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Post by mkarns on Sept 21, 2019 9:58:27 GMT -5
In the 9/19/70 show, there are six extras, all from the 1950s or 60s, and in a break from the norm 70s on 7 left all of them in.
Personal aside: this chart date is exactly five years before I was born, and the precise time of day of my birth is included in one of its song titles.
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Post by skuncle on Sept 28, 2019 5:02:33 GMT -5
Now lets go back to this week in 1972 - Randy Bachman. September 23, 1972
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Post by skuncle on Oct 5, 2019 5:06:11 GMT -5
Now let’s go back to this week in 1979. - Gloria Gaynor. October 6, 1979
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Post by mkarns on Oct 5, 2019 8:10:42 GMT -5
Same year (but different week) as this week's Premiere B show, though at least here's an additional option for those looking for the four hour version of 1979. Between SXM and Premiere, this weekend we get two of the four shows that opened with the then-new theme music, before they reverted to using "Shuckatoom" to open the show while keeping the new theme at the end.
In addition, this week's Premiere A is from 1972, as was last week's Sirius XM offering.
And having looked at the list of songs played, SXM's 10/6/79 show is another of their oddly edited shows. Not only did they cut the lone pre-1970s extra (Roy Orbison's "Oh, Pretty Woman"), but Casey's replay of the previous week's top 3 was missing, as was the first Long Distance Dedication, that being for Ringo Starr's "You're Sixteen", which, from 1973-74, can't be explained by its date. Left in were the second LDD (Chicago's "Wishing You Were Here") and the three Archives songs.
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Post by skuncle on Oct 12, 2019 5:04:47 GMT -5
Now let’s go back to this week in 1978 - Bill Withers. October 14, 1978
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Post by skuncle on Oct 19, 2019 5:03:06 GMT -5
Now let’s go back to this week in 1973 - Bill Withers. October 20, 1973
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Post by papathree on Oct 19, 2019 7:53:24 GMT -5
Did you mean Oct 20?
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Post by mkarns on Oct 19, 2019 11:30:37 GMT -5
October 20, 1973 it was. Unfortunately they cut out Casey's salute to Jim Croce, with parts of several of his songs.
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Post by matt on Oct 19, 2019 12:45:04 GMT -5
October 20, 1973 it was. Unfortunately they cut out Casey's salute to Jim Croce, with parts of several of his songs. So very Sirius XM of them. And it's why I haven't bothered to listen to Casey on SXM for a few years now.
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Post by djjoe1960 on Oct 19, 2019 12:53:35 GMT -5
Paul Simon (Loves Me Like A Rock) & Art Garfunkel (All I Know) are back to back on the Billboard chart--something that Casey notes in this show from Oct. 20, 1973. However, Casey did not point out that the Osmonds were at #36 (Let Me In) at the same time that Marie Osmond (Paper Roses) was at #10--although he did mention that Marie was the 4th member of the Osmond clan to make the Top 40.
If AT40 had been using Cash Box that week, Marie and her brothers would have been back to back on the countdown (#21 & #22).
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Post by skuncle on Oct 19, 2019 15:50:22 GMT -5
Yep, thanks! I corrected it.
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Post by cachiva on Oct 21, 2019 18:51:51 GMT -5
October 20, 1973 it was. Unfortunately they cut out Casey's salute to Jim Croce, with parts of several of his songs. It is simply amazing to me that they would edit out Casey's well-thought-out and remarkably heartfelt tribute to Jim Croce. Unlike the 1977 tribute upon the passing of Elvis (which was mostly chronicling his achievements and influence, followed by an 8-minute (yes!) live take of "Suspicious Minds," the Croce tribute started with his early attempts at success, and all the work it took to climb his way to the top. And, as noted above by mkarns , the touching commentary was interwoven with snippets of his best-known songs, which led seamlessly into his current hit, "I Got A Name." It is everything we love about Casey in about 4 minutes; his honey-gravel voice wrapping around words that were moving and insightful, emotionally touching without ever becoming maudlin. Well worth seeking out. Rolling Stone, October 25, 1973Jim Croce, Five Others Die in Plane CrashSinger-songwriter was riding a wave of overdue success before tragedy stuckNatchitoches, La. — Pop singer-songwriter Jim Croce, 30, was killed September 20th when the single-engine plane in which he and five others were riding hit a tree on takeoff.
The other victims in the accident were Croce’s second guitarist, Maury Meuhleisen; road manager Morgan Tell; comedian George Stevens, a booking agent, and the pilot.
Croce had gained headliner status only recently, following his hit records, “Don’t Mess Around With Jim” and the current “Bad, Bad Leroy Brown.” He was en route from a college concert at Northwestern State College, 75 miles southeast of Shreveport, to another in Sherman, Texas.
“It was a single-engine plane, I believe,” said deputy Walter Braxton. “It was taking off and it did not get any altitude.” The plane went past the runway, hit the tree, and spun around in the air before crashing.
Croce is survived by his wife Ingrid and their two-year-old son, Adrian.
Corb Donahue, a friend of Croce’s and an employee at his record company, ABC/Dunhill, described Croce as “simply one of the finest human beings I’ve ever met.” The sentiment was echoed by others who knew him.
Jim Croce was born in south Philadelphia January 10th, 1943, and brought up on ragtime, country and Dixieland music. He played the accordion as a child and taught himself guitar, but did not play professionally until 1964, while he was at Villanova College in Pennsylvania. There he formed various bands and played fraternity parties. He also worked on construction crews to support himself.
Talking to Rolling Stone in London while on a promotional tour there two months ago, Croce recalled: “I’ve had to get in and out of music a couple of times, because music didn’t always mean a living. You don’t make that much in bars; I still have memories of those nights, playing for $25 a night, with nobody listening.” Outside the bars, Croce had teaching jobs: In 1966, he taught guitar at an arts camp, and later, he taught emotionally disturbed children in Philadelphia. “I would never teach again,” he said. “What a year that was, beat up by a girl who was 260 pounds in junior high.” And, he said, “My one and only shot at an office gig was working at radio station WHAT in Philadelphia. I was writing jive commercials for an R&B station. I’d be up on Germantown Avenue trying to sell time to a jazz bar. I was the only white person to walk into some of those bars, and they’d think I was either a cop or a collection man.”
Croce and his wife Ingrid were in Mexico, where she had a grant to study pottery, when he reunited with a college friend, musician Tommy West, who urged him to try the New York coffeehouse circuit. Croce, with West and Terry Cashman producing, cut an album in 1969, and when it failed to sell, he became a truck driver until he and Ingrid moved to a farm in Lyndell, Pennsylvania. When money ran low, Croce went back to construction work, doing some session singing for commercials on the side. Finally, after one rejection from ABC/Dunhill (which Croce had framed and put on the wall next to his first gold record; the rejection regretting that his songs were “not strong enough for us”), he signed with the label and cut a couple of songs he’d written in a truck cab, on his construction job: “You Don’t Mess Around With Jim” and “Operator.” Both became hits and led to a second album, Life And Times, the Number One single, “Bad, Bad Leroy Brown,” and a new career in TV and film work.
“‘Leroy Brown,”‘ he said in London, “came out of the American street tradition. I wrote a lot of things in street terms, a lot of truck- driving songs. ‘Leroy’ I wrote at home and was based on real characters. The jobs I’ve had attract characters.” (Said Donahue at ABC/Dunhill: “There was no persona between Jim and his songs; he was a strong man who wasn’t afraid to be gentle.”)
“It’s a nice feeling having a Number One record,” said Croce two months ago. “It’s a strange feeling. After having played for such a long time I don’t even know how to describe it.”
Croce had just completed a third album for Dunhill, I’ve Got a Name. The title cut is part of a soundtrack for 20th Century Fox’ new film, The Last American Hero.
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Post by mrjukebox on Oct 22, 2019 16:18:53 GMT -5
Jim Croce was truly a talented guy-I look forward to hearing his holiday song "It Doesn't Have To Be That Way".
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Post by Michael1973 on Oct 24, 2019 8:20:18 GMT -5
Jim Croce passed away the same week that I was born.
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Post by skuncle on Oct 26, 2019 5:03:55 GMT -5
Now lets go back this week in 1977 - Don Felder. October 22, 1977
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