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Post by skuncle on Nov 18, 2012 8:50:25 GMT -5
So I was curious if this odd habit of playing a Paul McCartney track within ten minutes of the start of the AT countdown was only done once during the weekend, nope. Sunday's rebroadcast starts in ten and they are now playing "The Long And Winding Road". Does anyone know why the ALWAYS play a Paul McCartney track before the countdown??
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Post by matt on Nov 18, 2012 21:37:32 GMT -5
Given SXM's track record of airing shows, I will assume 11/20/76 is the date.
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Post by pgfromwp on Nov 19, 2012 9:24:07 GMT -5
Looking forward to hearing 11/20/76 on my car's satellite radio, although there are a couple of "no, just no" songs (IMHO) near the top at #5 and #4.
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Post by dukelightning on Nov 19, 2012 9:43:51 GMT -5
Wow, "Love so Right" a no just no song? You must find it hard to make it through an AT40 show without running into no just no songs if that is one! They have a ballad single on every album from 1975 on.
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Post by pgfromwp on Nov 19, 2012 10:15:22 GMT -5
^Based on my references, #5 is "Disco Duck" and #4 is "Muskrat Love". I do like "Love so Right" and it deserves its #3 placement for that week. You're probably referring to my occasional chart critiques wherein I had admittedly forced a song or two into a bottom ranking to sharply contrast with the highest rankings in that week's top 40 -- in hindsight, it was a controversial tactic from the past that prompted me to no longer do those critiques .
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Post by skuncle on Nov 20, 2012 12:31:46 GMT -5
"Muskrat Love" is a horrible song and the fact that it is NOT a novelty song is beyond me. No, this was sung with a straight face and with sincerity. America's orginal version is bad enough, but The Captain and Tennile's version throws it over the edge with the keyboard muskrat sounds.
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Post by albe on Nov 20, 2012 16:44:30 GMT -5
^ Aww poor Muskrat Suzie and Muskrat Sam
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Post by edisonlite on Dec 1, 2012 2:59:07 GMT -5
Is it more likely to be the 11/30/74 show??
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Post by matt on Dec 1, 2012 9:13:31 GMT -5
Is it more likely to be the 11/30/74 show?? I would put my money on that one (as opposed to 12/7/74)
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Post by donwa001 on Dec 1, 2012 14:57:14 GMT -5
For the 11/30/74 show, when Casey reached the #1 song "I Can Help" by Billy Swan, he told a story about the applause at the end of the song (due to Billy's german shepherd).
To me the story was pointless because as the song was ending, Casey started talking so you couldn't hear the applause and the song ended early.
Listen to the full version of I Can Help and you'll see that the song tries to end a number of times and the applause and cheers just keep going and going.
After Casey's story, the show should have played the long ending to the song.
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Post by donwa001 on Dec 8, 2012 13:03:34 GMT -5
Quite the editing job at the end of Hour 1 for the December 9th show. The American Top 40 cue sheet lists the segment for #29 & #28 songs at 6 min 6 sec.
Using Joel Whitburn's Pop Annual for playing times:
#29 Your Mama Don't Dance - Loggins & Messina runs 2 min 46 sec #28 Convention '72 - The Delegates runs 5 min 7 sec
So playing those 2 songs back to back should take 7 min 53 sec. There had to be some creative editing to get the Logo theme, the 2 songs and closing theme music cut down to 6 min 6 sec.
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Post by michaelcasselman on Dec 8, 2012 13:45:27 GMT -5
Listening to "Convention '72" today, it seemed like that was where they made some *significantly* edits.
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Post by skuncle on Dec 8, 2012 14:26:58 GMT -5
Thought it was funny at the end Casey gave their rating on guessing the #1 record and gave the "score" backwards, saying they missed it both weeks, "We are two for nothing". Normally you'd say you were 0 and 2 or "zero for two".
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Post by pgfromwp on Dec 8, 2012 18:32:32 GMT -5
It seemed to me that 12/09/72 had an unusually large number of songs in the first 22 played that current radio has chosen to ignore. I can only count two definite currently played tunes from #40 through #19: "Superstition" and "Your Mama Don't Dance", and possibly a third: "Living in the Past."
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Post by mellongraig on Dec 8, 2012 18:36:36 GMT -5
I'm just curious, but why is XM snubbing 1975 and 1977? I hope one of those two years gets played next week on XM (though I never subscribe to that channel).
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