--------------------------------------------------------------------- T H E G A R Y N U M A N D I G E S T (by subscription only - to unsubscribe, see bottom of this message) --------------------------------------------------------------------- (#2002-123) - Topics this issue: 1) Saturday Night Live, February 16th, 1980, 2) Ramblin' Man, 3) Billboard Charts for "Cars", 4) Daily Mail interview appeared???, 5) Top 5 (better late than never), 6) Hooked on Numan, ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2002 22:27:10 EDT From: BDay0000@aol.com Subject: Saturday Night Live, February 16th, 1980 --part1_1a2.6af7973.2a85d3fe_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 8/9/2002 8:02:12 PM Eastern Standard Time, pmaster@garynuman.info writes: > I'd like to know how many of us on this list have Saturday Night Live > (February 16th, 1980) to thank for their obsession? > > Lisa > Guilty. Brad Day Atlanta, GA --part1_1a2.6af7973.2a85d3fe_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 8/9/2002 8:02:12 PM Eastern Standard Time, pmaster@garynuman.info writes:


I'd like to know how many of us on this list have Saturday Night Live
(February 16th, 1980) to thank for their obsession?

Lisa



Guilty.

Brad Day
Atlanta, GA --part1_1a2.6af7973.2a85d3fe_boundary-- ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 09 Aug 2002 21:56:45 -0600 From: "Joey Lindstrom" Subject: Ramblin' Man On Fri, 09 Aug 2002 18:01:55 -0600, Various Digesters wrote: >Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2002 10:40:23 +1000 >From: Bart Tieman >Subject: US Chart Placeings > >This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand >this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. Hey Bart - please turn off MIME format when posting to the Digest. Thanks. >Cars made it to number 9 >Replicas 124 >Pleasure Principle 16 >Telekon 64 >Dance 167 > >Thats all the chart placings that he made on the US charts >On the subject on Garys Numans chart performances. Does anyone know how he >charted in Canada or Europe. I'd be interested in any stats if any of you >have it. All I have is my memory, but I know for a fact that Cars was #1 in Canada, and was on the top-40 for something like 3 or 4 months - it was MASSIVE here. Are 'Friends' Electric? also had a high chart placing, though I don't think it hit #1. I Die: You Die, which was his next single here after Cars, didn't do that well - I think it made it into the top 30, but that's about it. >I definitely recommend Robert Palmer's "Clues" album to the true Numan fan. >Gary plays on and co-wrote "Found You Now", a very Numan-ish tune, and >Robert's cover of "I Dream of Wires", which was released before Telekon came >out. The CD is out of print, if anyone needs a cd-r of it I will trade for a >cd-r of pretty much any Numan live or demo recording, or any of these songs >he performed with others as well (Dubstar, etc...) Peace! I just checked on www.cdnow.com and they're still selling it for $11.49 - are you sure it's out of print? They've got sound samples from each track, and I note with some dismay that under "Genre", they've classified this album under "Oldies". Yikes! >Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2002 22:56:31 -0700 >From: obscure@blueneptune.com >Subject: Re: Cars > >>I just watched the VH1 show, "One Hit Wonders" and they said "Cars" highest >>US chart position was #9. I could have sworn I read in a Billboard chart >>archive book that it hit #1. So what is it, 9 or 1? I know I read elsewhere that it was #9 in the US. Unless somebody has access to the Billboard charts, though, I think this is going to remain a topic of debate. >OK..I have a silly question for the list: > >I'd like to know how many of us on this list have Saturday Night Live >(February 16th, 1980) to thank for their obsession? Not me - in fact, I remember tuning in to that broadcast specifically because the week before, they said "join us next week when our musical guest will be Gary Numan" or somesuch, and I already knew who he was (though I can't remember if it was because I'd heard "Cars" or "AFE" by that time). >But before I do I should give any procrastinators a last chance to offer >their own entries since I never said what the deadline would be, so I'll >keep it open through this weekend. If you haven't offered your top five >favorite Gary singles yet, post them through Sunday and I'll add them in to >the totals. > >After all, we all know how important it is to make sure EVERY vote is >counted and to safeguard against ANY being left out of the final tallies. >Surely, nobody would contest that idea. Don't call me Shirley. :-) (Sorry folks - long story, Ben and I have recently been debating the Bush vs Gore thing in some depth... some people just don't know when to give up, heh heh!) / From the desk of Joey Lindstrom / / If Windows sucked it would be good for something. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 09 Aug 2002 22:48:26 -0700 From: Rod Reynolds Subject: Billboard Charts for "Cars" >>I just watched the VH1 show, "One Hit Wonders" and they said "Cars" highest >>US chart position was #9. I could have sworn I read in a Billboard chart >>archive book that it hit #1. So what is it, 9 or 1? >I know I read elsewhere that it was #9 in the US. Unless somebody has >access to the Billboard charts, though, I think this is going to remain >a topic of debate. OK, I guess that's my cue. According to Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955-1999, Gary Numan had only one chart entry in the Billboard Top 100 Singles Charts. Cars entered the charts Feb 16, 1980 (with a star) at #81 and was on the charts for a total of 25 weeks, peaking at Number 9 on June 7, 1980 Top Ten Week of June 7, 1980 #1 - Funky Town - Lipps Inc #2 - Coming Up - Paul McCartney #3 - Biggest Part of Me - Ambrosia #4 - Don't Fall in Love With a Dreamer - Kenny Rogers & Kim carnes #5 - Call Me - Blondie #6 - The Rose - Bette Midler #7 - Against the Wind - Bob Seger #8 - Hurts so Bad - Linda Ronstadt #9 - Cars - Gary Numan #10 - Little Jeanie - Elton John Wow, that's a mind trip on the way back machine... I had ALL those records. LOL (now I have all of them on CD!) (except for maybe Ambrosia, but probably on some 80's comp somewhere...) I LOVED Funkytown... roller disco YES!! Here is the chart positions for Cars. Feb 16 - 81 Feb 23 - 72 Mar 1- 64 Mar 8 - 56 Mar 15 - 51 Mar 22 - 45 Mar 29 - 40 April 5 - 36 April 12 - 32 Apr 19-25 Apr 26 - 22 May 3 - 18 May 10 - 15 May 17 - 12 May 24 - 10 May 31 - 10 June 7 - 9 June 14 - 9 June 21 - 9 June 28 - 14 July 5 - 17 July 12 - 29 July 19 - 37 July 26 - 62 Aug 2 - 97 (PS I think people get confused because it was Number One in the UK) Rod Los Angeles, CA >> Cars made it to number 9 >> Replicas 124 >> Pleasure Principle 16 >> Telekon 64 >> Dance 167 >> >> Thats all the chart placings that he made on the US charts >> On the subject on Garys Numans chart performances. Does anyone know how he >> charted in Canada or Europe. I'd be interested in any stats if any of you >> have it. > > All I have is my memory, but I know for a fact that Cars was #1 in > Canada, and was on the top-40 for something like 3 or 4 months - it was > MASSIVE here. Are 'Friends' Electric? also had a high chart placing, > though I don't think it hit #1. I Die: You Die, which was his next > single here after Cars, didn't do that well - I think it made it into > the top 30, but that's about it. > > / From the desk of Joey Lindstrom ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2002 13:28:16 +0000 From: "Colin Linskey" Subject: Daily Mail interview appeared??? Hello everyone! Has the Daily Mail supplement interview that Gary said on July 26 would appear within next two weeks appeared yet? Haven't spotted it yet... Colin _________________________________________________________________ Join the world’s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2002 17:45:13 +0200 From: luc.de_visscher@ch.novartis.com Subject: Top 5 (better late than never) As for everybody, this top five (apart of no 1.) changes day by day... 1. Are friends electric? 2. She's got Claws 3. Cars 4. RIP 5. New thing from London Times I never stop to be amazed by the variety of tastes between Numan fans (I *hate* the word numanoids). Songs in my top 5 of disgust would be Sister Surprise or This Wreckage, but then again, people put in in their "best" top 5... Who am I to judge? BRGDS, Luc De Visscher The Numan Factor Belgium ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2002 14:03:55 EDT From: jtolva@aol.com Subject: Hooked on Numan --part1_106.16646518.2a86af8b_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit All, Lisa wrote: >I'd like to know how many of us on this list have Saturday Night Live >(February 16th, 1980) to thank for their obsession? Well, Saturday Night Live was a 'must see' show for me back then, and Gary's performances of "Praying To The Aliens" (complete with the 'bouncing ball lyrics') and of course "Cars" hooked me for all this time. He was so robotic, and cool in the ways that he moved about that I ran our and bought The Pleasure Principle the very next day. I thought his music and voice were great from day one. If I had to name a key date in my own personal Numan history, February 16, 1980 would be the date that my obsession started. My mother and father still think it's a fad that I'll grow out of. Jeff Tolva (The Machman) --part1_106.16646518.2a86af8b_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit All,

Lisa wrote:

>I'd like to know how many of us on this list have Saturday Night Live
>(February 16th, 1980) to thank for their obsession?

Well, Saturday Night Live was a 'must see' show for me back then, and Gary's performances of "Praying To The Aliens" (complete with the 'bouncing ball lyrics') and of course "Cars" hooked me for all this time.  He was so robotic, and cool in the ways that he moved about that I ran our and bought The Pleasure Principle the very next day.  I thought his music and voice were great from day one.  If I had to name a key date in my own personal Numan history, February 16, 1980 would be the date that my obsession started.  My mother and father still think it's a fad that I'll grow out of.

Jeff Tolva (The Machman) --part1_106.16646518.2a86af8b_boundary-- ------------------------------ End digest@garynuman.info Digest [08/10/2002 18:01] --------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------- T H E G A R Y N U M A N D I G E S T is produced, moderated, and distributed by Derek Langsford, Dave Datta, and Joey Lindstrom dlangs@sunstroke.sdsu.edu, davdat@allmusic.com, Joey@GaryNuman.Info Back Issues: http://digest.garynuman.info ------------------------------------------------------------------- To reply to the messages in this list, email: digest@garynuman.info If you want to be removed, or someone wants to be added, email: listserv@GaryNuman.info and include this line as the first line of your message body: SUBSCRIBE digest@garynuman.info (email address) or UNSUBSCRIBE digest@garynuman.info (email address) (email address is optional but useful if you have multiple addresses) If you want to switch between receiving Digests or individual posts, again send to listserv@GaryNuman.Info and include either of these in your message body: NORMAL digest@garynuman.info or DIGEST digest@garynuman.info ------------------------------------------------------------------ Please note: this mailing list is configured to automatically unsubscribe you if mail to your mailbox goes undeliverable for any reason. If you suddenly stop receiving this list, you should assume you've been automatically unsubscribed and should then manually resubscribe. ------------------------------------------------------------------ The Gary Numan Digest is produced with the facilities of the Gary Numan Info Server and The Interocitor. All of the opinions in this digest belong to the respective authors and do not necessarily agree with those of the Digest Producers. This digest is published in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, and is governed by all applicable Canadian laws. --------------------------------------------------------------------------