CHR Flashback - January, 2005

[Hervard]

For the first January chart, we go back to the week that the Georgia Satellites commanded "Keep Your Hands To Yourself", but Gregory Abbott didn't care; he wanted to "Shake You Down".  Ben E. King begged you to "Stand By Me" and the Human League said "I Need Your Loving" but Journey insisted "I'll Be Alright Without You".  But Billy Ocean thought that was the wrong attitude, because "Love Is Forever".  Yes indeed, it was 1987 and this was the very first chart in 1987, which explains the unusually slow chart (R&R only skipped one week during the 1986-87 holidays)  Also, the weeks on chart column will be one week off, since I counted the holiday week.

LC TC wc SONG/ARTIST
01 01 12 Walk Like An Egyptian/The Bangles (3rd week #1)
03 02 10 Notorious/Duran Duran
04 03 09 Shake You Down/Gregory Abbott
06 04 10 C'est La Vie/Robbie Nevil
05 05 10 Is This Love/Survivor
08 06 09 Control/Janet Jackson
09 07 10 Land Of Confusion/Genesis
02 08 13 Everybody Have Fun Tonight/Wang Chung
11 09 06 At This Moment/Billy Vera & The Beaters
13 10 05 Open Your Heart/Madonna
14 11 08 Someday/Glass Tiger
10 12 11 Don't Get Me Wrong/The Pretenders
07 13 14 The Way It Is/Bruce Hornsby & The Range
16 14 08 Victory/Kool & The Gang
19 15 05 Change Of Heart/Cyndi Lauper
17 16 09 Love Is Forever/Billy Ocean
12 17 07 War/Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band
24 18 04 We're Ready/Boston
21 19 07 All I Wanted/Kansas
20 20 08 The Future's So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades/TimBuk 3
22 21 07 Falling In Love (Uh-Oh)/Miami Sound Machine
29 22 05 Will You Still Love Me/Chicago
25 23 06 Coming Around Again/Carly Simon
26 24 06 This Is The Time/Billy Joel
30 25 04 Touch Me (I Want Your Body)/Samantha Fox
28 26 06 Two People/Tina Turner
18 27 21 Stand By Me/Ben E. King
33 28 04 Keep Your Hands To Yourself/Georgia Satellites
15 29 11 You Know I Love You...Don't You?/Howard Jones
37 30 03 Livin' On A Prayer/Bon Jovi
34 31 04 Stay The Night/Benjamin Orr
35 32 03 You Got It All/The Jets
36 33 03 Stop To Love/Luther Vandross
38 34 03 Talk To Me/Chico DeBarge
40 35 03 Ballerina Girl/Lionel Richie
XX 36 01 Love You Down/Ready For The World
XX 37 01 I'll Be Alright Without You/Journey
XX 38 01 Jacob's Ladder/Huey Lewis & The News
XX 39 01 Big Time/Peter Gabriel
XX 40 01 I Need Your Lovin'/Human League

Dropped:
From #23: The Next Time I Fall/Peter Cetera & Amy Grant
From #27: To Be A Lover/Billy Idol
From #31: Hip To Be Square/Huey Lewis & The News
From #32: You Give Love A Bad Name/Bon Jovi
From #39: Goldmine/The Pointer Sisters

I remember listening to Rick Dees count this chart down, and I had to listen closely, especially when he gave last week's positions, since the chart for the week before was never counted down.  John Leader's Countdown USA had been the Top 86 of 1986 over the past two weeks and Rick Dees had also taken two weeks off to count down the Top 86 songs of the year gone by.  And, since I said that R&R had skipped only one week, that means that they had to sacrifice a chart, which was the one for December 19.  To make matters worse, WZZP, the station on which I caught the Rick Dees show, had started an hour early, so I missed most of the first hour.  I tuned in at around ten minutes before the hour, the time I usually tuned in and the song "You Got It All" was playing.  I didn't really think much of it because that song wasn't on the chart yet (or so I thought), so I figured that WZZP was just running regular programming like they usually did before the countdown.  You can imagine my surprise when Rick's voice came over the radio and outroed the song.  Since that caught me off guard, I didn't hear how many notches the song had moved up.  But after that, I kept a close ear out.  
When I listened to the same chart getting counted down on John Leader's Countdown USA the next day, I got to hear the songs that I missed, but that was it; since the show had been a special over the past few weeks, he didn't mention the chart movement.  He did mention which songs were debuts, but I guess he didn't want to call attention to the fact that he had skipped a chart.  So I had no way of knowing the last week positions of a few songs.  Until I got the 1987 charts from R&R, I just wrote out a chart with guesstimations.  The bottom five positions were like so:

40) Ballerina Girl (correct)
39) Talk To Me/Chico DeBarge
38) You Got It All/The Jets
37) Livin' On A Prayer/Bon Jovi (correct, since I had heard that song after I had tuned in to Rick Dees)
36) Stop To Love/Luther Vandross (correct).

I did, however, have the positions of songs that dropped out completely messed up.  The only one that I had right was "You Give Love A Bad Name" by Bon Jovi.  The rest were like so (lw positions from the December 12 chart):

12-23) Hip To Be Square/Huey Lewis & The News
14-27) The Next Time I Fall/Peter Cetera f/Amy Grant
15-30) To Be A Lover/Billy Idol
23-32) You Give Love A Bad Name/Bon Jovi
27-35) Human/The Human League

When I computed the points for the Top 100 of 1987, I noticed that the Jets had a few less points than they should have, so that's when I deduced that they must have been number 35 on the week of the missing chart, so the Human League got moved down to #38.  That song seemed like the only logical choice for the song near the bottom of the chart, since the other dropping songs on the December 12 chart missing from the one above were all outside the Top 30 and falling quite fast, except for "Goldmine", which had been stalled out at number 33, but it had fallen out of the Billboard Top 40 that week, so I didn't think it was that one.
Luckily, back in 1995, when I received the 1986 and 1987 charts, I was able to see the correct chart.  Otherwise, I might have posted an inaccurate chart this week.

[Hervard]

Now, we go back to the year that the Jefferson Starship were calling Jane while Stevie Nicks was asking the poet of her heart, Sara, to call her as soon as she built her house.  Meanwhile Sara was hammering and sawing away, the Dirt Band, along with Linda Ronstadt, were in the process of building an American Dream about going to Coconut Grove.  Rod Stewart was in no mood for such a thing and he shook his head and insisted, "I Don't Want To Talk About It".  All the while, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers were pleading "Don't Do Me Like That", but the Captain & Tennille begged, "Do That To Me One More Time".  It was 1980, and here is the very first chart from 1980, more specifically, the January 11 chart:
You'll notice that for this week, there's a Two Weeks Ago column.  This is for the benefit of those who want the real chart for the week before.  You see, R&R skipped two weeks during its first ten (or so) years.  I always made up a chart for one of the skipped weeks to see what it might look like.  This chart is reflected in the last week column.  The two weeks ago column is the weeks on the last actual chart before this one.  And, as always, both skipped weeks are counted in the "weeks on chart" column.


2C LC TC wc SONG/ARTIST
05 02 01 07 The Long Run/The Eagles
03 01 02 08 Rock With You/Michael Jackson
13 10 03 06 Sara/Fleetwood Mac
07 04 04 10 Jane/Jefferson Starship
06 07 05 09 Do That To Me One More Time/The Captain & Tennille
07 06 06 08 Coward Of The County/Kenny Rogers
10 09 07 08 Don't Do Me Like That/Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
02 03 08 11 We Don't Talk Anymore/Cliff Richard
09 08 09 08 This Is It/Kenny Loggins
01 05 10 11 Escape (The Pina Colada Song)/Rupert Holmes
15 12 11 07 Cruisin'/Smokey Robinson
21 18 12 05 Yes I'm Ready/Teri DeSario w/KC
20 16 13 05 Deja Vu/Dionne Warwick
16 14 14 07 Third Time Lucky/Foghat
24 19 15 05 Romeo's Tune/Steve Forbert
12 13 16 09 Head Games/Foreigner
28 23 17 04 Crazy Little Thing Called Love/Queen
08 08 18 12 Cool Change/Little River Band
XX 28 19 02 Longer/Dan Fogelberg
14 17 20 08 Ladies Night/Kool & The Gang
11 15 21 16 Babe/Styx
XX 27 22 02 I Wanna Be Your Lover/Prince
26 24 23 04 Why Me/Styx
27 25 24 04 Voices/Cheap Trick
XX 26 25 02 Don't Let Go/Isaac Hayes
XX 30 26 02 Wait For Me/Hall & Oates
XX XX 27 01 An American Dream/Dirt Band f/Linda Ronstadt
19 20 28 09 Better Love Next Time/Dr. Hook
29 29 29 04 Savannah Nights/Tom Johnston
XX XX 30 01 Daydream Believer

Droppers (from my improvised January 4 chart):
#21: No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)/Barbra Streisand & Donna Summer
#22: Send One Your Love/Stevie Wonder

Droppers (from the last actual R&R chart):
#17: No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)/Barbra Streisand & Donna Summer
#18: Send One Your Love/Stevie Wonder
#22: Take The Long Way Home/Supertramp
#23: Please Don't Go/KC & The Sunshine Band
#25: Damned If I Do/The Alan Parsons Project
#30: You're Only Lonely/John David Souther

Top Ten New & Active:
September Morn/Neil Diamond
Working My Way Back To You/Forgive Me Girl/The Spinners
Fool In The Rain/Led Zeppelin
You Know That I Love You/Santana
Last Train To London/ELO
99/Toto
When I Wanted You/Barry Manilow
Lost Her In The Sun/John Stewart
I Don't Want To Talk About It/Rod Stewart
Lonely Eyes/Robert John

Of all the charts I'd created for R&R's skipped weeks, this was the first one that had a number one song that had never been to the top of R&R's actual charts.  "Escape" by Rupert Holmes had fallen 1-10 over the holidays and the new number one song had moved 5-1, both unusual situations.  I figured neither would have been at number one had there been a chart during the holiday weekend so, since Michael Jackson's "Rock With You" had been near the top on both the last chart of 1979 and the first chart of 1980, that he was the logical choice for number one that skipped week, even though he was not yet number one on Billboard.  But, seeing as KC & The Sunshine Band's "Please Don't Go" had fallen off the chart before it had hit number one on the Hot 100, I figured that didn't really matter.
Well, I'll be back later on today with this week's CHR Flashback, from a year in the 1990s.  Which year will I pick?  You'll see.

[craig]

Glad to see you back to doing these. A quick ? about the 1980 chart wheredid head games peak and for how long? Thanks
Craig

Ps
I posted the chr/flashbacks you did for the 70's i think in an old topic that you posted last year. i have most if not all of the ones you did i can send if you need.

[Hervard]

"Head Games" peaked at number twelve for two weeks in December, 1979.

Is what you said you have a list of the CHR Flashbacks? If you could, please send that to me. Thanks.

[craig]

sent in private message

[Hervard]

Got it! Thanks, I'll start working on the schedule for 2005!

[craig]

np

[Michael1973]

ulij20  said:

26 24 06 This Is The Time/Chicago

Not quite.

In all seriousness, I enjoy these flashbacks since there were several time frames when I was unable to follow the R&R charts at all for whatever reason. Anything pre-1988 falls into that category.

[wftn]

ulij20  said:

the Dirt Band, along with Linda Ronstadt, were in the process of building an American Dream about going to Coconut Grove.  Rod Stewart was in no mood for such a thing and he shook his head and insisted, "I Don't Want To Talk About It". 

Ulij, I didn't see Rod Stewart on your 1980 chart. Did it hit R & R at all in that year? I know it peaked at #46 in early 1980 on Billboard.

[Hervard]

Yeah, I figured I'd made a mistake or two (seems like a CHR Flashback chart without a mistake is like an episode of "Diff'rent Strokes" without Arnold saying, "What'chu talkin' bout?")

I forgot that I post the Top Ten New & Active for charts that only go down to 30. I was looking at the chart for songs to refer to in my lead-in and the Rod Stewart song, even though not on the chart, seemed like it fit.

I don't know WHAT I was thinking when I gave Chicago as the artist of "This Is The Time" (although Bill Champlin, who would sing lead on some of Chicago's biggest hits, would probably do a good job with this song). Maybe, since I had just typed in the song that Chicago actually did sing, that song was going through my mind. It was a very memorable song, since it was the first since the early 1970's that Peter Cetera didn't sing lead on. But Jason Scheff, the lead singer of "Will You Still Love Me" sounded sort of like Peter. That's too bad Peter didn't stay with the group, but apparently, the band members wanted him out. I think that the second album that he was recording at the time had a lot to do with that. But that's OK, since his solo stuff was just as good.

[Whi$tlin' Pete]

What was the number 25 song on the LC column of the January 11, 1980 chart? It appears there should've been another dropper, on the list.
Also could you do a January or February 1982 chart please Ulij? I was looking back, and you've never posted any from that time frame. Thanks much.

[Hervard]

Whistlin' said:

What was the number 25 song on the LC column of the January 11, 1980 chart? It appears there should've been another dropper, on the list.

"Voices" by Cheap Trick, which is listed.

[Whi$tlin' Pete]

I'm sorry, I meant the 2C column. There are 6 songs that were debuting, but you have 5 songs listed as droppers. Was just curious. I'm actually looking for the number 25 song in that column.

[Moonshadow]

Where did Jefferson's Starship's "Jane" peak? When was it released and how did it do on the 1979 and 1980 year end countdown?

Thanks! For reasons unbeknownst to me, I love that song.

[DuckHead]

Moonshadow said:

Where did Jefferson's Starship's "Jane" peak?  When was it released and how did it do on the 1979 and 1980 year end countdown?

Thanks!  For reasons unbeknownst to me, I love that song. 

"Jane" peaked at # 4 (for 2 weeks) on R&R with 11 weeks on. It did not make the Top 40 of the year in either year, due to it peaking in December of 1979. I don't have the year-end charts past # 40, so it may have made it below that.

It only reached # 14 on Billboard though.

[Hervard]

I'm already way behind on CHR Flashbacks, but since I have the afternoon off from work, I decided this would be a great time to catch up.

Anyway, for the week of January 15, we go back to the year that the chart was pretty much all about you. TLC was "Diggin' On You", Fun Factory declared "I Wanna B With U", Hootie & The Blowfish agreed, saying "Only Wanna Be With You", Selena was simply "Dreaming Of You" and the Gin Blossoms wouldn't believe it "'Til I Hear It From You". It was 1996, and this is the CHR/Top 50 chart from the weekend of January 19:

LC TC wc SONG/ARTIST
01 01 12 One Sweet Day/Mariah Carey w/Boyz II Men (7th week #1)
02 02 18 Name/The Goo Goo Dolls
03 03 10 Missing/Everything But The Girl
07 04 13 Time/Hootie & The Blowfish
10 05 13 One Of Us/Joan Osbourne
04 06 26 Breakfast At Tiffany's/Deep Blue Something
08 07 12 Exhale (Shoop Shoop)/Whitney Houston
06 08 15 Diggin' On You/TLC
05 09 12 You'll See/Madonna
09 10 15 Hand In My Pocket/Alanis Morissette
12 11 09 Get Together/Big Mountain
18 12 08 Don't Cry/Seal
16 13 07 Wonder/Natalie Merchant
11 14 21 Fantasy/Mariah Carey
14 15 17 Good Intentions/Toad The Wet Sprocket
20 16 08 Be My Lover/La Bouche
13 17 22 Runaway/Janet Jackson
22 18 14 Hook/Blues Traveler
21 19 09 The World I Know/Collective Soul
17 20 25 'Til I Hear It From You/Gin Blossoms
15 21 30 As I Lay Me Down/Sophie B. Hawkins
29 22 05 Nobody Knows/Tony Rich Project
24 23 13 Tell Me/Groove Theory
19 24 26 Carnival/Natalie Merchant
23 25 30 Roll To Me/Del Amitri
25 26 11 When Love And Hate Collide/Def Leppard
XX 27 01 Jesus To A Child/George Michael
28 28 26 Let Me Be The One/Blessid Union Of Souls
26 29 13 Beautiful Life/Ace Of Base
32 30 05 Promises Broken/Soul Asylum
XX 31 01 I Want To Come Over/Melissa Etheridge
40 32 06 Wonderwall/Oasis
30 33 28 Only Wanna Be With You/Hootie & The Blowfish
27 34 13 Dreaming Of You/Selena
37 35 05 Twenty Fourplay/Janet Jackson
31 36 32 Back For Good/Take That
39 37 03 Waiting For Tonight/Tom Petty
33 38 29 I Wanna B With U/Fun Factory
36 39 45 Run-Around/Blues Traveler
34 40 32 Kiss From A Rose/Seal
45 41 03 Closer To Free/The Bodeans
35 42 38 December/Collective Soul
38 43 19 Gangsta's Paradise/Coolio
47 44 03 Anything/3T
42 45 18 Solitude/Edwin McCain
41 46 09 Rosealia/Better Than Ezra
XX 47 01 1979/Smashing Pumpkins
44 48 15 Lump/Presidents Of The United States Of America
49 49 02 Before You Walk Out Of My Life/Monica
XX 50 01 Natural One/Folk Implosion

Dropped:
#43: Free As A Bird/The Beatles (6 weeks)
#46: You Oughtta Know/Alanis Morissette (23 weeks)
#48: Waterfalls/TLC (31 weeks)
#50: Blessed/Elton John

[Hervard]

Now, we take the trip back to the year that The Who was playing their Squeeze Box, while Earth Wind& Fire proceeded to Sing A Song because the O'Jays said "I Love Music" and, while listening to this music when not talking on the CB radio, C.W. McCall was part of a Convoy. It was 1976, and this is the chart for January 23, 1976. Due to the fact that I wrote these charts a little differently than as listed by R&R, there is no "weeks on chart" column. Sorry for any inconvenience:

LC TC SONG/ARTIST
05 01 50 Ways To Leave Your Lover/Paul Simon
01 02 I Write The Songs/Barry Manilow
02 03 Theme From Mahogany (Do You Know Where You're Going To)/Diana Ross
03 04 Love Rollercoaster/Ohio Players
04 05 Convoy/C.W. McCall
06 06 Evil Woman/Electric Light Orchestra
12 07 Love To Love You Baby/Donna Summer
08 08 You Sexy Thing/Hot Chocolate
10 09 Sing A Song/Earth Wind & Fire
11 10 Breaking Up Is Hard To Do/Neil Sedaka
09 11 Fox On The Run/The Sweet
17 12 Theme From S.W.A.T./Rhythm Heritage
16 13 Love Hurts/Nazareth
07 14 Saturday Night/Bay City Rollers
22 15 Take It To The Limit/The Eagles
13 16 I Love Music/The O'Jays
26 17 All By Myself/Eric Carmen
20 18 Squeeze Box/The Who
14 19 Fly Away/John Denver
15 20 Rock & Roll All Nite/Kiss
27 21 Love Machine/The Miracles
21 22 Winners & Losers/Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds
19 23 That's The Way (I Like It)/KC & The Sunshine Band
25 24 Paloma Blanca/George Baker Selection
18 25 Walk Away From Love/David Ruffin
29 26 Slow Ride/Foghat
24 27 Fly Robin Fly/Silver Convention
39 28 Dream Weaver/Gary Wright
XX 29 Feel Like A Bullet/Grow Some Funk
32 30 Wake Up Everybody/Harold Melvin
38 31 Fanny (Be Tender With My Love)/The Bee Gees
XX 32 The White Knight/Cledus Maggard
35 33 The Times Of Your Life/Paul Anka
23 34 Over My Head/Fleetwood Mac
XX 35 Lonely Night (Angel Face)/The Captain & Tennille
XX 36 December, 1963 (Oh What A Night)/Four Seasons
28 37 Let's Do It Again/The Staple Singers
XX 38 Dream On/Aerosmith
40 39 Golden Years/David Bowie
30 40 Sky High/Jigsaw

Dropped:
#31: Country Boy (You Got Your Feet In LA)/Glen Campbell
#33: Nights On Broadway/The Bee Gees
#34: Let's Live Together/The Road Apples
#36: The Way I Want To Touch You/The Captain & Tennille
#37: Island Girl/Elton John

[Hervard]

For my final January CHR Flashback, we go back to the year that Stevie Wonder was talking about That Girl and Billy Joel agreed that She's Got A Way. J Geils Band found their angel in the Centerfold and Kenny Rogers was glad he stayed right here with you Through The Years. It was 1982, and here is the chart for my tenth birthday, January 29, 1982:

LC TC wc SONG/ARTIST
01 01 12 I Can't Go For That (No Can Do)/Daryl Hall & John Oates
02 02 13 Centerfold/The J Geils Band
04 03 12 Cool Night/Paul Davis
05 04 08 Leader Of The Band/Dan Fogelberg
03 05 12 Turn Your Love Around/George Benson
06 06 10 Waiting On A Friend/The Rolling Stones
09 07 04 Sweet Dreams/Air Supply
08 08 11 Shake It Up/The Cars
11 09 08 Take It Easy On Me/Little River Band
19 10 03 Open Arms/Journey
15 11 08 You Could Have Been With Me/Sheena Easton
07 12 14 Harden My Heart/Quarterflash
12 13 11 Comin' In And Out Of Your Life/Barbra Streisand
10 14 11 Someone Could Lose A Heart Tonight/Eddie Rabbitt
13 15 15 Leather & Lace/Stevie Nicks & Don Henley
14 16 09 The Sweetest Thing (I've Ever Known)/Juice Newton
17 17 08 She's Got A Way/Billy Joel
21 18 05 Through The Years/Kenny Rogers
20 19 07 Love Is Alright Tonite/Rick Springfield
29 20 02 Mirror Mirror/Diana Ross
16 21 14 Trouble/Lindsey Buckingham
22 22 08 Come Go With Me/The Beach Boys
27 23 03 All Our Tomorrows/Eddie Schwartz
30 24 02 That Girl/Stevie Wonder
28 25 02 Spirits In The Material World/The Police
18 26 18 Waiting For A Girl Like You/Foreigner
XX 27 01 Abacab/Genesis
XX 28 01 Tonight I'm Yours (Don't Hurt Me)/Rod Stewart
XX 29 01 Somewhere Down The Road/Barry Manilow
XX 30 01 Daddy's Home/Cliff Richard

Dropped:
#23: Hooked On Classics/The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (6 weeks)
#24: Physical/Olivia Newton-John
#25: Young Turks/Rod Stewart
#26: Yesterday's Songs/Neil Diamond

Top Ten New & Active:
Should I Do It/The Pointer Sisters
Love In The First Degree/Alabama
Key Largo/Bertie Higgins
I Believe/Chilliwack
Sea Of Love/Del Shannon
When All Is Said And Done/Abba
Bobbie Sue/The Oak Ridge Boys
We Got The Beat/The Go-Gos
Working For The Weekend/Loverboy
Do You Believe In Love/Huey Lewis & The News

[Libra]

ulij20  said:

XX 27 01 Jesus To A Child/George Michael
XX 31 01 I Want To Come Over/Melissa Etheridge

Ho-ly crap. It's rare for even one to debut that high these days, let alone two! :o

[Hervard]

Ironically, neither song hit the Top Ten. The George Michael song hit a brick wall at #18 and Melissa peaked at 14.

[Whi$tlin' Pete]

Thanks, Chris for the 1982 chart. Much appreciated!

[Hervard]

You're welcome.

Those of you who own Volume 2 of Barry Scott Presents The Lost 45s of the 70s and 80s (like myself, and Aaron) might notice that there are two songs back to back in the "New & Active" section from that album. ("Sea Of Love" and "I Believe"). Plus, two songs listed in the 1976 Flashback ("Paloma Blanca" and "Let's Live Together") are also on the CD.

[johnnywest]

Feb 17, 2005 16:00:34 GMT -5 Hervard said:

XX 29 Feel Like A Bullet/Grow Some Funk

Never even heard of this song. Did this ever make Billboard's Top 40? I'm surprised I've never heard it on "American Top 40 - the 70s."