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Post by lasvegaskid on May 7, 2023 14:07:10 GMT -5
Starting off this week's Casey lite from 1989, Mark Goofman mentioned he didn't remember the leadoff song. That was a growing problem in the late 80s. Tunes, especially those that never lifted out of the 30s didn't have a far reaching base. Would Shadoe have been better off as AT30 and more.
Keep the show at 4hrs, but only play the top 30, full length with the extra time filled by some of the feature suggestions here.
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Post by mga707 on May 7, 2023 14:17:11 GMT -5
Starting off this week's Casey lite from 1989, Mark Goofman mentioned he didn't remember the leadoff song. "Downtown" by One Too Many. Peaked at 37 two weeks later. Guess I'm as dumb as 'Goofman' (good one), as I don't recall it either.
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Post by lasvegaskid on May 7, 2023 14:50:43 GMT -5
Starting off this week's Casey lite from 1989, Mark Goofman mentioned he didn't remember the leadoff song. "Downtown" by One Too Many. Peaked at 37 two weeks later. Guess I'm as dumb as 'Goofman' (good one), as I don't recall it either. I like it, an early MTV Tracy Ulliman They Don't Know kinda feel, hard to believe it couldn't push past #37.
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Post by OnWithTheCountdown on May 7, 2023 23:15:46 GMT -5
"Downtown" got considerable airplay in my area at that time. I remember the song very well and came across it during the 2000s, going through my "memory bank". And of course another decade later when I acquired the shows.
That song surely deserved better; had a feel good, happy sound to it.
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Post by jlthorpe on May 10, 2023 19:26:32 GMT -5
Heard it on an old Shadoe AT40 I listened to about a decade ago, immediately liked it. Actually, it sounded kind of familiar to me, but not sure where I could have heard it. A commercial, maybe? I wasn't listening to the radio in 1989.
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Post by djjoe1960 on May 18, 2023 7:00:17 GMT -5
One other possible option for keeping AT40 a 3 hour show that I thought of would've been to play just about a 30-second segment of any Top 10 hit working its way down the chart. I think if a song stayed in the Top 40 for more than 10-12 weeks it would've been pretty familiar to most listeners to the show and could've saved time for newer songs to be played in their entirety, without serious editing.
Just my thought.
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Post by lasvegaskid on May 25, 2023 17:33:29 GMT -5
By the mid 80s they were butchering again. It wasn't as bad as 77/78, but they already needed a 5th hour. As part of that 5th hour, they could have done #1s of the 80s, as previously done with the 70s and 60s. Also instead of just mentioning the #1s on the Country chart, etc, Casey could have played the entire tune. I don't think there was enough "butchering" to justify a 5th hour. And quite frankly I wonder how peoples' attention spans could handle 5 hours. If there had been expansion beyond 4 hours, then it would probably have been cut back to 4 later. If anyone's listened to the current AT40 lately, it could probably be cut back to 3 hours now without chopping up the countdown songs too much. I think if the countdown were being created now it might well only be 30 songs, but the AT40 brand is probably too well established to be messed with. You are looking at it through the eyes of a diehard. But for the causal/ fringe listener, they only did spot listening. And in the mid 80s when automation wasn't that prevalent yet, one of the selling points of AT40 was eating up hours in those early AM/ late PM weekend time slots when stations didn't wanna pay for a live DJ.
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Post by lasvegaskid on Dec 25, 2023 16:15:56 GMT -5
I like the first show of 1981 when instead of the prior week top 3 recap, they played the top three songs of 1980.
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Post by LC on Dec 26, 2023 23:11:37 GMT -5
I wish they had done a countdown of the top songs of the 80s, the way they did the top songs of the 70s. Never understood why they didn't.
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Post by OnWithTheCountdown on Dec 27, 2023 4:02:00 GMT -5
I wish they had done a countdown of the top songs of the 80s, the way they did the top songs of the 70s. Never understood why they didn't. I'm glad one of them did a top 100 of 1989 though, as the final year of the decade tends to "get the shaft" in terms of the year-end countdown, because a decade-end would need to fit in. Casey's Top 40 compiled a Top 40 #1's of the 80s, counted down on New Year's weekend. (Then, on Thanksgiving weekend 1990, Casey counted down the Top 40 Million Sellers Of The 80s.) The only other final year of the decade that got a top 100 since AT40's birth was 2009*, which aired in two parts, followed by the decade-end top 40. So there were four weeks in between regular shows (12/12/2009 and 1/9/2010). My guess is AT40 wanted a top 100, and maybe the schedule didn't work for both a top 100 of the year, followed by a decade-end countdown (though the current AT40 did that for 2009 and the 2000s). In turn, Casey's Top 40 only counted down the top 40 of 1989. The charts moved very fast that year (really the latter part of the 1980s through 1992-1993), a top 40 wouldn't have been sufficient, much unlike these days. * - 1979 not included since originally only a top 50 was done; Ken Martin would later artificially create a top 100.
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Post by lasvegaskid on Apr 22, 2024 20:45:26 GMT -5
Aren't John Tesh and Delilah 5 hrs? George Noory?? Some overnights like Steve Sommers? OK, you've got me there. Always loathed those first two, especially Mr. Holier-than-thou Tesh, so don't even know if either is still around. Hopefully not. But yes, forgot about Noory, the heir to the late, great Art Bell on "Coast To Coast AM". Hopefully he's still around, even though AM is circling the drain. Sommers I've not heard of. Those to me are different than a show like AT40. More of a 'passive listen' while you're doing something else, like trying to stay awake on an overnight shift. AT40 is more of an 'active listen'. Speaking of George Noory here is Casey's interview... www.coasttocoastam.com/show/2007-02-12-show/
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