Listening to AT40 shows in your collection

[BROWNJB1]

For those of you who collect American Top 40 shows, how often do you listen to your shows? For me, it's always on the weekends, and on occasion, during the week.

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before they all got thrown out last year I listened on Friday at work and on long trips. I would find a show from the particular week I was in back in whatever year...so I sort of did my own AT40/CT40/WT40/ACC Flashback for the week. I would choose 1 or 2 shows to listen to that day, depending on the mood I was in.

[Scott Lakefield]

Before they all got thrown out?

[BrettVW]

I have several of them downloaded on my laptop for quick access at college. Often times i'll pop one on while writing a paper. At home i've got the whole collection, and usually listen to one on Saturday afternoon. Also, if my affiliate screws up and does the "replay last week's show" routine (usually 2 or 3 times a year) I will ease the anger by listening to an old show.

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admin said:

Before they all got thrown out?

Yeah, when I moved out of my house last year, the people who took over the property to rent it threw all of the stuff in the garage that was waiting to be picked up out. In that stuff was all 200+ countdown shows I had recorded and traded for,

[bandit73]

brettvw said:

Also, if my affiliate screws up and does the "replay last week's show" routine (usually 2 or 3 times a year)

This type of stuff almost never used to happen. I listened to AT40 on Q-102 in Cincinnati regularly from 1983-91, and I remember this happening only once. This was in early 1990.

At the time, Q-102 aired AT40 only at 9 PM on Sunday nights. So it was too late to try to pull in the Dayton affiliate, which already aired AT40 earlier.

[BrettVW]

And that's because they had a live board-op spinning the records, looking at the cue sheets, and making sure they were playing the correct show. Now, with the shows on the station's hard drive along with the rest of the weekly programming - whoever is in studio during the week often forgets to load the new show into the hard drive, and then come air-time, no one is in the studio to catch it. The one time you mention was probably the rare instance when the show actually does not arrive to the station on time, and there is no other option (although now there is.)

[bandit73]

brettvw said:

And that's because they had a live board-op spinning the records, looking at the cue sheets, and making sure they were playing the correct show. Now, with the shows on the station's hard drive along with the rest of the weekly programming - whoever is in studio during the week often forgets to load the new show into the hard drive, and then come air-time, no one is in the studio to catch it. The one time you mention was probably the rare instance when the show actually does not arrive to the station on time, and there is no other option (although now there is.)

I just assumed it was the station's fault, because I never heard the station acknowledging that anything was wrong. I'm guessing this was the weekend of 1/6/90, though it could have been 1/13/90.

Also, there was one time back in 1988 or so when Q-102 utterly butchered an episode of AT40. They started it a half-hour late, and cut out all the LDD's and stories. I have no idea why they did this.

[Indycolt]

I'm strictly a 70's & 80's fan of AT40,with my primary listening interests from 1973-1985. With over 600 shows in my collection on CD-R,I generally have no shortage of shows to listen to--and its always done on a shows anniversary from a particular year. Several days ago I listened to a 1974 show from November of that year. On average,I play shows once or twice a week,no particular day stands out.

[coldcardinal]

I don't have enough of them to listen by weekly anniversary. But they definitely sound better "in season" so to speak (within a month or two of the time of year in which the songs were originally popular). I pretty much listen to one every weekend; and since I only have around 20, I cycle through them pretty quickly.

[kentd]

I am recovering from the flu this week, I had to be in the office each day and during my time here I didn't want to hear so much as Weather Channel jazz in the background. You feel so bad you just don't feel like listening or doing anything.
I can tell I am on my way to recovery though, because the first thing I did in the office today was put in the December 4, 1976 AT-40 (started at #21...that's probably cheating...) because I was in the mood for The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald tale. In our community, Saturday mornings 9am-1pm (and 9:30-12:30 in early years) WAS American Top 40. As a teen, you just didn't miss it.
So today, as I bounce back ever so slightly and clear the office desk of things I have shuffled around, it has been a nice morning to spend with AT 40...

[BrettVW]

kentd said: "In our community, Saturday mornings 9am-1pm (and 9:30-12:30 in early years) WAS American Top 40. As a teen, you just didn't miss it"

I wish the shows (and radio in general) were still this way today.

BTW, I tried to "quote" and take out the rest of the message but it just wasn't working, so I ended up doing it this way.

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brettvw said:

kentd said: "In our community, Saturday mornings 9am-1pm (and 9:30-12:30 in early years) WAS American Top 40. As a teen, you just didn't miss it"

I wish the shows (and radio in general) were still this way today.

BTW, I tried to "quote" and take out the rest of the message but it just wasn't working, so I ended up doing it this way.

I dont quite understand how you can say that. AT20 airs Sunday night in your market, a fairly reasonable time, and in a lot of markets it/they still air somewhere around 8am usually Sundays.

[BrettVW]

I'm not talking about the timeslot so much as AT20/AT40 being an "event" for people during the weekend.

[Deleted]

ah....ok. Point taken