Comments on: CHART ATTACK! #48: 10/8/77

By: Eddie

Eddie — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 19:50:37 +0000

RE: way late on this, but I have a story about the Star Wars/Cantina Theme.

I found the actual 12″ record in my older brother’s abandoned record collection and took with me back to college in 1998. It was an amazing novelty (picture angry 2am revelry after striking out at a party or bar) until I somehow managed to drop it on the ground and step on it/snap it in one fell swoop…I wouldn’t say “somehow”…i was pretty loaded.

Never again did I think I would recover that song.

thanks!

By: Py Korry

Py Korry — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 21:40:37 +0000

A couple of things:

1. That You Tube clip with Olivia/ABBA/Andy was the best musical TV moment I’ve never seen.

2. If you guys ever cover the Star Wars/Cantina Theme in one of your sets, can I play the lasers and light sabers? I promise to dress like Meco for the performance.

By: Robert

Robert — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 16:21:58 +0000

I love all the comments this week. And this was a great Chart Attack too.

Jason, I haven’t seen that many James Bond movies either. I don’t think I’ve seen a single Sean Connery entry all the way through, which I realize is blasphemy. My brother used to rent the Roger Moore entries all the time when I was younger, so I’m most familiar with those. I do have a soft spot for 1989’s “Licence to Kill,” the least successful Bond movie, for some reason. The world was not kind to you, Timothy Dalton. Some say the best Bond movie is “On Her Majesty’s Secret Service,” featuring one-hit Bond wonder George Lazenby.

I thought “The Groove Line” was “The Blue Line” for a long, long time. Now that I live in Chicago and the elevated-train system has a Blue Line, I’m very disappointed about the actual title of the song. Temperton wrote the synth-heavy score for 1986’s “Running Scared,” the movie that features “Sweet Freedom” and was shot in Chicago.

By: Robert

Robert — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 15:56:16 +0000

I have no problem with Andy Gibb. Sure, Barry helped him out a lot, but Barry helped out a lot of people in the ’70s.

By: Miss Lisa

Miss Lisa — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 04:18:35 +0000

Andy Gibb also guest-starred on “Punky Brewster” as himself, MC-ing a little-girl beauty contest. He sang “Thank Heaven For Little Girls” while wearing red leather pants. You could tell he was hurting for the coke money at that point and he died a few years after. Very sad all around. Andy, we will miss you and your Shadow Dancing (a quote stolen from the fanzine Ben is Dead).

By: Robert

Robert — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 01:16:56 +0000

Fanny’s song “All Mine,” produced by Todd Rundgren, is a gem. I only know about them because that song is featured on Rhino’s “An Elpee’s Worth of Productions,” devoted to the Runt’s production work in the ’70s and ’80s.

No one’s mentioned the David Arnold/Aimee Mann version of “Nobody Does It Better” yet? That’s the best version of the song that I’ve ever heard.

By: Sini

Sini — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 16:06:31 +0000

If only Debbie sang like this.

By: Pete

Pete — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 13:09:49 +0000

The Meco 45 was a favorite in my household with myself and my two older sisters; we all loved the R2D2 sound effect right before the Cantina Band section starts. I also loved the disco version he did for the Empire Strikes Back as well, which went top 20.

And it’s true-you pretty much never hear You Light Up My Life on oldies radio. Thank God. (bah dum bump)

By: Ray

Ray — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 10:04:09 +0000

Whoops… just checked Wiki… Fanny only got as high as #12 on Billboard (sigh).

By: Ray

Ray — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 10:00:40 +0000

Yep I totally remember that Bee Gees hit FANNY (Be Tender With My Love). Was in the Top 10 in January or February of 1976 (future CHART ATTACK! idea… can’t wait to see your take on FANNY, Jason!).

Let’s also not forget the all-girl band of the early 70s named FANNY… they cracked the Top 40 in the fall of 1971 with “Charity Ball” (which actually went Top Five on both WLS and Super CFL in Chicago that fall).