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Post by rgmike on Apr 11, 2015 19:11:53 GMT -5
"Sounds like they're in love" says Casey after playing "Stay Awhile". Actually it sounds like they need singing lessons -- easily the worst-sung vocal duet to ever make the Top Ten. One of my all-time Jukebox From Hell candidates. Torture.
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Post by mkarns on Apr 11, 2015 19:18:09 GMT -5
"Sounds like they're in love" says Casey after playing "Stay Awhile". Actually it sounds like they need singing lessons -- easily the worst-sung vocal duet to ever make the Top Ten. One of my all-time Jukebox From Hell candidates. Torture. The previous week (played by SXM last week) Casey outroed the same song by saying "Ooh! Smooth and sensual" (or something to that effect.)
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Post by 1finemrg on Apr 11, 2015 21:57:06 GMT -5
"Timothy" was the talk of my elementary school when it came out, spent hours by the radio waiting for it! We would hear from the song's writer, Rupert Holmes at the end of the decade.
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Post by countdownmike on Apr 11, 2015 22:57:35 GMT -5
The WHAT'S GOIN ON by Marvin Gaye is the single release which was way ahead of the album, so they added the beginning party noises for the LP version. I have this single and it does have an interesting production, a little dryer than what we hear today. At the end believe it or not it fades all the way out for a few seconds, then comes back in for a few more seconds before the real fade. When I bought the album that part was taken out. The album version is what appears on compilations and the versions radio stations picked up after its initial release. I believe even AT40 let the single fade-out happen on the show. I seem to remember that back then but haven't heard that in these reruns. Radio DJs were fooled by this fade and starting talking, only to have Marvin blast them out for a few seconds!
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Post by at40petebattistini on Apr 12, 2015 0:46:11 GMT -5
The WHAT'S GOIN ON by Marvin Gaye is the single release which was way ahead of the album, so they added the beginning party noises for the LP version. I have this single and it does have an interesting production, a little dryer than what we hear today. At the end believe it or not it fades all the way out for a few seconds, then comes back in for a few more seconds before the real fade. When I bought the album that part was taken out. The album version is what appears on compilations and the versions radio stations picked up after its initial release. I believe even AT40 let the single fade-out happen on the show. I seem to remember that back then but haven't heard that in these reruns. Radio DJs were fooled by this fade and starting talking, only to have Marvin blast them out for a few seconds! Mike, During the 1971 year-end show, Casey played the full fade-out/return of this record. He pointed out this production oddity and then admitted he didn't know "What's Going On"
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Post by countdownmike on Apr 12, 2015 9:27:10 GMT -5
Thanks, Pete! I had to have heard this. I remember getting in the mail a blue and white poster with the 100 songs of 1971 on it. I wrote in for it and I think I have it in my stuff somewhere still. I recall listening to the show but the fade being acknowledged escapes me unless I fell asleep back then! I was only a high-school kid:) The song is on today but I'll miss it as I'll be in church by then.
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Post by countdownmike on Apr 12, 2015 9:33:21 GMT -5
Oh my God! Honky Tonk by Bill Doggett. My dad and I LOVED this song! It's on AT40 right now. Can't believe it!
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Post by albe on Apr 12, 2015 9:40:16 GMT -5
Oh my God! Honky Tonk by Bill Doggett. My dad and I LOVED this song! It's on AT40 right now. Can't believe it! Mike its great to know that the simple things in life makes you so ecstatic
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Post by dukelightning on Apr 12, 2015 10:59:01 GMT -5
As the author of a thread titles AT40 Firsts, I should point that there is fairly significant first on this week's "A" show. It is the first #1 in AT40 history, actually happened the first time the previous week when "Just My Imagination" hit the top, that is not sung by the then current lineup of the artist doing it. Eddie Kendricks had left the Temps about a month earlier. Casey never mentioned this fact during the song's chart run. BTW, it debuted on 2/20/71 so his departure occurred during that run. (Had AT40 started in January instead of July 1970, this situation would have occurred exactly a year earlier with "Let it Be" hitting #1 on the chart dated 4/11/70, a day after the Beatles announced their breakup). Also the album JMI comes from was still not released or at least charted at the time the song was #1. That is odd considering that JMI is the SECOND single from it with "Unite the World" being the first and charting back in October of 1970. 'Sky's the Limit' charted in May 1971 some 7 months after the first single debuted. Because of Kendricks' departure, the third single "Smiling Face Sometimes" was bypassed for a re-recorded version of "It's Summer" that was the B side to the previous summer's hit "Ball of Confusion". It missed the top 40. SFS was bypassed because Kendricks sang on it and was given to the Undisputed Truth who of course had a big hit with it.
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Post by packerfan on Apr 12, 2015 11:08:04 GMT -5
Why is it that Oldies 95.7 keeps screwing up hour 2. In the final segment before the top of the hour they keep jumping back to the show they played 3 weeks ago. The Moody Blues are awesome but I'm Just A Singer In a Rock N Roll Band isn't suppose to be on the top 40 this week. Anyone else having this issue?
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Post by countdownmike on Apr 12, 2015 14:02:39 GMT -5
albe, you're so right. I get ecstatic about the little positives vs. stressin' over all the negatives. It might keep me around and healthy a lot longer! I'm sure if a lot of outsiders see some of our posts about a 45 year-old radio show and the song trivia they might get a giggle out of it!
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Post by mga707 on Apr 12, 2015 14:27:30 GMT -5
Thanks, Pete! I had to have heard this. I remember getting in the mail a blue and white poster with the 100 songs of 1971 on it. I wrote in for it and I think I have it in my stuff somewhere still. I recall listening to the show but the fade being acknowledged escapes me unless I fell asleep back then! I was only a high-school kid:) The song is on today but I'll miss it as I'll be in church by then. I had that same poster, along with the one from a year earlier, so I feel that I must make a minor correction: The 1970 poster did list the Top 80 songs of 1970, as AT40 counted down the final two weeks of that year. The 1971 poster, however, only listed the Top 40 songs of 1971, along with the Top 40 Christmas Hits, as again, that is what they played on the final two shows of 1971. I rmember being really bummed about this, as I would have much rather had the Top 80 of 1971! The 1970 year-end poster had an 'action shot' of Casey at the mike in the studio, while the 1971 poster had a 'glamor shot'-type head shot of Mr. Kasem. I was eagerly hoping for a similar poster offer at the end of 1972, but alas, none was offered, nor was any other year. Not until the early 1979 publication of the 1978 "AT40 Yearbook." Again, that was not the first in a yearly series, unfortunately. I still have the 1978 Yearbook, but I long ago threw out the 1970 and 1971 posters--stupid me! Maybe someone on here has them and could post them? Would be great to view them again.
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Post by countdownmike on Apr 12, 2015 14:50:22 GMT -5
mga707, I beat myself up all the time about stuff I threw away, but fortunately it wasn't a lot of radio stuff, except for some 70s 45 record-sleeves. OUCH! I remember the day I did it trying to clean up the house real good. Yes, you are correct. There were definitely more than 40 songs on the 1971 poster and you're bringing back a memory about Christmas songs on that poster. I think I received it just after Christmas though. Gotta find that thing!
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Post by rayshae3 on Apr 12, 2015 18:06:44 GMT -5
Did Casey say the year Donner party set out their journey (in intro to the extra "Timothy") was 1845? One year off, they began their journey actually in 1846. (Still have PBS "American Experience" episode detailing the journey and its disintigration).
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Post by mkarns on Apr 12, 2015 18:11:30 GMT -5
And we're on (and have been for 10 minutes, still on last week's recap) with the complete April 21, 1979, courtesy of WODC.
Casey sounds particularly enthusiastic in the show, especially in its latter half. The "Disco Casey" phase must have been in full effect here, as that type of music was at the height of its pop chart dominance at about this time. (Six months later the countdown was almost in a whole different epoch.)
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