I'm listening to a Friday night party show on a Classic Hits radio station somewhere and they're playing "Dust in the Wind." (To be fair, it was a request.) #AT40
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I'm listening to a Friday night party show on a Classic Hits radio station somewhere and they're playing "Dust in the Wind." (To be fair, it was a request.) #AT40
"Magazine" was still on Mushroom when it was reissued in 1978 though...
I saw Heart in the mid-'00s with a Zep-loving friend who had no initial interest, but it was a great show and brought him around. #AT40
One more eternal classic, though. Peaked at #13, but looms much larger in memory if you lived between D.C. and New York. #AT40 www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8-y...
I knew "I Don't Wanna Go" because the R&B group The Moments somehow recorded an entire album of Carole Bayer Sager songs in 1977, including an early appearance of "Don't Cry Out Loud." In my memory, Joey sings better than John, but not Ray, Goodman & Brown. #AT40
We have, through previous postings, established a diplomatic back channel of disco appreciation. #AT40
I immediately disliked "Boogie Nights" and "Groove Line" as corny, pop disco (and "corny" and "pop" are not usually pejoratives for me). But I somehow owned them both, and now, of course, I bow to the genius of Rod Temperton. #AT40
I'm pretty sure I heard "Heartless" on the radio for a few days in summer '77, before Mushroom Records was forced to pull it for nine months as a result of a legal dispute with the band and their new CBS label, Portrait. #AT40
... but make it not soulful. #AT40
There are songs I liked as currents that I don't even enjoy hearing once a year on #AT40 now. I liked the novelty of uptempo, disco Seals & Crofts in 1978. Sounding pretty flat now. #AT40
Right, I also owned "Simple Dreams," so having the lyric sheet helped. #AT40
No, it was on the charts around the same time as "Solsbury Hill." They almost cancelled each other out, although one endured more later. #AT40
I can't imagine "Almost Summer" made anybody too jealous. Existed mostly on #AT40 and the smaller suburban weekend countdowns I listened to because they played more mid-charters. Didn't spur a hit album or movie.
"Follow" was Genesis' first top 40 hit. "Your Own Special Way" made the Hot 100 a year earlier and I wonder if @clccw.bsky.social remembers hearing it in Buffalo. (I used to listen to WKBW in Washington, D.C.)
I once saw an "American Idol" contestant do a surprisingly good version of "Stay"--for anybody who is not Chaka Khan. Simon Cowell didn't like her choice and it was clear that he didn't know the song. #AT40
Before we kick off #AT40 tonight, here's an article I published today about "oh wow" songs--the one that surprised me this week (from the '10s, not the '70s, because I hear those with you all the time), and some of the songs that surprised readers recently. radioinsight.com/blogs/342147...
I believe you. I respect her virtuosity, but at this miserable moment in pop music, boy, do I want her to get from "Chasing Pavements" to "Rolling in the Deep" as soon as possible.
Or I want her to go from "Vision of Love"--another song I could neither deny nor enjoy--to "Emotions," quickly.
#1 at Rhythmic Top 40 (the poppier-leaning Hip-Hop stations), too, although *not* on the Hip-Hop chart. It was very much of a piece with 24k Goldn, Kid Laroi, etc., at the moment. Also, radio probably liked "Montero" for not being as confounding as "Old Town Road."
Saturdays belong to the '70s and #AT40. Sunday night belongs to #BigHitsEnergy, my playlist of new uptempo hit music especially for peers wanting to keep up with new music. open.spotify.com/playlist/0Hg...
Jerry Reed became a hero after "Smokey & the Bandit," which gave me a new appreciation for the early '70s hits. #AT40
Amos Moses sounded like "Tippytoe" to me, also. Jerry Reed gets a mention in the new Paul McCartney documentary that started streaming last night. #AT40
"Sweet Mary" by Wadsworth Mansion seems like a trifle of the times, but that is some hyperkinetic guitar playing and drumming. #AT40
Also, I wonder how well that "love the leavin' out of you" strategy worked for Sylvia (the other one) in "Nobody"? #AT40
Right, if she’s going to love him to the point of exhaustion, the mistress would’ve had that opportunity, but not the person in the friend zone. #AT40
I won my first radio contest by knowing where Tom Jones was from. #AT40
It was the second hit R&B version of "Proud Mary." #AT40 www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSIG...
I am always curious for your interpretation of "If I Were Your Woman."
Is the narrator an unrequited friend, always my interpretation, or the mistress (a friend's contention)?
I always cite "you beg her to love you, but me you don't ask." His answer, "because he doesn't have to." #AT40
I think her version is pretty definitive. Wasn't a hit for anybody else until Willie Nelson later. Also, Sammi Smith had another less remembered masterpiece toward the end of her career in the late '70s. #AT40
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfKL...
"What's Up Doc" is the movie that my daughter and I watch over and over. #AT40
Diana Ross recorded, but didn't release, "Stoney End." Now Streisand's version is a notch ahead of her current single, on the way to being a bigger hit. (You don't hear either song much now outside #AT40).
We churned through our teen idols pretty quickly in the '70s, but this might be peak week with all three of the majors represented here (along with another teen act who transcended that pretty quickly). #AT40