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Post by jgve1952 on Apr 13, 2024 14:54:56 GMT -5
4/20/74 is a great show-There's a boatload of forgotten favorites such as "Eres Tu","Midnight At The Oasis","The Entertainer","The Show Must Go On","Tubular Bells",& "The Lord's Prayer". Most of these are played regularly on 70's on 7 on Sirius XM.
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Post by at40petebattistini on Apr 13, 2024 15:23:53 GMT -5
4/20/74 is a great show-There's a boatload of forgotten favorites such as "Eres Tu","Midnight At The Oasis","The Entertainer","The Show Must Go On","Tubular Bells",& "The Lord's Prayer". And Albert Hammond's other top 40 single (as "The Free Electric Band" inexplicably petered out at 48 a year prior), "I'm a Train". I'm a chucka-train! This week's modes of transportation: "Jet", "The Locomotion" and "I'm A Train"
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Post by jmack19 on Apr 13, 2024 16:07:08 GMT -5
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Post by lasvegaskid on Apr 13, 2024 16:55:49 GMT -5
This weekends 1974 show on WTOJ will be Supersized, but it didn't need a lot. It's only going to be about 5 minutes longer. Of course, since I play the optional extras and since the commercial load is quite heavy right now, it will probably run until 20 after noon anyways. I wouldn't call Supersized then, more like Large
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Post by Rodney on Apr 13, 2024 20:25:04 GMT -5
4/20/74 is a great show-There's a boatload of forgotten favorites such as "Eres Tu","Midnight At The Oasis","The Entertainer","The Show Must Go On","Tubular Bells",& "The Lord's Prayer". Call me crazy, but I LOVE these songs… not a huge fan of “Show Must Go On” (although I don’t dislike it)… but I really love all the other ones… as odd (unique) as they all are. :-)
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Post by dth1971 on Apr 13, 2024 21:31:04 GMT -5
Regarding this week's AT40: The 70's 4/20/1974 show: * For the first OPTIONAL EXTRA of "The Streak" by Ray Stevens, did you like Larry Morgan doing his "DON'T LOOK, ETHEL!" impersonation? Even Ray Stevens is the only singer to hit #1 with a serious song and a novelty song. * Casey mentioned songs with "Sunshine" in their title, but he called the Cream song "Sunshine of My Love" instead of "Sunshine of Your Love"! Besides the ones Casey mentioned, I can remember these post 1974 Sunshine songs: "Sunshine" by Dino, and "Steal My Sunshine" by Len. * I even like the snippets of the original 1962 "Looking For a Love" by the Valentinos (featuring Bobby Womack as a member who would later cover the song on his own) and Johnathan King's 1971 take on "Hooked on a Feeling" (That's where the OGGA CHAKAS came from for the Blue Suede version!).
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Post by lasvegaskid on Apr 14, 2024 8:00:31 GMT -5
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Post by mrjukebox on Apr 14, 2024 8:47:33 GMT -5
"The Entertainer" by Marvin Hamlisch is one of the five debut records from this week's A show presentation 4/20/74-I remember seeing "The Sting" at Christmastime 1973 & thought it was a great movie-I remember buying the 45 of "The Entertainer" a few months later-It's a certifiable guilty pleasure.
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Post by lasvegaskid on Apr 14, 2024 12:02:19 GMT -5
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Post by rgmike on Apr 14, 2024 12:09:33 GMT -5
Casey: "That's Dobie Gray, sounding like Joe Cocker..." Uh, sorry Casey, but Dobie Gray sounded NOTHING like Joe Cocker OTOH, this week Casey said Billy Joel sounded a bit like Harry Chapin, which makes more sense -- quite a few folks thought that in early '74.
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Post by 1finemrg on Apr 14, 2024 19:49:42 GMT -5
Too bad the best song in the Top 40 only peaked at #39.
If you're wondering why it peaked at #39 after 10 weeks but hung in the Hot 100 for 19 weeks, Chicago radio may have had something to do with it.
In late May, "Star Baby" would peak at #3 on both WLS and WCFL.
Chart action after week 8: 43-39-47-52-57-57-52-46-55-55-57
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Post by mkarns on Apr 14, 2024 19:52:55 GMT -5
"The Entertainer" by Marvin Hamlisch is one of the five debut records from this week's A show presentation 4/20/74-I remember seeing "The Sting" at Christmastime 1973 & thought it was a great movie-I remember buying the 45 of "The Entertainer" a few months later-It's a certifiable guilty pleasure. Though its use in the movie is a bit of a historical anachronism. The Sting is set in 1936, and ragtime probably wasn’t that popular then (big band swing was becoming the main thing musically.). But it sure helped make the music popular again in the 1970s, adding to a Scott Joplin revival that included successful performances of his ragtime opera Treemonisha, which flopped the one time it was staged in Joplin’s lifetime.
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Post by lasvegaskid on Apr 15, 2024 8:09:59 GMT -5
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Post by jgve1952 on Apr 15, 2024 16:44:52 GMT -5
Two out of the three artists are sadly no longer with us
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Post by matt on Apr 16, 2024 11:36:47 GMT -5
Two out of the three artists are sadly no longer with us Hard to believe that Andy Gibb has been gone for 36 years. I remember well when the news came out that he had died. I was in 8th grade at the time and other than John Lennon, there had not been another artist whose songs I remembered hearing that much on the radio (plus I had watched Solid Gold a bunch when Andy was host) that had died so suddenly and so young. It felt like such a sad ending to his life and once promising career.
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