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| From | "Billy G. Spradlin" <bgspradlin@cablelynx.com> |
| Subject | Re: Raspberries 'overnight sensation' |
| Date | Fri, 14 May 2004 22:00:40 -0500 |
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Even though most Top 40 station's playlists were fairly homoginized by 1974,
some stations still didnt play a hit even when it was doing well on Billboard.
I love The Hudson Brothers "So You Are a Star" but I never heard it on the two
Tulsa AM stations I grew up on.
On the other hand, Clout's "Substitute" didnt even make the Billboard's Top
40,
but it hit #1 on KELO in Wichita and made KELi in Tulsa's Top 40 in 1978.
Billy
At 12:51 PM 5/14/2004 -0700, you wrote:
>--- In audities@yahoogroups.com, moteeko@t... wrote:
>> Quoting Not Lame <popmusic@n...>:
>
>>
>> > Statistics will tell you "Overnight Sensation (Hit Record)" made it to
>number 18 on the Top Forty chart in November of '74.
>> >
>> > I don't believe that. I NEVER heard it on the radio. NEVER EVER!
>Neither AM OR FM.
>> >
>>
>> Neither did I. Ever. I first heard it when I got the
>> Rasperries best-of on vinyl back in the day. That
>> track came on, and my goosebumps got
>> goosebumps. Eargasm indeed!
>>
>> Greg
>
>I used to know a guy who worked for Billboard in the early '70s, where his
>job was to call various record stores to ask them how certain records were
>doing, sales wise. He was a huge fan of The Kinks' "Lola", and admitted to
>fudging the data that he would report to the higher-ups at Billboard (e.g.
>he would check the "excellent" box next to the name of a store who reported
>"good" sales, and the "good" box next to the name of a store who would
>report "fair" sales, etc...). He claims that his "efforts" were what got
>"Lola" to a Billboard peak of #9 when, according to him, it should have only
>reached maybe #20.
>
>Who knows if what he says is true (I haven't seen or heard from him in more
>than 20 years), but it wouldn't surprise me if this stuff was going on all
>the time back in the day. Maybe such antics were what got "Overnight
>Sensation" to #18.
>--
>Pop Rules!!!!!
>Take Care,
>David
>
Billy G. Spradlin
http://listen.to/jangleradio
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