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Post by chrislc on Mar 27, 2024 18:53:59 GMT -5
Does anyone know the specific reasons these were released again?
Monster Mash
Send In The Clowns
Into The Night
Send Me An Angel
And any others for which you know the reasons...Twist and Shout and Do You Love Me we know, the movies...
I know why they made the Top 40 twice, but why were they released twice, giving them that opportunity, when 99.9% of Top 40 hits are not released again?
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Post by dukelightning on Mar 27, 2024 19:33:21 GMT -5
It was a Where Are They Now segment on an Arizona radio station that resulted in "Into the Night" being added to their playlist. Then it caught on nationally. "Send Me an Angel" was put on the soundtrack of The Wizard leading to its resurrection.
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Post by mga707 on Mar 27, 2024 20:25:43 GMT -5
There was a thankfully short-lived very late-'80s trend of re-releasing songs. The impetus for it was Sheriff's "When I'm With You". The song only reached #61 on its initial 1983 release, but when re-released in late '88 it went all the way to #1 in late January/early February '89.
"Into the Night", "Send Me An Angel", "What About Me", and other re-releases quickly followed.
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Post by dth1971 on Mar 28, 2024 7:31:45 GMT -5
There was a thankfully short-lived very late-'80s trend of re-releasing songs. The impetus for it was Sheriff's "When I'm With You". The song only reached #61 on its initial 1983 release, but when re-released in late '88 it went all the way to #1 in late January/early February '89. "Into the Night", "Send Me An Angel", "What About Me", and other re-releases quickly followed. There's these others: "Iko Iko" (Belle Stars), "Where Are You Now", "Fool For Your Loving", "Dancing In Heaven (Orbital Be-Bop)", "Stangelove", and "Forever Young". Did this trend start with "Red Red Wine"? |
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Post by dukelightning on Mar 28, 2024 9:09:38 GMT -5
Not all of those 1989 re-releases can be attributed to simply following the trend. "Iko Iko" was re-released due its inclusion in Rainman.
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Post by cursereversed on Mar 28, 2024 9:56:42 GMT -5
Monster Mash was re-released because Dr. Demento started playing it heavily.
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Post by michaelcasselman on Mar 28, 2024 10:10:27 GMT -5
"In Your Eyes" got airplay again due to Say Anything.
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Post by chrislc on Mar 28, 2024 11:44:55 GMT -5
Monster Mash was re-released because Dr. Demento started playing it heavily. Thank you! Do you happen to know if he did that because Frankenstein was such a big hit in the Spring of '73? |
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Post by chrislc on Mar 28, 2024 11:49:33 GMT -5
Looks like Send In The Clowns was because of the "So Early in the Spring... The First 15 Years" LP released in 1977. That was easy to find once I took a moment to look it up. Not sure why I didn't do that before, it's been bugging me for years! It is kind of odd to re-release a Top 40 single only two years later, but it paid off as it charted higher the second time. I wonder if there were discussions at the label about releasing another song instead of Send In The Clowns, it was a double album so there were plenty to choose from. I can easily imagine the pressure from the promoters to play that record, pushing it up to #17 or whatever the peak was. Almost all of the listeners already knew her version of that song from 1975. It won a Grammy for Song Of The Year so it wasn't exactly flying under the radar. It's also odd that two of her four Top 40 hits were NOT included on the Double LP, Amazing Grace and Cook With Honey. Maybe everyone at Elektra was too stoned to notice these things. Or coked-up like that guy in the Nakatomi Building.  |
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Post by mga707 on Mar 28, 2024 12:02:42 GMT -5
Monster Mash was re-released because Dr. Demento started playing it heavily. Thank you! Do you happen to know if he did that because Frankenstein was such a big hit in the Spring of '73? It had already re-charted in August of 1970, but only lasted 3 weeks on the Hot 100 and peaked at 91. Hadn't thought about any connection with 'Frankenstein', that's interesting. Demento's radio show was only heard in Los Angeles until 1974 when a two-hour edit of his four-hour L.A. broadcast was first offered in syndication, per Wiki. So not sure if he would have had much effect on airplay nationally in '73. |
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Post by chrislc on Mar 28, 2024 12:06:31 GMT -5
Thank you! Do you happen to know if he did that because Frankenstein was such a big hit in the Spring of '73? It had already re-charted in August of 1970, but only lasted 3 weeks on the Hot 100 and peaked at 91. Hadn't thought about any connection with 'Frankenstein', that's interesting. Demento's radio show was only heard in Los Angeles until 1974 when a two-hour edit of his four-hour L.A. broadcast was first offered in syndication, per Wiki. So not sure if he would have had much effect on airplay nationally in '73. My next question is...why did they keep re-releasing Monster Mash in the early summer? I would think, oh, maybe, September or October would work better? But what do I know? Yes, Monster Mash, supposedly the closest we've ever come to the last #1 hit ever (Cuban Missile Crisis). Also one of two consecutive #1 songs (He's A Rebel) sung at least in part by a singer who got no label credit (Darlene Love). |
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Post by mkarns on Mar 28, 2024 13:37:04 GMT -5
Looks like Send In The Clowns was because of the "So Early in the Spring... The First 15 Years" LP released in 1977. That was easy to find once I took a moment to look it up. Not sure why I didn't do that before, it's been bugging me for years! It is kind of odd to re-release a Top 40 single only two years later, but it paid off as it charted higher the second time. I wonder if there were discussions at the label about releasing another song instead of Send In The Clowns, it was a double album so there were plenty to choose from. I can easily imagine the pressure from the promoters to play that record, pushing it up to #17 or whatever the peak was. Almost all of the listeners already knew her version of that song from 1975. It won a Grammy for Song Of The Year so it wasn't exactly flying under the radar. It's also odd that two of her four Top 40 hits were NOT included on the Double LP, Amazing Grace and Cook With Honey. Maybe everyone at Elektra was too stoned to notice these things. Or coked-up like that guy in the Nakatomi Building. Send In the Clowns originally peaked at #36 in summer 1975, when it was included on Judy Collins' album "Judith". "So Early..." was a two record best of released in 1977, and the song had become popular enough due to her and others' renditions, and may still have been getting airplay, that Elektra decided it was worth re-issuing and it became a bigger hit the second time, hitting #19. (Incidentally I have original vinyl copies of both those albums, which once belonged to my parents.) Among those likely pleased by this was Casey Kasem, as it became one of his favourites--his all time fave, by some reports. At a private memorial service held about a week after his death in June 2014, according to an account in the Florida Times-Union, "Kasem's three children all spoke, and pop music arranger David Campbell played a violin version of Stephen Sondheim's "Send in the Clowns," one of Kasem's favorite songs." |
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Post by OnWithTheCountdown on Mar 28, 2024 13:57:28 GMT -5
Pretty ironic, this morning I heard Casey mention "Monster Mash" on the Casey's Top 40 show dated 10/28/1995 (Halloween weekend).
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Post by chrislc on Mar 28, 2024 16:37:39 GMT -5
My parents also bought Judith! I believe it was the only LP they bought in the 1970s and the first since Ed Ames back in 1967. The Greatest Generation sure did love their Send In The Clowns. Maybe the backstory resonated with a lot of married couples.
Also this was back in the days before clowns were monsters. They were just clowns.
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Post by mga707 on Mar 28, 2024 16:56:15 GMT -5
My parents also bought Judith! I believe it was the only LP they bought in the 1970s and the first since Ed Ames back in 1967. "Who Will Answer?" or "My Cup Runneth Over with Looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooove"?  ...and Ed could throw a mean tomahawk on Johnny Carson!  |
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