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Post by trekkielo on Dec 21, 2014 14:42:06 GMT -5
I'm loving this story...
"This is Casey Kasem on American Top 40 in Hollywood, and now I have the latest hit by an English group who have found one of the most unusual theatrical gimmicks yet for a rock and roll concert, the group is, The Electric Light Orchestra, and we got the story from drummer Bev Bevan who tells it this way, at the end of their concert in Los Angeles last August the group returned for a final encore, and right in the middle of their song, the audience saw a huge hot air balloon rise up from behind the stage, it sailed over the audience up around 200 feet, and it had a large mirrored revolving globe dangling from its underside, then, 4 laser guns shot thick rays of green light at the ball as it slowly whirled around, creating the effect of millions of green raindrops falling all over the audience, and the surrounding hills, well the crowd went wild, and so did the local residents who looked outside and saw this, huge, eerie, green revolving ball of light hovering over the hills, well Bev Bevan said the police switchboard was swamped with phone calls from hundreds of frightened people who thought that they were witnessing the landing of a flying saucer, fortunately the group was prepared for that kind of reaction and they warned the police department in advance to tell folks exactly what it was, well we can chalk that one up as one of the most unusual gimmicks ever used at a rock and roll concert, by The Electric Light Orchestra, their current hit is moving up the chart at #19 this week, and it's titled, Livin' Thing..." - Casey Kasem's American Top 40 from December 18th, 1976
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AT40 ON XM
Dec 27, 2014 12:10:29 GMT -5
via mobile
Post by edisonlite on Dec 27, 2014 12:10:29 GMT -5
Any word on which show airs today?
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Post by djjoe1960 on Dec 27, 2014 12:11:46 GMT -5
Xm is running the last regular show of 1970. Chart date 12-26-70.
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Post by donwa001 on Dec 27, 2014 12:12:15 GMT -5
They are playing: Dec 26, 1970 #1 song "My Sweet Lord" - George Harrison
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Post by tzmac on Dec 31, 2014 17:50:14 GMT -5
As Pete notes in his book - strange that #30 - Share the Land was not played in the original broadcast of the 12.26.70 chart.
Billboard no doubt threw AT40 a curve by declaring My Sweet Lord and Isn't It A Pity equals on the record which was now #1. So AT40 played both - but had to clear space in the program. And I understand leaving in the Christmas extra, Silent Night(which Sirius XM of course did not play). But it would seem more revelant to play a song in the countdown than the Jackie Wilson extra, Higher and Higher (Sirius XM didn't play).
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Post by tzmac on Dec 31, 2014 17:54:03 GMT -5
Oops - relevant.
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Post by mkarns on Jan 3, 2015 12:01:36 GMT -5
Part 1 of the 1978 year end countdown now airing. This is of course the full original version, not the butchered one Premiere has played.
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Post by skuncle on Jan 3, 2015 12:27:22 GMT -5
This appears to be the full version (aside from the usual SXM edits). Last time this aired by Premiere (I believe) in 2012 the songs were heavily edited. Most ran no longer than two minutes and some like "Ebony Eyes" were about a minute. Not sure if Premiere did the editing or if the radio station airing it did, but the four hour show ran 2hrs21mins.
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Post by trekkielo on Jan 3, 2015 12:27:48 GMT -5
1978 year end countdown now airing. Is it that severely truncated 6 hour version or the original 8-hour one? |
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Post by trekkielo on Jan 3, 2015 12:29:08 GMT -5
So now I wonder and I'm confused why Premiere chose not to air the AT40 1972 year-end countdown for 2014... Is it not remastered yet as one would think all year-enders would be done by now!  |
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Post by mkarns on Jan 3, 2015 12:33:07 GMT -5
This appears to be the full version (aside from the usual SXM edits). Last time this aired by Premiere (I believe) in 2012 the songs were heavily edited. Most ran no longer than two minutes and some like "Ebony Eyes" were about a minute. Not sure if Premiere did the editing or if the radio station airing it did, but the four hour show ran 2hrs21mins. I'm guessing Premiere did that, as it was first offered in 2007, when nobody had the option of playing full four hour shows so they tried to edit it down to get four hours into three. Even after that became an option, though, Premiere re-ran their heavily edited version. However, I'd prefer even that sort of editing with at least some of every song over what a lot of stations are doing with 1976, which is to play three out of four hours of both halves, resulting in a big gap in the middle of the chart. |
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Post by top40collector on Jan 3, 2015 15:05:43 GMT -5
XM finish Part One of 1978 and now Part Two starting.
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Post by skuncle on Jan 3, 2015 15:07:12 GMT -5
That's a first!
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Post by top40collector on Jan 3, 2015 15:10:28 GMT -5
The date 12/23-30/78 was a clue that both parts was going to be played and I figure it out immediately.
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Post by skuncle on Jan 3, 2015 15:13:49 GMT -5
I never looked at my display, I probably would have realized they were doing a double show if I looked. Still very cool that they are doing this. They usually try to get the show as close to three hours as possible. Nice move SXM!
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