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Post by jlthorpe on Jun 8, 2011 9:39:25 GMT -5
How about:
*First show where Casey tried predicting next week's #1 (from around 1973)
*First show where Casey announced what dropped out of the Top 40 that week (he did this in the early shows and then resumed it around 1984)
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Post by dukelightning on Jun 8, 2011 9:48:45 GMT -5
I have added the first time he predicted the #1 song. As to when he mentioned the songs that fell out, it cannot be pinned down. It was first started the weeks of 9/12 or 9/19 or 9/26 or 10/3 or 10/10/70. Then it was resumed at the beginning of 1984.
Good firsts to note. Thanks.
I see you are a new member. Welcome to the forum.
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Post by dukelightning on Jun 27, 2011 14:36:16 GMT -5
How about: *First show where Casey tried predicting next week's #1 (from around 1973) *First show where Casey announced what dropped out of the Top 40 that week (he did this in the early shows and then resumed it around 1984) The second item has now been determined. It was at the top of the 10th show in AT40 history, the chart week of 9/12/70. It was resumed on 12/17/83. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 6, 2011 0:27:28 GMT -5
Hi, as far as today´s presentation is one of the AT40 episode ( august 1, 1970), is this the 1st time Casey explains how they do the AT40 chart by those surveys and compilations mentioned before the number 35 song , “MAYBE” – The Three Degrees ?
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Post by dukelightning on Aug 6, 2011 7:38:04 GMT -5
No he did that in the first ever show.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 3, 2011 2:08:52 GMT -5
I dont know if this fact has been mentioned above, today´s show, september 4, 1971, Casey welcomes to a new country to the AT40 family : that is Australia, with the 1st AT40 station there taking the show.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 10, 2012 11:16:44 GMT -5
Well, no exactly in Casey´s era....
AT40 September 7, 1991 Shadoe reads the 1st ever letter of a Long Distance Dedication, from a father to a son, who is one of the members of Color Me Badd.
I adore mi amor is the song played.
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Post by tarobe on Jun 11, 2012 12:58:54 GMT -5
First time chart date was mentioned...................................7/14/73 Although mentioning the chart date was not a regular feature before 1973, Casey first mentioned it twice on the very first show ("for the week ending July 11, 1970.") |
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Post by dukelightning on Jun 11, 2012 15:44:26 GMT -5
Yes the chart date mention is similar to that of other chart #1s. While the chart date was mentioned on the first show, it was not mentioned on a weekly basis until 7/14/73. By the same token, other chart #1s were mentioned for the first time on 4/15/72 but it was not until 9/7/74 that he started mentioning them on a weekly basis. So there are two 'firsts' with those categories.
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Post by baylink on Jun 13, 2012 19:44:33 GMT -5
how could a show aired on July 4th, and presumably in the can by Jun 30th, use a chart dated July 11th?
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Post by dukelightning on Jun 13, 2012 21:04:55 GMT -5
It was not in the can on June 30th. Billboard came out with the chart for their next issue on Wednesday which would have been July 1. I am not sure exactly when the issue was published but it was around the weekend. As many magazines have done over the years, the date chosen for the issue was several days after it was published so that it would appear to be a newer issue than it really was. So the issue in question had a date of July 11 even though it may have been published about a week earlier.
And it took 18 hours for Casey and company to actually get that first show 'in the can'. So it was Thursday the 2nd when it was supposedly finished and then shipped to the 7 stations. BTW, by doing it that way, AT40 was the first source for the top 40 songs because those subscribing to the magazine would not receive it until after the weekend (until May 1971).
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Post by mct1 on Jun 13, 2012 21:51:23 GMT -5
First time artist had 3 songs in top 40...............................2/26/72 (Melanie) How many other times in the classic AT40 era did an artist have three songs in the Top 40? The best known example is probably the Bee Gees in 1978; they had three songs in the Top 40 for eight straight weeks between early February and early April. Diana Ross had 3 songs in the Top 40 for three weeks in November 1980, and New Kids On The Block for one week in November 1989 (NKOTB's three hits were from three different albums, and all were at #20 or below). Did anyone else ever do it? My peak period for AT40 listening was the five-year period between the spring of 1982 and the spring of 1987, when I followed the chart very closely. I am fairly certain that no artist had 3 songs in the Top 40 during that period. Madonna came as close as you can get without actually doing it, though -- the week of 5/4/1985, she had two songs in the Top 40 and a third at #41. Another notable near-miss in that era was the week of 5/28/83, when Michael Jackson had songs at #3 ("Beat It"), #41 ("Wanna Be Startin Somethin") and #42 ("Billie Jean"). |
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Post by mct1 on Jun 13, 2012 22:02:39 GMT -5
How about: *First show where Casey tried predicting next week's #1 (from around 1973) *First show where Casey announced what dropped out of the Top 40 that week (he did this in the early shows and then resumed it around 1984) The second item has now been determined. It was at the top of the 10th show in AT40 history, the chart week of 9/12/70. It was resumed on 12/17/83. When did Casey stop doing it, before later resuming? When I first encountered the Premiere rebroadcasts, I was surprised to hear him announcing the droppers on '70s shows, as my recollection was that he wasn't doing it when I first began listening to AT40 regularly in the early '80s, but had only begun after that. |
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Post by baylink on Jun 14, 2012 15:19:55 GMT -5
And it took 18 hours for Casey and company to actually get that first show 'in the can'. So it was Thursday the 2nd when it was supposedly finished and then shipped to the 7 stations. BTW, by doing it that way, AT40 was the first source for the top 40 songs because those subscribing to the magazine would not receive it until after the weekend (until May 1971). So "Chart Date" doesn't actually mean "the date that was the end of the reporting period; it means the much less intuitive "cover date of the magazine issue that contained the chart", which could be as much as 10-12 days later. Got it. |
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Post by tarobe on Jun 15, 2012 0:24:55 GMT -5
Melanie had three songs in the Top 40 in early 1972 ("Brand New Key," "Ring the Living Bell," and "The Nickel Song").
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