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Post by kenmartin on May 25, 2015 17:24:27 GMT -5
Well, enjoy an exclusive Part 3 of the 80's #1's. I just realized that hour 2 is WAY too long! How that slipped by me, I'm not sure, but it's about 12 minutes too long. Too late to fix it now for today's airing. Next time around, it will be a little different and the last song WON'T be Madonna Live to Tell. That song, along with Greatest Love of All and West End Girls will be the beginning of Part 4. Consider this a sneek-peek! HA HA! -Ken Well right after the program WTOJ is playing “On My Own”, i guess then they are going to play “Holding Back The Years”, “invisible Touch” and so on... Until Delilah at 7 PM ... I'll play as many more #1's as possible till then.
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Post by Hervard on May 25, 2015 17:46:05 GMT -5
I'll guess that "Venus" will be the last song played.
EDIT: Nope, it was "Higher Love". Then, they played a smooth jazz instrumental - presumably so the regular programming wouldn't run into Delilah.
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Post by kenmartin on May 25, 2015 17:49:32 GMT -5
Thanks for listening to Casey's #1's on Magic 103.1. Here's a small peek inside some of the editing magic needed to make this special happen. This is a picture of the audio editing software. What you see is just 40 seconds worth of audio. This is the beginning of an hour of the show. The bottom line of audio is the hour's opening theme song (called AT40 Theme 7). The line in the middle is the audio for Whitney Houston's "How Will I Know". The top line is Casey's voice tracks. You might notice that the vocal tracks are split up into multiple segments. There are 11 segments there to be exact. That's how many different pieces of audio it took to get Casey to say the following: "This is Casey Kasem on American Top 40 in Hollywood and now we continue our chronological review of all the number 1 songs of the 80s. Now, we're up to February 1986, and as far as we know, a chart first. The first time ever any artist has been replaced at number one by a cousin. In this case, the 2 cousins both grew up in East Orange, NJ. Dionne Warwick falls out of number one with “That's What Friends Are For”, and as she moves out, her younger cousin moves in. The most popular song in America is “How Will I Know.” Whitney Houston." Not all of the edits were that complicated, but there were others more complicated than this example. Just some of the time and effort it took to make this thing happen. I grew up with Casey and felt this was the best thing I could do to honor his memory and the hours I spent listening to him on the radio. -Ken
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Post by maciav on May 25, 2015 19:04:55 GMT -5
I think the montage of all #1 of the decade at the end of part 6 is much too long.Why not play a montage of the #1 single of each year ( year end chart )? I listened to these shows all weekend, and I think they were fantastic. The 252 #1 song montage near the end of Part VI was amazing. I don't think it was too long at all. If one thinks it's too long there is a reason -- it is a 252 song medley. How much shorter could it be? A medley of the #1 songs of the year would be over in a minute-and-a-half. What would the point of that be? I thought everything was perfect -- even the extras. I can't wait to hear the rest of the 80s. Kudos to Ken Martin; you must have the patience of Job. And thanks for making my weekend!!!
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Post by countdownmike on May 25, 2015 21:32:52 GMT -5
Ken - Thanks for this interesting look-see into how you put these amazing specials together. This is the best weekend I've had listening to AT40 overall. We had a huge cookout on Saturday in some great weather. I had your AT40 specials on as the backdrop to the festivities and the reactions were fantastic. Amazing how many 20-somethings react to 70s music and Casey himself. And we baby-boomers were having the time of our lives listening. Thank you for all the labor you put into making life with AT40 so enjoyable. Listening to some of the stories I now realize how much I missed during the original run. May many blessings be bestowed upon you for doing this.
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Post by at40fansince1984 on May 25, 2015 21:58:33 GMT -5
I think we needed a montage of all the #1's of the 80's also. I can't wait for it to be replayed hopefully I can catch all of the 80's.
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Post by matt on May 26, 2015 11:10:15 GMT -5
The Triathlon Special was a fun listen, but did anyone else besides me scratch their head at some of the selections? Some of the artists whose songs I found to be strange:
Linda Ronstadt ("Somewhere Out There" was clearly an attempt to stay "current" at the time--but this song really paled in comparison to so many of her other big hits, and really didn't represent the style of music that most of her hits came from) Michael Jackson (why "Wanna Be Startin' Something"? Of all Michael's hits, seemed weird that they picked this one) Stevie Wonder (I get it--"Part Time Lover" was his biggest hit in the 80's, but not the one I would have chosen among all of the huge hits he had) Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones ("Undercover of the Night"? Really? I like this song, but of all the ones they had to choose from...) Paul Simon (again, I feel like they were trying too hard to stay current since this was Paul's most recent hit, but he had so many others that were much bigger--heck, "You Can Call Me Al" didn't even reach the top 40 upon it's first release) Jefferson Airplane/Starship Medley - Seems like they were too thin on the Mickey Thomas-led Jefferson Starship songs--only "Jane" was included from that time, while I felt like they could have gone with one or two of those songs instead of "It's Not Over ('Til It's Over)"
Just some thoughts--curious if anyone else felt the same way. Overall, a good special however...
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Post by matt on May 26, 2015 11:14:23 GMT -5
As for Ken's #1 hits specials, what a cool thing those are. Ken, gotta say I'm impressed not only with how you've been able to assemble those from so many of Casey's intros, sound bites, etc., but how much time and effort that had to take. I've worked with editing audio files before, and it can be a painstakingly long process (though I am a novice at it--there are probably faster and more efficient ways to do it--it just feels like you can't get around having to go back and listen and adjust multiple times to do certain edits).
The #1's specials I've been able to listen to so far sound great--can't wait to hear them all...
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Post by BrettVW on May 26, 2015 11:36:56 GMT -5
The Triathlon Special was a fun listen, but did anyone else besides me scratch their head at some of the selections? Some of the artists whose songs I found to be strange: Linda Ronstadt ("Somewhere Out There" was clearly an attempt to stay "current" at the time--but this song really paled in comparison to so many of her other big hits, and really didn't represent the style of music that most of her hits came from) Michael Jackson (why "Wanna Be Startin' Something"? Of all Michael's hits, seemed weird that they picked this one) Stevie Wonder (I get it--"Part Time Lover" was his biggest hit in the 80's, but not the one I would have chosen among all of the huge hits he had) Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones ("Undercover of the Night"? Really? I like this song, but of all the ones they had to choose from...) Paul Simon (again, I feel like they were trying too hard to stay current since this was Paul's most recent hit, but he had so many others that were much bigger--heck, "You Can Call Me Al" didn't even reach the top 40 upon it's first release) Jefferson Airplane/Starship Medley - Seems like they were too thin on the Mickey Thomas-led Jefferson Starship songs--only "Jane" was included from that time, while I felt like they could have gone with one or two of those songs instead of "It's Not Over ('Til It's Over)" Just some thoughts--curious if anyone else felt the same way. Overall, a good special however... I agree wholeheartedly. I heard that show a while ago, and I thought it was a great idea with on execution. It truly could have been a show chock-full of hits but the song selection many times left me scratching my head.
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Post by Deleted on May 26, 2015 13:53:15 GMT -5
I hated that show. Thank you for allowing me to go in depth on my views of it.
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Post by Deleted on May 26, 2015 13:54:54 GMT -5
I think we needed a montage of all the #1's of the 80's also. I can't wait for it to be replayed hopefully I can catch all of the 80's. I think there's another part coming. This didn't go through 88 did it?
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Post by matt on May 26, 2015 15:36:04 GMT -5
I hated that show. Thank you for allowing me to go in depth on my views of it. Hi paul--good to have you back! Not sure if you ever really left, but haven't seen many posts lately...
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Post by michaelcasselman on May 26, 2015 16:24:23 GMT -5
I think we needed a montage of all the #1's of the 80's also. I can't wait for it to be replayed hopefully I can catch all of the 80's. I think there's another part coming. This didn't go through 88 did it? Part 3 of the 80's only goes to early/mid 86, so there will be at least one more part.
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Post by kenmartin on May 26, 2015 18:42:44 GMT -5
I think there's another part coming. This didn't go through 88 did it? Part 3 of the 80's only goes to early/mid 86, so there will be at least one more part. Probably 2 more parts. There are about 70 records left until the end of the classic Casey AT40 era. At 10 songs / hour (which is what's it's averaging since there are SOOOO many stories Casey tells) that would be 7 hours. That would certianly leave room for a montage of #1's. If I need to, I might even go back and rework the first 3 parts to put yearly montages in there as well (like in the 70's version). Watch this space.
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Post by 80sat40fan on May 26, 2015 19:44:53 GMT -5
The Triathlon Special was a fun listen, but did anyone else besides me scratch their head at some of the selections? (edit) --curious if anyone else felt the same way. Overall, a good special however... I agree wholeheartedly. I heard that show a while ago, and I thought it was a great idea with on execution. It truly could have been a show chock-full of hits but the song selection many times left me scratching my head. I can see why AT40 selected the songs they did, spare a couple of choices. In the 70s and even early 80s, it was not uncommon for Top 40 stations to go back 5 or 10 years for oldies. By 1983 and MTV, anything before 1980 seemed ancient so for a 1988 show, I could see featuring songs popular within the last few years like "Somewhere Out There" or "Part-Time Lover". Fans here probably would have rather heard "You're No Good" or "Sir Duke" but would the typical Top 40 listener of 1988 wanted to hear those tunes along with the latest from Duran Duran, Prince or Madonna? Probably not. I liked the show overall. It's interesting that there were special shows through 1981, then a dry spell of a few years in the mid 80s, and then a few specials for 87 and 88.
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