Sean Ross

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@newsradio6 Check out tomorrow's newsletter. Some great reviews out there already.

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@IARadioMan @radioinsight AC radio decided to give the '70s back a while ago and I would have conversations with programmers who dropped "Dreams" but kept "Escape (The Pina Colada Song)" because it was still a hit on 1/1/80.

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Kroeger Media Seeks to Altar Classic Rock - https://t.co/SvGn1BqXbo

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sean ross @RossOnRadio @radioinsight has a great playlist for keeping ahead of the curve https://t.co/ZXktdByDRH (i use playlisty to transfer to Apple Music)

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@ianthebush @radioinsight Wow, thanks Ian. I appreciate that it's worth the effort.

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@DonEffenberger Hey, 89 now! This was about the debut of the show four years ago!

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@cmmolanphy @tombreihan @Fray_dee In our current moment, every one of the 30,000 people who bought the Velvet Underground's debut also bought four alternate versions with separate covers and helped it debut at No. 1 in a soft week.

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@cmmolanphy @tombreihan @Fray_dee I'm not sure there *was* a "Wannabe" moment in the '10s, in terms of both something new/cool and something universally loved. It seems like "Espresso" and "A Bar Song" could be that, but not if there are no other hits for the next six months!

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@cmmolanphy @tombreihan It's their "Dancing on the Ceiling." Impossible to rate entirely out of context.

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@tombreihan Top 40 radio was in a trick bag. They needed another cool, uptempo song *like* "Love Shack" to compete with Hip-Hop and R&B. But that wasn't "Love Shack II."

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@tombreihan I'd actually rather hear "Good Stuff" than the "Cosmic" hits now, not because they're not great, but because I also love this and never heard it on the radio enough at the time.

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Which of these describes the way you feel about hearing Sabrina Carpenter's "Espresso" on the radio now?

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@Davidjwells20 Hadn't found a regular place to hear it on the radio yet.

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I didn't have access to #AT40 in fall '74. I'm not positive I've ever heard Brownsville Station, "Kings of the Party" before. There are other songs in the top 20 this week that I knew, but never heard at the time, too.

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@BismrkBear Corny to me, too. Same way I feel about "Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)." #AT40

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@BismrkBear This version of "The Need to Be" gives it some grit, makes it less corny. #AT40 https://t.co/3V6Bodyj6m

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You can sing "Stay" to the verses of "Overnight Sensation." Maybe that's what inspired Jackson Browne a few years later. #AT40

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@Brad_Lovett Felt that way at the time, got used to the tempo and energy level of the Carl Carlton version. #AT40

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@DeanxRiley Ken Levine, later writer/show-runner for "Cheers," was a DJ when that song was out. He once intro'ed it by saying, "The Wolfman's got the ... Midnight Special." #AT40 (A little hard to re-create the joke on paper.)