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Post by dukelightning on Jul 18, 2015 15:57:32 GMT -5
No he said, "At #35, 'Prove it All Night', the debut song by Bruce... He was referring to the SONG debuting not the artist.
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Post by jmack19 on Jul 18, 2015 16:03:39 GMT -5
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Post by rayshae3 on Jul 18, 2015 21:51:56 GMT -5
When Casey was talking about Tony Sheridan before #34 by Sweet, at the end he updated his career by saying Tony is currently trying to produce a record of country music, and if it doesn’t work out he can always go back to Germany where he’s a celebrity. Well, guess what…that’s exactly what happened. No country record came out in the late 70s, and according to this Guardian obituary from two years ago, he opened a club in Hamburg in ‘78. But the real amazing thing is that not only previously the Beatles backed him up, but in 1978 the TCB band (who formerly backed Elvis when he was alive) now started backing Tony Sheridan in Hamburg. Can’t beat being associated with the top 2 acts of all-time!
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Post by dukelightning on Jul 19, 2015 8:06:11 GMT -5
That Tony Sheridan story followed the debut record by Bruce Springsteen which we discussed briefly and preceded what I am about to post about. That would be "Love is Like Oxygen" which came in at under 2 minutes. That is what it was on the original show. And it is the only blatant edit on the original show. It is very rare in the 3 hour 1978 shows to have but one such edit. Of course not having any extras helps in that regard. But back to the Sweet record. This is its last week in the top 40. It was on AT40 for 13 weeks and may have the distinction of being the most frequently edited song in AT40 history. Out of those 13 weeks, it was edited down from its 3:30-3:40 length to about 2 minutes on 9 different shows. FYI, it was played unedited on the 4/15/78 show when it debuted, on 5/13/78, 5/27/78 and one last time on 6/17/78. Actually it was played unedited the real last time in the year end countdown.
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Post by slf on Jul 19, 2015 8:11:35 GMT -5
On this week's countdown from July 15, 1978, Casey mentions Scotland as the foreign country whose artists have had the most number #1 songs in proportion to its population. Maybe I'm being nitpicky, but Casey certainly knew that Scotland is not a country. Neither is England, for that matter. Those two regions, along with Wales and Northern Ireland, form the country known as the United Kingdom (UK for short). Treating those regions separately when formulating chart statistics, to me, compromises the accuracy of those statistics. (This wasn't the only time Casey and the AT40 staff treated England and Scotland as separate entities.)
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Post by interstate19 on Jul 19, 2015 8:23:47 GMT -5
Don't tell Scotland or England that they're not countries, because that's how they refer to themselves.
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Post by dukelightning on Jul 19, 2015 8:31:28 GMT -5
I have a map of the world on the wall here in my computer room and it differentiates countries by having them in different colors. It has the UK in one color and also has 'UNITED KINGDOM' in bold letters and then England, Scotland, and Northern Ireland in smaller print. Ireland is, however, a different color. So by that prognosis, there are 2 countries herein.
BTW, I heard the 7/18/81 show yesterday and Casey mentioned the same factoid about Scotland before playing "Modern Girl" by my fave Scottish lass Sheena Easton. She had done what Gerry Rafferty could not do and hit #1 with her previous hit, lowering their ratio to just over a million people per #1 hit.
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Post by darnall42 on Jul 19, 2015 8:46:58 GMT -5
Scotland have thier own parliament,have thier own banknotes sand last year they nearly voted for independence from us here in england. Most scots would go mad if anyone suggested that thier country was only like a county or a region - scotland ,wales and northern Ireland are seperate countries in thier own right
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Post by mrjukebox on Jul 19, 2015 10:11:01 GMT -5
Optional Extra Predictions for 7/21/79: 1)."Lovin,Touchin,Squeezin"-Journey 2)."Bad Case Of Loving You"-Robert Palmer 3)."Lonesome Loser"-Little River Band 4)."I'll Never Love This Way Again"-Dionne Warwick
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Post by rondixon66 on Jul 19, 2015 11:12:24 GMT -5
So the 7/21/79 show is that supposed to be hist weekend 18/19? I've not come across a station playing it or saying anything other than 78 so far and sure would like to catch 79 if I can.
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Post by Mike on Jul 19, 2015 11:44:03 GMT -5
So the 7/21/79 show is that supposed to be hist weekend 18/19? I've not come across a station playing it or saying anything other than 78 so far and sure would like to catch 79 if I can. No. 1979 is scheduled for NEXT weekend, not this one.
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Post by rayshae3 on Jul 19, 2015 13:46:52 GMT -5
I must admit to a laugh -- maybe inappropriately -- at one point in Ken Martin's Show #2. It was when Casey intro'd "Ohio" by CSNY with "This is not music to dance by." No kidding... though whether Casey had in mind the musical tempo, the tragic subject matter, or both is lost to time. I'm sure what he meant was "...this is SERIOUS stuff so listen to the words!" And he did it very succinctly and cleverly with just that one simple sentence, which I think was actually "...this is not music to dance TO". Well, it's about nine hours before the start of another re-play of 7/18/70 chart, but I’ve been reading all the thoughtful comments regarding CSN&Y song “Ohio” several pages back, and want to put down my own two cents’ worth. When I heard Casey comment about it not being a song to dance to, I also took the comment as its face value: Regardless of what it might seem in its structure as a mid-tempo song, it ain’t a dance song (given its subject matter). Now to me it seems in pre-disco era, all you needed was minimum rhythm for a song to get played in “discotheque” clubs (I don’t have a first-hand knowledge though, since I was only ten at the time and never visited one in 1970.) Now obviously, as several people said before better than me, the subject of the song, too, was nothing to be cheapened by a mindless dancing like a toy. All said, I cannot help comparing Casey’s comment, with a song like “19” by Paul Hardcastle from 1985 (which was part of the 80s show this weekend, BTW). As serious of the latter song’s subject matter was as well, it was promoted and supposed to be a club-dance song.
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Post by lasvegaskid on Jul 19, 2015 22:52:10 GMT -5
Hard to believe how things have changed. Casey said Grease OST had sold 1.5 million copies before release of movie.
That was when US population was 2/3 of what it is now and you had to physically take a trip to the record store. Do you know only Tay Swift has sold more than that the entire year of 2015 so far.
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Post by reachinforthestars on Jul 19, 2015 23:28:41 GMT -5
Just a quick reminder, WTOJ will re-air one more time the 2nd every AT40 show with the re-created 3rd hour Sunday night / Monday morning at midnight. If you missed it last weekend, this will be your last chance to catch it for another year. This recently started and I have to check it out again because I still trying to figure out how you were able to edit some of the segments to make it sound like the lost program was found. You have done such a convincing job that now I have to convince myself this is not really the original program!
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Post by dukelightning on Jul 20, 2015 7:33:03 GMT -5
Ken Martin does a similar production job when doing his #1 specials. That second AT40 starts with Marvin Gaye covering a Gladys Knight & the Pips song. Marvin actually had opposite top 40 success covering Gladys and co. He peaked at 40 the first 2 weeks of AT40 history with "End of Our Road" after having gone all the way to #1 with their "I Heard it Through the Grapevine". I say he covered them because that is the way it works when one act charts with a song and another artists charts with it. But in actuality, Marvin recorded the song first, then Gladys recorded it before Motown released his original version.
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