CHR Flashback - April, 2005

[Hervard]

Hello, everyone. Sorry I've taken so long to get back to this feature, but I've been busy and, in the process, forgot all about it.
At first, I was considering just starting this week, but then that would sort of screw up the continuity of everything, so I'll just pick up where I left off, which was at the end of March.
Anyway, this week, we go back to the year that Loverboy predicted that This Could Be The Night, and Sly Fox agreed by saying Let's Go All The Way. But not everyone was happy. Van Halen were demanding Why Can't This Be Love, while Mr. Mister wondered Is It Love. Jermaine Jackson said I Think It's Love, but sister Janet didn't think so because What Have You Done For Me Lately? Yes, it was 1986 and this is the chart for April 4, 1986:

LW TW wc SONG/ARTIST
01 01 08 Rock Me Amadeus/Falco
04 02 07 Kiss/Prince
03 03 09 What You Need/INXS
07 04 07 Addicted To Love/Robert Palmer
06 05 08 Manic Monday/The Bangles
02 06 10 R.O.C.K. In The U.S.A./John Cougar Mellencamp
11 07 05 West End Girls/Pet Shop Boys
09 08 09 Let's Go All The Way/Sly Fox
10 09 07 Tender Love/Force MD's
13 10 04 Harlem Shuffle/The Rolling Stones
15 11 04 Why Can't This Be Love/Van Halen
12 12 07 I Can't Wait/Stevie Nicks
18 13 03 Take Me Home/Phil Collins
05 14 12 These Dreams/Heart
17 15 06 I Think It's Love/Jermaine Jackson
19 16 05 Your Love/The Outfield
20 17 05 So Far Away/Dire Straits
08 18 11 Secret Lovers/Atlantic Starr
23 19 04 Bad Boy/Miami Sound Machine
25 20 03 What Have You Done For Me Lately/Janet Jackson
24 21 04 American Storm/Bob Seger
30 22 03 If You Leave/Orchestral Manouvres In The Dark
36 23 02 The Greatest Love Of All/Whitney Houston
26 24 05 For America/Jackson Browne
14 25 11 Nikita/Elton John
29 26 03 I Do What I Do/John Taylor
27 27 04 Overjoyed/Stevie Wonder
16 28 10 This Could Be The Night/Loverboy
34 29 03 Something About You/Level 42
38 30 02 All I Need Is A Miracle/Mike + The Mechanics
39 31 02 Is It Love/Mr. Mister
22 32 08 Calling America/Electric Light Orchestra
21 33 13 Sara/Starship
40 34 02 Rough Boy/ZZ Top
XX 35 01 Never As Good As The First Time/Sade
XX 36 01 Feel It Again/Honeymoon Suite
XX 37 01 I Can't Wait/Nu Shooz
32 38 09 No Easy Way Out/Robert Tepper
XX 39 01 Live To Tell/Madonna
XX 40 01 Be Good To Yourself/Journey

Droppers:
#28: Beat's So Lonely/Charlie Sexton (6 weeks)
#31: Kyrie/Mr. Mister (15 weeks)
#33: King For A Day/Thompson Twins (11 weeks)
#35: Sanctify Yourself/Simple Minds
#37: Live Is Live/Opus

Much more to come!

[Hervard]

The next chart is from April 7, 1995:

LC TC wc SONG/ARTIST
01 01 12 I Know/Dionne Farris (4th week #1)
02 02 12 Strong Enough/Sheryl Crow
06 03 08 I Believe/Blessid Union Of Souls
04 04 14 When I Come Around/Green Day
05 05 11 Hold On/Jamie Walters
08 06 08 Run Away/Real McCoy
03 07 18 Take A Bow/Madonna
10 08 11 In The House Of Stone And Light/Martin Page
11 09 08 I Live My Life For You/Firehouse
09 10 11 If I Wanted To/Melissa Etheridge
07 11 27 Hold My Hand/Hootie & The Blowfish
13 12 04 Tell Me When/Human League
15 13 05 Believe/Elton John
12 14 34 You Gotta Be/Des'ree
17 15 05 Can't Stop Loving You/Van Halen
14 16 33 Another Night/Real McCoy
26 17 03 Let Her Cry/Hootie & The Blowfish
19 18 06 Thank You/Boyz II Men
18 19 17 Creep/TLC
16 20 09 Come Back/Londonbeat
21 21 07 Lightning Crashes/Live
22 22 10 If You Love Me/Brownstone
28 23 04 No More "I Love You's"/Annie Lennox
24 24 12 Better Man/Pearl Jam
20 25 23 On Bended Knee/Boyz II Men
34 26 04 Run-Around/Blues Traveler
27 27 06 Ode To My Family/The Cranberries
38 28 02 Red Light Special/TLC
25 29 12 Love Will Keep Us Alive/The Eagles
40 30 02 Candy Rain/Soul For Real
35 31 03 Cotton Eye Joe/Rednex
XX 32 01 What Would You Say/Dave Matthews Band
29 33 20 The Rhythm Of The Night/Corona
23 34 19 You Don't Know How It Feels/Tom Petty
32 35 23 Every Day Of The Week/Jade
30 36 17 Get Ready For This/2 Unlimited
36 37 09 Everlasting Love/Gloria Estefan
XX 38 01 Until The End Of Time/Foreigner
XX 39 01 Feel So High/Des'ree
XX 40 01 Baby/Brandy

Dropped:
#31: Always/Bon Jovi (27 weeks)
#33: She's A River/Simple Minds (6 weeks)
#37: You Got It/Bonnie Raitt (7 weeks)
#39: Sukiyaki/4PM (24 weeks)

[Hervard]

For the third CHR Flashback for April, we go back to the year that Tara Kemp just wanted to Hold You Tight, Roxette took us on a Joyride, Hi-Five played The Kissing Game and Mariah Carey proclaimed I Don't Wanna Cry. It was 1991, and here is the chart for April 12, 1991:

LC TC wc SONG/ARTIST
03 01 10 You're In Love/Wilson Phillips
04 02 07 Baby Baby/Amy Grant
02 03 12 Hold You Tight/Tara Kemp
05 04 07 Joyride/Roxette
01 05 10 I've Been Thinking About You/Londonbeat
09 06 06 Touch Me (All Night Long)/Cathy Dennis
08 07 08 Sadeness (Part 1)/Enigma
10 08 08 Cry For Help/Rick Astley
13 09 05 Rhythm Of My Heart/Rod Stewart
18 10 05 Here We Go (Let's Rock & Roll)/C&C Music Factory
11 11 08 Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)/I Want You/Robert Palmer
19 12 04 I Touch Myself/The Divinyls
16 13 08 Just The Way It Is, Baby/The Rembrandts
06 14 12 Coming Out Of The Dark/Gloria Estefan
24 15 04 I Like The Way (The Kissing Game)/Hi-Five
27 16 02 I Don't Wanna Cry/Mariah Carey
20 17 05 More Than Ever/Nelson
15 18 07 Rico Suave/Gerardo
23 19 04 You Don't Have To Go Home Tonight/The Triplets
07 20 10 State Of The World/Janet Jackson
22 21 08 Iesha/Another Bad Creation
?? 22 ?? MYSTERY SONG/MYSTERY ARTIST
14 23 11 Signs/Tesla
12 24 11 Round And Round/Tevin Campbell
29 25 03 More Than Words/Extreme
17 26 13 This House/Tracie Spencer
21 27 14 Someday/Mariah Carey
31 28 03 Voices That Care/Voices That Care
33 29 02 Silent Lucidity/Queensryche
25 30 14 One More Try/Timmy T
40 31 02 What Comes Naturally/Sheena Easton
36 32 02 Don't Treat Me Bad/Firehouse
28 33 10 I'll Be By Your Side/Stevie Wonder
32 34 05 Stone Cold Gentleman
XX 35 01 Love Is A Wonderful Thing/Michael Bolton
XX 36 01 Losing My Religion/R.E.M.
XX 37 01 She Talks To Angels/The Black Crowes
XX 38 01 Written All Over Your Face/The Rude Boys
XX 39 01 Miracle/Whitney Houston
35 40 03 All True Man/Alexander O'Neal

Dropped:
#30: Call It Poison/Escape Club (5 weeks)
#34: Temple Of Love/Harriet (4 weeks)
#37: How To Dance/The Bingo Boys f/Princessa (5 weeks)
#38: Where Does My Heart Beat Now/Celine Dion (17 weeks)
#39: Get Here/Oleta Adams

Note the "Mystery Song" in this chart.

[mst3k]

Yay!

I'll let someone else have a crack at the Mystery Song.

[Hervard]

And now, here is the fourth CHR Flashback for the month of April. It's from the year that John Lennon was Watching The Wheels of the Morning Train that Sheena Easton's baby would take everyday because he loved Being With You like Smokey Robinson. And when he said I Love You, as the Climax Blues Band did, the Who said You Better You Bet. I mean, after all, A Woman Needs Love, Just Like You Do, as said by Ray Parker jr. and Raydio. Indeed, it's the year 1981 and here is the chart from April 24, 1981:

LC TC wc SONG/ARTIST
01 01 10 Just The Two Of Us/Grover Washington jr f/Bill Withers
05 02 08 Being With You/Smokey Robinson
03 03 11 Morning Train (Nine To Five)/Sheena Easton
06 04 08 Her Town Too/James Taylor w/J.D. Souther
04 05 09 Angel Of The Morning/Juice Newton
02 06 11 While You See A Chance/Steve Winwood
09 07 06 Take It On The Run/REO Speedwagon
10 08 05 Watching The Wheels/John Lennon
11 09 05 Living Inside Myself/Gino Vanelli
07 10 13 Kiss On My List/Daryl Hall & John Oates
12 11 06 I Love You/Climax Blues Band
18 12 04 Bette Davis Eyes/Kim Carnes
15 13 06 Too Much Time On My Hands/Styx
08 14 09 I Can't Stand It/Eric Clapton
19 15 06 Sweetheart/Franke & The Knockouts
20 16 06 You Better You Bet/The Who
21 17 05 I Missed Again/Phil Collins
13 18 07 Time Out Of Mind/Steely Dan
24 19 03 A Woman Needs Love (Just Like You Do)/Ray Parker jr. & Raydio
29 20 02 How 'Bout Us/Champaign
16 21 07 Ain't Even Done With The Night/John Cougar
14 22 09 Just Between You And Me/April Wine
25 23 04 Love You Like I've Never Loved Before/John O'Banion
28 24 02 Say You'll Be Mine/Christopher Cross
27 25 03 What Are We Doing In Love/Dottie West w/Kenny Rogers
30 26 02 Stars On 45 I/Stars On 45
XX 27 01 This Little Girl/Gary "U.S." Bonds
XX 28 01 America/Neil Diamond
XX 29 01 Since I Don't Have You/Don McLean
XX 30 01 Find Your Way Back/Jefferson Starship

Droppers:
#17: Somebody's Knockin'/Terri Gibbs (8 weeks)
#22: Don't Stand So Close To Me/The Police (9 weeks)
#23: The Best Of Times/Styx (14 weeks)
#26: Rapture/Blondie (12 weeks)

Top Ten New & Active:
Sukiyaki/A Taste Of Honey
Hold On Loosely/38 Special
Jessie's Girl/Rick Springfield
Winning/Santana
The Waiting/Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
I Loved 'Em Every One/T.G. Sheppard
Blessed Are The Believers/Anne Murray
Ai No Corrida/Quincy Jones f/Dune
Just So Lonely/Get Wet
Still Right Here In My Heart/Pure Prairie League

[Michael1973]

Is the mystery song "Save Some Love"?

That 1991 chart was roughly a month after my local station dropped the Rick Dees show on Saturdays in favor of their own (useless) local countdown. From that point forward, I had to choose between AT40, Casey's Top 40, or Rick Dees as they all now aired Sundays at the same time. I chose AT40, and later regretted it. I lost track of R&R's pop chart until the summer of 1994.

[Hervard]

michael1973 said:

Is the mystery song "Save Some Love"?

Yes it is. The artist is Keedy. It was her only Top 40 hit and I believe it peaked at #11.

That 1991 chart was roughly a month after my local station dropped the Rick Dees show on Saturdays in favor of their own (useless) local countdown.  From that point forward, I had to choose between AT40, Casey's Top 40, or Rick Dees as they all now aired Sundays at the same time.  I chose AT40, and later regretted it.  I lost track of R&R's pop chart until the summer of 1994.

You should have taped one of the shows that used the R&R chart (Casey's Top 40 would have been the best because 1991 was about when Rick started skipping songs on the chart to play an extra) while listening to AT40, or vice versa. That's what I always did when two countdown shows that I liked aired at the same time.

[Hervard]

Question: Does anyone have a list of 1992 Flashbacks that I've done (both on the R&R boards and here on the Pulse Boards)? I know I did a late April chart, an early July chart and one from August, but anything else?

[craig]

4/18,4/25,5/31,9/5,and 12/26 i go by the matching billboard dates. i hope this helps
Craig

[Michael1973]

ulij20 said:

Yes it is.  The artist is Keedy.  It was her only Top 40 hit and I believe it peaked at #11.

You should have taped one of the shows that used the R&R chart (Casey's Top 40 would have been the best because 1991 was about when Rick started skipping songs on the chart to play an extra) while listening to AT40, or vice versa.  That's what I always did when two countdown shows that I liked aired at the same time.

I was surprised to have guessed the mystery song so fast, but I always associated that song with the Triplets song (maybe because they were both one-hit wonders who charted so close together?) and when I saw that song present I knew what was missing.

I always considered it too time-consuming to try and tape entire countdown shows and listen later, especially back in the days when 45-minutes per side was the maximum for a cassette tape. I would occasionally do this when Rick Dees aired a "special" (I'd tape Casey instead) but I gave it up once the "3 shows at once" era began.

[johnnywest]

^I was able to find a few 120-minute blank tapes back in the '90s but I don't believe they sell them any more. I've tried Amazon but the longest I can find these days is 90 min total.