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Post by djjoe1960 on Mar 23, 2019 8:52:01 GMT -5
Why no Turtles on SXM if I may ask I listen to 60's on 6 quite a bit and I wasn't paying attention they didn't play the Turtles. I wonder if that has something to do with the lawsuit filed by Flo and Eddie several years ago. They were trying to get royalty payments in the same way songwriters do or something like that. I believe they lost the case. Bingo!
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Post by djjoe1960 on Mar 23, 2019 13:24:39 GMT -5
American Top 40 from the week ending March 18, 1978--The Top 2 positions belong to the Bee Gees (Night Fever & Stayin' Alive)and Casey also points out that they are involved with writing a total of 6 songs in the survey. I recall going to a party later that Spring and the only album you needed was the soundtrack to Saturday Night Fever.
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AT40 ON XM
Mar 23, 2019 14:30:21 GMT -5
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Post by doofus67 on Mar 23, 2019 14:30:21 GMT -5
I listen to 60's on 6 quite a bit and I wasn't paying attention they didn't play the Turtles. I wonder if that has something to do with the lawsuit filed by Flo and Eddie several years ago. They were trying to get royalty payments in the same way songwriters do or something like that. I believe they lost the case. Bingo! Yes. SXM, as well as services like Pandora, would have had to pay an exorbitant sum in back performance royalties. That's on top of the songwriter royalties they already dole out for anything recorded after 1971. (That, in turn, is why a music royalty fee is included in our subscription.) As it was, they had to pony up large settlements to the labels. It seems to be an executive decision on the part of SXM to pull the Turtles. It's a little rash to pin it on one person, even 60s on 6 PD Lou Simon. A few weeks back, when I appeared as an in-studio guest on Lou's talk program, The Diner, on the Volume channel, a caller brought up the same question as you, Brett. As you can imagine, Lou swiftly dismissed it, citing his strict policy against discussing other channels' programming. I figured that killed any chance I had of bending his ear, even off the air. So we won't get to hear a whole lot of 60s Satellite Surveys for 1967 or '68, when the Turtles had their string of hits. The same thing, I think, applies to the Shirelles, or at least it did. They filed a similar action against SXM a few years before the Turtles. Here's a link to an article from Spin magazine that does a nice job of explaining the case: www.spin.com/2016/12/judge-doles-out-devastating-pun-in-decision-on-turtles-v-siriusxm-case/Side note: When writing credit is given for records that get sampled by rap and hip-hop "musicians," the main reason is a lawsuit filed by these same Turtles in 1989 against the group De La Soul. They used the intro to "You Showed Me" in one of the tracks on their debut album.
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Post by cachiva on Mar 23, 2019 21:37:43 GMT -5
AT40 from the week ending March 18, 1978--The top two positions belong to the Bee Gees ( Night Fever and Stayin' Alive) and Casey also points out that they are involved with writing a total of six songs in the survey. I recall going to a party later that spring and the only album you needed was the soundtrack to Saturday Night Fever.Still true today!
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Post by papathree on Mar 23, 2019 22:41:16 GMT -5
Does anyone think that the royalties issue causes SXM to butcher the AT40 shows? I’m still scratching my head trying to figure out what could possibly justify their edits of 98% of the shows they air.
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Post by BrettVW on Mar 24, 2019 9:32:25 GMT -5
Not at all. It all comes down to them wanting a fast paced sound to the 70s on 7 station, and editing the shows the way they do allows the fast pace sound to continue during AT40
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Post by caseyfan100 on Mar 24, 2019 10:49:27 GMT -5
Does anyone think that the royalties issue causes SXM to butcher the AT40 shows? I’m still scratching my head trying to figure out what could possibly justify their edits of 98% of the shows they air. To butcher the AT40 shows to do the run around on royalty issues they would cut out the songs,not the jingles,teasers etc.
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Post by skuncle on Mar 30, 2019 5:03:34 GMT -5
March 26, 1977 this week
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Post by skuncle on Apr 6, 2019 5:03:31 GMT -5
This week, April 1, 1972
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Post by skuncle on Apr 13, 2019 5:18:41 GMT -5
This week, April 13, 1974
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Post by doofus67 on Apr 13, 2019 5:19:30 GMT -5
Six different foreign countries are represented by acts on this countdown: England, Canada, Australia, Holland, Sweden, and Spain.
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Post by skuncle on Apr 20, 2019 5:03:37 GMT -5
This week is April 17, 1976
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Post by djjoe1960 on Apr 20, 2019 18:57:47 GMT -5
I see where SiriusXM cut out the story about Fleetwood Mac making the strange transition leading into their #32 hit-Rhiannon--now here's the real Fleetwood Mac... Y'know if they left in the segment about Gerry Goffin, why not leave in the segment/story about Fleetwood Mac?! I guess I'll never understand how they make these editing decisions (or for that matter why they bother--do they think somebody's gonna cancel their subscription if they hear an AT40 show run in all it's unedited glory).
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AT40 ON XM
Apr 20, 2019 19:06:32 GMT -5
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Post by doofus67 on Apr 20, 2019 19:06:32 GMT -5
I see where SiriusXM cut out the story about Fleetwood Mac making the strange transition leading into their #32 hit-Rhiannon--now here's the real Fleetwood Mac... Y'know if they left in the segment about Gerry Goffin, why not leave in the segment/story about Fleetwood Mac?! I guess I'll never understand how they make these editing decisions (or for that matter why they bother--do they think somebody's gonna cancel their subscription if they hear an AT40 show run in all it's unedited glory). I listened to the 12:00 Eastern airing, Joe, and I thought exactly the same thing. Not that I don't care about Gerry Goffin -- I certainly do -- but that was a separate segment that didn't even lead into a song. That should be a no-brainer!
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Post by skuncle on Apr 21, 2019 4:02:42 GMT -5
I see where SiriusXM cut out the story about Fleetwood Mac making the strange transition leading into their #32 hit-Rhiannon--now here's the real Fleetwood Mac... Y'know if they left in the segment about Gerry Goffin, why not leave in the segment/story about Fleetwood Mac?! I guess I'll never understand how they make these editing decisions (or for that matter why they bother--do they think somebody's gonna cancel their subscription if they hear an AT40 show run in all it's unedited glory). This show was a repeat and the first time I heard it I thought it was very odd that the story was cut. This is not by any stretch the first time they have badly edited an intro. During the run of Rod Stewart’s “The First Cut Is The Deepest” there is a show where Casey explains that Cat Stevens wrote the song and recorded it first. The whole story is cut leaving only “And now here’s Cat’s Friend Rod with his version”. Anyone casually listening would be baffled by that intro.
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