Hit Parade | Music History and Music Trivia - The Bridge: Nostalgic for Number Ones

Hit Parade | Music History and Music Trivia

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Music, Music History,

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🗓️ 16 August 2019

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

In this monthly mini-episode of Hit Parade, host Chris Molanphy is joined by Tom Breihan, senior editor at Stereogum and writer of their long-term blog project “The Number Ones,” a chronological review of every song that’s hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100. Tom gives Chris his reviews of the three Lennon-McCartney hits Chris discussed in the last full-length Hit Parade episode. Plus, Chris quizzes a Slate Plus listener with some music trivia, and the contestant turns the tables with a chance to try to stump Chris with a trivia question of her own. While this episode is available to all listeners, only Slate Plus members are allowed to be on the show. Once you become a member, you can enter as a contestant here. You can also enter if you’re already a Slate Plus member. Want your question featured in an upcoming show? Email a voice memo to hitparade@slate.com. Podcast production by Asha Saluja.

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0:00.0	You're listening ad-free on Amazon Music.
0:10.4	Hey, everybody. This is Chris Malanfi, host of Hit Parade, Slate's podcast of Pop Chart History. Welcome to The Bridge.
0:19.7	And in a while, I will see my true love. of Pop Chart History. Welcome to The Bridge. That's the bridge, a number one hit from the summer of 1964, and the first of three hits
0:40.4	written by John Lennon or Paul McCartney that topped Billboard's Hot 100 and were not
0:46.4	Beatles recordings. As we told you in last month's hit parade, Paul McCartney had to write this
0:52.6	bridge to finish a world without love, which he then
0:56.2	bequeathed to his 19-year-old housemate, Peter Asher, of Peter and Gordon. As Paul knew, a well-structured
1:03.7	pop hit needs a bridge. And these mini-episodes bridge are full-length monthly episodes,
1:14.9	give us a chance to catch up with listeners, and enjoy some hit parade trivia.
1:19.9	This month, I'm delighted to welcome a special guest to help me take it to the bridge.
1:28.5	Tom Bryan is a senior editor at Stereogum, who has also written for the AV.V. Club and the ringer, among many places.
1:33.8	For the last year and a half, Tom has been in the middle of an enormous stereo gum blogging project that is near and dear to my heart, the number ones, a column reviewing every number one single
1:40.9	on the Hot 100, starting in 1958, and working its way up to the present day.
1:46.7	We'll talk about a couple of those chart toppers today. First, Tom, welcome to the bridge.
1:52.2	Hey, Chris. Thanks so much for having me. Thank you for joining us. When I meet a fellow chart fan,
1:57.7	I often start at the beginning and ask, you know, what got you into Billboard chart following? When did it start for you? Well, when I was nine, or about to turn nine, my family moved to London for a year. We were in Baltimore. My dad's history professor, and he took a sabbatical, but in England they had Top of the Pops.
2:19.1	Hello, how are you? Welcome to Top of the Pops.
2:22.4	Which made chart following extremely fun and extremely easy
2:26.7	and kind of became baseball to me when I couldn't watch baseball anymore.
2:31.3	But the whole idea to write this column that I'm writing, it comes from a guy
2:36.7	named Tom Ewing, who has been in England writing a similar column for years, more than a decade,
2:44.8	I think. And, you know, it's not his job the way it is mine. So he does it slowly. But Tom
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