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Post by mkarns on Mar 4, 2019 17:23:00 GMT -5
Optional extras for 3/11/78 are the same as in 2010:
Hour #1: "If You Leave Me Now" - Chicago (original AT40 extra) Hour #2: "On Broadway" - George Benson (#82; debuted) Hour #3: "More Than A Woman" - Tavares (#75)
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Post by mrjukebox on Mar 4, 2019 18:04:55 GMT -5
I liked the version of "More Than A Woman" by Tavares.
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Post by pizzzzza on Mar 4, 2019 19:05:59 GMT -5
Was that supposed to be the "B" show this week? I never saw it posted anywhere... No, the 1974 show was a 'stand alone' show. Judging from the old Premiere ads on this '79 show (How lovely to hear 'Flo' again... ), this is a show from the station's 'vaults'. I guess I was kind of curious why they would run - as you put it - a show from their "vaults" - instead of the scheduled show.
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Post by BrettVW on Mar 5, 2019 11:07:56 GMT -5
Like most stations that deviate from the scheduled show, I would reckon to assume they decide to avoid shows that don't align musically with what they are looking to play. On single show weeks, this sometimes means choosing an alternate. They have full permission to do this from Premiere, however, they should not be playing the old spots with them. Instead, they should be getting the current week spots and inserting them.
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Post by mga707 on Mar 5, 2019 11:20:45 GMT -5
Like most stations that deviate from the scheduled show, I would reckon to assume they decide to avoid shows that don't align musically with what they are looking to play. On single show weeks, this sometimes means choosing an alternate. They have full permission to do this from Premiere, however, they should not be playing the old spots with them. Instead, they should be getting the current week spots and inserting them. I don't think I've ever heard a station that runs an old, 'alternate' show do what you said above. Which I agree is what a station should do. They always seem to just re-run the old ads.
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Post by pb on Mar 5, 2019 11:51:15 GMT -5
If 3/2/74 is played next weekend,one of the featured songs is "Energy Crisis 74" by Dickie Goodman-I remember buying that 45-It was rather humorous. He must have put that record together quickly since it had excerpts of two other songs that were still on the countdown.
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Post by slf on Mar 5, 2019 19:23:28 GMT -5
If 3/2/74 is played next weekend,one of the featured songs is "Energy Crisis 74" by Dickie Goodman-I remember buying that 45-It was rather humorous. He must have put that record together quickly since it had excerpts of two other songs that were still on the countdown. The week that Dickie Goodman's "Mr. Jaws" debuted in the Top 40 (week ending 9/13/1975) there were FOUR songs still in the countdown that were used in that break-in record: One Of These Nights/Eagles How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)/James Taylor Get Down Tonight/KC & The Sunshine Band) Rhinestone Cowboy/Glen Campbell (in its 2nd week at #1)
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Post by pb on Mar 5, 2019 22:26:17 GMT -5
He must have put that record together quickly since it had excerpts of two other songs that were still on the countdown. The week that Dickie Goodman's "Mr. Jaws" debuted in the Top 40 (week ending 9/13/1975) there were FOUR songs still in the countdown that were used in that break-in record: There were also four songs from "Energy Crisis '74" in the countdown when it debuted: "Living For The City," "You're Sixteen," "The Joker" and "Smoking In The Boys Room." On 3/2/74, "Living For The City" dropped off but the other three were still there (so I wasn't quite correct earlier).
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Post by seminolefan on Mar 7, 2019 11:25:45 GMT -5
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Post by cursereversed on Mar 7, 2019 14:38:28 GMT -5
I've mentioned a few times how much I like "Americans", particularly the Byron MacGregor version which was descending the chart on 3/2/74. There is one line, however, that is humorous in hindsight and for this particular show was rather chilling. The narration asks why no civilized country can build a plane that rivals the Boeing 747, the "Douglas 10" AKA the DC10 or the "Lockheed Tristar" AKA the L1011. Humorous in hindsight because today at least half of all commercial airplanes both worldwide and in the U.S. are made by either Europe's Airbus or Brazil's Embraer, although to be fair Airbus now has a plant in the U.S. Chilling on this show because any stations that aired this particular show starting at 7 AM on a Sunday in 1974 played Americans just as news was being received that a Turkish Airlines DC10 with 346 people on it had crashed outside Paris with little chance of any survivors. There were none and although sabotage was suspected originally the root cause turned out to be a design flaw of the aircraft.
Oh, and there was one error in the record regarding this topic. The script says that every civilized country except for Russia flew U.S. built planes. In fact, the entire Eastern Bloc flew only Soviet-built planes except for Yugoslavia.
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Post by djjoe1960 on Mar 7, 2019 18:00:02 GMT -5
I've mentioned a few times how much I like "Americans", particularly the Byron MacGregor version which was descending the chart on 3/2/74. There is one line, however, that is humorous in hindsight and for this particular show was rather chilling. The narration asks why no civilized country can build a plane that rivals the Boeing 747, the "Douglas 10" AKA the DC10 or the "Lockheed Tristar" AKA the L1011. Humorous in hindsight because today at least half of all commercial airplanes both worldwide and in the U.S. are made by either Europe's Airbus or Brazil's Embraer, although to be fair Airbus now has a plant in the U.S. Chilling on this show because any stations that aired this particular show starting at 7 AM on a Sunday in 1974 played Americans just as news was being received that a Turkish Airlines DC10 with 346 people on it had crashed outside Paris with little chance of any survivors. There were none and although sabotage was suspected originally the root cause turned out to be a design flaw of the aircraft. Oh, and there was one error in the record regarding this topic. The script says that every civilized country except for Russia flew U.S. built planes. In fact, the entire Eastern Bloc flew only Soviet-built planes except for Yugoslavia. I always thought the section that includes "When the Franc was in danger of collapsing in 1956 ,It was the Americans who propped it up ,And their reward was to be insulted , And swindled on the streets of Paris ,I was there ,I saw it" was kinda weird for Byron MacGregor to read--because HE wasn't there; Gordon Sinclair (the man who wrote and recorded the original commentary WAS). I used to listen to CKLW (a radio station out of Windsor, across the river from Detroit) and I remember hearing Byron MacGregor on newscasts on the station before this record became a hit. By the time, the record became popular I was living in the Atlanta area so it was strange to hear Byron's voice on other stations in the Atlanta area.
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Post by slf on Mar 7, 2019 18:29:00 GMT -5
I've mentioned a few times how much I like "Americans", particularly the Byron MacGregor version which was descending the chart on 3/2/74. There is one line, however, that is humorous in hindsight and for this particular show was rather chilling. The narration asks why no civilized country can build a plane that rivals the Boeing 747, the "Douglas 10" AKA the DC10 or the "Lockheed Tristar" AKA the L1011. Humorous in hindsight because today at least half of all commercial airplanes both worldwide and in the U.S. are made by either Europe's Airbus or Brazil's Embraer, although to be fair Airbus now has a plant in the U.S. Chilling on this show because any stations that aired this particular show starting at 7 AM on a Sunday in 1974 played Americans just as news was being received that a Turkish Airlines DC10 with 346 people on it had crashed outside Paris with little chance of any survivors. There were none and although sabotage was suspected originally the root cause turned out to be a design flaw of the aircraft. Oh, and there was one error in the record regarding this topic. The script says that every civilized country except for Russia flew U.S. built planes. In fact, the entire Eastern Bloc flew only Soviet-built planes except for Yugoslavia. I always thought the section that includes "When the Franc was in danger of collapsing in 1956 ,It was the Americans who propped it up ,And their reward was to be insulted , And swindled on the streets of Paris ,I was there ,I saw it" was kinda weird for Byron MacGregor to read--because HE wasn't there; Gordon Sinclair (the man who wrote and recorded the original commentary WAS). I used to listen to CKLW (a radio station out of Windsor, across the river from Detroit) and I remember hearing Byron MacGregor on newscasts on the station before this record became a hit. By the time, the record became popular I was living in the Atlanta area so it was strange to hear Byron's voice on other stations in the Atlanta area. It was also weird to hear Byron MacGregor reminisce on how he had started to read newspapers sixty year previous, when MacGregor himself hadn't even been born yet. He was actually a baby boomer, born March 3, 1948. That means he was only 25 yrs old when he recited this essay from Gordon Sinclair, who was old enough to be his GRANDFATHER. (Born June 3, 1900)
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Post by at40petebattistini on Mar 8, 2019 8:07:03 GMT -5
I always thought the section that includes "When the Franc was in danger of collapsing in 1956 ,It was the Americans who propped it up ,And their reward was to be insulted , And swindled on the streets of Paris ,I was there ,I saw it" was kinda weird for Byron MacGregor to read--because HE wasn't there; Gordon Sinclair (the man who wrote and recorded the original commentary WAS). I used to listen to CKLW (a radio station out of Windsor, across the river from Detroit) and I remember hearing Byron MacGregor on newscasts on the station before this record became a hit. By the time, the record became popular I was living in the Atlanta area so it was strange to hear Byron's voice on other stations in the Atlanta area. It was also weird to hear Byron MacGregor reminisce on how he had started to read newspapers sixty year previous, when MacGregor himself hadn't even been born yet. He was actually a baby boomer, born March 3, 1948. That means he was only 25 yrs old when he recited this essay from Gordon Sinclair, who was old enough to be his GRANDFATHER. (Born June 3, 1900) And at #38 on Billboard's Hot Country Singles chart on March 2, 1974 was Tex Ritter's rendition of "Americans." That was its only week within the country chart's Top 40, and its only appearance on Don Bowman's American Country Countdown.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 8, 2019 16:53:03 GMT -5
Did WSQL abandon their website stream? The last two times I tried it, it just kept buffering, so I had to download TUNE In in order to listen.
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Post by slf on Mar 9, 2019 6:05:03 GMT -5
It was also weird to hear Byron MacGregor reminisce on how he had started to read newspapers sixty year previous, when MacGregor himself hadn't even been born yet. He was actually a baby boomer, born March 3, 1948. That means he was only 25 yrs old when he recited this essay from Gordon Sinclair, who was old enough to be his GRANDFATHER. (Born June 3, 1900) And at #38 on Billboard's Hot Country Singles chart on March 2, 1974 was Tex Ritter's rendition of "Americans." That was its only week within the country chart's Top 40, and its only appearance on Don Bowman's American Country Countdown. And that was actually a posthumous hit for Tex Ritter, as he died on January 3, 1974. The day of his death fell during the first week that Byron MacGregor's version was in the Hot 100. That means that Tex's version almost certainly was recorded before Byron's version was released. That also means, unless Mr. Ritter and Mr. MacGregor somehow knew each other or otherwise had connected with one another, ol' Tex had to have learned of Gordon Sinclair's editorial (first delivered on 6/5/73) independent of Mr. MacGregor. That kinda makes me wonder how much exposure this fiery editorial had gotten during the months between its initial delivery and the release of the various recordings of "Americans". Finally, one bit of interesting trivia: Byron MacGregor died at age 46, on January 3, 1995---exactly 21 years to the day that Tex Ritter died, the other second hand reciter of Gordon Sinclair's piece.
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