M10 show week #152

 

You are looking live at a just being typed M10 show, live from cold Indiana!  I just wasn't at the point last night to do it and save it, so...

Elvis:  Okay, we get it, boss!  Let's get on with it!  It's entirely to early to be a-preachin' here...

Not to mention it's only 13 minutes before release time!  Okay, we are in 1972 this week, AND we have 2 debuts to play!  Fire up the first one!

Yeah, returning ta the countdown fer the 13th time, here's new Lucius...

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Thank you, sir!  And now... 

Ya got 9 minits...

Thank you Guy Fieri!  As I was trying to say, we are in target year 1972, where Al Green holds the top spot with Let's Stay Together- a tune that made a peak of 19 in Australia, but a shocking #43 in Canada!  In Australia, we had Benny Hill's Ernie, The Fastest Milkman In The West (which I always seem to have the luck of hitting on these things), and in Canada we have Don McLean's American Pie- which had been #1 2 weeks ago here and would be #1 IN 2 weeks in Australia!

There's timin' fer ya!  Speakin' of timin', how 'bout that other debut?

Timing is right, because I didn't know these guys were even still around since 1980's Turning Japanese!  But here they are with brand new stuff- and all the way up at #5- the Vapors....

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Ya think we c'n git-r-dun in 2 minits?

No, and don't worry it!  I'm sure no one is waiting with bated breath for this at their keyboard, waiting for our latest antics.

Say, you shoulda AIed the beginning, with you an' Brent Musberger!

I tried, but I ended up looking like the Capitol One ad man, Brent looked like his own grand kid- although Grok did his best job yet on Misty...

Haw, what a mess!  I only got Noodle last week by asking fer "a bald guy"!

Anyway, here's what else we need to talk about this week in 1972.  There were 4- count 'em, four- songs that moved up 13 spots, but the only one I really knew was the Supremes 2.0 and Floy Joy at #22.  Second was Paul Simon's Mother And Child Reunion climbing 15 to #33.  It would hit 5 in Australia and Canada, 4 here.  And the biggest mover is someone on our countdown this week- up 21 spots from 39 to 18...

... Neil Young's Heart Of Gold!  A #1 across North America, it would make #14 in Australia.

For me, with American Pie on the way down, I would probably have had the #4 song this week for my favorite- the Carpenters and Hurting Each Other, a #2 across the north and a #4 to the south.  Okay, give me the rest of the M10!

Got it!

9 and slipping a spot- Shannon and the Clams with Wax and String.

8 and up 2, Shilpa Ray an' Portrait Of A Cat Lady.

7- an' up 2, Maggie Rogers an' So Sick Of Dreaming.

6- an' holdin' Japanese Breakfast an' Kokomo, IN.

4- the former #1, Geowulf an' Stay Baby.

3- an' holdin' Neil Young an' Tell Me Why.

2- Up 2 fer Matt Berry an' Silver Rings.

And that makes the new #1- his second on the M10, both posthumously-

...Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers an' Never Be You!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yikes! 22 minits late!

We're in a Tardis!  Either no one will ever know, or it'll seem normal...