Good grief, Elvis, people are gonna think this is a restaurant review site! Anyway, this week we have one new debut, and a target year of 1980- and the 2024 Rock n Roll HOF inductees!
Big deal on that. The HOF usually sucks anymore...
I know, but it gives us something to talk about. So crank up the debut song and we'll take them on right after.
Okay, then. It's been a long ol' time, but these guys get their second M10 appearance- they are Lake Street Dive...
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The phone went off, doggie's in the window...
Doggie's early, they just left with the food. So let's take a stab at who the RNRHOF thought was noteworthy this time around...
Mary J Blige: Don't really know her well, I guess if they say so...
Cher. I don' see a problem here- if'n she sticks to singin'...
Frankly, they ALL should do that.
Dave Matthew Band: This is a substantial reach in my opinion.
No kiddin'. What happened to 'credentials'? Anyway...
Foreigner. See? Credentials.
Right with you there, buddy!
Peter Frampton. Wow, a large body of work, but only one big lp, and it was live. I'm okay because of how Frampton Comes Alive hit... but anyone else, IDK...
Kool and the Gang. Yeah, s'okay by me.
Ozzie Osbourne. Amazing what a famous wife can do for you. I'm not sold.
A Tribe Called Quest; Who?
Exactly. So a mixed bag, but overall not bad.
But this week we go to 1980, when Australia had a song in the midst of an 8 week run at the top. It would hit #1 in Canada in September, but here it only got album-rock airplay and
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Better?
Better. Please continue!
...and peaked at 50. Here's Split Enz...
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Man, I forgot how much I loved that song...
Yeah, I could tell by how the volume kept getting turned higher....
Not ashamed, either! So anyway, Canada was on the last of six for Pink Floyd's Another Brick In The Wall, (A #2 in Australia) which had fallen to #2 here, and we were in the middle of six weeks for Blondie's Call Me (A #4 in Australia). Much like last week, the songs I had for my top five weren't all charting Down Under, but most did in Canada...
5- Don Fogelberg's Heart Hotels. Easily my favorite of his, it was at 32 on it's way to 21 here, while Canada only got it to 81.
4- Linda Ronstadt's Hurt So Bad. Rocketing into our top 40 this week at #31, it would make it to 9 here, and 8 in Canada.
3- Anyway You Want It, by Journey. I would have loved this tune even without Rodney Dangerfield blasting it on the fairway in Caddyshack, but that didn't hurt! 24 this week with one notch up left to go, only a 50 in Canada.
JUUST kidding, folks!
2- Bob Seger's Fire Lake. At it's stopping point here at #6, it was a #3 in Canada, and at least it charted in Australia, making #57...
And easily this would have been my #1 at the time...
1- Lost In Love, Air Supply. I was gaga for these guys when they first hit here. It was up one to #4 this week on Cashbox- it would make 2 on CB and 3 on Billboard- While it was 4 in Canada, and a surprising (to me) 13 in Australia.
Hey, Pizza Mouth...
Me, 'r the doggie?
The one that can actually give the rest of the M10....
Oh, that would be me...
9- Frankie Rose up one with Know Me...
8- Also up one, Real Estate an' Somebody New...
7- Down 3, Broken Bells an' The Mall And Misery...
6- Also down 3, Big Thief an' Not...
5- Goin' back up 2, Suki Waterhouse an' Every Day's A Lesson In Humility. Man, that's a mouthful!
4- Up two, Crow an' Gabriel with Digging In The Dirt...
3- Up 2, Bob Jr an the ever-delightful Bethany Cosentino with Always (All The Time)...
2- An' holdin', Kacey Musgraves an' Cardinal....
And anuther week at the top fer...
...Shannon and The Clams an' Real Or Magic!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
