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Post by pointpark04 on Dec 5, 2014 10:33:02 GMT -5
Right now it's a quick trip through 12/1/73, then onto 12/11/82 and, after that, 12/6/97. Three decades, three Caseys, one day. Now that's a Friday for you!
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Post by pointpark04 on Dec 8, 2014 12:43:33 GMT -5
Right now, it's the show that will be the 80s offering this coming weekend, 12/12/87.
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Post by dukelightning on Dec 8, 2014 14:57:19 GMT -5
The show from 12/8/01 which has something in common with this week's 70s show. In fact, Casey alluded to it at one point when he said, "30 years ago this week, the #1 song was "Family Affair". Will the #1 song on this show also be called "Family Affair"?' The answer is yes as Mary J. Blige, who like Sly in 1971, hit the top the first week of December and holds on top for this second week of the month. Not sure of any other time where the #1 song was the same title exactly 10, 20, 30, 40 or 50 years like that. Although I don't remember Casey ever going back 50 years when he asks that question about previous #1 songs during the show. Probably did not happen anyway.
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Post by pointpark04 on Dec 9, 2014 9:39:04 GMT -5
Ironically, duke, I'm listening to 12/4/71 at this very time, the show in which "Family Affair" by Sly and the Family Stone was at number one.
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Post by Dale Latimer on Dec 10, 2014 22:00:18 GMT -5
11/30/74. What a slammer... very few clunkers in this'un. (So-so edit on Elton's "Lucy.")
I'm sort-of caught up... though for some reason I'm thinking about the '05 Xmas doubleheader and maybe Dick Clark.
dL
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Post by freakyflybry on Dec 10, 2014 23:30:31 GMT -5
AT40 from December 11, 1976.
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Post by pointpark04 on Dec 11, 2014 9:59:53 GMT -5
Did a quick run-through of 12/5/70 (the 12/12 chart). Now onto 12/12/81 then 12/12/98 to end the work day.
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Post by matt on Dec 11, 2014 12:41:33 GMT -5
Just finishing up the 11/25/78. Another solid '78 show, though I feel like there was a little bit of a lull in songs in the top 40 during November '78. Lots of soft rock, and one of the biggest disco hits was "YMCA", which makes me want to pluck out my eyeball. Many good songs nevertheless--love "Time Passages", "Strange Way", "My Life", "Straight On", "Sweet Life", and "Kiss You All Over" (a song that I used to not care for, but has grown on me over time). And I have to admit I like pretty much all of Pablo Cruise's top 40 hits--including "Don't Want To Live Without It".
One of the more fun aspects of the first several months of the 4-hour shows before they added the top 3 recap, was all the extras that were included. They did a great job of mixing those up--and kudos to Premiere for keeping them all in the show rather than cutting them out...
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Post by adam31 on Dec 12, 2014 8:55:53 GMT -5
Just finishing up the 11/25/78. Another solid '78 show, though I feel like there was a little bit of a lull in songs in the top 40 during November '78. Lots of soft rock, and one of the biggest disco hits was "YMCA", which makes me want to pluck out my eyeball. Many good songs nevertheless--love "Time Passages", "Strange Way", "My Life", "Straight On", "Sweet Life", and "Kiss You All Over" (a song that I used to not care for, but has grown on me over time). And I have to admit I like pretty much all of Pablo Cruise's top 40 hits--including "Don't Want To Live Without It". One of the more fun aspects of the first several months of the 4-hour shows before they added the top 3 recap, was all the extras that were included. They did a great job of mixing those up--and kudos to Premiere for keeping them all in the show rather than cutting them out... I was surprised by the lack of disco records in this particular show. You could start to see the end of the disco era and beginnings of soft rock of the early 80s taking over. Heart's "Straight On" was mellow by their 70s standards.
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Post by pointpark04 on Dec 12, 2014 11:29:44 GMT -5
You really can tell that the landscape of music was changing by late 1978. Unfortunately. Exchanging up-tempo dance music for soft-schlock was not a step in the positive direction. Oh, how wonderful it was to start having all of those Kenny Rogers and Journey songs on the radio. Neat.
Anyway...
I was going to listen to 12/14/74 today, but realized I forgot to put it on my iTouch. So, instead, it's 12/14/85 right now, with 12/17/77 on deck. Regarding the 1985 show, listening to it brings back my memories of just how dull Top 40 radio had become by late-85/early-86. I bypassed about 10 songs in a row on this countdown. Just uninteresting songs, IMHO. The top 20 isn't bad, but the bottom 20 is largely forgettable.
One fascinating facet of the 12/15/85 show upon which Casey remarks is that a record five artists who had solo songs in the countdown also appeared as a member of another act with a song in the Top 40: Elton, Aretha, Stevie, Pat, and Tina. That's how Casey put it. If you add Jackson Browne and Clarence Clemons - who were in the countdown with a duet and as a part of Artists United Against Apartheid - you have seven artists in the Top 40 that week who were a part of two acts. Phenomenal, and I doubt unmatched from thereon out.
One more side note to that show: Stevie Wonder had two solo songs in addition to being with Dionne and Friends, while Billy Joel - who did not have a song in the Top 40 - appeared twice himself in LDDs.
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Post by dukelightning on Dec 12, 2014 13:11:18 GMT -5
Hold the phone people. The disco era was not on its way out in late 1978. In fact it had been at that level for about a year and a half. Case in point, in mid 1977, there was a week where only one disco song was in the top 40. Back in late 1978, the disco craze was about to get a second wind. By the spring of 1979, a record 16 disco songs would be in the top 40. You guys are jumping the gun about a year too early on the end of disco and the beginning of the soft rock era toward the end of 1979. But while we are on the subject, after hearing the 80s show for this week, I have to repeat my comment from a few weeks back. Funny how the disco era ended and dance music overall took a hit throughout the 80s. And yet time after time, the only disco or in the case of the 1987 show, it would be called dance, songs are big hits. "So Emotional", #1, "Don't You Want Me", #6, "Catch Me I'm falling", #8, "Need You Tonight", #1, MJ, #1. But nothing peaking in the teens, 20s or 30s IIRC. Strange but true. Expose had 2 or 3 top 10 dance hits earlier in the year. Same type thing in 1980.
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Post by pointpark04 on Dec 12, 2014 13:36:25 GMT -5
I didn't say disco was over by late 1978 - just that the landscape was changing. You didn't have the amount of soft-schlock songs in 1975-1977 that you had starting in 1978. While disco did have a big resurgence in the first half of 1979, the disco revolt at Comiskey Park in Chicago also happened that summer, too.
BTW, for those who care, I'm listening to 12/15/90 instead of 12/17/77. I'm saving that for next week.
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Post by matt on Dec 12, 2014 16:07:11 GMT -5
Just started with 11/24/84--and Premiere's editing strikes again! On Casey's intro to Toto's "Stranger In Town", he references the story about the guy that sneaked into Buckingham palace, and how it may have inspired the song's writers (who are David Paich and Jeff Porcaro btw). In the song, Toto alludes to this story in the 2nd verse of the song. Oh but wait...we Premiere listeners didn't get that because they edited the 2nd verse out! So, in one of their classic moves, they took out the part of the song that Casey discusses in his intro, therefore his intro ends up not making much sense.
As I've said before, I realize Premiere needs to edit songs, but it's annoying when the editors fail to be cognizant of how the edit may relate to Casey's intro/outcue/teaser.
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Post by matt on Dec 12, 2014 16:17:11 GMT -5
Also, just listened to 8/31/85 (yes, I'm just getting around to this one) -- at the beginning of hour #3, it goes straight from Larry Morgan's intro to the #20 jingle. In other words, the opening hour theme and Casey saying "your listening to the top 40 hits in the land as ranked by Billboard magazine", etc. blah blah blah. Does anyone know if this was cut out by Premiere or if it was erroneously left off in the original issue of the show?
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Post by dukelightning on Dec 12, 2014 16:33:07 GMT -5
That's a Premiere edit matt..it's on the original show. Meanwhile, it's 12/12/92 for me right now. You know there are 2 covers in here with different titles than the originals. "It's gonna be a Lovely Day" (Lovely Day) and "People Everyday" (Everyday People).
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