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Post by jmack19 on Sept 8, 2015 10:38:59 GMT -5
Did they bleep/mute the lyric when Charlie Daniels' " In America" played last on AT40? I think at least once they just left out the (second) verse, in which said word was part of the lyric (along with "pinko" and "commie") completely. Meaning you'd have to obtain the original copies of AT40 (or American Country Countdown) from the summer of 1980 to hear the unedited versions. Brian Charlie Daniels' "Uneasy Rider" was edited(muted) when it was aired last month.
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Post by mjl677 on Sept 8, 2015 11:51:28 GMT -5
Ken, I've never said this before, though I've thought it many times. Thank you so much for the amazing work you do on these shows. The whole #1s series is simply amazing and should rival those classic historical series that we all heard growing up. They are that well crafted. Having said that, the best part of listening to the final installment this afternoon wasn't the entirely the songs, but the anticipation of hearing how Casey's words would be stitched together. It was like an encore at a concert. At the end I was hoping for one more song. After all, part 3 did run long. Thank you from a big fan. I think I speak for many when I say I'd love to be a fly on the wall when you work on something like this. When you refer to the classic historical series that we all heard growing up, are you referring to the special where they played every Hot 100 #1 song from maybe 1964 to the present? I remember hearing that special a few times in the 70s maybe into the 80s. Of course, Ken's production beats that by a mile. He could almost do the rest of the #1 songs in the 80s; but it would be difficult for artists such as Paula Abdul or Michael Damian who never made AT40 in 1970-88. Since Casey obviously never mentioned their last names at any point. Guess Ken could just omit their names though and do a short intro to their song. BTW, Casey mentioned that John O'Banion was from Kokomo, Indiana when he had a hit in 1981. So that takes care of the Beach Boys song. Actually he could've done the editing for a Paula Abdul #1.. Casey has mentioned Kareem Abdul Jabbar in at least one of his many shows. I'm sure a Paula was mentioned somewhere too, question is where and how long would it take to find these names.lol Definitely a lot of research and hours of work required to put this together.
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Post by freakyflybry on Sept 8, 2015 12:01:56 GMT -5
When you refer to the classic historical series that we all heard growing up, are you referring to the special where they played every Hot 100 #1 song from maybe 1964 to the present? I remember hearing that special a few times in the 70s maybe into the 80s. Of course, Ken's production beats that by a mile. He could almost do the rest of the #1 songs in the 80s; but it would be difficult for artists such as Paula Abdul or Michael Damian who never made AT40 in 1970-88. Since Casey obviously never mentioned their last names at any point. Guess Ken could just omit their names though and do a short intro to their song. BTW, Casey mentioned that John O'Banion was from Kokomo, Indiana when he had a hit in 1981. So that takes care of the Beach Boys song. Actually he could've done the editing for a Paula Abdul #1.. Casey has mentioned Kareem Abdul Jabbar in at least one of his many shows. I'm sure a Paula was mentioned somewhere too, question is where and how long would it take to find these names.lol Definitely a lot of research and hours of work required to put this together. Paul & Paula were featured in the 60's archive segment.
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Post by mjl677 on Sept 8, 2015 12:22:14 GMT -5
True. There is one however that there's no way could be done.. Milli Vanilli #1- 7/1/89..lol
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Post by skuncle on Sept 8, 2015 19:12:06 GMT -5
Found a glitch with part seven at least for me it came out this way, in the last half hour or so, Rock Me Amadeus is cut short and "we'll return with more music in just a moment" comes on, then a stream of commercials, weather, etc. the Jack Wagners All I Need for the extra, then AT40 comes back and they are up to West End Girls. Kiss and Addicted To Love were cut.
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Post by mga707 on Sept 8, 2015 20:10:44 GMT -5
Ken, I've never said this before, though I've thought it many times. Thank you so much for the amazing work you do on these shows. The whole #1s series is simply amazing and should rival those classic historical series that we all heard growing up. They are that well crafted. Having said that, the best part of listening to the final installment this afternoon wasn't the entirely the songs, but the anticipation of hearing how Casey's words would be stitched together. It was like an encore at a concert. At the end I was hoping for one more song. After all, part 3 did run long. Thank you from a big fan. I think I speak for many when I say I'd love to be a fly on the wall when you work on something like this. When you refer to the classic historical series that we all heard growing up, are you referring to the special where they played every Hot 100 #1 song from maybe 1964 to the present? I remember hearing that special a few times in the 70s maybe into the 80s. That would be "The History of Rock and Roll". Last time I heard it was probably in 1981, first time probably 1973. And it did not start with 1964--it started with "Rock Around the Clock" from the middle of 1955! Which means that there then was almost a year's worth of distinctly NON-R&R songs, like "Autumn Leaves" and "The Yellow Rose of Texas" between the Bill Haley anthem and the next 'rock' #1, Elvis' "Heartbreak Hotel" in the spring of 1956! Still, it was always fun to listen to, and they did go by the Billboard charts, the Hot 100 from it's inception in 1958 onward, and one of the other charts for the three years prior to that.
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Post by dukelightning on Sept 8, 2015 20:33:22 GMT -5
No it's not that series which I have on mp3 files btw. That profiled a whole kaleidoscope of songs, not necessarily #1 songs. There was a special I heard way back when but not since the 80s that was just playing the #1 Hot 100 hits. As I mentioned in the earlier post, I thought they started in 1964 and went to 1979 or whatever year it was that I heard the special.
Incidentally, you mentioned the Kings double sided hit in the other thread. I played that song quite a bit when I was in college radio at the time that was a hit in 80-81. Good song.
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Post by trekkielo on Sept 8, 2015 20:37:03 GMT -5
I've always said that political correctness will be the ruination of this country and our world!
Also, I hate words being hijacked from what they originally meant like...
gay=happy, not homosexual Think of the lyric in the Gilbert O'Sullivan song "Alone Again (Naturally)" -- "To think that only yesterday/I was cheerful, bright and gay." I recall the poem we had to memorize and -- through handwriting exercises -- copied in a first-grade class: "The little clown is happy and gay/He prances around in a merry way." Or something like that; I can't remember, it was 1978 when we did the exercise. (Although I do remember my teacher getting upset with me when I made a comment about "gay" having the derogatory meaning. I must have been in the room one Sunday evening when my Dad had "60 Minutes" on and they were doing a feature story on same-sex rights or something. Might have even been the story on the California referendum where the petitioner wanted to ban GLBT teachers from the classroom, I can't remember, although since that was November 1978 and I was in first grade at the time, it makes sense.) And once in awhile, if you come across it on YouTube or Game Show Network or Buzzr, there have been game shows like "Wheel of Fortune" or "Press Your Luck" where contestants have the name Gay. Point is, it's amazing how the word "gay" has been hijacked. "I'm feeling rather gay today!" Meaning, "I'm happy today. How are you?" f*g=cigarette or a f*gged out soda, not homosexual Did they bleep/mute the lyric when Charlie Daniels' " In America" played last on AT40? I think at least once they just left out the (second) verse, in which said word was part of the lyric (along with "pinko" and "commie") completely. Meaning you'd have to obtain the original copies of AT40 (or American Country Countdown) from the summer of 1980 to hear the unedited versions. Brian I don't know, but do wonder if/when they will start or have already started editing All in the Family!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 8, 2015 21:04:49 GMT -5
All in the Family was written to be controversial and for no real reason other than that. I cannot imagine they will edit it because if that was ever done, the meaning of the show and what it was designed to be and do is gone entirely. I cannot say any of the edited songs mentioned here lost their entire meaning because a word, line, or verse was removed.
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Post by mga707 on Sept 8, 2015 22:15:10 GMT -5
No it's not that series which I have on mp3 files btw. That profiled a whole kaleidoscope of songs, not necessarily #1 songs. There was a special I heard way back when but not since the 80s that was just playing the #1 Hot 100 hits. As I mentioned in the earlier post, I thought they started in 1964 and went to 1979 or whatever year it was that I heard the special. Incidentally, you mentioned the Kings double sided hit in the other thread. I played that song quite a bit when I was in college radio at the time that was a hit in 80-81. Good song. Yes, you're right--I do remember that other show that just played the #1 records in order, and it was not "The History of Rock and Roll". "THORAR" did, however, do a "timeline" segment at the end of the show where they did play snippets of all of the #1 songs of the rock era in order. But I do remember that other show, whatever it was called, starting their show with "Rock Around the Clock". I thought it odd to hear all of the non-rock songs between that groundbreaking tune and Elvis' breakthrough records, and even the large number of #1 records in the following years which were in no way, shape, or form anywhere near 'rock'n'roll'! Maybe some stations decided to begin with 1964 and the British Invasion, and not play the earlier segments, even though they would be missing a lot of classic early pop, rock, and R&B hits.
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Post by trekkielo on Sept 8, 2015 22:46:58 GMT -5
All in the Family was written to be controversial and for no real reason other than that. I cannot imagine they will edit it because if that was ever done, the meaning of the show and what it was designed to be and do is gone entirely. I cannot say any of the edited songs mentioned here lost their entire meaning because a word, line, or verse was removed. Well, TV Land already took The Dukes of Hazzard off the air because of a Confederate Flag on the roof of the General Lee!
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Post by mga707 on Sept 8, 2015 22:52:42 GMT -5
All in the Family was written to be controversial and for no real reason other than that. I cannot imagine they will edit it because if that was ever done, the meaning of the show and what it was designed to be and do is gone entirely. I cannot say any of the edited songs mentioned here lost their entire meaning because a word, line, or verse was removed. Well, TV Land already took The Dukes of Hazzard off the air because of a Confederate Flag on the hood of the General Lee! Guess it would have cost them too much to 'pixelate' it!
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Post by Jessica on Sept 9, 2015 3:22:39 GMT -5
I apologize if I started a war. That wasn't my intention. To quote the late great John Lennon let's give peace a chance!
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Post by Jessica on Sept 9, 2015 3:29:40 GMT -5
Wow that LDD was intense. Hope he didn't go through with it. So sad to feel that alone and despondent. Never knew that stuff about Pat Benatar. I honestly had no idea she was married before. Oh and I love me some Prince. I've been lucky enough to see him in concert and he is some performer. I believe that Benatar was her former married surname. She was born an Andrzejewski, and now of course she's a Geraldo. No one would be able to pronounce the former, and many would mispronounce the latter! Sorry I'm a little behind. Thanks for the info. Pat Benatar is much easier to say than Andrzejewski, I can see why she changed it. Good call on that one Pat and it's nice that her and her husband Neil have been together for so long, a rarity in show business. Pat has one of the greatest voices in rock and still sounds great.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 9, 2015 4:49:28 GMT -5
All in the Family was written to be controversial and for no real reason other than that. I cannot imagine they will edit it because if that was ever done, the meaning of the show and what it was designed to be and do is gone entirely. I cannot say any of the edited songs mentioned here lost their entire meaning because a word, line, or verse was removed. Well, TV Land already took The Dukes of Hazzard off the air because of a Confederate Flag on the roof of the General Lee! Taking something off completely is different than editing and airing it.
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