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Post by bestmusicexpert on Feb 23, 2011 14:32:14 GMT -5
2 segments I would have loved would have been:
The three that ALMOST made it (43, 42, 41) Even if just a clip of the song or just a mention of what just missed. May have helped a few songs make it in! (I say that should be the AT40 extras, add 44 for the 80's version)
Sometime during the top 10, mention the songs that were number one 1, 5 and 10 years before that show. Maybe add 20 years ago by 1975.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 23, 2011 15:14:32 GMT -5
I wish they would have continued the archive segment using different themes. They could have done either chronologically or alphabetically every #1 of the rock era. Then an archive spotlighting the top 40 or top 10 songs for big acts of the era, etc.
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Post by mkarns on Feb 23, 2011 16:09:13 GMT -5
2 segments I would have loved would have been: The three that ALMOST made it (43, 42, 41) Even if just a clip of the song or just a mention of what just missed. May have helped a few songs make it in! (I say that should be the AT40 extras, add 44 for the 80's version) Sometime during the top 10, mention the songs that were number one 1, 5 and 10 years before that show. Maybe add 20 years ago by 1975. In the early AT40 shows, Casey would often play as extras songs that were #1 a certain number of years earlier, the number of years typically being multiples of 5 as far as 25 (which then meant going back as far as the 1940s.) Later, there was Shadoe's "Flashback" play of bits of the top 5 from a given year, and Casey's Top 40 often mentioned the #1 of that date 5, 10, 20, or however many years ago. Regarding the "almost on the countdown" feature, I think under Casey they considered making room for an extra that was thought likely to hit the countdown soon, but didn't do it then. Later, this feature was added under Shadoe ("Sneek Peek") and Ryan (originally "Out of the Box", now "Breakout" and lately, in addition, something called the "Subway Fresh Buzz Song" : . Having done AT40 Archives features of the #1's of the 60s and 70s, they could have done the same for the 80s when the time came, probably when Shadoe was host (or on Casey's Top 40), and then perhaps the 90s a decade later.
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Post by bestmusicexpert on Feb 23, 2011 16:13:45 GMT -5
They should have done the 50's after they did the 60's. Or start at the beginning of the Rock Era at the beginning of the segment's lifespan and go thru the 70's.
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Post by dukelightning on Feb 23, 2011 17:02:06 GMT -5
I think they have done all the #2 songs since in many cases, it just timing that determines what hits #1 or not. So many #2 songs would have hit #1 if it had been a week or 2 earlier or later. Plus many great acts hit #2 but did not ever hit #1 i.e. CCR, Moody Blues, Elvis in the '70s.
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Post by jlthorpe on Jun 15, 2011 9:14:02 GMT -5
2 segments I would have loved would have been: The three that ALMOST made it (43, 42, 41) Even if just a clip of the song or just a mention of what just missed. May have helped a few songs make it in! (I say that should be the AT40 extras, add 44 for the 80's version) Sometime during the top 10, mention the songs that were number one 1, 5 and 10 years before that show. Maybe add 20 years ago by 1975. The AT40 extras on terrestrial sometimes have songs that failed to make the Top 40, but still became popular hits. U2's "New Year's Day" played this past weekend, and I once heard them play Peter Gabriel's "Solsbury Hill" (though they played the studio version when it was the live version that was on the chart). Maybe what Casey could have done was play the song that was #100 on the Hot 100 that week.
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Post by jlthorpe on Jun 15, 2011 9:16:22 GMT -5
Regarding the "almost on the countdown" feature, I think under Casey they considered making room for an extra that was thought likely to hit the countdown soon, but didn't do it then. Later, this feature was added under Shadoe ("Sneek Peek") and Ryan (originally "Out of the Box", now "Breakout" and lately, in addition, something called the "Subway Fresh Buzz Song" : . Rick Dees originated this (he called it the "Sure Shot").
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Post by tarobe on Jun 15, 2011 10:05:07 GMT -5
It would have been nice if Casey and Shadoe would have played the #1 song on the other charts (Country, R&B, AC) as extras, or a "Bubbling Under" song (#41 that week).
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Post by johnnywest on Jun 15, 2011 11:08:51 GMT -5
I wish Shadoe would have continued using the Hot 100 in December 1991. And I wish Ryan would have continued to use R&R when he took over in 2004.
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Post by caseyfan100 on Jun 15, 2011 12:46:22 GMT -5
When a song debuted in the top 40,it would have been nice to know where the song was the week before. For example,if a song debuted at #37 it would have been great to hear that it was #44 the week before etc.
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Post by mkarns on Jun 15, 2011 13:49:04 GMT -5
I wish Shadoe would have continued using the Hot 100 in December 1991. And I wish Ryan would have continued to use R&R when he took over in 2004. The Shadoe/Hot 100 issue is discussed at length in another thread. As for the Seacrest version, Radio & Records was merged with the Billboard Radio Monitor in 2006 and discontinued altogether in 2009, so AT40 would have had to switch eventually. However, I wish the Mediabase chart used was at least compiled in a similar way to the Radio & Records chart, with the same panel and recurrent rules. Instead AT40 uses a panel with some questionably CHR stations included, online song voting to help determine positions (so what is heard on the countdown doesn't always comport with the official MB chart), and songs hanging around for months past their peak and blocking a lot of fresher hits from reaching the countdown or going as high as the official chart indicates.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 15, 2011 13:59:17 GMT -5
The other feature I wish AT40 had done is a blast from the past segment near the end of the show like the Top 30 Hitlist had. Play a #1 song from this week in "x"
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Post by rgmike on Jun 15, 2011 15:04:16 GMT -5
I wish they had continued to feature a (non-45) track from the #1 LP each week. That feature was in effect when I first began listening in the Spring of '71 , and I can remember hearing deep tracks from Janis Joplin's "Pearl" and several cuts from "Jesus Christ Superstar". Of course, when LPs started spending 15+ weeks at #1, that might've become a problem... which is probably why they discontinued it.
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Post by matt on Jun 15, 2011 15:10:30 GMT -5
When a song debuted in the top 40,it would have been nice to know where the song was the week before. For example,if a song debuted at #37 it would have been great to hear that it was #44 the week before etc. I agree--Casey did this on occasion, usually when a song made a big jump or debuted on the Hot 100 in the 40 (e.g. on the 5/15/82 show regarding "Body Language", on the 11/20/82 show regarding "Sexual Healing", on the 5/11/85 show regarding "Sussudio", among others). I always liked it when he gave that info with a debut song.
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Post by briguy52748 on Jun 15, 2011 15:52:24 GMT -5
My ideas for what I would have done in AT40's early years, or had AT40 existed in the 1960s:
* The No. 1 country song of the week (prior to the inception of "American Country Countdown" in 1973), for those songs not charting on the Hot 100 or not expected to make the Top 40. This probably would have worked best had AT40 been around in the 1960s, but at one point Casey did play a Sonny James song ("Endlessly," in December 1970 when it was No. 1 on the Hot Country Singles chart).
* As far as an Archives feature, probably would have started a playback of 1980s hits sometime in late 1988 or early 1989 with the coming of Shadoe Stevens. Similar to the 1978-1981 feature a la a chronological playback. We'd start with January 1980 and -- omitting "Escape" by Rupert Holmes, as that went No. 1 in December 1979 -- and continue through Phil Collins' "Another Day in Paradise" in December 1989 for 233 different chart-toppers, just 20 fewer than the 1970s feature. Also, American Country Countdown did an alphabetical playback of No. 1 songs from 1991-1996, starting first with a list based from January 1966 through December 1990, but later (after they got through the M's) it was revised and shortened to January 1980 through December 1993 for all N through Zs.
* A weekly "calendar" feature, spotlighting a big hit from the past by an innovator or other big act. ACC had this also during the Bob Kingsley era.
Brian
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