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Post by skuncle on May 28, 2022 11:27:13 GMT -5
May 28-29, 2022: Now let’s go back to this week in 1978 - John Schneider and Tom Wopat - May 27, 1978 (noon airing was 25mins late)
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Post by mga707 on May 28, 2022 11:40:27 GMT -5
AT40 might start around 20 minutes past or so after all (The way Top300 is going). Whoever produced this countdown should be fired. It’s horrible, dead air, random DJ intros, the display says “Top Albums Of 1972”. Yes! My sentiments also. To add insult to injury, they skipped three or four songs in the 'teens'.
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Post by mkarns on May 28, 2022 14:41:16 GMT -5
Whoever produced this countdown should be fired. It’s horrible, dead air, random DJ intros, the display says “Top Albums Of 1972”. Yes! My sentiments also. To add insult to injury, they skipped three or four songs in the 'teens'. That being the 70s on 7 countdown? I went through my recording of the 1978 AT40 and the songs are all there, though it of course started late.
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Post by skuncle on May 28, 2022 14:58:17 GMT -5
Yes! My sentiments also. To add insult to injury, they skipped three or four songs in the 'teens'. That being the 70s on 7 countdown? I went through my recording of the 1978 AT40 and the songs are all there, though it of course started late. I’m referring to the Top 300 Summer Sizzlers countdown yes, it’s a mess.
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Post by mga707 on May 28, 2022 15:18:34 GMT -5
Yes! My sentiments also. To add insult to injury, they skipped three or four songs in the 'teens'. That being the 70s on 7 countdown? I went through my recording of the 1978 AT40 and the songs are all there, though it of course started late. Yes. The AT40 show was fine. Contrary to some here, I like the 3-hr 78s. No 'filler', just the hits!
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Post by mga707 on May 29, 2022 0:18:59 GMT -5
Not to get too far off-topic here, but regarding the 1970s top 300 summer song so-called 'listeners' choice' (yeah, right) countdown currently being repeated on '70s On 7: What the heck happened to the numbers? On this second go-round Sirius-XM has totally eliminated any and all references to them. Why?
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Post by mkarns on May 29, 2022 0:52:04 GMT -5
That being the 70s on 7 countdown? I went through my recording of the 1978 AT40 and the songs are all there, though it of course started late. Yes. The AT40 show was fine. Contrary to some here, I like the 3-hr 78s. No 'filler', just the hits! Incidentally, the Billboard for this week's show (5/27/78) mentions the countdown's forthcoming expansion to four hours, something that Casey never mentioned on air until it actually happened in October. The last six months or so of three hour AT40s seldom had extras, at least until the Long Distance Dedications began in August, probably because they and their relevant stories were being saved for the longer shows when they would be needed to fill the time.
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Post by friarboy on May 29, 2022 9:07:24 GMT -5
Nothing says "Summer Sizzler" like "Patches" by Clarence Carter! (number 200-something or whatever.)
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Post by mga707 on May 29, 2022 10:01:57 GMT -5
Nothing says "Summer Sizzler" like "Patches" by Clarence Carter! (number 200-something or whatever.) Like a lot of the songs on this now-numberless 'countdown', "Patches" peaked in September (#4). As long as the song first charted before Labor Day, Sirius-XM seems to consider it a 'summer' song.
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Post by mga707 on May 29, 2022 14:51:16 GMT -5
Nothing says "Summer Sizzler" like "Patches" by Clarence Carter! (number 200-something or whatever.) ...which was followed by another 'weeper', "Daddy, Don't You Walk So Fast". Where's "Alone Again (Naturally)" for a 'triple downer'?
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Post by slf on May 29, 2022 15:46:32 GMT -5
Nothing says "Summer Sizzler" like "Patches" by Clarence Carter! (number 200-something or whatever.) ...which was followed by another 'weeper', "Daddy, Don't You Walk So Fast". Where's "Alone Again (Naturally)" for a 'triple downer'? Pretty early in this countdown, they played---wait for it---the Tom Clay spoken word record from the summer of '71. (Yes, it actually got some votes!) Nothing like audio news clips of tragic assassinations to get one in a summer party mood.
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Post by mga707 on May 29, 2022 20:28:25 GMT -5
...which was followed by another 'weeper', "Daddy, Don't You Walk So Fast". Where's "Alone Again (Naturally)" for a 'triple downer'? Pretty early in this countdown, they played---wait for it---the Tom Clay spoken word record from the summer of '71. (Yes, it actually got some votes!) Nothing like audio news clips of tragic assassinations to get one in a summer party mood. Yep, heard it earlier. Actually sat through it and survived. And, upon further consideration, I realize that 'Mr. Las Vegas'' biggest hit is actually not a 'downer'. Wayne's kid in the song saves his marriage! Hapoy ending...
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Post by mkarns on Jun 2, 2022 20:19:15 GMT -5
Wheel of Casey....January 12, 1974. The show ends with a notable error, or omission: Casey seems to tease a story about Steve Miller (at #1 with "The Joker") by mentioning that he was headlining at San Francisco's Fillmore Auditorium "when Creedence Clearwater Revival was still known as the Golliwogs". But no such story was actually told.
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Post by skuncle on Jun 4, 2022 5:03:34 GMT -5
June 4-5, 2022: Now let’s go back to this week in 1975 - Al Roker- May 31, 1975
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Post by mga707 on Jun 4, 2022 11:15:24 GMT -5
June 4-5, 2022: Now let’s go back to this week in 1975 - Al Roker- May 31, 1975 With that 'creepy' classic, "Judy Mae"!
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