The Daily Dose/August 21, 2020
By Gaylon Kent
America’s Funniest Guy
Leading Off
Notes from around our human experience.
OH, GOOD GRIEF: Regular readers of this crap are familiar with, and perhaps even enjoy, our rather tedious knowledge of music chart and sports record trivia. We enjoy it so much we created the popular On This Date item for this column, the better to bore you with this knowledge.
This Is Martin Luther Counting Them Down: So it should be no surprise that we are able to inform the song You Say by Lauren Daigle will be in its 98th non-consecutive week at #1 on Billboard’s Hot Christian Singles chart when the chart is officially released tomorrow. It had first hit #1 in July 2018.
Fly In The Ointment: We had 13 years of Lutheran schooling and remain puzzled that any Christain song can be considered “hot”, but we realize times change.
Dry, Technical Matter: 98 weeks is a long time, almost two years, and this is the longest stay at #1 by any song on any Billboard singles chart, an extraordinary accomplishment. In fact, it is almost doubles the longest stretch at #1 on a major Billboard singles chart (pop, country, soul) established by Meant To Be by Bebe Rexha and Florida Georgia Line, which spent 50 consecutive weeks at #1 on Billboard’s country chart in 2017-18.
Please Pass The Dry, Technical Matter: The pop and soul chart records for most weeks at #1 are both held by Old Town Road, by Lil Naz X and Billy Ray Cyrus, which spent 19 consecutive weeks at #1 in 2019.
In The Crosshairs: In sight now for Daigle and You Say is the Record of Records of most weeks at #1 on any Billboard chart, the 110 weeks Wendy Carlos – then known as Walter Carlos – spent at #1 on Billboard’s Classical Album chart from 1969-72 with Switched On Bach.
Yo, Homey: The current #1 song on Billboard’s Classical Album chart is Sleep by Max Richter, which first hit #1 soon after its release in 2015.
The Bottom Line: We know you are as excited by 98 weeks at #1 as we are. 110 weeks is still a ways off, and we don’t particularly care if Daigle breaks the record or not, but you can bet we’ll be here to chronicle it for you.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
The Diary of a Nobody: It’s a very leisurely day off for Sparrow.
I did make some chili, tho…Recall back when wizards were hoarding toilet paper and no one was entirely sure what the hell was going on, yours truly bought two #10 cans of chili for reasons that seemed pretty good at the time.
It was a pretty spur-of-the-moment decision, so the bratwurst purchased for the occasion had to be placed in some warm water to partially thaw out…I then boiled it before slicing it up and I also added some heat-and-serve chicken that was in the freezer…There were delusions of simmering it all afternoon like a real cook would, but everything was already cooked and all that was really necessary was getting the chicken to thaw out and it turned out pretty good…Hardly Chili of the Year and not even close to being as good as Pa Sparrow’s tho it’s probably not completely inaccurate to say nothing is as good your dad’s chili.
Backstairs at the Monte Carlo: There’s a dog running loose in the parking garage.
After a bit more chit-chat 77Dwayne decides we can’t have a loose dog running around the garage, which is true. You simply don’t know what the dog is going to do. My suggestion to have Ted shoot the dog is rejected out of hand by 77Dwayne, though it did garner modest interest from Ted.
Free Stuff
The same trick the drug dealers use.
Backstairs at the Monte Carlo
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On This Date
History’s long march to today.
In 1993 – Communications are lost with the Mars Observer spacecraft, three days before it was scheduled to enter Martian orbit. The probe was scheduled to study the Martian surface, atmosphere, climate and magnetic field and what ultimately happened to it is unknown. It could be in Maritain or solar orbit or it could have been destroyed. The cause of the problem remains unknown, though it is suspected to have been the rupture of a tank in the spacecraft’s propulsion system. The spacecraft had been launched in September the previous year.
In 1963 – Jerry Lynch of the Pittsburgh Pirates establishes a new major league record for most career pinch-hit home runs in a 7-6 win over the Chicago Cubs. Lynch’s ninth-inning home run was his 15th pinch-hit home run and research into whose mark Lynch broke was inconclusive. Lynch would retire in 1966 with 18 pinch-hit home runs, a record that is now held by Matt Stairs, who hit 23 pinch-hit home runs between 1996 and 2010. Lynch’s mark remains the National League record.
In 1954 – The Crew Cuts are at #1 on Billboard’s Best Sellers in Stores chart – a predecessor of the Hot 100 – for the third of seven consecutive weeks with Sh-Boom. It was the fourth of 15 Top 40 hits for the group and remains their only #1 song. The song also peaked at #12 in Great Britain and earlier in the year a version by the Chords had peaked at #9 on the Best Sellers in Stores chart and at #3 on Billboard’s soul chart.
Quotebook
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
To listen well is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well. – John Marshall, chief justice of the United States, 1801-1835
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
It’s not who you know, but what you know.
The US women’s basketball team has a 66-3 in the Olympic Games.
Today’s Stumper
Cheaper than Trivia Night at the bar.
The four members of the Crew Cuts met in what Canadian city? – Answer next time!
