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Post by adam31 on Sept 16, 2015 10:38:45 GMT -5
Listening to 9/18/93, not as rap filled as one may think. This show featured quite a few classic pop artists, like Madonna, Earth Wind and Fire, Rod Stewart, and two songs by Duran Duran!
According to Shadoe, this show also features two artists that charted in the 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s....Michael Jackson and Tina Turner.
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Post by pointpark04 on Sept 16, 2015 11:53:53 GMT -5
It's 9/18/82 - not the best period of the 1980s for me, but this show DOES feature some of my favorite songs of the decade. I sung almost word-for-word several songs, including "Blue Eyes" by Elton and "What's Forever For?" by Michael Murphy. I'd say my personal favorite from this countdown would be the number nine song, "Eye in the Sky", but it is a tough call.
Mostly when I think of this time in my life (I was just turning 12), I remember playing "Pitfall" on my Atari for hours on end in the evening when I got home from school. How I loved that game.
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Post by mkarns on Sept 16, 2015 11:59:26 GMT -5
It's 9/18/82 - not the best period of the 1980s for me, but this show DOES feature some of my favorite songs of the decade. I sung almost word-for-word several songs, including "Blue Eyes" by Elton and "What's Forever For?" by Michael Murphy. I'd say my personal favorite from this countdown would be the number nine song, "Eye in the Sky", but it is a tough call. Mostly when I think of this time in my life (I was just turning 12), I remember playing "Pitfall" on my Atari for hours on end in the evening when I got home from school. How I loved that game. My seventh birthday was that weekend (ergo, this forthcoming weekend I reach four-ohh.) We didn't have an Atari yet, but a few months later got a 2600 allowing me to immerse myself each afternoon in Pitfall, Donkey Kong, Qbert, and Pac-Man (the inferior home version, but I didn't care.) About that same time we finally got permanent cable service, bringing us HBO, Cinemax, and, more importantly for the purposes of this board, MTV.
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Post by pointpark04 on Sept 16, 2015 12:48:19 GMT -5
Onto the CT40 from 9/19/92, and it's shocking to see the first eight songs in the countdown all spending either their first or second week on the chart. I can't say I've seen that happen often. And, of the first 16 songs, only three had been in the Top 40 for more than a month.
This was a tumultuous period of my life - one which should've seen me finally fully realize who I was (am) as a person, but fear and insecurity won the day, unfortunately.
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Post by adam31 on Sept 16, 2015 16:50:31 GMT -5
Mostly when I think of this time in my life (I was just turning 12), I remember playing "Pitfall" on my Atari for hours on end in the evening when I got home from school. How I loved that game. My seventh birthday was that weekend (ergo, this forthcoming weekend I reach four-ohh.) We didn't have an Atari yet, but a few months later got a 2600 allowing me to immerse myself each afternoon in Pitfall, Donkey Kong, Qbert, and Pac-Man (the inferior home version, but I didn't care.) About that same time we finally got permanent cable service, bringing us HBO, Cinemax, and, more importantly for the purposes of this board, MTV. Pac-Man and Donkey Kong, wow you bring back the memories! I was thrilled beyond belief to be able to play those games at home on the Atari 2600. Now I think, wtf, these blocky things look nothing like what I played in the arcade, but you are right our 12 year old selves didn't care!
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Post by Mike on Sept 16, 2015 19:58:45 GMT -5
The Gary Owens show from 9/12/81. Would have been interesting if a station had picked this up and played it somewhere in the past weekend, though I can see why none would have. (Between 8/29 two weeks ago and 9/19 as a "B" this coming weekend, among other things...)
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Post by freakyflybry on Sept 17, 2015 0:17:07 GMT -5
AT40 from October 2, 1999.
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Post by dukelightning on Sept 17, 2015 11:34:40 GMT -5
This turns out to be a very appropriate show for me to hear today. CT40 from 9/17/94 in which Casey tells a story of how the Indians Kenny Lofton almost missed a concert in Cleveland by Janet Jackson because of a game he played the same night. BTW, said game occurred a couple months earlier according to Casey which would have been less than a month before the MLB strike that year. Anyway, tonight I am working another Janet concert, the one she plays here. If she plays "Anytime, Anyplace", it will probably be about three times as long as the version CT40 played in this show. Ran all of 2 and a half minutes. And here I thought edits like that ended with the three hour AT40 shows. Ridiculous!
Actually I am listening to the wrong show. I had intended to hear the 9/17/94 which was guest hosted but this is the 9/24/94 show. Oh well. Like I said, this is more appropriate.
And another note about this show. There are NO debuts. I found that out by looking at the Old Radio Shows site listing for this show not because Casey mentioned it. He did not as far as I can tell.
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Post by pointpark04 on Sept 17, 2015 13:02:26 GMT -5
I'll be listening to that one next week, duke. It's part of my "Birthday Month Marathon", in which I'll hear a countdown from my birth month of September for each year between 1970 and 2001.
I agree with you on the edits to four-hour countdowns. Thanks, R&Ds/LDDs!
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Post by mkarns on Sept 17, 2015 13:15:04 GMT -5
And another note about this show. There are NO debuts. I found that out by looking at the Old Radio Shows site listing for this show not because Casey mentioned it. He did not as far as I can tell. I thought that was the first AT40/CT40 with no debuts (mentioning it in another thread yesterday), but seven months earlier (2/19/94) there was a Shadoe-hosted AT40 with no new entries. There are a few such Ryan Seacrest AT40s as well.
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Post by Mike on Sept 17, 2015 20:31:11 GMT -5
And another note about this show. There are NO debuts. I found that out by looking at the Old Radio Shows site listing for this show not because Casey mentioned it. He did not as far as I can tell. I thought that was the first AT40/CT40 with no debuts (mentioning it in another thread yesterday), but seven months earlier (2/19/94) there was a Shadoe-hosted AT40 with no new entries. There are a few such Ryan Seacrest AT40s as well. 4/17/93, I believe, was the first debutless week on AT40. There was also a week that October (10/2?).
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Post by mkarns on Sept 17, 2015 23:12:22 GMT -5
I thought that was the first AT40/CT40 with no debuts (mentioning it in another thread yesterday), but seven months earlier (2/19/94) there was a Shadoe-hosted AT40 with no new entries. There are a few such Ryan Seacrest AT40s as well. 4/17/93, I believe, was the first debutless week on AT40. There was also a week that October (10/2?). I checked and found that 10/16/93 had no new entries on Billboard's Top 40 Mainstream chart, which AT40 used for the last two Shadoe years.
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Post by freakyflybry on Sept 17, 2015 23:41:55 GMT -5
AT40 from October 17, 1998. It was interesting to hear Casey introduce the debut from Britney Spears's first hit... little did we know the huge star she would become.
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Post by interstate19 on Sept 18, 2015 15:16:08 GMT -5
12/8/1979. Those darn Gatlin Brothers.
Seriously, all this talk lately about how bad 1980-81 was. Jan/Feb 1980 is one of my favorite periods of music. Very much a chart in transition. Still disco, still some arena rock, some good R&B, some soft rock creeping in, even new wave. This is first show from Dec 1979 I've heard, so I wanted to hear the transition. I like it a lot. I remember a lot of it, even though I was only 8.
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Post by pointpark04 on Sept 21, 2015 11:02:05 GMT -5
The top 40 from the weekend of my fifth birthday, 9/20/75. I love "Brazil" by the Ritchie Family, now playing at number 27. I'd say "Games People Play" would have been a chart-burner for me this week, had I been old enough to do my own chart at that time. I dig that song.
Really cool to have David Bowie at the number one spot with "Fame". Plenty of great Hall of Fame acts in this countdown, including Jefferson Starship, EW&F, Manilow, Sedaka, just to name a few.
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