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Post by mitchm on Jul 8, 2023 12:04:02 GMT -5
WBEL Mostly90s.com is playing 07/10/99 today. It is an all-request special and the #40 song played is "We Like to Party" by the Venga Boys. This is the 5th airing of this show in retro-Dees with the most recent being 07/09/2022r.
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Post by Mike on Jul 8, 2023 13:30:01 GMT -5
App has updated. July 15, 1989 July 11, 1992 July 13, 2002 1989 is July 8. It's captioned as the 15th, but the Sure Shot is Robert Palmer's cover of "Tell Me I'm Not Dreaming". 2002, meanwhile, is a Hottest Hits of Summer special - first one he'd done since 1993, and since then only 2012 has had one from what I can see. (Worth also noting: 7/6 was also an all-request special, so I think this was the first time he had two straight weeks of non-YE "special"s.)
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Post by Mike on Jul 9, 2023 19:01:03 GMT -5
Tonight on KKMK: 7/14/2001 (co-hosted by Britney Spears), for its 6th time. Or was it really Britney hosting along with the proverbial ghost of Rick Dees? In other words, this sounds like an early example of what he'd frequently later do - sound vaguely like he was there, but in reality he was not actually there, and all his bits were pre-recorded even before the show was then itself recorded. This countdown appears to have not kept up timing with real-time - in other words, they didn't skip a week yet just because the previous week (heard last week on the app) was an all-request. So, Rick is three weeks behind R&R here, rather than his usual two. He either catches back up next week or the week after - by the week after (7/28), he's caught up, but I can't check 7/21 because that countdown is still missing and has not yet been done. My hunch is that 7/28 is the catch-up chart, however, because 7/21 has a Sure Shot of "I'm Real", and that is easily the most-added song of the week on the R&R chart following the one being counted down here (so, it was most-added on the June 29 R&R). Britney referred to Mariah's upcoming movie by its original title, All That Glitters - it had been shortened to Glitter in May. She then says she'd love to work with Madonna (in answering a caller), but with their schedules, she's not sure if it'd be able to work out - as we know, they'd evidently figured it out within the next two years. Was the speedy CD challenge "Oops! I Did it Again", by any chance? I can't quite say with confidence what it would've been just by listening, but with Britney there, my suspicion is that it would've been SOMETHING from her - and "Oops!" is the obvious choice. After never having heard a show with a four-song segment pre-2005 until two weeks ago, now it's two in three weeks - triggered by "Oops!" being played as a time-filling extra in the middle of Hour 3. And then they proceed to build on that by cramming twelve songs into that hour, with none skipped or shortened - gee, they really needed to fill time that hour, didn't they?
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Post by dth1971 on Jul 10, 2023 6:09:54 GMT -5
Tonight on KKMK: 7/14/2001 (co-hosted by Britney Spears), for its 6th time. Or was it really Britney hosting along with the proverbial ghost of Rick Dees? In other words, this sounds like an early example of what he'd frequently later do - sound vaguely like he was there, but in reality he was not actually there, and all his bits were pre-recorded even before the show was then itself recorded. This countdown appears to have not kept up timing with real-time - in other words, they didn't skip a week yet just because the previous week (heard last week on the app) was an all-request. So, Rick is three weeks behind R&R here, rather than his usual two. He either catches back up next week or the week after - by the week after (7/28), he's caught up, but I can't check 7/21 because that countdown is still missing and has not yet been done. My hunch is that 7/28 is the catch-up chart, however, because 7/21 has a Sure Shot of "I'm Real", and that is easily the most-added song of the week on the R&R chart following the one being counted down here (so, it was most-added on the June 29 R&R). Britney referred to Mariah's upcoming movie by its original title, All That Glitters - it had been shortened to Glitter in May. She then says she'd love to work with Madonna (in answering a caller), but with their schedules, she's not sure if it'd be able to work out - as we know, they'd evidently figured it out within the next two years. Was the speedy CD challenge "Oops! I Did it Again", by any chance? I can't quite say with confidence what it would've been just by listening, but with Britney there, my suspicion is that it would've been SOMETHING from her - and "Oops!" is the obvious choice. After never having heard a show with a four-song segment pre-2005 until two weeks ago, now it's two in three weeks - triggered by "Oops!" being played as a time-filling extra in the middle of Hour 3. And then they proceed to build on that by cramming twelve songs into that hour, with none skipped or shortened - gee, they really needed to fill time that hour, didn't they? How many Rick Dees shows played on the app and retro Dees stations to date had guest hosted for Rick Dees shows? I remember one being played from July 1986 back in Summer 2020 with Bruce Vidal guest hosting for Rick Dees.
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Post by Jessica on Jul 10, 2023 17:12:15 GMT -5
Tonight on KKMK: 7/14/2001 (co-hosted by Britney Spears), for its 6th time. Or was it really Britney hosting along with the proverbial ghost of Rick Dees? In other words, this sounds like an early example of what he'd frequently later do - sound vaguely like he was there, but in reality he was not actually there, and all his bits were pre-recorded even before the show was then itself recorded. This countdown appears to have not kept up timing with real-time - in other words, they didn't skip a week yet just because the previous week (heard last week on the app) was an all-request. So, Rick is three weeks behind R&R here, rather than his usual two. He either catches back up next week or the week after - by the week after (7/28), he's caught up, but I can't check 7/21 because that countdown is still missing and has not yet been done. My hunch is that 7/28 is the catch-up chart, however, because 7/21 has a Sure Shot of "I'm Real", and that is easily the most-added song of the week on the R&R chart following the one being counted down here (so, it was most-added on the June 29 R&R). Britney referred to Mariah's upcoming movie by its original title, All That Glitters - it had been shortened to Glitter in May. She then says she'd love to work with Madonna (in answering a caller), but with their schedules, she's not sure if it'd be able to work out - as we know, they'd evidently figured it out within the next two years. Was the speedy CD challenge "Oops! I Did it Again", by any chance? I can't quite say with confidence what it would've been just by listening, but with Britney there, my suspicion is that it would've been SOMETHING from her - and "Oops!" is the obvious choice. After never having heard a show with a four-song segment pre-2005 until two weeks ago, now it's two in three weeks - triggered by "Oops!" being played as a time-filling extra in the middle of Hour 3. And then they proceed to build on that by cramming twelve songs into that hour, with none skipped or shortened - gee, they really needed to fill time that hour, didn't they? If I remember correctly the answer to the challenge “(You Drive Me) Crazy” but I’m often wrong. I would need to listen to it again as I haven’t listened to the show in a few years.
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Post by burcjm on Jul 15, 2023 9:21:45 GMT -5
This week on the app:
July 16, 1988 July 19, 1997 July 16, 2005
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Post by mitchm on Jul 15, 2023 12:08:22 GMT -5
WBEL Mostly90s.com is playing 07/12/97 today. The sure shot is "The Difference" by the Wallflowers. This is the 5th airing of this show in retro-Dees with the most recent being 07/16/2022r. The guest co-hosts are Mike Myers and Todd Newton.
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Post by woody on Jul 15, 2023 15:40:10 GMT -5
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Post by johnnywest on Jul 15, 2023 17:05:59 GMT -5
I think they're playing Oct. 15, 1988 instead of July 16, 1988, just like they did last year. The Sure Shot is "I Don't Want Your Love."
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Post by mitchm on Jul 16, 2023 19:06:13 GMT -5
KKMK is playing 07/20/2002 today. The sure shot is "Ordinary Day" by Vanessa Carlton. This is the 5th airing of this show in retro-Dees with the most recent being 07/16/2022r.
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Post by woody on Jul 17, 2023 2:50:04 GMT -5
I think they're playing Oct. 15, 1988 instead of July 16, 1988, just like they did last year. The Sure Shot is "I Don't Want Your Love." Yep, they sure are playing the wrong show.
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Post by dth1971 on Jul 17, 2023 10:18:40 GMT -5
I think they're playing Oct. 15, 1988 instead of July 16, 1988, just like they did last year. The Sure Shot is "I Don't Want Your Love." Yep, they sure are playing the wrong show. Rare for the Rick Dees app to play a show a few months before or after the current month/date.
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Post by OnWithTheCountdown on Jul 17, 2023 15:15:08 GMT -5
Yep, they sure are playing the wrong show. Rare for the Rick Dees app to play a show a few months before or after the current month/date. Maybe on the app, but certainly not unprecedented when shows were played on his website (not much different, just the source). It's been my biggest frustration with his shows. With any shows from Shannon or Premiere, you know exactly what you're getting.
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Post by shadster on Jul 19, 2023 5:55:05 GMT -5
Its not unusual on a guest hosted show to fill the show w/ more songs then talk just to time it out right.
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Post by mitchm on Jul 20, 2023 17:08:12 GMT -5
KDGL TheEagle1069.com is playing 07/30/88 today. The sure shot is "Don't Be Cruel" by Cheap Trick. This is the 4th airing of this show in retro-Dees with the most current being 07/23/2022r.
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