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Post by chrislc on Jun 2, 2022 20:41:59 GMT -5
Early December 1981. Casey says Centerfold moves up six notches in the intro and the correct five notches over the fade.
What's the deal?
Did he not record these tracks sequentially? Or was there a long break between the tracks so he didn't remember what he said over the intro? And why did no one else notice? Or did someone notice but was afraid to draw attention to it? Or even worse was it sort of a malicious obedience thing and someone (or multiple someones) wanted it to air that way?
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Post by doofus67 on Jun 2, 2022 23:24:25 GMT -5
I'm going with malicious obedience. That's what happens with an uptempo g.d. record! Is Don on the phone?
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Post by OnWithTheCountdown on Jun 3, 2022 4:55:53 GMT -5
I recently listened to a CT40 show from 1993 where that happened. Can't think of the show or song though. I'm currently on 8/14/1993, and I want to say it was either a June or July show.
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Post by djjoe1960 on Jun 3, 2022 6:24:40 GMT -5
It seems hard to believe when the shows were voice tracked that somebody didn't pick up on an error like that--but I know that I let a few slip ups like that get through on my own shows, so I guess I shouldn't pick up a stone to throw.
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Post by michaelcasselman on Jun 3, 2022 8:40:08 GMT -5
"Did "Centerfold" jump six shots or only five? Well to tell you the truth in all this excitement I kinda lost track myself. But being this is a top 40 countodwn, the most popular countdown in the world and will blow your speakers clean out, you've gotta ask yourself one question: "Do I feel lucky?""
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Post by paulhaney on Jun 3, 2022 8:48:13 GMT -5
It's called a mistake. They happen once in a while.
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Post by chrislc on Jun 3, 2022 9:25:14 GMT -5
It seems hard to believe when the shows were voice tracked that somebody didn't pick up on an error like that--but I know that I let a few slip ups like that get through on my own shows, so I guess I shouldn't pick up a stone to throw. Maybe I overestimate the number of people who heard the show before it was approved and mailed out. Maybe this is why the list of credits became so long by the mid 80s. Or - maybe everyone was just distracted by Christmas shopping or the song’s subject matter.
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Post by chrislc on Jun 3, 2022 9:27:48 GMT -5
I'm going with malicious obedience. That's what happens with an uptempo g.d. record! Is Don on the phone? And what happened to the centerfolds I was supposed to see this week?
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Post by mkarns on Jun 3, 2022 9:33:29 GMT -5
Considering Casey's perfectionism, which at times hit the level of pitching a fit because he thought a Long Distance Dedication was poorly placed, it seems strange that clear factual errors would go undetected by him or anyone else.
But he and the staff were/are human and errors in terms of both misspeaking and scriptwriting sometimes slipped through. This one seems pretty trivial, especially to listeners who kept track of the weekly charts, and of course today you can look the correct figures up online.
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Post by BrettVW on Jun 3, 2022 13:30:09 GMT -5
I have made errors like that in copy I have read both for radio and VO work and not picked up on it until a third party has listened to it. This is after somebody has written it, I have voiced it, and I or a third person has edited it into Audition. It happens.
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Post by woolebull on Jun 3, 2022 15:49:20 GMT -5
Listening to the 5/30/98 show, Casey on the outro refers to the huge hit by Next as, "Too Much" instead of, "Too Close".
Even worse, Casey in 1997 introing and doing the outro for "The Holy River", which was the right song, but instead the song played was, "Somebody's Somebody". I mean, short of Andy Gibb in early 79 I am pretty sure the wrong song has never been played!
Mistakes happen. It says a ton about the professionalism of the team that we have so few to talk about.
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Post by mga707 on Jun 3, 2022 16:20:23 GMT -5
I mean, short of Andy Gibb in early 79 I am pretty sure the wrong song has never been played! A few others. The playing of the 'B' sides of 'I Ain't Got time Anymore" (twice), "Angel", "The Proud One", and "Got To Give It Up" (multiple times) come to mind.
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Post by woolebull on Jun 3, 2022 16:30:27 GMT -5
I mean, short of Andy Gibb in early 79 I am pretty sure the wrong song has never been played! A few others. The playing of the 'B' sides of 'I Ain't Got time Anymore" (twice), "Angel", "The Proud One", and "Got To Give It Up" (multiple times) come to mind. Good catches, and thank you for that! The point being that if that a handful of egregious errors happens in 50 plus years, you are doing an amazing job.
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Post by mkarns on Jun 4, 2022 0:57:09 GMT -5
I mean, short of Andy Gibb in early 79 I am pretty sure the wrong song has never been played! A few others. The playing of the 'B' sides of 'I Ain't Got time Anymore" (twice), "Angel", "The Proud One", and "Got To Give It Up" (multiple times) come to mind. Most of these have been corrected in the versions that Premiere plays now. Not sure about "Got to Give It Up"; while I can understand one off mistakes, it's somewhat hard to believe that it took four or five weeks for AT40 to figure out which was the correct hit side.
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Post by mga707 on Jun 4, 2022 11:26:41 GMT -5
A few others. The playing of the 'B' sides of 'I Ain't Got time Anymore" (twice), "Angel", "The Proud One", and "Got To Give It Up" (multiple times) come to mind. Most of these have been corrected in the versions that Premiere plays now. Not sure about "Got to Give It Up"; while I can understand one off mistakes, it's somewhat hard to believe that it took four or five weeks for AT40 to figure out which was the correct hit side. Another one that I did not know about was just heard on this week's Sirius-XM 1975 show: The 'B' side of Bad Company's "Good Lovin' Gone Bad", titled "Whiskey Bottle", was played. Was listening while perusing this board and sauddenly realized that the song playing was definitely NOT "Good Lovin' Gone Bad". Checked Pete's book for the title. Also funny that this particular show is the one in which Casey 'corrects' his previous week's mistake about Ray Stevens' #1 songs with ANOTHER mistake about the same subject!
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