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Post by jaxxalude on Jun 16, 2011 18:19:09 GMT -5
I wish Shadoe would have had a lot more freedom to mold the show to suit his style. Even if it would have turned off its fair share of older listeners, the possibility of gaining a younger audience and compensate the loss somehow would be, in my view, a lot bigger. That way, we wouldn't probably be talking about the lasting countdown show career of a certain Rigdon Osmond Dees.
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Post by lasvegaskid on Aug 5, 2011 13:31:45 GMT -5
Where the song was the prior week. Casey got better at this as the show went on, but early on it seemed that unless the tune was a big mover, the prior week position was given very erratically.
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Post by johnnywest on Aug 5, 2011 19:19:18 GMT -5
I always liked the montages. There weren't that many with Casey as there were with Shadoe or Rick, but I thought those were always good. The last one I remember Casey doing was of Kylie Minogue in 2002.
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Post by lonelysummer on Aug 5, 2011 21:58:14 GMT -5
I liked spotlighting the #1 album with a song from it, wish they had continued it. Some artists who hit #1 with an album were not frequent visitors to the top 40. For example, I remember a show from 1975 where Casey talked about Bob Dylan's "Tangled up in Blue" stalling at #31 for two weeks, while the album it was from, "Blood on the Tracks", had spent a couple weeks at #1. Would've been nice if he could've played a couple of those songs.
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Post by bestmusicexpert on Aug 6, 2011 8:07:06 GMT -5
Lonelysummer: I totally agree. I really love those early AT40's with that feature. I recently added that to my 60's countdown show because I liked it so much. (Plus it gives me an excuse to play an album cut I like! ;-D For example, Blood Sweat & Tears are at #1 on this weeks countdown... Then again that was hell because I love the entire album!
Johnnywest: I think it is cool. I liked the year end #1 montages. Thats another thing I have been doing for a long time on my show... Medleys of groups in the countdown.
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Post by blackbowl68 on Aug 6, 2011 9:54:26 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). I like this idea, maybe like a "bubbling under Top 40" segment, only for new songs. I wouldn't have wanted to hear #41-#44 if they were droppers out of the Top 40. I think this would have been a very bad idea! This would've ruined the integrity of the show. It IS called American Top 40 for a reason. I DO agree with the Sneek Peek feature; profile one song below the top 40 (on the that week's Hot 100) the staff feels will become a big hit. One thing I DID wish Casey had done during his main AT40 run was include the UK charttopper in his list of other #1's. This makes alot sense since many British acts make the show anyway in any given week.
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Post by Mike on Aug 23, 2015 0:24:25 GMT -5
I wish they would have done LDD followups. Check in a few years after the original and see how some of them turned out. One version of this practice did in fact take place over the years, not through any action of the AT40 staff, but through the number of times that a LDD would prompt listeners to send in their own dedications in response. Sometimes the response was directly to the first dedicator, other times it was a LDD "directly inspired by" the prior one.
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Post by jamesff on Aug 23, 2015 19:59:47 GMT -5
I wish he did a countdown of the top 40 albums of the year. It would probably have to be delayed a few weeks after the year end countdown.
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Post by BrettVW on Aug 23, 2015 20:17:33 GMT -5
I wish they would have done LDD followups. Check in a few years after the original and see how some of them turned out. The WW1 years had the AT&T Request and Dedication hotline where you could call and update the situation and Casey would put it on the air
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Post by davewollenberg on Aug 23, 2015 20:35:58 GMT -5
On Joel Denver's 'Future hits' show, he did a segment of the top 5 hits from the UK, which many of those songs made it to our shores.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 25, 2015 16:29:30 GMT -5
I like this idea, maybe like a "bubbling under Top 40" segment, only for new songs. I wouldn't have wanted to hear #41-#44 if they were droppers out of the Top 40. I think this would have been a very bad idea! This would've ruined the integrity of the show. It IS called American Top 40 for a reason. I DO agree with the Sneek Peek feature; profile one song below the top 40 (on the that week's Hot 100) the staff feels will become a big hit. One thing I DID wish Casey had done during his main AT40 run was include the UK charttopper in his list of other #1's. This makes alot sense since many British acts make the show anyway in any given week. He gave Billboards and later R&Rs tops of the other charts. As neither of those did a UK chart, it makes sense he didn't give one. I agree 100% with your sentiment about playing stuff that didn't hit yet. Personally I never even liked the sneak peek idea either though I didn't have a huge problem with it. Things I wish AT40 had done is obvious...never introduce LDD's to begin with.
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Post by dukelightning on Aug 25, 2015 16:54:44 GMT -5
A timely comment there seeing as the show with that first LDD is on deck this week as a 'B' show. BTW, on the 8/27/94 CT40 that I heard today, both R&Ds featured people who were clinically dead for a brief period. In one a guy who tried to commit suicide was clinically dead for 10 minutes IIRC before recovering. In the other, a guy who had asthma was clinically dead for a few minutes after an accident before also recovering. Show was done by David Perry so Casey passed on doing a show on the anniversary week of the first LDD.
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Post by jamesff on Sept 20, 2015 19:02:30 GMT -5
Speaking of wishing it had started earlier....I wish the 4 hour version had started earlier...a lot earlier!! I was thinking that Premiere could re-edit the 3 hour shows into 4 hour shows. Of course they would need to add more extras to fill in the extra time.
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Post by BrettVW on Sept 21, 2015 10:20:12 GMT -5
No, no, no! That would not work! Way too much filler would have to be inserted. There is enough filler in some of the 78-early 80s 4 hour shows as it is. Imagine the 12" versions of songs and random nonsense extras that you would have to weave in there. I'd much rather hear some song edits.
Remember when they expanded the Dees replays to 5 hour shows and inserted random non-year extras before every segment? We don't need that!
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Post by davewollenberg on Sept 26, 2015 19:28:48 GMT -5
Premiere COULD do that. The top 4 songs that were about to debut in the top 40, could be played, 1 at the end of each hour. The top 3, for those songs pre-Oct. '78.
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