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Post by tico on Mar 27, 2007 16:03:52 GMT -5
I guess this could fit in the nostalgia era. Years ago, when listening to countdown was a necessary part of my weekends, there were a number of songs I'd never heard until hearing them on countdown shows. The list of songs I can think of right off (and forgive me if the titles and/or artists are wrong):
Madonna, "Live To Tell"
Metallica, "One"
Device, "Hanging On A Heart Attack"
Van Halen, "Why Can't This Be Love"
Aly & AJ, "Rush"
Marco Hernandez, "If You Were Mine"
Samantha Cole, "Happy"
Meja, "Must Be the Money"
Poco, "Call It Love"
Kansas, "All I Wanted"
Hipsway, "The Honey Thief"
Honeymoon Suite, "Feel It Again"
Roachford, "Cuddly Toy"
David & David, "Welcome To the Boomtown"
New Kids On the Block, "Please Don't Go Girl"
Rednex, "Cotton Eye Joe"
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Post by joker on Mar 27, 2007 16:39:38 GMT -5
When I was just starting to listen to music in the late 80s/early 90s, I used to watch Casey Kasem's "America's Top 10", and I'm pretty sure my first exposure to these songs were from that show:
"Just Between You and Me" - Lou Gramm
"Look Away" - Chicago
"Angel Eyes" - Jeff Healey Band
"Baby I Love Your Way/Freebird" - Will to Power
I also watched some of the MTV countdown shows that were on around that time through the mid-90s (Headbangers Ball, Yo! MTV Raps, Top 20 Video Countdown), but I can't recall specific songs that I first heard there.
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Post by countryrules on Mar 27, 2007 18:13:50 GMT -5
On the American Top 40 with Shadoe Stevens then :
"More Than Words Can Say" by Alias
"Vision of Love" by Mariah Carey
"Baby Baby" by Amy Grant
"Silent Lucidity" by Queensryche
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Post by cartman2002 on Mar 27, 2007 19:46:39 GMT -5
I first heard "As We Lay" from Shirley Murdock on AT40 first along with Friends And Lovers by GLoria Lorning and Carl Anderson
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Post by Devil Marlena Nylund on Mar 27, 2007 22:33:31 GMT -5
SOOO many songs from the early days of my Top 40 fandom in 1995 until maybe 1998 or so. With was my pre-internet era. Even the internet era had a bunch too but by 1999 or 2000 and my discovery of the mediabase charts before hearing Casey's countdown, I pretty much checked out most songs before they aired on the countdown.
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Post by Michael1973 on Mar 28, 2007 13:11:30 GMT -5
I first heard Don Henley's "The Last Worthless Evening" on Rick Dees show, which was a surprise because we checked the Hot 100 on a regular basis in those days and almost never missed hearing about a Top 40 hit before it debuted.
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Post by derek on Mar 28, 2007 13:53:25 GMT -5
LOL, I miss the days when the countdown shows were so exciting...hearing "new music", what's number one, etc.... Now with the internet, I know these things like a month in advance and it's pointless listening to them.  As for the topic, I can't remember... Maybe Usher's "Yeah", but I'm not sure. But I used to listen and be very interested in radio coutndown shows from 01 to 04 (that's when I foudn this place :) ). God, there was so many.,.. Rick Dees Casey Kasam Most Requested Total Request (TRL's radio countdown) Ellen K. Plus the ones that aired on the individule stations. |
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Post by cartman2002 on Mar 28, 2007 15:53:06 GMT -5
What's the name Of Ellen K's countdown show
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Post by derek on Mar 28, 2007 20:40:36 GMT -5
She doesn't have a countdown show anymore, but I think it was called "Ellen K's Countdown" or something like that. It don't think it have a fancy name...
Actually...just thinking about that show, I think I may have heard Christina Milian's "AM to PM" first on Ellen K's countdown.
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Post by johnnywest on Mar 28, 2007 22:56:20 GMT -5
I'd have to go back and look at my notebooks, but there were a TON in the late 80s and early 90s since my local station leaned adult. But I know I heard "Pure" by The Lightning Seeds first on either AT40 or CT40. Same with "Nicety." Not every song that debuted on one of the shows was first played on "Joel Denver's Future Hits," which I use to listen to religiously.
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Post by billme on Mar 29, 2007 22:59:26 GMT -5
Even today, I listen AT40 shows on XM & online from the 70's and discovering new songs because I was too young to hear 'em back then. I remember a C.W. McCall follow-up to Convoy just a week ago "Wolf Creek Pass". First time, first listen
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Post by BillboardBoy on Mar 31, 2007 18:50:24 GMT -5
Neon Moonlight - Roscoe Martinez
Right Beside You - Sophie B. Hawkins
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Post by DJDaveMick69 on Apr 7, 2013 20:08:17 GMT -5
A LOT. To name a few: (all with Casey Kasem)
You're supposed to keep your love for me-Jermaine Jackson
The stroke-Billy Squier
Theme from Magnum PI-Mike Post
Holdin' on-Tane Cain
I like it-DeBarge
Nightbird-Stevie Nicks
My ever changing moods-Style Council
Conga-Miami Sound Machine
Earth angel-New Edition
Simply irresistible-Robert Palmer (#40 on one of his last with ABC Watermark)
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Post by somelikeitwhen on Apr 7, 2013 20:43:07 GMT -5
I could make a list of songs I heard ONLY on countdown shows:
Dakota Moon - Looking For a Place to Land
Matchbox Twenty - The Last Beautiful Girl
Usher - Pop Ya Collar
Eagle-Eye Cherry - Feels So Right (basically a lot of the low-peaking radio-only songs)
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Post by Deleted on Apr 7, 2013 22:02:09 GMT -5
Pat Benatar - Invincible
Lita Ford - Kiss Me Deadly
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Post by johnnywest on Aug 29, 2014 12:04:13 GMT -5
"Nicety"
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