M10 show week #45

 

This week, we have another Spotify streamers contest, and it involves two made-for-TV acts:

Yes, the Monkees vs the Partridge Family!  I'm going to root for the Monkees, just because I've misspelled Partridge 3 times now, trying to get the facts'n'figures we need!

Elvis:  Hey, but the Parterges- or whutever- they got Susan Dey, who was a Beauty Contest finalist one year!

 

Oh, that is true!  Let me rethink this, while we play the first of 2 debuts!  These 2 make 706 and 707 on the list of M10 songs- we missed the 700th debut, a couple weeks back when Pale Waves hit with Clean.  This first one at #9, we found having a family music night- which involved the top Monkees streamed songs!  But it's not the Monkees- from the 1964 Rag Doll lp, here are the Four Seasons!

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How many times does that make, you goin' back and findin' some old Four Seasons song?

Five, including their #1 version of Walk On By.  And since I just tried to spell "of" as "fo", I guess that means I'm back to neutral on the battle.  Speaking of which...

(NOTE:  I have discovered in some places they put different versions of the same song in their top tens; these songs will only count ONCE.  I'll also slide in that when you try to Google this for ELO, you get a very odd list of barely listened-to live versions that are far from what you find on ELO's Spotify home page.)

10- For the Monkees, it was Tapioca Tundra, a #34 that nets them 1 point. For TPF, Walking In The Rain, which was released but did not chart, so 1-0.

9- Monkees, A Little Bit Me, A Little Bit You, a #2 hit that puts them at 10 points.  For TPF,  Point Me in the Direction of Albuquerque, an album cut from their first lp, so now 10-0.

Oh, boy, here we go again...

Hang in there, buddy!  8- (I'd Go The) Whole Wide World, a cut from a Mickey-Peter-Davy lp from 1987 called Pool It!; it only charted on Adult Contemporary. TPF had the first of 2 consecutive versions of I'll Meet You Halfway, a #9 that makes it 10-2.

That sucks for them...

The Monkees get hit by the curse a little later, so it evens out. 7- The Monkees had Pleasant Valley Sunday, a #3 for 8 points; TPF had the other Halfway, so now it's 18-2.

And at the halfway point, ironically enough: 6- Monkees, (I'm Not Your) Stepping Stone, a #20 b-side that gives them 1 point; TPF, It's One Of Those Nights (Yes Love), also a #20 peak that makes it 19-3.

Man these battles are gettin' like Thursday Night Football...

Nothing could be THAT bad!  Our second debut comes in at #8, and is one of 2 on this week's ten by the lovely ladies of Lucius...

 

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All right, here comes the big comeback!

You think?

You bet!  C'mon, Susan!

5- The Monkees, Last Train To Clarksville, a solid #1 for ten points; TPF, Doesn't Somebody Want To Be Wanted, a #6 that makes the score 29- 8.

4- The Monkees, get the first of 2 versions of I'm A Believer, a #1- but it is listed as a mix, so it gets it's chart position of "did not chart", and thus they get a bagel. TPF, I Can Feel Your Heartbeat, another first lp cut that- as much as they played it on the show- I can't believe they never released. No score change.

3- Monkees,  Me And Magdalena, a very good song by Mike off the reunion lp Good Times! , which has had four M10 hits- just not this one.  Another bagel for the boys. TPF, Breaking Up Is Hard To Do, the Neil Sedaka cover that made #28, so now it's 29-9.

Well, SOMEbody's gonna need a couple of 10-0's to pull this one out...

 

Good observation- so why don't you do the rest of the M10 and we'll see if a miracle is in the offing.

O'course, o'course!

10- Lucius with their other hit, Love Is The Disaster, down 5 in week #7.

7- Pulling into a tie for #13th all time, Dent May's second week at 7 with Crying Laughing.

6- Up three for Beck an' Old Man.

5- An' fallin' once again, Wilco an' Hearts Hard To Find, down 3.

4- Up six fer Molly Rankin an' Alvvays with After The Earthquake.

3- Zach Williams climbs 1 here- an' holds at #13 on the Christian chart- with Heart Of God.

2- Four notch climb for Built To Spill an' Comes A Day.

And week #2 at the top fer...

 

 

 

 ...Broken Bells an' Love On The Run!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Okay, Boss, give 'em the bad news...

Say, you certainly gave up fast!

10-0 TWICE? Please.

Well, then...

2- Monkees, Daydream Believer, a #1 for ten points...

BOOM!

... and TPF, Woke Up In Love, a #13 that makes it 39-10.

And at the top of their lists...

For the Monkees, I'm A Believer, this time getting its #1 points... for the Partridges, I Think I Love You, also a #1 that leaves our final score 49-20!

 

Geez, we gotta find us an evener battle!

"Evener"? 

"Fo"?

Sigh....