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Post by briguy52748 on Aug 1, 2020 14:51:33 GMT -5
The ultimate first date song with an incredibly hot chick – i.e., "Ariel" – still was hanging on in the top 40 this week, in at No. 32.
Here's my picks for extras:
* "It Was Almost Like a Song" – Ronnie Milsap. Just dropped from No. 1 on the country chart, but was really starting to break at CHR stations after eight weeks on the chart by this time. At No. 51 this week, "... Song" eventually peaked at No. 16 and became Milsap's breakthrough pop hit. * "Star Wars/Cantina Band" – Meco. We had the original John Williams and London Symphony Orchestra version just outside the top 40, but the disco-fied take on the year's top movie was making its debut at No. 71 (the top debut on the Hot 100). * "That's Rock and Roll" – Shaun Cassidy.
Brian
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Post by rgmike on Aug 1, 2020 15:44:26 GMT -5
* " It Was Almost Like a Song" – Ronnie Milsap. Just dropped from No. 1 on the country chart, but was really starting to break at CHR stations after eight weeks on the chart by this time. At No. 51 this week, "... Song" eventually peaked at No. 16 and became Milsap's breakthrough pop hit. the first of many "imitation Barry Manilow" records that would chart over the next couple of years.
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Post by rgmike on Aug 2, 2020 18:50:17 GMT -5
Casey's answer to the question "How many TV themes have reached #1?" -- two -- would double in less than a year.
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Post by bobbo428 on Aug 2, 2020 19:30:33 GMT -5
Extra Predictions from 43 years ago:
--That's Rock and Roll-Shaun Cassidy --Boogie Nights-Heatwave --Star Wars Main Title-London Symphony Orchestra
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Post by Hervard on Aug 3, 2020 9:17:53 GMT -5
Casey's answer to the question "How many TV themes have reached #1?" -- two -- would double in less than a year. I was thinking that too when I heard that QL. Yeah, the themes from S.W.A.T. and Welcome Back would both hit the top the following spring.
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Post by jmack19 on Aug 3, 2020 11:03:36 GMT -5
I'll go with:
"Daytime Friends" "Nobody Does It Better" "Keep It Comin' Love"
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Post by kchkwong on Aug 3, 2020 19:37:01 GMT -5
Predictions for the optional extras:
Hard Rock Cafe Nobody Does It Better Keep It Comin’ Love
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Post by at40petebattistini on Aug 3, 2020 19:37:03 GMT -5
Here are the optional extras for August 6, 1977… Hour #1: Nobody Does It Better – Carly Simon *three weeks away from its Top 40 debut Hour #2: "Paper Roses" – Marie Osmond ( briguy52748, how did you miss this one?) *from the “Book of Records” program feature Hour #3: Keep It Comin’ Love – KC & The Sunshine Band *one week away from its Top 40 debut
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Post by rgmike on Aug 3, 2020 19:50:28 GMT -5
Here are the optional extras for August 6, 1977… Hour #3: Keep It Comin’ Love – KC & The Sunshine Band or, "Keep it Common-Law" as many a deejay jokingly called it.
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Post by mkarns on Aug 3, 2020 20:46:51 GMT -5
"Paper Roses" is quite the curveball. I'm guessing (don't remember from when I previously heard it) that Casey cited it in the "Book of Records" due to Marie being the youngest woman and youngest solo artist to hit #1 on the country charts (it hit #5 pop), but he didn't play the full song which was edited in here. Similar to "Peppermint Twist" last week.
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Post by dth1971 on Aug 4, 2020 7:09:59 GMT -5
"Paper Roses" is quite the curveball. I'm guessing (don't remember from when I previously heard it) that Casey cited it in the "Book of Records" due to Marie being the youngest woman and youngest solo artist to hit #1 on the country charts (it hit #5 pop), but he didn't play the full song which was edited in here. Similar to "Peppermint Twist" last week. It wasn't taken from the 1980 AT40 Book of Records special from July 5, 1980, I guess.
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Post by matt on Aug 5, 2020 9:07:05 GMT -5
Prediction for next week's show:
1st Guess - 8/19/72 2nd Guess - 8/18/79
So the thought is that the last unplayed 3-hour weekly countdown will be aired either next weekend or the week of August 22nd. If it doesn't go next weekend, 1979 is the year with the next-longest drought that seems to be available--this show last aired in 2011, when the first hours of 4-hour shows weren't being offered. Oddly enough, the two years in the 70's with the longest 'A' dry spells--1971 and '76 (which hasn't been played since May 9th!)--appear to be off the table for next week. 1973 might have an outside chance as well...
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Post by Hervard on Aug 5, 2020 9:40:56 GMT -5
Prediction for next week's show: 1st Guess - 8/19/72 2nd Guess - 8/18/79 So the thought is that the last unplayed 3-hour weekly countdown will be aired either next weekend or the week of August 22nd. If it doesn't go next weekend, 1979 is the year with the next-longest drought that seems to be available--this show last aired in 2011, when the first hours of 4-hour shows weren't being offered. Oddly enough, the two years in the 70's with the longest 'A' dry spells--1971 and '76 (which hasn't been played since May 9th!)--appear to be off the table for next week. 1973 might have an outside chance as well... What would be neat is if they chose both of the above shows as an A/B pairing, with 1979 being the "B" with Hour 1 optional. That is indeed possible, since, technically, 8/18/1979 has already been played - only as a three-hour show before they began giving stations the option of four-hour shows for that year. That might seem highly unlikely, which IMO it is, but Premiere did something sort of similar at the end of 2018, when the "B" show was the 1978 year-ender in an eight-hour format for the first time, instead of the six-hour version (run in 2007 and 2012) that necessitated heavy butchering for most of the songs, a few of them cut down to almost drop-piece lengths.
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Post by matt on Aug 5, 2020 14:28:42 GMT -5
Prediction for next week's show: 1st Guess - 8/19/72 2nd Guess - 8/18/79 So the thought is that the last unplayed 3-hour weekly countdown will be aired either next weekend or the week of August 22nd. If it doesn't go next weekend, 1979 is the year with the next-longest drought that seems to be available--this show last aired in 2011, when the first hours of 4-hour shows weren't being offered. Oddly enough, the two years in the 70's with the longest 'A' dry spells--1971 and '76 (which hasn't been played since May 9th!)--appear to be off the table for next week. 1973 might have an outside chance as well... What would be neat is if they chose both of the above shows as an A/B pairing, with 1979 being the "B" with Hour 1 optional. That is indeed possible, since, technically, 8/18/1979 has already been played - only as a three-hour show before they began giving stations the option of four-hour shows for that year. That might seem highly unlikely, which IMO it is, but Premiere did something sort of similar at the end of 2018, when the "B" show was the 1978 year-ender in an eight-hour format for the first time, instead of the six-hour version (run in 2007 and 2012) that necessitated heavy butchering for most of the songs, a few of them cut down to almost drop-piece lengths. The first ever true 'B' show airing was in July 2012 (not counting specials or the Dick Clark show), when 7/14/79--played a year earlier in the 3-hour version only--was offered with the full 4-hours. Three months after that, 10/20/79 was offered in full after being aired with hours 2-4 only in 2011. I don't believe Premiere has done that since however. Agree with you though--that would be a nice pairing next week if they so decide.
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Post by briguy52748 on Aug 5, 2020 14:47:35 GMT -5
Here are the optional extras for August 6, 1977… Hour #2: "Paper Roses" – Marie Osmond ( briguy52748, how did you miss this one?) *from the “Book of Records” program feature That was quite a curveball. I never would have guessed the Marie Osmond extra, even if it had been included in the original program as an extra or even as the subject of a listener question. I'll be interested to see what the stretch story is here. For folks that don't know – I only go with songs that were on their way up the Hot 100 chart. Yes, a lot of country crossover (as borne out by past posts) but generally, they are on their way up the chart unless someone notes that other songs are included. (Such as, for the 1980s shows, the 1988 shows that sometimes used songs that peaked in early 1989; or with 1970s shows early episodes where someone indicates that an extra (or more than one) will definitely be used.) Brian
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