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Post by bottlerocket on Jan 27, 2015 18:43:26 GMT -5
I was looking through some old charts and it's funny how "Love Is Thicker Than Water" knocked out "Stayin' Alive" only to be knocked out by "Night Fever". Can anyone think of another time the top 2 songs in the country were by siblings? Really quite a remarkable achievement among the many feats the brothers Gibb performed in 1978.
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Post by Mike on Jan 28, 2015 15:46:09 GMT -5
As with his guesses for the 80s extras this week, kchkwong guessed two out of the four. But over here, that makes him the winner for the week, as he was the only one to get more than one correct. Also unlike the 80s (and like last week), there was one that no one guessed.
This week's extras are:
"I Just Fall In Love Again" - Anne Murray "Dog And Butterfly" - Heart "Every Which Way But Loose" - Eddie Rabbitt (the odd one out) "Crazy Love" - Poco
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Post by matt on Jan 28, 2015 18:08:50 GMT -5
Prediction for next week's show:
1st Guess: 2/11/78 2nd Guess: 2/5/72
Honestly, I don't think the '72 show has much of a chance of being played, but I can't come up with a better option for a second guess for next week. Seems like it almost has to be 1978...
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Post by mrjukebox on Jan 28, 2015 22:17:33 GMT -5
Prediction for next week's show:2/11/78
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Post by johnnywest on Jan 29, 2015 22:56:36 GMT -5
I was looking through some old charts and it's funny how "Love Is Thicker Than Water" knocked out "Stayin' Alive" only to be knocked out by "Night Fever". Can anyone think of another time the top 2 songs in the country were by siblings? Really quite a remarkable achievement among the many feats the brothers Gibb performed in 1978. I think that's the only time that's ever happened. It's even rare for siblings to have #1s in the same calendar year, although it happened most recently in 2004 when Jessica Simpsons and Ashlee Simpson hit #1 on AT40. If you go by R&R's published dates and not Casey's Top 40 airdates, then Janet and Michael Jackson both had #1s in 1991.
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Post by Mike on Jan 30, 2015 0:23:20 GMT -5
I was looking through some old charts and it's funny how "Love Is Thicker Than Water" knocked out "Stayin' Alive" only to be knocked out by "Night Fever". Can anyone think of another time the top 2 songs in the country were by siblings? Really quite a remarkable achievement among the many feats the brothers Gibb performed in 1978. I think that's the only time that's ever happened. It's even rare for siblings to have #1s in the same calendar year, although it happened most recently in 2004 when Jessica Simpsons and Ashlee Simpson hit #1 on AT40. If you go by R&R's published dates and not Casey's Top 40 airdates, then Janet and Michael Jackson both had #1s in 1991. Indeed; Michael and Janet had the first and last #1s that year. Only Madonna, who came before Janet, prevented this from also being the case on the Hot 100.
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Post by darnall42 on Jan 30, 2015 11:55:18 GMT -5
Aussie station 2NVR Nambucca valley radio just starting july 27th,1974 chart
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Post by mkarns on Jan 30, 2015 14:28:31 GMT -5
I think that's the only time that's ever happened. It's even rare for siblings to have #1s in the same calendar year, although it happened most recently in 2004 when Jessica Simpsons and Ashlee Simpson hit #1 on AT40. If you go by R&R's published dates and not Casey's Top 40 airdates, then Janet and Michael Jackson both had #1s in 1991. Indeed; Michael and Janet had the first and last #1s that year. Only Madonna, who came before Janet, prevented this from also being the case on the Hot 100. On AT40 with Shadoe, as well as on the Hot 100, Michael's "Black or White" and Janet's "Love Will Never Do (Without You)" were both #1 in 1991. It wasn't that way on CT40 because of when the year end countdown was scheduled; it took up the last two weekends of 1991, so "Black Or White" wasn't presented at #1 until January 1992. (I think Rick Dees was the same way.)
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Post by darnall42 on Jan 31, 2015 4:45:06 GMT -5
A bit of a coincidence with the seasons in the sun extra on the 1974 show and the sad passing away of Rod McKuen this week
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Post by davewollenberg on Jan 31, 2015 7:41:20 GMT -5
Bit of bad automation with 'Jacob's ladder' it kept starting over on WMMX radio.
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Post by dmvden on Jan 31, 2015 11:44:49 GMT -5
Wow in the 2/3/79 countdown Casey included four AT40 extras (in addition to the usual three archive hits of 60s #1s). They must have had a lot of time to fill. Is this a record for most AT40 extras baked into a countdown (i.e. not the ones that Premiere has added)?
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Post by BrettVW on Jan 31, 2015 14:16:23 GMT -5
Wow in the 2/3/79 countdown Casey included four AT40 extras (in addition to the usual three archive hits of 60s #1s). They must have had a lot of time to fill. Is this a record for most AT40 extras baked into a countdown (i.e. not the ones that Premiere has added)? I am not sure about the Casey/Shadoe era but I know a recent AT40 with Ryan has eight non-optional extras.
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Post by mct1 on Jan 31, 2015 17:20:06 GMT -5
AT40 expanded to four hours with the first week of October, 1978, but one of the new features that was introduced to fill extra time, the recaps of last week's top three, didn't begin until the last week of February 1979. The shows from in between often have multiple seemingly random extras.
Another period that was a hotbed of extras was the show's first few months on the air in 1970. IIRC, Premiere has re-run a few shows from that time frame with as many as six extras, although that may have included "the song that was #1 on this date [5,10,15,20] years ago", which could be considered a regular feature in that era, similar to the recaps and archive songs later on. (Another regular feature in the show's early days, though it wasn't around yet at the very beginning, was to play a song from that week's #1 album.) It's my understanding that Top 40 stations of the era would typically mix in an "oldie" every so many songs, and AT40 appears to have been trying to emulate that. The extras soon declined in number, probably due to some combination of the countdown songs getting longer (so there wasn't as much time available to play extras) and staff simply deciding to play fewer of them.
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Post by 80sat40fan on Jan 31, 2015 18:40:43 GMT -5
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Post by dukelightning on Jan 31, 2015 18:57:09 GMT -5
What a great move by AT40 to play the full length album version running over 7 minutes of "Living For the City". This cut shows more than any other single anyway how Stevie had taken on social issues with a vengeance on his current album. Posts above reference extras and their frequency on AT40. The 1974 show is right in the middle of a 3+ year period where you could count the number of extras played on one hand. And this is an example of that strategy playing an album version of a song in lieu of playing some silly extra. I wish they did this more often during the time frames where they had extra time. BTW, not playing the second version of "The Americans" was why they had extra time in this show.
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