CHR Flashback - September
Feb 1, 2004 20:40:04 GMT -5
Post by Hervard on Feb 1, 2004 20:40:04 GMT -5
That is - September 2003. I figured that since I have several months' worth of Flashbacks (including January) to catch up on, I'd just post the September ones instead of e-mailing them to anyone who wanted them, which was my original plan. Since I'm trying to get these done fast, there will be no Mystery Songs in the ones from 2003 (unless I happen to omit a song, which is likely, since that tends to happen when I'm trying to cram so many into one sitting. The 2004 Flashbacks, however, will all have mystery songs.
Now, for the first September Flashback. The year that Double talked about the woman searching for The Captain Of Her Heart, while Steve Winwood was seeking a Higher Love and Klymaxx wanted a Man Size Love. All the while, Lionel Richie was defying gravity as he was Dancing On The Ceiling, but the Beatles wanted to just Twist and Shout. It was 1986 and this is the CHR chart for the week of September 5, 1986:
LC TC wc SONG/ARTIST
03 01 09 Dancing On The Ceiling/Lionel Richie
05 02 06 Stuck With You/Huey Lewis & The News
02 03 09 Take My Breath Away/Berlin
01 04 11 Higher Love/Steve Winwood
06 05 07 Friends And Lovers/Gloria Loring & Carl Anderson
04 06 10 Venus/Bananarama
10 07 06 Dreamtime/Daryl Hall
07 08 10 Sweet Freedom/Michael McDonald
09 09 09 Words Get In The Way/Miami Sound Machine
11 10 08 Baby Love/Regina
12 11 06 Walk This Way/Run DMC
13 12 07 Don't Forget Me (When I'm Gone)/Glass Tiger
15 13 04 Throwing It All Away/Genesis
16 14 06 Love Zone/Billy Ocean
18 15 04 When I Think Of You/Janet Jackson
21 16 05 Heaven In Your Eyes/Loverboy
14 17 09 Rumours/Timex Social Club
19 18 06 The Captain Of Her Heart/Double
08 19 12 Papa Don't Preach/Madonna
23 20 04 Two Of Hearts/Stacey Q
24 21 04 Love Walks In/Van Halen
28 22 03 Heartbeat/Don Johnson
17 23 07 Man Size Love/Klymaxx
34 24 02 Typical Male/Tina Turner
29 25 03 Missionary Man/The Eurythmics
26 26 06 Velcro Fly/ZZ Top
33 27 03 A Matter Of Trust/Billy Joel
20 28 13 The Glory Of Love/Peter Cetera
32 29 04 Money$ Too Tight (To Mention)/Simply Red
38 30 02 True Colors/Cyndi Lauper
31 31 05 Press/Paul McCartney
37 32 02 I Didn't Mean To Turn You On/Robert Palmer
22 33 13 Mad About You/Belinda Carlisle
25 34 08 Yankee Rose/David Lee Roth
27 35 13 We Don't Have To Take Our Clothes Off/Jermaine Stewart
XX 36 01 Sweet Love/Anita Baker
XX 37 01 Girl Can't Help It/Journey
30 38 07 That Was Then (This Is Now)/The Monkees
XX 39 01 Twist And Shout/The Beatles
XX 40 01 All Cried Out/Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam with Full Force featuring Paul Anthony & Bowlegged Lou
Droppers:
From #35: Taken In/Mike + The Mechanics
From #36: The Edge Of Heaven/Wham!
From #39: Sledgehammer/Peter Gabriel
From #40: Love Touch/Rod Stewart
Those were two good songs dropping out. "Taken In" is probably my favorite Mike + The Mechanics song ever. The song is very hypnotic, with the gentle melody and the mellow saxophone solos throughout the song. This was a perfect example of Third Single Syndrome. The previous two songs, "Silent Running" and "All I Need Is A Miracle" were both big top five hits ("Miracle" even topped the Top 40 Satellite Survey for a single week), but "Taken In" didn't quite do the trick. But it did well on AC radio.
The other song I liked was "The Edge Of Heaven" by Wham! That sure looked like it was going to be a number one hit, what with the monster moves it made on the chart in its first few weeks. When it moved from 14 to 11, I was thinking, "Well, maybe that's just a tough spot on the chart" (even though the two songs above it were on their way down). But the next week, when it only moved up two more spots, and stayed at number nine the next week, it was clear that the song was done. It fell fast and just missed making the Top 100 of 1986, coming in at number 101.
My favorite song of all of the 1980s was debuting at the anchor position of the chart this week. But when I wrote down the artists of "All Cried Out", I didn't include them all like I did above. The "artist" section on all of my charts was two inches wide and there was no way to cram all that into one line. There was barely enough room to write "Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam w/Full Force, which was all I wrote down. This was another song whose chart performance was disappointing to me. It peaked at number nine in October, then fell to 17. I didn't even see that coming! At least it fell slowly for the next few weeks and did make the Top 100 of 1986 (though I forget what number it was).
The Beatles were back with their song that Ferris Bueller sang on a float in the parade he was in in the box office smash "Ferris Bueller's Day Off". That, and its inclusion in the movie "Back To School" renewed interest in the record buying public (this time, the children of the people who were jamming to it in its original chart run in 1964) and it managed to add three more weeks to its 1964 total of nine weeks. It did better on Billboard, however, since more people were buying it than radio stations were including it on their playlists. On R&R, it only got as high as #35.
Well, I gotta go make the next Flashback, to a year with a similar perpetual calendar year as 1986.
Now, for the first September Flashback. The year that Double talked about the woman searching for The Captain Of Her Heart, while Steve Winwood was seeking a Higher Love and Klymaxx wanted a Man Size Love. All the while, Lionel Richie was defying gravity as he was Dancing On The Ceiling, but the Beatles wanted to just Twist and Shout. It was 1986 and this is the CHR chart for the week of September 5, 1986:
LC TC wc SONG/ARTIST
03 01 09 Dancing On The Ceiling/Lionel Richie
05 02 06 Stuck With You/Huey Lewis & The News
02 03 09 Take My Breath Away/Berlin
01 04 11 Higher Love/Steve Winwood
06 05 07 Friends And Lovers/Gloria Loring & Carl Anderson
04 06 10 Venus/Bananarama
10 07 06 Dreamtime/Daryl Hall
07 08 10 Sweet Freedom/Michael McDonald
09 09 09 Words Get In The Way/Miami Sound Machine
11 10 08 Baby Love/Regina
12 11 06 Walk This Way/Run DMC
13 12 07 Don't Forget Me (When I'm Gone)/Glass Tiger
15 13 04 Throwing It All Away/Genesis
16 14 06 Love Zone/Billy Ocean
18 15 04 When I Think Of You/Janet Jackson
21 16 05 Heaven In Your Eyes/Loverboy
14 17 09 Rumours/Timex Social Club
19 18 06 The Captain Of Her Heart/Double
08 19 12 Papa Don't Preach/Madonna
23 20 04 Two Of Hearts/Stacey Q
24 21 04 Love Walks In/Van Halen
28 22 03 Heartbeat/Don Johnson
17 23 07 Man Size Love/Klymaxx
34 24 02 Typical Male/Tina Turner
29 25 03 Missionary Man/The Eurythmics
26 26 06 Velcro Fly/ZZ Top
33 27 03 A Matter Of Trust/Billy Joel
20 28 13 The Glory Of Love/Peter Cetera
32 29 04 Money$ Too Tight (To Mention)/Simply Red
38 30 02 True Colors/Cyndi Lauper
31 31 05 Press/Paul McCartney
37 32 02 I Didn't Mean To Turn You On/Robert Palmer
22 33 13 Mad About You/Belinda Carlisle
25 34 08 Yankee Rose/David Lee Roth
27 35 13 We Don't Have To Take Our Clothes Off/Jermaine Stewart
XX 36 01 Sweet Love/Anita Baker
XX 37 01 Girl Can't Help It/Journey
30 38 07 That Was Then (This Is Now)/The Monkees
XX 39 01 Twist And Shout/The Beatles
XX 40 01 All Cried Out/Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam with Full Force featuring Paul Anthony & Bowlegged Lou
Droppers:
From #35: Taken In/Mike + The Mechanics
From #36: The Edge Of Heaven/Wham!
From #39: Sledgehammer/Peter Gabriel
From #40: Love Touch/Rod Stewart
Those were two good songs dropping out. "Taken In" is probably my favorite Mike + The Mechanics song ever. The song is very hypnotic, with the gentle melody and the mellow saxophone solos throughout the song. This was a perfect example of Third Single Syndrome. The previous two songs, "Silent Running" and "All I Need Is A Miracle" were both big top five hits ("Miracle" even topped the Top 40 Satellite Survey for a single week), but "Taken In" didn't quite do the trick. But it did well on AC radio.
The other song I liked was "The Edge Of Heaven" by Wham! That sure looked like it was going to be a number one hit, what with the monster moves it made on the chart in its first few weeks. When it moved from 14 to 11, I was thinking, "Well, maybe that's just a tough spot on the chart" (even though the two songs above it were on their way down). But the next week, when it only moved up two more spots, and stayed at number nine the next week, it was clear that the song was done. It fell fast and just missed making the Top 100 of 1986, coming in at number 101.
My favorite song of all of the 1980s was debuting at the anchor position of the chart this week. But when I wrote down the artists of "All Cried Out", I didn't include them all like I did above. The "artist" section on all of my charts was two inches wide and there was no way to cram all that into one line. There was barely enough room to write "Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam w/Full Force, which was all I wrote down. This was another song whose chart performance was disappointing to me. It peaked at number nine in October, then fell to 17. I didn't even see that coming! At least it fell slowly for the next few weeks and did make the Top 100 of 1986 (though I forget what number it was).
The Beatles were back with their song that Ferris Bueller sang on a float in the parade he was in in the box office smash "Ferris Bueller's Day Off". That, and its inclusion in the movie "Back To School" renewed interest in the record buying public (this time, the children of the people who were jamming to it in its original chart run in 1964) and it managed to add three more weeks to its 1964 total of nine weeks. It did better on Billboard, however, since more people were buying it than radio stations were including it on their playlists. On R&R, it only got as high as #35.
Well, I gotta go make the next Flashback, to a year with a similar perpetual calendar year as 1986.
