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Rudy said:I remember it did climb the charts a little--I was rooting for another repeat of "Rise" (didn't it reach into the 30's on the Billboard charts?), but I don't think the general public's taste was as good as mine.
Captain Bacardi said:Rudy said:I remember it did climb the charts a little--I was rooting for another repeat of "Rise" (didn't it reach into the 30's on the Billboard charts?), but I don't think the general public's taste was as good as mine.
"Beyond" peaked at #50 on the Top 100, and was #39 on the AC charts. I also thought it would chart higher. Same with "Rotation".
Capt. Bacardi
badazz said:How many major hit records during the past 30 years were instrumentals? Or even top 10 let alone #1??? Come on Captain I'm sure that you know right away just how many top 10's and #1's there were. I would really be curious.
badazz said:Now days labels just don't release singles that an artist or producer thinks is a hit. Records are tested and re-tested in small secondary markets and played, by research firms, for test groups of people who submit answers to questions about the record. Questions like; do you like the tempo, the vocal, how does it make you feel, would you buy this record, what do you remember about it, what's the hook, etc etc. Instrumental records??? Forget about it......
Rudy said:The last instrumental (and not a very good one IMHO) that I can remember hitting #1 was the "Miami Vice" theme, which I'd attribute to the country's fixation with a TV series and not the song itself.
Outside of that, I can't think of anything else. But again, I'd suspect a movie or TV theme, if anything.
DAN BOLTON said:I'll tell you what I'd really like...if the Weather Channel would only identify the background music they play behind the local forecasts...I'd buy a lot of stuff if I only knew what it was...SOMEBODY is missing a golden opportunity...
jimac51 said:(There is an ongoing mystery that is gradually being solved about the songs used during the early days of the channel). Mac
jimac51 said:DAN BOLTON said:I'll tell you what I'd really like...if the Weather Channel would only identify the background music they play behind the local forecasts...I'd buy a lot of stuff if I only knew what it was...SOMEBODY is missing a golden opportunity...
Dan-www.weather.com has a monthly playlist of music used for the local forecasts plus archives since 1998. I think there is a legal conflict about identifying their background music on the air,though I know Polygram did a tie-in with Vivaldi's "Four Seasons" a few years ago. Surprisingly,for a 24/7 operation they don't use that much different music during the month. For example,during the Christmas season,they played only about 16 different selections from five different artists and four of the selections came from Vince Guarladi's "Charlie Brown Christmas". I wonder if any smooth jazz artist would slip the phrase "Here's your local forecast" into one of their albums(maybe list it as a special "Weather mix" vocal featuring Peabo Bryson, just for a bit of humor. There is also a forum like ours to ask,suggest and discuss the music(There is an ongoing mystery that is gradually being solved about the songs used during the early days of the channel). Mac