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Post by pgfromwp on Nov 9, 2013 14:43:12 GMT -5
Still found it interesting that the 1978 pre-August AT40 shows, which encompassed many more songs of greater length than earlier in the decade, were likewise compressed into an approximate 2:20 segment. That editing involved more than mainly commercial breaks.
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Post by mellongraig on Nov 10, 2013 3:13:50 GMT -5
Time for 1974 next week, posted by SXM. Looks like 11/16/74.
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Post by skuncle on Nov 10, 2013 4:52:22 GMT -5
Still found it interesting that the 1978 pre-August AT40 shows, which encompassed many more songs of greater length than earlier in the decade, were likewise compressed into an approximate 2:20 segment. That editing involved more than mainly commercial breaks. Actually the show was still three hours regardless of song length, so once you take the commercials out you're left with the 2:20 length. Even now the Premiere shows with no edits and added extras still only run 2:30. To compensate for the longer songs later in the decade AT40 had to shorten things themselves. SXM isn't editing quite as much as you might think. I agree that there shouldn't be any edits at all, and every so often they do edit something that defies logic, but we aren't missing that much.
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Post by mellongraig on Nov 14, 2013 10:52:46 GMT -5
Next weekend 11/23.... 1979!! About time we'd hear that year! Surprised that SXM released next week's show quite early though.
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Post by d**ndirtyape on Nov 16, 2013 9:19:49 GMT -5
Next weekend 11/23.... 1979!! Probably 11/24/79, since SXM played 11/17/79 three years ago.
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Post by mkarns on Nov 16, 2013 15:51:15 GMT -5
When I said I wanted the decade channels to flood us in culture of the period, I didn't mean playing the original scratchy AT40 records! The sound quality today was horrible. Maybe there was no remastered copy? Premiere has never aired 11/16/74, and that may be a reason why. Following up on earlier discussion of SXM edits, this week's Premiere show (11/18/72) had Casey correcting misinformation given to listeners two weeks earlier in response to a question concerning the oldest artist ever to make the top 40 until then. Two weeks earlier was 11/4/72, played by SXM last week, and the original question and answer were completely deleted by SXM.
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Post by skuncle on Nov 16, 2013 19:11:40 GMT -5
For some odd reason a lot of the 1974 shows on SXM sound like garbage. Not sure why that one year sounds like that, but they do!
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Post by mrjukebox on Nov 18, 2013 22:39:03 GMT -5
Any word on what this week's show is?
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Post by saltrek on Nov 18, 2013 23:30:58 GMT -5
1979
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Post by d**ndirtyape on Nov 23, 2013 16:56:57 GMT -5
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Post by mellongraig on Nov 24, 2013 1:49:51 GMT -5
SXM says 1977 will be next week's show. I'm putting my money on 11/26/77.
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Post by billyonaire on Dec 1, 2013 5:39:20 GMT -5
Which program did they play?
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Post by mellongraig on Dec 1, 2013 7:11:21 GMT -5
1970 is next week - unfortunately, that program will be timed at 2:05. Expect some extras to be cut.
Been quite a while since SXM played that year - then again, 1970 only becomes available in the 2nd half of the year.
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Post by saltrek on Dec 1, 2013 17:47:19 GMT -5
Which program did they play? 11/26/1977
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Post by donwa001 on Dec 7, 2013 18:02:22 GMT -5
This weekend they played 12/05/1970.
I found it interesting that when they reached #1, Casey said nothing, no introduction, just the jingle "Billboard's Number One".
Maybe this was more of creative editing by SXM.
Looking at the cue sheet from Premiere, I see there was an ad by MGM Records after the #2 song "The Tears Of A Clown" so that would have been cut out by SXM.
Still thought Casey would have said something before "I Think I Love You" was played.
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