NEW FLASHBACK!!!

[Hervard]

Surprise!  I decided to get this on a little early, and since it's starting in August, that gives us five weeks, and you know what that means!  Two CHR Flashbacks!  By the way, with the reduced number of CHR Flashbacks now, I'm open to suggestions.  If there's a certain R&R CHR chart that you'd like to see, let me know and I'll do my best to post it.

Meanwhile, we'll kick off the new Flashback feature with the year that Dionne Warwick swore I'll Never Love This Way Again, that is After The Love Has Gone, according to Earth Wind & Fire, but Maxine Nightengale was begging me Lead Me On, while ELO demanded Don't Bring Me Down, Bruce (uh, that's quite disturbing...)  However, GQ insisted I Do Love You, and You Can't Change That, right Ray Parker jr?

Yep, it was indeed 1979, and here is R&R's CHR chart from August 31, 1979.

LC TC wc SONG/ARTIST
04 01 07 Lonesome Loser/Little River Band
01 02 08 After The Love Has Gone/Earth Wind & Fire
03 03 07 Sad Eyes/Robert John
02 04 09 My Sharona/The Knack
06 05 09 Don't Bring Me Down/Electric Light Orchestra
05 06 10 Lead Me On/Maxine Nightengale
10 07 06 I'll Never Love This Way Again/Dionne Warwick
08 08 07 Goodbye Stranger/Supertramp
12 09 05 Bad Case Of Loving You/Robert Palmer
16 10 03 Sail On/The Commodores
11 11 08 Let's Go/The Cars
14 12 04 Driver's Seat/Sniff'N The Tears
09 13 09 Good Times/Chic
07 14 10 The Main Event/Fight/Barbra Streisand
13 15 08 The Devil Went Down To Georgia/Charlie Daniels Band
18 16 03 Pop Muzik/M
21 17 03 Cruel To Be Kind/Nick Lowe
15 18 05 Hot Summer Nights/Night
28 19 02 Heaven Must Have Sent You/Bonnie Pointer
27 20 02 Rise/Herb Alpert
22 21 04 I Do Love You/G.Q.
23 22 02 Spooky/Atlanta Rhythm Section
26 23 02 Get It Right Next Time/Gerry Rafferty
17 24 11 You Can't Change That/Raydio
20 25 06 Suspicions/Eddie Rabbitt
XX 26 01 Dependin' On You/The Doobie Brothers
24 27 13 Mama Can't Buy You Love/Elton John
19 28 12 Bad Girls/Donna Summer
25 29 14 When You're In Love With A Beautiful Woman/Dr. Hook
XX 30 01 Lovin' Touchin' Squeezin'/Journey

Dropped:
#29: Morning Dance/Spyro Gyra (3 weeks)
#30: I Was Made For Loving You/Kiss (10 weeks)

Top Ten New & Active:
Ain't That A Shame/Cheap Trick
Rolene/Moon Martin
Where Were You When I Was Falling In Love/Lobo
Different Worlds/Maureen McGovern
Arrow Through Me/Wings
Dim All The Lights/Donna Summer
I Know A Heartache When I See One/Jennifer Warnes
Born To Be Alive/Patrick Hernandez
Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough/Michael Jackson
Midnight Wind/John Stewart

This chart was just two weeks before the chart with the most debuts ever (well, during mid-year, anyway) and six of those New & Active songs would be among the debuts. You might think that some of the other four songs debuted on the September 7 chart (one week before the nine-debut chart), but that is not right. There were actually NO debuts on that chart. I'm not kidding; even the songs near the brink of the chart (including songs by Dr. Hook, Donna Summer, and Elton John) remained on the chart for one more week. I have a feeling that Labor Day weekend played a role in that slow chart but, as we know, things were caught up the following week.
Well, that's about it for this week. Be sure to check this post next week with a different chart. Which chart am I going to use? It's a surprise. You'll have to wait 'til next week to find out what chart I use.

[mst3k]

What a coincidence... I'd planned on listening to the 9/8/79 AT40 during next Thursday night's chat, which corresponds with the R&R chart week you posted.

[Hervard]

My next Flashback is from the same date as the above chart, only this chart is "my version" - the R&R chart with my personal preference added. And this chart is a full Top 40 chart instead of a Top 30, like R&R.

LC TC wc SONG/ARTIST
04 01 07 I'll Never Love This Way Again/Dionne Warwick
02 02 09 Sad Eyes/Robert John
03 03 08 Lonesome Loser/Little River Band
01 04 11 Lead Me On/Maxine Nightengale
05 05 10 My Sharona/The Knack
06 06 09 After The Love Has Gone/Earth Wind & Fire
09 07 11 The Main Event/Fight/Barbra Streisand
08 08 13 Mama Can't Buy You Love/Elton John
14 09 04 Sail On/The Commodores
07 10 11 Good Times/Chic
11 11 08 Goodbye Stranger/Supertramp
12 12 07 Don't Bring Me Down/Electric Light Orchestra
17 13 04 Pop Muzik/M
15 14 06 Bad Case Of Loving You/Robert Palmer
10 15 14 Bad Girls/Donna Summer
19 16 05 Driver's Seat/Sniff 'N The Tears
13 17 09 Let's Go/The Cars
23 18 03 Rise/Herb Alpert
21 19 04 Cruel To Be Kind/Nick Lowe
18 20 10 The Devil Went Down To Georgia/Charlie Daniels Band
28 21 03 Spooky/The Atlanta Rhythm Section
22 22 12 You Can't Change That/Raydio
29 23 03 Get It Right Next Time/Gerry Rafferty
24 24 13 Ring My Bell/Anita Ward
16 25 16 Gold/John Stewart
27 26 05 I Do Love You/G.Q.
31 27 03 Heaven Must Have Sent You/Bonnie Pointer
20 28 16 When You're In Love With A Beautiful Woman/Dr. Hook
33 29 02 Dependin' On You/The Doobie Brothers
37 30 02 Lovin' Touchin' Squeezin'/Journey
26 31 07 Suspicions/Eddie Rabbitt
25 32 06 Hot Summer Nights/Night
35 33 02 Ain't That A Shame/Cheap Trick
30 34 13 I Was Made For Lovin' You/Kiss
40 35 02 Different Worlds/Maureen McGovern
XX 36 01 Rolene/Moon Martin
XX 37 01 Where Were You When I Was Falling In Love/Lobo
XX 38 01 Arrow Through Me/Wings
XX 39 01 Dim All The Lights/Donna Summer
38 40 16 I Want You To Want Me/Cheap Trick

Droppers:
#32: Morning Dance/Spyro Gyra (5 weeks)
#34: Shine A Little Love/Electric Light Orchestra (16 weeks)
#36: Is She Really Goin' Out With Him/Joe Jackson (11 weeks)
#39: She Believes In Me/Kenny Rogers (18 weeks)

You can see where the personal aspect enters into the picture at the top of the chart. For instance, the number one song, "I'll Never Love This Way Again" by Dionne Warwick never made it to number one on Billboard or R&R, nor did the previous week's number one song, "Lead Me On" by Maxine Nightengale. Conversely, the previous week's number one song on R&R, "After The Love Has Gone" by Earth Wind & Fire, was actually still climbing my chart. It never got any higher than number five, since I didn't like the song too well. Such was the case with "Lonesome Loser" by Little River Band, which was sitting at its peak position, which it would hold for a total of seven weeks, so I obviously liked it a tad better than the EW+F song (actually significantly better, as "Lonesome Loser" finished 1979 at #16 and "After The Love Has Gone" came in at #28) but not quite as much as "I'll Never Love This Way Again" and "Lead Me On"(both of which spent four weeks on top) and "Sad Eyes", which peaked at number two for the same seven weeks that Little River Band held down the number three position. So it was a pretty stagnant top three for quite awhile. The song that would knock Dionne Warwick from her perch was "Sail On" by the Commodores, a song that DID hit #1 on the R&R chart. An interesting note about the four above songs: They finished consecutively on the year-end chart, with "Lead Me On" at #4, "I'll Never Love This Way Again" at #5, "Sad Eyes" at #6, and "Sail On" at #7.
Also, we see Kenny Rogers still on the chart with "She Believes In Me", which hadn't been in R&R's Top 30 since July, so it was clear that I really loved this song. It finished off the year at number two, bested only by "What A Fool Believes" by the Doobie Brothers (which was #2 on the R&R year end chart, so it wasn't very hard at all to give it a whole ton of points).
Finally, Barbra Streisand was still climbing the chart with "The Main Event/Fight", which had fallen from the pop pinnacle at R&R in early August. This song I didn't really like at all, since I didn't like Barbra Streisand's upbeat songs (which explains why I would only give "No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)", her horrendous duet with Donna Summer, five weeks in the Top Ten and a fast fall afterward). So it was climbing my chart while on its way down the R&R chart and would meet its progress halfway before going down both charts. It would finish off 1979 at #36, so it was in the lower quadrant of the Top 40 (incidentally, for you who don't know, I took the Top 40 of R&R's year end chart, rearranged the songs according to my preference, and made the charts so the songs would attain their new positions with the same inverse point system that R&R used at the time).
Well, I'll be back next weekend with still another chart. Which one? You'll find out then. Ciao!

[Hervard]

Now, for the next Flashback, and it's from the same date as the two above charts. This is my Personal Top 30 chart for the week of September 9, 1979:

LC TC wc SONG/ARTIST
03 01 07 Sad Eyes/Robert John
01 02 13 Shadows In The Moonlight/Anne Murray
08 03 08 Lead Me On/Maxine Nightengale
05 04 09 You Can't Change That/Raydio
02 05 11 Is She Really Goin' Out With Him/Joe Jackson
11 06 08 Getting Closer/Wings
04 07 15 (You Really) Rock Me/Nick Gilder
06 08 12 Do It Or Die/Atlanta Rhythm Section
14 09 06 Morning Dance/Spyro Gyra
09 10 10 Heart Of The Night/Poco
07 11 15 Dance The Night Away/Van Halen
10 12 12 Gold/John Stewart
17 13 04 I'll Never Love This Way Again/Dionne Warwick
15 14 07 Up On The Roof/James Taylor
12 15 11 Mama Can't Buy You Love/Elton John
13 16 09 When You're In Love With A Beautiful Woman
20 17 05 Goodbye Stranger/Supertramp
23 18 03 This Night Won't Last Forever/Michael Johnson
19 19 06 People Of The South Wind/Kansas
21 20 05 The Main Event/Fight/Barbra Streisand
16 21 18 You Take My Breath Away/Rex Smith
18 22 17 She Believes In Me/Kenny Rogers
26 23 03 Lonesome Loser/Little River Band
29 24 02 Different Worlds/Maureen McGovern
25 25 04 Let's Go/The Cars
30 26 02 Cruel To Be Kind/Nick Lowe
24 27 14 I Want You To Want Me/Cheap Trick
XX 28 01 Sail On/The Commodores
22 29 16 The Logical Song/Supertramp
XX 30 01 Fins/Jimmy Buffett

Droppers:
#27: Rock And Roll Fantasy/Bad Company
#28: Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now/McFadden & Whitehead

This chart sort of reflects some of the pecularities of my version of the pop charts, in relation to the R&R chart. For instance, "Lead Me On" by Maxine Nightengale makes a gigantic move from 8 to 3. It would eventually peak at number two, shut out by "Sad Eyes" by Robert John, which would spend a total of four weeks on top (By the way, these personal charts were made about six years after my version of the pop charts, so that explains a few differences - apparently, I didn't like "Sad Eyes" when I wrote out my version of the pop charts as much as I did when I wrote out these personal charts).
Also, moving up four spots in only its fourth week on is "I'll Never Love This Way Again" by Dionne Warwick. That song also made it up to #2 and was shut out by another four week chart topper, "This Night Won't Last Forever" by Michael Johnson.
Now, the songs that were near the top of the R&R chart that I didn't like too much also didn't get too high on this chart. For instance, notice the meager one-spot move of "The Main Event/Fight" by Barbra Streisand to #20. Well, that's where it peaked. It spent one more week on the chart before dropping down the chart. It would spend a total of nine weeks on.
Also, "Lonesome Loser", number one on the R&R chart, is still in the lower reaches of my chart, climbing from 26 to 23. It would end up peaking at number 15 for three weeks and spending twelve weeks on the chart, so it did somewhat better than "Main Event/Fight".
You'll probably notice the absence of "After The Love Has Gone" by Earth Wind & Fire. Strangely enough, that never charted, which sort of surprised me when I was leafing through these charts. When I was making up these charts in the spring of 1999, I think that I had slated it to debut on the chart sometime in August, but I made an error and it was left off the chart. This also happened with "Makin' It" by David Naughton. At least neither of them were exceptionally great songs in my opinion; I'd hate to inadvertently exclude a song that I really liked!
Strangely enough, "My Sharona" by the Knack didn't debut until late September, when it was just about ready to start heading on down the Billboard chart (and by which time it had already fallen off the R&R chart). This meant that I wasn't too crazy about the song and it only peaked at number 24.
One song on the chart that many of you might not recognize is "(You Really) Rock Me" by Nick Gilder. That was a song that only made it to around the halfway point of the chart and, had I not gone to the beach a lot during the summer of 1979, I would never have known about the song. The jukebox at the beach house, where I often went to play pinball, had the song and it got played a lot. So that song is one that always reminds me of that fun summer, back when I was only seven years of age. Sigh, if only things were that easy now... Anyway, that song peaked at number two for four weeks as of July 22. The song that edged it out of the number one spot was "She Believes In Me" by Kenny Rogers.
Well, next week, I'd normally be featuring the Adult Contemporary chart but, unfortunately, I don't have any Adult Contemporary charts from 1979 (actially, it was called the Pop/Adult chart back then). If anyone here happens to have those charts, or knows of any means to get them (I've already tried R&R and they can't find the microfiched copies anywhere), please let me know. In the meantime, I'll choose another R&R chart next week and the week after, I'll cap off September by using my version of the chart and who knows; I might post my corresponding personal Top 30 chart. See ya then!

[Hervard]

Wow, I almost forgot about this feature already.  That's not a good sign.

Well, so that I don't get way behind, I'll try my best to get caught up tonight.

Since I don't have any Adult Contemporary charts from 1979, we'll go to another year and post the R&R chart from then.  This was the year that Huey Lewis was happy to be Stuck With You while Tina Turner was looking for a Typical Male which was all a Matter Of Trust, according to Billy Joel.  Lisa Lisa had run out of trust and was All Cried Out over you, along with Cult Jam, Full Force, Paul Anthony, and Bowlegged Lou.  Cyndi Lauper said that she wanted to see your True Colors come shining through and Madonna was True Blue.  It was 1986, and here is the chart from September 26, 1986:

LC TC wc SONG/ARTIST
01 01 09 Stuck With You/Huey Lewis & The News
02 02 07 Throwing It All Away/Genesis
05 03 07 When I Think Of You/Janet Jackson
03 04 09 Dreamtime/Daryl Hall
06 05 10 Don't Forget Me (When I'm Gone)/Glass Tiger
12 06 05 Typical Male/Tina Turner
11 07 06 Heartbeat/Don Johnson
08 08 08 Heaven In Your Eyes/Loverboy
14 09 05 True Colors/Cyndi Lauper
10 10 07 Two Of Hearts/Stacey Q
04 11 10 Friends And Lovers/Gloria Loring & Carl Anderson
17 12 05 I Didn't Mean To Turn You On/Robert Palmer
09 13 09 Love Zone/Billy Joel
15 14 07 Love Walks In/Van Halen
07 15 12 Dancing On The Ceiling/Lionel Richie
19 16 06 Missionary Man/The Eurythmics
23 17 04 Sweet Love/Anita Baker
22 18 06 A Matter Of Trust/Billy Joel
13 19 09 Walk This Way/Run DMC
26 20 04 All Cried Out/Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam w/Full Force
27 21 04 Girl Can't Help It/Journey
32 22 02 Human/The Human League
16 23 11 Take My Breath Away/Berlin
30 24 03 Take Me Home Tonight/Eddie Money f/Ronnie Spector
24 25 06 Money$ Too Tight To Mention/Simply Red
31 26 03 I'll Be Over You/Toto
18 27 14 Higher Love/Steve Winwood
21 28 12 Words Get In The Way/Miami Sound Machine
40 29 02 Amanda/Boston
33 30 03 In Your Eyes/Peter Gabriel
34 31 03 Paranoimia/Art Of Noise f/Max Headroom
20 32 11 Baby Love/Regina
XX 33 01 True Blue/Madonna
25 34 13 Venus/Bananarama
38 35 02 Emotion In Motion/Ric Ocasek
XX 36 01 I Am By Your Side/Corey Hart
XX 37 01 The Next Time I Fall/Peter Cetera w/Amy Grant
39 38 02 Another Heartache/Rod Stewart
XX 39 01 You Give Love A Bad Name/Bon Jovi
28 40 13 Sweet Freedom/Michael McDonald

Droppers:
#29: The Captain Of Her Heart/Double (8 weeks)
#35: Twist And Shout/The Beatles (3 weeks)
#36: Papa Don't Preach/Madonna (14 weeks)
#37: Rumours/The Timex Social Club (11 weeks)

[Hervard]

Now, for the Flashback that I should have posted this past weekend.  This is my version of the 1986 chart posted above:

LC TC wc SONG/ARTIST
01 01 09 Stuck With You/Huey Lewis & The News
03 02 10 Don't Forget Me (When I'm Gone)/Glass Tiger
05 03 07 When I Think Of You/Janet Jackson
09 04 06 Typical Male/Tina Turner
06 05 07 Throwing It All Away/Genesis
10 06 06 Heartbeat/Don Johnson
02 07 12 Dancing On The Ceiling/Lionel Richie
14 08 05 True Colors/Cyndi Lauper
13 09 05 I Didn't Mean To Turn You On/Robert Palmer
04 10 11 Take My Breath Away/Berlin
12 11 08 Heaven In Your Eyes/Loverboy
07 12 09 Dreamtime/Daryl Hall
15 13 06 Two Of Hearts/Stacey Q
23 14 03 Human/The Human League
08 15 10 Friends And Lovers/Gloria Loring & Carl Anderson
21 16 04 All Cried Out/Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam w/Full Force
18 17 07 Love Walks In/Van Halen
19 18 06 A Matter Of Trust/Billy Joel
11 19 08 Love Zone/Billy Ocean
22 20 04 Sweet Love/Anita Baker
26 21 04 Girl Can't Help It/Journey
25 22 05 Missionary Man/The Eurythmics
37 23 02 Amanda/Boston
24 24 06 Money$ Too Tight To Mention/Simply Red
30 25 03 Take Me Home Tonight/Eddie Money f/Ronnie Spector
31 26 03 I'll Be Over You/Toto
32 27 03 Earth Angel/New Edition
16 28 09 Walk This Way/Run DMC
XX 29 01 True Blue/Madonna
20 30 15 Papa Don't Preach/Madonna
28 31 12 Venus/Bananarama
17 32 14 Higher Love/Steve Winwood
38 33 02 Emotion In Motion/Ric Ocasek
35 34 03 Paranoimia/Art Of Noise f/Max Headroom
XX 35 01 The Next Time I Fall/Peter Cetera f/Amy Grant
XX 36 01 I Am By Your Side/Corey Hart
40 37 02 Another Heartache/Rod Stewart
27 38 12 Words Get In The Way/Miami Sound Machine
XX 39 01 You Give Love A Bad Name/Bon Jovi
XX 40 01 In Your Eyes/Peter Gabriel

Droppers:
#29: The Captain Of Her Heart/Double (8 weeks)
#33: Baby Love/Regina (10 weeks)
#34: Sweet Freedom/Michael McDonald (12 weeks)
#36: Twist And Shout/The Beatles (3 weeks)
#39: Man-Size Love/Klymaxx (9 weeks)

One of the most notable difference on this chart is the presence of "Earth Angel" by New Edition, which never appeared on the R&R chart. However, at the time I wrote this chart (September, 1994), I loved the song a lot and just had to include it.
Also, Huey Lewis & The News, who was spending their third and last week at #1 on the R&R chart, was actually spending their SIXTH of SEVEN weeks at the top. So that means a few songs that hit #1 on R&R never made it to the top: "Higher Love" by Steve Winwood, "Dancing On The Ceiling" by Lionel Richie, and "Throwing It All Away" by Genesis. I didn't like that song very much, so I gave Huey Lewis an additional week at the top and Genesis peaked at #4 (just like they did on Billboard). Needless to say, "Stuck With You" was the number one song of 1986 on my version of the chart, like it was on R&R.

[Libra]

ulij20 said:

16 23 04 Take My Breath Away/Berlin

ulij20 said:

XX 40 01 In Your Eyes/Peter Cetera

Are you testing us again? ;)[/font]

[Hervard]

What's wrong with the first one?  You don't really think that it's Jessica Simpson, do you?  She was only six years old back then!

EDIT: Nevermind, now I see what the error was. I must have mistaken the eleven for a four. I was doing this while on a chat room last night, though I guess I could have taken my time. Last night's chat was THE most boring one in which I've participated in longer than I care to remember.

[mst3k]

ulij20 said:

Last night's chat was THE most boring one in which I've participated in longer than I care to remember.

Guess I didn't miss much then (or was it my nonappearance that made it so boring?). Of course, anything would pale in comparison to last week's star-studded fest.

[Hervard]

mst3k1 said:

ulij20 said:

Last night's chat was THE most boring one in which I've participated in longer than I care to remember.

Guess I didn't miss much then (or was it my nonappearance that made it so boring?). Of course, anything would pale in comparison to last week's star-studded fest.

Actually, your non-appearance did make it boring (by the way, where were you?) as well as that of Mark and Ev. There were only about five of us and we didn't have a very interesting conversation going. We were all out of there before 10:30 (CST).

[mst3k]

ulij20 said:

mst3k1 said:

Guess I didn't miss much then (or was it my nonappearance that made it so boring?). Of course, anything would pale in comparison to last week's star-studded fest.

Actually, your non-appearance did make it boring (by the way, where were you?) as well as that of Mark and Ev.  There were only about five of us and we didn't have a very interesting conversation going.  We were all out of there before 10:30 (CST). 

I had to take a CD to my friend's karaoke show, and I ended up staying later than expected (and drinking more than I intended). Now I know why I don't go out on Thursday nights.