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Post by woolebull on Feb 3, 2013 0:19:56 GMT -5
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. 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. If I remember correctly, it was just a story on the world's deadliest song, or something like that. I don't think it was tied to any song. |
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Post by Mike on Feb 3, 2013 14:32:07 GMT -5
If I remember correctly, it was just a story on the world's deadliest song, or something like that. I don't think it was tied to any song. Without firing it up and listening again, I'm thinking that you are correct. |
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Post by Mike on Feb 3, 2013 14:32:34 GMT -5
September 8, 1990 and 3/28/98 The latter seems fairly obvious, but why 9/8/90? |
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Post by pointpark04 on Feb 3, 2013 14:52:13 GMT -5
July 19, 1986. The first time Genesis hit number one.
I was a HUGE Phil Collins fan growing up. Had all of his albums and singles. Saw Genesis in concert twice. Had many of their albums (even the old ones, and I still do). Saw Mike + The Mechanics in concert in 1986 at the old Syria Mosque in Pittsburgh.
That was a great countdown, because Phil and Peter Gabriel were 1-2 that week, with "Invisible Touch" and "Sledgehammer". They became the first former bandmates to go back-to-back at number one the following week, when Gabriel knocked his former group out of the top spot.
At number 14 that week was another Genesis offspring, GTR, featuring ex-guitarist Steve Hackett, with their only top 40 hit, "When the Heart Rules the Mind". And Phil was still in the countdown backing-up Howard Jones with "No One is to Blame", one of the best songs of '86.
Yeah, a pretty memorable countdown for me.
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Post by chrislc on Feb 3, 2013 15:20:31 GMT -5
The one that always stuck with me was the one late in 1978 when the wrong Andy Gibb song was introduced.
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Post by OldSchoolAT40Fan on Feb 3, 2013 20:11:06 GMT -5
To me, the most memorable AT40 countdown was August 30, 1986. I have that show in my digital AT40 collection somewhere. It was my most memorable AT40 countdown because that was the weekend that I got hooked into AT40 for the first time on a regular basis. It was also that same weekend my taste for music started to strengthen. And during a weekend that Lionel Richie's "Dancing On The Ceiling" video really caught my eye for the first time (though it entered AT40 on July 19, 1986 - Premiere repeated it in July last year).
The summer of 1986 was full of top 40 treasure, it seems. A lot of good stuff on the top 40 then, and it got better and better as we headed into 1987. Too bad my taste for music started to go downhill by September 1989. And it gets worse when bands like Nirvana, Pearl Jam, and Hootie & The Blowfish would eventually become the norms and eventually the original AT40's demise would be coming.
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Post by vince on Feb 4, 2013 1:51:42 GMT -5
My most memorable countdown was the 1978 year end. KYA in San Francisco aired all 8 hours on Christmas Eve. It was the first year end show I heard. I had only been listening to AT40 for about 7 months.
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Post by JMW on Feb 4, 2013 2:21:59 GMT -5
For me, the most memorable AT40 countdown is the 3/13/1982 countdown because that was the show that aired when I listened to the re-broadcasts for the first time (March 2009).
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Post by SFGuy on Feb 4, 2013 20:33:18 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! I have this show. I should go through it and listen to see what he said. |
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Post by Shadoe Fan on Feb 4, 2013 21:00:07 GMT -5
A couple of my most memorable AT40 shows were 6/27/92 and 7/4/92. The 6/27 show Shadoe kept teasing to stay tuned to big changes to AT40 next week. I was wondering what was the big change. When I heard what it was (new themes and jingles), I wasn't impressed. :-)
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Post by doomsdaymachine on Feb 4, 2013 21:39:07 GMT -5
Oct. 4, 1975: "The Top 40 Rock & Roll Acts of the 1950s." I first learned of this countdown more than a decade ago and had been wanting to hear it ever since. Thanks our good friend Shannon Lynn, I'm now the proud owner of that show. I just listened to hour #1 and have to say: for sheer uniqueness, that countdown is hard to beat! Unfortunately, some of the artist info that Casey gave us turned out to be erroneous, but nobody knew that in 1975. And I really could do without hearing Jim Lowe, Georgia Gibbs, the Fontane Sisters, the Crew Cuts, and Pat Boone. Obviously, the statisticians at AT40 had a much broader idea than I do of what constitutes '50s rock 'n' roll! Still and all, I'm ready to rank 10/4/75 up there with my other all-time favorite theme show, 1981's "The Top 40 Hits of the Beatles." Great job, AT40!!!  |
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Post by Caseyfan4everRyanfanNever on Feb 4, 2013 22:14:39 GMT -5
For me, there are two (both of which happened after Casey's return to AT40 in 1998)
Jul 3, 1999 when Casey announced at the beginning that "this July 4th weekend begins our 30th year of counting down the hits from coast to coast" and proceeded to compare how AT40 sounded on July 4 1970 including the beginning of "End of Our Road" as the first song counted down and how it sounded in 1999. Although Casey had celebrated this anniversary on the July 1 1989 Casey's Top 40 show by saying this weekend "begins our 20th year", the 1999 show was more in depth. In short, notwithstanding the fact that Shadoe had hosted AT40 from Aug 1988 to Jan 1995 and AT40 had been off the air for over 3 years afterward, this was the most direct statement of Casey's history with AT40 as AMFM wanted listeners to understand it.
May 13 2000--Just after playing "I Wanna Know" by Joe in the first hour, Casey discussed Rob's book for the second time and explained what the book covered (a shorter mention with a description of how those interested could obtain a copy was given on the Dec 18, 1999 show's first hour). In the description, Casey mentioned Shadoe as a past AT40 host.
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Post by rgmike on Feb 7, 2013 15:36:35 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. that would be one of mine too -- I had not heard AT40 from the beginning, as it got picked up in NYC (by WPIX-FM) in the spring of '71. What struck me at the time was how much Casey's delivery had changed in 5 years. He seemed much more gruff and clipped on the 1970 show, not at all the "warm" Casey we would all come to know and love. I'll also always remember a show from early '73 (not sure of the date) where he told the story about how Bobby Russell sent "The Night the Light Went Out in GA" to Cher, and Sonny turned it down for being "offensive to Southerners" (!). So he shopped the demo (which happened to be sung by his wife Vicki Lawrence) around town and Bell Records picked it up and pretty much released the demo as-is, iirc. That remains one of my all-time fave bits of pop trivia. |
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Post by saltrek on Feb 7, 2013 22:13:36 GMT -5
Easily, the most memorable show/moment for me was the first Long Distance Dedication (8/26/78).
Casey reads this letter and plays a song for this guy, and my jaw drops to the floor. I can't believe they just did that! The whole time while the song is playing, I'm thinking what a can of worms they just opened! They are going to be bombarded with letters now! Are they supposed to play everybody's song? Do they realize what they have just done?
Then the song ends and it is announced that this will be a regular feature. Well, of course, they knew exactly what they were doing! Silly me!
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Post by clcorwin717 on Feb 10, 2013 3:23:28 GMT -5
July 16,1977. Shaun cassidy hit #1 with DadooRonRon. The show aired on my birthday and I couldn't think of a more special way to start my special day! ;D |
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