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Post by dougray2 on Feb 2, 2009 0:52:33 GMT -5
Here's a question for Pete, Rob, or anyone who may know. Which AT40 show had the most edited songs? My guess would be the 2/26/77 show where just about every song in hour 1 was edited so they could play the entire 6 minute version of Bite Your Lip by Elton John. If that wasn't it, my guess is a spring 77 show when Hotel California by the Eagles was in the countdown.
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Post by vince on Feb 3, 2009 0:19:16 GMT -5
I don’t know which show AT40 had the most edited songs, but in the 1978 weekly shows they usually edited about 10 songs each show. I am counting AT40 edits and not single versions and promotional short versions where the record companies did the editing.
The year end countdowns in the mid and late 80s have more. In the top 50 of 1984 there are 19 AT40 edits and that is not including positions 51 - 100. I don’t know if that is the record though.
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Post by dougray2 on Feb 3, 2009 2:23:53 GMT -5
Thanks Vince. Yes I'm only counting actual single versions that AT40 edited. I didn't realize there were that many edits in the 84 YE show. Among regular shows, I would think the record would be in 77 or 78, just before they expanded to 4 hours.
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Post by at40petebattistini on Feb 3, 2009 7:05:41 GMT -5
Doug, I'll have to give you a tentative 'yes' on your observation of edited records in the 2-26-77 program. And I'm sure your research will prove to be correct.
Flashing back a few years, in 1972, for nine consecutive weeks, Casey played the full 6+ minute version of Harry Chapin's "Taxi." Of course song running times on average were shorter then. But what would've been done had the song been released five years later? I'm not aware of an edited version of this classic. Further, can you imagine the editing that would've taken place had Led Zeppelin's "Stairway To Heaven" been a Top 40 fixture?
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Post by dougray2 on Feb 3, 2009 14:21:27 GMT -5
Doug, I'll have to give you a tentative 'yes' on your observation of edited records in the 2-26-77 program. And I'm sure your research will prove to be correct. Flashing back a few years, in 1972, for nine consecutive weeks, Casey played the full 6+ minute version of Harry Chapin's "Taxi." Of course song running times on average were shorter then. But what would've been done had the song been released five years later? I'm not aware of an edited version of this classic. Further, can you imagine the editing that would've taken place had Led Zeppelin's "Stairway To Heaven" been a Top 40 fixture? Thanks Pete, and you're right. If Stairway and American Pie had been in the top 40 at the same time, they would have had to do multiple edits. |
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Post by at40john on Feb 3, 2009 16:11:05 GMT -5
One thing I found odd was that the 10/21/78 show had a few songs edited like Time Passages by Al Stewart to name one. Then on 11/4 they played long versions of a few songs.
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Post by bcody on Feb 3, 2009 23:31:06 GMT -5
INTERSTING TOPIC, DID NOT REALIZE SUCH A THING THOUGH IT HAS BEEN AWHILE SINCE I LISTENED TO A COMPLETE SHOW!!!BY THE WAY HOW ARE ALL OF US COLLECTORS GOING TO LISTEN TO ALL OF THESE SHOWS ANY WAY!!!!!!OH WELL IT IS A HEALTHY SICKNES!!!...bcody
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Post by jdelachjr2002 on Feb 4, 2009 11:37:07 GMT -5
On the subject of "Stairway To Heaven", was there any known chart that factored largely airplay whether they were commercial singles or not back then? Radio & Records didn't exist until September 1973 and it would be interesting to see how high "Stairway" could have ranked if Billboard's Hot 100 was not restricted to commercial singles back then.
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Post by mrjukebox on Feb 4, 2009 19:57:14 GMT -5
In 1981,Billboard published a weekly chart called "Rock Tracks"-These were songs that were receiving heavy rotation on AOR (Album Oriented Rock) stations-If that chart had been around in 1972,"Stairway To Heaven" would've been #1 for several weeks.
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Post by coldcardinal on Feb 4, 2009 23:38:04 GMT -5
The 80s year-end edits always irritated me. I have the 83 and 84 shows -- both full of highly intrusive cuts -- and I distinctly remember listening to the 87 show when it aired and marveling at how many songs were chopped. The most common technique was to remove the entire second verse and chorus. Personally I would have preferred early fades, since most 80s songs just repeated the chorus to fade, but often had really interesting second verses.
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Post by at40john on Feb 5, 2009 7:26:22 GMT -5
From October 1980 to January 1981 several songs were popular to edit. Woman in Love,Master Blaster,The Wanderer, He's So Shy,Another One Bites The Dust,Passion and the edit champ during that period I Made it Through The Rain by Barry Manilow. I think it was edited at least on 3/4s of the shows during its run including the 81 yearend show. Another relly chopped up song was Conga on the 1986 yearend show. It sounded rediculous.
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Post by jdelachjr2002 on Feb 5, 2009 8:10:32 GMT -5
How many times did "I Made It Through The Rain" go unedited?
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Post by mstgator on Feb 5, 2009 20:12:30 GMT -5
How many times did "I Made It Through The Rain" go unedited? I know it was uncut the week it debuted, and possibly one other week. The rest of its run, it was always edited. I seem to recall that it was even used as an LDD not long after, and they played the edited version! |
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Post by jdelachjr2002 on Feb 5, 2009 23:46:06 GMT -5
Turns out "I Made It Through The Rain" was also edited on 4/21/1984 when it was used as an LDD. At least when WDUV in Tampa plays "I Made It Through The Rain", it airs unedited.
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Post by dougray2 on Feb 6, 2009 0:07:17 GMT -5
Did AT40 ever play the unedited version of Hotel California? I know it's a long song, but I have only heard the edited version where they cut verse 2. They did the same on the 77 year end countdown.
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