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Post by mkarns on Jun 20, 2012 13:50:11 GMT -5
Just me or did New England's song sound outta place in 1979? Sounds like it would have been a bigger hit if released two years later. Perhaps; it does sound like it would have fit well in the 1980s, maybe even better. Incidentally, the album which included that song was co-produced by Paul Stanley, who with KISS debuted on AT40 the same week with "I Was Made for Lovin' You". |
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Post by pgfromwp on Jun 29, 2012 10:48:32 GMT -5
The 6/30/73 AT40 show is relevant in that (I believe) it's the only one where former Beatles chart hits in the top two spots: George Harrison's "Give Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth)" at #1 and Paul McCartney & Wings's "My Love" at #2.
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Post by jdelachjr2002 on Jun 29, 2012 19:59:08 GMT -5
The 6/30/73 AT40 show is relevant in that (I believe) it's the only one where former Beatles chart hits in the top two spots: George Harrison's "Give Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth)" at #1 and Paul McCartney & Wings's "My Love" at #2. In fact, George dethroned Sir Paul that week. |
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Post by donwa001 on Jun 30, 2012 11:12:46 GMT -5
Surprised to hear the long version of "I'll Always Love My Mama" - Intruders being played at #39 on American Top 40. I own the 45 rpm on the single and the long version is the B side of the song.
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Post by Big Red Machine on Jun 30, 2012 13:40:10 GMT -5
Surprised to hear the long version of "I'll Always Love My Mama" - Intruders being played at #39 on American Top 40. I own the 45 rpm on the single and the long version is the B side of the song. Great song!!! We always criticize SXM for their butchering of shows, but at least they keep the songs intact. I'm pretty sure Premiere would have edited down this song a lot. |
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Post by at40caseyfan on Jun 30, 2012 17:05:12 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... I think that I finally figured out what is going on with SXM's editing out of last week's top 3 of AT40 whenever it is 1979. It appears that SXM is attempting to end AT40 in time for the MTV VJ Top 30 Countdown on 80's on 8 that comes on Monday morning. It appears that when the last week's top 3 isn't edited out of AT40, the show runs past three hours and causes one to miss the beginning of the MTV VJ Top 30 Countdown on 80's on 8. Since the 1979 shows of AT40 were originally intended to be 4 hour shows, no telling what else is being out of them in order to make them 3 hour shows. |
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Post by at40caseyfan on Jun 30, 2012 17:25:42 GMT -5
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. I too am confused about the differences between XMs and SXMs treatment of AT40. XM believed it was a selling point to play AT40 in its entirety as it was heard in the 70s. However, SXM obviously does not. XM also billed 70s on 7 as the channel that sounded like a real radio station in the actual 70s. AT40 played 50s and 60s music in the 70s. Thus, that is how it was in the 70s. In addition, 70s and 80s music are sometimes played on the 60s on 6 channel. What is SXM's problem with playing the 50s and 60s music from the AT40 archives on the 70s on 7 channel? |
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Post by dukelightning on Jun 30, 2012 21:05:45 GMT -5
Surprised to hear the long version of "I'll Always Love My Mama" - Intruders being played at #39 on American Top 40. I own the 45 rpm on the single and the long version is the B side of the song. Great song!!! We always criticize SXM for their butchering of shows, but at least they keep the songs intact. I'm pretty sure Premiere would have edited down this song a lot. Great song indeed and on the last 1973 show SXM played from 5/19/73, they also played a very long version of an equally good soul song, "I Can Understand It" by New Birth. |
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Post by skuncle on Jun 30, 2012 21:34:18 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 think that I finally figured out what is going on with SXM's editing out of last week's top 3 of AT40 whenever it is 1979. It appears that SXM is attempting to end AT40 in time for the MTV VJ Top 30 Countdown on 80's on 8 that comes on Monday morning. It appears that when the last week's top 3 isn't edited out of AT40, the show runs past three hours and causes one to miss the beginning of the MTV VJ Top 30 Countdown on 80's on 8. Since the 1979 shows of AT40 were originally intended to be 4 hour shows, no telling what else is being out of them in order to make them 3 hour shows. The MTV VJ Top 40 Countdown is on like ten times over the weekend so it seems highly unlikely that the 70's channel is editing a show so you can tune into a show on the 80's channel at a certain time (on Saturday the VJ show airs an hour earlier than Casey's show on the 70's channel). As for the editing, once you take the commercials out alone the four hour show is reduced to anything from 3 hrs even to 3 hours and change. |
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Post by dukelightning on Jul 1, 2012 10:30:05 GMT -5
My fave part of the AT40 show this week was when Casey said, "Next week we don't have to make any predictions so we don't have to be wrong". I HEARD THAT!!!!!
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Post by skuncle on Jul 1, 2012 10:33:38 GMT -5
What an amazing time for radio in 1973, on the same chart you hear Jeannie Pruett, Charlie Rich, Alice Cooper, Gladys Knight, and Pink Floyd. It's amazing to realize there was a time when that much diversity existed on radio. Beautiful!
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Post by countdownmike on Jul 2, 2012 10:54:23 GMT -5
skuncle: Great point on the diversity of the 1973 chart. It seemed 1973 was that way also later the year. "Stoned Out Of My Mind" by the Chi-lites was an unlikely Top 40 hit as was "Hey Girl, I Like Your Style" by the Temptations. I loved the Jeannie Pruett. Hadn't heard "Satin Sheets" in a minute! What I can't wait for is any show from summer 1970. Now that July has hit, it's got to be on the way soon from SiriusXM and/or terrestrial. I was surprised hearing parts I and II of the Intruders song as well.
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Post by countdownmike on Jul 2, 2012 11:04:38 GMT -5
Question: When I listen to AT40 on SiriusXM, I notice their own song files come up. Meaning when they played "I'll Always Love My Mama" the display showed "I'll Always Love My Mama Parts I & II ('73)." That's the same display when it's on "Soul Town." I know that "Fight The Power" by the Isley Brothers played unedited on its first two AT40 appearances, but last year SiriusXM played "Fight The Power" on an AT40 when the song was edited by then, but it was not edited on SiriusXMs airing. For the songs and titles to show on SiriusXM, wouldn't they have to be playing those songs themselves? What I'm saying is I think SiriusXM is playing tunes from their song files somehow within AT40 with some clever way of editing them in, even when Casey does talkups and backselling.
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Post by skuncle on Jul 2, 2012 11:29:17 GMT -5
Question: When I listen to AT40 on SiriusXM, I notice their own song files come up. Meaning when they played "I'll Always Love My Mama" the display showed "I'll Always Love My Mama Parts I & II ('73)." That's the same display when it's on "Soul Town." I know that "Fight The Power" by the Isley Brothers played unedited on its first two AT40 appearances, but last year SiriusXM played "Fight The Power" on an AT40 when the song was edited by then, but it was not edited on SiriusXMs airing. For the songs and titles to show on SiriusXM, wouldn't they have to be playing those songs themselves? What I'm saying is I think SiriusXM is playing tunes from their song files somehow within AT40 with some clever way of editing them in, even when Casey does talkups and backselling. I believe that someone at SiriusXM has to enter in the song titles for the whole show so that it is displayed. So it's probably a default thing where they start the title and it automatically completes it. I'm sure the person doing this is not paying super close attention to which version of the song they may be playing. I know on the 80's VJ Countdown whoever compiles the show repeatedly uses the wrong versions on various songs, for instance when the play Ronnie Milsap's "Smoky Mountain Rain" it's always a later live version, never the hit single version, same with Cher's "We All Sleep Alone" they always play the later dance remix version from the 90's not the 1987 single. My point is whoever in enters in the titles pays very little attention to detail. |
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Post by mkarns on Jul 2, 2012 11:41:32 GMT -5
Question: When I listen to AT40 on SiriusXM, I notice their own song files come up. Meaning when they played "I'll Always Love My Mama" the display showed "I'll Always Love My Mama Parts I & II ('73)." That's the same display when it's on "Soul Town." I know that "Fight The Power" by the Isley Brothers played unedited on its first two AT40 appearances, but last year SiriusXM played "Fight The Power" on an AT40 when the song was edited by then, but it was not edited on SiriusXMs airing. For the songs and titles to show on SiriusXM, wouldn't they have to be playing those songs themselves? What I'm saying is I think SiriusXM is playing tunes from their song files somehow within AT40 with some clever way of editing them in, even when Casey does talkups and backselling. I believe that someone at SiriusXM has to enter in the song titles for the whole show so that it is displayed. So it's probably a default thing where they start the title and it automatically completes it. I'm sure the person doing this is not paying super close attention to which version of the song they may be playing. They've also been pretty sloppy at times lately. When they played a June 1971 countdown a few weeks ago, the display included songs by "Danny Dewdrop", the "Bouys", "Ch-Lites" and "The Honeycomb". A Partridge Family single was listed as being by David Cassidy solo. |
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