One Hit Wonders

Today is the birthday of Stuart Edwards, lead guitar for Edison Lighthouse. He is 66.
Edison Lighthouse was a studio only group formed by vocalist Tony Burrows with producers Tony Macaulay and Barry Mason.
They hit it big as Edison Lighthouse in 1970 with "Love Grows Where My Rosemary Goes". It topped the UK Top 40 for 5 weeks, #4 for 2 weeks on the Cashbox Hot 100. Reaching #5 on the Billboard Hot 100 in April 1970 and became a million selling record for a non existant group.
They quickly had to throw together a "band" because of the success in the UK they were ask to perform on the "Top of The Pops" show highlighting the Top 10 songs on the UK charts.
Burrows left the "group" after "Rosemary" success to pursue other projects and the producers who owned the rights to the name put together an actual touring group but had little success thus becoming a One Hit Wonder.
Here is there performance on "Top of the Pops" with Tony Burrows.



As a side note you may recognize Tony Burrows' voice as he put together several studio only "groups" to release the songs "My Baby Loves Lovin" as White Plains, "Gimme Dat Ding" as the duo The Pipkins with Roger Greenaway, Brotherhood of Man's "United We Stand" and "Beach Baby" by First Class.

Happy Birthday Today June 8th

Nancy Sinatra is 70 today



Chuck Negron of Three Dog Night is 68



Boz Scaggs is 66



Bonnie Tyler is 57



Mick Hucknall of Simply Red is 50

Captain Fantastic

This week is the 35th anniversary of Elton John's album Captain Fantastic and The Brown Dirt Cowboy, becoming the first album to debut in the #1 position on Billboard's Top 200 Album Chart.
Captain Fantastic spent six consecutive weeks at #1 in June and July of 1975 before being moved out of the top and down to #2 by Wings and their new LP Venus and Mars.
The album stayed in the top five for 5 more weeks before displacing the Eagles One of These Nights for another week at #1, giving Elton 7 weeks at #1.

Elton and the record company decided to release only one single since this a concept album dealing with the early struggles of Elton and Bernie Taupin. The single "Someone Saved My Life Tonight" is about the disastrous engagement between Elton and Linda Woodrow and Elton's suicide attempt in 1969.
The song itself peaked at #4 on the Hot 100 the week of August 16th.

Casey Kasem's American Top 40 - The 80s - June 5th 2010

AT 40 the 80s, this week June 5th 1982

10- Rosanna - Toto
9- '65 Love Affair - Paul Davis
8- Heat of the Moment - Asia
7- Always on My Mind - Willie Nelson
6- Don't You Want Me - The Human League
5- The Other Woman - Ray Parker Jr
4- 867-5309/Jenny - Tommy Tutone
3- I've Never Been To Me - Charlene
2- Don't Talk To Strangers - Rick Springfield
1- Ebony & Ivory - Paul McCartney/Stevie Wonder
(4th of 7 weeks at #1)


The #1 Album this week in 1982 was:
Tug of War - Paul McCartney
(featuring this weeks #1 hit single)
2nd of 3 weeks consecutive weeks at #1

Another single from the album hit the #10 on the Hot 100 and stayed there for 10 weeks, with Ringo Starr on drums for "Take it Away"

Really Oldie but Goodie

Here is Johnnie Ray and his legendary songs from 1951 "Cry" and the B side of that record "The Little White Cloud That Cried".

"Cry" would top Cashbox's best selling songs list from Feb 2nd 1952 to March 22nd 1952, and Billboard's Best Seller list from December 29th 1951 to March 8th 1952. The B side of "The Little White Cloud That Cried" reached #2 on the Billboard Best Sellers list.

An interesting note about Johnnie Ray, he went deaf in his right ear at the age of 13 from an accident and he performed wearing hearing aids. He had surgery in 1958 but that left him almost completely deaf in both ears and he needed hearing aids for both ears.

Casey Kasem's American Top 40 - The 70s - June 5th 2010

American Top 40 the 70s

 June 4th 1977

10- When I Need You - Leo Sayer
9- Feels Like the First Time - Foreigner
8- Lonely Boy - Andrew Gold
7- Lucille - Kenny Rogers
6- Couldn't Get it Right - Climax Blues Band
5- Gonna Fly Now (Theme from "Rocky") - Bill Conti
4- Got To Give It Up Part 1 - Marvin Gaye
3- Dreams - Fleetwood Mac
2- I'm Your Boogie Man - KC and The Sunshine Band
1- Sir Duke - Stevie Wonder
(3rd of 3 weeks at #1)

  The #1 Album this week in 1977:

Rumors - Fleetwood Mac(5th of 31 non consecutive weeks)Currently 10th on the list of the biggest selling albums of all time worldwide with approx. 40 million copies sold. This album is a true classic with 4 singles released and all 4 made it to the top 10 of the US Billboard Hot 100 with "Dreams" reaching the #1 position June 18th 1977 for one week.
The other releases were "Go Your Own Way" #10, "Don't Stop" #3, "You Make Loving Fun" #9.
The album replaced "Hotel California" by the Eagles at the top of the album chart on May 21st 1977 and dropped out of the top spot for one week in July for "Barry Manilow Live".
After returning to the top it stayed until December 3rd 1977 when Linda Rondstadt took over the top with "Simple Dreams" for all of December. "Rumors" reclaimed the top for the first 2 weeks of January 1978 before leaving the top spot for good.

Chart Watch

I was reading today's chart watch column on Yahoo! and found these little tidbits interesting.

Here's a sign that Glee has surpassed American Idol as the key music show on TV.

In what was for Glee a routine week, it put more songs on Hot Digital Songs than American Idol did in this special week where their songs from the season are released for the first time.
There are 11 Glee songs on this week's chart, topped by the cast's version of Lady Gaga's "Poker Face" (featuring Idina Menzel), which debuts at #9. It's the sixth Glee song to make the top 10 on Hot Digital Songs; the third in the past four weeks.

In other digital download news:

Guns N' Roses' 1988 classic "Sweet Child O' Mine" tops the 2 million mark in paid downloads this week. It's the seventh pre-1990 song to reach this plateau. It follows Journey's "Don't Stop Believin'," Michael Jackson's "Thriller," Survivor's "Eye Of The Tiger," Bon Jovi's "Livin' On A Prayer," Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Sweet Home Alabama" and Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody." It's an extraordinary achievement for songs to connect in a big way in two separate eras.