M10 show week #19

 

Boss, you realize you ain't posted nothin' but the Bible study an' this all week?

Yeah, it's just been a rough week, for a variety of reasons... but if it helps, I'm thinking about doing that A to Z mash-up this weekend... it is that time of year again...

That always is good for a laugh... Any idears?

Maybe... but our bigger problem is this is a week in which the top ten on the M10 had no debuts!  That's a first this year, and the first since December 8th of last year, with Duran Duran and Tove Lo's Give It All Up in the top spot.  So I considered a "Top ten the same, just shuffled" feature to go with it.

Oh, no THAT sounds rivetin'...

Better ideas?

I'm the music man, not the idear man...

Then, allow me to proceed!  So first I thought, how often is it happening on the charts these days?  To my surprise, it had occurred not once, but twice, this year on Billboard, the most recent being back on the March 12th chart.  And how about in the past?  Now lately, we've been doing things with the Martin Era 2.1 (1960-79), mainly because Cashbox archives HAD been behind a password that the website wouldn't let you create for several weeks... that seems to be fixed now, although I did not know that.  And while I had managed to bring up the 60's and 70's on a cached site (and thanks again to Tropicalglen.com), I had been, until last weekend, too lazy to add the 50's to the list so I could go back to Martin Era 2.0- from the debut week of Rock Around The Clock on the May 7th, 1955 chart, till the debut of How Deep Is Your Love on the September 24th, 1977 chart.  But now that I can, I said, let's diversify- when were the first and last weeks of each of them to have no debuts?  Interesting answers await- after the King gives us some of this week's M10, okay?

 

Gotcha!  And now for a break from Mr Long-Winded Explanations...

10- Down 5 in week #7 for Tears For Fears an' Break The Man...

9- also down 5 in its 10th week, Envy Of None an' Liar...

8- Up 2 fer Beach House an' Hurts To Love...

7- an' up one fer... uh, that song about my ghost...

He means, Ghost Of Elvis Presley by Daisy Glaze....

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So the ME2.0 starts right out with a week that had no debuts!  May 7th, 1955 was the first week of ME2.0 and had no debuts- at the top was The Ballad of Davy Crockett by Bill Hayes- and others- which was in the second to last of 8 weeks at the top.

The ME2.1, however, managed 3 months before having its first no-debut week in the top ten.  It was the March 5th, 1960 chart- and howsabout some statistical irony?  The top song that week was Percy Faith's Theme From A Summer Place- also in an 8 week run at the top.  But instead of its second to last week of the run, it was its SECOND week of the run!

Oh, whoop-de-doo, color me impressed- no, check that, bored.

You're a bit of an ass tonight, aren't you?

C'mon, man!  No videos, no pretty girls...

What would you like? Another "Elvis's movies beauty contest?"

Naw, that's been done...

 

Well, how about your girlfriends?  You got your high school sweetie, Dixie Locke Evans...

Hey, that's my junior prom!  Where did ya...

Or your next sweetie, June Juanico...

 Oh, c'mon!  I look like a dork in that pitcher....

Or how about...

Okay, okay!  Lemme just give some more of the M10....

6- up one fer Maddie and Tae an' Grown Man Cry- which I'mma bout to...

5- up one fer Melody's Echo Chamber and Looking Backwards...

4- and up 5 biggies for Sunflower Bean an' Who Put You Up To This?

Speakin' of which...

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 How about Judy Spreckles?

I look like a dork there, too!  Jus' do yer specials... I promise I'll be good....

Aren't you gonna introduce me?

NO.

Well, fine.  Anyway, the LAST "same tens" on the M2.0 and M2.1 are kind of the long and short of things.  The ME 2.1's final 'same ten' was just 3 weeks from the end, on December 8th, 1979, a week topped by Styx and Babe.  However, 2.0's last 'same ten' took 72 weeks from the end- May 1, 1976, with the Bellamy Brothers and Let Your Love Flow at the top. 

 

 

"Weird, wild stuff!"

And now, King, you may take us out...

Oh, yeah, who am I takin' out this time? Natalie Wood? Anne Helm?

I meant, finish the M10...

Oh, uh, yeah...

 

3- an' holdin' fer Sweet an' Hoffs an' Run To Me...

2- an' holdin' fer Duran Duran an' Laughing Boy... which I'm feeling very familiar with right about now... 

 

An' another week at the top fer....

 

 

...the Cactus Blossoms an' Is It Over?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Man, I sure hope so....