I heard a rerun of Casey Kasem’s AT 40 this weekend, and he answered a listener question, which was pretty much "Have all seven days of the week been mentioned in a Top 40 title? At the time (1979), Wednesday and Thursday had never been mentioned in a Top 40 title.
However. . .
He did say that one song with ‘Wednesday’ in the title did make the Hot 100, but he neglected to give the artist.
Two questions:
In the almost 40 years since, has there ever been a song with either of those two days of the week in the title?
What was the pre-1979 Hot 100 song with Wednesday in the title?
For that matter, what would Tuesday be? I can think of “Sunday Bloody Sunday”, “Manic Monday”, “Friday I’m in Love”, and “Saturday in the Park” (though I haven’t checked that those were all actually Top 40), but who sings about Tuesdays?
I was gonna say, how in the hell did they miss “Ruby Tuesday,” but that’s also on the list. (“Ruby Tuesday” hit #1 in the US, “Tuesday” by IloveMakonnen #12, and “Tuesday Afternoon” peaked at #24.)
None of the Wednesday or Thursday songs seem to have charted on the Billboard Hot 100 here in the US. (Though “Thursday” by the Pet Shop Boys did get to #17 on the dance club songs chart.)
Redgum’s “One more boring Thursday night in Adelaide” probably wasn’t a hit in the US either.
You’d reckon there’d be an opportunity for a publicity seeking lyricist here.
Write a Billboard Top 10 with Wednesday/Thursday in the title, even if only gratuitously, and have your song mentioned in perpetuity in trivia games.
…and you can’t even sing it to Australians as you come in to Adelaide on the plane anymore, 'cos nobody under 30 knows who Ernie Sigley or Mike Willessee are any more.
Sad!
But it was the first thing that came into my mind too
