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Post by marv101 on Jul 6, 2013 21:18:11 GMT -5
That hatchet job on 'Devil's Gun' was disgusting; I was a nightclub DJ in 1977 when that killer 7-minute epic packed the dance floor every week for months. Butchering a debut single instead of a song on its way down the charts made a heck of a lot more sense to me as well.
29 weeks on the Hot 100 and only two on AT40? Sounds like another Twilight Zone type chart run to me!!!!
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Post by dukelightning on Jan 6, 2014 18:38:32 GMT -5
Listening to what will be the only yet to be aired first regular Casey hosted show of a year by Premiere after this weekend, 1/6/73 and boy did they chop "Do It Again". Came out of the bridge and a few words into the third verse which begins with 'Now you swear and kick and beg us that you're not a gamblin' man', Casey starts the outro. One of the worst edits I have ever heard although during the later 1972 into 1973 period, I have heard these type edits where Casey cuts off the song well before the fade. Reason is that they did yet have their editing techniques whereby they could edit out a verse or part of a verse yet. So if they were short on time, they had to cutoff songs. This was part of a 3 song segment that included a story on the next song. So after the fact, I am not surprised but I certainly was when I first heard it.
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Post by lasvegaskid on Mar 23, 2017 10:48:28 GMT -5
Listening to 12/1/79 and Wait For Me was whittled down to nothing. I wonder why. The show had gone to 4hrs by this point and there was still plenty filler added to the countdown.
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Post by dth1971 on Mar 25, 2017 13:53:52 GMT -5
Do we count these songs played in the Shadoe Stevens AT40 era - "The Humpty Dance", "O.P.P.", "Enter Sandman", "You Could Be Mine", "Mind Playing Tricks on Me", "Baby Got Back", "Tennessee", "People Everyday", "Rump Shaker", "Jump Around", "Whoomp! There It Is", and "Fantastic Voyage" - as painful edits?
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Post by OldSchoolAT40Fan on Mar 25, 2017 14:02:17 GMT -5
I love Bob Welch's "Ebony Eyes." I really do. But I didn't love it during the top 100 of 1978 when they only played a few seconds of Welch's lyrics, and when the first chorus started, Casey's voice came on and prematurely closed off the song!
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Post by SFGuy on Mar 25, 2017 15:12:20 GMT -5
I love Bob Welch's "Ebony Eyes." I really do. But I didn't love it during the top 100 of 1978 when they only played a few seconds of Welch's lyrics, and when the first chorus started, Casey's voice came on and prematurely closed off the song! The copy I had, the song went about 3:07. Maybe you got a bad copy?
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Post by saltrek on Mar 25, 2017 15:50:54 GMT -5
There was a six hour version of the top 100 of 1978 put out by Premiere a number of years ago. That show had many painful edits, especially in the first hour.
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Post by ronnie21 on May 24, 2017 17:21:42 GMT -5
"wait for me" always got cut off by casey after the solo , cut the ending completely off..
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Post by ronnie21 on May 24, 2017 17:22:28 GMT -5
:what are we doing in love"" by dottie west and Kenny,, on 6/20/81, they cut out kennys part, why? the song was already short..
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Post by ronnie21 on May 24, 2017 17:23:37 GMT -5
"Only time will tell" was edited a lot. but its in its complete form on 9/4/82 show..
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Post by mkarns on May 24, 2017 21:38:07 GMT -5
There was a six hour version of the top 100 of 1978 put out by Premiere a number of years ago. That show had many painful edits, especially in the first hour. In that version, Premiere edited it down so that 50 songs (plus commercials) were heard in three hours, so of course several songs were cut to fragments. That's more severe editing than was ever originally done on AT40, even in the three hour era. Before the weekly AT40s expanded to four hours, the 1974-77 year end top 100 shows each had an extra hour's length; those were originally played over two weekends with four hours allotted to each 50-song half.
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Post by friarboy on May 28, 2017 7:51:13 GMT -5
Add to the list of early fades Manhattan Transfer's "Twilight Zone/Twilight Tone" on this week's 5/31/80 show fades abruptly after the 2nd verse (not ashamed to admit I was singing along and Casey himself stepped all over me).
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Post by dth1971 on May 28, 2017 12:04:31 GMT -5
Isn't 1 minute and 25 seconds of Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes' "Bad Luck" heard on this week's AT40: The 70's 5-31-1975 episode painful to you?
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Post by OnWithTheCountdown on May 28, 2017 15:24:05 GMT -5
^If that isn't bad luck, then I don't know what is.
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Post by ronnie21 on May 29, 2017 9:42:44 GMT -5
Another one. "off the wall" on 4/19/80 ends right after solo.. but on 4/26/80 is complete..
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