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Post by jmack19 on Apr 12, 2015 22:05:25 GMT -5
WEZG played both shows this weekend. Played the 1971 show Saturday at 9am EST & the 1979 show today at 6 pm, but did not play the 4-hour version. This is consistent with what WEZG does with the 80s show in which the "A" show is played Friday & "B" show on Sunday. apps.streamlicensing.com/player-popup.php?sid=3160&stream_id=5773
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Post by matt on Apr 13, 2015 10:55:02 GMT -5
Gee, pardon me while I attempt to quell my excitement over this one...this will be the 3rd time that Premiere has offered this show in the last 4 years. Did we really need to get it again?? Is there something real special about it that I am not aware of? Not understanding this latest run of shows.
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Post by mga707 on Apr 13, 2015 15:40:17 GMT -5
Gee, pardon me while I attempt to quell my excitement over this one...this will be the 3rd time that Premiere has offered this show in the last 4 years. Did we really need to get it again?? Is there something real special about it that I am not aware of? Not understanding this latest run of shows. Agree. 1975 and 76 have been over-represented so far this year, while 1973 and 74 have been under-represented.
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Post by matt on Apr 13, 2015 16:31:05 GMT -5
Gee, pardon me while I attempt to quell my excitement over this one...this will be the 3rd time that Premiere has offered this show in the last 4 years. Did we really need to get it again?? Is there something real special about it that I am not aware of? Not understanding this latest run of shows. Agree. 1975 and 76 have been over-represented so far this year, while 1973 and 74 have been under-represented. Along with 1978 and '79...
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Post by at40fansince1984 on Apr 14, 2015 2:00:40 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. Talk about mindreading I was listening to one of the early in the year shows & Casey mentioned that the year-end posters were being mailed that week. That brought the thought of I wonder if anyone still has them because they would be neat to see what they looked like. Glad to see someone has them & remembers them.
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Post by matt on Apr 15, 2015 10:39:52 GMT -5
Prediction for next week's show:
1st Guess: 4/22/78 2nd Guess: 4/24/76
It seems like 1978 would be most likely for next week but Premiere is on such an early 70's binge as of late, who knows. Wouldn't surprise me if we heard something like 4/20/74. We are overdue for a '78 show however...
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Post by matt on Apr 15, 2015 13:30:35 GMT -5
Here is a hint for next weekend....1978!! Is it already posted somewhere? FYI, if it is 1978, that means premiere will have aired each of the four April 1978 weekly countdown shows over the last four years. Conversely, no shows from May 1978 since 2011...
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Post by mkarns on Apr 15, 2015 15:01:41 GMT -5
Here is a hint for next weekend....1978!! Is it already posted somewhere? FYI, if it is 1978, that means premiere will have aired each of the four April 1978 weekly countdown shows over the last four years. Conversely, no shows from May 1978 since 2011... Including 4/8/78, which this week will be joined by 4/19/75 in the Four Timers' Club. And unlike the 1975 show, each airing of 4/8/78 (most recently in 2012) was without an alternative. May 1978 will probably only recur next month if it's coupled with a 1971 or 1972 show.
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Post by brianmichaels on Apr 15, 2015 16:34:16 GMT -5
Here is a hint for next weekend....1978!! 4/22/78 I hope! That's the only show of 1978 not in my collection.
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Post by at40fansince1984 on Apr 15, 2015 20:37:54 GMT -5
Listening on WPNC Plymouth NC right now--for some reason the segment with #3 "Joy To the World" and #2 "What's Going On" sounds like it's underwater--very odd-sounding. FWIW, "Joy..." was the slightly-longer LP version and Marvin's song started without the 'party' noises--guess that's the 45 edit? Listened to the replay on Wednesday morning from 12 to 3AM eastern & the first 3 songs & the last 3 sounded that way the rest sounded normal. Also I don't listen to the 70's show all the time so I was wondering have the 3 or 4 optional extras ever been introduced by Casey himself.
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Post by mga707 on Apr 15, 2015 21:46:26 GMT -5
Listening on WPNC Plymouth NC right now--for some reason the segment with #3 "Joy To the World" and #2 "What's Going On" sounds like it's underwater--very odd-sounding. FWIW, "Joy..." was the slightly-longer LP version and Marvin's song started without the 'party' noises--guess that's the 45 edit? Listened to the replay on Wednesday morning from 12 to 3AM eastern & the first 3 songs & the last 3 sounded that way the rest sounded normal. Also I don't listen to the 70's show all the time so I was wondering have the 3 or 4 optional extras ever been introduced by Casey himself. I don't keep track, but I have heard extras on the '70s shows with Casey intros.
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Post by mct1 on Apr 16, 2015 14:32:14 GMT -5
Also I don't listen to the 70's show all the time so I was wondering have the 3 or 4 optional extras ever been introduced by Casey himself. 1) For reasons that have never been clear to me, it has long been a common practice for Premiere to cut original extras from shows in the '70s series, and use them as optional extras instead, complete with Casey's intro and outro. When this happens, depending on how many extras there were in the original show and how many Premiere cut, you will get a mixture of one or more Casey-introed optional extras (which were actually part of the original show) along with one or more Larry-introed optional extras (normal optional extras which weren't part of the original show). As long as you listen to a station that plays the optional extras, you'll get to hear the original extras, but they may not be played at the same point they appeared in the original show. Premiere recently cut an original extra like this from a show from 1980, but in about three years of listening to Classic AT40 rebroadcasts, that's the only time I can remember them doing this on an '80s show. (Note that Premiere also occasionally cuts original extras completely from the '70s shows, not making them into optional extras, but just outright eliminating them.) 2) Since late 2013, Premiere has been creating Casey-voiced optional extras for shows from the 1970-73 period. Since then, pretty much any show from those years with newly recorded optional extras (a show which Premiere has never re-broadcast before, or has not previously re-broadcast since Larry Morgan took over voiceover duties) has gotten this treatment. The songs used as optional extras are either original extras cut-and-pasted from another show around the same time period, or a song that was in the Hot 100 that week but not the Top 40 where they were able to take a clip of Casey presenting the song on an earlier or later countdown and edit his intro and outro to make the song suitable for presentation as an extra. With the exception of last year's Halloween show, they have not done this with shows from years after 1973. I have mixed feelings about #2. I get that the idea is to expand the Casey content of the show -- listeners tune in to hear Casey, not Larry -- but presenting something as part of a particular week's show that really wasn't seems kind of pointless to me. It also limits Premiere to using songs that Casey actually played on AT40, where they can find an intro and outro suitable for using the song as an extra, and to using things in the intro and outro that Casey actually said back in the day. When Larry intros and outros the songs, there is a much broader range of songs that can be used -- they can even throw in curveballs that never hit the Top 40 at all -- and Larry can comment on the songs from a modern-day perspective.
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Post by JessieLou on Apr 17, 2015 6:51:14 GMT -5
I want 1978 soon.
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Post by matt on Apr 17, 2015 9:54:36 GMT -5
Also I don't listen to the 70's show all the time so I was wondering have the 3 or 4 optional extras ever been introduced by Casey himself. 1) For reasons that have never been clear to me, it has long been a common practice for Premiere to cut original extras from shows in the '70s series, and use them as optional extras instead, complete with Casey's intro and outro. When this happens, depending on how many extras there were in the original show and how many Premiere cut, you will get a mixture of one or more Casey-introed optional extras (which were actually part of the original show) along with one or more Larry-introed optional extras (normal optional extras which weren't part of the original show). As long as you listen to a station that plays the optional extras, you'll get to hear the original extras, but they may not be played at the same point they appeared in the original show. Premiere recently cut an original extra like this from a show from 1980, but in about three years of listening to Classic AT40 rebroadcasts, that's the only time I can remember them doing this on an '80s show. (Note that Premiere also occasionally cuts original extras completely from the '70s shows, not making them into optional extras, but just outright eliminating them.) Interesting topic, and since were on it, I thought I would provide my humble opinion. I have mixed feelings about this practice, but am in favor of it for the most part, since the Internet allows us to access online almost every station that airs the show. Most of the casual listeners aren't aware of the extras and thus the material that they may be missing if they're tuned into a station that doesn't play the extras when the extras happen to be an original show segment. For those of us that are true fans of the show and pull up the cue sheets, charts, etc. from the original shows and therefore know that those extras were in the show, most will figure out a way to access a stream from a station that does play the extras so that we don't miss any parts of the original show. What I do like about the original extras being pulled out and played as option extras for the classic shows, is that presumably it means that fewer of the countdown songs will need to be edited by Premiere's staff. So if you do get a show from a station that plays the extras, you not only get all songs from the original show, but with less editing...and that's a good thing. I am not a fan of this practice at all, partially due to the reasons you list, and partially because to me, you are inserting a fabricated piece which sounds like it was part of the original show, but is really not. I do get why it's done--for the casual listener, Casey's voice is more appealing than Larry Morgan's. But at least when you hear Larry's voice, you know that it was an extra that has been added in, and there's no confusion over whether it's a real extra from the original show or a fake extra. You make a very good point too about the limitations as to which songs can be played as extras, and what information can be provided for that song as part of the extra. It also introduces a general inconsistency with regard to the extras, since only the 1970-73 shows use this practice. I would rather they go back to Larry doing the "new" extras for these shows.
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Post by Mike on Apr 17, 2015 20:38:04 GMT -5
Here is a hint for next weekend....1978!! If you know what's in store for next week, then go ahead and post it, because right now I do not.
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