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Post by Mike on Jun 23, 2023 22:43:20 GMT -5
Now playing on the app:
June 28, 1986 June 30, 1990 (Hottest Hits of Summer special) June 24, 2006 (captioned as July 1, but a regular countdown with a Sure Shot of "Ain't No Other Man" is playing - July 1 was also a special)
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Post by mitchm on Jun 24, 2023 12:04:13 GMT -5
WBEL Mostly90s.com is playing 06/27/92 today. The sure shot is "The One" by Elton John. This is the 8th airing of this show in retro-Dees with the most recent one being 06/27/2021r.
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Post by Mike on Jun 25, 2023 19:04:38 GMT -5
Tonight on KKMK: Back on the normal schedule as expected, it's 6/30/2001, for its 4th time.
Incidentally - because 6/16 was last week and because the Top 5 all held in place the following week, listening to the Top 5 recap made it not immediately a slam dunk that it'd be 6/30.
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Post by Mike on Jun 25, 2023 23:11:35 GMT -5
"Freaky Girl" had a rare example of someone else's voice giving the number right before the song started, with no other identifying information (so basically, a No Nuttin') - unless you count the segment beginning with shout-outs from Willa Ford, Dante Thomas, and Shaggy. Incidentally, "Freaky Girl" and "Miss California" tied in spins on the R&R chart, but this time it's clear that the stations tiebreaker was the decider, as Shaggy had the bigger spin gain. Clearly, the tiebreaker didn't change until Mediabase re-oriented the chart in mid-August (spinning off the smaller stations to the separate Indicator chart). As it happens, though, this would be a week where Rick didn't switch any two songs that were otherwise next to each other - the only chart-changing he did was deleting "Put it on Me" at #32 and slotting "The Way You Want Me To" in at #38 (thus pushing the ACTUAL #38 through #33 each up one). Despite more and more hip-hop now being let in (Rick clearly seeing where Pop as a whole was going...), he never put "Put it on Me" in - and because that would hold on to recurrency, it would continue to affect Hour 1 of the countdown for two of the next three weeks (7/7 being an all-request). As for other "No Nuttin' ", with not even a number before the song, that could be found at (the fittingly-titled) "Mad Season" as well as "Here's to the Night". Right before the latter, to start Hour 3, "I Knew I Loved You" was requested - but the nature of the request basically made it a "rip-off LDD", as Rick would do from time to time (apparently still). As it happens, the show with ACTUAL LDDs had one directly inside the countdown this same week ("There You'll Be"). Also, unlike last week with 6/16, he didn't skip a song to fit it in - actually, nothing got skipped this week. Incidentally, that first segment in Hour 3 was a four-song segment, which was practically unheard-of for the Weekly Top 40 to do up until a certain point - I don't think I've heard a show with one dated any earlier than 2005/06 or so. During "Play", "play that s**t" could clearly be heard at the end of the second verse. "Rush Rush" had a droppiece played both last week for 6/16 (for the birthday #1s, of which 1991 was one) and this week, as here Rick played pieces of Fourth of July #1s from 10, 5, 4, 3, 2, and a year ago.
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Post by mitchm on Jun 29, 2023 17:09:17 GMT -5
KDGL TheEagle1069.com is playing 07/05/86 today. The sure shot is "Edge of Heaven" by Wham. This is the 5th airing of this show in retro-Dees with the most recent being 07/02/2022r.
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Post by Mike on Jun 30, 2023 17:00:13 GMT -5
Now playing on the app (yes, already): July 4, 1987 (hope y'all like that date this weekend!) July 8, 1995 July 7, 2001 (all-request special) While I'm annoyed that the first time that the app plays 2001 in nearly 5 months showcases an all-request special - this one at least is one that they haven't yet done. Separately, it also means that Dees 2K should be all-request this weekend, as KKMK should be doing the 2004 one from this weekend.
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Post by mitchm on Jul 1, 2023 12:05:55 GMT -5
WBEL Mostly90s.com is playing 07/03/93 today. The sure shot is "Will You Be There" by Michael Jackson. This is the 11th airing of this show in retro-Dees with the most recent being 07/02/2022r.
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Post by dth1971 on Jul 1, 2023 12:09:28 GMT -5
WBEL Mostly90s.com is playing 07/03/93 today. The sure shot is "Will You Be There" by Michael Jackson. This is the 11th airing of this show in retro-Dees with the most recent being 07/02/2022r. And Rick skipped playing the #40 song of "Whoomp! There It Is" by Tag Team for an extra of Mariah Carey's version of the Jackson 5's "I'll Be There"? The weekend of 7/3/1993 was the same weekend where in Chicago WBBM B-96 FM dropped Casey's Top 40 in favor of the short lived "The Retro Show", well, WBUS 99.9 FM Kankakee, Illinois was still carrying CT40 and you did get to hear Casey play "Whoomp! There It Is" at #40 that 7/3/1993 week. Rick also skipped but mentioned the #38 song of "Don't Take Away My Heaven" by Aaron Neville in favor of a request of a 1983 Culture Club song of "Time (Clock of the Heart)".
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Post by Mike on Jul 2, 2023 19:02:31 GMT -5
Separately, it also means that Dees 2K should be all-request this weekend, as KKMK should be doing the 2004 one from this weekend. And so it is: This being the 3rd time that's been played.
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Post by bellbm on Jul 4, 2023 1:02:09 GMT -5
WBEL Mostly90s.com is playing 07/03/93 today. The sure shot is "Will You Be There" by Michael Jackson. This is the 11th airing of this show in retro-Dees with the most recent being 07/02/2022r. And Rick skipped playing the #40 song of "Whoomp! There It Is" by Tag Team for an extra of Mariah Carey's version of the Jackson 5's "I'll Be There"? The weekend of 7/3/1993 was the same weekend where in Chicago WBBM B-96 FM dropped Casey's Top 40 in favor of the short lived "The Retro Show", well, WBUS 99.9 FM Kankakee, Illinois was still carrying CT40 and you did get to hear Casey play "Whoomp! There It Is" at #40 that 7/3/1993 week. Rick also skipped but mentioned the #38 song of "Don't Take Away My Heaven" by Aaron Neville in favor of a request of a 1983 Culture Club song of "Time (Clock of the Heart)" by Culture Club. Did Casey’s top 40 ever come back to the Chicago airwaves? I moved there in 1999 and Wlit was airing American top 20 AC version, and a year or two later kiss fm started airing American too 40 on Sunday mornings.
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Post by mitchm on Jul 6, 2023 17:10:36 GMT -5
KDGL TheEagle1069.com is playing 07/22/89 today. The sure shot is "Kisses in the Wind" by Nenah Cherry. This is the 4th airing of this show in retroDees with the most recent airing being 07/09/2022r.
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Post by dth1971 on Jul 7, 2023 7:21:35 GMT -5
KDGL TheEagle1069.com is playing 07/22/89 today. The sure shot is "Kisses in the Wind" by Nenah Cherry. This is the 4th airing of this show in retroDees with the most recent airing being 07/09/2022r. July/Summer 1989 was at the time the re-release of Benny Mardones' 1980 song "Into the Night" was charting on Shadoe Stevens AT40 but got shut out of R&R CHR for Rick Dees (and Casey's Top 40 too), but did Rick Dees ever play in a Summer 1989 Rick Dees Weekly Top 40 episode that Benny Mardones song as a sure shot or request?
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Post by dth1971 on Jul 7, 2023 7:23:33 GMT -5
And Rick skipped playing the #40 song of "Whoomp! There It Is" by Tag Team for an extra of Mariah Carey's version of the Jackson 5's "I'll Be There"? The weekend of 7/3/1993 was the same weekend where in Chicago WBBM B-96 FM dropped Casey's Top 40 in favor of the short lived "The Retro Show", well, WBUS 99.9 FM Kankakee, Illinois was still carrying CT40 and you did get to hear Casey play "Whoomp! There It Is" at #40 that 7/3/1993 week. Rick also skipped but mentioned the #38 song of "Don't Take Away My Heaven" by Aaron Neville in favor of a request of a 1983 Culture Club song of "Time (Clock of the Heart)" by Culture Club. Did Casey’s top 40 ever come back to the Chicago airwaves? I moved there in 1999 and Wlit was airing American top 20 AC version, and a year or two later kiss fm started airing American too 40 on Sunday mornings. From March 1994 to the end of 1995 you could get Casey's Countdown and later Casey's Hot 20 via WTMX 101.9 FM Chicago.
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Post by mitchm on Jul 7, 2023 11:49:40 GMT -5
KDGL TheEagle1069.com is playing 07/22/89 today. The sure shot is "Kisses in the Wind" by Nenah Cherry. This is the 4th airing of this show in retroDees with the most recent airing being 07/09/2022r. July/Summer 1989 was at the time the re-release of Benny Mardones' 1980 song "Into the Night" was charting on Shadoe Stevens AT40 but got shut out of R&R CHR for Rick Dees (and Casey's Top 40 too), but did Rick Dees ever play in a Summer 1989 Rick Dees Weekly Top 40 episode that Benny Mardones song as a sure shot or request? My records show that "Into the Night" was never selected as a sure shot. I don't think it was played as an extra either, but I have not heard all the shows in the May to July of 1989 period.
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Post by burcjm on Jul 8, 2023 11:18:13 GMT -5
App has updated.
July 15, 1989 July 11, 1992 July 13, 2002
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