AT40 Marathon at WMGN-FM

[upland1425]

In addition to the KQLL-FM's Special AT40 Weekend (See another thread), WMGN-FM, Magic 98, in Madison, WI also plans all-day AT40 marathon on Saturday, July 4, starting at 9:00 am Central, 10am Eastern.

Their website says:

"Casey Kasem in the Spotlight This Weekend
This Saturday, Magic 98 is all Casey, all day! Starting at 9am, you'll hear retro broadcasts of Casey Kasem's "American Top 40, the 70s" all day long, including shows from 1972, 1976, 1978 and two from 1977. "Saturday at the 70s" will return next week!
Also, you may have heard that Casey Kasem is retiring after 39 years of counting down the hits. This Saturday's 6-9am countdown on Magic 98 marks his last new "American Top 10" show.
Making your 4th of July weekend more fun...
Magic 98!"
www.magic98.com/viewpage.php3?id=259

[donwa001]

I think the webmaster made a mistake. If the American Top 40 shows are starting at 9AM on Saturday, then this sentence doesn't make sense: "This Saturday's 6-9am countdown on Magic 98 marks his last new "American Top 10" show."

I think they meant to say "This Saturday's 6-9pm countdown on Magic 98 marks his last new "American Top 10" show."

[donwa001]

So they played the last American Top 10 show at 6 AM, and now they are playing the American Top 40 for 09/02/1972 when 'Alone Again (Naturally) returns to #1

[Hervard]

^So that was the "most unsual situation" that Casey mentioned at the beginning of the show.

Now, they're playing the show from September 18, 1976.

[mrjukebox]

WMGN is now running a countdown from September 1978.

[mrjukebox]

The specific date is 9/30/78,which was the last three-hour countdown.

[Hervard]

And now, they're playing the show from October 29, 1977.

The song currently playing is "I Go Crazy" by Paul Davis. Little did anyone know what a tenacious hit that would become!

They said there would be two shows from 1977 featured. I wonder if the other one, which would be next in line, will be the "Girls Of Rock & Roll" special?

EDIT: The DJ just said that the "Girls Of Rock & Roll Special" is the show they're doing next. They played "Chuck E's In Love" by Rickie Lee Jones as the last song before the show started (the October 1977 show ended about twenty minutes before the top of the hour, so they ran regular programming until then.)