CHR Flashback - February, 2004

[Hervard]

Whew! Just one more month and a week and I'll be all caught up with the CHR Flashback feature.
Right now, we hop into the time machine and whiz back to the year that the Pointer Sisters were on Fire, the Doobie Brothers were telling us about What a Fool Believes, Melissa Manchester begged "Don't Cry Out Loud" and Billy Joel commanded, "Keep it to yourself, it's My Life!". Yes, it was the year 1979, and here are the 30 biggest songs, according to R&R, on February 2, 1979:

LC TC wc SONG/ARTIST
01 01 07 Da Ya Think I'm Sexy/Rod Stewart
04 02 09 Fire/Pointer Sisters
03 03 09 A Little More Love/Olivia Newton-John
02 04 13 Too Much Heaven/The Bee Gees
05 05 12 Le Freak/Chic
06 06 09 Lotta Love/Nicholette Larson
08 07 05 Soul Man/Blues Brothers
07 08 09 Every 1's A Winner/Hot Chocolate
13 09 05 Got To Be Real/Cheryl Lynn
11 10 09 Shake It/Ian Matthews
10 11 10 September/Earth Wind & Fire
14 12 05 Somewhere In The Night/Barry Manilow
29 13 02 I Will Survive/Gloria Gaynor
12 14 14 My Life/Billy Joel
09 15 12 Hold The Line/Toto
23 16 03 Heaven Knows/Donna Summer w/The Brooklyn Dreams
18 17 04 No Tell Lover/Chicago
19 18 03 Blue Morning, Blue Day/Foreigner
28 19 02 Don't Cry Out Loud/Melissa Manchester
20 20 04 Home And Dry/Gerry Rafferty
25 21 02 The Gambler/Kenny Rogers
16 22 11 Y.M.C.A/The Village People
15 23 11 We've Got Tonite/Bob Seger
21 24 05 New York Groove/Ace Frehley
27 25 02 Lady/Little River Band
XX 26 01 Tragedy/The Bee Gees
XX 27 01 What A Fool Believes/The Doobie Brothers
XX 28 01 Dancin' Shoes/Nigel Olsson
XX 29 01 Shake Your Groove Thing/Peaches & Herb
17 30 12 Ooh Baby Baby/Linda Ronstadt

Droppers:
From #22: You Don't Bring Me Flowers/Barbra & Neil (14 weeks)
From #24: Promises/Eric Clapton (9 weeks)
From #26: Our Love (Don't Throw It All Away)/Andy Gibb (14 weeks)
From #30: Sharing The Night Together/Dr. Hook (17 weeks)

Note: As always, the two-week holiday break was counted in the weeks on chart count.

Top Ten New & Active:
Everytime I Think Of You/The Babys
I Was Made For Dancin'/Leif Garrett
Crazy Love/Poco
Don't Hold Back/Chanson
Sultans Of Swing/Dire Straits
I Just Fall In Love Again/Anne Murray
Goodbye, I Love You/Firefall
Song On The Radio/Al Stewart
Forever In Blue Jeans/Neil Diamond
What You Won't Do For Love/Bobby Caldwell

[Hervard]

Now we take the trip back to the year I first started following the R&R charts. In fact, this is the very chart that was used the first time I listened to a show that went by their charts. It was "Countdown America" with John Leader, which started out in January, 1983. I discovered it on B96 on February 20 and the chart that was used was this one, dated February 11, 1983:

LC TC wc SONG/ARTIST
02 01 09 Shame On The Moon/Bob Seger
04 02 06 Do You Really Want To Hurt Me/Culture Club
01 03 14 Down Under/Men At Work
07 04 05 You Are/Lionel Richie
06 05 06 Stray Cat Strut/The Stray Cats
03 06 10 Allentown/Billy Joel
09 07 04 All Right/Christopher Cross
10 08 04 Hungry Like The Wolf/Duran Duran
05 09 10 Heart To Heart/Kenny Loggins
15 10 03 Billie Jean/Michael Jackson
20 11 04 Breakin' Us In Two/Joe Jackson
19 12 04 We've Got Tonight/Kenny Rogers & Sheena Easton
13 13 09 Your Love Is Driving Me Crazy/Sammy Hagar
24 14 03 One On One/Hall & Oates
23 15 02 Back On The Chain Gang/The Pretenders
08 16 13 Baby Come To Me/Patti Austin & James Ingram
11 17 15 Africa/Toto
21 18 03 Pass The Dutchie/Musical Youth
30 19 02 Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)/Journey
14 20 13 You Can't Hurry Love/Phil Collins
16 21 09 Heart Of The Night/Juice Newton
25 22 05 The Woman In Me/Donna Summer
12 23 12 The Other Guy/Little River Band
29 24 02 I've Got A Rock & Roll Heart/Eric Clapton
28 25 02 My Kind Of Lady/Supertramp
27 26 04 I Can't Stand Still/Don Henley
17 27 10 Goody Two Shoes/Adam Ant
18 28 11 Sexual Healing/Marvin Gaye
XX 29 01 Mr. Roboto/Styx
XX 30 01 Come On Eileen/Dexy's Midnight Runners

Droppers:
From #22: All Those Lies/Glenn Frey
From #26: I Knew You When/Linda Ronstadt

Top Ten New & Active:
Dreamin' Is Easy/Steel Breeze
I'm Alive/Neil Diamond
Jeopardy/Greg Kihn Band
Fall In Love With Me/Earth Wind & Fire
Tied Up/Olivia Newton-John
Winds Of Change/Jefferson Starship
Make Love Stay/Dan Fogelberg
Poison Arrow/ABC
Lies/Thompson Twins
I Know There's Something Going On/Frida

[Hervard]

OK, we're up to the CHR Flashback that should have been posted on February 21. It's the earliest year we'll ever see on the CHR Flashback show. That's right, 1975 (1974 had so damn many annoying fluctuations, as far as chart points go, and occasionally they left off songs. Like one week, "Sunshine On My Shoulders" fell off of the chart from inside the Top Five, only to return the next week (AT20, 2001, anyone?))
Anyway, here is the chart from February 21, 1975:

LC TC wc SONG/ARTIST
05 01 05 Have You Never Been Mellow/Olivia Newton-John
01 02 10 Black Water/Doobie Brothers
10 03 06 My Eyes Adored You/Frankie Valli
02 04 11 Best Of My Love/The Eagles
04 05 10 You're No Good/Linda Ronstadt
06 06 11 Pick Up The Pieces/Average White Band
03 07 08 Fire/The Ohio Players
09 08 08 Lady/Styx
12 09 05 Lady Marmalade/LaBelle
07 10 12 Mandy/Barry Manilow
08 11 13 Please Mr. Postman/The Carpenters
11 12 10 Some Kind Of Wonderful
13 13 05 Roll On Down The Highway/Bachman-Turner Overdrive
14 14 08 Lonely People/America
18 15 04 Don't Call Us, We'll Call You/Sugarloaf
21 16 03 You Are So Beautiful/Joe Cocker
25 17 02 Lovin' You/Minnie Riperton
15 18 11 Doctor's Orders/Carole Douglas
23 19 03 No No Song/Ringo Starr
28 20 04 The South's Gonna Do It/Charlie Daniels Band
30 21 02 Poetry Man/Phoebe Snow
32 22 03 My Boy/Elvis Presley
XX 23 01 Chevy Van/Sammy Johns
26 24 06 I'm A Woman/Maria Muldaur
16 25 10 Get Dancin'/Disco Tex & The Sex-O-Lettes
33 26 03 Up In A Puff Of Smoke/Polly Brown
38 27 02 Shame Shame Shame/Shirley & Company
20 28 14 Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds/Elton John
17 29 14 Laughter In The Rain/Neil Sedaka
36 30 03 Movin' On/Bad Company
39 31 02 Express/B.T. Express
29 32 03 Nightengale/Carole King
40 33 02 Part Of The Plan/Dan Fogelberg
RE 34 04 Can't Get It Out Of My Head/ELO
27 35 07 No. 9 Dream/John Lennon
19 36 14 Boogie On Reggae Woman/Stevie Wonder
XX 37 01 Hey Won't You Play Another Somebody Done Somebody Wrong Song/BJ Thomas
24 38 17 Kung Fu Fighting/Carl Douglas
XX 39 01 Sad Sweet Dreamer/Sweet Sensation
35 40 11 Morning Side Of The Mountain/Donny & Marie Osmond

Droppers:
From #31: Bunghole In The Jungle/Jethro Tull (13 weeks)
From #34: Sweet Surrender/John Denver (6 weeks)
From #37: When Will I See You Again/Three Degrees (18 weeks)

[Hervard]

This next chart's date has only been used for R&R once, and will not be used again until the year 2008. That's because this happens to be the Leap Date. And since this year is a Leap Year, I decided to use so far the only Leap Year used by R&R, which was in 1980. I guess maybe it would have made sense to save this until 2008, especially since this date is so close to a previous CHR Flashback, but oh well. Here is the chart for February 29, 1980:

LC TC wc SONG/ARTIST
01 01 11 Crazy Little Thing Called Love/Queen
02 02 09 Longer/Dan Fogelberg
03 03 07 Working My Way Back To You/The Spinners
04 04 06 Him/Rupert Holmes
06 05 05 Another Brick In The Wall Pt 2/Pink Floyd
05 06 07 99/Toto
08 07 07 Desire/Andy Gibb
07 08 06 On The Radio/Donna Summer
14 09 04 Too Hot/Kool & The Gang
13 10 05 How Do I Make You/Linda Ronstadt
09 11 07 September Morn/Neil Diamond
15 12 04 Refugee/Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
20 13 03 Ride Like The Wind/Christopher Cross
11 14 12 Yes I'm Ready/Teri DeSario w/KC
19 15 03 Give It All You've Got/Chuck Mangione
17 16 05 Back On My Feet Again/The Babys
12 17 08 An American Dream/Dirt Band f/Linda Ronstadt
23 18 02 I Can't Tell You Why/The Eagles
26 19 02 Fire Lake/Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band
21 20 05 Heartbreaker/Pat Benatar
10 21 12 Romeo's Tune/Steve Forbert
XX 22 01 The Second Time Around/Shalamar
18 23 08 Daydream Believer/Anne Murray
27 24 02 Three Times In Love/Tommy James
XX 25 01 Call Me/Blondie
29 26 02 Lost In Love/Air Supply
XX 27 01 Special Lady/Ray Goodman & Brown
30 28 02 Come Back/The J Geils Band
22 29 06 When I Wanted You/Barry Manilow
XX 30 01 Sexy Eyes/Dr. Hook

Droppers:
#24: I Wanna Be Your Lover/Prince (8 weeks)
#25: Rock With You/Michael Jackson (14 weeks)
#28: Why Me/Styx (10 weeks)

Top Ten New & Active
I Thank You/ZZ Top
Even It Up/Heart
Off The Wall/Michael Jackson
With You I'm Born Again/Billy Preston & Syreeta
Baby Talks Dirty/The Knack
Flirtin' With Disaster/Molly Hatchet
Set Me Free/Utopia
Pilot Of The Airwaves/Charlie Dore
Women/Foreigner
Let Me Go Love/Nicholette Larson

[craig]

great chart 1979
? where did our love by andy gibb peak at

[Hervard]

#10

[craig]

thanks

[mst3k]

ulij20 said:

From #31: Bunghole In The Jungle/Jethro Tull (13 weeks)

LOL... was that a duet with Beavis & Butthead? ;)