AT10 - 7/24/04

[Hervard]

LC TC SONG/ARTIST
01 01 100 Years/Five For Fighting (4 weeks @ #1)
02 02 This One's For The Girls/Martina McBride
03 03 White Flag/Dido
06 04 Love's Divine/Seal
04 05 First Cut Is The Deepest/Sheryl Crow
05 06 Ain't No Mountain High Enough/Michael McDonald
07 07 This Love/Maroon 5
08 08 Drift Away/Uncle Kracker f/Dobie Gray
10 09 You Raise Me Up/Josh Groban
09 10 Just For You/Lionel Richie

AT10 Extras:
Some Guys Have All The Luck/Rod Stewart
No Such Thing/John Mayer
In Your Eyes/Peter Gabriel
Lost In Love/Air Supply

Long Distance Dedication:
You'll Be In My Heart/Phil Collins

AT10 Archives:
1965: I Hear A Symphony/The Supremes
1970: Fire And Rain/James Taylor
1972: So Far Away/Carole King
1975: Someone Saved My Life Tonight/Elton John
1980: It's Still Rock & Roll To Me/Billy Joel
1981: Morning Train (Nine To Five)/Sheena Easton
1982: Hurts So Good/John Cougar
1989: If I Could Turn Back Time/Cher
1991: Baby Baby/Amy Grant
1993: It's Alright/Huey Lewis & The News
2001: Drops Of Jupiter (Tell Me)/Train

AT10 Spotlight: Sister Acts
Slow Hand/Pointer Sisters
Landslide/The Dixie Chicks
These Dreams/Heart
We Are Family/Sister Sledge
Hold On/Wilson Phillips
Breathless/The Corrs
Best Of My Love/The Emotions

Pretty good selection of songs there. The Archive songs spanned five different decades. But haven't they played "If I Could Turn Back Time" several times since AT10 started?
It appears that the volume of Long Distance Dedications has shrunk even more, since there was only one on the show this weekend. I sure hope they're not going to become extinct.
One of my previous predictions for the Spotlight was "Family Acts". I just wasn't specific enough. This week's show was sister acts. When I heard this, Sister Sledge and the Pointer Sisters immediately came to mind. It was great to hear "Slow Hand" again.
I'm surprised that there turned out to be 23 extras, since "These Dreams" looped back to the second verse and they played "Someone Saved My Life Tonight" by Elton John, which is practically seven minutes long. There must have been a few unusually short songs played ("I Hear A Symphony", "It's Still Rock & Roll To Me" and "It's Alright", I believe, are all under three minutes long).
Oh yeah, the chart? It's the same slow chart as always, with probably the same ten songs until we have a debut sometime in early August (as the average of debuts is still exactly one per month). The biggest mover is Seal's "Love's Divine", from 6-4 and Five For Fighting are still not letting Martina McBride in for the world.

[johnnywest]

ulij20 said:

The biggest mover is Seal's "Love's Divine", from 6-4.  

Did Casey mention the biggest mover? It tickles me to hear him say stuff like that cuz it's so silly. But I guess it's all relative depending on the chart.

[richie]

If and when the do brother acts they'll have to be careful. The Righteous Brothers were not related and neither were the Thompson Twins(let alone twins).

[johnnywest]

richie said:

If and when the do brother acts they'll have to be careful.  The Righteous Brothers were not related and neither were the Thompson Twins(let alone twins).

Several times I've heard Casey do the story on how the Thompson Twins are not related and how none of them are named Thompson. I've heard it at least twice on America's Top Hits/Casey's Biggest Hits.

BTW, The Thompson Twins were named after characters in a European comic book.

If Casey did play The Thompson Twins, my first choice would be to hear "Lay Your Hands On Me." I've always loved that song!

[Hervard]

Yeah, but we all know that Casey would play "Hold Me Now".

And to answer your other question, Casey did mention that Seal had the biggest move of the week, which was strange, since if it's less than three spots, he usually doesn't mention it.