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- The horn interlude in "I'm Still in Love with You" is pretty unique in his repertoire. It may be his quietest, mellowest hit from from the golden period.
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- I'll guess at one I don't see yet... 11. Got My Mind Set on You Sounds suspiciously like the James Ray original.
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Over the past several months I’ve been engaged in a Vision Quest on this tiny slice of the Internet, attempting to locate and suitably disparage the worst Number One songs of the Rock Era. That quest will reach some sort of fruition next week with a rundown of the worst-bests of our curre
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It spent 25 loooooooong weeks atop the Adult Top 40 chart, though. That's gotta be what you're thinking about.
But here's another frightening fact that I didn't know until just now: right behind "Smooth" with 23 weeks atop AT40 was "Wherever You Will Go" by the Calling in '02. To show you how far rock has fallen as a component of the Hot 100, that song only peaked at #5 on the big chart.
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Yep, AT40 is what I was thinking of.
I'm sure I'd know it but I can't even recall what "wherever you will go" sounds like.
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The song that perplexes me is "Torn." It only topped the Hot 100 for 11 weeks and AT40 for 14 weeks--but I could swear, based on the stations I used to listen to in DC, that "Torn" was the most-played song for at least a year and a half...
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