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Post by cleary71 on Aug 11, 2011 21:24:04 GMT -5
Can someone explain to me the chart dates. When I look at oldradioshows.com at the first show listed it is for 7/4/70 (http://www.oldradioshows.com/at40/070470.html), but that show is really 7/11/70 on the billboard charts. I am guessing it was recorded a week ahead of time? It appears that in later shows the recording date and billboard date are the same. Any help regarding this would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
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Post by dukelightning on Aug 11, 2011 21:38:50 GMT -5
You are correct. They recorded the show a week in advance in 1970 and until May 1971 when they started doing the show a week later. So ever since then, the dates were not an issue.
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Post by kchkwong on Aug 11, 2011 21:41:43 GMT -5
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Post by saltrek on Aug 11, 2011 22:03:11 GMT -5
I wonder if that is a mistake. Does anyone know for sure? Pete? I wasn't listening to AT 40 back then, and the second show has never been aired during the retro series. Also, the first two shows' cue sheets are not available from the Charis site.
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Post by dukelightning on Aug 11, 2011 22:08:23 GMT -5
The date of the second show is the mistake. If you click on the second show, you will notice a different top 40 than that of the first show. So the top 40 songs listed are correct.
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Post by matt on Aug 12, 2011 9:14:17 GMT -5
My understanding is that the shows were always tracked around 10 days ahead of the Billboard chart date. The difference in that early July 1970 - May 1971 period was that they cut the shows, produced the LP's or tapes, and overnighted them to the stations all in the 3-4 days between the tracking session and the coming weekend for the shows to be played. The thought was that it gave listeners the Billboard top 40 before the magazine for that week hit the stands. It sounds like the trouble with this was that as AT40 started picking up more and more stations, the distribution became more difficult and left no margin for error. Shipping internationally was really a challenge.
Starting in May 1971, they still tracked the shows around 10 days ahead of the chart date, but instead of rushing everything to get them out to be played that weekend, the staff was able to have more time to put the shows together, ship them, and make sure the subscribing stations got them in time to play the weekend of the chart date. For anyone who has Pete's 70's book, there is a photo of a calendar in late 1975 that has the staff's schedule of tracking sessions, etc. on it--this calendar shot gives a pretty good idea of how tracking sessions were scheduled in relation to the shows.
Any of you that have more intimate knowledge, please correct me if any of this is inaccurate but from what I have read, it seems to be how things were done.
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