Paul number 1 thrity three years ago today
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I just finished listening to Casey Kasam's American Top 40 from 1980. As it turns out Coming Up was number one for a third week in a row this week in 1980. It made me happy. This live version proves Paul is good live and proves the naysayers who thinks he can't rock to shame.
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Paulfan:
I just finished listening to Casey Kasam's American Top 40 from 1980. As it turns out Coming Up was number one for a third week in a row this week in 1980. It made me happy. This live version proves Paul is good live and proves the naysayers who thinks he can't rock to shame.
I found it fascinating when I finally heard the unedited studio version that it has a few of the elements that are in this live version, like the "pretty baby, I say!" in the one chorus. I used to listen to Casey back in the day religiously!
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I love those American Top 40 re-broadcasts! Paul is almost always on those episodes. Elvis, too.
I remember one episode from '74(?) where Paul, George and Ringo all had hits on the Top 40. -
Paulfan:
I just finished listening to Casey Kasam's American Top 40 from 1980. As it turns out Coming Up was number one for a third week in a row this week in 1980. It made me happy. This live version proves Paul is good live and proves the naysayers who thinks he can't rock to shame.
Glad it was #1 but I never liked the song. McCartney has done better rockers but not as commercially successful.
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yankeefan7:
Paulfan:
I just finished listening to Casey Kasam's American Top 40 from 1980. As it turns out Coming Up was number one for a third week in a row this week in 1980. It made me happy. This live version proves Paul is good live and proves the naysayers who thinks he can't rock to shame.
Glad it was #1 but I never liked the song. McCartney has done better rockers but not as commercially successful.
booooo... i still love that song. the single version from then, 1980. not any live version since.
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Get On The Right Thing:
yankeefan7:
Paulfan:
I just finished listening to Casey Kasam's American Top 40 from 1980. As it turns out Coming Up was number one for a third week in a row this week in 1980. It made me happy. This live version proves Paul is good live and proves the naysayers who thinks he can't rock to shame.
Glad it was #1 but I never liked the song. McCartney has done better rockers but not as commercially successful.
booooo... i still love that song. the single version from then, 1980. not any live version since.
I've always thought the live version was good--not great, but good. And I've never really cared for the album version, love the video though.
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YankeeFan7 I agree that Paul has done better rockers that weren't as successful. I don't like the studio versionut the live versionof Coming Up better. As for the video I think it is a bit corny but it was nice to see Paul dress up as a heavy metal star. I enjoy the Top 40 from that era because Paul was number 1 but after 1983 it seemed Paul didn't reach number one again which is why I don't like the 1980s much and Paul didn't win a Grammy back then either. Does Paul still perform Coming Up on his recent tours or just back in 1989-90 and 1993/
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Paulfan:
I just finished listening to Casey Kasam's American Top 40 from 1980. As it turns out Coming Up was number one for a third week in a row this week in 1980. It made me happy. This live version proves Paul is good live and proves the naysayers who thinks he can't rock to shame.
I found it fascinating when I finally heard the unedited studio version that it has a few of the elements that are in this live version, like the "pretty baby, I say!" in the one chorus. I used to listen to Casey back in the day religiously!
What was cool about the top 40 in "those days" was that virtually everyone of all ages knew what the top 40 songs were...the radio stations ..lots of them...actually played them. People were familiar with them. Now there are so many splintered groupings of charts that they have all become meaningless. Most people wouldn't have the vaguest idea what the #1 song in America was/is or even what it might mean to be # 1., or how it was determined. Since most of the songs are rap....that reach that level...and I never listen to that stuff, I haven't the slightest idea what any of them might be....so I'm one of the masses on that these days, I guess.
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agree totally the music lists has splintered off in so many directions, which is probably a good thing. just makes it harder to define which are the artists people are actually listening to. I don't know how historians are going to record and document the music scene for the history books. I hope our great grand children will not read that everyone was listening to Jay-Z in 2013.
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Paulfan:
YankeeFan7 I agree that Paul has done better rockers that weren't as successful. I don't like the studio versionut the live versionof Coming Up better. As for the video I think it is a bit corny but it was nice to see Paul dress up as a heavy metal star. I enjoy the Top 40 from that era because Paul was number 1 but after 1983 it seemed Paul didn't reach number one again which is why I don't like the 1980s much and Paul didn't win a Grammy back then either. Does Paul still perform Coming Up on his recent tours or just back in 1989-90 and 1993/
As for live versions, I believe there are 1979, 1989-1990, 1993, 2002-2003, 2007, 2009, and several soundcheck versions, including this year's 2013 Out There tour. The song returned to the setlist for the 2002 tours after the World Tour of '89-90 (my favorite version of the song). The last live concert appearance I have in my collection is from the 2007 iTunes Festival, though I believe he did it on Letterman's rooftop in 2009. He's been doing it lately at "Out There" soundchecks. It was on a YouTube video which I can no longer find.
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Beatles4Ever&Ever:
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Paulfan:
I just finished listening to Casey Kasam's American Top 40 from 1980. As it turns out Coming Up was number one for a third week in a row this week in 1980. It made me happy. This live version proves Paul is good live and proves the naysayers who thinks he can't rock to shame.
I found it fascinating when I finally heard the unedited studio version that it has a few of the elements that are in this live version, like the "pretty baby, I say!" in the one chorus. I used to listen to Casey back in the day religiously!
What was cool about the top 40 in "those days" was that virtually everyone of all ages knew what the top 40 songs were...the radio stations ..lots of them...actually played them. People were familiar with them. Now there are so many splintered groupings of charts that they have all become meaningless. Most people wouldn't have the vaguest idea what the #1 song in America was/is or even what it might mean to be # 1., or how it was determined. Since most of the songs are rap....that reach that level...and I never listen to that stuff, I haven't the slightest idea what any of them might be....so I'm one of the masses on that these days, I guess.
I still follow the charts, and I hear a lot of the songs at my gym, but yes, it really is nearly impossible to hear it all. Billboard has even added YouTube views to help determine chart rankings, which is what pushed that song "Harlem Shake" to the top?a song that was not so much liked, as just used to make those silly videos of people dancing crazily.
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I have seen him perform Coming Up at Knebworth bCK IN 1990. As for the charts I don't even know what is number 1 in the world anymore since I quit listening to the top 40 in the late 80s or early 90s. Funny thing is that Paul isn't considered cool by alot of heavy metal people and younger people because his music is slow especially when I was growing up. I guess Helter Skelter,Coming Up and ELt ME Roll It puts that myth to shame.
