Time Machine co-ordinates VICXXXVI681(somewhere in)75

 

Toni:  All right, where is he???

Elvis:  Keep yer shirt on- please- he's finishing s special project fer us stayin' in 1975 this week.

Toni:  Oh, 1975, what a year.  Where we number one this week?

Elvis: Um, hang on, gimme a sec... nah, you wuz #11, up six.

Toni:  Who was on top?

Elvis:  John Denver, Thank God He's a Country Boy.

Toni: Oh, I love that!  I love the fiddle, don't you?

Elvis:  I just wanna make sure you said, "the fiddle" an' not "to fiddle"...

Toni:  Get over yourself, Sequins!  Hey, here you are!

Sigh... yes, here I am, and this week I came up with something a bit different to... hey!  Get off my lap!

Elvis:  But she scares me!

Toni:  Oh, whatever...

Anyway, I have something I hope everyone will like coming up, but first, I want to open where we left off last time on the Biggest songs of M10 Summer!  Here, Toni, why don't you read these...

Toni:  Beats watching Sequins over there cowering!  

At #40, with 38 points, a song that was actually a b-side to a single recorded to raise money for the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention.  It spent the early summer of 2018 meandering up and down the chart, getting as high as #4 twice.  It was Phantogram with Saturday.

Number 39 was the lead single from the big Monkees' 50th anniversary lp, She Makes Me Laugh.  It peaked at #2 this week in 2016.

And #38 was the first big blow of the Cover Summer of 2020, getting as high as #2 this week back then- The Explorers Club with Can't Find The Time.  Chris?

Good job!  Now here's what I have coming up.  I took the top ten of every one of our Overseas If You Please nations for 1975, added their positions all up and came up with a list of the biggest hits of 1975 across ALL their charts!  So here in a bit, we'll do the top ten biggest hits of OIYP 1975!  But first...

Toni:  I get to sing you a song?

No, but our debut on the M10 this week does!  Coming in at #10 is former Beauty Contest winner and M10 star Brooke Annibale....

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Elvis:  Say, boss, we never did say what happened today in 1975...

Did we even find something?

Elvis:  How about this?  Tonight, Boston rookie outfielder Fred Lynn had a game for the ages. In the first inning, he hit a 2-run homer off Detroit's starter Joe Coleman, his 12th, to make it 3-0 Red Sox.  In the second, he hit his 13th, a three run shot off Coleman to make it 7-1.  By the time he came up in the third, the Tigers were on pitcher #3, Bob Reynolds, an' he got a 2-run triple that made it 11-1.  Reynolds finally got 'im out on a liner to second in the 5th, but he led off the 8th with a single off Tom Walker.  Walker faced 'im again in the 9th, and this time he got homer #14, a three run shot to finish the game with 10 RBIs in a 15-1 win.  Now two guys have got 12 in a game, and 3 more got 11, so it ain't a record, an' he ain't even the first Red Sox guy to do it- or the second!  But ya sure ain't gonna turn down a ten-RBI game, huh?

Toni:  Luckily I got here early, or you might have put him on the show instead of me!

Chris and Elvis:  Yeah, lucky.  

So next on the agenda, I...

Toni: Can I do some more of your Summer songs?  That was fun!

I don't see why not...

Toni:  Cool!  #37 is one of 2 times this band hit #1 in the summer of 2017, the second one of them which hit the top late August.  Northern Faces and Cops Come.  

At number 36 is a tear jerker for my sweetie over here...

Oh, brother...

They're called Family Of The Year and the song, Let Her Go,  was # for 2 weeks in June 2018.

Number 35 belongs to the Property Brothers- Drew and Jonathan Scott- who hit the top in July 2016 with Let The Night Shine In. 

And one more- at #4 is the haunting sounds of Neko Case, k.d.lang, and Laura Viers with Honey And Smoke, which was #1 2 weeks before the Scotts did it.

All righty then!  Since he doesn't have a 6D to do this week, how about we bring on Horace Bellbottom...

Must we?

...to give us all but the #1 of that big huge worldwide 1975 list!

HB:  Very well.  Thankfully, we're only doing ten of them...

At #10, a song that had a #2 vote from Canada, Neil Sedaka and Bad Blood.

#9 is one of two songs on this list from Freddie Fender, who was apparently wildly popular in New Zealand.  Wasted Days And Wasted Nights was the #2 song there.

#8 was the biggest song of 1975 in the United Kingdom- the Bay City Rollers covering the Four Seasons on Bye Bye Baby.

The #7 song was from Bachman Turner Overdrive, who had the biggest song in South Africa that year with You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet.

At #6 was Bob Hudson and The Newcastle song, which got votes at #3 for New Zealand and #8 in Australia.

Number five belonged to the George Baker Selection with Paloma Blanca, which made #4 in New Zealand and  #6 in South Africa.

At #4, Freddie Fender again with Before The Next Teardrop Falls, #1 in New Zealand- giving him a sweep of the top 2- and  #9 in Australia.  

Number three is Glen Campbell and Rhinestone Cowboy, garnering votes of #4 in Canada, #2 in the USA, and #9 in New Zealand.

The runner up, with a #1 from Australia and a #2 in South Africa, Sweet and Fox On The Run.  

It should also be noted that the songs elsewhere were not ignored totally in the USA- Bad Blood was #34 for the year, Wasted Days And Wasted Nights was #16, Before The Next Teardrop Falls was #40.  On songs that did get international votes but not enough for the top ten: Frankie Valli's My Eyes Adored You (#5 NZ, #12 USA), Sammy Johns' Chevy Van (#10 NZ, #72 USA), The Bee Gees and Jive Talkin' (#3 Can, #43 USA), Philadelphia Freedom by Elton John (#5 Can, #22 USA), 10cc's I'm Not In Love (#6 Can, #24 USA), Elton John again with Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds (#7 Can #48 USA), Labelle and Lady Marmalade (#8 Can #9 USA), and the Carpenters with Please Mr Postman (#7 Aus #21 USA).

Elvis: Got a little windy on yer close...

HB:  When I require your advice, I'll solicit it...

Elvis:  Never use two syllables when 5'll do...

Thank you, gentlemen... And now, Ms Tennille with the remaining three Songs of All-Time Summer on the M10....

Toni:  Why thank you, sugar!  #33 is a rowdy one that peaked at #2 in August 2016- the Pom Poms and 1-2-3.

At #32 are the Derevolutions- the Derevs, as Chris likes to call them- and Now You Know My Name, which would hit #2 next week in 2018.

And last but not least, # 31- Geowulf and He's 31, which spent the last 3 weeks of Summer 2019 on top.

Thanks!  Great job everybody!  Elvis, how about you pick up this week's M10?

Elvis:  Din't know ya dropped it, ha ha!  Anyway, here ya go:

9- POWERS drops 4 with Legendary.

8- Sass Jordan up 2 with The Key.

7- Overcoats an' Tennis down one more with The Hardest Part.

6- Beach Boys up a quick 3 with Big Sur.

5- Major Murphy down two with Attention.

4- Up 3 for Counting Crows and Bobby And The Rat Kings.

3- Oops, Trini Lopez slipped a spot with Lalena.

2- Maneskin bangs its way up 2 more with Zitti e Buoni.

An' that leaves our repeat #1- who's now claimed up 8 weeks worth a' #1s off his lp Catspaw-

...Matthew Sweet and Challenge The Gods!  He'll sure not make the Beauty Contest, though, har har!

Toni:  My late hubby was funnier than you with his mouth closed!

Elvis:  Yeah, well there prolly wasn't much point a' openin' it if'n he weren't gonna be heard no how!

Toni:  Don't think I can't whip your....

OKAY then... before we give out the big reveal, maybe we should figure out who'll be here next week.

Elvis:  Simple, the one who wins yer 1975 countdown is it...

I don't think that...

Toni: Makes sense to me.  What's the shyster think?

HB:  Madam, if by that you are referring to me, I would say that that is the way our contractual obligation structure works, as well.

Sigh.... okay then.  The winner, with the votes of #1 in Canada and the USA, along with a #6 from Australia, is....

...the Captain and Tennille with Love Will Keep Us Together....

Elvis:  Aw, fer the luvva... no wonder you tried to shut me up....

HB:  I've been trying for years, with a lot better of reasons, to do just that.  I gave up.

Me too.  See you next week, Toni?

Toni:  You bet.  Be sure to have your track shoes on!

Elvis: Me too?

No, you better bring boxing gloves...