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Post by pzimm7700 on Jul 1, 2008 13:12:10 GMT -5
I think the key to recall is that Dees' specials at least these days equal to "Give Rick the Week Off." Most of the time, including a #1 Hits show that ran either late last year or early this year, his specials are comprised of a lot of old segments stitched together with Rick liners that tie it together enough to make sense. Don't get me wrong...Rick does a great show. But if you're looking for a show that's "chart accurate," the answer is Casey's shows. Of course, at the risk of starting up this debate again, in terms of new shows in 2008, Rick's "Weekly Top 40" is head and shoulders above what is now AT40. You think so? I listened to this weeks current edition of the Weekly Top 40 and thought it sounds worse and worse. Remember the thrown together HAC shows of a few years ago but the CHR show he was doing was at least semi ok. Now the CHR show is thrown together.
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Post by pzimm7700 on Jun 28, 2008 19:23:13 GMT -5
I don't know why, but I got to thinking about when Mark Elliott and David Perry sat in for Casey Kasem during the CT40 days. Casey rarely, if ever, played the previous weeks #1 song once the show had established it's own identity. On the other hand, guest hosts did quite regularly. Was this a case of the voice tracks being faster with guest host than that of Casey Kasem, was it a case where the guest host was able to run the show how they saw fit in some instances, or was it something else? Just curious as to why this occurred.
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Post by pzimm7700 on Jun 28, 2008 13:45:36 GMT -5
Don't get me start on what REALLY is a one-hit wonder which is very debatable. Oh I know what you mean. I also remember Rick making a joke, several times, of Aha's "Take on me" as being they're entire musical career, even though their 2nd hit, "The sun always shines on tv" went up the top40 also. Ultimately the question is where is the line that makes a group or artist no longer a one hit wonder. I mean, is something that hits the Top 40 automatically a "hit?" If so, that would mean acts like Digable Planets, and Goddess are one hit wonders even though as I recall neither of their songs got past #30 on R&R. This might actually be a worthy discussion on the board in another thread. What makes someone a one hit wonder? What's the criteria, and where is the line?
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Post by pzimm7700 on Jun 28, 2008 13:39:09 GMT -5
Saturdays at 9am on 80's on 8 Sundays at 9am on 90's on 9 Sundays at 9pm on XM Hitlist
This was the 4th week of the show airing.
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Post by pzimm7700 on Jun 28, 2008 6:24:32 GMT -5
I did...I haven't listened to it and don't know what it sounds like but I did.
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Post by pzimm7700 on Jun 25, 2008 16:09:36 GMT -5
Why have they mostly all turned blue, many threads in them all say new, and when I click "mark all read" it does nothing?
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Post by pzimm7700 on Jun 23, 2008 16:45:26 GMT -5
While the #1's on both may be played on 80's stations, what about the rest of the shows? I am thinking the 85 show might have more songs familiar to 80's station listeners as opposed to the 81 show.
I will contend it is this reason, possibly the reason given Shadster gave, or it is highly possible someone just looked at the available weeks and chose 1985 as the week because they recently heard the song "1985." It could have been any number of reasons, but I am sure "the higher ups have it in for earlier 80's years and don't want to run them" isn't one of them. (nor am I suggesting anyone is saying this is the reason either)
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Post by pzimm7700 on Jun 23, 2008 15:31:02 GMT -5
They air in full.
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Post by pzimm7700 on Jun 22, 2008 19:00:10 GMT -5
Yea I recorded the show also, on cassette. I'm still big on cassettes. Does directv give you any advance notice on what show is coming? if you go forward in the guide? I know in '86 Dees did the 86 of 86, I have the 2nd half of that show, and although I dont recall listening to it, I could of sworn Dees did an 87 of 87, 88 of 88 show. And I believe the reason for deleting songs on the year enders is so the show will time out properly. As Rick usually didn't edit the songs on the show, unlike Casey Kasem shows which many of the songs on the year enders have missing verses. Generally speaking, you can only fit about 11 songs an hour, 12 AT BEST and still get in all the commercial breaks. And that 2005 show is God awfull. It didnt look like Rick showed up at all. The engineers just 'created' it w/ voice tracks an editing. The only good thing about it was that it did play almost every song, but a lot of the songs that year were just pure crap IMO. I'm only missing a few of the year enders going back to 1990: '90, '92, '94, '96 & '97 No, in fact other than 1 or 2 channels they only list the stations name all the way across the board. So it doesn't matter what airs for instance on any of the decade channels, the listings just give the station name at all times. When a song plays it gives the artist, song name, album, etc. And when AT40 or the Weekly Top 40 are on they will give the show, the show date, title, and artist.
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Post by pzimm7700 on Jun 22, 2008 17:38:23 GMT -5
I'll tell you right now, I am NOT trying to resurrect the heated 1981 discussions that we had about this time in 2002. But I find it rather suspicious that, given how good they are at evenly spacing out the years, for the most part, that they placed a 1985 show so soon after the last one. That's all I'm going to say. I am not a chart historian or anything, but that could have more to do with music from this era of 1985 and a couple of other years being more acceptable to most of the stations that air the show compared to shows from this timeframe in 1981. Again, I don't know what was around at this time off the top of my head in either year.
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Post by pzimm7700 on Jun 22, 2008 13:41:15 GMT -5
I did! Thats pretty much why I needed the date, to catalogue it as such. ;D
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Post by pzimm7700 on Jun 22, 2008 12:24:59 GMT -5
Any idea what date was run this morning on the 97 show? I didn't turn on Directv which list the full date, and both my boombox XM model and the car radio only lists "06/97"
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Post by pzimm7700 on Jun 21, 2008 21:35:38 GMT -5
For me, the usefull-ness of knowing the chart date beforehand is so that *I* know whether or not I should waste my time attempting to record it. If its a show I already own or a show from 80 thru 83, than I know that I dont want/need it. But I dont get all fussy about it. I could really care less what year they pick. Allthough the other usefullness is so I can update my website of the dates used. Shadster, I really don't think the comments were directed at you. You are interested in the "fact" of which show is airing. Radioman was referring to people who he deems as whining about certain years not getting played as much as those people think they should, or people who are speculating about which show will air (kind of like discussing a football game and who is going to win). He wasn't referring to people who come here to specifically find out which show is REALLY going to air. At least, I think that is what he was referring to...
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Post by pzimm7700 on Jun 20, 2008 12:29:50 GMT -5
Could you elaborate on that a little more? Why does downloading from the internet cause more problems? I would think 30 hours on CD's would be more difficult to keep track of.
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Post by pzimm7700 on Jun 20, 2008 12:06:45 GMT -5
Jason,
Why doesnt your station run either the 70's or 80's show? It would seem those two shows would actually be a better fit than AT10 or maybe all 3. You could do a "through the decades" theme weekend day with Rock, Roll, & Remember followed by the 70's and 80's At40 shows, and then do AT10. Just curious. Is it a money issue, not interested in the station carrying them?
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