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| From | "Jaimie Vernon" <bullseyecanada@hotmail.com> |
| Subject | Re: one hitter |
| Date | Sat, 11 Jun 2005 00:19:02 -0400 |
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At Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2005 18:59:03 Kelly wrote:
>really? did he have any other radio singles in the US
>besides "cars"? I am of necessity fairly US-centric,
>which mostly means my intro to the "underground"
>happened by way of the UK new wave bands. They made
>me significantly cooler than I would have been had I
>stayed listening exclusively to Whitney Houston.
In Canada "Are Friends Electric?" charted FIRST...then "Cars". Living in the
shadow of a narrow play list in the US provided by that harbinger of
scientific demographic data -- The Billboard Chart -- means we had to carve
out our own radio industry. Our radio programmers were eyeing the UK charts
as well....and our internally confined star system itself due to the much
maligned Canadian Content regulations allowed us the best AND worst of three
worlds.
How else to explain the fact that "Safety Dance" was only one of EIGHT
charting singles by Men Without Hats? Or that Corey Hart could sell a
million copies of an album in a country with a population of (at that time)
32 million people? Or that the Tragically Hip managed to become the luckiest
bar band in Canada? :-)
Jaimie Vernon,
Bullseye Records
http://www.bullseyecanada.com
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