AT10 - 6/6/04

[Hervard]

LC TC SONG/ARTIST
01 01 First Cut Is The Deepest/Sheryl Crow (10 weeks)
02 02 White Flag/Dido
03 03 100 Years/Five For Fighting
04 04 This One's For The Girls/Martina McBride
05 05 You Raise Me Up/Josh Groban
07 06 Ain't No Mountain High Enough/Michael McDonald
08 07 Love's Divine/Seal
10 08 Drift Away/Uncle Kracker f/Dobie Gray
06 09 Forever And For Always/Shania Twain
09 10 Calling All Angels/Train

AT10 Extras:
Mambo No. 5/Lou Bega
Maybe I'm Amazed/Paul McCartney & Wings (studio version)
Fallin'/Alicia Keys
Just Another Day/Jon Secada

Long Distance Dedications:
My Immortal/Evanescence
Unwell/Matchbox Twenty

AT10 Archives:
1974: Everlasting Love/Carl Carlton
1975: Dance With Me/Orleans
1978: Emotion/Samantha Sang
1978: Use Ta Be My Girl/The O'Jays
1982: Hard To Say I'm Sorry/Chicago
1991: I Can't Make You Love Me/Bonnie Raitt

AT10 Spotlight (#2 AC Hits)
Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go/Wham!
Show Me The Meaning Of Being Lonely/Backstreet Boys
1-2-3/Miami Sound Machine
That's The Way It Is/Celine Dion
Never Gonna Give You Up/Rick Astley
Rhythm Of My Heart/Rod Stewart
Everybody Wants To Rule The World/Tears For Fears
Keep On Loving You/REO Speedwagon
Invisible Touch/Genesis

Interesting selection of extras this week.  How often do you hear "Use Ta Be My Girl" on AC radio?  I heard the song several times recently, but that's only because I have a tape with the song on it.  Otherwise, the last time I heard it on the radio was probably when I taped it, which was off of WYSY, a former '70s music station that I listened to all the time ten years ago (and, boy, when they flipped to a Spanish format - well, don't get me started on that...)
I liked the theme of the Spotlight this week, number two hits.  I guess if it's ever been the theme for a Rick Dees special, we'll be hearing it on AT10 - well, except for those incredibly stupid specials in which the current chart is just rearranged and Rick calls it "All-Request", but he doesn't fool us!  Maybe on the show two weeks from now, Casey will choose hits that mention "Summer" in their title.  Or maybe that'll be later in the summer and Casey might do something that focuses on Father's Day, like play songs dedicated to or from Fathers (like "Dance With My Father" and "Butterfly Kisses" and maybe even "The Living Years").  I still have a feeling they'll do Australian acts before long.
As you can see, "Drift Away" moves back up two spots, but at least he didn't push down any songs that are relatively new.  Both "Calling All Angels" and "Forever And For Always" have both been out for over a year.  True, "Drift Away" has been out for longer, but it's better than "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" or "Love's Divine" being pushed down, as both of those songs debuted on the chart earlier this year.
The Long Distance Dedications were pretty interesting, too, especially "My Immortal", since that song isn't yet on AT10 and probably will not be, as the song has been out for awhile and we all know the story about debuts on AT10!

[richie]

Two comments:
Wasn't the '74 version of Everlasting Love by Carl Carlton?
Howard Jones had a hit by the same title(different song, I think) in '89.
And secondly, no songs from the 60's this week.

[Hervard]

I stand corrected.  And you're right, it was a completely different song.  However, the Carl Carlton song was remade several times, including Carl himself, since the original was by Robert Knight.  Rex Smith and Rachel Sweet had a duet with the song back in 1981 and Gloria Estefan remade the song and had the most success on the A/C chart with the song.  Actually, I know of a fifth version of the song.  A singer who went by her first name only, Sandra, had a version of the song that charted on American Dance Traxx back in the summer of 1989.
Yeah, no songs from the 1960s this week. Moreover, there were only 31 songs played, and I don't even remember them looping any songs this week (of course, since I was so into a video game on my GameCube, I wasn't paying that close attention).

[johnnywest]

ulij20 said:

I liked the theme of the Spotlight this week, number two hits.  I guess if it's ever been the theme for a Rick Dees special, we'll be hearing it on AT10 - well, except for those incredibly stupid specials in which the current chart is just rearranged and Rick calls it "All-Request", but he doesn't fool us! 

What other themes has Rick Dees done? I do remember the "#2s"special because he played "Hold On" by Wilson Phillips, which peaked at #3. And I remember a "remakes" special in early 1992. But I don't remember anything else he's done except of course the so-called "All-Request" shows.

[Hervard]

Well, he did several "remakes" specials, one in November, 1988 and another in June, 1994 (I don't remember the early 1992 show even though I was listening back then). In October, 1986 he did a "Number One Songs of the 1980s" show
In June, 1987, he did a one-hit wonder show (the One Shot Special, he called it). For awhile, in August of each year, he did Summertime shows, focusing on songs that hit the chart during the preceding five summers. I forget what else he did but trust me, he DID used to do shows that were actually somewhat meaningful, which is more than can be said for the so-called "All Request" speicals.

[chebingeo]

Poor Shania. She "plummets."

[Hervard]

Actually, as tired as I am of "Drift Away", I'm more sick of "Forever And For Always", so if it falls out before DA, I can live with that.
Or maybe both songs will fall out the same week and we'll have an extra-rare two-debut AT10.
Hey, we can dream, can't we?

EDIT: I just looked at JCMF3's latest AC Chart Sans Recurrent Rules topic and saw that Shania has already gone recurrent. That means it'll be recurrent on the June 19 AT10 and WE'LL FINALLY GET TO HEAR LIONEL RICHIE'S LATEST!!
Or maybe another song, but I have a feeling it'll be "Just For You".