1973 Countdowns - Defective discs??

[pandy]

When I transfered my reel to reel tape to CD on the 1973 top 40 year end countdown. Something strange occured on the last hour which would be side 3A on the disc. The recording that was off the air somehow skipped periodically through three complete songs until it came to a rest on the runout groove. The board operator may have put the disc on the other turntable and replayed it again, but still the skipping persisted until he dumped out and went to a commercial., played the 45 version of the songs that were skipped without Casey's voice and resumed the countdown with side 3B. Now to change the subject. I also taped the Top 100 country songs from AT40s young sister American Country Countdown that same weekend from a different station. But I do not remember what hour but the same thing happened in which the volume level got distored enough for the sylus to jump for a couple of songs until it leveled off. Does anyone know or heard of such an occurance.

[bandit73]

I don't recall such spectacular skippage on any airing of a prerecorded program like this, but in the 1980s, AT40 used to skip on the Cincinnati affiliate all the time. Because it skipped during the songs, I used to think the record actually skipped while Casey played it, and that the show went out that way. But once it skipped while Casey was talking, so then I knew it the problem was at the station.

[shadster]

I've never heard a skip to the severity your describing. But I have heard skips occasionally, where the LP would skip an repeat the same groove over an over an over, usually on a song, until the DJ forced the needle past that groove. Once or twice w/ cd's of shows too. In fact I think I heard one not too long ago, but I can't recall if it was Rick Dees or Ryan Seacrest, but it was the song, 'for you I will', it had a hickup for just a second, barely noticible.