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Post by mstgator on Aug 5, 2006 20:00:49 GMT -5
I guess whoever loaded that show into the XM computer got some tracks switched around, although how that could happen is a mystery (I would assume Shannon had them in the correct order, so it should be a pretty straightforward transfer on XM's part).
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Post by mstgator on Aug 5, 2006 19:54:03 GMT -5
XM goofup just now on the 4-14-79 show... they went straight from Casey's outro of #34 ("Crazy Love") into the start of the LDD song ("When I Need You"), skipping over the reading of the letter itself... then at the end of the segment ("Casey's Coast to Coast...") they went back to the letter, and then into the intro of the next segment.
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Post by mstgator on Aug 4, 2006 21:11:37 GMT -5
Amen to that... I'm listening on AOL radio, which isn't great quality, and the shows still sound as good as or better than many of my own copies.
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Post by mstgator on Jul 26, 2006 16:36:40 GMT -5
I think he also played that same live version 10 years later in August 1987. 8/15/87, to be exact (I just listened to that show Monday).
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Post by mstgator on Jul 22, 2006 15:03:12 GMT -5
Yep... in fact, the first station I listened to AT40 on (WGGG-AM, from 1978-1981) had newsbreaks every hour, including during AT40. I miss those quick newsbreaks, probably in the minority though. I guess you can't force people to be informed.
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Post by mstgator on Jul 18, 2006 17:25:25 GMT -5
and in the first couple of months of I disagreeociation with the show, LOL... okay, please tell me that "ass" is not being censored within other words.
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Post by mstgator on Jul 17, 2006 16:28:05 GMT -5
I'm fairly certain it was "Shadow Dancing", although that's a 7-week window so I'm not sure of the exact date.
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Post by mstgator on Jul 27, 2006 17:27:33 GMT -5
Not really bizarre, but humorous: On the 4/7/79 show, guest host Bumper Morgan introed the debut of the first hit by The Police by explaining the group was "advising a girl named Roxanne to conserve electricity".
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Post by mstgator on Jul 10, 2006 16:32:22 GMT -5
I seem to recall either Casey or Shadoe also rapping an intro to "Bust A Move" early in its chart run.
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Post by mstgator on Apr 25, 2006 18:06:01 GMT -5
There are also interesting articles on Casey and AT40 on wikipedia.org, which is also just a really interesting site for looking up pretty much anything!! Just keep in mind that because wikipedia is user-edited, errors do creep in occasionally (like the bit about Mark Elliott's Weekly Top 30 morphing into Rick Dees' Weekly Top 40... aside from the titles, the two shows were not related at all).
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Post by mstgator on Apr 1, 2006 14:32:28 GMT -5
In addition to this list, there were some INDIRECT spinoffs: *a former AT40 staffer (unfortunately the name escapes me) was involved with the Jazz Album Countdown (Orcas Productions, Ltd.) in the late 70s; the design of the program's record labels, cue sheets and show numbers -- not to mention the countdown format -- have an unquestionable likeness to AT40; perhaps someone can provide more information also, *AT40 guest host Humble Harve (July 6, 1974) created his own program (National Album Countdown) in 1976; it lasted until at least 1982 *AT40 guest host Dick Clark (March 25, 1972) started the National Music Survey in 1981 *AT40 guest host Mark Elliott worked with Drake Chenault on the Weekly Top 30 starting in 1979 And of course the World Chart Show, which essentially replaced Shadoe's AT40 in February 1995 and was hosted by AT40 guest hosts Ace Walker and Joe Cipriano.
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Post by mstgator on Aug 6, 2006 19:48:16 GMT -5
Not a dumb question at all... a lot of us here collect radio shows like AT40, so we're able to listen to shows that haven't actually been broadcast in many years.
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Post by mstgator on May 15, 2006 21:01:55 GMT -5
I was just listening to the 1/22/72 AT40, and heard "Once You Understand" by Think. I don't remember ever hearing it (at least not in the past 30 years), although the repeating chorus of "Things get a little easier, once you understand..." sounded very familiar. Quite possibly one of the oddest singles to ever hit the Top 40, especially the moment at the end where the singing suddenly stops and the police officer tells the dad his son is dead of an overdose.
Interestingly, this song actually charted again two years later (although it missed the Top 40 that time).
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Post by mstgator on May 3, 2006 21:36:12 GMT -5
Probably "Sandstorm" by Darude. It hit AT40 in late summer of 2001; Darude is from Finland.
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Post by mstgator on May 1, 2006 18:40:15 GMT -5
I was listening to the 7/6/02 AT40 and found another good lost song. Not even sure how it ended up, but it was a debut at # 38 that week. "Walk With Me" by Seven and the Sun. It peaked at #25. (hope that's not a spoiler to anyone)
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