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Post by cachiva on Aug 8, 2020 7:23:22 GMT -5
I wonder if Humble Harve (Miller) got the idea to do the National Album Countdown show from this special. NAC ran from the mid 1970's through the mid '80's and was a countdown of the Top 30 albums as taken from the Record World chart (I wonder what chart was used after RW stopped publishing in April of 1982). I remember hearing a couple of these shows but it is rather hard to find these days--I don't think it ran on that many stations. Man, I need to learn how things work around here! Why am I quoting myself? lol So here is another period ad: And this is an image of a page from cayleytable's journal of one show: So, some of the pieces of wondering about the show's success are falling into place: It was free to radio stations It had paying sponsors It had a quality host It seems to have found a chart free of teenyboppers, music-of-your-lifers and Royal Lagoon Bagpipes Wilton Place Street 103 Rhythm Bands. I wonder if they could do like Casey did - skip right past the songs you really did not wish to play from that show... I can imagine a radio station taking a chance, not having to pay a DJ for one 3-hour shift, and after a few months seeing how it was doing for them.
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Post by at40petebattistini on Aug 8, 2020 10:46:06 GMT -5
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Post by 80sat40fan on Aug 8, 2020 13:22:40 GMT -5
I was listening to some of this countdown in my car today. I was shocked that they skipped over a couple of songs from albums in the first half hour. I checked the cue sheet... and sure enough, four albums didn't have songs featured in the original show! Here is the cue sheet: www.charismusicgroup.com/Cue%20Sheets/08-05-72.pdfI guess they didn't think to play edited versions of songs back then? The show (back in '72) featured 12 songs each hour so only 36 songs were featured. Is this a record low count for an AT40 countdown? Having said that... this was enjoyable to hear.
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Post by friarboy on Aug 9, 2020 10:20:28 GMT -5
Really enjoyed the Album countdown show. Appears they edited Outa Space in since the cue sheet says it was not played?
Great piece about Exile and Mick Jagger as the premier sexual object in the world today or however that quote went....
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Post by cachiva on Aug 10, 2020 9:21:23 GMT -5
Wow, this is great, Pete, thanks! First off, hearing the intro is wonderful, as I think it sets the tone for the entire show, and give a great feel for the three hours that are forthcoming. It shows that rock and soul could live side by side on the same station. I wonder what Edmund Sylvers had to say about their new album. Since it was a commercial flop, it would be something to be able to contrast what I'm sure was pure optimism upon its release vs. the reality it met. From the air check, it seems the NAC relied heavily on playing the hit singles from the albums. That would not have been my expectation. It was fun to hear that full K-Tel commercial! Wow, a million times less frantic than the ones I've heard from '73 and '74! I bought several of those back in the day. But I really liked hearing how WMET padded the show with a couple of songs, to get it to the full three hours. I know that AT40 worked hard to time out all of the show's segments to get to the desired time for the show, often at the expense of the music contained in the countdown. And to what end? How many stations didn't sell enough commercials to fill the time they'd allotted? And how many stations would have even cared if the show was 5 minutes longer than 3 hours? Good stuff, Pete, thanks again for sharing!
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Post by cachiva on Aug 15, 2020 5:03:00 GMT -5
Aug. 15-16, 2020: Now let's go back to this week in 1979 - Gloria Gaynor, August 11, 1979
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Post by skuncle on Aug 15, 2020 5:04:18 GMT -5
Aug. 15-16, 2020: Now lets go back to this week in 1979 - Gloria Gaynor, August 11, 1979
With a horrible edit right at the start!
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Post by friarboy on Aug 16, 2020 11:22:12 GMT -5
Aug. 15-16, 2020: Now lets go back to this week in 1979 - Gloria Gaynor, August 11, 1979 With a horrible edit right at the start! Awful cut after intro to “Ring my Bell” had already started. Just play the top 3 recap! You’re just going to fill the time after with three other songs we hear all the time anyway. Might as well play Ring My Bell, Good Times and Bad Girls for the 7 millionth time each.
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Post by skuncle on Aug 16, 2020 12:54:14 GMT -5
Aug. 15-16, 2020: Now lets go back to this week in 1979 - Gloria Gaynor, August 11, 1979 With a horrible edit right at the start! Awful cut after intro to “Ring my Bell” had already started. Just play the top 3 recap! You’re just going to fill the time after with three other songs we hear all the time anyway. Might as well play Ring My Bell, Good Times and Bad Girls for the 7 millionth time each. The option would be to just skip the first segment. But whoever edits for them does a complete hatchet job.
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Post by mkarns on Aug 16, 2020 13:10:58 GMT -5
Not sure why they had to (clumsily) edit the recap out; if they must, then they should have done so after Casey said "we're about to count down the 40 biggest hits in the USA", before "Ring My Bell" started behind him.
Otherwise everything from the original show was left in, including one song that was edited out when this was played before, that being Barbra Streisand's rendition of "My Man", originally from the 1968 "Funny Girl" soundtrack and in here as an LDD.
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Post by skuncle on Aug 22, 2020 5:05:11 GMT -5
Aug.22-23, 2020: Now lets go back to this week in 1974 - Alan Parsons, August 17, 1974
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Post by mrjukebox on Aug 22, 2020 18:47:05 GMT -5
I remember hearing the "National Album Countdown" on WICC in Bridgeport,CT-I think they used to air it between 9:00 PM-12 midnight on Saturdays.
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Post by skuncle on Aug 29, 2020 5:04:08 GMT -5
Aug. 29-30, 2020: Now lets go back to this week in 1977 - Steve Porcaro , August 27, 1977
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Post by djjoe1960 on Aug 31, 2020 11:23:15 GMT -5
Right before Casey played Star Wars theme by the London Symphony orchestra (#16 on 8-27-77 show), he indicated that it was the first time in the rock era that an orchestra was listed as an 'artist'. However, we all know that lots of hits featured orchestras, such as the #1 song of 1960--Theme from a Summer Place by Percy Faith (and his orchestra). Also in 1957, the #1 hit Moonglow & Theme from Picnic by Morris Stoloff conducting the Columbia Pictures Orchestra (is listed right on the 45). So, while it is technically 'true' it really isn't the big deal the AT40 staff tried to make it out to be, IMO.
Oh yeah, Henry Mancini (& his orchestra) reached #1 in 1969 with Love Theme from Romeo & Juliet.
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Post by 80sat40fan on Aug 31, 2020 16:38:55 GMT -5
^ Even since the start of AT40 in 1970, "Love's Theme" by Love Unlimited Orchestra hit #1 in 1974. You could also include "The Hustle" By Van McCoy & The Soul City Symphony as that hit #1 in 1975. Here's some info regarding orchestras an symphonies:
An orchestra is a large group of musicians that usually includes the four major sections of Western instruments: strings, brass, winds, and percussion.
A symphony is a large-scale piece of music that typically contains three to four movements.
A symphony orchestra is an orchestra that’s big enough and has enough of a variety of instruments to play a symphony. When an orchestra is called a “symphony,” it’s just shorthand for “symphony orchestra.”
So many people only credit Van McCoy with "The Hustle" but you could say there were two songs by orchestras that went to #1 between 1970 and 1977.
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