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Post by nicko on Nov 5, 2014 18:26:04 GMT -5
Could be November 3rd 1984 next week
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Post by nicko on Nov 5, 2014 18:26:32 GMT -5
Could be November 3rd 1984 next week
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Post by seminolefan on Nov 5, 2014 21:05:06 GMT -5
I'll also predict 1981 for next week.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 6, 2014 16:01:58 GMT -5
OEs for this week:
Hour #1: "One-Trick Pony" - Paul Simon Hour #2: "Turning Japanese" - The Vapors Hour #3: "Girls Can Get It" - Dr. Hook Hour #4: "The River" - Bruce Springsteen
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Post by JMW on Nov 6, 2014 16:12:47 GMT -5
OEs for this week: Hour #1: "One-Trick Pony" - Paul Simon Hour #2: "Turning Japanese" - The Vapors Hour #3: "Girls Can Get It" - Dr. Hook Hour #4: "The River" - Bruce Springsteen They were posted two days ago.
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Post by mrjukebox on Nov 6, 2014 21:04:00 GMT -5
I fell asleep during last week's 1985 show when Neil Diamond's "America" was played as a Long Distance Dedication-Can anyone fill me in as to why it was chosen?
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Post by saltrek on Nov 6, 2014 23:29:06 GMT -5
It was a dedication to the writer's grandmother who came to America from Russia at the age of 4 in 1913 and never forgot the image of the Statue of Liberty as she came in through Ellis Island. It also was a dedication to the people working on the restoration of the Statue of Liberty at that time.
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Post by dukelightning on Nov 7, 2014 11:57:10 GMT -5
That selection of the Springsteen album cut was designed to cater what I consider a very fractured but growing format: Classic Hits Radio. This is essentially an AC/Album Rock hybrid that has five core artists which they play every song from: Elton John, Rod Stewart, Fleetwood Mac, Eagles & Billy Joel (which I hereby refer to as the Classic Hits Five). When Scott Shannon joined WCBS-FM, this is what they altered their playlist to look like. What the Classic Hits format has done is kill off the vocal group & R&B music. They give too much respect to self contained artists and overplay slow acoustic ballads and album cuts. As a soul & hip hop fan, I am trying to find Classic AT40 affiliates that don't have this format so I can hear the show the way it was intended: in one consistent piece. Not a soul and hip hop fan myself, but a soul and disco fan. But on a related note, I can't help but notice how even though the disco era is fading at the time of this show, the few disco songs in it are all big hits. In fact, since "Empire Strikes Back" peaked at 18 and fell out in August, look at the peaks of all the disco songs since then with the exception of Donna Summer's "Walk Away" which was a throwaway single from her old Casablanca label. #1: Upside Down and Another One Bites the Dust for 7 combined weeks in a row #3: Emotional Rescue, Take Your Time, He's So Shy, The Wanderer #4: Fame, Cupid/I've Loved You For a Long Time, Give Me the Night #5: I'm Coming Out, Real Love (marginal disco there as with What a Fool Believes a year earlier) #12: Lovely One And nothing in the teens, 20s or 30s from August through the end of the year...so basically all big hits. Kind of makes you wonder if disco was really as passe as people were making it seem. And that first LDD talking about how good discos made the girl feel adds to the oxymoron this situation became (with the harder to find discos that she alluded to). This is one of my fave categories going all the way back to the 80s. Casey said that Billy Joel was the first artist to ahve 2 albums which produced 4 top 40 hits. By my calculations, here are the first artists to produce more such albums.... Billy was also the first to produce 3 albums with 4 top 40 hits with 'An Innocent Man'. Michael Jackson was the first to 4 such albums with 'Dangerous'. Madonna was the first to 5 such albums with 'Bedtime Stories'. MAdonna was the first and only artist to get 6 such albums with 'Ray of Light'.
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Post by freakyflybry on Nov 7, 2014 22:42:01 GMT -5
I'll predict 1984 for next week.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 8, 2014 4:50:52 GMT -5
KKLI is now with Christmas format.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 8, 2014 6:07:14 GMT -5
"AT40: The '80s" next week is from 11/8/1986 which is a repeat but from 2008 and different op extras from the previous airing
And the Holiday Casey offering is from the remastered 1973 Christmas special
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Post by 80sat40fan on Nov 8, 2014 7:49:37 GMT -5
If anyone is wondering what the optional extras were in the 2008 airing of 11/8/86, here they are:
Hour #1: "Notorious" - Duran Duran Hour #2: "Welcome To The Boomtown" - David & David Hour #3: "At This Moment" - Billy Vera & The Beaters Hour #4: "Land Of Confusion" - Genesis
Since we'll have different extras this time, my predictions are:
* "Is This Love" by Survivor * "Someday" by Glass Tiger * "Control" by Janet Jackson * "C'est La Vie" by Robbie Nevil
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Post by ronnie21 on Nov 8, 2014 8:19:16 GMT -5
listening to the 80 show. the korgis song sounds to be a diffrent version than what we know??
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Post by ronnie21 on Nov 8, 2014 8:19:43 GMT -5
wow, and it totally cut off in the middle of the song..
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Post by mkarns on Nov 8, 2014 10:46:01 GMT -5
That selection of the Springsteen album cut was designed to cater what I consider a very fractured but growing format: Classic Hits Radio. This is essentially an AC/Album Rock hybrid that has five core artists which they play every song from: Elton John, Rod Stewart, Fleetwood Mac, Eagles & Billy Joel (which I hereby refer to as the Classic Hits Five). When Scott Shannon joined WCBS-FM, this is what they altered their playlist to look like. What the Classic Hits format has done is kill off the vocal group & R&B music. They give too much respect to self contained artists and overplay slow acoustic ballads and album cuts. As a soul & hip hop fan, I am trying to find Classic AT40 affiliates that don't have this format so I can hear the show the way it was intended: in one consistent piece. Not a soul and hip hop fan myself, but a soul and disco fan. But on a related note, I can't help but notice how even though the disco era is fading at the time of this show, the few disco songs in it are all big hits. In fact, since "Empire Strikes Back" peaked at 18 and fell out in August, look at the peaks of all the disco songs since then with the exception of Donna Summer's "Walk Away" which was a throwaway single from her old Casablanca label. #1: Upside Down and Another One Bites the Dust for 7 combined weeks in a row #3: Emotional Rescue, Take Your Time, He's So Shy, The Wanderer #4: Fame, Cupid/I've Loved You For a Long Time, Give Me the Night #5: I'm Coming Out, Real Love (marginal disco there as with What a Fool Believes a year earlier) #12: Lovely One And nothing in the teens, 20s or 30s from August through the end of the year...so basically all big hits. Kind of makes you wonder if disco was really as passe as people were making it seem. And that first LDD talking about how good discos made the girl feel adds to the oxymoron this situation became (with the harder to find discos that she alluded to). I wonder if the several danceable hits at or near the top of the charts inspired them to air this LDD, which sounds like it would have better fit in a 1978 or 1979 countdown. While dance/disco hits were much sparser in 1980 (and many of them weren't strictly disco as the term had been understood), some of the biggest hits, as you mention, were dance-oriented so they figured that her letter about having fun and making friends at discos was something that many could still relate to then and later, even if the clubs aren't called "discos" as such. Plus it was a lighter-toned diversion from the standard sentimental letters they got.
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