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Post by adam31 on Feb 1, 2013 20:01:22 GMT -5
I'm talking about a show you remember hearing when it originally aired due to some big feat, fact, story etc. by Casey.
For me it would have to be the 80s show just aired 1/30/82. How exciting to find out if Olivia broke the record for weeks at #1 or if Foreigner finally made #1. Of course now we know neither happened. Listening to that show again brought back all the anticipation for the reveals and the shock to find out Hall & Oates jumped over both of them!
I still recall the blue Kmart 60 min audio tapes I had the shows recorded on lol.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 1, 2013 20:14:23 GMT -5
September 8, 1990 and 3/28/98
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Post by tarobe on Feb 1, 2013 23:03:04 GMT -5
May 29, 1976 - the first time.
What struck me was that it seemed like he played every song that was on the radio, even records like "I.O.U" and "One Piece at a Time," which I had only heard on country stations. I liked that he played a couple of oldies ("The Twist" and "Tossin' and Turnin'").
As I listened, I couldn't help but thinking that Casey sounded exactly like Robin on Batman. Strangely, it never occurred to me that he might have sounded like Shaggy (probably because Casey did Shaggy with a high-pitched voice).
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Post by doomsdaymachine on Feb 1, 2013 23:36:34 GMT -5
July 4, 1981: "The Top 40 Hits of the Beatles, Together and Apart." Last summer, I found that countdown on CD and have played it three times so far!
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Post by vto66 on Feb 2, 2013 1:15:15 GMT -5
Definitely the Beatles countdown, also the 1981 year-ender and the 12/20/1980 show (the one with the "Tragedy" LDD).
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Post by at40petebattistini on Feb 2, 2013 1:50:51 GMT -5
A tough question; a few shows come to mind. I'd have to say it was the repeat of the first show in July 1975. I recorded the program every week but was having some problems with my tape recorder prior to this re-broadcast. I just couldn't risk it, I had to buy a new one.
What I remember about that show as it re-aired was that Casey's song order didn't match the July 4, 1970 Billboard chart. And I didn't know why. I enjoyed hearing the music and vintage Casey so much, however, that I missed his mention of a different chart date. Upon additional listens of the tape recording, I eventually heard this referenced as well as other great program material.
And I enjoyed keeping up with music from that time period so much that, while listening to this program, I heard just two songs for the first time -- Marvin Gaye's #40 record and "Spirit In The Dark" by Aretha Franklin. Not caring for either, I reviewed the July 4, 1970 Hot 100 then and there, and wished I could've replaced those two songs with Chicago's "Make Me Smile" and "Up Around The Bend" by CCR, a couple of great tunes that were disappointingly absent. Fortunately, both were featured in the Top 80 of 1970.
Sorry to ramble here but I believe this is an appropriate number 1,000 post. Thanks for pointing that out to me, dukedeb!!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 2, 2013 4:23:49 GMT -5
March 12, 1988.
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Post by mrjukebox on Feb 2, 2013 10:25:24 GMT -5
December 13,1980 when Casey did his moving tribute to John Lennon who had died five days earlier.
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Post by franky on Feb 2, 2013 13:17:19 GMT -5
For me, it was definitely 1/22/83. As a first grader, I remember Casey talking about the Bermuda Triangle. It kind of spooked me out as a kid, in a good way. I even did a report on it in class. I also remember this was when Duran Duran first debuted with "Hungry Like the Wolf." I was so excited that it finally made AT40 after watching it on MTV.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 2, 2013 13:58:19 GMT -5
Heard that show last week.
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Post by bottlerocket on Feb 2, 2013 16:49:55 GMT -5
It would have to be 1/23/82. Having only started listening to AT40 a couple of years earlier, Casey created such a tremendous lead up to the record tying achievement of "Physical" that I could hardly sleep the week before. After such close calls with "Bette Davis Eyes" and "Endless Love", I really felt like I was part of something history-making. Of course, it was actually Casey's tv show "American Top 10" that first filled me in but I still savored the moment that Sunday morning.
Recently, I caught up with "You Light Up My Life"'s record tying announcement and found it strangely underwhelming. Instead of focusing on its being the longest running number one single of the rock era, it focused on its tying the record for all-time female solo artist which didn't have quite the same kick. I wonder how those who heard this show at the time felt about it.
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Post by woolebull on Feb 2, 2013 17:32:34 GMT -5
Mine is April 16, 1983, hosted by Bob Eubanks. And it's not memorable for MJ spending his seventh week at number one. It's memorable to me for the story Bob did on the Hungarian Suicide song, "Gloomy Sunday". Even played a snippet of it. Scared the fool out of me. Scared me so much that I couldn't sleep that night (I was 9 at the time). I woke up at 4 in the morning, turned on the radio, and I found something else out: WXLK in Roanoke played AT 40 early Monday morning as well. And I woke up just to hear Bob introduce the Hungarian Suicide song again. I literally covered my ears for twenty minutes to be sure that I didn't hear any part of it.
Some of you are mad that guest hosted shows are not currently played. For me, I'm good if that one never sees the light of day!
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Post by jdelachjr2002 on Feb 2, 2013 21:35:15 GMT -5
Mine is April 16, 1983, hosted by Bob Eubanks. And it's not memorable for MJ spending his seventh week at number one. It's memorable to me for the story Bob did on the Hungarian Suicide song, "Gloomy Sunday". Even played a snippet of it. Scared the fool out of me. Scared me so much that I couldn't sleep that night (I was 9 at the time). I woke up at 4 in the morning, turned on the radio, and I found something else out: WXLK in Roanoke played AT 40 early Monday morning as well. And I woke up just to hear Bob introduce the Hungarian Suicide song again. I literally covered my ears for twenty minutes to be sure that I didn't hear any part of it. Some of you are mad that guest hosted shows are not currently played. For me, I'm good if that one never sees the light of day! Especially since Casey had already told this story back in 1975.
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Post by woolebull on Feb 2, 2013 22:24:07 GMT -5
Especially since Casey had already told this story back in 1975. Do me a favor then. If they ever get to that particular date in 1975, please let me know
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Post by mkarns on Feb 2, 2013 22:27:08 GMT -5
Especially since Casey had already told this story back in 1975. Do me a favor then. If they ever get to that particular date in 1975, please let me know I think it was on April 19, 1975, played last year by Premiere (so it probably won't be repeated this year.) That time it was a story tied in with Hot Chocolate's hit "Emma", whose titular character committed suicide. I don't know why they told of it again in 1983.
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