Just so you all know, in trying to get Blogger to open my "pictures library", for whatever reason, it tried to open up Google Chrome (my emergency browser) and e-sword (my Bible program) as well. So if something comes out wonky, I'm blaming Elvis!
Elvis: Hey, woah, slow down there, son...
Oh, you know I'm kidding. Anyway, this week has NO debuts on the M10, but the ten will appear in between not one, but TWO great features!
Ya didn't fergit that 'never turn off of the radio' deal, didja?
Nope, and let's just go ahead and start there. This time we go to this week in 1994- where the sliding towards bankruptcy Cashbox yet again has a 2 week (at least) old frozen chart. And I had to drop to #39 to find the first song I would NOT change the station on under any circumstances!
Geez! A lot of stinkers in front of it?
No, just a lot that I didn't really know. 32 out of the 38 ahead of this week's winner, in fact, I had no clue on. Frankly, I had been away from chart songs for a while then and was riding the Alternative music wave. Among these was at least one I know I would have hated had I ever heard it...
Lemme guess... the Michael Bolton thing...
Bullseye. For you that don't know, I would prefer a Yoko Ono marathon to a 3 minute Michael Bolton single. Also, out of 5 "know and like" tunes, one of them- Jimmy Cliff's cover of I Can See Clearly Now -it's strong to say 'like', but it's better than the otherwise empty "yuck" category. I did list one almost but not quite- The Cranberries and their single Linger at #17. But lets save the winner for "big reveal time..."
Ya mean, 'big deal time'...
Whatever, dude! Just get us out the M10 before anything else goes wrong- and leave off #1...
Ya said there wuz no debuts- they'll know what ya left out!
If they were paying attention...
Ha! Okay, we know no one pays any attention here!
So 10, down 2, is White Reaper an' Pages...
9- also down 2, Smashing Pumpkins an' Beyond The Vale...
8- up one, the Heavy Heavy an' Guinevere..
7- down 4, the Four Seasons an' Sleeping Man...
6- an' holdin', Lucius an' Muse...
5- an' holdin', Talk an' Run Away To Mars...
4- up from 10, Maneskin an La Fine...
3- Up one, Morrissey and Rebels Without Applause...
Hey, you pronounced your "and" right on that last one...
Computer glitch. 2- down one fer Joji an' Die For You...
And that brings us to something I got an e-mail about from Best Classic Bands. The seven inductees into the songwriter's hall of fame 2023 began with Jeff Lynne of ELO, and rightly so. The rest... okay, Gloria Estefan... I didn't know Sade did her own writing... Snoop Dogg? Liz Rose, whose claim to fame is writing for Taylor Swift... even worse, Glen Ballard, whose claim is his work on Alanis Morrisette's Jagged Little Pill (oh, and Man In The Mirror for MJ)... and a dude named Teddy Riley, who not only invented a genre I never heard of, but from what I could find out, was vastly more a producer than writer.
Compare anyone past Lynne to the nominees who got passed over... Boyce and Hart (see Monkees)... Linzer/Randall (the Toys' A Lover's Concerto, and 3 top 15s for the Four Seasons...Roger Nichols, who co-wrote with Paul Williams several Carpenters hits...Bryan Adams...Burke/Harry/Stein (aka Blondie)... Johnson/McDonald/Simmons (aka the Doobie Brothers)... Vince Gill... the Wilson sisters (aka Heart)... REM... and Stevie Winwood...
ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ...
Shh, Elvis fell asleep because a) I had to fight about a half-hour war with this computer to get it to work right, and b) I've spent about an hour and a half researching this mess above. I have done my best to find ALL the top ten Hot 100 songs by the clow... er, the inductees above (minus Lynne), and then, by the nominees that I mentioned not making it this time around. And the numbers by position are...
10- nominated 2, inducted 0
9- nominated 6, inducted 1
8- nominated 4, inducted 2
7- nominated 4, inducted 0
6- 4 each
5- nominated 2, inducted 4 (they finally win one)
4- nominated 2, inducted 1
3- nominated 4, inducted 1
2- nominated 4, inducted 2
And #1s...
Nominated 13, inducted 5...
...for a grand total of...
Nominated (9 acts): 45 top tens, or 5 per act
Inducted (6 acts): 20 top tens, or 3.33 per act.
At the end, I'll try to go back and figure out what the #1's for the nominees were... oh, wait, we ARE at the end, almost. The songs that the nominated hit #1 with were:
The Blondie Gang: Heart Of Glass, Rapture, Call Me
Boyce and Hart: Last Train To Clarksville
The Doobie alumni: Black Water, What A Fool Believes, You Belong To Me (by Carly Simon)
Bryan Adams: Heaven, Have You Every Really Loved A Woman, Everything I Do (I Do It For You), All For You
Stevie Winwood: Roll With It, Higher Love.
Back to our "regular" feature, that song I wouldn't ever turn the station on...
...the Gin Blossoms and Found Out About You, which would hit #30 on Cashbox and #25 on Billboard!
And lest you think I forgot...eh?
Man, I wuz snoozin'! Where we at?
Just in time for you to give the M10 #1!
That's burnt! Okay, our new top doggie is...
Cafune an' Tek It!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Say, you wanna fill me in? Last I remember wuz you givin' the computer 15 seconds to do...somethin...
Yeah, well sometimes you have to be firm...
