Re: Great songs Casey didn't count down: Part 1, stalled in the 40s -- American Top 40: The Countdown of the Century

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Date Posted: 14:26:50 04/17/02 Wed
Author: Chris
Subject: Re: Great songs Casey didn't count down: Part 1, stalled in the 40s
In reply to: Chris 's message, "Re: Great songs Casey didn't count down: Part 1, stalled in the 40s" on 10:16:31 04/17/02 Wed

>>>I Gotta Try - Michael McDonald, #44, 1982
>>>I could have sworn this song made the top 40....
>>>probably because it did so much better on R&R's
>chart,
>>>and actually got some countdown action (just not on
>>>AT40).
>>
>> Well As far as I know, no rival countdown to AT40
>>used R&R's chart in 1982. However since the song was
>>very AC friendly, it probably made the such
>>countdown's as Dick Clark's National Music Survey.
>>
>> Christopher
>
>Actually, "I Gotta Try" was on the charts in early
>1983 and that was when "Countdown America" with John
>Leader debuted. That song, along with "All Those Lies"
>by Glenn Frey and the aforementioned "Take The Short
>Way Home" by Dionne Warwick all peaked outside the
>Billboard Top 40 yet made the "Countdown America"
>chart. This chart favoritism worked the other way
>around as well. At least two songs, "Twilight Zone"
>by Golden Earring, as well as "You And I" by Eddie
>Rabbitt & Crystal Gayle, both made the Top Ten on
>Billboard, yet did not make the R&R CHR chart.
>However, had the chart been a Top 40 instead of a Top
>30, the Rabbit/Gayle collaboration would have probably
>made the survey, but my estimations show that the
>Golden Earring single would have made it nowhere near
>the Top 40. I guess its chart performance on the AT40
>chart was aided primarily by sales points, even though
>the three CHR stations in my area back then gave that
>song rather heavy airplay.

I just remembered, there were actually two other songs that did not make the R&R chart but did make the Top Twenty on AT40: "Little Too Late" by Pat Benatar and "Fall In Love With Me" by Earth Wind & Fire.

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