Time Machine co-ordinates VICXIX598111571

Today we go to November 15th, 1971- the Monday that THIS ad came out and changed the world:

This was the public release of the Intel 4004, the first cpu on a chip.  It had the computing power of the first computer from 1946- which filled a room- on something the size of your pinky nail.  Or, to contrast it the other way, (the breakthrough)  allowed the 4004 to have no less than 2,300 transistors and a feature size of 10 micron. By comparison,(today) there are half a billion transistors in a Sandy Bridge chip, and each one is just 0.032 micron. -Extreme Tech blog.  It was developed for use in a calculator being designed by a Japanese firm called Busicom.  The results?  Well, you can see how Intel thrived.  Busicom went belly-up in 1974.


This week on TM, some permutation of the Partridge Family, a 6D on the fly, and one new debut by one old friend who hasn't kicked around the M10 since May of 2016!  My calculation is, I have nothing in mind going in, so buckle up, it could get rough!  Jo-Anne, be sure to use the head brace next to your seat...


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Most of you are prolly familiar with the big hit Eye In The Sky by the Alan Parsons Project.  One David Paton was bassist for the Project on that and many other songs, but do you know where ELSE you might know him?  Well, he was a founding member of the UK band Pilot, which had big hits with January there and Magic here.  Alan Parsons was the producer there as well, but do you know how HE started out?  He was an assistant producer at Abbey Road Studios, where he worked on both the Beatles lp of the same name as well as Let It Be.  Of course, a lot of his work was later obscured by Phil Spector's bringing of his "Wall of Sound" technique to the lp.  One track on Let It Be was a 39-second song (their SECOND-shortest) that was based on a traditional Liverpudlian sailor's song about a returning seaman who got fleeced by a prostitute.  The article says, "not to be confused with" our 6D victim, but that song got it's name from this one, not about a prostitute but about the singer's very first lover, an older woman whose name was NOT Maggie May.  The song was, though, and Rod Stewart was at #4 with the song that got no Panel votes this week.  Not bad for a LIVE 6D, huh?


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Well, for a change, I got lucky, as Susan Dey was the only member of the Partridge Family cast to be able to make it today.  Any other time, I'd have got stuck with Bonaduce... no offense, Susan.

None taken.  As Shirley loved to point out, reunions really weren't my thing.  Neither was Danny, for that matter...

So I'm sure my assistant has caught you up with what goes on here, so...

Well, actually, I'm a bit confused.  So, you pull me from ONE year, to tell everybody about songs from the next year... I don't know that that makes any sense.

Hmm... you'll make a good lawyer someday!

Why wouldn't you bring me from the future to do the songs for the year before?  At least then I'd know what they are...

Well, because then I would have to do about a thousand Panel races in advance and run the show completely backwards...

Son, you DO run this show completely backwards!

And there, direct from the Peanut Gallery, speaks the King of Rock and Roll!

So what year did you bring him in from?

Well, he's kind of what they call a 'nexus being', applicable to all years...

Elvis:  Whatever.  1959, to be honest....

S:  So, you could have brought me in from 1972.... 

E:  Ask him about that li'l girl running around here that he was s'posed to bring in the adult lady instead...

Oh, come on, we've gotten little Mary McGregor taken care of already... haven't we?

Nardole:  Sir, about that...

Uh, maybe we'd better just get to the list.  21 contestants from 74 stations...

Okay, so I get to start with the one-vote songs... We have the Dells and Love We Had, which peaked last month... you sure do play fast and loose with time, don't you...

Bellbottom:  If I may I have a solution to this that will hopefully keep us out of litigation... here...

WHAT?   I can't!

B: You MUST!

Oh, all right... bring her in...

Ladies and gentlemen, to help clear up any chronal inconsistancies, and really screw up the uncertainty drive, here's 1987 Susan Dey!

87 S:  Nice to meet you!

Ah, may I introduce you to 1970 Susan?

87:  I know her well...

70: Wow, I look great!

Could any of you do the countdown now?

87: Why don't you start things off, dear.  You were doing the one-vote wonders...

70: Sure, Next was the Osmonds with Yo Yo, at # 5 on Cashbox...
Then English band Middle Of The Road with a vote from the Netherlands for Soley Soley...

Longtime readers will remember them...

70: Then Santana and Everybody's Everything at #13...

E: That one sounds appropriate to this show....

70: Paul Anka's Do I Love You at #38...
Cat Stevens and Peace Train at #7...
Chicago with Questions #67 and 68 at #17...
Al Green's Tired Of Being Alone at #18...
Ten Years After with I'd Love To Change The World at #29...
...and the Free Movement with Found Someone Of My Own at #8.  Er, Susan, would you like to do the other non-winners?

87: Of, course.  You did great!  Now, besides the four finalists, we had...

...with two votes- Les Crane's Desiderata at #27, Sly Stone's Family Affair at #23, and the song Mamy Blue, the version by South African act Charisma, getting votes from there and from Laurenco Marques.  The US was currently charting this song by the Pop Tops at #68 and by James Darren at #77. 
The three vote songs include Bread with Baby I'm-A Want You at #9, the Chi-Lites with Have You Seen Her at #11, and the Grass Roots with Two Divided By Love at #12.  Also, we have four votes for the first single by Olivia Newton-John, the Banks Of The Ohio, which peaked this week at #34 on Billboard, but never charted on Cashbox...  did you know she actually was first choice for our part on The Partridge Family, but her agent made her turn it down?

70:  Yes, I did.  Did she get famous or something?

87: Or something.  Who should do the final four?

E:  I got it, ma'am.  I'm used to comin' to the rescue in these things.  Choose from:

Cher with Gypsies Tramps An' Thieves at #2...
Li'l Michael Jackson with Got Ta Be There at #21...
Isaac Hayes and the Theme From Shaft at #1...
...an' John Lennon- that whiney guy with the sissy bifocals- and Imagine at #3.

HB:  Sir, I really must protest they way he mentioned Mr Lennon!

Me too, I hate that song!  Anyway, there's your choices, and now you all have until this song is done to clear out of here!  (Except '70 Susan)  The lone debut on the M10 this week is at #9... and they haven't been here since 2016 when they a) lived in Minnesota (they have since done two lps in Philadelphia), and b) hit #3 on the M10 with bad Water!  Here is the band Carroll....





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Wow, time sure does fly!  We are down to the Stat Pack and the M10 and the reveals!

70: Oh, can I do the stat pack?

Really?  After all that grief about time and stuff before?

70:  Well, it's not every day a girl gets to meet her gorgeous future self- and Elvis!  Please? (Tosses hair)

Well, um... sure, why not?

Okay, so the Big Mover was the Temptations with Superstar (Remember How You Got Where You Are), from 69 to 33 for 36 spots...

Big debuts were Johnathan Edwards and Sunshine (Go Away) at #84... and Chris noted that a song he liked and 'burned to a CD', whatever that means, also debuted- Jefferson Airplane and Pretty As You Feel, at #76...

The UK #1 was Coz I Luv You by Slade...

The interesting covers list included New Birth with It's Impossible at 52, Joan Baez with Let It Be at #81, Sam and Dave with Don't Pull Your Love at #97, and the 5th Dimension with Never My Love at #14.  Chris notes he did listen to the 5th Dimension, highly recommends, and It's Impossible, says, "Save it to run off mice".

And Chris's favorite song this week, Lighthouse from Canada with One Fine Morning at #16.  Yay, I did it!

That you did, and that leaves us the M10 and the reveal.

At #10, Quiet Hollers and Loup (Hide It Away) drops from 5 to 10...

"Quiet Hollers"?  When do they come out?

When you turn 58...

Eww...

Jeff Lynne's ELO remain on the chart twice, with Time Of Our Lives at #8, up one, and Down Came The Rain at #2, up from 7.

Tame Impala moves up 1 spot to 7 with It Might Be Time.
A pair of former #1s drop this week:  Silversun Pickups from 3 to 6 with Neon Wound, and last week's #1, The Japanese House and Something Has To Change to #5...
John Schneider and Stained Glass up a pair to #4...
Saint Asonia up one to #3 with Beast...
And new at the top this week...

...Brooke Annibale with the piano version of Collided!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

She's pretty!  Do you like her better than me?

I guess you'll have to wait on the Beauty Contest for that answer... and now, the Panel winner!

Michael Jackson got you 6.75%...

John Lennon gets you 8.1%...

Cher nets 18.91 %...

 But the winner, with an almost even 27%....

...Isaac Hayes and the Theme From Shaft!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Can I do the close?

Sigh... Sure...

Be here next week when Chris and Isaac Hayes go to 1972!

Good job.  Thank you for all your help.

Groovy.  What are we doing next?

NEXT....?