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Post by Radioman on Feb 20, 2006 3:05:15 GMT -5
This is a very interesting topic, since Casey's shows always has been on a wide variety of stations. This continues until today's AT10 and AT20 shows. And I think that's what makes a quality programme ! Even Talk and News stations can play it on weekends. Can you imagine having the Seacrest show on a News Station or non Top 40 outlet ? Never !
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Post by Radioman on Feb 16, 2006 2:52:13 GMT -5
OK, Pete made a really though question out here. And it already became a "burning" topic. For me, it is probably the same with many other people on this board: It is almost impossible to pick only ONE show for each. But I will stay on the topic question and here are my votes:
1.) The show for congress library would be 5-14-1988 because I was listening to that show several times, more than on any other show. This should qualify that programme, even I can't name a specific reason for why I was listening to it more often than to other shows.
2.) The master programme I would be responsible for is the 8-22-1987 show because of personal memories. It's even more though to pick only ONE here than for question 1)
General comments: The question was for AMERICAN TOP 40 with Casey Kasem, wich excludes Guesthosted Programmes and other Casey programmes. If it would have been a general question, my votes would have gone to a WW1 special and for a Charlie Van Dyke programme.
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Post by Radioman on Feb 10, 2006 7:46:30 GMT -5
I don't think this is the real Pete Battistini. This guy is only 16 years old. Ask him some key questions to find out if he's the real one. Eventually what other major fan he has met in person or something like this. Some things only Pete can know about .... This topic question is very specific, so I guess it is the real Pete Battistini. I guess ......
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Post by Radioman on Feb 13, 2006 2:17:37 GMT -5
1986 first choice 1984 second choice 1985 third choice
If I had to include WW1 programmes, I would take 1989 as the second choice and the Top 40 of the 90's as the third
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Post by Radioman on Aug 30, 2005 1:06:36 GMT -5
I believe everybody has PERSONAL "defining moments" with the show. Some Thoughts nobody else can associate with. Can be a personal problem, happy moments or very sad ones. Can be the introduction of a special N°1 song in some ordinary weekly show, or maybe some story about a song at N° 37. If I have no special relations to John Lennon, that show would mean nothing more to me than the show of some other weekend. But I could tell you about more than a dozen weekly shows, wich are landmarked for me. I have listened to these shows over and over again during the years. They became personal classics for me.
If you look for some "official list" of the defining moments, it might be close to Rob's "Key dates in AT40 history". But that list may never be complete, because only you know what special memories you share with specific programmes. That's the very special magic of Casey's shows, wich makes them timeless. Try this with some Dees show or others from 20 years ago, and you know what I mean.
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Post by Radioman on Aug 30, 2005 0:46:45 GMT -5
No !
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Post by Radioman on Jul 26, 2005 1:10:16 GMT -5
The author and AT40 collector, Pete Basttistini, is the owner of this set. As far as price goes, it all depends on the person. Some say, no baseball card is worth more than a dollar. Others will gladly spend thousands. Collectibles can sell very high once the demand is high; and bidders fight each other, once the "I gotta have" mindset is at play. IMO, $500 is not too much for this set. On the other hand, I'm not willing to part with that amount of money. My guide is based on what I heard from a Las Vegas record collector, who has about a million records in his collection. No lie. He was offering AT40 shows @ $40/show. I would add $10 per show because of the special lot that Pete put together; simply put, it's a once in a lifetime chance to have a collection of guest hosted shows of the 70's. I totally agree with you in every point ...... but is it a good idea to post a persons privacy here on a public board ? I mean he did nothing forbidden with the listing of this lot, but I believe it's not fair to post his real name on some site here, even some of us know who's behind the auctioner.
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Post by Radioman on Jul 13, 2005 0:55:20 GMT -5
The decision to cut the song because it is too far off the playlist doesnt sound like a "1987" move, so I doubt it was that. Doesn't sound like 1987 ? The whole drama with non playable songs began in 1987 wich George Michaels megahit !!! That song would have gone to number 1, if there wasn't the influence of selling AND playlists to the Hot 100 back then. I guess you know what song I mean, because I think if I print this out here, the auto censorship will starting to work because of that word. So as a long time listener I can't remember a certain example before that, were a #2 Top 40 song wasn't played for almost it's entire countdown life, except for the first few weeks or so. So what become naturally in the early 90's, before formats made a more sharpe split, started in 1987. And by the way: I'd like to mention that the LDD's are not that much important to the majority of radio stations (and ordinary listeners), than the producers or most of the die hard listeners thought they would be. You can watch about on the current shows. They have been cut down from 3 to 1 for each week, with limited talking time besides that. I believe it is a more recent phenomenon ( "more music, less talk" etc. ), but could infect some stations also back then in the 80's. Just like Paul has mentioned above - they don't care, wich also belongs to the listeners.
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Post by Radioman on Sept 8, 2006 1:20:51 GMT -5
Losing about 950 stations in less than 5 years ...... Wow ! That's really an amazing chart record and should find it's place in the book of records
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Post by Radioman on Nov 27, 2006 3:00:09 GMT -5
So, now two years later, how many people believe the golden age of AT40 was 2000-now? AT40 ended almost 2 years ago from now. So I can't refer the whole 2000's era until todate. What is offered under the label "AT40" these days is just a different product, wrapped in an old box to make it right for at least some of the customers. But to answer your original question: I do believe 2000-2003 was a very good time for AT40. Not the golden age, but at least the silver one ( golden belongs to the 80's, I believe everybody is going right with that ). Except for the bib number of HipHop tunes, AT40 has some very memorable points during those 4 years ..... and lots and lots of good music as well.
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Post by Radioman on Nov 3, 2006 2:06:52 GMT -5
@paul YES, there was a civilisation outside the United States in the dark ages of the 20th. century ! Satellite Radio in Europe was officially launched in late 1984 (yes Eighty-Four) and VoA-Europe was one of it's first participants. The networks main reason for using the satellite feed was the maintenance of it's various cable outlets in many different european cities. So naturally, the quality of it's broadcasting must be the same than the usual FM cable radio quality ( wich was outstanding until todate ). nenadProbably you had not switch dish positions too often, because if BDR started satellite broadcast in the late 90's ( I cannot confirm this information ), at that same time VoA was already on a strong downforce due to US congress cutbacks of their financials. VoA ended most of it's syndicated shows in 1995; Later in 1996 they became VoA Express, wich was moved into the VoA worldwide programme feed.
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Post by Radioman on Oct 30, 2006 6:10:19 GMT -5
Overhere in Europe we have to thank Austrain (international station) "Blue Danube Radio" for presenting CT40 to the audiences ...and from 1990 'til 1995 (for those with satellite) you could hear it on VoA Europe - in superb CD-quality!! (I was unfortunatelly stup*D enough not to record the shows off VoA, hehe...)! No CH20 was aired in Europe as far as I know, and none of stations mentioned above aired CBH either. I believe there is at least one other person in Europe who recorded most of these broadcasts. But to my knowledge Blue Danube Radio was a local affiliate, not broadcasting all over Europe.
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Post by Radioman on Oct 30, 2006 5:50:29 GMT -5
Only trouble with that Nenad, is the fact that (at least on some of the CD copies I have from VOA) they used to edit the show. You never heard Casey's into break teases and they often cut out some or all of the Request and Dedication letters. What you mean Scott are probably the broadcasts from BLUE DANUBE RADIO, wich is not identical to VoA-Europe. VoA did very slight edits of the show, many times full complete broadcasts including the dedications and all jingles. My preference of listening would be more for a slightly edited programme, than for about 4 hours with all the same chewing gum or akne commercials along. It's boring !
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Post by Radioman on Jul 13, 2006 1:07:42 GMT -5
BTW, I have that show, if anyone is interested in getting a copy. It is nice to hear you've finally got a copy of this show, after years of hanging around and asking for it !
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Post by Radioman on Apr 26, 2006 1:26:56 GMT -5
There was a point in Robs book that made sense. Its when someone says had we done an AC show, we woul have had to pay BB the rights fees for that too and would it have been worth it was the point. I dont know how many stations air AT10 and AT20 but one has to wonder if Premiere had to pay someone for the rights to air the show, would it be worth it for them to do the shows. Maybe FLEXIBILITY is the key for any problem in this world. If they would have looked one step aside, they could have moved to Radio & Records as well, or at least for an AC formated show. Rick Dees always did successful shows with R&R back in the 80's as well. Nobody forced them to stay with BB, especially since there were only slight differences between the charts back then ( look AT40 / CT40 in 1989/90/91 )
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