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Post by Deleted on Apr 3, 2014 6:28:33 GMT -5
Well you won't be hearing next weeks show from 40 years ago anytime soon most likely.
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Post by dukelightning on Apr 3, 2014 6:48:15 GMT -5
That is true if you were referring to yours truly. I know you WILL be hearing said show soon though. Whether it is 4/6 or 4/13/74 (said next week).
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Post by Deleted on Apr 3, 2014 6:55:15 GMT -5
4/6/74 - the British hits show. I meant Premiere won't be airing it.
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Post by dukelightning on Apr 3, 2014 7:16:21 GMT -5
mrj...if I was a betting man (a line Casey used in that 3/30/74 show about Blue Swede), I would bet on just that happening next week. They are doing early and late 70s shows this week so you have to think a mid-70s show is on tap after that. And they just did 1975 so the logical mid-70s year has to be 1974. Plus they have yet to air 4/13/74 so I would put my money on that one.
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Post by at40petebattistini on Apr 3, 2014 14:14:01 GMT -5
I hope we're going to hear a 1974 show during April-Premiere hasn't featured that year in quite a while. mrjukebox, I know you are hoping to hear the April 13, 1974 program for just one reason -- to hear your all-time favorite song in its last week in the Top 10. "...we had joy, we had fun, we had seasons in the sun..." lol
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Post by bobbo428 on Apr 4, 2014 14:29:38 GMT -5
^^ I heard and did a critique of that March 31 (30), 1974 show alluded to above. BTW, as I mentioned in said critique, Blue Swede did NOT hit #1 the following week. John Denver held him off for a week. no, John Denver's hit was #1 for only one week--check Wikipedia or Joel Whitburn's books. I never got to hear the special aired on April 6-7, 1974 because our local station stopped airing the program for about 16 months. When I tuned in on April 7, the station was doing their own countdown. I didn't think much of it--I thought they simply decided not to air the special program that week--or the show never arrived at the station. The station didn't broadcast the show on April 1, 1973--an episode I never heard until a mere two years ago, when Premiere aired it.
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Post by bobbo428 on Apr 4, 2014 14:32:35 GMT -5
This would be the last countdown I'd be able to listen to on our local station, WENE, for almost a year and a half. However, I was still blissfully unaware of that fact 40 years ago at this time. Hank Aaron was on the verge of typing Babe Ruth's career home run record. Killer tornadoes ravah=ged parts of the Midwest on April 3, 1974. I was getting along well with everyone at school, and I enjoyed my teacher a lot. Of the five debut songs that I heard on March 31, 1974, the one that stood out most was the theme from The Exorcist, a song whose title I believe is “Two Wheel Bells.” I heard it in commercials for the movie back in December. I was hoping the new song “Piano Man” I heard last night would make the top 40, but it will probably be in the 20s in two weeks (There is a special countdown next week on the British invasion). Aretha Franklin is still hanging in there—16 weeks—with “Until You come Back to Me.” She could make it 17, but very unlikely 18, when the next regular countdown occurs. Since a lot of songs from 23-33 are on their way down, there should be a lot of new songs debuting in a week or two. Ringo Starr may be looking at three #1 hits in a row, as “Oh My My” j8umps nine to #19…Redbone broke into the top 10 with “Come and Get Your Love”; John Denver scored his first #1 hit with “Sunshine on My Shoulders.” Blue Swede should be at #1 next week with “Hooked on a Feeling.” That's Mike Oldfield's "Tubular Bells". One of the first, if not the first, releases on Virgin Records, newly formed by a quite young Richard Branson, of airline (Virgin Atlantic/Virgin Australia/Virgin America) and private space exploration (Virgin Galactic) fame. I was pretending it was actually March 31, 1974 when I wrote this--instead of the present. A few weeks later, I did find out that it was called "Tubular Bells." I enjoy the song quite a bit--it is in my 1970s spring and fall mixes--spring because it was a springtime hit--fall because it reminds me of Halloween. If it were an October hit, it could have reached #1.
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Post by dukelightning on Apr 4, 2014 14:56:42 GMT -5
^^ I heard and did a critique of that March 31 (30), 1974 show alluded to above. BTW, as I mentioned in said critique, Blue Swede did NOT hit #1 the following week. John Denver held him off for a week. no, John Denver's hit was #1 for only one week--check Wikipedia or Joel Whitburn's books. I never got to hear the special aired on April 6-7, 1974 because our local station stopped airing the program for about 16 months. When I tuned in on April 7, the station was doing their own countdown. I didn't think much of it--I thought they simply decided not to air the special program that week--or the show never arrived at the station. The station didn't broadcast the show on April 1, 1973--an episode I never heard until a mere two years ago, when Premiere aired it. I stand corrected...at least twice because I posted that Blue Swede did not hit #1 that week twice or more. That means the show I think is on deck for next week is a rarity in the Premiere series. The 4/13/74 show features a new #1 song by Elton John. Elt had 6 chart toppers in the 70s but by my calculations, they have only played one show featuring a new #1 song by Captain Fantastic...1/4/75. BTW, one such show cannot be played...8/7/76 was guest-hosted when his last #1 of the decade(or the classic AT40 era for that matter) reached the top.
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Post by bobbo428 on Apr 4, 2014 16:54:08 GMT -5
In addition, that August 1976 countdown also saw the last time the Supremes ever made the top 40, with an obscure song called "I'm Gonna Let My Heart do the Walking" or something like that.
If they do the 4-13-74 show, it will be the first time I've heard it (except for three songs in the 30s).
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Post by bobbo428 on Apr 21, 2014 7:34:22 GMT -5
Forty years ago today I was running nervous because our local station had taken Casey off the air two weeks before. I had missed the April 14 countdown (except for 3 songs on a faraway station) because I had figured that the local station still had the show (and simply decided not to air the special). I tried to find the faraway station (Wilkes Barre, PA) in my father's Volkswagen, and I did find it, albeit full of static. I tuned in at #38, Billy Paul's "Thanks for Saving My Life." I was able to make out Cat Stevens' voice on the next song. I then discovered that "Jungle Boogie" was still hanging in there after 16 weeks. For #35, I could hear Casey saying that the song moved 40-37-35, but I couldn't make out the title or artist. Next came James Brown, thenJoni Mitchell's latest. I couldn't make out #32, but "The Entertainer," from T was the highest debut, at #31.. I couldn't make out #29 either. I was familiar with "Midnight at the Oasis," at #28. The next song on the countdown that wasn't on the March 31 broadcast was Billy Joel's "Piano Man," which 3was about where I had predicted it would be--in the mid 20s. I had also figured that Chicago would be in or near the top 20 because of the considerable airplay that "I've Been Searchin'" was getting. Three dog Night's "The Show Must Go On" was the highest ranked song that wasn't on the March 31 show, all the way up at #19. I was surprised that "Dancing Machine" was up so high because our local station wasn't airing it. The same went for "Locomotion," which barely went top-20 locally. The excellent "TSOP" was #1. I was able to make out most of the songs, but I'd have recurring trouble with newer songs, especially those that charted for only one or two weeks. This would be a common phenomenon for the next year because that Wilkes Barre station 970 miles south of me) would be my lifeline for the show for years to come.
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Post by dukelightning on Apr 21, 2014 7:46:44 GMT -5
Finished hearing this show exactly 12 hours ago. You mentioned "Piano Man". First, Casey said Biily sounded like Harry Chapin which makes sense since they are both from NYC. And he/they cut it off well before the cold ending which surprised me. Couple other songs were cutoff well before their normal ending. With no extras in the show, it makes you realize just how long songs were getting at that point in time.
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Post by bobbo428 on Apr 22, 2014 11:21:26 GMT -5
I would not hear the following week's chart (4/27) because our class would take a trip that day (my 13th b-day, by coincidence). In fact, this upcoming weekend will be the first time I've heard the show. As a result, I didn't learn that "Piano Man" had dropped from its peak of 25. I bought the 45 in early May, after returning from the four-day class trip. It was getting a lot of airplay locally, so I actually thought that it would be around #15 on the May 4-5 show. More on that in two weeks.
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Post by bobbo428 on May 4, 2014 23:25:48 GMT -5
(recent make-believe journal entry--pretending it was actually May 5, 1974--so some of the song titles I was unsure of yet.
Radio station: WILK--Wilkes Barre, PA--through static, 70 miles away
With my birthday money, I went to Grand Way to buy five singles: Aretha Franklin’s “Until You Come Back to Me,” Sr. Janet Mead’s “The Lord’s Prayer,” Bill Haley’s “Rock Around the Clock,” Chicago’s “I’ve Been Searchin’ So Long,” and Billy Joel’s “Piano Man.” “Piano Man” was at #25 two weeks ago, the last time I caught American Top 40. I missed that show last weekend, so I expected the Billy Joel song to be somewhere near #15 because it’s still getting airplay on WENE (the local station, in Endicott, NY). It didn’t show up in the teens on the countdown, so I figured it had soared into the top 10. at number 6, a song I never heard before came out of nowhere, bolting from #19, which means that “Piano Man” fell out of the top 40, much to my disappointment. I heard a foreboding new O’Jays hit; it believe it was something like “For the Love of Michael.” Another debut was Aretha Franklin’s “I’m in Love”; Paul McCartney & wings debuted way up at #22 with “Band on the Run”; it may go all the way. Because of static, I couldn't catch the #37 song--and it moved down six. Unfortunately, Bachman-Turner Overdrive's "Let It Ride" moved down six--that sounded like a top 10 to me. Jim Croce's hit is near the top locally, so its drop from 9 to 16 was a surprise, as was Ringo starr's eight point drop to #13 with "Oh My My." Grand funk steamed up to #1 with "The Loco-Motion," which was surprising because the song only reached #19 locally.
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Post by bobbo428 on Jun 12, 2014 17:13:30 GMT -5
This is a few days late, but I enjoyed the June 8, 1974 countdown, which I had first heard that weekend in 1974. I will now pretend that I am actually writing this on June 9, 1974, when I had yet to know the titles of a few of the songs: It is very warm out, and I am listening to the countdown in my father's Volkswagen. I could not make out the titles of three out of the first four debut songs due to static. One song sounded melancholy. I know that Steely Dan debuted with "Rikki Don't Lose that Number." It sounds as though it will be around for at least two months--I hope it is still in the top 40 when 7th grade begins. The Spinners and the Hollies also made good debuts with their latest hits. Gladys Knight & the Pips have a hot one with "On and On."
Some of the songs in the countdown were sincere yet melancholy--what I call end-of-school-year/graduation/prom time sort of songs. Hits such as "You Won't See Me," "Oh Very Young," "Billy, Don't Be a Hero," and "You Make Me Feel Brand New" made me think of the teacher and classmates whom I'd be missing once school ended. I'd be going to a different school from them come September, adding to the melancholy state that I was in.
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Post by bobbo428 on Jun 17, 2014 15:38:45 GMT -5
(pretending it actually was 6/16/74) Debut songs on the countdown included the Righteous Brothers’ “Rock and Roll Heaven,” Hues Corporation’s “Rock the Boat,” as well as Cher’s “Train of Thought” and John Denver’s “Annie’s Song” and another “Rock” song whose title I couldn’t quite make out—by some new soul singer. I am curious about what songs on the top 40 now will still be in the top 40 when I’m in seventh grade. There are a lot of reflective or melancholy, end-of-school-year sorts of songs, such as the blue Magic's "Sideshow," Cat Stevens’ “Oh Very Young,” and Carly Simon’s “Haven’t Got Time for the Pain” in the countdown. I was hoping that the Stylistics would finally get their first #1 with "You Make Me Feel Brand New," but Bo Donaldson jumped over them to snag #1 with "Billy, Don't Be a Hero.". Of the songs in the countdown, the three which, in my opinion, stand the best chance of making it to the first countdown of 7th grade (the show I hear on September 8) are "Rock and Roll Heaven," "Rock the Boat," and "Rikki Don't Lose that Number." "Rock the Boat" is off to such a fast start, however, that it may not quite make it to the new school year. If John Denver's new song can stay on the top 40 the same number of weeks as "Sunshine" did, he will just make it to the next school year.Who knows. It is the last countdown of 6th grade--I'll be going to a new school--a Catholic school come September. I am really nervous about that, but Casey's show will be there every week I am able to get the station (from Wilkes Barre, PA).
Note: I am wondering whether any fellow members wondered which songs on the top 40 at the end of a school year would still be on the top 40 for the first week of the next school year. Different parts of the country would have had different end and start-up dates, so different parameters would apply.
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