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Post by mycool44 on Dec 21, 2006 13:22:43 GMT -5
Someone had mentioned that XM may be running the year-end countdown from 1976 and coincidentally enough, I pulled out my own copy and listened to it a couple of weeks ago.
3 interesting notes:
-At #76 is "Fox on the Run" by Sweet. Casey tells the story of how this particular band started out as teen pop sensations, but then turned away from that image and began writing their own songs to gain credibility. However, Casey NEVER reveals the name of the band until AFTER the song has played. Not sure if this was a simple oversight by everyone from the writer to Casey to Nicky the producer... or more likely, an edit had to be made in post that made it impossible not to lose the name of the band.
-Casey mentions that "Disco Duck" and "Convoy" are the 2 novelty songs in the top 100 of the year. Why wasn't Larry Groce's "Junk Food Junkie" at #74 ever considered a novelty hit?
-Just a piece of bad editing by Tom Rounds. In the montage of all the #1 songs from the chart year of '76 (the medley is played in hours 4 & 8), the clip of "Shake Your Booty" by KC & the Sunshine Band is nothing short of disastrous. lol
Otherwise, a great show.
Happy Holidays to all the AT40 fans!
-Michael
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Post by mycool44 on Dec 21, 2006 13:25:02 GMT -5
Whoops, sorry - "Junk Food Junkie" was #94 for the year, not #74.
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Post by jlbass on Dec 24, 2006 21:54:15 GMT -5
For those interested, the 1976 YE part 1 will be broadcast on Saturday 12/30/2006 at the normal time (11am Central Time). Check out www.xmradio.com for more details (program schedule). Most likely, part 2 will follow the next Saturday. Rebroadcasts on Wed at 9pm (Central Time) John |
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Post by pandy on Dec 25, 2006 8:07:38 GMT -5
I think "Shake your Booty" was meant to be a gag of the song rather than bad editing. The word "SHAKE" was repeated three times each in medium then up and medium and low tempos, if I recalled. I have the 76 countdown that I transfered to CD from reel tape. I believe on the 77 countdown the song which was #1 for the year was "I Just Want to be Your Everything" by Barry Gibb was played backwards on the montage may have been a bad edit or it was to deter the listeners from identifying the #1 song of the year especially when it was played before the #1 song of the year.
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Post by at40petebattistini on Dec 29, 2006 5:12:14 GMT -5
Here's a Top 100 of 1976 memory.......this eight hour countdown was the first one that I remember listening to outside of a Sunday morning time slot. I regularly listened (and tape recorded) the show on Chicago's WDHF. The station started running promos for a New Year's Eve broadcast of AT40's Top 100 of the year about a week or two before. It was exciting to see the station air the program outside of its Sunday morning 7-10 am time period.
Starting at 4pm that Friday afternoon (December 31, 1976), AT40 was afforded an unusual showcase time that undoubtedly generated new listeners.
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Post by johnnywest on Dec 21, 2014 15:22:25 GMT -5
I was too young to be aware of what was popular back then. Probably the only Top 40 songs I was that familiar with were "Happy Days" and "Laverne & Shirley" (or "Making Our Dreams Come True").
But in the last 20 years or so, I've really grown to love a lot of music from the mid 70s.
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Post by dukelightning on Dec 21, 2014 18:20:01 GMT -5
Here's a Top 100 of 1976 memory.......this eight hour countdown was the first one that I remember listening to outside of a Sunday morning time slot. I regularly listened (and tape recorded) the show on Chicago's WDHF. The station started running promos for a New Year's Eve broadcast of AT40's Top 100 of the year about a week or two before. It was exciting to see the station air the program outside of its Sunday morning 7-10 am time period. Starting at 4pm that Friday afternoon (December 31, 1976), AT40 was afforded an unusual showcase time that undoubtedly generated new listeners. Not sure I have ever in 3600+ posts ever quoted something from 8 years ago but 4pm on New Year's Eve was also the time that my local station in Albany, NY...WTRY aired the year end countdown. One reason stations did this had to be so that no DJ would have to work on New Year's Eve. |
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Post by chrislc on Dec 22, 2014 10:04:03 GMT -5
Here's a Top 100 of 1976 memory.......this eight hour countdown was the first one that I remember listening to outside of a Sunday morning time slot. I regularly listened (and tape recorded) the show on Chicago's WDHF. The station started running promos for a New Year's Eve broadcast of AT40's Top 100 of the year about a week or two before. It was exciting to see the station air the program outside of its Sunday morning 7-10 am time period. Starting at 4pm that Friday afternoon (December 31, 1976), AT40 was afforded an unusual showcase time that undoubtedly generated new listeners. Not sure I have ever in 3600+ posts ever quoted something from 8 years ago but 4pm on New Year's Eve was also the time that my local station in Albany, NY...WTRY aired the year end countdown. One reason stations did this had to be so that no DJ would have to work on New Year's Eve. Four years later during Year End Countdown Week on WTRY I know a DJ was working - but he or she must have taken a bathroom break, because Lovely One skipped and skipped and skipped. It must not have been on cart anymore, which I found surprising at such a good station. Buy more carts, Big Dan! Of course nothing like that ever happened to me (sarcasm). |
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Post by johnnywest on Dec 27, 2019 11:30:57 GMT -5
I’m looking forward to hearing this show again. It’s one of the better Top 100 countdowns of the decade, plus we’ll have two new optional extras this time around.
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Post by mrjukebox on Dec 27, 2019 12:52:43 GMT -5
"Junk Food Junkie" was certainly a novelty hit-I first heard it on "The Dr.Demento Show" in the fall of 1975-Larry Groce was a guest on the doctor's show the following spring.
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Post by DJ Particle on Dec 30, 2019 3:27:18 GMT -5
"Junk Food Junkie" was certainly a novelty hit-I first heard it on "The Dr.Demento Show" in the fall of 1975-Larry Groce was a guest on the doctor's show the following spring. Groce also performed the song live on Dr. D's show, and Doc played that live version for the song's entry on the Funny 25 of 1976. It's pretty rare that a song ends up on the year-end charts of both Dr. Demento and AT40. And it happened for the first time in YEARS in 2019... "Old Town Road" by Li'l Nas X was #28 on AT40's Top 40 of the year, and #3 on the Funny 25 of 2019. The last time a song did that was at year-end 1982 with Buckner & Garcia's "Pac-Man Fever" |
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