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Post by Mike on Nov 4, 2015 0:29:11 GMT -5
Two out of three was the way to be this week. This week's extras are:
The Sylvers - Hot Line Eric Clapton - Hello Old Friend The Electric Light Orchestra - Livin' Thing
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Post by matt on Nov 4, 2015 13:17:19 GMT -5
Prediction for next week's show:
1st Guess - 11/9/74 2nd Guess - 11/10/73
Knock me over with a feather if it's not one of these two (of course, I practically said that same thing last week). Both years are long overdue...
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Post by 80sat40fan on Nov 4, 2015 18:09:41 GMT -5
On this week's 11/6/76 show, we hear Gordon Lightfoot's "The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald" at #3. This coming Tuesday, November 10 is the 40th anniversary of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald sinking.
Here are some interesting inaccuracies regarding the song, along with some new lyric corrections:
According to the song, the Fitzgerald was bound "fully loaded for Cleveland". In fact she was heading for Detroit, there to discharge her cargo of taconite iron ore pellets before docking in Cleveland for the winter.
The "old cook" in the song was actually a replacement for this particular voyage, as the normal cook was too ill to make this trip.
Lightfoot refers to Mariners' Church of Detroit as "The Maritime Sailors' Cathedral" in the lyrics.
Lightfoot says that the bell was rung 29 times, once for each crew member aboard the ship. Internet sources often incorrectly claim that the bell was also rung once more in honor of all people who had lost their lives at sea, for a total of 30 times. Reverend Richard W. Ingalls, Sr., rector of Mariners' Church, tolled the bell 29 times, not 30.
In a later live recording, Lightfoot recounts that a parishioner of the church informed him that the church is not "musty." From that time, instead of singing "In a musty old hall...", he now sings "In a rustic old hall..."
In March 2010, Lightfoot changed a line during live performances to reflect new findings that there was no crew error involved in the sinking. The line originally read, "At 7 p.m. a main hatchway caved in; he said..."; it is now sung as "At 7 p.m. it grew dark, it was then he said...". Lightfoot learned of the new research when contacted for permission to use his song for a History Channel documentary that aired in 2010. Lightfoot has stated that he has no intention of changing the copyrighted lyrics; he will instead, from now on, simply sing the new ones in live performances.
Interesting stuff!
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Post by mga707 on Nov 4, 2015 18:33:27 GMT -5
On this week's 11/6/76 show, we hear Gordon Lightfoot's "The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald" at #3. This coming Tuesday, November 10 is the 40th anniversary of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald sinking. Here are some interesting inaccuracies regarding the song, along with some new lyric corrections: According to the song, the Fitzgerald was bound "fully loaded for Cleveland". In fact she was heading for Detroit, there to discharge her cargo of taconite iron ore pellets before docking in Cleveland for the winter. The "old cook" in the song was actually a replacement for this particular voyage, as the normal cook was too ill to make this trip. Lightfoot refers to Mariners' Church of Detroit as "The Maritime Sailors' Cathedral" in the lyrics. Lightfoot says that the bell was rung 29 times, once for each crew member aboard the ship. Internet sources often incorrectly claim that the bell was also rung once more in honor of all people who had lost their lives at sea, for a total of 30 times. Reverend Richard W. Ingalls, Sr., rector of Mariners' Church, tolled the bell 29 times, not 30. In a later live recording, Lightfoot recounts that a parishioner of the church informed him that the church is not "musty." From that time, instead of singing "In a musty old hall...", he now sings "In a rustic old hall..." In March 2010, Lightfoot changed a line during live performances to reflect new findings that there was no crew error involved in the sinking. The line originally read, "At 7 p.m. a main hatchway caved in; he said..."; it is now sung as "At 7 p.m. it grew dark, it was then he said...". Lightfoot learned of the new research when contacted for permission to use his song for a History Channel documentary that aired in 2010. Lightfoot has stated that he has no intention of changing the copyrighted lyrics; he will instead, from now on, simply sing the new ones in live performances. Interesting stuff! Love stuff like this! If ever in Cleveland, there is a lake freighter similar to the "Fitzgerald" permanently docked there that one can tour. Located adjacent to the main reason for visiting Cleveland, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
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Post by dukelightning on Nov 5, 2015 10:59:44 GMT -5
The story I've heard on "Isn't She Lovely" is that Motown wanted to release it as the first single from Songs In the Key Of Life , but Wonder felt the song was too personal to use as a single, and didn't want to be seen as blatantly exploiting his daughter's birth for personal gain. He refused to let Motown release it even as a promotional-only single. Motown responded by simply not releasing any single at all when the album first came out, making some statement to the effect of "we're going to let radio pick the single", and tacitly suggesting that radio stations consider playing "Isn't She Lovely". As a result, even though Songs In the Key Of Life debuted on the album chart at #1 on 10/16/76, no single from it appeared on the Hot 100 until 12/4/76, the album's eighth week on the chart. In the interim, "Isn't She Lovely" effectively served as the album's first (unofficial) single. Since we are in that period of time that this post references and the 11/6/76 show is being played, I thought I would repost this. I always wondered why there was such a delay in the first single being released from Songs in the Key of Life. Now I know although I was around this forum back then so must have forgotten about this tidbit.
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Post by darnall42 on Nov 6, 2015 10:37:29 GMT -5
WODC has gone all christmas (online anyway )
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Post by matt on Nov 6, 2015 11:32:19 GMT -5
WODC has gone all christmas (online anyway ) Looks like KOKZ, WRQN, WTOJ, and WPNC will be our best options for the 4-hour 78-79 shows until after Christmas. BTW, Christmas falls on a Friday this year, so the weekend of Dec. 26-27 should be the first weekend back from 24-hour Xmas programming. If Premiere continues on with their typical holiday schedule, that should be the first weekend of the year-end specials (though, as I've expressed before, I think they should wait a week and do the year-enders the first two weeks in January...would just make good sense to do it that way).
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Post by retroguy on Nov 6, 2015 11:32:55 GMT -5
WODC has gone all christmas (online anyway ) Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! I'll listen but it would be nice if they played the regular offerings also. But I suppose countdownmikes hands are tied.
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Post by mkarns on Nov 6, 2015 11:48:44 GMT -5
WODC has gone all christmas (online anyway ) Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! I'll listen but it would be nice if they played the regular offerings also. But I suppose countdownmikes hands are tied. No, but they will play the 1971 Christmas show on Sunday morning at 9 AM. At least with the holiday shows serving as B's we don't need to rely on them to play both As and Bs through November and December. Hopefully KOKZ, WPNC, and at least a couple of others will be there to play any complete 1978-79 four hour shows that Premiere offers.
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Post by matt on Nov 6, 2015 12:22:06 GMT -5
WODC has gone all christmas (online anyway ) Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! I'll listen but it would be nice if they played the regular offerings also. But I suppose countdownmikes hands are tied. This is typical for WODC--I believe they've flipped every year around this time since they started carrying the classic AT40 shows.
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Post by michaelcasselman on Nov 6, 2015 14:09:18 GMT -5
WTOJ has a tendency to go all-Christmas sometime in mid-November as well. Only Ken would be able to say whether or not AT40s will preempt either their playing the 70s and/or 80s series.
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Post by dukelightning on Nov 6, 2015 14:50:55 GMT -5
WODC has gone all christmas (online anyway ) Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! I'll listen but it would be nice if they played the regular offerings also. But I suppose countdownmikes hands are tied. Speaking of countdownmike, he gave us the low down on his station's website a couple years ago about how they switched from AT40 to CT40 in 1990. Talking about WNCI. I got proof of that during the course of a couple shows I heard this week. WNCI was mentioned by Shadoe on the 11/4/89 show and it was mentioned by Casey on the 11/3/90 show.
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Post by at40nut on Nov 6, 2015 16:31:54 GMT -5
WODC has gone all christmas (online anyway ) Looks like KOKZ, WRQN, WTOJ, and WPNC will be our best options for the 4-hour 78-79 shows until after Christmas. BTW, Christmas falls on a Friday this year, so the weekend of Dec. 26-27 should be the first weekend back from 24-hour Xmas programming. If Premiere continues on with their typical holiday schedule, that should be the first weekend of the year-end specials (though, as I've expressed before, I think they should wait a week and do the year-enders the first two weeks in January...would just make good sense to do it that way). I totally agree with you on that. Notice that over the years whether it was 70's or 80's, we usually got a mid January show coming off the holiday. If I'm not mistaken, the first conventional show on some of those years were guest hosted.
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Post by mkarns on Nov 6, 2015 17:53:51 GMT -5
Looks like KOKZ, WRQN, WTOJ, and WPNC will be our best options for the 4-hour 78-79 shows until after Christmas. BTW, Christmas falls on a Friday this year, so the weekend of Dec. 26-27 should be the first weekend back from 24-hour Xmas programming. If Premiere continues on with their typical holiday schedule, that should be the first weekend of the year-end specials (though, as I've expressed before, I think they should wait a week and do the year-enders the first two weeks in January...would just make good sense to do it that way). I totally agree with you on that. Notice that over the years whether it was 70's or 80's, we usually got a mid January show coming off the holiday. If I'm not mistaken, the first conventional show on some of those years were guest hosted. Almost every January from 1979 to 1988 the first regular AT40 of the year was guest hosted; 1981 was the only exception.
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Post by matt on Nov 6, 2015 21:06:15 GMT -5
I totally agree with you on that. Notice that over the years whether it was 70's or 80's, we usually got a mid January show coming off the holiday. If I'm not mistaken, the first conventional show on some of those years were guest hosted. Almost every January from 1979 to 1988 the first regular AT40 of the year was guest hosted; 1981 was the only exception. Right--and even in '81, it was the second regular show that was guest hosted...so every January had at least one guest hosted show from 1979 on. And there are years where there were regular shows right up through the last week in December. So why not take the first two weeks in January with the Top 100 special?
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