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Today's AT40
Jul. 28th, 2007 12:07 pmIs a 70s on Saturday one with July 1979. Disco still going strong, with "last week's" #3 Donna Summer's Hot Stuff, #2 Anita Ward's Ring My Bell
Yup, "You Can Ring My Bell, ding a ling a ling". This insightful lyric was the near the height of quality and artistic merit 28 years ago.
and #1 Donna Summer's Bad Girls. She was apparently the Michael Jackson of her era, holding multiple hits in the top 5 at the same time.
"Bad girl, bad girl, you're such a naughty bad girl, BEEP BEEP, uh-huh." again, sheer poetry. I can't possibly understand why we don't have disco lyrics to be evaluated in k-12 literature classes.
won't comment much, this is just to keep me going and give me something to laugh at whilst we finish painting and start laying down flooring. You all know how much I hate disco...
update: *sigh*
I thought I was safe. I thought, being that late in '79, the song would be long gone. I thought I'd be able to endure at least *one* listen of a 70s AT40 without it.
no.
it showed up as a long distance dedication.
from a single mother to her jackass ex husband.
"I Will Survive".
...
...
*sigh*
there is no escape.
I'm so glad I picked this icon today.
yet more disco continues with Elton John's worst disco excesses ("mama don't want you"), though we've had the Cars, the Knack, and some country ballads by Eddie Rabbit (I didn't know he was around back then...then again, I forgot about Juice Newton being around then too) and Kenny Rogers.
tssssssyp tssssssyp tssssssyp tssssssyp tssssssyp tssssssyp tssssssyp tssssssyp tssssssyp tssssssyp tssssssyp tssssssyp tssssssyp
the curse of the 70s disco high-hat. over and over again, one drumbeat to rule them all.
How did we ever escape that decade?
even KISS, while not using that specific high-hat beat, comes damn close in their pop-infused "I was made for loving you". Not one of their most enduring songs, I think, but certainly proof that they were always just glam rock and never the "METAL" we associate with the major metalheads of the 80s.
and now, everybody is Kung Fu Fighting!
and then taking a trip through "Boogie Wonderland"
...
now the eclectic side of '79 comes out, with Streisand's The Main Event, followed by ELO's Telephone Line (2 years old by then, but mentioned because they had a new hit in the top 10). Mom loved the first, dad the second, so I heard both of them a LOT through the early 80s before I got my own stereo. Mom had the Streisand greatest hits 8-track so that, with others like Evergreen, were often in Mom's car playlist. Dad made an eclectic rock-70s 8-track mix featuring things like Jesus Christ Superstar, The Doors (post-Morrison) Ships with Sails, ELO, Atlanta Rhythm Section, Alan Parsons, and Seals and Croft. Both got regular play on the 5-day trip across the country to move to San Diego that we did that summer.
For Christmas a couple years back, I duplicated that 8-track on CD for him.
No, I don't intend to dup the Streisand mix for mom. Sorry. :)
Now, Dr. Hook's "When Your In Love With a Beautiful Woman".
When I was 8 during this summer before leaving for California, this song was playing on the PA of mom's hair stylist's in the Orange Park mall, and at the time, I saw the novelization of Battlestar Galactica for the first time. Ever since, I can't hear this song without seeing the book cover, and vice versa - the book cover brings this song to mind.
Ah, the associations we make and how long they stick with us.
...
Cheap Trick break the pop-disco line with their first big one, I Want You To Want Me, live at the Budokan. A lot of groups had great concerts recorded here, including Asia (with Greg Lake on bass/voc) and Dream Theater. More rock in the top ten with Kingston Trio's John Stewart and "Gold", featuring (not yet solo) Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham.
Now "Making It" from the Bill Murray hit film, Meatballs. The sequels sucked dogs, but this original with (later "My Bodyguard") Chris Makepeace (who would later host a show on Nickelodeon...what's he up to now?) was very well done and not just as a vehicle for Murray's post-SNL wildness.
Summer's Hot Stuff is down to 4 so the top 3 changed this week, but it's still all tssssssyp disco, with Chic's Goodtimes (soon to be a #1 - 4 weeks to get to #3 which is pretty impressive), Ring My Bell (already a #1 but holding on to #2 for a third week) and Bad Girls.
*sigh*. all done. no more disco.
no what?
...
silly AT40 trivia update: There are times when one should think critically and seriously look at conflicts of interest from the people who give you advice, even outside politics. Santana once fired his manager/lawyer because Carlos's astrologer told him that he was "the wrong sign". Santana then went on to hire a guy the astrologer said was the "right" sign: the astrologer's father.
Yup, "You Can Ring My Bell, ding a ling a ling". This insightful lyric was the near the height of quality and artistic merit 28 years ago.
and #1 Donna Summer's Bad Girls. She was apparently the Michael Jackson of her era, holding multiple hits in the top 5 at the same time.
"Bad girl, bad girl, you're such a naughty bad girl, BEEP BEEP, uh-huh." again, sheer poetry. I can't possibly understand why we don't have disco lyrics to be evaluated in k-12 literature classes.
won't comment much, this is just to keep me going and give me something to laugh at whilst we finish painting and start laying down flooring. You all know how much I hate disco...
update: *sigh*
I thought I was safe. I thought, being that late in '79, the song would be long gone. I thought I'd be able to endure at least *one* listen of a 70s AT40 without it.
no.
it showed up as a long distance dedication.
from a single mother to her jackass ex husband.
"I Will Survive".
...
...
*sigh*
there is no escape.
I'm so glad I picked this icon today.
yet more disco continues with Elton John's worst disco excesses ("mama don't want you"), though we've had the Cars, the Knack, and some country ballads by Eddie Rabbit (I didn't know he was around back then...then again, I forgot about Juice Newton being around then too) and Kenny Rogers.
tssssssyp tssssssyp tssssssyp tssssssyp tssssssyp tssssssyp tssssssyp tssssssyp tssssssyp tssssssyp tssssssyp tssssssyp tssssssyp
the curse of the 70s disco high-hat. over and over again, one drumbeat to rule them all.
How did we ever escape that decade?
even KISS, while not using that specific high-hat beat, comes damn close in their pop-infused "I was made for loving you". Not one of their most enduring songs, I think, but certainly proof that they were always just glam rock and never the "METAL" we associate with the major metalheads of the 80s.
and now, everybody is Kung Fu Fighting!
and then taking a trip through "Boogie Wonderland"
...
now the eclectic side of '79 comes out, with Streisand's The Main Event, followed by ELO's Telephone Line (2 years old by then, but mentioned because they had a new hit in the top 10). Mom loved the first, dad the second, so I heard both of them a LOT through the early 80s before I got my own stereo. Mom had the Streisand greatest hits 8-track so that, with others like Evergreen, were often in Mom's car playlist. Dad made an eclectic rock-70s 8-track mix featuring things like Jesus Christ Superstar, The Doors (post-Morrison) Ships with Sails, ELO, Atlanta Rhythm Section, Alan Parsons, and Seals and Croft. Both got regular play on the 5-day trip across the country to move to San Diego that we did that summer.
For Christmas a couple years back, I duplicated that 8-track on CD for him.
No, I don't intend to dup the Streisand mix for mom. Sorry. :)
Now, Dr. Hook's "When Your In Love With a Beautiful Woman".
When I was 8 during this summer before leaving for California, this song was playing on the PA of mom's hair stylist's in the Orange Park mall, and at the time, I saw the novelization of Battlestar Galactica for the first time. Ever since, I can't hear this song without seeing the book cover, and vice versa - the book cover brings this song to mind.
Ah, the associations we make and how long they stick with us.
...
Cheap Trick break the pop-disco line with their first big one, I Want You To Want Me, live at the Budokan. A lot of groups had great concerts recorded here, including Asia (with Greg Lake on bass/voc) and Dream Theater. More rock in the top ten with Kingston Trio's John Stewart and "Gold", featuring (not yet solo) Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham.
Now "Making It" from the Bill Murray hit film, Meatballs. The sequels sucked dogs, but this original with (later "My Bodyguard") Chris Makepeace (who would later host a show on Nickelodeon...what's he up to now?) was very well done and not just as a vehicle for Murray's post-SNL wildness.
Summer's Hot Stuff is down to 4 so the top 3 changed this week, but it's still all tssssssyp disco, with Chic's Goodtimes (soon to be a #1 - 4 weeks to get to #3 which is pretty impressive), Ring My Bell (already a #1 but holding on to #2 for a third week) and Bad Girls.
*sigh*. all done. no more disco.
no what?
...
silly AT40 trivia update: There are times when one should think critically and seriously look at conflicts of interest from the people who give you advice, even outside politics. Santana once fired his manager/lawyer because Carlos's astrologer told him that he was "the wrong sign". Santana then went on to hire a guy the astrologer said was the "right" sign: the astrologer's father.
