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Post by at40petebattistini on May 15, 2006 9:27:11 GMT -5
mstgator...........that's the one! I just had the opportunity to check on this -- Darude's "Sandstorm" debuted on AT40 on July 21, 2001. It's been a while since I heard it but it's definitely a high energy instrumental. Five years have passed since it was in the Top 40 and I don't suppose that it gets much radio airplay today. I'm really surprised that sport/stadium deejays haven't added this one to their playlist of in-between-play-action interludes. It's up tempo, no lyric sound should offend no one.
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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 nenad on May 16, 2006 15:07:52 GMT -5
mstgator...........that's the one! I just had the opportunity to check on this -- Darude's "Sandstorm" debuted on AT40 on July 21, 2001. It's been a while since I heard it but it's definitely a high energy instrumental. Well, talking about "Sandstorm" makes me think about another of mid 90's songs that vanished in later years. It's performed by Robert Miles and called "Children"... not as upbeat as "Sandstorm" but a really nice song. I really like(d) it. It was much greater hit overhere in Europe... peaked at #17 in US.
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Post by jedijake on Aug 3, 2006 18:22:51 GMT -5
I recently created playlists that contain AT40's top 100 of every year, from 1980 to 1995 (well, CT 40 from 1993-95). There are some major "lost" songs in those lists.
And here's the "lost" hit that brought back memories for me from college:
You Don't Know-Scarlett & Black
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Post by samantha on Aug 6, 2006 18:52:52 GMT -5
I hope this is not a dumb question but a few posts in this thread mention listening to a particular show...... is there a website where that is possible? or how is anyone else listening to them .... If anyone could let me know that would be great.
Thanks, Samantha
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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 k1465 on Aug 6, 2006 19:54:25 GMT -5
ok dumb questoin time: How would someone get started collecting?
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Post by shadster on Aug 6, 2006 20:07:49 GMT -5
I dont think there is a website were you can listen to any specific show. Bascically your only sources for listening to old AT40 shows are as follows: - XM 80s - XM 70s - Mix107.7 fm WMMX Dayton (w/ an internet stream?) they are AT40 flashback saturday mornings 7-10am - The 80s Hitmachine on Live365.com (PD there only has 6 shows and they rotate thru at 9am on saturday)
Collecting is the only other way to obtain shows, either thru actually purchasing them from e-bay, or thru trading. Some collectors will give away Xtra copies they have of some shows just to help you get started, you hafta ask around. Course you should probably start taping the ones from XM to bulk up your collection to get your 'trading' career off the ground. It will take years an years to aquire as many shows as some of the collectors around here have.
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Post by bdpop on Aug 6, 2006 20:13:41 GMT -5
Does Premiere Radio Networks still frown upon the trading of shows. I remember there used to be a trading post on Rob's site, but he had to take it down. If it wasn't for the collectors, this whole thing on XM may have not even been able to happen. It is the collectors that cared enough to preserve the shows for posterity. It is the collectors that are provideing the much needed "cue sheets" so XM can smoothly broadcast the show. The powers that be should think about that. Now let me come down from my pedestal and "on with the countdown"
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Post by shadster on Aug 8, 2006 17:54:24 GMT -5
As far as I know, I think they still do frown upon it. But to me it seems like a monumental task to enforce that rule. But the "shadoe" shows are free and clear to trade.
Now back to the original question in this thread: I heard 1 of those 'lost songs' during the marathon, I think it was on Casey's last show from '88. The song was "Sayin sorry don't make it right". That was part of the 1st hour of that show so it was ommited from the AT40 flashback show which picked up @ #30 or so. For some reason that song kept spinning in my head all day today. I remember originally hearing the song on Z100 NY & was able to eventually tape it off my local station in dc Power105. I didn't know it had hit the top40 though. I guess it was a minor hit.
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Post by Matt Cameron on Aug 8, 2006 18:04:41 GMT -5
Heard another lost hit on one of the '70's shows: "The Battle Hymn of Lt. Calley" by C Company featuring Terry Nelson. The song protested the Court Martial of Lt. William Calley on charges of the massacre of unarmed civilians in My Lai, Vietnam by his Army company. According to Pete's book, Casey never explained the meaning of the song during its brief stay in the Top 40, even though it was certified Gold after only one week on the chart. I had never heard the song before. Sounded kinda like a Mike Curb Congregation tune.
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Post by vto66 on Oct 24, 2006 12:51:13 GMT -5
I heard the November 3, 1979 broadcast of "American Top 40" last Saturday on XM, and boy, did Casey sound like he was having a good time! I could hear the excitement and enthusiasm in his voice, and I could tell he was enjoying himself. I also enjoyed hearing some songs I hadn't heard in a long time, like Dr. Hook's "Better Love Next Time,", Chris Thompson's "If You Remember Me" and Donna Summer's "Dim All The Lights." I also got a kick out of hearing Kermit "DeFrog" as I call him crooning "Rainbow Connection" (Now THERE'S a song you don't hear every day anymore!!) I remember this song from seeing "The Muppet Movie" in the theatre as a youngster, and singing it in our high-school chorus a few years later. They just don't make songs like that anymore. goshdarnit!! Other highlights from this show were Jimmy Buffet's "Fins" (which I thought sounded a bit like "Cheeseburger in Paradise") and Casey's statement that the Barbra Streisand/Donna Summer duet "No More Tears (Enough Is Enough) " was "destined to become a Number One Hit" (which it would three weeks later).
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Post by bandit73 on Oct 24, 2006 13:41:04 GMT -5
DR. HOOK!!! "Better love next time baby..."
That is one song I forgot about for many, many, MANY years!!! When I saw this post, I started dancing around the room singing that song! I shouldn't even remember it, because I was only like 6 when it was out, but I do remember it.
Now that we're on the topic, how come radio stations never play stuff like this anymore? If they do play something from the '70s or '80s, it's always a song you're totally sick of, and never a "lost hit" like that.
Something I forgot to mention...There was a station in my area that had a '70s Saturday night about 12 years ago that played stuff that was sort of like that, complete with '70s-style jingles. But this is long gone now.
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Post by kentd on Oct 26, 2006 8:45:59 GMT -5
I may have mentioned in another thread that I am back on the air at a small AM station - after 22 years off the air. It has been an interesting experience, I wish I could say I like the computer stuff and equipment - I don't. Me and another old disc jockey alternate Sunday nights and are free to play what we want. Each Sunday night we are on we delight on finding an old lost tune or two. Last Sunday night when I was on I played Johnny Wakelin's "Black Superman - Muhammad Ali", which was a huge regional hit but didn't do well nationally...
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Post by Hervard on Oct 26, 2006 10:20:41 GMT -5
DR. HOOK!!! "Better love next time baby..." That is one song I forgot about for many, many, MANY years!!! When I saw this post, I started dancing around the room singing that song! I shouldn't even remember it, because I was only like 6 when it was out, but I do remember it. Yeah, "Better Love Next Time" was a great song. I don't really remember it from when it was popular (as I wasn't much older than you were back in late 1979), but I've heard it on a few old AT40 shows that I have. As I recall, it was ranked in the fifties AT40's Top 100 of 1980 which is weird, considering the song never hit the Top Ten.
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