Great songs that were Top 40 hits that you never hear on the radio

[quadraphonic]

Without You (Not Another Lonely Night)
Man I knew Franke & The Knockouts had one other top 40-style hit

 

[ZAX Double J]

Angel In Blue/J. Geils Band

 

[ZAX Double J]

Stop In The Name Of Love/Hollies
You Got It All/The Jets
After The Glitter Fades/Stevie Nicks
Love You Like I Never Loved Before/John O'Banion
Is It You Lee Ritenour
All Rita Coolidge songs
You Don't Want Me Anymore/Steel Breeze
I'll Be In Love With You/Livingston Taylor
NightShift/Commodores
Love's Grown Deep/Kenny Nolan
Goin' Down/Greg Guidry
Fire In The Morning/Melissa Manchester
You Saved My Soul/Burton Cummings
Love Is Like A Rock/Donnie Iris
Do You Wanna Touch Me/Joan Jet & The Blackhearts
Play The Game Tonight/Kansas
Jessie/Carly Simon
Say You Will/Foreigner
Think About Me/Fleetwood Mac
Nobody/Sylvia
I Miss You/Klymaxx
Really Wanna Know You/Gary Wright
Why Not Me/Fred Knoblock
Everybody's Got To Learn Sometimes/Korgis
I Believe/Chilliwack
My Girl (Gone Gone Gone)/Chilliwack
Someone Like You/Daryl Hall
Steal The Night/Stevie Woods
Just Can't Win 'em All/Stevie Woods

 

[allenv]

Double J not being involved in the music where he works is a travesty.What a great music director he could be.If you've got a stud DP take advantage of him. Its like asking Michael Jordan to be the equipment manager of a basketball team when he ought to be playing for you!!!


allen

 

[ZAX Double J]

Double J not being involved in the music where he works is a travesty.What a great music director he could be.If you've got a stud DP take advantage of him. Its like asking Michael Jordan to be the equipment manager of a basketball team when he ought to be playing for you!!!


allen

DISCLAIMER: I have NOT paid Allen to say all those nice things about me. They are his own comments.

That said, I do appreciate the wonderful comments Allen. I really wish I could be able to explore those possibilities where I currently work, but I would say to any station who is looking for a full-time music director and who would be interested in my talents please contact me off list.

 

[vchimpanzee]

It's a fun thread. No bashing intended. If these songs were on on internet radio station, I would listen
to it, for old times sake. I don't know how often I'd want to hear MAKE A MOVE ON ME by O N-J, though.

This is one of the ones Timeless Classics added when they became Timeless Favorites and lost the right to be classified as standards.

And this is one I hoped I would never hear again.

 

[vchimpanzee]

Look at artists like Barry Manilow and Neil Diamond they STILL sell out areans or whereever they play. If that's any indication that their songs aren't "mass appeal" then I don't know what is. Heck just look at Elvis, he's worth more dead than he was alive.

They are all over standards radio and whatever you want to call Timeless Favorites.

 

[vchimpanzee]

Get It Right Next Time-Gerry Rafferty

The last time I heard this one was on the Muzak in a grocery store. It reminds me of when I started college.

Rotation-Herb Alpert

The last time I heard this one someone on my standards station realized they made a mistake and stopped it in the middle. What a shame! I don't know how many years it has been since I heard the whole thing.

All Dan Fogelberg songs

They're pretty much all on standards radio.

Feels So Good-Chuck Mangione
Give It All You Got-Chuck Mangione

I like these two. The first one gets a lot more airplay on standards radio than the second.

All the Top 40 Crossover hits Ronnie Milsap had

Standards radio, again.

 

[allenv]

A few on these lists you may here on standards radio but very few.Where is a standard station other than WNOS in New Bern??? Is there another one around???

 

[Raleigh Rocker]

Sweet thread.
Alison Elvis Costello

And the guy who listed Debbie Boone "You Light Up My Life", please turn in your man card immediately.

 

[Ssummers]

Sweet thread.
Alison Elvis Costello

And the guy who listed Debbie Boone "You Light Up My Life", please turn in your man card immediately.

I obviously was suffering from "the vapors" when I listed that. But, having said that, I also have to say I was equating "great" with amount of airplay when I listed that, Afternoon Delight and, ahem, Feelings. When equating "great" with amount of airplay, then those three qualify...I mean, you'd expect a song that was the number one song of the year and number one for 10 consecutive weeks(You Light Up My Life) during that year to be played a lot more than it is these days. But, alas, not so.

ok...here's my card...and my Batman Fan Club membership card, too.

 

[allenv]

I'll keep my mancard and say I love Debby Boone,Air Supply,Carpenters(insert any band, group or solo act that unfairly got branded as cheesy here).Good music is good music and I long to hear some of those beautiful lyrics and melodies today compared to some of the crap that is on the radio now. In closing I say Barry!!! Barry!!!! Barry!!!!

Allen

 

[ZAX Double J]

I too will keep my mancard too and just like Allen. I long to hear good music played on the radio. NOT satellite radio, but regular terrestrial FREE radio thank you. Manilow, Air SUpply, etc were all huge Top 40 successes look 'em up and SHOULD be played again. I agree that you expect a song as big as Debbie Boone's to be played more. Yes it was played probably way too much back then, but it's never played now and again to your kids this song would be new as they have never heard it on the radio. Yes some of these songs may be obscure around here, but SOMEWHERE in the USA they were big reginal hits and vice versa some reginal hits here may be obscure in Wyoming, but they all were Top 40 hits. Whether a song was number 40 for 1 week or number 1 for 10 weeks it should be played as they were Top 40 hits - period. Whether you liked it personally or not SOMBODY did and enough did to place it on the charts.

 

[Ssummers]

So, um, fellas, does that mean I get to keep the mancard AND the Batman Fan Club membership card?

 

[Raleigh Rocker]

Ah.....no. All of you put your mancards in a pile and step away from the table.
Unless you're willing to go all the way and ante up with;

Archies Sugar Sugar
Paper Lace The Night Chicago Died

There's a reason some songs don't get played any more.

 

[ZAX Double J]

Archies Sugar Sugar
Paper Lace The Night Chicago Died

Both of those are great songs as well.

And besides what's wrong with them?

 

[Ssummers]

Ah.....no. All of you put your mancards in a pile and step away from the table.
Unless you're willing to go all the way and ante up with;

Archies Sugar Sugar
Paper Lace The Night Chicago Died

There's a reason some songs don't get played any more.

Um, RR, hate to break it to you, but hardly any of the songs in this thread get played anymore. Hell, the name of the thread is "Great songs that were Top 40 hits that you never hear on the radio". What defines "great" is more or less subjective. Any kind of objective criteria (from back then) almost always includes chart position, weeks on the chart and sales. And when you use that criteria, then almost all of the songs on this list are "great"...including Daydream Believer by the Monkees.

I've been empowered by the support, however, so I shan't be surrendering my mancard OR the Batman Fan Club membership card antime soon.

 

[allenv]

Actually Sugar Sugar still gets a lot of airplay.The Night Chicago Died I like because it has a story to it unlike most of today's stuff.It was a big hit so somebody liked it and bought it.Some people consider it K-Tel from Hell but the vocals are nice and it has a sweet ending.Alot of people had that tune in their 45 collection. 74 was an interesting year for music.There was alot of different sounding things on the radio which is my point.

 

[surfdude]

You guys(?) (seriously you could be women, I don't know) should box up your records
and have a big 'ol sleep-over.

I've been researching these songs since '87, there IS a reason they're not played anymore.
They're either "unfamilar" or "dislike a lot", with a few exceptions on your lists.

Sorry girls!

 

[Ssummers]

You guys(?) (seriously you could be women, I don't know) should box up your records
and have a big 'ol sleep-over.

I've been researching these songs since '87, there IS a reason they're not played anymore.
They're either "unfamilar" or "dislike a lot", with a few exceptions on your lists.

Sorry girls!

Get a grip surfgirl. No one said they should be played now at all. Again, the title of the thread is "Great songs that were Top 40 hits that you never hear on the radio". The only posters that are pondering "why" they aren't played now are posters like you that only dwell on why they're not played. We're just naming songs that we like that aren't played anymore, not that they should be played. Geez, what is it about you and impersonating a consultant?