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Post by brianmichaels on Jun 27, 2010 17:09:24 GMT -5
Curious if anyone know if any shows from late 1978 or 1979 will ever play on terrestrial? That's when the show went to 4 hours. The 70s shows are usually slotted for three hours, 80s four hours as we know. Just curious. Thanks!
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Post by BrettVW on Jun 27, 2010 17:46:46 GMT -5
It was done once for the 1979 disco special with the first hour being optional for the affiliates, just like it is done for the 80s show every week. My guess is it will be a rarity, if it ever happens again.
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Post by mrjukebox on Jun 27, 2010 18:28:21 GMT -5
Premiere should consider running those later countdowns.
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Post by brianmichaels on Jun 27, 2010 19:24:01 GMT -5
Late '78 and '79 had some of the best hits and I would love to hear the countdowns with Casey again someday. Premiere could consider editing the programs to remove the previous weeks' top three and the number one hits of the 70s (still 70s I think during this period) to trim the time back to 3 hours.
Who do we petition, sign me up!
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Post by BrettVW on Jun 27, 2010 19:24:27 GMT -5
I'd even be happy if they did it AT40 Flashback style and skipped hour one, with Larry Morgan briefly mentioning that we're "picking up the countdown at #32/31/30/29" at the opening of the show. The last three hours of the shows would be better than nothing at all.
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Post by shadster on Jun 27, 2010 21:06:31 GMT -5
XM is your only hope for these shows.
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Post by jgve1952 on Jun 27, 2010 21:14:19 GMT -5
Only problem is what would the show be called? AT40 the 70s is a 3 hour format, and the show went to a 4 hour format October 7, 1978. AT40 the 80s is a 4 hour format, and includes of course the shows from 1980 to 1988, so I think that might be why we don't have any shows during the period of October 7, 1978 thru December 1979 and agreed we miss alot of good music by Supertramp and Donna Summer to name just two.
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Post by bigal on Jun 27, 2010 23:39:05 GMT -5
And many obscure one hit wonders like Ironhorse, New England, Herman Brood, Bram Tchaikovsy, Chanson, Tycoon, Bells and James, Roger Voudoulis, and lesser tunes by J Geils Band, Boston, Eric Clapton, to last chart appearences by Gene Cotton, Herbie Mann, Thelma Houston, Mary McGregor, Exile, Dobie Gray, Jay Ferguson some not even on CD!
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Post by mkarns on Jun 27, 2010 23:56:59 GMT -5
Late '78 and '79 had some of the best hits and I would love to hear the countdowns with Casey again someday. Premiere could consider editing the programs to remove the previous weeks' top three and the number one hits of the 70s (still 70s I think during this period) to trim the time back to 3 hours. Who do we petition, sign me up! Actually, as mentioned, signing up for SXM would be the way to go, though they've been pretty sparse on playing those countdowns this year (none from December to May). I'm of two minds on the expansion of length; some of the early four hour shows had so many extras that they feel a bit padded to me, but the later three hour ones had so many songs edited down that they sometimes feel chopped up. But since new features, such as the Long Distance Dedications, were being introduced at that time, expanding the show was the right call. (Imagine how the 80s and later countdowns would sound if everything still had to be shoehorned into three hours.) |
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Post by analog80s70s on Jun 28, 2010 1:54:46 GMT -5
+1 That's a giant gap in my library  |
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Post by bestmusicexpert on Feb 16, 2011 15:35:12 GMT -5
I remmber beng annoyed when my directv (which used to carry XM) kept airing 79 shows ad nauseum. It was annoying because alot of times you'd get them every other week!
In my personal collection of XM stuff however, I only count 2 shows so who knows what it is! lol
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Post by matt on Feb 16, 2011 18:04:52 GMT -5
Premier does play the 4-hour shows from 10/7/78 through the end of '79 "Flashback" style (truncating the 1st hour, as they did with the 1/27/79 last month and the 11/3/79 and 12/2/78 shows last fall), with Mr. Morgan introducing the shows with "let's pick up the show at the top of hour #2".
My question is: would Premier ever consider playing the 4-hour shows (or even just the '79 shows) with "AT40 - the 80's", since "the 80's" uses the 4-hour time slot. I know the obvious answer is that well, these shows aren't from the 80's, so they wouldn't play them as part of the 80's series. I would argue though, that many of us that are big fans of the 80's shows began listening back in the late 70's and wouldn't care that the years didn't exactly match up with the name of the series...call me crazy, but I think Premier should strongly consider doing that.
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