974 was the peak of "out of place" Top 40 hits, IMO. Normal acts like the Carpenters and McCartney and Chicago were practically the exception, rather than the rule. We had technocracy and the nun and the Exorcist and Don't Look Ethel and oogachaka and Scott Joplin, etc. Weird, wild stuff, Doc! You missed the great Cheech & Chong song (?), Earache My Eye, Chris. Of course, My Melody of Love by Bobby Vinton--maybe payola made a comeback in 1974. Oddly enough five of those songs I look forward to hearing every spring and three of them I would prefer to never hear again in my entire life.
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Post by woolebull on Sept 2, 2023 7:20:48 GMT -5
So for me, the 12/15/79 show is one of my favorites for many reasons, but having the Buggles lead off the show is wild. Since I didn't start listening to AT40 until 1982, the Buggles are more tied to the early to mid part of the 80's than to the late 70's. And I know we were only a few weeks off of the 80's, but hearing "Star", or even M in the last part of the decade seemed to be way out of place for that time. Just as I am sure some people hearing "Smells Like Teen Spirit" felt listening to CT or Dees in late 91.
Also a few weeks later, hearing "Rappers Delight" on the show is wild as well.
Now that I think of it, there were a ton of songs that were "outliers" at the end of 1979. However, that might be anachronistic of me listening to shows in 2023 instead of real time.
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Post by dth1971 on Sept 2, 2023 8:06:50 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! "The Last Farewell" was more recognizable for Chicago TV viewers in the late 1970's and early 1980's with the opening of the song being used for station I.D.'s on WGN Channel 9 Chicago - even via cablesystems at the time.
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Post by woolebull on Sept 2, 2023 14:06:56 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. On the flip side, "Rainbow Connection" seems to work at the end of the decade. I think it is because the Muppets were so engrained into culture by that time, it seemed to be a good fit.
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Post by mga707 on Sept 2, 2023 18:43:44 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. On the flip side, "Rainbow Connection" seems to work at the end of the decade. I think it is because the Muppets were so engrained into culture by that time, it seemed to be a good fit. True. At the time that "Rubber Duckie" charted, "Sesame Street was still in its first year on TV, having started in the fall of 1969. To most adults The Muppets were more familiar from their frequent "Ed Sullivan Show" appearances than from some new show for kids on 'Educational Television' (1970 was still pre-PBS). Bert and Ernie, though, were new characters created by Jim Henson & Co for that show. ...and speaking of said Mr. Henson and his creations, who else remembers the short-lived and very adult-themed 'Not Ready For Prime Time' Muppets that were a weekly 'bit' on the first 1975-76 season of what was then titled "NBC's Saturday Night"? The 'Saturday Night Live' name was attached to a short-lived live prime time variety show hosted by Howard Cosell that fall of '75. Apparently they were not popular with late-night viewers, or they cost too much, or something, as they did not continue on the show (now using the 'Saturday Night Live' title) for its second season in fall '76, except for one poignant segment where Gilda Radner discovers the characters languishing in a back storage area and we hear their voices one final time. I for one liked them!
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Post by mrjukebox on Sept 2, 2023 18:49:13 GMT -5
I also remember when The Muppets appeared on "SNL's" first season-When it was announced that they weren't returning for the second season,writer Michael O' Donoghue was quoted as saying "I don't write for felt".
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Post by mrjukebox on Sept 2, 2023 18:53:19 GMT -5
I also remember Howard Cosell's ill-fated variety show "Saturday Night Live"-ABC was trying to duplicate the success of the legendary "Ed Sullivan Show" which ran from 1948-1971-Unfortunately,lightning didn't strike twice & the program was gone by early 1976.
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Post by mga707 on Sept 2, 2023 19:07:47 GMT -5
I also remember Howard Cosell's ill-fated variety show "Saturday Night Live"-ABC was trying to duplicate the success of the legendary "Ed Sullivan Show" which ran from 1948-1971-Unfortunately,lightning didn't strike twice & the program was gone by early 1976. It's amazing how huge a celebrity Mr. Cosell was in the '70s, and how forgotten he is today. Kind of similar to Mr. Sullivan. Any impressionist worth his salt did impressions of both. Enjoy the Sunday night half-hour 'Sullivan Show' highlights shows on MeTV. Wish they were hour-length. Always at least one top 40 artist ("...and now, for you young folks..." ) on them.
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Post by mkarns on Sept 3, 2023 1:42:34 GMT -5
I also remember Howard Cosell's ill-fated variety show "Saturday Night Live"-ABC was trying to duplicate the success of the legendary "Ed Sullivan Show" which ran from 1948-1971-Unfortunately,lightning didn't strike twice & the program was gone by early 1976. Meanwhile, at the same time (fall 1975) "NBC's Saturday Night" premiered weekly at 11:30 PM. After Cosell's show was cancelled, NBC purchased the rights to the "Saturday Night Live" name, which was first used in March 1977, and we all know the rest....
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Post by mga707 on Sept 3, 2023 11:37:32 GMT -5
I also remember Howard Cosell's ill-fated variety show "Saturday Night Live"-ABC was trying to duplicate the success of the legendary "Ed Sullivan Show" which ran from 1948-1971-Unfortunately,lightning didn't strike twice & the program was gone by early 1976. Meanwhile, at the same time (fall 1975) "NBC's Saturday Night" premiered weekly at 11:30 PM. After Cosell's show was cancelled, NBC purchased the rights to the "Saturday Night Live" name, which was first used in March 1977, and we all know the rest.... Mentioned in my comment four replies up. It's what triggered this particular 'wander' off-topic that started with 'Rubber Duckie' Although thanks for the detail about March '77. I'd assumed the name change occurred at the start of 'SNL' S-2 in fall '76. I stand corrected.
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Post by chrislc on Sept 3, 2023 15:22:23 GMT -5
Ah yes "The Last Farewell" DEFINITELY fits that description! "The Last Farewell" was more recognizable for Chicago TV viewers in the late 1970's and early 1980's with the opening of the song being used for station I.D.'s on WGN Channel 9 Chicago - even via cablesystems at the time. LOL imagining hearing that on a TV station ID is cringeworthy. The song was a pretty big hit. They should have used something less identifiable, especially being such a large market station. JMO. It reminds me of NHL Showdown, a between-periods feature of NHL games in the late 1970s, using Wind Of Change off the Bee Gees Main Course LP as the intro. I know the vast majority of viewers might not make a conscious connection, but especially with The Last Farewell, using that intro must have made viewers at least subconsciously think of the song, which to my knowledge had absolutely nothing to do with the city of Chicago. Watching some of that late 1970s and early 1980s TV on YouTube is like watching SCTV, except it isn't SCTV and no parody is intended.
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