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Post by skuncle on Jun 17, 2012 8:11:59 GMT -5
You know chopping off the Last Weeks Top three from the start of the show isn't that big of a deal, he doesn't usually provide any commentary other than "Last week at #2 was this big hit....." And then maybe a tease of "Will there be a new #1 this week? Stick around as we count 'em down starting after this...". But by chopping all that off it does feel like the show is starting midstream. We need to get someone from SXM on here to answer the question as to why this is done, it's not a time constraint issue.
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Post by mrjukebox on Jun 17, 2012 8:19:11 GMT -5
Before Premiere decided to air the four-hour shows from October 1978-December 1979,Sirius/XM was the only game in town-Because of the severe editing,I no longer listen to the "70's On 7" channel.
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Post by dukelightning on Jun 17, 2012 8:26:36 GMT -5
It's strange how SXM's editing out of last week's top 3 started more or less when Premiere began offering the first hour to stations. So we have never had the complete 1979 shows offered on both networks at the same time. That was a mistake by Casey when he said "Days Gone Down" was Gerry Rafferty's third top 40 hit. It was his 4th.
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Post by jmack19 on Jun 17, 2012 23:55:39 GMT -5
Since this relates to some of the hits on the June 16, 1979 chart, let me set this up in "Jeopardy" fashion.
The answer is six - The Logical Song, Chuck E.'s In Love, She Believes In Me, Shine A Little Love, Gold, and The Main Event.
What is the question?
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Post by freakyflybry on Jun 18, 2012 3:34:27 GMT -5
What are #1 songs on R&R that didn't reach #1 on Billboard?
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Post by mkarns on Jun 18, 2012 11:31:11 GMT -5
That's like kissing someone while putting a knife in their back! You do a special tribute to Donna Summer and Robin Gibb by playing this show but you edit out last week's top 3 songs which was the only way you could get "Love You Inside Out" at #1. Yeah morons rule at SXM! Thank goodness I stopped listening to them. My work used to play this station on Saturdays but they switched to a jazz station. It was bad listening to the regular Casey 1979 intro then to immediately hear the AT40 jingle followed by Cher's "Take Me Home" at #40. This time they didn't even have Casey's intro prior to the recap (unless you count the one he recorded a few years ago for SXM: "I'm Casey Kasem, now join us as we go back to this week, 1979.") After that, there was just an "American Top 40" voice jingle and then Casey intro'ed #40. No "Shuckatoom" opening.
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Post by jmack19 on Jun 18, 2012 14:21:50 GMT -5
Fleakyflybry was correct. The question is:
The Logical Song was the first of how many consecutive #1 songs on the R&R chart that did not reach #1 on the Billboard chart?
9 out of 10 #1 songs did not reach #1 on Billboard during a part of 1979.
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Post by mkarns on Jun 18, 2012 14:27:23 GMT -5
Fleakyflybry was correct. The question is: The Logical Song was the first of how many consecutive #1 songs on the R&R chart that did not reach #1 on the Billboard chart? 9 out of 10 #1 songs did not reach #1 on Billboard during a part of 1979. Those nine came between "Hot Stuff" in June and "Rise" in October; the other three were "After the Love Has Gone", "Lonesome Loser", and "Sail On". During that four month bloc only "My Sharona" topped both charts. Meanwhile, "Ring My Bell", "Bad Girls", "Good Times", "Sad Eyes", and "Don't Stop Til You Get Enough" hit #1 in Billboard but not R&R.
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Post by matt on Jun 18, 2012 15:13:03 GMT -5
Hmmm...well, Premiere played that one last year so it looks like I can pass on the SXM show this weekend.
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Post by matt on Jun 18, 2012 15:15:52 GMT -5
It's strange how SXM's editing out of last week's top 3 started more or less when Premiere began offering the first hour to stations. So we have never had the complete 1979 shows offered on both networks at the same time. That was a mistake by Casey when he said "Days Gone Down" was Gerry Rafferty's third top 40 hit. It was his 4th. So ridiculous...like I said before, I can understand SXM's wanting to edit out the extras that contain songs from the 60's and earlier, but why cut the top 3 recap?? Not only are those all 70's songs and thus fit the theme of the station, they are typically songs that are still popular and in recurrent airplay today!! Makes no sense at all...
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Post by skuncle on Jun 18, 2012 17:30:53 GMT -5
So ridiculous...like I said before, I can understand SXM's wanting to edit out the extras that contain songs from the 60's and earlier, but why cut the top 3 recap?? Not only are those all 70's songs and thus fit the theme of the station, they are typically songs that are still popular and in recurrent airplay today!! Makes no sense at all... I stated before that time constraints can't be the issue, but perhaps that is the reason. This past weekends show ran 2hrs 52mins, so if they are trying to keep it within the the 3hr window then the recap doesn't fit.
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Post by dukelightning on Jun 18, 2012 17:37:42 GMT -5
Wow so they be what, a minute and a half over the allotted time? Phooey!
Interesting how different R&R and Billboard were as to #1 songs in 1979. Shows how different airplay and sales were. Specifically how stations were trying to end the disco era by themselves.
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Post by skuncle on Jun 18, 2012 20:20:13 GMT -5
Wow so they be what, a minute and a half over the allotted time? Oh I agree, they have no trouble starting Magic Matt Allan's show early when the shows run just over two hours so why can't they start it a bit late once every few weeks?
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Post by baylink on Jun 18, 2012 20:55:31 GMT -5
FWIW, I've been hopping around the streaming stations the last 3 weekends, and it has not been my experience that stations are all that picky in general about out-times, unless maybe they have another syndie show set behind it.
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Post by matt on Jun 19, 2012 11:25:01 GMT -5
So ridiculous...like I said before, I can understand SXM's wanting to edit out the extras that contain songs from the 60's and earlier, but why cut the top 3 recap?? Not only are those all 70's songs and thus fit the theme of the station, they are typically songs that are still popular and in recurrent airplay today!! Makes no sense at all... I stated before that time constraints can't be the issue, but perhaps that is the reason. This past weekends show ran 2hrs 52mins, so if they are trying to keep it within the the 3hr window then the recap doesn't fit. They are a satellite radio station with no commercials--they can do whatever they want and time constraints should not be any issue whatsoever. SXM's attitude towards AT40 shows has taken shape ever since the two networks merged. XM did a GREAT job with the shows back in the day--played both AT40 70's and 80's shows in their entirety with very few edits (mostly the end of hour/opening hour themes, etc.). Even the #1's of the 60's archive songs were all left in when they were included in the shows from June 1980 through November 1981. This truly appears to come down to some jerks from Sirius who, after the merger, decided to do away with the AT40 shows from the 80's in favor of their own fake 80's countdowns, and also started watering down the 70's shows with these edits, which seem to increase with each passing week. It is their own arrogance over being customer service minded for those of us who fork out $18 each month.
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