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Post by at40fansince1984 on May 12, 2015 22:11:11 GMT -5
Listening to 8/23/86 with Charlie Van Dyke on WBME. I liked him rapping before "Walk This Way" & the inclusion of the original commercials.
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Post by freakyflybry on May 12, 2015 23:48:10 GMT -5
AT40 from October 11, 1975 with Wink Martindale guest hosting.
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Post by SFGuy on May 13, 2015 3:15:22 GMT -5
October 1, 1983. A Charlie Van Dyke guest hosted show.
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Post by pointpark04 on May 13, 2015 9:51:06 GMT -5
It's 5/12/79 this morning. What a great time for pop music, with disco still alive and as strong as ever.
Casey mentions that there are five former number one songs on this week's survey, which is stunningly low comparatively. In fact, on the entire Hot 100 that week, only nine chart-toppers in total were found. Contrast that with just two years prior, when there were routinely over five former number ones within the top 10, let alone top 40.
I loved Casey's story on "Disco saved the world-class city" story on New York city. Fabulous. What I wouldn't give to go back in time to be of age to go to Studio 54. I was born 10 years too late.
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Post by mkarns on May 13, 2015 12:01:16 GMT -5
It's 5/12/79 this morning. What a great time for pop music, with disco still alive and as strong as ever. Casey mentions that there are five former number one songs on this week's survey, which is stunningly low comparatively. In fact, on the entire Hot 100 that week, only nine chart-toppers in total were found. Contrast that with just two years prior, when there were routinely over five former number ones within the top 10, let alone top 40. I loved Casey's story on "Disco saved the world-class city" story on New York city. Fabulous. What I wouldn't give to go back in time to be of age to go to Studio 54. I was born 10 years too late. I hope Premiere keeps that one in when they play it this weekend. SXM cut it out when they aired that countdown three years ago, as some stations that disliked disco may have done originally. And even if you were older, actually getting into 54 was very much a crapshoot as I understand it.
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Post by Shadoe Fan on May 13, 2015 13:34:44 GMT -5
AT40 5/22/99. One of the few AT40s I have on mp3 of the '98-'04 era of AT40.
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Post by BrettVW on May 15, 2015 10:14:20 GMT -5
AT40 with Seacrest from 3/20/2004. What is interesting about these early Seacrest shows was that
1) there was much more emphasis on chart positions 2) this was before PPM so Ryan's talk breaks are much longer and detailed 3) with # 2, the interview segments are much more in depth and not 15 second cut and pastes from his morning show (which he was a month into as of this show) 4) there are still some jingles
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Post by BrettVW on May 15, 2015 11:01:49 GMT -5
Also, rather than using generic music beds to talk under, Ryan uses the intros of the songs looped over and over much like Shadoe
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Post by mkarns on May 15, 2015 11:55:35 GMT -5
AT40 with Seacrest from 3/20/2004. What is interesting about these early Seacrest shows was that 1) there was much more emphasis on chart positions 2) this was before PPM so Ryan's talk breaks are much longer and detailed 3) with # 2, the interview segments are much more in depth and not 15 second cut and pastes from his morning show (which he was a month into as of this show) 4) there are still some jingles Kind of a mixed bag in retrospect. Compared to the current state of the show, I'd welcome more discussion of chart positions and data, as well as jingles. (And who the heck thought it was a good idea to start the present practice of about half the shows beginning with a cold opening from the unnamed announcer, with Ryan not coming on until after #40?) But longer talk breaks and interviews aren't always a good thing, especially when they're about something that has little to do with the countdown (like effectively aiding in promo for a now-11 year old movie or long forgotten TV show.) For the last five years or so there's generally been less talk and a lot more extras, often exceeding 10 per show (this includes optional extras as Premiere does with the Casey shows, the difference being that optionals in the current AT40 are usually listener requests.)
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Post by BrettVW on May 15, 2015 17:07:39 GMT -5
I know we all complained heavily back in 2004 when Ryan took over, but there are lots of elements of a Casey countdown on this March 2004 show that are long gone. Ryan had the Casey style tease going into the last commercial before # 1 and tells a story leading into the song. There are station mentions. Closing credits with a theme. And he even uses the tagline "the numbers get smaller as the hits get bigger"
He also references Casey twice in the show.
I think when his morning show got syndicated into the "On Air" show, that was the end of original creativity for AT40 as most of the show is now pasted clips from that. PPM style radio also hurt. (sidenote: I listened to Bob Kingsley a couple weeks ago and he really has sped up the pace of his show for PPM as well)
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Post by dukelightning on May 17, 2015 10:12:32 GMT -5
5/20/78 and if the Bee Gees did not have enough accomplishments this year, they can add this little factoid to their collection. Because I cannot remember a show in which the same artist kicked off both the top 40 and the top 10. They did it with "Stayin Alive" in its 22nd week in the top 40 and "Night Fever" in its 15 week in the top 10. Of course both of those totals are eclipsed by their preceding SNF hit "How Deep is Your Love". Ironically, this is also the week that their 15 week dominance of the #1 position with their own and written/produced hits comes to an end.
Casey also points out before playing "Too Much Too Little Too Late" that Paul Davis' "I Go Crazy" has tied Johnny Mathis' record for most weeks on the chart with 39, dropping to #95. He of course will break the record the following week. But the week after that, Johnny hits #1 with the aforementioned song. Some poetic chart justice in a sense.
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Post by freakyflybry on May 17, 2015 14:51:24 GMT -5
Rick Dees Weekly Top 40 from November 8, 2008.
I know I've often said that pop music had already started to sink in quality by that point, but I'm surprised that I actually like almost all of the songs on the chart, it was quite good in retrospect. Only three songs on there I can't stand - and Rick skipped one of them!
Compare it to this week's Dees chart, where I only like 25 of the current top 40.
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Post by Shadoe Fan on May 17, 2015 21:44:42 GMT -5
CT40 5/6/95. Casey just told a story about getting sheet music by fax.
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Post by freakyflybry on May 17, 2015 22:36:10 GMT -5
Rick Dees Weekly Top 40 from November 16, 1991.
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Post by matt on May 17, 2015 23:02:51 GMT -5
Listening to AT40 from 6/23/90--another 1990 show with a surprisingly decent amount of good music (though still somewhat hit or miss). A couple of things I'm struck by listening to this show:
1. Shadoe had clearly hit his stride by this point in his run and was doing an excellent job of hosting. It's such a shame that ABC had to dink with things as much as they did (clearly in a desperate attempt to stop the bleeding of falling ratings), because he was quite a good listen by this point in his run. 2. The jingle package that the show adopted by this time was horrible. Seriously, what the heck were they going for with that awful stuff? What's up with the dude that sounds like he's singing while receiving an enema? In the words of Simon Cowell, just dreadful. An example of why the show was going downhill that had nothing to do with Shadoe.
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