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....
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!
A pretty good time music wise
ReplyDeleteYes, and next week Laurie takes center stage!
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