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Post by mrjukebox on Aug 14, 2014 19:55:56 GMT -5
Prediction for next week's show:8/24/74
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Post by Michael on Aug 15, 2014 17:39:14 GMT -5
This weeks optional extras are: 8/16/1975 Hour #1: "Theme from 'Jaws'" - John Williams I wonder if they choose Jaws because it's Shark week on the Discovey Channel.
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Post by dukelightning on Aug 16, 2014 10:53:04 GMT -5
That's possibly the only time Casey ever mentioned 2 songs that were in the 80s on the Hot 100 on teh same show. Mentioned Frank Sinatra debuting at 81 the previous week although it was actually 2 weeks earlier(recording the show a week early must have tripped him up) and Captain & Tennille debuting at 86 with their Spanish version of "Love Will Keep Us Together". Sinatra did not fulfill Casey's wish of hitting the top 40 to extend his own record but he would ultimately with the "Theme from New York, New York" in 1980. The record Casey mentioned peaked at 47 and is Sinatra's biggest hit of the 70s...too bad he could not have made the 40 as it would have given him top 40 hits in every decade from the 40s to the 80s. Captain & Tennille peaked close to that position themselves at 49 with their song. BTW, that's 2 former #1 songs that rebounded this week. Wonder if LWKUT rebounded as a result of the Spanish version hitting the chart in a bit of a coattail situation.
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Post by mrjukebox on Aug 16, 2014 11:05:53 GMT -5
I was listening to "The Lost 45's" last night & host Barry Scott did a brief interview with Michael Murphy of "Wildfire" fame-Barry played the follow up release to "Wildfire" which was called "Carolina In The Pines"-Murphy said that The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band played & sang background vocals on both of those songs which I thought was pretty cool.
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Post by tzmac on Aug 16, 2014 11:19:43 GMT -5
Thanks to PD Jeff Kelly of WBBG for correcting a programming error that was causing a promo bleed over the return of AT40 following the second commerical break.
Traditionally WBBG has had flawless programming. This was the only time I have ever noticed a hitch and have listened to AT40 on WBBG for years.
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Post by tzmac on Aug 16, 2014 11:22:17 GMT -5
Wow - the second segment on today's 08.16.75 show consisted of 6 songs, running about 19 minutes, Pretty rare to have a segment with that many songs.
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Post by blackbowl68 on Aug 16, 2014 12:05:31 GMT -5
You wouldn't know at the time, but this week's 1975 show was the last of three consecutive weeks in which all twelve of the tracks used for Dickie Goodman's legendary hit "Mr. Jaws" were in the countdown at the same time.
Interestingly on the 8/09/75 show, all but one were in the top 20 & eight were in the top 10! If the late Mr. Goodman was using the BB Hot 100 to determine what records to use, he likely was looking at that week's chart.
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Post by mkarns on Aug 16, 2014 20:05:58 GMT -5
KOOL 94.5 finally has the playlist posted... all optional extras were guessed but no one guessed all three: Hour #1: "Theme From Jaws" by John Williams Hour #2: "I'm Sorry" by John Denver Hour #3: "SOS" by ABBA Of note is the fact that this week's optional extras have new intros from Larry Morgan. Lately on the 1970s countdowns the optional extra intros have most often either been replayed from earlier broadcasts or consisted of Casey's lines from old shows pieced together into "new" introductions.
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Post by 1finemrg on Aug 16, 2014 20:35:23 GMT -5
I was listening to "The Lost 45's" last night & host Barry Scott did a brief interview with Michael Murphy of "Wildfire" fame-Barry played the follow up release to "Wildfire" which was called "Carolina In The Pines"-Murphy said that The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band played & sang background vocals on both of those songs which I thought was pretty cool. Thanks for the info. "Carolina In The Pines" is a great song written to his then wife. Used to play the "Blue Sky-Night Thunder" album all the time as well as the follow-up "Swans Against The Sun". Had the priviledge of seeing Michael Murphey (as known at the time) at a small club in 1976. He put on a great show. Although he sounds much different, his first Top 40 single "Geronimo's Cadillac" is great too!
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Post by rgmike on Aug 16, 2014 21:44:37 GMT -5
Love how Casey intros and outros "Tush" using the Yiddish pronunciation (toosh) while ZZTop pronounce it with a short "u" throughout the song.
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Post by mga707 on Aug 16, 2014 21:48:24 GMT -5
Love how Casey intros and outros "Tush" using the Yiddish pronunciation (toosh) while ZZTop pronounce it with a short "u" throughout the song. ...that's the Texas Yiddish way. Oy vey, y'all!
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Post by mga707 on Aug 16, 2014 22:37:44 GMT -5
I was listening to "The Lost 45's" last night & host Barry Scott did a brief interview with Michael Murphy of "Wildfire" fame-Barry played the follow up release to "Wildfire" which was called "Carolina In The Pines"-Murphy said that The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band played & sang background vocals on both of those songs which I thought was pretty cool. Thanks for the info. "Carolina In The Pines" is a great song written to his then wife. Used to play the "Blue Sky-Night Thunder" album all the time as well as the follow-up "Swans Against The Sun". Had the priviledge of seeing Michael Murphey (as known at the time) at a small club in 1976. He put on a great show. Although he sounds much different, his first Top 40 single "Geronimo's Cadillac" is great too! His next single after "Carolina", "Renegade" (different song than the Styx hit), which spent two weeks at #39 in February of '76, was also a bit different-sounding: Harder-edged.
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Post by 1finemrg on Aug 17, 2014 5:34:44 GMT -5
Thanks for the info. "Carolina In The Pines" is a great song written to his then wife. Used to play the "Blue Sky-Night Thunder" album all the time as well as the follow-up "Swans Against The Sun". Had the priviledge of seeing Michael Murphey (as known at the time) at a small club in 1976. He put on a great show. Although he sounds much different, his first Top 40 single "Geronimo's Cadillac" is great too! His next single after "Carolina", "Renegade" (different song than the Styx hit), which spent two weeks at #39 in February of '76, was also a bit different-sounding: Harder-edged. That's a good one too. Lots of guest appearances on the song and the "Swans Against The Sun" album. Charlie Daniels, Willie Nelson and John Denver all make guest appearances.
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Post by briguy52748 on Aug 17, 2014 10:12:45 GMT -5
This one is for Brian, our country music fan... On this week's AT40 /70s program from Premiere, we heard Olivia Newton-John's "Please Mr. Please" where she asks a "button-pushing cowboy" not to play the jukebox's B17. Assuming the record she doesn't want to hear is a country song in this fictional scenario -- and all in the spirit of fun -- I'd like you to take a guess what 1975 current or oldie could she be talking about. According to Olivia, if "it was our song, it was his song", more than likely it *wasn't* "Third Rate Romance". lol Pete: Sorry, don't have a guess at hand. Thanks for the question, however. Brian
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Post by dougbroda on Aug 17, 2014 10:53:38 GMT -5
This seems to be the week for stations, even those that are usually good, to mess up automation. KOKZ's 70s broadcast came late into the intro to #9 Midnight Blue (the intro starts with "Forty"). (This pales, though, compared to the mess KKLI had with the 80s this week -- coming out of ads late at least four times, and three times into the songs themselves.)
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