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Post by djjoe1960 on Jan 17, 2021 11:11:27 GMT -5
Started out with "Most of All" which I have never heard in my life! It only peaked at #38, the following week. This included all three original extras, including the Platters' "To Each His Own" (1960), the Lettermen's "Hurt So Bad" (1969), and Patti Page's "The Tennessee Waltz" (1950-51). But the Platters and Patti Page extras weren't in their original places in the countdown. Kudos to SiriusXM for at least playing the whole show-- even if a few songs were moved around from where they were originally in the show. This is why we tune into AT40, for the whole experience; not some chopped up mess. |
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Post by jgve1952 on Jan 17, 2021 15:28:45 GMT -5
Also, for the most part the years are rotated evenly. I think we are due for a 1972 episode, which might not be likely since 1971 was featured this weekend.
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Post by mkarns on Jan 21, 2021 13:18:06 GMT -5
Also, for the most part the years are rotated evenly. I think we are due for a 1972 episode, which might not be likely since 1971 was featured this weekend. It may be even less likely since we get the same show from most Premiere outlets (1/22/72) and Sirius XM is usually good about not duplicating the terrestrial Casey shows. Of course since Premiere got stingier about releasing its schedule ahead of time SXM might not have been aware of that. |
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Post by mkarns on Jan 21, 2021 21:01:23 GMT -5
This week's Thursday special is June 3, 1978.
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Post by skuncle on Jan 23, 2021 6:04:01 GMT -5
Jan. 23-24, 2021: Now lets go back to this week in 1974 - Alan Parsons, January 19, 1974
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Post by mkarns on Jan 28, 2021 21:01:05 GMT -5
The Wheel of Casey landed on September 26, 1970 this week.
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Post by dukelightning on Jan 28, 2021 21:45:17 GMT -5
A 5 song stretch from #21 to #17 includes the last three hits still on the countdown from the first show, in their last week on the countdown..."Spill the Wine" at 21, "Make it With You" at 20 and "Close to You" at 17. Casey points out that Close is the oldest song in the countdown with 14 weeks. It is the only one of those 3 hits which was in the top 40 before AT40 began. In between are a pair of songs that both climbed 21 notches..."I'll Be There" at 19 and "Green Eyed Lady" at 18. Tied for the biggest moves of the week. I would not be surprised if to this day, that is the only time in AT40 history that back to back hits were up the same number of notches and were up at least 20 notches too.
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Post by mrjukebox on Jan 28, 2021 21:47:59 GMT -5
Glad to hear that Sirius/XM is running Casey on Thursday nights.
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Post by dukelightning on Jan 28, 2021 22:06:19 GMT -5
How appropriate that they are playing this show. I heard last week's current AT40 earlier. So with this show that SiriusXM is playing, it means that I have heard on AT40 shows today the two songs I can think of which have back to back double digit numbers in their titles. This show has "25 or 6 to 4" (25 and 26). The current AT40 had "34 + 35". The former was at #10, the latter was at #11(by Ariana Grande). If you add up those numbers.....
Ok, back to the countdown!
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Post by mrjukebox on Jan 29, 2021 19:53:07 GMT -5
1973 is the featured year this weekend-It'll likely be the countdown from January 27th.
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Post by skuncle on Jan 30, 2021 6:03:50 GMT -5
Jan. 30-31, 2021: Now lets go back to this week in 1973 - Brian May, January 27, 1973
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Post by jgve1952 on Jan 30, 2021 6:39:49 GMT -5
Significant day in history for this week's countdown--the Paris Peace Accord was passed ending the VietNam conflict. I was in the Air Force at the time, and the bells tolled from the Base Chapel in celebration of this.
One fact about this countdown--only #40 "I'll Be Your Shelter was the only song to hold its previous week's position.
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Post by mkarns on Jan 30, 2021 9:18:25 GMT -5
Sirius XM has been better about playing full, unedited countdowns in its weekend timeslots lately, as with last week's and this week's shows. But on their Thursday bonus show from 1970 this week, all five extras (all from the 1960s) were deleted.
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Post by papathree on Jan 30, 2021 13:11:07 GMT -5
Sirius XM has been better about playing full, unedited countdowns in its weekend timeslots lately, as with last week's and this week's shows. But on their Thursday bonus show from 1970 this week, all five extras (all from the 1960s) were deleted. Amen. It's really saying something to SXM's credit when today's airing includes multiple lines of Casey's commentary that were edited out by Ken Martin for his mono2stereo conversion. |
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Post by djjoe1960 on Jan 31, 2021 11:00:03 GMT -5
I didn't get to listen to the whole AT40 from January 1973 until this morning and noticed that Do It Again by Steely Dan was edited. I wonder if this was one of the first songs that AT40 edited due to time constraints--I know that they also edited American City Suite by Cashman & West (it ran over 7 minutes long in the 45 version), in a few shows that ran near the end of 1972.
As many others have noted it is great to have SiriusXM cut back on the heavy edits that plagued some of the re-broadcasts over the last few years. Let's hope this trend continues.
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