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Post by Deleted on May 2, 2012 13:43:21 GMT -5
I am listening to the 3/28/98 edition of AT40. I am through the first hour. The first hour ended with that jingle bed "counting down the hits with Casey Kasem" then when it went to the next segment it had an intro like it came out of a commercial break, not the silence with Casey talking. Then I heard the LDD and Casey said you could write to him at American Top 20, etc so on and so forth. Was this how the show went out that week?
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Post by RNH on May 2, 2012 20:15:07 GMT -5
Paul, it sounds like the "end of hour" jingle was what you heard. Usually after the jingle the radio station would give their top-of-the-hour ID and Casey would resume with the #30, 20, or 10 hit (on AT40) of the week.
At least this is the way I remember it being done when I listened in Cleveland.
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Post by BrettVW on May 2, 2012 21:12:34 GMT -5
When AT40/AT20 first came on, I believe there was a jingle rather than the cold open for the first segment of the hour. I'm not sure when the cold open began. I also know when the optional extras debuted in 2005, one or two shows featured it as well.
As for saying "20" on AT40, there are a few times when that occured. Not sure how that would get by editing, especially since the shows were recorded on different days.
And RHN, do you by any chance know what the Cleveland affiliate was in 1998? I first discovered Casey in 2000 on AT20 Hot AC which aired Sunday mornings on Q104/WQAL. They dropped the show in October 2001, and a month later WAKS picked up AT40, which still airs it today with Seacrest.
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Post by mstgator on May 2, 2012 22:04:20 GMT -5
Yeah, that's how it went out over the air. It sounded like they didn't have all the bugs worked out on that first show for AM/FM. By the second show (4/04/98) the top-of-the-hour sweeps were being handled properly.
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Post by Deleted on May 3, 2012 5:01:14 GMT -5
The fact that the way I remember it each disc ended with the top of hour sweep and the second disc started with the cold open was dumb in my opinion. I didn't know this was the case until several years later because WAPE handled it the same way Casey's Top 40 had been. However, I also know other stations would go to commercials or insert jungles after the top of hour sweep stopped playing and then would come back with the cold opening out of nowhere.
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Post by Scott Lakefield on May 4, 2012 13:57:19 GMT -5
As for saying "20" on AT40, there are a few times when that occured. Not sure how that would get by editing, especially since the shows were recorded on different days. Yes, but they generally used the same voicetracks for the LDDs, I believe, simply re-doing the outro (and thus the different show name). But the 20-for-40 (and sometimes even a 40-for-20) got through many a time. You also used to get some "Casey's Countdown" references on CT40, and I believe the opposite as well. |
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Post by Deleted on May 4, 2012 14:07:55 GMT -5
As for saying "20" on AT40, there are a few times when that occured. Not sure how that would get by editing, especially since the shows were recorded on different days. Yes, but they generally used the same voicetracks for the LDDs, I believe, simply re-doing the outro (and thus the different show name). But the 20-for-40 (and sometimes even a 40-for-20) got through many a time. You also used to get some "Casey's Countdown" references on CT40, and I believe the opposite as well. Never heard that as an accident. I always heard it when the local affiliate was removing those rap songs like "Looking Through Patient Eyes" and "Informer" and replacing them with whatever song was at that number from Casey's Countdown. |
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Post by OldSchoolAT40Fan on May 4, 2012 19:37:09 GMT -5
So, did I read correctly? Did they air a March 1998 broadcast instead of a 1985 broadcast? Why the mess-up?
And to be quite honest, 1998 was from an era that the music was just pure crap. It was slightly better than 1995; but still, it was not much better.
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Post by mstgator on May 4, 2012 20:04:20 GMT -5
As for saying "20" on AT40, there are a few times when that occured. Not sure how that would get by editing, especially since the shows were recorded on different days. Yes, but they generally used the same voicetracks for the LDDs, I believe, simply re-doing the outro (and thus the different show name). But the 20-for-40 (and sometimes even a 40-for-20) got through many a time. Yep... also for some of the other parts of the show as well. I was listening to a 2000 AT40 a few weeks back, and Casey began a story about "Smooth" with "this week's number one song" (the problem was, "Smooth" was in the teens and on its way down the pop chart... that part of the story was obviously pulled from AT20 Hot AC, where the song was in one of its umpteenth weeks on top). |
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Post by Deleted on May 5, 2012 4:15:13 GMT -5
So, did I read correctly? Did they air a March 1998 broadcast instead of a 1985 broadcast? Why the mess-up? And to be quite honest, 1998 was from an era that the music was just pure crap. It was slightly better than 1995; but still, it was not much better. No, I had the show in my library and listened to it this week. |
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