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Post by mkarns on Jun 29, 2009 10:58:48 GMT -5
Blah...what a lame weekend from XM. First they run the exact same 70s show as Premiere--and from a year they just did a couple of weeks ago. Then they re-run a 1984 show for the third time this month, which coupled with signal problems last week means I got totally shafted out of the 1981 show played last Sunday.
At least the 6/25/88 show is a fun one.
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Post by at40freak on Jul 1, 2009 13:22:48 GMT -5
Someone in the 70s thread mentioned that 70s on 7 will apparently play the first show EVER from 7/4/70 this weekend!!! What a treat!!!
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Post by steveironcity on Jul 1, 2009 14:48:13 GMT -5
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Post by donwa001 on Jul 2, 2009 21:45:28 GMT -5
Concerning Casey's first AT40 show, last year they skipped a song in the countdown. For whatever reason, they didn't play #15 A Song of Joy - Miquel Rios.
Casey introduces the song, but then it skips to Casey talking about "the great old man who once stopped the Beatles" - Louis Armstrong.
Maybe with this replay, A Song of Joy will be aired.
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Post by dougray2 on Jul 3, 2009 0:54:28 GMT -5
I think that was an error on XM's end. Song of Joy was skipped on the saturday broadcast, but was played on the wednesday repeat. Hopefully it will be played this weekend.
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Post by maheller215 on Jul 4, 2009 11:08:53 GMT -5
July 4, 2009 - SXM 70s on 7 is playing AT40 from 7/4/70 the very first American Top 40 ever!!!!!
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Post by mrjukebox on Jul 4, 2009 11:16:05 GMT -5
Thanks Sirius XM for airing the first "AT40" countdown this weekend.
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Post by snarfdude on Jul 4, 2009 11:49:19 GMT -5
I have it on CD I traded through a collector some years ago, as in 1998 when casey started hosting again, AM/FM at the time issued a CD set to affiliates. mine is a copy, but still great to hear.
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Post by snarfdude on Jul 4, 2009 11:52:32 GMT -5
I might add that in those days, everything was real time recording...or longer depending on screw up, everything was recorded together live as you hear it....what a pain in the ***. until dick clark suggested voice tracking. which is a lot easier on the host and a lot easier to fix a flub that a host may make.
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Post by mrjukebox on Jul 4, 2009 13:30:19 GMT -5
Sirius XM cut out the closing theme for today's countdown.
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Post by vto66 on Jul 4, 2009 19:50:31 GMT -5
Sirius XM cut out the closing theme for today's countdown. That's probably because they ran the fifth-anniversary version of the first AT40 show, instead of the actual first AT40 show. Strange, considering that SXM has been advertising that they would be running the first AT40 show, and the display on my DirecTV gave the date as 7/4/1970. However, after the No. 26 song, I heard a little snatch of the "mellow" version of the hour-close music that AT40 did not start using until 1973. That tipped me off right away that this was NOT the actual first AT40 show!!! I wish I could have heard that actual first show, if only to hear what Casey had to say at the very end of that actual first show. Thanks for nothing, SXM!!!  |
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Post by maheller215 on Jul 5, 2009 6:04:48 GMT -5
July 5, 2009 - SXM 80s on 8 is playing AT40 from 7/3/1982, finally a AT40 show from 1982!!!!!!!
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Post by mkarns on Jul 6, 2009 11:00:32 GMT -5
I enjoyed hearing the first show, for the first time, though I don't get why they cut it off right after Casey outroed "Mama Told Me Not To Come". Even in the 1975 rebroadcast Casey must have said something to sign off, but it wasn't here. No credits, no "keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for the stars" (SXM 7 & 8 usually leave that stuff in even when they don't play the whole theme song), and about five seconds of the theme music.
Still, it was great to hear a bit of history, and they did leave all the songs in there (including "A Song of Joy".) It was also fun to hear a few kinks being worked out; I noticed a couple of spots where Casey paused with an "uhhh", the sort of minor flub that would be edited out in later years, but which here lends to the real-time feel, as if he were broadcasting live.
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Post by pandy on Jul 6, 2009 20:52:38 GMT -5
If I remember correctly Casey does the outro to the original right through "Keep Reaching For the Stars" Then the 1975 Casey cuts in with "Wait.. don't reach yet" (or something like that) then explains what you heard for the past three hours and outcues it with "Now you can reach for the stars" SXM had enough time to play the 1970 closing and "dump" out of it between the two closings or they could mix down the closing theme "in the clear". Don't know why it was dropped after the #1 song.....in my opinion....very inappropriate.. Also the 1975 show had six segments in each hour and the original show had 9 per hour. SXM tried to squeeze 8 in the first hour. As of this post I'm listening to hour 2.
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Post by secretman on Jul 11, 2009 11:00:50 GMT -5
This week XM 70's on 7 is playing 07/10/71
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