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Post by Dale Latimer on Jul 21, 2017 9:59:41 GMT -5
Crossposted from the "Westwood One Years" sub-board (updated w/link): In the linked Radio & Records piece, one of two referenced in the post honouring 25 years of Casey on the occasion of a contract extension to him by WW1 (the other a smaller one in Billboard), it was mentioned that Casey called Roberta Flack in 1972 after the success of "The First Time Ever..." and that the call aired, apparently, on AT40. Has that show been remastered/aired? dL
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Post by at40petebattistini on Jul 21, 2017 18:30:00 GMT -5
Dale, I know of no show that featured a phone call with Casey and Roberta Flack. At least, certainly not in 1972 when "The First Time Ever..." was in the Top 40.
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Post by dth1971 on Jul 21, 2017 20:21:31 GMT -5
It wasn't until the 1990's when AT40 then hosted by Shadoe Stevens used interview clips.
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Post by Mike on Jul 23, 2017 14:54:19 GMT -5
Dale, I know of no show that featured a phone call with Casey and Roberta Flack. At least, certainly not in 1972 when "The First Time Ever..." was in the Top 40. I mentioned this in the original thread, but assuming the R&R article is correct, he'd have called to congratulate her for having the year's #1 song. That would make the show in question Part 2 of the Top 80 of 1972, and - surprise surprise! - that's the one and only year-end countdown in this era that Premiere has yet to air even in part.
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Post by giannirubino on Jul 24, 2017 1:40:59 GMT -5
dth1971 wrote: It wasn't until the 1990's when AT40 then hosted by Shadoe Stevens used interview clips.
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So ... what do you call Casey's taped conversation with Cyndi Lauper used on the February 4, 1984 show (right before her song plays at #21, up from #31) ?
“I could sing with my voice and I could make people feel, but the minute I start tawking and I hear the way I tawk, oh, God, I say to myself, ‘Whoop, that’s me.’”
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I swear there was one with Tracey Ullman when she was climbing the top 40, where they shared her and some of her accents. It starts with her mentioning she took a crappy UK job once, just to learn the local accent, and ends with her doing what I assume was a 1940s/1950s musical era kind of American accent.
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For what it's worth, for all I know those were the only two times during the initial Casey era that that happened. I do agree that the interviews became more plentiful during the Shadoe era, perhaps more than a couple per show.
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Post by giannirubino on Jul 24, 2017 2:02:26 GMT -5
Tracey's accents were played on April 28, 1984, when "They Don't Know" climbed up two notches to number eight.
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Post by michaelcasselman on Jul 24, 2017 8:03:15 GMT -5
It was very rare that you'd hear an acts' "speaking voice" on AT40. There was Gloria Estefan pronouncing her name, I think there was a brief snipet of Sheena Easton talking, and Peter Wolf doing his 'DJ' voice, IIRC. But very few of these would I consider 'interviews' in the same way that Shadoe later integrated artist Q&As and soundbytes into the show.
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Post by at40petebattistini on Jul 24, 2017 10:13:40 GMT -5
During the May 25, 1985 program, as part of the introduction of "One Night In Bangkok" by Murray Head, Casey played an audio clip of a Thai restaurant waitress who provided the full pronunciation of the city's name.
And unless it was a localized insert, I'm pretty sure no audio interview between Casey Kasem and Roberta Flack ever appeared within an AT40 program, including 1972's year-end show.
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Post by bottlerocket on Jul 24, 2017 15:17:16 GMT -5
There were a number of audio clips used in the broadcast of the Top 40 hits of the 1980s so far that premiered in the summer of 1987.
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Post by dth1971 on Jul 25, 2017 7:49:41 GMT -5
Does Ryan Seacrest on current AT40 still use interview audio clips?
I also remember a 1988 AT40 where an audio of Gloria Estefan was used for the pronounciation of Gloria's last name.
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Post by dukelightning on Jul 25, 2017 7:52:27 GMT -5
Seacrest does it all the time, but half the time it is some movie actor or actress that no one cares about. Ok, I am exaggerating. Some people must care but yours truly is not one of them.
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Post by giannirubino on Jul 25, 2017 9:32:22 GMT -5
Thanks for the reminder, michaelcasselman, Peter Wolf DID have that DJ bit on AT40 in the Summer of 1984 (going into Lights Out (Dancing In The Dark.)) That was fun to hear (then.)
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Post by johnnywest on Jan 23, 2019 15:56:58 GMT -5
Crossposted from the "Westwood One Years" sub-board (updated w/link): In the linked Radio & Records piece, one of two referenced in the post honouring 25 years of Casey on the occasion of a contract extension to him by WW1 (the other a smaller one in Billboard), it was mentioned that Casey called Roberta Flack in 1972 after the success of "The First Time Ever..." and that the call aired, apparently, on AT40. Has that show been remastered/aired? dL Dale, I was under the assumption that Casey chose not to use the interview because Roberta showed very little enthusiasm, therefore killing future interviews down the road. I also remember Casey saying in another article that he preferred to simply quote people because it was more precise.
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Post by cachiva on Jan 23, 2019 22:13:39 GMT -5
Which might lead to this:
I have heard Casey quote articles from Rolling Stone magazine any number of times. Creem, Rock, and even the New Music Express from the UK, too. But I've never heard him quote an article or song/album review from Billboard. Only chart data.
Does anyone else find that a bit weird, considering Billboard and AT40 had such a close working relationship?
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Post by at40petebattistini on Jan 23, 2019 23:08:31 GMT -5
Which might lead to this: I have heard Casey quote articles from Rolling Stone magazine any number of times. Creem, Rock, and even the New Music Express from the UK, too. But I've never heard him quote an article or song/album review from Billboard. Only chart data. Does anyone else find that a bit weird, considering Billboard and AT40 had such a close working relationship? Just speculation on my part, but it may be possible that he quoted only from publications that had a broader public circulation, where more articles of a biographical nature were highlighted.
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