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The Drive, 12/11/07: 1969!
« on: December 11, 2007, 07:52:16 AM »
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Re: The Drive, 12/11/07: 1969!
« Reply #1 on: December 11, 2007, 08:10:12 AM »
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Re: The Drive, 12/11/07: 1969!
« Reply #2 on: December 11, 2007, 08:24:39 AM »
The Biggest OHW of All Time (despite what VH-1 may have told you): Zager & Evans. 
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Re: The Drive, 12/11/07: 1969!
« Reply #3 on: December 11, 2007, 08:31:18 AM »
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Re: The Drive, 12/11/07: 1969!
« Reply #4 on: December 11, 2007, 08:38:48 AM »
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Re: The Drive, 12/11/07: 1969!
« Reply #5 on: December 11, 2007, 08:40:40 AM »
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Re: The Drive, 12/11/07: 1969!
« Reply #6 on: December 11, 2007, 09:11:12 AM »
The Biggest OHW of All Time (despite what VH-1 may have told you): Zager & Evans. 

They weren't overtaken by the Macarena duo?
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Re: The Drive, 12/11/07: 1969!
« Reply #7 on: December 11, 2007, 09:19:46 AM »
The Biggest OHW of All Time (despite what VH-1 may have told you): Zager & Evans. 

They weren't overtaken by the Macarena duo?

Have they never hit the Hot 100 since?  How many weeks was "Macarena" #1 ? 

Mainly I was criticizing VH-1, since Z&E wasn't even mentioned in their top 100 OHWs countdown -- god forbid the target demo should hear something, y'know, OLD.
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Re: The Drive, 12/11/07: 1969!
« Reply #8 on: December 11, 2007, 09:32:43 AM »
The Biggest OHW of All Time (despite what VH-1 may have told you): Zager & Evans. 

They weren't overtaken by the Macarena duo?

Have they never hit the Hot 100 since?  How many weeks was "Macarena" #1 ? 

Mainly I was criticizing VH-1, since Z&E wasn't even mentioned in their top 100 OHWs countdown -- god forbid the target demo should hear something, y'know, OLD.

The original mix charted some months after the Bayside Boyz remix became such a massive hit.  I don't think that counts as a second hit, but YMMV.  Point taken and agreed on VH1's incompleteness, though.
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Re: The Drive, 12/11/07: 1969!
« Reply #9 on: December 11, 2007, 09:39:41 AM »
The Biggest OHW of All Time (despite what VH-1 may have told you): Zager & Evans. 

They weren't overtaken by the Macarena duo?

Have they never hit the Hot 100 since?  How many weeks was "Macarena" #1 ? 

Mainly I was criticizing VH-1, since Z&E wasn't even mentioned in their top 100 OHWs countdown -- god forbid the target demo should hear something, y'know, OLD.

The original mix charted some months after the Bayside Boyz remix became such a massive hit.  I don't think that counts as a second hit, but YMMV.  Point taken and agreed on VH1's incompleteness, though.

Casey Kasem did several OHW countdowns in the '70s --"The Greatest Disappearing Acts of All Time" he called 'em, and his guidelines were indeed strict: one hit and NEVER hit the Hot 100 again.  Z&E were #1 one time he did it, the other time it was Joan Weber's "Let Me Go Lover".  I wish they'd throw some of his specials into the syndicated mix -- hoping for a Xmas Countdown next week, for example.
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Re: The Drive, 12/11/07: 1969!
« Reply #10 on: December 11, 2007, 09:42:12 AM »
The Biggest OHW of All Time (despite what VH-1 may have told you): Zager & Evans. 

They weren't overtaken by the Macarena duo?

Have they never hit the Hot 100 since?  How many weeks was "Macarena" #1 ? 

Mainly I was criticizing VH-1, since Z&E wasn't even mentioned in their top 100 OHWs countdown -- god forbid the target demo should hear something, y'know, OLD.

The original mix charted some months after the Bayside Boyz remix became such a massive hit.  I don't think that counts as a second hit, but YMMV.  Point taken and agreed on VH1's incompleteness, though.

Casey Kasem did several OHW countdowns in the '70s --"The Greatest Disappearing Acts of All Time" he called 'em, and his guidelines were indeed strict: one hit and NEVER hit the Hot 100 again.  Z&E were #1 one time he did it, the other time it was Joan Weber's "Let Me Go Lover".  I wish they'd throw some of his specials into the syndicated mix -- hoping for a Xmas Countdown next week, for example.

Weber was a sad story: died in a mental institution, apparently not even bothering to cash her royalty checks.

I'll be listening to this Saturday's AT40, hoping for 1972 although that year isn't due to come up.
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