Time machine co-ordinates VICVII5456772

Today we're off to June 7th, 1972, and the opening on Broadway of Grease!  Barry Bostwick, Carole Davis, and Adrienne Barbeau were the headliners, as it began its journey just 11 months after Fiddler On The Roof took the 'longest running show on Broadway' title from Hello Dolly.  Grease would take that title from Fiddler 5 1/2 years later, and lose it less than 4 years down the road to A Chorus Line.

And welcome to Time Machine, where this week, we'll kibitz with Mick Jagger, do a very country 6D for a victim that was anything but, intro three M10 debuts from three old friends (and a couple new ones-?) have a WMEE Ft Wayne sighting on the Panel, and... um... oh, yeah, the 400th M10 song!  Let's be off like.... Greased Lightning!


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So in the wild wild world of TM, we were at #399 as far as songs in M10 history last week, which meant that the next highest debuting song gets the nod at #400.  Well, we also had #s 401 and 402 this week, and like I said, there's an old friend in each one.  First, howsabout we bring in #402, featuring Sarah Versprille and Pure Bathing Culture...





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Today, we have Mick Jagger on the show!  How's it going, Mick?

'Ey, not so bad.  Y'self?

All right.  This is the Stones 4th win as POTM, putting you...

Yeah, yeah, second behind the bloody Beatles.  Real honor.  Moving on...

Well, before we get too far, this was a week in which Ft Wayne station WMEE (then 1380 AM) was among the Panelists!  I wanted to lead off with their top ten having 4 songs that got no Panel #1 votes, 3 1-vote-wonders, and 3 finalists!  So before you get started...

Assuming I ever do...

... I want to read off the four that didn't get votes, then have you lead off the one vote wonders with the three that made that list.

So, I take it that it's not often your home station made this 'Panel list'? 

Nope, kind of a 'blue moon' thing.

So then, this station isn't but a wee bit in the big picture...

Yep, that would be fair- why do...

So why the 'ell would anyone care?

Doesn't matter.  I CARE.

Ah.  See, I like that.  So tell us, what four din't get a ballot?

Well, Mick, they would be:
Hot Rod Lincoln by Commander Cody and his Lost Planet Airmen at WMEE's #4;
Dr Hook and Sylvia's Mother at #5;
Todd Rundgren and I Saw The Light at #8;

I 'ear that bloke don't like you...

He'll get over it, it's not TDS...

TDS?

Spoilers, Mick.  The fourth DNC on the list is:
Crosby/Nash and Immigration Man at #10 (which makes a TDS mention rather ironic).

Okay, Mick, the mike is yours...

All right, then.  We lead off the one hit wonders with the WMEE three:

Walking In The Rain With The One I Love by Love Unlimited, #8 on Cashbox and #2 in Fort Wayne;

Diary by Brad...

That's Bread...

Don' correct me, it's YOUR typo!  Bread with Diary at #6 in Ft Wayne and #20 on Cashbox;

...and Cat Stevens with Morning Has Broken, #9 in Fort Wayne and #11 on Cashbox.  Now that that rubbish is over, here are the other one vote-ers...

Aw, it's LEETLE Jimmy Osmond and Long Haired Lover from Liverpool at #44;

Daniel Boone- the chap with the animal bonnet?

Not quite...

...just debuting at #98 with Beautiful Sunday, which apparently was #1 in South Africa.

Roberta Flack and The First Time Ever I Saw Yer Face at #13;

Good ol' Richard Starkey, AKA Ringo, and Back Off Boogaloo at #34;

Ah, a good rocker by Free that y'don't hear in the states, Little Bit Of Love, on one of the odd charts...

Joe Tex wit' I Gotcha at #48;

Debuting at #86, a country crossover by Donna Fargo, The Happiest Girl In The Whole USA...

More on THAT in a bit...

'Eh?  Oy, you do interrupt a lot...  anyway, Looking Glass and Brandy (You're A Fine Girl), which don' debut until NEXT week;

The Laurenco Marques song of the week, Neil Young's Heart Of Gold, which peaked stateside in April;

Oy, one of our b-sides, Sweet Black Angel got a vote!  How's that happen?

I'm not really sure...

Finally, just two more... say, how many flippin' songs are ON this list?

24 songs and 66 stations voting.

Eek!  Anyway, Was and Slippin' Into Darkness at #32, and Freddie Knight's I've Been Lonely For Too Long at #32 round out the solos.

Okay, here's the also receiving votes list...

Allright... we have three with 2 votes and one with three votes!  The two vote songs are Mouth And McNeil at #53 with How Do You Do; The bloody Royal Scots Dragoons Guards with Amazing Grace at #41; and the- oh, wait, that's us again, with the a-side, Tumbling Dice, at #10!  The three vote song is, er, Troglodyte by the Jimmy Castor Bunch at #26.

Very well done!  Now the final was essentially a three dog race, but I'm gonna give you FIVE choices!  Mick, if you would...

Certainly!  Choose from:

Staple Singers, I'll Take You There, at #6;

Neil Diamond, Song Sung Blue at #12, #3 in Ft Wayne;

Candy Man, Sammy Davis Jr at #2, #1 in Ft Wayne;

The Chi-lites with Oh, Girl at #1, # 7 in Ft Wayne; or

Gallery and Nice To Be Wit' You at #7!

Great job, thanks, Mick!  In the mean time, here's our 401st song on the M10, at #9, from Star Kendrick and Geowulf...





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Our 6D song this week was Look What You've Done For Me by the Reverend Al Green, at #3 this week without a Panel vote.  It was from his lp I'm Still In Love With You, which among other things had a cover of Ray Price's For The Good Times.  That song was the Country Music Association's first Song of the Year- and I noticed what a great number of songs I loved were on that list.  Unfortunately, as it started in 1971, that didn't give the Martin Era 2.0 a lot of songs to look at, but I wanted to mention the list and how they fared on the Billboard pop charts.


1971- Ray Price, For The Good Times, #11 in 1970 (the song charted the year before the award, natch).

1972- Freddie Hart, Easy Loving, 17 on BB and 12 on CB.

1973- The aforementioned Happiest Girl In The Whole USA, which peaked at #11.

1974- Charlie Rich, Behind Closed Doors, 15 on BB and 17 CB.

1975- Cal Smith, Country Bumpkin, one of 2 songs that didn't make the pop charts on out list.

1976- Rhinestone Cowboy, Glen Campbell, #1 of course.

1977- The other non crossover- Mickey Gilley's Don't The Girls All Get Prettier At Closing Time.

1978- Kenny Rogers and Lucille, #5.


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In the Martin Era 2.0, Cashbox's 400th debut came on the 4th of July, 1959- country star Stonewall Jackson (real name; he was named after the Confederate general) and Waterloo, which would peak at #4.  It came 63 weeks after #300, Book Of Love by the Monotones; and our 400th on the M10 comes a comparable 57 weeks since our 300th, Caroline Rose's Jeannie Becomes A Mom.  With no further ado, here is our #400- a Nashville duo called Okey Dokey, with a smidge of help from (in their words) ' the man, the myth, the legend'- Dent May:







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Looks like it's Stat Pack time!

The week's big mover was a UK singer named Chris Hodge with a 25-spot jump from 91 to 66 with We're On Our Way;  unfortunately, he was wrong, and it flatlined chart-wise soon thereafter.

Laura Lee, an early feminist anthem-er whose big claim to fame was 1971's Women's Love Rights which peaked at #37, is our #72 in '72 with another song that made little other ground called Rip-Off.  Perhaps it was...

Back years past when I was doing the tops of other nation's charts, the current UK #1 came up as a big hit across Europe- Frenchman Danyel Gerard and Butterfly.

However, this week's UK top dog was T-Rex and Metal Guru.  Not one of the few T-Rex songs that charted here.

The notable debuts this week include Bobby Vinton's Sealed With A Kiss at 80, Harry Nilsson's Coconut at 84, yes, Happiest Girl at 86, Rod Argent's Hold Your Head Up at #95, and Beautiful Sunday at 98.


And what would I have had at #1 at the time?  Gee, I was 10, I think I'll go with Candy Man.


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If you had a photographic memory, I'd tell you that the rest of the M10 only had one other song even move!  But since none of you do (I assume, with all said implications), here you go. 

Skindred's That's My Jam holds at 7.

The only song that moved within the countdown was Agnes Obel's Riverside, from 10 to 6.

The rest remain-

Tame Impala's Eventually at #5- a song that tore me up all day, as I heard myself singing first verse to Scrappy, he singing verse two to me, and me the third mini-verse to him...

Idlewild at 4 with You Held The World In Your Arms Tonight.

Moon Taxi at 3 with Now's The Time (or maybe next week will be...).

King Leg's Seeing You Tonight at #2.

And 8 weeks on the chart, three at the top for....

The Dig and Moonlight Baby!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Anything over #8 next week makes them into the all-time top ten...


And now, the Panel picks!


Gallery only got you 7.5%...

The Chi-Lites tapped you at 9.1%...

The Staple Singers didn't quite take you there, stopping at 13.6%....

The Candy Man left you off at 16.7%...


But yer winnah, at 19.7%....

...Neil Diamond and prolly my childhood #2 this week, Song Sung Blue!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


I had a 2-y-o niece who sang it, "Song Song BOOO!" 


So, next week, Neil and 1973!