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Post by mkarns on Jun 22, 2024 9:07:33 GMT -5
Same year as Premiere, just different weeks--here at Sirius XM, 6-21-75, Premiere, 6-28-75. And 11 of the songs in the same position in both shows, including the entire top 5, 9 of the top 12, and 2 of the first 4 songs heard in the countdowns, including #40 which Casey introed on 6/21 by noting that Barry White had 5 top 10 hits in the last two years, "and he's gonna do it again". A classic "Casey Kasem jinx", as the song went no higher. |
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Post by mga707 on Jun 22, 2024 11:12:47 GMT -5
Same year as Premiere, just different weeks--here at Sirius XM, 6-21-75, Premiere, 6-28-75. This Sirius-XM show actually matches up perfectly with what I didn't hear over the air on the weekend of July 21-22, 1975. Locally, my AT40 'void' would end in about a month, when a nearby Phoenix station (KBBC-FM) that I could pick up on my AM/FM/SW portable began airing the show. I'd been without a local affiliate for a year, since KIKX-AM Tucson dropped the show in June '74. Over the winter, I'd been able to pick up the final hour on Sunday evenings on KCPX-AM Salt Lake City once local 'daytimer' (and 'original 7' AT40 station) KHYT signed off for the night. Thanks to AM nighttime 'sky waves'. But by the longer days of spring that ended. Enjoying hearing both '75 weeks, as that summer between junior and senior year of high school was a wonderful time to have just turned 17. |
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Post by mga707 on Jun 22, 2024 12:18:35 GMT -5
Sure, Jonathan King--the name '10cc' came to you in a dream. Uh-huh. Did Casey ever similarly 'clean up' the origin of the name 'Steely Dan'? Somehow I doubt it.  |
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Post by mrjukebox on Jun 22, 2024 12:26:28 GMT -5
Obviously Walter & Donald had read William Burrough's novel "Naked Lunch" which inspired their group's name.
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Post by Big Red Machine on Jun 22, 2024 15:15:17 GMT -5
Sure, Jonathan King--the name '10cc' came to you in a dream. Uh-huh. Did Casey ever similarly 'clean up' the origin of the name 'Steely Dan'? Somehow I doubt it. And his dream of the band getting a # 1 hit did not come true thanks to 3 other #1’s. 🙁. Has that happened ever since with any # 2 record in the Casey era? |
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Post by doofus67 on Jun 22, 2024 15:46:30 GMT -5
Sure, Jonathan King--the name '10cc' came to you in a dream. Uh-huh. Did Casey ever similarly 'clean up' the origin of the name 'Steely Dan'? Somehow I doubt it. And his dream of the band getting a # 1 hit did not come true thanks to 3 other #1’s. 🙁. Has that happened ever since with any # 2 record in the Casey era? "Live and Let Die" stalled at #2 for three weeks, behind three different #1s: "The Morning After", "Touch Me in the Morning," and "Brother Louie." The second of those weeks, 8/18/73, was Bill Wardlow's official debut as Billboard's Destroyer of Charts. |
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Post by mga707 on Jun 22, 2024 15:52:35 GMT -5
Sure, Jonathan King--the name '10cc' came to you in a dream. Uh-huh. Did Casey ever similarly 'clean up' the origin of the name 'Steely Dan'? Somehow I doubt it. And his dream of the band getting a # 1 hit did not come true thanks to 3 other #1’s. 🙁. Has that happened ever since with any # 2 record in the Casey era? Good question! "The Billboard Book Of #2 Singles" is perfect for finding the answer. And the answer is that it did not happen again during the 'Casey Era' (July 1970 to August 1988), but it did happen one earlier instance: Two years earlier, in the summer of 1973, "Live and Let Die" was also stuck at #2 behind three other #1 songs. (edit) 'Doofus', I see you were quicker than me! |
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Post by mkarns on Jun 27, 2024 20:01:45 GMT -5
Wheel of Casey this week: November 26, 1977.
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Post by Michael1973 on Jun 27, 2024 21:58:46 GMT -5
Wheel of Casey this week: November 26, 1977. I caught some of this show in the car earlier. Casey answered a question about the fastest and slowest climbing #1 hits. Then, immediately after telling us what the slowest climbing #1 song was, he launches into I Go Crazy -- which itself was one of the slowest climbing Hot 100 entries ever. |
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Post by jmack19 on Jun 27, 2024 23:10:08 GMT -5
I'll go with a June 24 show for this weekend. I'll go with June 24, 1972 over June 24, 1978.
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Post by skuncle on Jun 29, 2024 5:02:25 GMT -5
June 29-30, 2024: Now let’s go back to this week in 1972 - Gloria Gaynor - June 24, 1972
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Post by laura on Jul 4, 2024 20:50:37 GMT -5
Tonight's Wheel Of Casey is 9/21/74.
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Post by jgve1952 on Jul 5, 2024 6:55:45 GMT -5
XM AT40 may feature 1970 tomorrow, being that this year is now eligible for play. For the regular years 1971 to 1979, longest without play is 1973.
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Post by mkarns on Jul 5, 2024 9:27:48 GMT -5
XM AT40 may feature 1970 tomorrow, being that this year is now eligible for play. For the regular years 1971 to 1979, longest without play is 1973. Don’t think that 1973 would be played this weekend, as they’d have to play a date from either 6 days before or 8 days after this weekend’s dates, as this week that year (7/7/73) AT40 ran its first Disappearing Acts special, with almost all 50s and 60s songs. 1974, 78, and 79 all had July 4-period specials focused on 70s music, plus regular charts from 1970 and 71 (7/8/72 would fit if that year hadn’t been planned last week.). I wouldn’t have been surprised if the 1970 debut show had been played last night; it wouldn’t really have been a “random pick” but would have fit the occasion. |
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Post by skuncle on Jul 6, 2024 5:03:14 GMT -5
July 6-7, 2024: Now let’s go back to this week in 1979 -John Schneider and Tom Wopat - July 7, 1979 (Top 40 Hits Of The Disco era)
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