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Post by darnall42 on Dec 6, 2019 18:10:26 GMT -5
December 15th 1979 (all 4 hours recorded from KOKZ a few years back )
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Post by OnWithTheCountdown on Dec 6, 2019 21:38:31 GMT -5
Another R&D that leaves your head shaking. This guy wrote in about a friend of his who had gone to console an old female friend. He got there and then her boyfriend showed up and shot him, the girl and himself. Song requested was "Hero". None of them survived. Senseless. Very sad. Some people just go crazy when they're "in love". (Note the quotations; love doesn't provoke those behaviors.) It was exactly one year after that show aired, that I lost a childhood friend to a drunk driver. He was just 21, and I was three months away from turning 21. It still hits a sore spot with me. Whoever that lady was that pulled over to help him, as he died in her arms, is a "hero" in my eyes.
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Post by OnWithTheCountdown on Dec 6, 2019 21:40:09 GMT -5
December 15th 1979 (all 4 hours recorded from KOKZ a few years back ) I'll be listening to that show soon. In the last hour of CT40 from 12/7/1991, then it'll be 12/8/1979.
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Post by at40petebattistini on Dec 11, 2019 20:21:53 GMT -5
Listening to the December 20, 1975 show...
...Casey's introduction to Donna Summer's "Love To Love You Baby" noted that the single had sold a million copies even though this was its first week in the Top 40. I can't recall Casey making that comment on any other song as it debuted in the countdown. Also, I'm not sure of his source for that information but it wasn't until March 10, 1976 when Billboard's Hot 100 acknowledged the song was an RIAA certified million seller.
...Casey mentioned that he was scheduled to appear in an ABC-TV movie -- "Mr. And Ms. Bandstand Murders." I'm curious to know if anyone has seen the movie, and also if it's ever been released for general public distribution.
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Post by djjoe1960 on Dec 11, 2019 23:05:17 GMT -5
Listening to the December 20, 1975 show... ...Casey's introduction to Donna Summer's "Love To Love You Baby" noted that the single had sold a million copies even though this was its first week in the Top 40. I can't recall Casey making that comment on any other song as it debuted in the countdown. Also, I'm not sure of his source for that information but it wasn't until March 10, 1976 when Billboard's Hot 100 acknowledged the song was an RIAA certified million seller. ...Casey mentioned that he was scheduled to appear in an ABC-TV movie -- "Mr. And Ms. Bandstand Murders." I'm curious to know if anyone has seen the movie, and also if it's ever been released for general public distribution.
I see that the RIAA certified the Love To Love You single (by Donna Summer) as gold on February 19, 1976. I wonder where the AT40 staff got the info that the song was a million seller in December of 1975.
That movie you mentioned sounds like a bad Columbo episode--I was actually gonna say Murder She Wrote, but that show didn't debut until Sept. of 1984. The IMBD website says the movie hasn't been seen since the 1970's and may have been lost. The plot is a young couple investigates the murder of a rock star. While I watched a lot of TV back in the 1970's and was a faithful AT40 listener in the mid 1970's, I don't recall seeing that movie (of the week).
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Post by OnWithTheCountdown on Dec 12, 2019 11:15:17 GMT -5
CT40 from 12/14/1991, the last weekly show of the year. Then followed by AT40 from 12/15/1979.
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Post by adam31 on Dec 12, 2019 11:23:27 GMT -5
I started listening to AT40 12/9/89 last week before Marie of Roxette passed away. Roxette had "Listen To Your Heart" in its last week on AT40 at #35, after hitting #1 a month before. Billy Joel took over #1 for his first week with "We Didn't Start The Fire" and Madonna had one of her few bombs with "Oh Father".
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Post by cdman71031 on Dec 12, 2019 13:17:09 GMT -5
I remember Shadoe saying something about the Salt & Pepa Single “Expression” selling a million Copies before it hit the top 40 when it debuted in spring 1990.
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Post by keithr63 on Dec 13, 2019 22:24:54 GMT -5
KLFM is playing a Christmas countdown e
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Post by darnall42 on Dec 14, 2019 3:43:57 GMT -5
Listeened to the AT40 from December 20th 1980 ,Great show and a touching moment when casey mentioned Jackie wilson and asked listeners to send christmas cards to be forwarded to jackie (even though by this time jackie was in a pre vegetative state )
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Post by OnWithTheCountdown on Dec 22, 2019 11:40:55 GMT -5
Over halfway through CT40 from 12/21/1991 (Top 100 Of 1991, Part 1). On deck: AT40 from 12/22/1979, the last regular show of the decade.
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Post by darnall42 on Dec 23, 2019 6:17:24 GMT -5
Listening to my recording of yesterday's offering from LM Radio - June 21st 1975 ,not a very seasonal offering from the african station but it is a good show
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Post by dukelightning on Dec 24, 2019 18:01:56 GMT -5
Partly inspired by a friend who was listening to the iheart radio presentation of the AT40 top 80 of 1972, I am listening to an historic show for me. The Opus 72 Top 100 of 1972. This was the first year end countdown I ever heard in my life back then when it aired. (It started at midnight when 1973 was ushered in. I did not quite make it to the end before falling asleep.) And that was before I had discovered AT40 too. If chrislc catches this post, he may also remember that it was on 1540 WPTR(Albany, NY). I thought some or all of these Opus countdowns were based on the Hot 100 charts but they used a different survey period and different point system. It already shows. Whereas "Scorpio" was #16 on the AT40 year end survey (which they compiled btw instead of using the Billboard listing), it was #96 on this countdown. These Opus shows feature interviews with many of the artists. Have already heard from Mick Jagger, Bobby Vinton and B. J. Thomas. And now Florence Gordon talking about how she and the group would rather play live than record because recording sessions can be tedious as they look for perfection in the song. (Fifth Dimension) Wow they played the nearly 8 minute album version of "Roundabout" (#86). "I Saw the Light" is the first song Todd Rundgren recorded in which he played all the instruments. 'A solo recording' as he said in the piece.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 24, 2019 18:14:22 GMT -5
Listening to Christmas in America w/Bob Kingsley 2012. Following this the annual American Top 10 Christmas 5 (or 6, can’t remember now) shows on repeat for the next 24 or so hours.
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Post by BrettVW on Dec 25, 2019 8:52:53 GMT -5
What has become sort of an unconventional Christmas morning tradition - the last hour of the 1976 Year End show on the iHeart station, which always times out to play around 8:30-9:30a on Christmas morning.
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