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Post by freakyflybry on Nov 12, 2014 23:19:22 GMT -5
November 16, 1974 AT40.
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Post by Dale Latimer on Nov 14, 2014 17:07:23 GMT -5
The (1977) Girls of the Rock Era special... still can't understand why Premiere used songs from the regular chart as extras.
dL
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Post by BrettVW on Nov 15, 2014 10:27:02 GMT -5
6/15/85
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Post by freakyflybry on Nov 15, 2014 16:44:47 GMT -5
AT40 from November 16, 1985.
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Post by bestmusicexpert on Nov 15, 2014 16:59:44 GMT -5
CT40 from 11-18-89. On now, Roxette's Listen To Your Heart, one of my all time favorites. A pretty good mix of styles on this countdown.
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Post by BrettVW on Nov 17, 2014 13:57:33 GMT -5
Casey's Top 40 British Hits Special from 9/1/90
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Post by pointpark04 on Nov 17, 2014 15:08:22 GMT -5
Nearing the top 10 of 11/15/86 after going through 11/8/86 earlier. I'm catching up on some shows due to some medical issues I've been encountering lately.
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Post by matt on Nov 17, 2014 17:47:39 GMT -5
AT40 from November 16, 1985. That's a great show--one of my all time favorites... Listening to 10/29/83 right now--at #14 with Quiet Riot. Good story to intro this song about how the band got started by Randy Rhoads, then broke-up, then reformed upon Rhoads death. Music-wise, it's really tough to beat shows from mid-late 1983...just so many great songs.
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Post by BrettVW on Nov 17, 2014 18:41:05 GMT -5
AT10 from 3/14/09 with host Mike Kasem
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Post by pointpark04 on Nov 18, 2014 9:20:24 GMT -5
It's 11/17/79 now in my weekly review of AT40 from 35 years ago. Later, it's going to be 11/16/85 - apparently a favorite week of those on this thread, on which I'll have to agree. I cannot WAIT to listen to it.
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Post by pointpark04 on Nov 18, 2014 15:21:22 GMT -5
Wow. What a fun day. Now on to 11/21/92. Not my favorite era for Top 40 music, but there are some songs in this countdown I wanted to hear Casey introduce, so I got the show.
There are by my count eight "question" songs within this countdown, including the terrible #1 song, "How Do You Talk to an Angel?" by The Heights. This is the very depths of pop music and led me away from it for several years, with some exceptions.
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Post by dukelightning on Nov 19, 2014 10:47:03 GMT -5
11/19/88 and Shadoe just did an odd thing. Before playing Erasure's "Chains of Love", he played clips of previous 'chain' songs like Aretha's "Chain of Fools" and the Pretenders "Back on teh Chain Gang". But he played "Chains" by the Beatles. Not a song I was familiar with and it does not appear in Whitburn's latest pop singles book which in addition to listing all of their singles, lists almost as many classic non-Hot 100 song. Comes from their debut Lp. Guess he played it because it must be the only or at least the most noteworthy song whose title is simply "Chains". BTW, prefer the Gap Band's original "Early in the Morning" to RObert Palmer's cover. His has no guitar solo at all which is what makes their version the best version.
Maybe the first instance of hacking reported on AT40 here. A member of Information Society was an early hacker and hacked his way such that he added a some zeros to their recording contract. Label could have sent him to jail but let it go. Can't say that I knew what a hacker was as early as 1988.
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Post by pointpark04 on Nov 19, 2014 11:48:31 GMT -5
I'm listening to 11/12/88 and plan on doing 11/19/88 when I get home, dl. I love the Fall of 1988. So many good songs that didn't make the top 10, or very deep into it - "Chains of Love" being one of them. My other personal faves would include "Small World" by Huey Lewis & the News, "The Promise" by When in Rome, "Never Tear us Apart" by INXS, and "Domino Dancing" by the Pet Shop Boys. Only INXS' song made the top 10 out of those five, if my memory serves me correctly.
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Post by pointpark04 on Nov 19, 2014 12:49:54 GMT -5
It's 11/20/76 now, up to #34 and the 21st week for "A Fifth of Beethoven" in the Top 40, the most weeks of any song on the charts in 1976.
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Post by dukelightning on Nov 19, 2014 13:45:11 GMT -5
A little prophetic on this show as Shadoe tells a story about the wild west of the 19th century before playing the song "Wild, Wild West" at #2. Mentions the Young Guns movie that came out in 1988. Then plays the #1 song....by Bon Jovi. Of course Jon would record the theme song from Young Guns II in 1990. Like I said, prophetic!
What are the odds of this happening. I just started CT40 from 11/19/94. Starts with the group Immature all of whose members were 13 years old. The 11/19/88 show that I heard earlier started with Tracy Spencer who was 13 years old. 2 shows from the same date starting with artists that were all that age. Immature is a trio so that's 4 people in these 2 shows.
Wow, I have to share one of the worst stories behind a R&D/LDD I have ever heard and I have heard a ton. A girl wrote in to say that after her friend did not show up for a get together one day, it was over a month later that the authorities determined that her friend was raped and killed by 2 guys. The girl who wrote was to testify in court against the 2 perpetrators. Really makes you angry hearing this one. Read by David Perry BTW with "Tears in Heaven" dedicated.
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