AT40 ON XM

[mkarns]

This week's presentation is from July 31, 1971.

[slf]

Aug 4, 2018 11:01:14 GMT -5 mkarns said:

This week's presentation is from July 31, 1971.

Ah, yeah, this is the week in which a certain socially conscious message song by one Tom Clay leapfrogged sixteen notches into the top ten.  I know a lot of you despise this record, but, in small doses, I find it tolerable and even fascinating to listen to.   The girl group vocals are pleasant and bookend conversations with the child about bigotry and prejudice are poignant, but the disturbing news footage of the assassinations are jarring and a bit much.  After such a huge leap from 26-10, one would think that this record would be a shoo-in to hit #1, but it would only peak at #8.  Maybe the serious, tragic nature of parts of the record were too much for the average listener, causing the novelty to wear off fast.  Or was it possible  that, like the "Battle Hymn Of Lt. Calley" song from several months earlier, the Tom Clay record got relatively little airplay, but just sold a lot of copies?  Can any of you out there who followed Top 40 radio in 1971 confirm one way or another whether this song was played much by DJ's?

[mkarns]

August 11, 1973 this week.

[slf]

Aug 11, 2018 11:01:53 GMT -5 mkarns said:

August 11, 1973 this week.

I noticed an ironic pairing of songs on this week's SiriusXM  '70's show.  At #12 Casey played Johnny Taylor's "I Believe In You (You Believe In Me)".   That was followed by the #11 song, "Feelin' Stronger Every Day" by Chicago.  And, as you probably know, the opening line of that song just happens to be "I believe in you/and I know you believe in me".  What are the odds!?!?

[mkarns]

August 16, 1975 this week.

[skuncle]

The entire intro to Elton John’s Someone Saved My Life Tonight was edited out. Just faded into the song. My guess is because the story was about Elton and Stevie Wonder being the highest paid musicians and how much they are getting for their latest deals. I guess SXM is concerned that listeners would think that this was a current story and be confused.

[mkarns]

August 22, 1970 this week, the first 1970 show we’ve had this year from either service.

[skuncle]

It sounds horrible. Sounds like an original recording off the radio from 1970.

[djjoe1960]

Thanks to cutting out all the 'oldies' from the show--it clocks in at about 2 hours and 5 minutes (Was Casey double parked?) .

[mkarns]

Sirius XM has long had a policy of cutting pre-1970s extras out of AT40, and naturally this means that most or all extras get cut from these shows from the start of the decade.

Sometimes lately we’ve gotten lucky and they’ve played shows without such editing, leaving in not only 1940s/50s/60s extras but listener questions and end/start of hour bumpers that usually get cut, but apparently not this week.

[skuncle]

Aug 25, 2018 13:02:56 GMT -5 djjoe1960 said:

Thanks to cutting out all the 'oldies' from the show--it clocks in at about 2 hours and 5 minutes (Was Casey double parked?) .

After Sunday mornings airing SXM host Jaybaeu Jones came on and said “Another great AT40 With Casey Kasem, but you know the songs were so short in 1970 that I have to start my show an hour early! Thanks a lot 1970!”

What he should have said was “We edit so much out of the shows that this week’s show came up 20mins short. Thanks a lot SXM!”

[djjoe1960]

Aug 25, 2018 14:01:53 GMT -5 mkarns said:

Sirius XM has long had a policy of cutting pre-1970s extras out of AT40, and naturally this means that most or all extras get cut from these shows from the start of the decade.

Sometimes lately we’ve gotten lucky and they’ve played shows without such editing, leaving in not only 1940s/50s/60s extras but listener questions and end/start of hour bumpers that usually get cut, but apparently not this week.

I am totally aware of this but what's the point of running the show if you are gonna cut it up so much that it is difficult to lsiten to (and enjoy). Before the merger XM ran the shows intact and I doubt anybody cancelled their subscription because a song from another decade played on the '70's. If that is the case, why let Cousin Brucie play nearly any song somebody requests on the '60's on 6.

[mkarns]

September 2, 1972 this week. No extras in the original show to cut this time.

[skuncle]

Sort of a big error on Casey’s part in this show, in his intro to “Nights In White Satin” he says the song goes back to 1968 and it’s from the album “In Search Of The Lost Chord”. It actually goes back to 1967 and is from the album “Days Of Future Past”.

[d**ndirtyape]

9/3/1977 today