AT40 ON XM

[mkarns]

Jun 4, 2018 15:21:51 GMT -5 jmack19 said:

^The #10 song ("Tryin' To Get The Feeling Again") was skipped.

They also left in Casey's tease for a story about the Australian folk song "Waltzing Matilda" (in which Casey can be heard laughing), but cut out the story which included a piece of Jimmie Rodgers' hit rendition. What a botched job.

[mkarns]

June 4, 1977 this week.

[skuncle]

^ Another very lightly edited show. Bumpers, teases and even the story about the 3 mins of silence song left in, tease and all.

[jmack19]

After the June 4, 1977 show was over last night, the first song XM played was "Sir Duke" by Stevie Wonder. The #1 song was "Sir Duke" by Stevie Wonder.

[djjoe1960]

AT40 on satellite radio this week end is June 17, 1972. Wow started with something rare the #40 jingle.

[mkarns]

June 23, 1973 this week.

[doofus67]

Jun 23, 2018 11:07:13 GMT -5 mkarns said:

June 23, 1973 this week.

My sixth birthday!

[cachiva]

More Fun:

Biggest mover of the week? "Yesterday Once More" by The
Carpenters. Up 22 places, from #38 to #16, in only its
second week in the Top 40. So, the AT40 crew does the
right thing to an immensely popular tune and guts the
heck out of it! Just 2:09 of Carpenters goodness for
the fans!

[OnWithTheCountdown]

^ Actually, said edit wasn't in the original show - so it had to have been Premiere or XM with the chop job. Either way, makes for a less enjoyable listen. (Great tune, too.)

[cachiva]

I have the complete set of 1970's shows,
remastered by Shannon Lynn, and that edit
is indeed part of the original show.

[mkarns]

Jun 27, 2018 10:49:15 GMT -5 OnWithTheCountdown said:

^ Actually, said edit wasn't in the original show - so it had to have been Premiere or XM with the chop job. Either way, makes for a less enjoyable listen. (Great tune, too.)

The XM show played last weekend, with "Yesterday Once More" at #16, includes the full song. If there was one song that was noticeably cut down, it was Skylark's "Wildflower" which lasted only about 2:10.

[OnWithTheCountdown]

Jun 27, 2018 22:27:53 GMT -5 cachiva said:

I have the complete set of 1970's shows, remastered by Shannon Lynn, and that edit is indeed part of the original show.

I do as well - my copy doesn't have said edit though. Was it a different show during its chart run in which the edit occurs?

[OnWithTheCountdown]

Jun 27, 2018 22:57:36 GMT -5 mkarns said:

Jun 27, 2018 10:49:15 GMT -5 OnWithTheCountdown said:

^ Actually, said edit wasn't in the original show - so it had to have been Premiere or XM with the chop job. Either way, makes for a less enjoyable listen. (Great tune, too.)

The XM show played last weekend, with "Yesterday Once More" at #16, includes the full song. If there was one song that was noticeably cut down, it was Skylark's "Wildflower" which lasted only about 2:10.

Yeah, I just wasn't sure what else he could be referring to. It's been years since I've heard an AT40 show on XM - I know they edit out some stuff along the lines of teasers, jingles, but do they edit several songs? Since acquiring the remastered original shows, I got rid of my XM and Premiere recordings. Don't need two copies of the same show - in fact, I much prefer the originals.

And yep, "Wildflower" is edited in the original show. Since it was on its way out, makes sense to. (Although several on here think AT40 wouldn't edit debut records - they weren't exempt either!)

[cachiva]

Just checked again. "Yesterday Once More" from the June 23, 1973 AT40
show is missing the "Looking back on how it was..." verse, and the
whole song comes in at about 2:10. I got the complete set of shows on
a portable hard drive from Shannon himself about 3 months ago. Weird.

And I checked on "Wildflower." Yep, about 2:10.

I did not hear the SiriusXM broadcast of the show this past weekend.

I went to billboard.com to check the June 23, 1973 chart, and it
matches the show that I'm referring to.

I don't have an answer. I'd thought Shannon's files were the most
accurate available.


Also of note:

Pink Floyd's "Money" debut that week. On my file, they played the
version where the second half of the "bull____" word is deleted.

Then, on the June 30 show, that whole verse is edited out!

No show on July 7, but on the 14th the played the "bull___"
version again. And again, and again until the Aug 4, which
featured the version with the entire verse edited out.

And so on throught the chart run. But I thought I'd read that
once they played the offending "BS" epithet, unedited. Is
that true, or just an urban myth?

[OnWithTheCountdown]

That's really interesting. The part of the segment with "Yesterday Once More" in the 6/23/1973 show I have, checks in at 4:27. The song itself plays to around 3:57. And, yes, it includes the verse beginning with "Looking back on how it was..." The shows I have, to my knowledge, are the original shows, the way they aired back in the day, no added edits. Shannon himself appeared on these boards a few weeks back and said that what he does is true to how the shows were initially, meaning no edits outside of the original Watermark edits. If only I could find that thread...the mobile version of the boards make that really challenging. The desktop version is much easier to navigate such things.

If you and I got our shows from the same source, how is yours so drastically different? Very interesting.

One thing we do agree on is "Wildflower" - it was definitely edited in my copy of the show, with that track coming in at 2:16.

Re: "Money" - I'll have to listen to the shows I have to see what's there.

Anyone here who has the original show - feel free to share your findings. I'd be interested in knowing. There's already been confirmation that the XM broadcast had the full song, which my copy does as well. (I also don't know if the XM broadcasts include any additional song edits outside of the original Watermark edits, like the Premiere-aired shows do in the 70s and 80s series.)