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ck where it s at pretty sure i didn t necessarily expect a successful follow up release to mellow gold much less a 30 year career in which his new stuff still receives attention odelay delivered however and not just with two turntables and a microphone 2 butthole surfers pepper i was aware of these guys if not any of their songs while in grad school but by the mid 90s had likely assumed they were a dead letter not so fast my friend wikipedia informs me that pepper was crowned the top alternative track of the year since i could tell early on they were talking about sharin sharon s outlook it was easy for me also to think they were all in love with diane on those first few listens it s been fun this summer hearing kentucky native s g goodman put her spin on the tune 1 primitive radio gods standing outside a broken phone booth with money in my hand maybe you find this song annoying but i ve always been an enormous fan i hope b b king made some decent coin from being sampled author wm posted on august 11 2026 august 18 2026 categories uncategorized 2 comments on modern rock tracks 8 3 96 american top 40 pastblast 7 31 76 war summer the at40 i heard on sunday august 1 1976 represented to some extent a changing of the guard for me the six songs falling out of the show had all been around since i d begun charting at the beginning of june here s a list including peak position and of weeks on the show sara smile 4 peak 17 weeks misty blue 3 16 get up and boogie 2 15 silly love songs 1 15 shop around 4 12 never gonna fall in love again 11 10 a few years ago i mucked about with the average peak position of cohorts of six debuting songs starting when i began keeping my charts and running through the end of casey s first run with the show in august of 1988 i think it d be a more difficult proposition to find average peak positions for sets of departing songs since to identify the cohorts you re looking for something old that s not there anymore instead of something new that s right in front of you without attempting to put in the research i d be willing to wager a small amount that the above set s average peak position of 4 17 is the smallest over the time period of interest and i wonder how often it s the case that all six songs had hung around ten or more weeks if you click on the link above you learn that the set of tunes replacing the six listed above had an average peak position of 9 17 second highest over the twelve years surveyed what s more they also all stayed on at40 a nice long time play that funky music 1 18 shake shake shake shake your booty 1 16 a little bit more 11 14 say you love me 11 13 summer 7 12 who d she coo 18 10 another perhaps larger bet i m willing to lay out there is that this is the only time under consideration all twelve songs in the sets of six departers and debuters had lasted or would last on the show ten or more weeks i ve only checked the other four cases listed in the linked post the third most successful song in terms of peak position but with just the fifth longest stay among the newcomers on 7 31 76 was the seventh and final top 10 hit for war summer a fairly mellow jam that references 8 tracks cb radios and disneyland in the span of four minutes was the new tune on war s greatest hits this was clearly the right time of year for late 70s hits with summer in their title to make their mark summer nights would debut on 8 19 78 and hot summer nights came aboard on 8 4 79 almost summer appropriately debuted in early june of 78 i showed you my first top 40 chart back in june here s how i was doing it up eight weeks later i count eight correct predictions for the 8 8 countdown and i kinda like the stylized x in the word extra this is the first time premiere has offered this show up since 2011 so i have been listening to it today for the first time in fifty years one thing i learned is that i was justified in initially writing down play the funky music for 34 as that s what casey says it s called on the outro and i guess that 12 year old me knew what a bootie was but not a booty author wm posted on august 2 2026 august 2 2026 categories at40 pastblast charts leave a comment on american top 40 pastblast 7 31 76 war summer we are hope despite the times i m seeing that today is the 40th anniversary of the release of rem s fourth album lifes rich pageant this was the second of their records to make its way into my collection i d acquired fables of the reconstruction via columbia house earlier in that summer of 86 soon after graduating yes i had been aware of rem to some degree while still in college but not quite enough to find out if i wanted to jump on the bandwagon i guess my soon to be officemate will would rip his copies of murmur and reckoning to cassette for me in the spring of 87 i feel pretty certain i would have eventually bought lrp but dame fortune smiled and saved me some coin i was in my first weeks of grad school in urbana champaign and had discovered student run aor station wpgu 107 1 on your fm dial i was the right caller one hour during an lp giveaway marathon labor day weekend perhaps and the new one by the boys from athens was my prize anyway enthralling as that story is the real excitement lay ahead when i actually put the thing on my turntable i already knew and really liked fall on me but i was knocked out by the two songs in front of it on the a dinner side both begin the begin and these days are full out rockers replete with fury but also acting as calls to action i consider the latter my favorite on the album and it wound up on a mixtape i assembled later that fall maybe it s a song for today too forty years on take this joy wherever you go author wm posted on july 28 2026 july 28 2026 categories song of the day leave a comment on we are hope despite the times american top 40 pastblast 7 21 79 pink lady kiss in the dark today marks nine years of content of varying quality posted here at the music of my life it s been generally fun and occasionally cathartic to share pix from the past and type out the stuff running through my noggin and as ever i m grateful to any and all who stop by regularly the first part of what i ve come up with for my ninth blogiversary is plenty silly we re starting off with nine pieces of useless chart trivia from the only year ending with a 9 during the classic casey era putting the songs on the 7 21 79 at40 under the microscope song at 9 gold a vital remnant from the uncredited stevie nicks backup vocal era between rumours and tusk side note you likely knew but somehow i didn t realize until the other day all of the second singles and none of the first or third singles from the five mac studio albums between fleetwood mac and tango in the night were stevie compositions songs that would peak at 9 you can t change that mama can t buy you love song that advanced nine positions good times that tune with the enormously influential bassline jumped from 13 to 4 in just its third week on the show it would take four more weeks to best bad girls songs with nine letters in their title good times do it or die my sharona in this issue billboard listed streisand s current hit as main event but the following week would change it to main event fight nine letter words appearing in a song title beautiful twice and moonlight i actually can tell you what i was doing on the evening of july 21 1979 multitasking attention split between listening to at40 on my portable radio and watching the marx brothers animal crackers on tv this page at ultimate70s com confirmed my guess as to the date of the movie broadcast it s a part of the second hour of the show around the time that people of the south wind and shadows in the moonlight play at 26 and 25 when i can picture myself sitting on the floor of our living room as groucho harpo chico and zeppo crack wise acts with nine letters in their name anita ward elton john wet willie songs that had a nine week run on the show i can t stand it no more do it or die dance the night away songs in their ninth week on at40 ring my bell boogie wonderland i want you to want me dance the night away all four of the songs that debuted on 5 26 are still around songs in their ninth week on the hot 100 bad girls i can t stand it no more i was made for lovin you do it or die shadows in the moonlight lead me on weekends if i said you had a beautiful body would you hold it against me but if you tweak this last category to hot 100 or bubbling under you lose maxine nightingale and add in the song at 40 kiss in the dark by pink lady the first top 40 hit by a japanese act since kyu sakamoto s sukiyaki kiss in the dark is bog standard late era disco pop perhaps what distinguishes it is the charm of the lilting accents of mie and kei as they phonetically sing about a guy they think is leading them on the song would inch up to 37 in two weeks before it quickly tumbled off the chart i remembered there was an ill fated variety show they co hosted with jeff altman that aired some time later turns out it was in march of 1980 and maybe i tuned in briefly to an episode i m seeing now that then nbc head exec fred silverman came up the idea for the show which clocks given other nbc disasters of the period if you clicked the ultimate70s link above you would have seen there was an episode of supertrain airing on 7 21 79 i don t wish to knock kiss in the dark too much though i appreciated the novelty of the act at the time and am grateful to hear it again when those three mid summer at40 s are re aired changing tacks our family summer vacation in 1973 when i was nine as it happens was to florida our final destination being the magic kingdom at walt disney world then less than two years old one side trip on the way down was stopping off at ocala and taking a glass bottomed boat tour at silver springs i m pretty certain that our hotel was adjacent to wdw and we were able to ride a monorail directly from it to the park while i m sure amy and i did many of the normal theme park things my chief memory of the trip is of not feeling all that well battling some nausea and lack of appetite until after returning home i don t have a solid feel for the dates we were gone but mid july would be a reasonable guess ordinarily i d share a picture or two i believe there s one where sis and i are being greeted by donald and maybe mickey but i m not home currently in florida once again instead my sister who s lived near orlando for more than two decades is facing a significant health challenge and has an important medical appointment today she could use some good vibes i m very concerned author wm posted on july 20 2026 july 20 2026 categories at40 pastblast leave a comment on american top 40 pastblast 7 21 79 pink lady kiss in the dark songs casey never played 7 17 76 afternoon delight was 1 for its second and final week this is george benson s first time ever on at40 as this masquerade bows in at 31 but it s the trio of songs debuting on the show above that you should be dancing don t go breaking my heart and let em in at 25 23 and 22 respectively that wowed a certain 12 year old in just his second month of chart keeping there was a bunch of interesting stuff happening in the lower depths of the hot 100 though let s check some of it out 93 the real thing you to me are everything kicking things off with quite the find as this had just wrapped up a three week run at the top of the uk charts it wouldn t reach higher than 64 here but its performance was likely undercut by competition from a couple other versions of the song one by broadway a disco act from chicago is right behind this at 94 and another from nyc group revelation would chart briefly two weeks later having listened to all three i can definitively say the real thing s take was indeed the real thing they had other top 10 hits in their native britain but never made noise in the u s again 92 the deadly nightshade mary hartman mary hartman theme with the recent passing of louise lasser i couldn t resist including this it s pretty thin disco but it does bring to mind the superior disco lucy that would be a hit the following spring it s starting on a four week journey that would end at 79 what s truly surprising is that the deadly nightshade was actually a folk country outfit wikipedia pointed out to me their appearances on sesame street here s one of those also from 1976 that i found plenty charming 78 maxine nightingale gotta be the one i fell for right back where we started from on first listen fifty years on i m just learning about this follow up and am left wondering why u s stations didn t pick up on it it s really really good made 12 in australia but despite being this week s highest hot 100 new entry could only reach 53 here 74 bellamy brothers hell cat i ve come to lump the bellamys together in my head with nightingale since both times each hit the top 40 spring 76 summer 79 the other was charting as well so it s obvious to me to next highlight howard and david s follow up single to let your love flow it helps that hell cat is a pretty good tune though just four spots from its peak country stardom was just around the bend 68 the tubes don t touch me there i did not know that for much of their pre the completion backward principle career the tubes counted a female vocalist re styles among their members i m picking up a distinct bat out of hell vibe from don t touch me there and as it turns out bat producer todd rundgren would run the board for one of the tubes later albums this was their first pop singles chart appearance and the only one before don t want to wait anymore soon to peak at 61 65 lee oskar blt from the war harmonica player s self titled solo album feels like maybe i ve heard this pleasant loping instrumental somewhere along the way would top out at 59 the following week author wm posted on july 16 2026 july 16 2026 categories songs casey never played 1 comment on songs casey never played 7 17 76 bicentennial parade it s sunday evening july 4 1976 and i m standing on the sidewalk along commonwealth avenue in erlanger ky with a zip polaroid camera in my hand and a transistor radio in my pocket this is the second trip we ve made today from our home in walton to erlanger we would have attended church with my grandparents in the morning we came back of course for the city s bicentennial parade and have camped out with many others on the steps of the erlanger baptist church my grandmother will soon be riding by on one of its floats while we wait for festivities to begin i snap a picture of my sister amy sitting right in front of my papaw who might be chewing on one of his ubiquitous ibold cigars alas the actual picture isn t any clearer that s mom on the right edge of the frame sitting to her left are my cousins mark and suzanne mom s younger sister nancy s kids i ll soon scoot over to take a picture of the three of them but suzanne is very uninterested in being photographed and buries her head 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