AT40 ON XM

[mkarns]

Sort of a curveball, but understandable. Early October often had AT40 specials in the 70s, and the Top Producers one is the only one from that time of year with nearly all of its music from that decade. Others had too many songs from the 1950s and/or 60s for SXM 7 (and Premiere).

[mga707]

Oct 5, 2024 10:12:54 GMT -5 mkarns said:

Sort of a curveball, but understandable. Early October often had AT40 specials in the 70s, and the Top Producers one is the only one with nearly all of its music from that decade. Others had too mamy songs from the 1950s and/or 60s for SXM 7 (and Premiere).

Very happy to finally hear this 'special'. Didn't have an AT40 affiliate I could listen to between June '74 and July '75.

And if it was the regular '74 show, we'd have to endure "Earache My Eye".

[mga707]

Random thought on how different the Top 10 Producers of the '70s list would've looked four or five years later. Georgio Moroder, Mike Chapman, Barry Gibb, etc. Also surprised that while Thom Bell made the list at #10, fellow Philadelphians Kenny Gambel and Leon Huff did not.

[at40petebattistini]

Oct 5, 2024 13:09:10 GMT -5 mga707 said:

Random thought on how different the Top 10 Producers of the '70s list would've looked four or five years later. Georgio Moroder, Mike Chapman, Barry Gibb, etc. Also surprised that while Thom Bell made the list at #10, fellow Philadelphians Kenny Gambel and Leon Huff did not.

Through a variety of sources, Casey became knowledgeable about many aspects of the music industry, producers and writers included. Of course, AT40 provided an outlet for him to pass along this information. In fact, during the very first show (chart date 7/11/70), he noted that former Cream producer Felix Pappalardi had produced Mountain’s “Mississippi Queen.”

And it’s interesting to note, based on AT40’s Top Producer of the 10/5/74 special, that Casey’s 2nd absence from the countdown (3/25/72) was due to a visit to Muscle Shoals, Alabama, home of producer Rick Hall and the Fame Recording Studio. A few years later and the #1 Producer would have been different.

[mkarns]

Wheel of Casey this week: June 14, 1975.

[jmack19]

I'll go with October 9, 1971 for this weekend.

[skuncle]

Oct. 12-13, 2024: Now let’s go back to this week in 1971 - Mark Farner - October 9, 1971

[jgve1952]

All different ten years have played since August. Premiere could learn even rotation from AT40 on XM.

[mkarns]

Though this is the first regular weekend SXM show from 1971 in four months, so their rotation isn't that even. 90s on 9 meanwhile does 1991 this weekend for the first time since the beginning of June.

Between SXM and Premiere's A show, this weekend has the earliest possible AT40 pairing from the two sources (unless both did 1970 at the same time, and SXM 7 apparently consciously tries to avoid duplicating Premiere's offering.)

[at40petebattistini]

Board operators at AT40 stations in late 1971 found themselves having to adjust to Watermark’s new distribution format.

The October 9, 1971 show was the last program sent to stations on reel-to-reel tapes, with the following week’s countdown (10/16/71) shipped on vinyl for the first time. Compared to the show’s tapes, where each hour was complete on a single reel, each AT40 LP divided every hour into two parts, and onto separate discs: Hour 1A backed with Hour 2B, Hour 2A with Hour 3B, and Hour 3A with Hour 1B. To assist station staff with the transition, Watermark provided updated pages to its AT40 Operations Manual, with how-to instructions on programming the discs.

And now back to the countdown…

[mkarns]

Wheel of Casey this week: December 4, 1976.

[jmack19]

I'll go with the show from October 18, 1975 over October 14, 1978 for this weekend.

[skuncle]

Oct. 19-20, 2024: Now let’s go back to this week in 1974 - Maureen McCormick - October 19, 1974

[jgve1952]

Oct 12, 2024 9:13:27 GMT -5 mkarns said:

Though this is the first regular weekend SXM show from 1971 in four months, so their rotation isn't that even. 90s on 9 meanwhile does 1991 this weekend for the first time since the beginning of June.

Between SXM and Premiere's A show, this weekend has the earliest possible AT40 pairing from the two sources (unless both did 1970 at the same time, and SXM 7 apparently consciously tries to avoid duplicating Premiere's offering.)

I was primarily focusing on the fact that XM did ten different years in the last ten weeks (excluding the Producers Special).

[jgve1952]

1973 is year longest without play. Great music from late October, and sure hope that is XM's choice for this Saturday.