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Today we are in November 22nd of 1972, and I didn't find a real big-breaking story to lead with, but...

-Today for the first time, an American B-52 was shot down over Viet-nam...

- Johnny Bench won his 2nd NL MVP in three years, after a 40 homer, 120 RBI season and a World Series loss to the Oakland A's that involved him getting walked every time he had a runner on base...

- the Pittsburgh Penguins set a record in a 10-4 win over the St Louis Blues by scoring the last five of those goals in 2 minutes and 9 seconds...

-...and the Australian Premier, Sir Robert Askin, accused the Labor Party of wanting to "flood the country with black people".  Not very politically correct there, were we, Bob?

"I cannot imagine anyone acting that way here in the Northern Hemisphere..."  Justin Trudeau

Yeah, well, everybody has a bone or two in their closet I guess- and I have a Time Machine full of 'em!  This week, the Great Race between Tony Orlando and Peter Skellern (?), what Peter Cetera's little brother has to do with badly maintained planes, Isaac Hayes on the Panel pics, and a holiday schedule announcement...  and what the good people in Jolly Ol' England were playing with this week!

Plus, 3 M10 debuts, the first of which we'd better get to right now!


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So I have two songs off Criminal Hygiene's EP Again that I want to bring in- but only one spot!  So I played them both for Laurie, and she picked this one to be the debut this week at #10...





Next week the other one will prolly join us as well.  For a moment, I almost said, "Why not make it a 'double-A-side'?"  Not really bending the rules horribly, since they're off the same disc- but just then, Michael Hiller sang, "It's far too late to cheat", and I went with Laurie's pick...


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Speaking of next week, it's Thanksgiving weekend, so the 600th music post under the Time Machine aegis will be a mere M10 update.  No full TM, but maybe the week after- which will include the already completed "Song of November" list- we'll have an afterparty.

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Welcome in Mr Isaac Hayes, everybody!

All right, I saw all that blackface crap up there; just gimme mah award an' ah'll be outta here!

Award?  No, on Time Machine, if your song won last week, you come in and read off the contestants for the next week...

Read a list?  Lissen honkey... ah, hell, lemmee see the list...  what kind a' whitey list is this?  All these here songs, an' only 4 R&B songs...

Well, sir, it's like this:  I don't put the R&B stations in the mix, because of mainly my own ignorance of the subject.  When I was growing up, Fort Wayne had one R&B station, and it was on FM... and during the first month I actually had an FM radio, the station got changed to Classic Rock.  So there's that.  Plus, the site which posts the lists I use usually only have 2 to 4 R&B stations, not enough to make a difference...

An' what do you propose to DO about that?

Um... well, I'm giving everyone as equal a shot as I can here.  Look, there's Michael Jackson...

That little boy singin' about a rat?

Hey now, we have Billy Paul... the Temps... Teddy Pendergrass...

Yeah?  An' how many votes did THEY get...

I can't say without giving away...

HOW MANY?

Er... five...

Five votes... it's a LANDSLIDE!

For what it's worth... one of the features that I do is pick which one would have probably been my #1 that week- and Teddy and Harold Melvin and the Bluenotes would have had my favorite with If You Don't Know Me By Now...

Well, ain't you special.

And, I tell you what.  I could put the R&B, Country, and other charts in the mix, if everybody wants me to.  What say you?  Let me know in the comments!  In the meantime... Mr Hayes, would you like to do the list?

Boy, I got things to do out there.  Way too much of this prejudice that no one ever notices. 

True that.  Or they notice, and laugh it off, hiding in their own crowd.  Both sides, too.

I guess you ain't so bad after all.  Good luck with this list thing.

Thanks, Isaac!  Well, why don't we go ahead and cue up our next debut this week- coming in at #8, a band made up of two people who prefer to remain anonymous- a guy going by "Emo" and a girl known as "V"- together, they are Emotional Oranges...




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Okay, so here are your one-vote wonders...

Helen Reddy is at #8 with I Am Woman;
Gilbert O'Sullivan's Clair is at #19;
Albert Hammond at #22 with It Never Rains In Southern California;
one vote for the Delegates with Convention '72;
The Doobies at #17 with Listen To The Music;
Yes is at #54 with their song And You And I;
See?  Isaac missed the Stylistics with I'm Stone In Love With You at #27;
Led Zep's Stairway To Heaven got an airplay vote...
Bread gets a vote from Laurenco Marques for Guitar Man, which dropped off here last month;
America at #20 with Ventura Highway;
and the previously discussed Mr Paul with Me And Mrs Jones at #32.

Two voters include the aforementioned rodent ode, Ben, at #45 and falling;
Chicago's Dialogue at #28;
Lobo's I'd Love You To Want Me at #3;
Papa Was A Rolling Stone at #6 for the Temptations;
and my week's favorite, If You Don't Know Me By Now at #7.

Now the rest of everyone I have to use to give you something to choose from, since the winner outpolled the other 3 22-12!  Choose from:

Hot Buttered's Popcorn at- well, at #1 on, let's just say, several stations in Australia...
Johnny Nash's I Can See Clearly Now at #1...
The Spinners and I'll Be Around at #2...
and Seals and Crofts' Summer Breeze at #14.


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One of the things I noticed on this week's Cashbox chart was two versions of the song right next to each other; and in fact, it was the second week of a long association.  UK artist Peter Skellern wrote and recorded one of those mellow, crooner type songs called You're A Lady.  While it was becoming a big hit there, Tony Orlando recorded it with Dawn here- and both versions must have been released at the same time!  Here's how the race between them went, starting from their debuts one week ago:

Week 1- Dawn 96, PS 97
2- PS 90, Dawn 91
3- Dawn 84, PS 85
4-Dawn 78, PS 79
5-Dawn 75, PS 76
6- PS 71, Dawn 72

At this point, things turn bad for Tony and the ladies...'

7-PS 67, Dawn 71
8-PS 63, Dawn 70
9- PS 59, Dawn 68

And that was it, as both fell off the charts in week 10.

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Finally debuting at #7 this week is the latest from the Derevolutions...





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So where do we get badly maintained planes and the little brother of Chicago's former lead singer?  Well, let's start with a briefly existing country supergroup called Black Tie.  Never heard of 'em?  Me neither as a band- their lone charting country hit barely broke the top 60 in 1990.  Individually, though, we lead off with Jimmy Griffin, best known as the second best songwriter in Bread, and a Grammy winner for the Carpenters' For All We Know.  Mix in Billy Swan, who had the big hit perfect for the old skating rink days, I Can Help.  Finally, throw in former Eagle, Poco...- well, about everything- Randy Meisner.  Meisner's the connection to Tim Cetera, as the both briefly spent time in a band whose leader learned the hard way why not to buy a plane with a history of mechanical breakdowns.  That's right, they both played for Rick Nelson's Stone Canyon Band at one time or another, and Garden Party at #4 without any Panel love is the 6D victim of the week.


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Stat Pack time, and this week you've already got my #1; the big mover belongs to Eric Carmen's Raspberries with I Wanna Be With You, 20 spots from 79 to 59.  Our debut of note is Procol Harum's Whiter Shade Of Pale at #98.  The covers I noted- and at least one is an earlier recording of a later big hit- include Joe Simon doing Misty Blue (the later hit for Dorothy Moore), Wilson Pickett on Three Dog Night's Mama Told Me Not To Come; the tasty cover of the Platters Smoke Gets In Your Eyes by Blue Haze, and the Crusaders doing Carole King's So Far Away.

And what are the English playing with this week?  According to their #1 song, the must be playing with My Ding-A-Ling- well, Chuck Berry's, anyway.

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The remaining M10:

Jeff Lynne's ELO had a mixed week- slipping to #9, down one, with Time Of Our Lives, while holding at #2 with Down Came The Rain.
The Japanese House said, Something Has To Change, and it did- she went from 5 to 6.
Saint Asonia slips a couple of spots to 5 with Beast, and John Schneider held at 4 with Stained Glass.
Carroll does the big leap from 9 to 3 with Fern...
And that leaves us with our two-week #1 song....

...Brooke Annibale's piano version of Collided!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And finally, the Panel rout...

With the fewest votes for a finalist not in the 50's, Summer Breeze gets 5.45%...

With the most only-Austraila votes in the Panel's history, and the first time for an Australian song in the finals, Popcorn gets 7.2%....

With no records to mention, just a measly 9.09%, I'll Be Around...

And thus the winner, with an even 40% of the vote...

...Johnny Nash and I Can See Clearly Now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Remember, next week is M10 update only- and in two weeks, the Songs of November, Johnny Nash, and maybe a little special hijinks....