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Post by blackbowl68 on Aug 4, 2015 22:02:41 GMT -5
AT20 Hot AC Top 60 of 2003. I followed the charts religiously back then, and it seems like "just the other day" rather than almost 12 years. It's also so interesting to jear how much the format has changed in 12 years. Hot AC from 12-15 years ago parallels what is now Soft AC, and Hot AC, which was originally designed to distance itself from CHR and still be more hip than the Soft AC "elevator music" is closer to CHR than it ever has been. Yes it is hard to tell a HOT AC station and a regular AC station apart. The closest description I can come up with is Hot AC = CHR without the rap. While I try to avoid both formats altogether, the way I tell the two subformats apart is by the number of oldies they play per hour & how old those oldies are. AC plays more oldies than currents per hour & those are usually more than 20 years old. Hot AC stays within 25 years for their oldies & plays more currents per hour.
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Post by freakyflybry on Aug 4, 2015 23:43:02 GMT -5
AT40 from September 29, 1990.
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Post by BrettVW on Aug 5, 2015 7:22:10 GMT -5
Yes it is hard to tell a HOT AC station and a regular AC station apart. The closest description I can come up with is Hot AC = CHR without the rap. While I try to avoid both formats altogether, the way I tell the two subformats apart is by the number of oldies they play per hour & how old those oldies are. AC plays more oldies than currents per hour & those are usually more than 20 years old. Hot AC stays within 25 years for their oldies & plays more currents per hour. I would say even those guidelines are gone. Hot AC rarely plays recurrents now from more than 5-10 years ago and they have a select few 90s golds. 80s are long gone from nearly all HAC stations. and at least the AC stations I listen to are now more current than ever.
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Post by pointpark04 on Aug 5, 2015 9:22:35 GMT -5
It's 8/3/74 right now. So many great classics, forgotten by oldies stations. "Fish Ain't Bitin'" by Lamont Dozier and "This Heart" by Gene Redding are just two of them heard thus far.
Please explain to me how "You're Having My Baby" not only went to number one for Paul Anka, but spent three weeks there. Ugh.
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Post by matt on Aug 5, 2015 9:44:19 GMT -5
Interesting to read the posts of you guys with more of a radio background regarding formats. I have to admit that before I started frequenting the boards here, I didn't know much of anything about the CHR, AC, and HAC formats (of course formats like Country, R&B, Classical, Oldies, Alternative, etc. are more obvious).
Listening to the 7/26/86 now. Fun show from a good summer for music--a lot of good memories of that year for me. Before that, it was the 7/21/79 show. Interesting with the '79--a lot of mellow/slow songs throughout right up until the top 10--then the show became more disco heavy. A boo-hiss-jeer to Premiere for editing "Good Times" by Chic--one of the best songs in this countdown, and a song that really should never be edited. It merely goes chorus-verse-chorus-verse-chorus. Premiere's 7/21/79 show version just went chorus-verse-chorus and then faded out...you really can't edit a song that doesn't have more than that.
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Post by Shadoe Fan on Aug 5, 2015 21:20:43 GMT -5
After doing a tour of the 1990s the past several days, I'm listening to AT40 5 August '89 at the moment. Will be venturing back through the 70s and 80s now.
Regarding the HAC format...The one locally started out as a typical current HAC station, but then they changed to '80s to today. They have all '80s weekends to compete with the local AC that does the same.
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Post by dukelightning on Aug 6, 2015 12:34:28 GMT -5
AT40 from today's date in 1977 which some people predicted would be this week's show. Instead we got the next show done on an August 6th. And the next show after that, Casey's last for Watermark, was a "B" show last week. Anyway, I did a double take when I heard a question from Ron Durkee. Thought for a second it was the one and only Rob Durkee but it was Ron not Rob. And he is from Goldsboro, NC which is 30 miles from me. (the question was the oft asked 'who hit #1 the most consecutive years?' with Elvis and the Beatles being the answer).
Incidentally, I had to wait until #3 to hear a disco song and a great one at that...Best of My Love. Yes in the middle of the disco era, there is a show with but one disco song in it.
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Post by pointpark04 on Aug 7, 2015 9:57:14 GMT -5
It's 8/5/78 this morning, and I feel obliged to make the comment of how nice it would have been had AT40 been four hours in length a lot earlier than the fall of '78.
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Post by dukelightning on Aug 7, 2015 15:12:15 GMT -5
The 5th for pointpark, the 6th for those listening to the 80s show this afternoon. Anyone for the 7th or today's date? Guess it will have to be me with the show from 1976. No Casey here as Sonny Melendrez or whatever....he said his name about 47 times during the show but I still can't really figure out what it is. Nor can I figure out how this guy got into radio. Does not have anything close to a radio voice. Whatever, it is a year before the show I heard yesterday that had only one disco song in it and yet I counted something like 14 disco songs in the show. Including one that kicked it off by the Supremes which makes this the only show in AT40 history that has current hits by the 3 most influential or well known groups from the 60s in it. The other two were back to back in the top 10 and they are the Beatles and Beach Boys. Sonny also made a bold prediction when after announcing that "Let 'Em In" moved from 10 to 4 that it was definitely headed to #1. This just a couple days after I heard the 8/4/73 show where "Live and Let Die" moved 21 to 3 and Casey in his prediction days, predicted it would hit #1 the next week. Neither did of course. These two records represent Sir Paul's closest and really only close attempts at getting back to back #1 hits. You know Ringo was the only Beatle to accomplish that feat.
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Post by darnall42 on Aug 7, 2015 15:46:12 GMT -5
Just starting listening to the August 7th 1976 show with guest host Sonny Melendrez
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Post by pointpark04 on Aug 7, 2015 15:57:41 GMT -5
Duke, I'm all around today's date today, as I'm now listening to the 8/8/87 show. This countdown has a great mix of songs from albums that were huge in 1986 (Control, Back in the High Life, Fore!) and songs from albums that were fairly or quite new, such as Bad, Whitney and the yet-to-be-released Faith by George Michael. Many one-hit wonders abound, including Living in a Box with one of my favorites from that summer, their self-titled cut. And some girl named Debbie came from out of the blue and started her chart career that summer.
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Post by dukelightning on Aug 7, 2015 16:04:51 GMT -5
Point, MJ must have debuted that week because I heard the previous week's show, a blacksheep show for some of us, a few days ago and he was not in it. First time Michael and Janet are in the same show.
Darnall, it is a made for UK ending on that show. Not giving anything away so that's all I will say.
And my second show of the day is from today's date in 1999. Again it is guest hosted. FYI, Casey DID the show for this date in 1982 in case you are wondering if he always took this date off. At least Joe Cipriano has a radio voice!
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Post by pointpark04 on Aug 7, 2015 16:18:51 GMT -5
Indeed, duke, MJ debuted - say it with me, kids, in Casey's voice - on the entire Hot 100 way up at number 37.
I chuckled when listening to that 1973 show the other day, when Casey said that "Live and Let Die" would most surely hit number one. Shocking that it didn't. Even more shocking - and pathetic, too - that Ringo was the lone member of the Fab Four to occupy the top spot with consecutive singles.
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Post by freakyflybry on Aug 8, 2015 12:44:26 GMT -5
AT40 from August 1, 1987. Since I'm listening to 1987 right now, I'll probably listen to the B show from 1982 next week instead.
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Post by pointpark04 on Aug 8, 2015 15:19:08 GMT -5
A Saturday at work, being passed by with the help of Casey from 8/1/70 (using 8/8/70 chart). Always love to hear me some Freda Payne and her band of gold and spilling a little wine along with Eric Burden and War. Both songs are coming up as I enter the top five.
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