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Post by chrislc on May 8, 2024 11:00:54 GMT -5
I don't know who did the calculations for the annual Top 100 on Cashbox. I mentioned to Joe about the omission of "Put A Little Love In Your Heart" from the 1969 countdown. I think there was a song listed twice--maybe "Easy To Be Hard?" What about proofreading? Good question--perhaps Cash Box was short staffed or used interns that didn't work for them for a full year?! Anyway, here is a countdown from 1964--June 27, 1964 to be exact. Enjoy, Joe archive.org/details/cbc-1964062701Great summer. Out of school and the World's Fair and Shea Stadium! Everything seemed so bright and new and colorful. And I remember my sister taking me to see A Hard Day's Night. A HUGE deal! Someone my age now - then - would be remembering the summer of 1904. Ouch.
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Post by chrislc on May 6, 2024 14:15:38 GMT -5
There's definitely something fishy about this 06/03/1967 Cash Box Countdown
COME ON DOWN TO MY BOAT then the next hit TOO MANY FISH IN THE SEA & THREE LITTLE FISHES and the fish won't bite for the Music Explosion
and about a week late for FRIDAY ON MY MIND
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Post by chrislc on May 6, 2024 9:39:50 GMT -5
I was surprised that Can't You Hear My Heartbeat finished the year higher than Mrs. Brown You've Got A Lovely Daughter. I thought it was a weird Cash Box thing. But no. It was also higher in Billboard's Top 100 of the Year and Vince showed here that it had more points. at40fg.proboards.com/thread/4951/billboards-singles-charts-revised-versions?page=2It was in the Top 40 for 2 1/2 months. I guess that was a long, long time for 1965! What a year those boys had. Chris, you will remember this was the same year that Cashbox made "Back In My Arms Again" the #1 record of 1965--so take the validity of the Top 100 of 1965 with a grain of salt. SMH I know, right? #37 on Vince's list. I always think of Satisfaction first even though Wooly Bully or Back in My Arms Again or whatever. But maybe we're conditioned by our old Whitburn books to think of the song with the most #1 weeks as number one for the year. It's hard to break away from that impression.
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Post by chrislc on May 5, 2024 19:00:17 GMT -5
"Hot Number" by Foxy is one of the featured songs from this week's B show 5/5/79-Before playing that song,Casey mentioned a singer from the 1940's named Ish Kabibble-Casey said he was a member of Spike Jones' band The City Slickers-That's wrong-Kabibble was a member of Kay Kyser's band. Per Wikipedia Kyser disbanded the orchestra during the summer of 1947 but resurrected it for a television series in October 1949. During the hiatus Spike Jones hired Bogue to appear as Ish Kabibble in Jones's zany band the City Slickers. Bogue didn't care for the experience, and was with the Jones band only briefly. I remember my parents mentioning Ish Kabibble. I had no idea what they were talking about, or that this was a person. I just thought it was one of those old people things. I wish I had been more interested and curious. I miss them.
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Post by chrislc on May 5, 2024 17:33:15 GMT -5
I was surprised that Can't You Hear My Heartbeat finished the year higher than Mrs. Brown You've Got A Lovely Daughter. I thought it was a weird Cash Box thing. But no. It was also higher in Billboard's Top 100 of the Year and Vince showed here that it had more points. at40fg.proboards.com/thread/4951/billboards-singles-charts-revised-versions?page=2It was in the Top 40 for 2 1/2 months. I guess that was a long, long time for 1965! What a year those boys had.
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Post by chrislc on May 5, 2024 15:56:18 GMT -5
Listening now to Top 100 of 1965. What a great year. Wow, Joe, you just gave a very brief emotionless introduction to Shake. What do you have against Sam Cooke? Chris, I was somewhat disappointed that I didn't say Sam was caught in the act (so to speak) and tragically shot by a motel manager that felt threatened by a 'naked' man. I think I did attempt an intro that said that but didn't like it and went with a more sedate intro (as you implied). By the way, I am finished with the additional 1960's countdowns and will be posting them soon. Wow thank you for the explanation, Joe. It's funny that I noticed that, the generic intro. It's a good idea to not post something if you have a doubt. Someday I might begin heeding that advice myself. I'm looking forward to the new shows, and I know I'm not alone! We love the shows.
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Post by chrislc on May 5, 2024 13:03:25 GMT -5
Listening now to Top 100 of 1965. What a great year. But - "trying to tell a stranger 'bout rock 'n' roll" still bugs me. I'll tell you about the magic, and it'll free your soul But it's like trying to tell a stranger 'bout rock 'n' roll What is like trying to tell a stranger 'bout rock 'n' roll? I assume he meant telling the listener about "the magic". Okay. But what about the magic is being told? And what about telling the listener about the magic is like trying to tell a stranger about rock and roll? And what is the big deal with telling a stranger about rock and roll? And what is being told about rock and roll? And why a stranger as distinguished from a familiar person? Other than needing to introduce yourself, and possibly not including some profanities, why would the information be conveyed differently in any way than if it had been told to someone you already know? Wow, Joe, you just gave a very brief emotionless introduction to Shake. What do you have against Sam Cooke?
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Post by chrislc on Apr 27, 2024 20:57:57 GMT -5
"Der Kommisar" was recorded by After The Fire not After The Fall-FYI:"After The Fall" was a play written by Arthur Miller. ..and a #23 single in 1983 for Journey... And there it is, post 7,000! Arthur Miller also wrote Bus Stop for the Hollies. EDIT Ouch no he didn't. He was around, but just as a spectator. Bus Stop was written by William Inge, who wrote the Theme From Picnic. Not the musical theme, but the "theme" of the play (and the play itself). Steve Allen wrote the lyrics. He supposedly wrote dozens of popular songs. Someone once commented "name three". Maybe Jack Paar wrote Der Kommisar. This is weird. Why are the lyrics to Lonely Street on this web page about an LP called "Andy Williams Sings Steve Allen"? genius.com/Andy-williams-picnic-lyrics
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Post by chrislc on Apr 27, 2024 16:39:52 GMT -5
>LDD: IF YOU REMEMBER ME - CHRIS THOMPSON - The theme from the movie "The Champ", which contains possibly THE most heartbreaking scene ever in film-dom (and if you've ever seen the movie, I'm sure you know which scene of which I speak!). Considering this dedication is from a mother to the baby she had to give up for adoption, that makes the song all the more poignant.< I keep forgetting to watch that movie. If it's sadder than A Dog's Purpose, maybe I will avoid it.
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Post by chrislc on Apr 27, 2024 16:33:10 GMT -5
Thanks OnWithTheCountdown. I think they must have started out with just using #1 songs and then after a few months, realized there were too many songs that did not hit #1 which would make for good songs to play so ditched the idea. By the way, playing #1 songs from 'x' years ago sprinkled throughout the show would have been a better choice than playing last week's top 3 back in the AT40 days when they did that i.e. 1982 IMO. Right on. I think, just mention last week's top 3 in the open, then like you said, sprinkle extras throughout (#1s or big hits from this week 'x' years ago, like Casey did in the earlier years). I wonder if some affiliates requested a stronger start to the shows. As much as we all love the first hour, I must admit that the average listener was usually less likely to stick around to listen to the #40 #39 and #38 songs of the week.
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Post by chrislc on Apr 22, 2024 20:22:14 GMT -5
Wow the movie producers were really mining that Autumn 1976 Top 40 for that soundtrack. I'm picturing Tony out on the floor and hearing "the legend lives on from the Chippewa on down" and being like okay what do I do now. But I guess Robert Stigwood drew the line at one of the biggest hit singles from that autumn, even though it was on RSO Records. 'Quack quack...' Yes, always an awkward segue between those two hits. Though water was a common theme.
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Post by chrislc on Apr 22, 2024 19:46:07 GMT -5
And while Thelma's version was a hit a good six months or more before the film came out, her recording of it was used in the disturbing 1977 movie "Looking For Mr. Goodbar", starring Diane Keaton. Can't hear the song without thinking of the film. I recall Casey telling a story in which Boz Scaggs, or at least his management, passed on allowing "Lowdown" to be used on the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack in favour of Looking For Mr. Goodbar. Oops... Wow the movie producers were really mining that Autumn 1976 Top 40 for that soundtrack. I'm picturing Tony out on the floor and hearing "the legend lives on from the Chippewa on down" and being like okay what do I do now.
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Post by chrislc on Apr 22, 2024 19:34:31 GMT -5
It was an interesting butchered first 1976 hour on Hoggy. Casey said Barry Manimellow kept rolling right along. 'Trying would soon become a top tenner. But John Denver wasn't so lucky when Casey mentioned he was the #1 male act of 1975, but Looking For Space was peaking right there at #29 and he'd only graze the bottom of the top 40 twice more in the 70s. Then he teased the #1 duo Everly Bros who would never reach the top 40 again, but the song just completed was Sara Smile and of course it was the guys that would soon fly by Evs. I always question my memory when recalling John Denver as the #1 male act of 1975. How in the world could it NOT have been Elton John? Caribou and The Bxtch Is Back and Whatever Gets You Through The Night and Greatest Hits and Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds and Pinball Wizard and Philadelphia Freedom and Captain Fantastic and Someone Saved My Life Tonight and Bad Blood and Rock Of The Westies and Island Girl. John Denver trumped all that? Okay.
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Post by chrislc on Apr 22, 2024 12:26:21 GMT -5
Listening for the umpteenth time to 07/26/1969
Joe mentions that Neil said Sweet Caroline was inspired either by Caroline Kennedy - or by his wife at the time, Marcia.
Well, it isn't called Sweet Marcia, so there's a clue.
The same week as Chappaquiddick and two months from the debut of The Brady Bunch. Small world!
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Post by chrislc on Apr 17, 2024 14:50:26 GMT -5
Great assortment of OE's for 4/23/77-Too bad "Mainstreet" wasn't a bigger hit-It's a great song! THIS
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