CHR Flashback - April, 2004

[Hervard]

Stop pinching yourself! It is indeed true, I've finally decided to get this feature going once again. Even though it's nearly the end of June, here is the April series. To kick off, it's the year that Shawn Colvin informed us that Sunny Came Home, as did Jon Secada, Too Late Too Soon to find his woman in the arms of another man. But she decided it was Hard To Say I'm Sorry, like Az Yet, so she drove off with the Wallflowers and One Headlight. It was 1997, and here is the CHR/Pop chart from April 4, 1997:

LC TC wc SONG/ARTIST
02 01 22 You Were Meant For Me/Jewel
01 02 20 Lovefool/The Cardigans
03 03 24 Don't Speak/No Doubt
05 04 12 Every Day Is A Winding Road/Sheryl Crow
04 05 15 Wannabe/The Spice Girls
06 06 09 I Want You/Savage Garden
07 07 10 All By Myself/Celine Dion
09 08 10 One Headlight/The Wallflowers
12 09 08 Where Have All The Cowboys Gone/Paula Cole
08 10 18 Barely Breathing/Duncan Sheik
10 11 27 Don't Let Go (Love)/En Vogue
14 12 16 Everytime I Close My Eyes/Babyface
11 13 19 A Long December/Counting Crows
13 14 25 Un-Break My Heart/Toni Braxton
18 15 09 For You I Will/Monica
15 16 19 Ooh Aah...Just A Little Bit/Gina G
20 17 08 Secret Garden/Bruce Springsteen
16 18 18 Nobody/Keith Sweat
19 19 05 One More Time/Real McCoy
17 20 22 I Believe I Can Fly/R. Kelly
26 21 04 Staring At The Sun/U2
22 22 22 No Diggity/Blackstreet
25 23 03 Elegantly Wasted/INXS
21 24 11 It's Alright, It's OK/Leah Andreone
29 25 03 Your Woman/White Town
23 26 07 Too Late Too Soon/Jon Secada
30 27 10 Naked Eye/Luscious Jackson
49 28 02 MMMBop/Hanson
34 29 07 Sunny Came Home/Shawn Colvin
27 30 11 Say...If You Feel Alright/Crystal Waters
35 31 06 Talk To Me/Wild Orchid
33 32 04 If Tomorrow Never Comes/Joose
24 33 11 Please Don't Go/No Mercy
43 34 03 Return Of The Mack/Mark Morrison
31 35 06 Falling In Love (Is Hard On The Knees)/Aerosmith
41 36 02 Hard To Say I'm Sorry/Az Yet
38 37 04 How Bizarre/OMC
28 38 07 Step By Step/Whitney Houston
40 39 04 Give/Dishwalla
45 40 03 Don't Leave Me/Blackstreet
32 41 10 I Like It/Blackout All-Stars
37 42 05 If He Should Break Your Heart/Journey
39 43 18 Just Another Day/John Mellencamp
44 44 27 I Go Blind/Hootie & The Blowfish
36 45 15 Don't Cry For Me Argentina/Madonna
42 46 21 Pony/Ginuwine
46 47 05 The Old Apartment/Barenaked Ladies
50 48 02 I Don't Want To/Toni Braxton
XX 49 01 Say You'll Be There/The Spice Girls
47 50 07 Don't Stop Movin'/Livin' Joy

Dropper:
From #48: Under The Water/Merril Bainbridge

[Hervard]

For the next leg of the April Flashback series, we go back to the year that Paula Abdul reversed the roles and asked "Will You Marry Me?"  Bryan Adams couldn't believe this proposal - he Thought he'd Died And Gone To Heaven, and the members of the Cure were a little High themselves.  But Kris Kross thought the proposal was for them and started to Jump for joy.  But when they found out they weren't the One, they, like the Williams Brothers proclaimed they Can't Cry Hard Enough, and Eric Clapton was crying Tears In Heaven.  Well I guess you Live and Learn, right Joe Public?

Anyhoo, this is the chart for April 10, 1992:

LC TC wc SONG/ARTIST
01 01 10 Save The Best For Last/Vanessa Williams (4 weeks @ #1)
02 02 08 Make It Happen/Mariah Carey
03 03 09 Tears In Heaven/Eric Clapton
04 04 08 Everything Changes/Kathy Troccoli
09 05 09 Hazard (The River)/Richard Marx
06 06 07 Beauty And The Beast/Celine Dion w/Peabo Bryson
05 07 11 Masterpiece/Atlantic Starr
13 08 05 One/U2
14 09 05 Human Touch/Bruce Springsteen
11 10 06 We Got A Love Thang/CeCe Peniston
10 11 10 Breakin' My Heart (Pretty Brown Eyes)/Mint Condition
07 12 08 Romeo & Juliet/Stacy Earl
17 13 05 I'm The One You Need/Jody Watley
16 14 05 Thought I'd Died And Gone To Heaven/Bryan Adams
18 15 05 Live And Learn/Joe Public
20 16 24 Bohemian Rhapsody/Queen
25 17 03 My Lovin' (You're Never Gonna Get It)/En Vogue
26 18 03 Money Don't Mattter 2 Night/Prince & The N.P.G
23 19 04 Everything About You/Ugly Kid Joe
24 20 04 Take Time/Chris Walker
15 21 07 Church Of Your Heart/Roxette
08 22 11 Thinkin' Back/Color Me Badd
21 23 06 Mama I'm Coming Home/Ozzy Osbourne
12 24 11 I Can't Dance/Genesis
35 25 02 Will You Marry Me/Paula Abdul
29 26 04 Come As You Are/Nirvana
36 27 02 Let's Get Rocked/Def Leppard
19 28 10 Too Much Passion/The Smithereens
32 29 03 It's Over Now/L.A. Guns
38 30 02 Ain't 2 Proud 2 Beg/TLC
XX 31 01 Jump/Kris Kross
34 32 04 You Think You Know Her/Cause And Effect
22 33 13 Remember The Time/Michael Jackson
39 34 02 It's Not A Love Thing/Geoffrey Williams
33 35 14 To Be With You/Michael Jackson
27 36 08 Can't Cry Hard Enough/Williams Brothers
40 37 02 Nothing Else Matters/Metallica
30 38 13 Good For Me/Amy Grant
XX 39 01 Under The Bridge/Red Hot Chili Peppers
XX 40 01 High/The Cure

Droppers:
From #28: Missing You Now/Michael Bolton f/Kenny G (10 weeks)
From #31: Justified And Ancient/The KLF f/Tammy Wynette (10 weeks)
From #37: Right Now/Van Halen (8 weeks)

[Hervard]

Now, we take the trip back to the year that Billy Ocean yelled out, "Hey! You! Get Into My Car! Yes, you!" while Natalie Cole was cruisin' the freeway of love in her Pink Cadillac, originally driven by Bruce Springsteen, but he was walking now and taking One Step Up (literally!) and Tiffany Saw Him Standing There and went to Terence Trent D'arby's Wishing Well hoping she could be his Girlfriend, but unfortunately Pebbles had already spoken for him. So she, along with Johnny Hates Jazz was left with Shattered Dreams, but Out Of The Blue came Debbie Gibson saying to give it One More Try - after all, George Michael had!
Yes indeed, it was 1988 and here is the CHR chart for the week of April 15, 1988 (get your taxes done yet?)

LC TC wc SONG/ARTIST
01 01 10 Get Outta My Dreams, Get Into My Car/Billy Ocean
02 02 08 Where Do Broken Hearts Go/Whitney Houston
03 03 09 Devil Inside/INXS
05 04 10 Wishing Well/Terence Trent D'arby
08 05 09 Angel/Aerosmith
10 06 05 Anything For You/Miami Sound Machine
06 07 09 Girlfriend/Pebbles
12 08 07 Prove Your Love/Taylor Dayne
13 09 06 Pink Cadillac/Natalie Cole
04 10 11 Man In The Mirror/Michael Jackson
18 11 04 Shattered Dreams/Johnny Hates Jazz
11 12 08 I Saw Him Standing There/Tiffany
15 13 07 Electric Blue/Icehouse
19 14 04 I Don't Want To Live Without You/Foreigner
16 15 07 One Step Up/Bruce Springsteen
22 16 04 Always On My Mind/Pet Shop Boys
09 17 09 Some Kind Of Lover/Jody Watley
20 18 06 Pamela/Toto
24 19 04 Naughty Girls (Need Love Too)/Samantha Fox
07 20 11 Rocket 2 U/The Jets
27 21 04 Wait/White Lion
29 22 03 Two Occasions/The Deele
26 23 05 Piano In The Dark/Brenda Russell
25 24 06 I Wish I Had A Girl/Henry Lee Summer
39 25 02 One More Try/George Michael
31 26 03 Dreaming/Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark
32 27 03 Say It Again/Jermaine Stewart
32 27 03 Say It Again/Jermaine Stewart
14 28 12 Out Of The Blue/Debbie Gibson
23 29 13 Endless Summer Nights/Richard Marx
17 30 11 I Want Her/Keith Sweat
37 31 02 Strange But True/Times Two
36 32 02 One Good Reason/Paul Carrack
21 33 08 You Don't Know/Scarlett & Black
XX 34 01 Everything Your Heart Desires/Hall & Oates
33 35 04 Fishnet/Morris Day
38 36 02 Kiss And Tell/Bryan Ferry
28 37 09 Check It Out/John Cougar Mellencamp
XX 38 01 My Girl/Suave
XX 39 01 Together Forever/Rick Astley
XX 40 01 Yes/Merry Clayton

Droppers:
From #30: Together Forever/Rick Astley (14)
From #34: Sittin' On The Dock Of The Bay/Michael Bolton (10)
From #35: Father Figure/George Michael (13)
From #40: I Get Weak/Belinda Carlisle (13)

[mst3k]

Fenton said:

32 27 03 Say It Again/Jermaine Stewart
32 27 03 Say It Again/Jermaine Stewart

At least we know you can take direction, Chris. ;)

[Michael1973]

Who sang Hazard again?

[ChartKid]

Michael1973 said:

Who sang Hazard again?

Richard Marx

[Hervard]

Well, sort of a surprise that I only made one mistake, seeing that I crammed three Flashbacks into one sitting (The dual listing of the Jermaine Stewart hit was intentional, which explains why I didn't amend it).

Anyway, I'll try to get the next Flashback on real soon.

[Whi$tlin' Pete]

Uncle Buck, Fonzie, Ulij20, whoever you are, you picked a good song to repeat twice. "Say It Again" was one of my favorites at the time. When it leaped from 40 to 32 it was tied with the fastest moving song for that particular week. A few weeks more however, and the song completely fizzled. 40-32-27-23-23-off.

[Michael1973]

What I distinctly remember about that was Rick Dees airing a "special" when the song was #23 for the second week. So, it went 40-32-27-23, then next time he did a normal countdown it was gone. Let's see that happen today!

[Slinky]

Uncle said:

33 35 14 To Be With You/Michael Jackson

What was that about only making one mistake? ;)

[johnnywest]

Poor Uncle Buck. He gets more criticism on this board than Ryan Seacrest and Casey Kasem put together. ;)

[Hervard]

Michael1973 said:

What I distinctly remember about that was Rick Dees airing a "special" when the song was #23 for the second week.  So, it went 40-32-27-23, then next time he did a normal countdown it was gone.  Let's see that happen today!

Let's see what happen today, a song with such a short chart run or Rick actually doing a meaningful special? ;)

(The special was "#2 Hits of the 1980s", which I'm still looking for a copy of either the chart or the show itself)

[Michael1973]

Either one! (Actually I was referring to the chart run of the song. I miss those days!)

[BillboardBoy]

Anyhoo, this is the chart for April 10, 1992:

LC TC wc SONG/ARTIST
01 01 10 Save The Best For Last/Vanessa Williams (4 weeks @ #1)
02 02 08 Make It Happen/Mariah Carey
03 03 09 Tears In Heaven/Eric Clapton
04 04 08 Everything Changes/Kathy Troccoli
09 05 09 Hazard (The River)/Richard Marx
06 06 07 Beauty And The Beast/Celine Dion w/Peabo Bryson
05 07 11 Masterpiece/Atlantic Starr
13 08 05 One/U2
14 09 05 Human Touch/Bruce Springsteen
11 10 06 We Got A Love Thang/CeCe Peniston
10 11 10 Breakin' My Heart (Pretty Brown Eyes)/Mint Condition
07 12 08 Romeo & Juliet/Stacy Earl
17 13 05 I'm The One You Need/Jody Watley
16 14 05 Thought I'd Died And Gone To Heaven/Bryan Adams
18 15 05 Live And Learn/Joe Public
20 16 24 Bohemian Rhapsody/Queen
25 17 03 My Lovin' (You're Never Gonna Get It)/En Vogue
26 18 03 Money Don't Mattter 2 Night/Prince & The N.P.G
23 19 04 Everything About You/Ugly Kid Joe
24 20 04 Take Time/Chris Walker
15 21 07 Church Of Your Heart/Roxette
08 22 11 Thinkin' Back/Color Me Badd
21 23 06 Mama I'm Coming Home/Ozzy Osbourne
12 24 11 I Can't Dance/Genesis
35 25 02 Will You Marry Me/Paula Abdul
29 26 04 Come As You Are/Nirvana
36 27 02 Let's Get Rocked/Def Leppard
19 28 10 Too Much Passion/The Smithereens
32 29 03 It's Over Now/L.A. Guns
38 30 02 Ain't 2 Proud 2 Beg/TLC
XX 31 01 Jump/Kris Kross
34 32 04 You Think You Know Her/Cause And Effect
22 33 13 Remember The Time/Michael Jackson
39 34 02 It's Not A Love Thing/Geoffrey Williams
33 35 14 To Be With You/Michael Jackson
27 36 08 Can't Cry Hard Enough/Williams Brothers
40 37 02 Nothing Else Matters/Metallica
30 38 13 Good For Me/Amy Grant
XX 39 01 Under The Bridge/Red Hot Chili Peppers
XX 40 01 High/The Cure

Rick Dees' guest host - Rick Stacy
Sure Shot - If You Asked Me To
Challenge (Question) - Don't Cry
(Answer) Good Vibrations
Extra - I Will Remember You

Country - Take Your Memory - Vince Gill
Black - Goodbye - Tevin Campbell
Adult Contemporary - Tears In Heaven
Canada - Thought I'd Died And Gone To Heaven

10 - Don't Talk To Strangers
5 - I Knew You Were Waiting For Me
1 - Baby Baby

R&Ds:
Where Do Broken Hearts Go
That's What Love Is For
Love Of A Lifetime

As of this week, Color Me Badd was spending its 52nd straight week in the Top 40.

[craig]

hey where is the chr/flashback. i miss it hope ti comes around again soon

[Hervard]

Uh, guys, I'm so sorry; this has been a busy summer; I totally forgot about it.
I'm going to have to throw together a schedule for the second half of this year, so please don't be disappointed to see repeat lists (AT40 Flashback, anyone?), but I'll work carefully on the lists for 2005.
In the meantime, if anyone can post the dates for charts already used for my CHR Flashback series (or send them to me in a PM), that would be very helpful. Thanks in advance.

[craig]

i have them by the the countdown dates not issue dates 1/18/75,3 /1/75,3/29/75,7/18/75,9/6/75, 3/13/76,5/22/76,6/11/76,7/4/76,10/16/76,11/27/76. 1/29/77,5/2/77,6/25/77,8/20/77,10/08/77,11/15/77 2/11/78,4/4/78,5/27/78,7/24/78,8/12/78,8/26/78, 1/20/79,2/16/79,5/5/79,6/30/7910/6/79,11/10/79 3/18/80,6/28/80,7/26/80,8/30/80,9/20/80,11/29/80 2/28/81,3/28/818/8/81,8/22/81,10/10/81, 4/3/82,5/1/82,7/17/828/21/82,10/30/82,11/27/82 thats it for now i'll try and get some more dates later on

[mst3k]

Formatting craig's post for easier reading: :)

craig said:

i have them by the the countdown dates not issue dates
1/18/75
3/1/75
3/29/75
7/18/75
9/6/75 
3/13/76
5/22/76
6/11/76
7/4/76
10/16/76
11/27/76
1/29/77
5/2/77
6/25/77
8/20/77
10/08/77
11/15/77
2/11/78
4/4/78
5/27/78
7/24/78
8/12/78
8/26/78
1/20/79
2/16/79
5/5/79
6/30/79
10/6/79
11/10/79
3/18/80
6/28/80
7/26/80
8/30/80
9/20/80
11/29/80
2/28/81
3/28/81
8/8/81
8/22/81
10/10/81
4/3/82
5/1/82
7/17/82
8/21/82
10/30/82
11/27/82

[johnnywest]

Aug 23, 2004 20:24:52 GMT -5 craig said:

i have them by the the countdown dates not issue dates 1/18/75,3 /1/75,3/29/75,7/18/75,9/6/75, 3/13/76,5/22/76,6/11/76,7/4/76,10/16/76,11/27/76. 1/29/77,5/2/77,6/25/77,8/20/77,10/08/77,11/15/77 2/11/78,4/4/78,5/27/78,7/24/78,8/12/78,8/26/78, 1/20/79,2/16/79,5/5/79,6/30/7910/6/79,11/10/79 3/18/80,6/28/80,7/26/80,8/30/80,9/20/80,11/29/80 2/28/81,3/28/818/8/81,8/22/81,10/10/81, 4/3/82,5/1/82,7/17/828/21/82,10/30/82,11/27/82 thats it for now i'll try and get some more dates later on

Craig, could post one of these charts from late 1979? I'd like to see how "The Rainbow Connection" did in R&R.

[Green Baron]

Nov 2, 2014 19:48:28 GMT -5 johnnywest said:

Aug 23, 2004 20:24:52 GMT -5 craig said:

i have them by the the countdown dates not issue dates 1/18/75,3 /1/75,3/29/75,7/18/75,9/6/75, 3/13/76,5/22/76,6/11/76,7/4/76,10/16/76,11/27/76. 1/29/77,5/2/77,6/25/77,8/20/77,10/08/77,11/15/77 2/11/78,4/4/78,5/27/78,7/24/78,8/12/78,8/26/78, 1/20/79,2/16/79,5/5/79,6/30/7910/6/79,11/10/79 3/18/80,6/28/80,7/26/80,8/30/80,9/20/80,11/29/80 2/28/81,3/28/818/8/81,8/22/81,10/10/81, 4/3/82,5/1/82,7/17/828/21/82,10/30/82,11/27/82 thats it for now i'll try and get some more dates later on

Craig, could post one of these charts from late 1979? I'd like to see how "The Rainbow Connection" did in R&R.

...are you seriously asking a favor from a poster who made this thread ten years ago???

[Whi$tlin' Pete]

"The Rainbow Connection" did not chart on the R&R chart.