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| From | "Jaimie Vernon" <bullseyecanada@hotmail.com> |
| Subject | Re: one hitter |
| Date | Fri, 10 Jun 2005 17:16:54 -0400 |
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At Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2005 12:43:51 Kelly wrote:
>Not that I need to defend blow-by-blow, but this
>thread is interesting me b/c memory is so selective,
>and (obviously) subjective - I lived in the market in
>the same house as my brother, and he remembers radio
>very differently from me. He says Chicago didn't have
>any hits after 1980! Perhaps he is speaking
>metaphorically.
Or was it just that your brother, like many music enthusiasts, stopped
listening to radio at a certain point in their adolescence. Chicago had 13
Billboard singles AFTER 1979....with two #1's ("Hard To Say I'm Sorry" and
"Look Away"). I ran through the list and only recognized 6 of the thirteen.
Guess I tuned this band out after Peter Cetera became the ONLY voice for the
band [and David Foster started producing them....always a hit maker/career
killer to anyone that's ever worked with him]. So, I guess your brother is
right....Chicago stopped having hits after "Baby What A Big Surprise". :-)
> > I absolutely LOVED "It Must Be Love."
>
>I did too, but it was because it was a minor club hit
>in the punkrock juice-bar teen dance places in Chicago
>- Medusa's and McGreivie's, specifically, but also the
>short-lived Student Body and the more metal-oriented
>Thirsty Whale - they'd play it as a breather between
>The Cure, Siouxsie, Hazy Fantazy, The Cult, New Order,
>Smiths, etc...I don't remember it on the radio at all,
>though I wouldn't doubt it made college stations. I
>also very much loved "wings of a dove," but again, was
>only introduced to that because i knew them from "Our
>House." (Oh, you know, now I'm thinking of it, I think
>"House of Fun" had a video too.)
With Brampton, Ontario's CFNY, the Spririt Of Radio, broadcasting nothing
but Anti-Billboard fodder in the late '70s and early '80s we got to hear
Madness right from the self-titled debut -- "One Step Beyond" and "Madness"
(the song) were daily playlisted here. It's a shame CFNY weren't powerful
enough a station to have a regular radio chart or that would have been my
bible. As it, they were the doorway to me hearing things like The Cure, The
Clash, The Sex Pistols, The Damned, Echo & The Bunnymen, The Smiths, Prefab
Sprout, and The Violent Femmes among others. In fact, my band Moving Targetz
were performing "Blister In The Sun" as early as Xmas of 1984 after hearing
this track on CFNY. Now, it's become a staple of JACK-FM styled '80s revival
stations....getting airplay daily here. Who would have thought that The
Violent Femmes would have gotten mainstream radio status after all these
years. :-(
Jaimie Vernon,
President, Bullseye Records
"Not Suing Our Customers Since 1985!!"
http://www.bullseyecanada.com
Author, Canadian Pop Music Encyclopedia
http://jam.canoe.ca/Music/Pop_Encyclopedia/
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