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Post by edisonlite on Jul 29, 2013 1:30:32 GMT -5
So I guess it's 8/1/70 or 8/8/70. Either way, Premiere has played the show before.
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Post by matt on Jul 29, 2013 8:22:53 GMT -5
I had a feeling SXM would air 1970 this weekend--they seem to like to air the '70 episodes pretty soon after they become available again each year.
My guess is 8/1/70, but you never know. If so, PRN also aired this show in 2011...
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Post by skuncle on Jul 29, 2013 16:32:57 GMT -5
I think the big confusion is will it be the air date of 8/1 or the chart date of 8/1?
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Post by mkarns on Jul 29, 2013 16:53:55 GMT -5
I think the big confusion is will it be the air date of 8/1 or the chart date of 8/1? Probably the chart date, meaning the show that was aired on 7/25/70. On July 4 they did a special replay of the debut show aired on July 4, 1970, but the SXM display listed it as "AT40 7/11/70" I.E. the chart date.
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Post by matt on Jul 29, 2013 18:14:33 GMT -5
I think the big confusion is will it be the air date of 8/1 or the chart date of 8/1? Yeah sorry--I always refer to the chart dates for the July 1970 - April 1971 shows, since both Premiere and SXM refer to the shows by chart date.
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Post by d**ndirtyape on Jul 30, 2013 13:51:04 GMT -5
By playing a 1970 show this weekend, SXM will have played all 10 years of the 70's in the past 10 weeks (skipping 7/4). To keep that trend up, they would have to play the oldest of those shows the following week, being 1979. It's been 4 years since we've had a '79 show played in August, so I'm hoping they do. They have 4 weeks to make that happen. :-)
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Post by matt on Jul 30, 2013 18:04:07 GMT -5
By playing a 1970 show this weekend, SXM will have played all 10 years of the 70's in the past 10 weeks (skipping 7/4). To keep that trend up, they would have to play the oldest of those shows the following week, being 1979. It's been 4 years since we've had a '79 show played in August, so I'm hoping they do. They have 4 weeks to make that happen. :-) If they do, I hope they play 8/11/79 or 8/25/79...since those are the ones I need.
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Post by mellongraig on Jul 31, 2013 0:07:08 GMT -5
Let's hope all the songs (with the exception of AT40 extras) are kept in without any songs removed. Last time they did '70 - the song at #15 was cut out.
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Post by skuncle on Aug 3, 2013 11:50:43 GMT -5
I don't really like his delivery on these early shows. His personality wasn't there yet. Also being that the shows were recorded live at the time, his intros sound rushed on a some of them.
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Post by mkarns on Aug 4, 2013 10:35:01 GMT -5
SXM has an interesting pattern lately of going from one end of each decade to the other. In addition to Casey, their in-house 1960s, 80s, and 90s countdowns have all or soon will play shows from the first year of each decade back-to-back with the "8" or "9" year of that same decade.
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Post by skuncle on Aug 4, 2013 18:05:00 GMT -5
That's awesome! 1979 is one of my favorite years for music, I was eight years old and the radio was my best friend. I got $1 a week for an allowance and 45's were something like 75 cents so I would often spend my allowance on them.
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Post by matt on Aug 4, 2013 18:47:03 GMT -5
That rocks! Gotta be 8/11/79...
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Post by cachiva on Aug 5, 2013 4:46:24 GMT -5
I really enjoyed this week's show from 1970. Casey said that "Ball of Confusion" was the Temptations' 4th protest song in a row. Did he really consider "Psychedelic Shack" and "I Can't Get Next to You" protest songs?
He also said that "Mississippi Queen" by Mountain was in its 16th week on the charts. But on the July 4 show, just a month earlier, he predicted that the song was "gonna be a biggie!", as if it was relatively new. So my question is, does Casey mean that "weeks on the chart" means weeks on the Hot 100, and not weeks in the Top 40?
Loved hearing the long version of "Are You Ready", and hope to never hear "Tell it All Brother" ever again.
Listening to something as crappy as Elvis' "The Wonder of You", it is hard to believe he is called The King of rock'n'roll. There is nothing rock about this song at all. Or roll. And it's only 1970! I grew up in Boston in the 1970's, and never heard even one Elvis song on the radio after "Burning Love." These old AT40 shows reveal that he charted regularly right up until his passing, but all of those tunes were ignored by radio where I lived.
And Casey also brought up Mark Lindsay's car again! He did get to use his ROCK DJ voice on the intro of "25 or 6 to 4", but didn't get to use his WHISPERING voice until all the way at #1, with "Close to You."
Before reading some of the lyrics to "I Just Can't Help Believing", Casey explains that some songs have such great lyrics that they can be read as poetry. And he proceeds to recite 2 verses of the song! Was this the first time he did this (reading the lyrics), as it was one of his trademarks? Nice to hear him explain why he does it!
So much variety in the songs, and it is the only way to hear soul classics like "The Sly, the Slick and the Wicked", "Check Out Your Mind", "Loveland", and "Westbound #9" on 70s'n'7. And that is sad.
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Post by matt on Aug 5, 2013 13:53:45 GMT -5
I really enjoyed this week's show from 1970. Casey said that "Ball of Confusion" was the Temptations' 4th protest song in a row. Did he really consider "Psychedelic Shack" and "I Can't Get Next to You" protest songs?
He also said that "Mississippi Queen" by Mountain was in its 16th week on the charts. But on the July 4 show, just a month earlier, he predicted that the song was "gonna be a biggie!", as if it was relatively new. So my question is, does Casey mean that "weeks on the chart" means weeks on the Hot 100, and not weeks in the Top 40?
Loved hearing the long version of "Are You Ready", and hope to never hear "Tell it All Brother" ever again.
Listening to something as crappy as Elvis' "The Wonder of You", it is hard to believe he is called The King of rock'n'roll. There is nothing rock about this song at all. Or roll. And it's only 1970! I grew up in Boston in the 1970's, and never heard even one Elvis song on the radio after "Burning Love." These old AT40 shows reveal that he charted regularly right up until his passing, but all of those tunes were ignored by radio where I lived.
And Casey also brought up Mark Lindsay's car again! He did get to use his ROCK DJ voice on the intro of "25 or 6 to 4", but didn't get to use his WHISPERING voice until all the way at #1, with "Close to You."
Before reading some of the lyrics to "I Just Can't Help Believing", Casey explains that some songs have such great lyrics that they can be read as poetry. And he proceeds to recite 2 verses of the song! Was this the first time he did this (reading the lyrics), as it was one of his trademarks? Nice to hear him explain why he does it!
So much variety in the songs, and it is the only way to hear soul classics like "The Sly, the Slick and the Wicked", "Check Out Your Mind", "Loveland", and "Westbound #9" on 70s'n'7. And that is sad. Good to hear that somebody can listen to a 1970 show without falling asleep.
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Post by skuncle on Aug 5, 2013 18:17:38 GMT -5
I really enjoyed this week's show from 1970. Loved hearing the long version of "Are You Ready", and hope to never hear "Tell it All Brother" ever again.
Listening to something as crappy as Elvis' "The Wonder of You", it is hard to believe he is called The King of rock'n'roll. There is nothing rock about this song at all. Or roll. And it's only 1970! I grew up in Boston in the 1970's, and never heard even one Elvis song on the radio after "Burning Love." These old AT40 shows reveal that he charted regularly right up until his passing, but all of those tunes were ignored by radio where I lived.
I actually kind of like "Tell It All Brother", it's not as good as "Just Dropped In" but then it's a completely different song/style. As for "The Wonder Of You", Elvis got the "King Of Rock & Roll" title based solely on his 1950's output. The '60's turned him into a completely non-relevant act musically speaking. The majority of what he did in the '60's was soundtrack garbage with third and fourth rate material. His 1969 album "Elvis In Memphis" is (in my opinion) the best thing he ever did, but by that point he was way out of touch musically. He made a great album in Memphis, but how could he really compete with the Beatles, The Doors, Led Zeppelin etc? By the 1970's he was really more of a AC artist. He was mostly in Vegas and his recorded material is very hit and miss. He was having more hits on the country charts by the '70's than he was on the pop charts.
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