First time you heard "AT40"

[mrjukebox]

If you've read Pete Battistini's book,he goes into great detail about his initial exposure to "AT40"-This got me to thinking:When did you first start listen to "AT40"-I'm hoping this will generate a large number of responses-Speaking for myself,I began listening in May 1974-I don't recall the exact date,but the #1 song was "The Streak" by Ray Stevens-I was attending a private school in the northeastern part of Connecticut-I was about two hours from Hartford,which meant I heard the show on WDRC-When I was home for the summer,I heard the show faithfully each Sunday morning on WPIX-FM in New York City.

[dadetim]

the first exposure of AT40 for me was around the summer of 1978...i remember the battle for the top spot between #2 baker street and #1 shadow dancing. i must have heard the countdown 3 different times on 2 stations....KJR seattle had the countdown saturday morning and sunday night (i didn't get that station well, where i was living, but i listened nonetheless), and sunday mornings on KGW portland. i followed it TOO well...i was writing down the top 40 each week and cut out a copy of the top 40 that was in the paper and i was 10 years old

[shadster]

Heres a link to a thread very similiar to this one.

at40fg.proboards12.com/index.cgi?board=classic&action=display&thread=1153156761

[Adam]

May 16, 1999 - #1 was "Kiss Me" by Sixpence None The Richer. I had just turned 9 in March. The station was Kiss 108 (WXKS/Boston, MA)

[retromike32]

I first listened to AT40 back in 1978...I was 3 years old and listen to it on 96.7FM KNVR in Chico, CA (Now It's KPIG). It was a the 2/11/78 countdown that I first heard it on my family Electrophonic Stereo!!!....Bring back alot of good memories



Mike B aka Retromike

[vto66]

My first time was on June 14, 1980. AT40 was on KYA at the time, and the number-one song that week was "Funky Town."

[vince]

I don't remember the exact date that I first heard AT40. It was in the spring of 1978, on KYA in San Francisco and "Night Fever" was number one. A few weeks later begining with the May 20, 1978 show I became hooked and listed to the program regularly.

[dougray2]

The first show I ever heard was 8/27/77 on WBT in Charlotte NC. Best Of My Love by the Emotions was #1, but what i remember most from that show was Casey's tribute to Elvis. He played a live version of Suspicious Minds. Ten years later on 8/15/87, he played the same live version again as a LDD which also marked the 10th anniversary of his passing.

[coldcardinal]

8/8/81 - I was 7 years old.

My parents had bought me a transistor radio, and I listened mostly to KTKT-AM (Tucson). I heard a commercial for AT40 and decided to tune in that Sunday. My favorite song was Jesse's Girl, and I patiently sat through 39 songs hoping it would be on the countdown. Sure enough, it was spending it's second week at #1. I was hooked.

[Michael1973]

I first listened in April 1983 (I was 9) and became hooked immediately. For the next 4-5 years, I was only a sporadic listener due to the show constantly changing time slots and that pesky problem of having to go to bed before it was over! Beginning in December 1987, I listened non-stop every week until its cancellation in 1994.

[tacomalo]

1971 was the year that AT40 came to my home town...I don't remember much from that first summer--other than "How Can You Mend a Broken Heart" being number one for all of August. My first scratchy cassette recordings of AT40 are from early 1972--"Without You" from Nilsson was number one at the time.

[BrettVW]

My first exposure was to AT20 in early 2000. By 2001 I was hooked on all of the shows.

[mstgator]

I may have heard it earlier, but the first clear memory I have of Casey counting 'em down was during the summer of '78, on WGGG-AM in Gainesville, FL. I don't remember the exact date, but it was when "Shadow Dancing" was near the top (which doesn't narrow it down much). It wasn't until early '81 that I started listening on a regular basis (I got my first cassette recorder on my tenth birthday that February, and taped all my favorite songs off AT40).

[Shadoe Fan]

As you may have read in the other thread, the first number one I remember hearing is "Up Where We Belong" in the early 80s. I'm sure I listened to it before then though, as my dad listened to it in the 70s. I listened as often as I could until the station moved AT40 to a 6pm time slot after Shadoe took over. Then I listened much less frequently, and I ended up following Dees and the R&R chart instead.

[jefferyc4]

First Time I heard AT 40 was the Top 100 of 1981. I was 11 years old then and my dad had it on in the Car. I remember hearing "Lady" By Kenny Rogers @ #3.