SMF - Just Installed!
BOS to Sade and the magnificent "Never as Good as the First Time."
VHM to John Taylor's "I Do What I Do," capturing the sexual energy of 9 1/2 Weeks.
zhum zhum zibididi zhum zhum zibididiCasey tells a great story about how Sly Fox's (beloved by many here) "Let's Go All the Way" failed as a single a year prior, then got a second chance when a (Houston?) program director put it back in rotation since, as he said, he needed an uptempo record to balance out the number of ballads then on the charts and still believed in this one. Other PDs took note of the positive response to it and added it to their rotations, and it took off.I never heard even a follow-up single from them, though.
and the '80s version is from May 10th 1980:http://www.charismusicgroup.com/Cue%20Sheets/05-10-80.pdf
Shoot, "Your Love" deserved better than a #15 peak. I guess R&B duets in the Gaye-Terrell tradition were mostly done by this point.
1977 kicks off with a NTM, John Miles' "Slow Down." It's kind of a shrieking disco mess, sung by a guy who, Casey informs me, sang on an Alan Parsons hit (that I've only heard once), "Dr. Tarr and Professor Feather."