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Post by pizzzzza on Jan 4, 2009 13:17:24 GMT -5
By the way, I was getting Billboard Magazine in the mail at this time - it was a Birthday present from my parents - yearly subscription for $40 a year - individual issues were $ 1.25! I kept all of my year end issues, and to this day, still like to look at them from time to time. (I guess I'm showing my age) I kept most of my Billboards. The 1970, 1971, & 1972 issues are my favorite and I also look at them from time to time. Some of the articles are fascinating. Once AT40 took off, so did the subscription prices of Billboard. I believe they were into the $200 a year range by the time I stopped subscribing in the 80's. The HIGH PRICE was the reason I discontinued as well - I really missed getting my weekly issues, but I had to eat and pay bills!
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Post by tarobe on Jan 18, 2010 2:42:10 GMT -5
A very complex question.
The first American Top 40 show I ever heard was on May 29, 1976. The number one song was "Love Hangover" by Diana Ross. The first record to have been a number one on that show was "Disco Lady" by Johnnie Taylor which was at #31.
The first record I remember being a number one hit was "My Love" by Paul McCartney in 1973. I remember the DJ saying it was #1.
The first #1 record I can remember hearing was either "Sunshine Superman" by Donovan or "Winchester Cathedral" by the New Vaudeville Band. I remember hearing both of them on the radio in 1966 when I was 3 years old.
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Post by jgve1952 on Mar 25, 2010 0:24:50 GMT -5
My first #1 was The Three Bells by the Browns in 1959!!! I'm an oldie but goodie. BTW, I was 7 and watched Dick Clark when it was on every afternoon.
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Post by mrjukebox on Mar 30, 2010 8:24:36 GMT -5
I'm an oldie but goodie too-The first #1 song I remember listening to was "I Want To Hold Your Hand" by The Beatles in 1964-I was five years old at the time.
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Post by Josh Joel's Top 40 on Apr 11, 2010 20:11:34 GMT -5
When I listened to AT40 in full, the #1 song in the land was "Money For Nothing" by Dire Straits.
Here are two surprises about this particular record:
1. It was on Soul Train more than once they played video and on one episode they even did it as a "dance line". Those familiar with the show's segment, it's the one towards the end of the show.
2. My father used to kill not only the song but the cassette of "Brother In Arms" on family trips, and none of us complained!
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Post by llaves33 on Apr 11, 2010 20:31:13 GMT -5
The Tide Is High by Blondie. I remember it vividly because it knocked John Lennon's Starting Over out of the top spot about seven weeks after he was murdered.
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Post by mrjukebox on Apr 11, 2010 20:45:38 GMT -5
Speaking of "I Want To Hold Your Hand",I distinctly remember watching The Beatles on "The Ed Sullivan Show" the evening of 2/9/64-Even though I was only five years old,I knew I was destined to be a huge fan of rock & roll.
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Post by at40petebattistini on Jul 17, 2012 16:09:58 GMT -5
Bumping this up...
...in case any newcomer would like to add his or her experience.
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Post by pgfromwp on Jul 17, 2012 18:31:27 GMT -5
My first AT40 #1 was, to my best recall, "Black and White" by Three Dog Night (sometime in September 1972). My first overall #1 that I recall at the time was "Dominique" by singing nun Jeanine Deckers.
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Post by michaelcasselman on Jul 17, 2012 18:35:21 GMT -5
I started my first 'AT40 notebook' on 5/1/1982 (Saturday afternoons) when I was 12, but I distinctly remember listening to it from late 1980 up 'til that point. Through 1981, WATN played it (IIRC) in the late-Sunday afternoon slot, so I didn't always hear the whole countdown ~ not because of church, but because our family would be at our camp during the day on Sundays. If I had to search through the mists of my fading memory, I'd guesstimate the first song I truly recognized and heard hit number one would have been a year previous to my keeping track, when 'Morning Train (9 to 5)' and 'Bette Davis Eyes' were peaking.
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Post by pointpark04 on Jul 17, 2012 18:59:49 GMT -5
I believe it was "Rosanna" by Toto in the summer of 1982, when I was 11 years old. I listened to radio, of course, all throughout my childhood, but I think that was the first one I remember in listening to AT40.
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Post by canat40fan on Jul 18, 2012 19:59:44 GMT -5
On AT40, my first #1 was Neil Sedaka's "Bad Blood" in 1975...a song that I did not like back then, but really enjoy listening to now.
Even though I had been listening to music for a number of years before this, for local countdowns, it would be 1973's "The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia" by Vicki Lawrence.
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Post by chrislc on Jul 19, 2012 20:19:54 GMT -5
Dukedeb if you are out there you might remember when WTRY began airing Casey. Anyway that's about when I began listening. I think Master Of Eyes and Cook With Honey were in the first few songs.
So that would make it Killing Me Softly With His Song for me.
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Post by dukelightning on Jul 19, 2012 21:00:23 GMT -5
Well I don't because I did not discover it until September. The show date was 9/22/73 when "Let's Get it On" returned to #1. You must have not listened to WABY much if at all. They had AT40 prior to WTRY. I did not listen to it very much at any time.
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Post by quatermass on Jul 19, 2012 22:25:06 GMT -5
Mine was Silly Love Songs back when I was 14 in 1976 on KCPX 1320 AM in Salt Lake City Utah and I was living in Gardiner, Montana.
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