Today's AT40
Feb. 17th, 2008 01:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
acroyearis Feb 14th, 1981. I know I've heard this one before, 'cause it's hard to forget someone asking for Freebird as a long distance dedication. Go fig; not even Casey was immune to "Play Freebird!"
Actually, I'm wrong 'bout that, 'cause he did it again for a dedication in April of the same year, unless the mixers just decided to insert the same moment into two different shows, thinking nobody would notice. (OR it's another one of those broken days when two different shows are getting mixed together - nah, everything else seems clean.)
(btw sorry i'm late, but we went out to breakfast w/ friends)
Strange hybrid of a time. Some songs are early 80s rock, others are remnants of the 70s disco/pop scene. Like anything from this era, if it weren't for "Solid Gold", I'd have never heard any of these songs.
I still don't "get" Cliff Richard. I probably never will.
But rockers like Pat Benatar's Treat Me Right and Alan Parsons Project's Games People Play I can deal with. :) Soon-to-be #1s (by that same April edition) Rapture and Kiss on My List debuted earlier. Songs of the 70s style that should have been gone by now included two Barry Gibb produced/sung songs for other people, Guilty (duet with Barbara Streisand) and a forgetting Andy Gibb song.
The Jacksons (not the Jackson 5 - they renamed to keep trendy) with their own song Heartbreak Hotel (no relation to the Elvis song) - pretty much all Michael by vocals and style. I could live without...I could also live without The Eagle's Seven Bridges Road. Just not me...and way WAY too "country".
Neal Diamond's "suicide songs for a sorry age" is heavy this week with both Hello Again and Love on the Rocks. ugh.
On the confusing side, one wonders why a song as short as Diana Ross's "It's My Turn" would ever have been released as single. On the bright side, it's that short (only about 90 seconds long). That's followed by Don McLean's cover of Orbison's Crying that everybody at the time said was so great and I think it is a total emotionless waste of time.
Abba (that guilty pleasure for most of us, I'm sure) with Winner Takes It All. I wonder how many "last albums / last songs" the guys intended to write, 'cause this is that same "ok, we're outta here, be sure and tip your waitress" song that was Thank You for the Music and When All Is Said and Done. Makes me wonder how hard it was for the Mama Mia crew to decide which song was going to be the big finish for the show. (Answer: none of the above - I Have a Dream was the finale, a song that failed entirely to chart in the States - go fig).
Boz Scaggs is a name I haven't heard in a while...the song here, Miss Sun, is more a disco thing, not nearly as country as his other hit around this time from Urban Cowboy. That's followed by a pop song that with just the touch of twang, could be a huge country hit, Air Supply's Every Woman in the World. I liked 'em at the time and well into the 80s...but I got over it. :)
That's followed by a mythology lesson on the river Styx, before going into the band with the same name's hit, Best of Times. Some of his trivia like this I could have done without, but that's only 'cause I usually already knew it being a history buff even at that age. That's followed by Dan Fogleburg's Same Old Lang Sine, which was a fav of my college girlfriends (a MAJOR fav) so it's one I'm a little sick of. Then again, she certainly got sick of the prog crap I kept playing at the time so go fig.
Now, that most hated (by me) of groups, Steely Dan. 4 minutes of the mute button, coming up!
Actually, I have to go pick up![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
faireraven so that's it for my updates unless I remember what I hear in the car. G'nite, all (yeah, I'm tired...)
(update - the top part of the top 10 included back-to-back John Lennon, Starting Over and Woman, making him the 2nd artist (after Diana Ross) to have hits in a group in the top ten at the same time, followed by solo hits in the top 10 at the same time - I'm sure his death two months and the media attention it became helped that out...shame, that.)
Actually, I'm wrong 'bout that, 'cause he did it again for a dedication in April of the same year, unless the mixers just decided to insert the same moment into two different shows, thinking nobody would notice. (OR it's another one of those broken days when two different shows are getting mixed together - nah, everything else seems clean.)
(btw sorry i'm late, but we went out to breakfast w/ friends)
Strange hybrid of a time. Some songs are early 80s rock, others are remnants of the 70s disco/pop scene. Like anything from this era, if it weren't for "Solid Gold", I'd have never heard any of these songs.
I still don't "get" Cliff Richard. I probably never will.
But rockers like Pat Benatar's Treat Me Right and Alan Parsons Project's Games People Play I can deal with. :) Soon-to-be #1s (by that same April edition) Rapture and Kiss on My List debuted earlier. Songs of the 70s style that should have been gone by now included two Barry Gibb produced/sung songs for other people, Guilty (duet with Barbara Streisand) and a forgetting Andy Gibb song.
The Jacksons (not the Jackson 5 - they renamed to keep trendy) with their own song Heartbreak Hotel (no relation to the Elvis song) - pretty much all Michael by vocals and style. I could live without...I could also live without The Eagle's Seven Bridges Road. Just not me...and way WAY too "country".
Neal Diamond's "suicide songs for a sorry age" is heavy this week with both Hello Again and Love on the Rocks. ugh.
On the confusing side, one wonders why a song as short as Diana Ross's "It's My Turn" would ever have been released as single. On the bright side, it's that short (only about 90 seconds long). That's followed by Don McLean's cover of Orbison's Crying that everybody at the time said was so great and I think it is a total emotionless waste of time.
Abba (that guilty pleasure for most of us, I'm sure) with Winner Takes It All. I wonder how many "last albums / last songs" the guys intended to write, 'cause this is that same "ok, we're outta here, be sure and tip your waitress" song that was Thank You for the Music and When All Is Said and Done. Makes me wonder how hard it was for the Mama Mia crew to decide which song was going to be the big finish for the show. (Answer: none of the above - I Have a Dream was the finale, a song that failed entirely to chart in the States - go fig).
Boz Scaggs is a name I haven't heard in a while...the song here, Miss Sun, is more a disco thing, not nearly as country as his other hit around this time from Urban Cowboy. That's followed by a pop song that with just the touch of twang, could be a huge country hit, Air Supply's Every Woman in the World. I liked 'em at the time and well into the 80s...but I got over it. :)
That's followed by a mythology lesson on the river Styx, before going into the band with the same name's hit, Best of Times. Some of his trivia like this I could have done without, but that's only 'cause I usually already knew it being a history buff even at that age. That's followed by Dan Fogleburg's Same Old Lang Sine, which was a fav of my college girlfriends (a MAJOR fav) so it's one I'm a little sick of. Then again, she certainly got sick of the prog crap I kept playing at the time so go fig.
Now, that most hated (by me) of groups, Steely Dan. 4 minutes of the mute button, coming up!
Actually, I have to go pick up
faireraven so that's it for my updates unless I remember what I hear in the car. G'nite, all (yeah, I'm tired...)(update - the top part of the top 10 included back-to-back John Lennon, Starting Over and Woman, making him the 2nd artist (after Diana Ross) to have hits in a group in the top ten at the same time, followed by solo hits in the top 10 at the same time - I'm sure his death two months and the media attention it became helped that out...shame, that.)
