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https://radioinsight.com/ross/185677/how-lost-are-pop-music-lost-hits/
by Sean Ross
April 7, 2020
Part of what I’ve enjoyed about doing music research for a living is watching how big hit songs endure over time. How songs perform in research decades later is their refraction through a series of funhouse mirrors (radio programmer judgment, music-supervisor influence and other pop-culture moments, the movement of listeners through the 25-54 demographic window). Radio reacts to those variables and their change in output (often a culling of the oldest titles) influences the next respondents.
That songs do not endure equally is obvious enough. Five years ago, Rich Appel wrote a series of Billboard articles about how “Revisionist History†keeps “Santeria,†not “Macarena†on the radio. Olivia Newton-John’s “Physical,†a 10-week No. 1 and the biggest chart hit of the ‘80s, is long obscured by Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believin’,†the No. 9 hit from the same time in 1981-82 that became the most unavoidable gold title of our era. Recalculating the No. 1 song of each year, based on what was playing and selling in the mid-‘00s, Appel found the tilt was almost always to rock/pop titles that are kept in play by the combination of Classic Rock, Classic Hits, and the Adult Hits format perched between them.
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Radio stations play the songs the listeners want to hear? Scandalous!
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Here's a little escape music for ya --- Don't Stop Believin' !!!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcjzHMhBtf0 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcjzHMhBtf0#)
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About 6 years ago, we went to the "Rock 'n Roll Express" - great music and a lot of fun. Featuring; Journey, REO, Styx and enjoyed a little "Wango Tango" with Ted Nugent. After Ted cranked up the music, my hearing hasn't quite been the same.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQbz-PMvY0M (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQbz-PMvY0M#)
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Here's a little escape music for ya --- Don't Stop Believin' !!!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcjzHMhBtf0 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcjzHMhBtf0#)
I disliked that song greatly when it came out, but it grew on me some. I can tolerate Perry now.
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I disliked that song greatly when it came out, but it grew on me some. I can tolerate Perry now.
Well ... I wasn't a Journey fan until I saw them in concert. I didn't start listening to their other tunes till then, and they grew on me. By far my absolute favorite - "After All These Years". Very touching.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGU1OwrzN9U (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGU1OwrzN9U#)
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My favorite group from the same era is REO Speedwagon. We first saw them at the Indy Motor Speedway in the early '80's ... and twice now here in Florida. (Ya, I'm a rocker).
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKvpIpjI4Gk (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKvpIpjI4Gk#)
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My favorite group from the same era is REO Speedwagon. We first saw them at the Indy Motor Speedway in the early '80's ... and twice now here in Florida. (Ya, I'm a rocker).
I liked them until High Infidelity.
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My favorite group from the same era is REO Speedwagon.
@libertybele
Lynard Skynard, Little Feat,and the Allman Brothers Band.
The Eagles had their moments,too.
I MIGHT be slightly biased towards the blues,but who can blame me?
Gonna stop with this one video post. If I get to listening to Little Feat and the Allman Brothers,the rest of the day will be shot.
Error 404 (Not Found)!!1 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71qaX05-ArM#)
Ok,ONE Little Feat and ONE Allman Brothers
Error 404 (Not Found)!!1 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7TLnRThxL0#) (BTW,everybody owes it to themselves to own this album)
Error 404 (Not Found)!!1 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTMqq6H-T74#)
Don't get me started on Traffic and Steve Winwood.
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Here's a little escape music for ya --- Don't Stop Believin' !!!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcjzHMhBtf0 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcjzHMhBtf0#)
The Sopranos must have helped make that song rise on the airways. Like Family Guy made Take On Me rise on the music countdown
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I liked them until High Infidelity.
That’s when I discovered them.
Favorite bands from HS
Pink Floyd, Supertramp and The Cars. (And the Beatles but they had broken up a decade earlier)
Song I never want to hear again
American Pie. Overplayed. Wayyyyy overplayed
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That’s when I discovered them.
Favorite bands from HS
Pink Floyd, Supertramp and The Cars. (And the Beatles but they had broken up a decade earlier)
Song I never want to hear again
American Pie. Overplayed. Wayyyyy overplayed
A long, long time ago,
I can still remember....
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A long, long time ago,
I can still remember....
When I was in Grad school, I was teaching Intro to Lit. For the intro to to poetry module, I had to play American Pie and analyze it line by line, and Simon and Garfunkel’s Richard Cory and compare and contrast to the poem with the same name by Edwin Arlington Robinson. (Hey! That was about a money panic in 1893.oh boy!)
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This one sometimes feels so lost (the oldies stations almost never play it when looking for something by them to play) that you might think even the Yardbirds themselves forgot they cut it and had a 1966 hit with it . . .
Error 404 (Not Found)!!1 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tBSDFwVyss#)
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I just thought of the ultimate one hit wonder that you still hear everywhere
(And I still dance when I hear it)
Walking on sunshine
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I just thought of the ultimate one hit wonder that you still hear everywhere
(And I still dance when I hear it)
Walking on sunshine
@Gefn
And I always thought the ultimate one-hit wonder was . . .
Count Five, "Psychotic Reaction"
Error 404 (Not Found)!!1 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSAFSxQtsfg#)
( . . . which astute people my age might notice is a hybrid nick of two of the Yardbirds' hits, the aforeplayed "Over Under Sideways Down" and the coda in their version of Bo Diddley's "I'm a Man" . . . )
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I was a kid in 1966 when a certain Alka-Seltzer commercial prompted a group of Wrecking Crewmenpersons (bass legend Carol Kaye is thought to be on the record) to turn its music into this rather swinging hit . . .
The T-Bones, "No Matter What Shape (Your Stomach's In)"
Error 404 (Not Found)!!1 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ow94QA8fW8#)
. . . and the record was such a hit (it peaked at number three nationwide in '66) that the geniuses behind it put together a touring version of the group, who included a guitarist (Dan Hamilton), a keyboardsman/saxophonist (Tom Reynolds), and a bassist (Joe Carullo), who'd make a demo that went ignored as the last T-Bones project (a brief Japanese tour) dissipated, who'd discover the hard way that their old demo---featuring their voices as well---got into the hands of the co-mastermind of the Grass Roots (Steve Barri), and who'd be urged to reunite by that co-mastermind to become the 1970s hitmakers Hamilton, Joe Frank, and Reynolds.
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@EasyAce
I remember
Pop pop fizz fizz oh what a relief it is...
And
I can’t believe I ate the whole thing....
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@EasyAce
I remember
Pop pop fizz fizz oh what a relief it is...
And
I can’t believe I ate the whole thing....
@Gefn
Please tell me you didn't forget . . .
Alka-Seltzer, "That's a Spicy Meatball"
Error 404 (Not Found)!!1 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQhwNtY3N2k#)
Alka-Seltzer, "Try It, You'll Like It"
Error 404 (Not Found)!!1 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qdfMYFl0Ic#)
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I was hoping that my sis would finally wear out the grooves and I wouldn't have to hear this one song anymore:
Error 404 (Not Found)!!1 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5jrqe8ryJ8#)
Years later I was throwing 8track tapes out the window to not hear this song again:
Error 404 (Not Found)!!1 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aQRq9hhekA#)
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Error 404 (Not Found)!!1 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8ISZfhrphU#)
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About 6 years ago, we went to the "Rock 'n Roll Express" - great music and a lot of fun. Featuring; Journey, REO, Styx and enjoyed a little "Wango Tango" with Ted Nugent. After Ted cranked up the music, my hearing hasn't quite been the same.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQbz-PMvY0M (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQbz-PMvY0M#)
Ted used to hunt deer at a ranch close to here. He wasn't such a nice guy.....
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@EasyAce
I do remember the meatball commercial!
That would be a good thread. Your favorite tv commercials.