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Post by albe on Apr 25, 2011 17:52:26 GMT -5
I know this question may have been answered already..but when did Casey specifically start mentioning the chart date for the AT40 countdown.
I'm guessing somewhere in 1973...any verification guys??
And to anyone recollection did he ever incorrectly gave the wrong chart date. I could be mistaken but I vaguely remember him giving a wrong year for an 80s chart and it was probably closer to the start of a new year.
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Post by dukelightning on Apr 25, 2011 17:57:11 GMT -5
He has given the wrong chart date on a few occasions such as in the 7/10/76 show when he said it was for the week of 7/3/76. Your original question is timely because at least one person on this forum has said it was 4/15/72 that he started mentioning the chart date. If so, we can almost confirm this week on SXM because they are playing 4/19/72.
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Post by dukelightning on Apr 25, 2011 17:58:46 GMT -5
Typo. they are playing 4/29/72.
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Post by albe on Apr 25, 2011 18:05:06 GMT -5
Thanks dukedeb.....Oh and I just finished listening to the final hour of 01/16/82 and Casey closed by saying ONJs Physical #1 for 9 weeks according to billboard magazine for the week ending 01/16/81. Guess he was still in 1981, the start of any new year can create these mishaps I assume ;D.
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Post by Scott Lakefield on Apr 26, 2011 12:01:21 GMT -5
I know this question may have been answered already..but when did Casey specifically start mentioning the chart date for the AT40 countdown. I'm guessing somewhere in 1973...any verification guys?? And to anyone recollection did he ever incorrectly gave the wrong chart date. I could be mistaken but I vaguely remember him giving a wrong year for an 80s chart and it was probably closer to the start of a new year. Pretty sure this happened on the first show (7/4/70; chart date 7/11/70). |
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Post by matt on Apr 26, 2011 13:44:59 GMT -5
Thanks dukedeb.....Oh and I just finished listening to the final hour of 01/16/82 and Casey closed by saying ONJs Physical #1 for 9 weeks according to billboard magazine for the week ending 01/16/81. Guess he was still in 1981, the start of any new year can create these mishaps I assume ;D. Yes - for anyone who listened to the 1/16/82 show played back on January 15/16, 2011, you might remember him saying "1981" instead of '82. And funny enough, he actually did this same thing the very next week on the 1/23/82 show--said "1981" at the end. Also, another show we heard recently--the 3/7/81 show (Premier played on March 5/6, 2011), he gave the chart date as "March 8, 1981" instead of March 7th. Barely a mistake there since it's the same weekend, but the Billboard charts are always dated on Saturdays; March 8, 1981 was a Sunday. |
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Post by matt on Apr 26, 2011 13:47:53 GMT -5
I know this question may have been answered already..but when did Casey specifically start mentioning the chart date for the AT40 countdown. I'm guessing somewhere in 1973...any verification guys?? And to anyone recollection did he ever incorrectly gave the wrong chart date. I could be mistaken but I vaguely remember him giving a wrong year for an 80s chart and it was probably closer to the start of a new year. Pretty sure this happened on the first show (7/4/70; chart date 7/11/70). Thanks Scott--do you know when he started saying the date regularly? Through the first 2-3 years, it seemed like he rarely said it, if at all. I think 1973 or '74 was when he started calling it out each week, but curious to know with which show that started. |
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Post by Big Red Machine on Apr 26, 2011 13:50:19 GMT -5
According to Pete's book, it was 7/14/73.
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Post by dukelightning on Apr 27, 2011 8:15:27 GMT -5
According to Pete's book, it was 7/14/73. My bad, I confused chart date with #1s on other charts. It is the #1s on other charts that may have started on 4/15/72 and should be confirmed this week on SXM with the 4/29/72 show. |
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Post by Big Red Machine on Apr 27, 2011 10:27:09 GMT -5
My bad, I confused chart date with #1s on other charts. It is the #1s on other charts that may have started on 4/15/72 and should be confirmed this week on SXM with the 4/29/72 show. Yes, it was 4/15/72, but it may not necessarily mean that he mentioned the tops of the other charts on 4/29/72. We'll see because there were many 1973 and 1974 shows where he didn't mention the top of the other charts. I don't think he consistently mentioned them every week until late 1974 or so. |
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Post by dukelightning on Apr 27, 2011 16:34:40 GMT -5
My bad, I confused chart date with #1s on other charts. It is the #1s on other charts that may have started on 4/15/72 and should be confirmed this week on SXM with the 4/29/72 show. Yes, it was 4/15/72, but it may not necessarily mean that he mentioned the tops of the other charts on 4/29/72. We'll see because there were many 1973 and 1974 shows where he didn't mention the top of the other charts. I don't think he consistently mentioned them every week until late 1974 or so. Thanks for clarifying. Last year, 8/12/72 and 8/26/72 were played and I don't think he mentioned other #1s. The next 1972 show played was 10/7/72 and he did mention other #1s. I have not heard a show after that date in which he did not mention other #1s. |
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Post by ontheair on Apr 27, 2011 21:49:10 GMT -5
On the 7/4/70 show, when he gave the date as the following week, that's the system that was in place at that time - to ensure that AT40 would reach the stations in time for the broadcast, they used the advance chart information of the following week supplied by Billboard. It wasn't until after an AT40 special in early 1971 that the chart date and air dates would be in synch.
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Post by dukelightning on Apr 28, 2011 8:04:28 GMT -5
It was 40 years ago right now when that change was made. I suppose it would be appropriate if one of the networks played the first show in which the chart date corresponded with the broadcast date which was 5/8/71. Won't be Premiere apparently.
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Post by matt on Apr 28, 2011 9:44:31 GMT -5
Funny, Casey had started providing the chart date after the #1 song long before 1977, but the two '77 shows that we have had this year (1/22/77 and 4/23/77), he omitted the date...coincidence, or did they decide to do away with it for a brief time in early '77?
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Post by Big Red Machine on Apr 28, 2011 10:45:18 GMT -5
Funny, Casey had started providing the chart date after the #1 song long before 1977, but the two '77 shows that we have had this year (1/22/77 and 4/23/77), he omitted the date...coincidence, or did they decide to do away with it for a brief time in early '77? You're right wahoo. I have been noticing that too. He started doing this from August 1976 or so through sometime in the summer of 1977. I'm curious to know why he did this. And why he changed back to mentioning the chart date after the song in later 77, as has always been customary. |
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