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[jmack19]

I'll go with August 5, 1978 for this weekend.   The last 1978 show aired in May.

[johnnywest]

Aug 8, 2024 22:37:08 GMT -5 jmack19 said:

I'll go with August 5, 1978 for this weekend.   The last 1978 show aired in May.

Good choice! I don't think they've played it since 2008.

[skuncle]

Aug. 10-11, 2024: Now let’s go back to this week in 1978 - Maureen McCormick - August 5, 1978

[mkarns]

Wheel of Casey this week: September 8, 1973.

[mga707]

Aug 15, 2024 20:02:30 GMT -5 mkarns said:

Wheel of Casey this week: September 8, 1973.

Not far off from the current time-of-year 'window'. 'If the spirit moves ya, let me groove ya'...

[skuncle]

Aug. 17-18, 2024: Now let’s go back to this week in 1972 - Gloria Gaynor- August 12, 1972

[mga707]

I think I once heard that Casey spoke or at least understood a bit of Spanish. If that was indeed true, odd that he always mispronounced 'Conquistador'. It's 'con-KEES-ta-dor', not 'con-QUIS-ta-dor', as he always spoke the title of Procol Harem's hit back in '72.

[djjoe1960]

Aug 17, 2024 11:35:36 GMT -5 mga707 said:

I think I once heard that Casey spoke or at least understood a bit of Spanish. If that was indeed true, odd that he always mispronounced 'Conquistador'. It's 'con-KEES-ta-dor', not 'con-QUIS-ta-dor', as he always spoke the title of Procol Harem's hit back in '72.

I think Casey 'mispronounced' the title because that is the way Gary Brooker sang (pronounced) the song title on the Procol Harum hit. It is something that drove me a bit crazy when I did a countdown show that featured the song because I was 'forced' to mispronounce the song title as well. 

[mkarns]

This week's Wheel of Casey: November 6, 1976.

[jmack19]

I'll go with August 24, 1974 for this weekend.  The last 1974 show aired June 1-2.

[skuncle]

Aug. 24-25, 2024: Now let’s go back to this week in 1974 - Alan Parsons - August 24, 1974

[laura]

Tonight's Wheel show is 6/18/77.

[jmack19]

While September 1, 1973 & August 30, 1975 shows are possibilities, I'll go with August 29, 1970 for the weekend.

All 3 shows were aired by Premiere last year.

[skuncle]

Aug. 31/Sept 1, 2024: Now let’s go back to this week in 1975 - Sirius Voice Over - August 30, 1975

[cachiva]

A deep dive, if you'll allow, into The Spinners "Games People Play," which debuts
in the Top 40 this week at #39, its fourth week on the Hot 100. And, Casey notes
"not to be confused with the old Joe South hit of the same name."


Is that what happened? How did it go from "Games People Play" to "They Just Can't
Stop It" the (Games People Play)?





Here is how it first appeared in Billboard, as a Top Single Pick at the end of
July, and in a front cover ad, early in August:






Indeed, on the Billboard Hot 100, it started out as "Games People Play," and was
still called that on the chart when it pushed into the Top 40. It wasn't until
a month later, in its 8th week, that the name change was published:



It changed on the Soul Singles chart, too.





On Billboard's ancillary charts, the change took place even later, not until the
October 18 issue:





And a final note, the title never changed on these charts, through the song's run
until the end of November:





What I was really hoping to find was some Billboard note that the title changed
due to record buyers' confusion over the two titles. I was a freshman in high
school when this song hit, a big record buyer, and had never even heard the Joe
South song! No confusion here!

I couldn't find any concrete evidence of why this happened, anywhere.

Which leaves me with nothing more than 50 years of DJs' anecdotal comments about
the title change (which goes on to this day) and no real confirmation as to why
it took place.