|
Post by listenerwants2know on Dec 22, 2018 14:00:09 GMT -5
Was 1983 the only year in which AT40 only did one week of year-end 'specials'? Seems so odd that a show airing over Christmas weekend (this week's 12/24/83 show) was a regular countdown rather than a Christmas special or the first half of the top hits of the year countdown. Three examples:
1984: 12/29/84 (regular countdowns on 12/22/84 and 1/5/85)
1985: 1/4/86 (regular countdowns on 12/28/85 and 1/11/86)
1986: 1/3/87 (regular countdowns on 12/27/86 and 1/10/87)
And all mentioned January-countdowns were guest-hosted.
|
|
|
Post by OldSchoolAT40Fan on Dec 22, 2018 14:00:25 GMT -5
Was 1983 the only year in which AT40 only did one week of year-end 'specials'? Seems so odd that a show airing over Christmas weekend (this week's 12/24/83 show) was a regular countdown rather than a Christmas special or the first half of the top hits of the year countdown. Actually, year-end countdowns were usually a one-week event, in the form of eight-hour shows from 1983 through 1993. The only exception is the Top 100 of 1992, which was split up into two parts over a two-week period. Don't know the reasoning behind this abnormality. During the Shadoe Stevens era, Shadoe did many of the first weekly shows of the new year. The 1994 year-end countdown was just a four-hour show featuring the year's top 50 songs, likely because of lack of revenue and the show was one month away from cancellation by the time this year-ender was taped, and did not justify having a full top 100 countdown. When AT40 was revived in 1998 with Casey Kasem as host, it was back to the top 100 year-enders, but split up into two parts over two weeks - possibly because of Radio and Records chart, and later the Mediabase chart. However, in the Ryan Seacrest era these days, the year-ender focuses on the top 40 songs of the year, aired around Christmas, and repeated the following weekend.
|
|
|
Post by caseyfan100 on Dec 22, 2018 14:08:10 GMT -5
KZOY started the 12-24-83 show at noon local time and now at the top of the 1 o'clock hour they went to a Casey Christmas show.
|
|
|
Post by listenerwants2know on Dec 22, 2018 14:17:35 GMT -5
Interesting to hear Casey mention all the German acts up to that point, who had hit the top 40. The list would be increased by one just a few weeks later when Nena made the top 40, followed by the Scorpions a few months later. Was surprised that he did not at least mention Heatwave, as he did Jackson Browne. They were formed in then-West Germany, and I believe at least one of their members was German. Also Boney M, who were a creation of German producer Frank Farian, later of Milli Vannili fame/infamy. Frank Farian made many attempts to disguise the true identity of "Boney M.". He came up with the name Boney M. in a very unspectacular way: "I had a ready-made music, it was such a Caribbean one. There I was sitting in front of the TV, and there was an Australian series of a lieutenant named Boney, and I just came up with the M, and that was it. And then I put an American flag on it and a black girl and everyone thought Boney was a girl´s name. But it´s actually a man´s name from an Australian television series."
|
|
|
Post by listenerwants2know on Dec 22, 2018 15:02:53 GMT -5
Crazy--almost hard to believe this was posted for 11 months and nobody here knew until now. Good to know it's '86 this time around--looking forward to it! The commands "RewriteCond" and "RewriteRule" in a .htaccess file can be used, for example, to activate websites only at certain times. It would therefore be possible to enter the entire schedule of a year at the beginning of the year and to activate the data for the next week every week at exactly ( ) the same time.
|
|
|
Post by kani on Dec 22, 2018 15:41:46 GMT -5
KZOY started the 12-24-83 show at noon local time and now at the top of the 1 o'clock hour they went to a Casey Christmas show. I noticed it too...
|
|
|
Post by dth1971 on Dec 22, 2018 15:57:04 GMT -5
Was 1983 the only year in which AT40 only did one week of year-end 'specials'? Seems so odd that a show airing over Christmas weekend (this week's 12/24/83 show) was a regular countdown rather than a Christmas special or the first half of the top hits of the year countdown. Actually, year-end countdowns were usually a one-week event, in the form of eight-hour shows from 1983 through 1993. The only exception is the Top 100 of 1992, which was split up into two parts over a two-week period. Don't know the reasoning behind this abnormality. During the Shadoe Stevens era, Shadoe did many of the first weekly shows of the new year. The reason for the Top 100 of 1992 split into two parts for two weeks - It might be in between AT40 with Shadoe was about to switch from the Top 40 Radio Monitor chart source to the Top 40 Mainstream chart source.
|
|
|
Post by matt on Dec 22, 2018 16:17:50 GMT -5
Was 1983 the only year in which AT40 only did one week of year-end 'specials'? Seems so odd that a show airing over Christmas weekend (this week's 12/24/83 show) was a regular countdown rather than a Christmas special or the first half of the top hits of the year countdown. Three examples: 1984: 12/29/84 (regular countdowns on 12/22/84 and 1/5/85)
1985: 1/4/86 (regular countdowns on 12/28/85 and 1/11/86)
1986: 1/3/87 (regular countdowns on 12/27/86 and 1/10/87) And all mentioned January-countdowns were guest-hosted.
The 1-day 8-hour format for the year-end top 100 specials began in 1983 and lasted through the end of the show's original run in 1995. The lone exception was 1992, which was split into two parts like in the old days for whatever reason...
|
|
|
Post by mga707 on Dec 22, 2018 21:53:23 GMT -5
Three examples: 1984: 12/29/84 (regular countdowns on 12/22/84 and 1/5/85)
1985: 1/4/86 (regular countdowns on 12/28/85 and 1/11/86)
1986: 1/3/87 (regular countdowns on 12/27/86 and 1/10/87) And all mentioned January-countdowns were guest-hosted.
The 1-day 8-hour format for the year-end top 100 specials began in 1983 and lasted through the end of the show's original run in 1995. The lone exception was 1992, which was split into two parts like in the old days for whatever reason... Thanks to all who answered my question. So the one week year-end show started right about the time I started listening to the show less. In my 'must-listen' years (1970 through 1983 or so) the two-week break from regular shows at the end of the year was the norm.
|
|
|
Post by listenerwants2know on Dec 23, 2018 2:53:04 GMT -5
Was surprised that he did not at least mention Heatwave, as he did Jackson Browne. They were formed in then-West Germany, and I believe at least one of their members was German. Also Boney M, who were a creation of German producer Frank Farian, later of Milli Vannili fame/infamy. Frank Farian made many attempts to disguise the true identity of "Boney M.". He came up with the name Boney M. in a very unspectacular way: "I had a ready-made music, it was such a Caribbean one. There I was sitting in front of the TV, and there was an Australian series of a lieutenant named Boney, and I just came up with the M, and that was it. And then I put an American flag on it and a black girl and everyone thought Boney was a girl´s name. But it´s actually a man´s name from an Australian television series." Another word about Frank Farian: In response to the question "How did Rob Pilatus and Fab Morvan get up to the trick of pretending to be the singers of Milli Vanilli ?" of an Austrian daily newspaper in 2016, he answered: "They were breakdancers. They came into the studio by chance when I had just finished 'Girl you know it´s true'. They were looking for work. We thought we could use them in the video. Rob pretended to be the singer. I had my doubts then, but the team said: 'Shut up, it´s a world hit.'". Today Frank says: "I apologized for some things, learned from my experiences and already in the 90s with acts like La Bouche and No Mercy I proved that my singers can sing themselves. Since then, I´ve only let excellent artists into my studio."
|
|
|
Post by dth1971 on Dec 23, 2018 7:24:33 GMT -5
I am glad WLS 94.7 FM Chicago is playing AT40: The 80's 12/24/1983 this Sunday morning, though AT40 1980's fans in the Madison, Wisconsin area will be out of luck later today since AT40: The 80's is being prempted on Magic 98 today in favor of Magic 98's "98 hours of Christmas Music" sweep that always happens every December 21-25 Christmas period. But I guess AT40: The 80's will return to Magic 98 Madison next weekend so it can play part 1 of the AT40 Top 100 of 1986 (And I hope the AT40: The 70's show is the Top 80 of 1972 as the A show so that Magic 98 can play it since it's 3 hours for each of the 2 parts, last year and earlier this year Magic 98 skipped playing the AT40: The 70's Top 100 of 1977 and played a 1976 AT40: The 70's show and the first Casey AT40 from July 4, 1970 instead over the 2 week New Year's period).
Notice that question letter to Casey about the song charting the most times "White Christmas" with 19 times of Bing Crosby's version, 3 of the Drifters' version, and 2 of Frank Sinatra's version? But since the Billboard Hot 100 chart has during the Christmas season recently charting past year Christmas songs off and on, has Bing's "White Christmas" ever returned to the Billboard Hot 100 chart at least one more time in recent years? I guess doubtful...
|
|
|
Post by at40nut on Dec 23, 2018 10:57:49 GMT -5
Interesting to hear Casey mention all the German acts up to that point, who had hit the top 40. The list would be increased by one just a few weeks later when Nena made the top 40, followed by the Scorpions a few months later. I know that there was an early 84 regular countdown that had Nena's 99 Luft balloons/99 Red Balloons mash up. I don't think they did a Peter Schilling "Major Tom (Coming Home)" English /German mash up. I have both of those 45's with each one featuring an English and German version.
|
|
|
Post by johnnywest on Dec 23, 2018 13:07:59 GMT -5
Interesting note: this version was not the same that AT40 originally aired in 1984. Most of the verses were flip flopped. As a result, you don’t hear Captain Kirk’s name at all, since it was in the 3rd verse in German and 4th verse in English.
And Premiere did air their own mash up the German-English version of “Major Tom.” I think it was an optional in 2014.
|
|
|
Post by JMW on Dec 23, 2018 14:05:11 GMT -5
KABQ is airing the Christmas "B" show.
|
|
|
Post by JMW on Dec 23, 2018 16:53:00 GMT -5
Casey goof on the 12/24/1983 show: In the outro for Union of the Snake when mentioning the band member names, he called John Taylor "Nick".
|
|