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Post by jmack19 on Oct 11, 2021 23:45:18 GMT -5
October 20, 1979 was the A show last year. October 6, 1979 was the A show two weeks ago.
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Post by dth1971 on Oct 12, 2021 5:35:18 GMT -5
This weekend's optional extras: A: October 18, 1975:Hour #1: "Mexico" - James Taylor (#70) Hour #2: "Saturday Night" - Bay City Rollers (#75) Hour #3: "Fly, Robin, Fly" - Silver Convention (#48) B: October 20, 1979:Hour #1: "No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)" - Barbra Streisand & Donna Summer (#59; highest debut) Hour #2: "That's The Way (I Like It)" - K.C. & The Sunshine Band (original AT40 Archive song) Hour #3: "Take The Long Way Home" - Supertramp (#54) Hour #4: "Cool Change" - The Little River Band (#73; debuted) First time in a while a show played last year is played this year, in regards the B show entry. And no "Lady Marmalade" from 1975 in memory of the late LaBelle member Sarah Dash?
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Post by matt on Oct 12, 2021 9:00:05 GMT -5
^Extras are introduced by Larry M. I wonder if Premiere has done that for ALL its special shows? Because we’ve heard Larry Morgan- voiced optional extras for shows like the Disappearing Acts specials, which mostly have music from the 1950s/60s and so aren’t generally offered to 70s/80s AT40 affiliates (with the exceptions of the Christmas shows.) Yeah, you wonder if Premiere is now making several (or all) of the specials available for AT40 subscribers to play at any time. Not a bad idea if so -- since they aren't tethered to a particular date (other than the Christmas specials), they really could be made available for any holiday weekend, etc.
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Post by briguy52748 on Oct 12, 2021 10:11:26 GMT -5
Couple of cringy tearjerkers in that countdown.... 'Rocky' and 'Joey', of course... OK, OK, OK ... what makes "Rocky" a "cringy tearjerker"? I remember the song when I was a kid and always thought it was a good story song. Brian
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Post by briguy52748 on Oct 12, 2021 10:11:43 GMT -5
Oh, blargh. I was hoping to rely on them for the complete 1979 show. (Oddly, they went with both decades' B shows, meaning 1973 and 1987). I wonder if KOKZ skips 10/20/79 for the 2nd straight year? Prediction: They play 1975. Brian
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Post by lasvegaskid on Oct 12, 2021 11:03:45 GMT -5
In a surprise, KOKZ is going with the 10/20/73 show this weekend. Oh, blargh. I was hoping to rely on them for the complete 1979 show. (Oddly, they went with both decades' B shows, meaning 1973 and 1987). KOKZ skips 10/20/79 again and goes with 1975.
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Post by mkarns on Oct 12, 2021 11:04:11 GMT -5
I wonder if KOKZ skips 10/20/79 for the 2nd straight year? Prediction: They play 1975. Brian And you're right. It's possible that WPNC may be the only option for four hour 1979.
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Post by mga707 on Oct 12, 2021 12:06:53 GMT -5
'Rocky' and 'Joey', of course... OK, OK, OK ... what makes "Rocky" a "cringy tearjerker"? I remember the song when I was a kid and always thought it was a good story song. Brian "...Rocky I've never had to die before, don't know if I can do it..." That line, for one. Up there with "Honey" among weepy death songs. I always thought "Run, Joey, Run" had more of a tongue-in-cheek, self-parody 'feel' to it than "Rocky', which went for the pathos. Geddes' follow-up, though, was certainly in the melodramatic mold, IMO: "The Last Game Of the Season".
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Post by Hervard on Oct 12, 2021 13:04:54 GMT -5
Wow, kind of weird that they're offering a 1979 "B" show so soon after the last one. Actually, I was kind of hoping that they would hold off for another few weeks so they could use the November 3, 1979 show as a "B" offering, since that show has yet to be played with the first hour. If they're planning on playing the 11/24/1979 show, I sort of doubt that they'd go with 11/03/1979 as an "A" show as well.
EDIT: Disregard my first sentence - I forgot that 1979 was the "A" show two weeks ago, not the "B" option. What's so weird is how they're using a 1979 show played last year as a "B" show this year. Makes all the less sense that they didn't hold off on that year to play 11/03/1979. Oh well...
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Post by dth1971 on Oct 12, 2021 14:11:28 GMT -5
Wow, kind of weird that they're offering a 1979 "B" show so soon after the last one. Actually, I was kind of hoping that they would hold off for another few weeks so they could use the November 3, 1979 show as a "B" offering, since that show has yet to be played with the first hour. If they're planning on playing the 11/24/1979 show, I sort of doubt that they'd go with 11/03/1979 as an "A" show as well. EDIT: Disregard my first sentence - I forgot that 1979 was the "A" show two weeks ago, not the "B" option. What's so weird is how they're using a 1979 show played last year as a "B" show this year. Makes all the less sense that they didn't hold off on that year to play 11/03/1979. Oh well... There's the Christmas B shows starting either the first or second weekend of November, you know!
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Post by mkarns on Oct 12, 2021 15:26:18 GMT -5
OK, OK, OK ... what makes "Rocky" a "cringy tearjerker"? I remember the song when I was a kid and always thought it was a good story song. Brian "...Rocky I've never had to die before, don't know if I can do it..." That line, for one. Up there with "Honey" among weepy death songs. I always thought "Run, Joey, Run" had more of a tongue-in-cheek, self-parody 'feel' to it than "Rocky', which went for the pathos. Geddes' follow-up, though, was certainly in the melodramatic mold, IMO: "The Last Game Of the Season". Austin Roberts' "Rocky" is pretty maudlin lyrically, but at least the fast tempo keeps it listenable to me. "Run Joey Run" was apparently supposed to be cinematic in its drama, but instead comes of as a cheesy and hackneyed melodrama.
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Post by skuncle on Oct 12, 2021 18:51:46 GMT -5
"...Rocky I've never had to die before, don't know if I can do it..." That line, for one. Up there with "Honey" among weepy death songs. I always thought "Run, Joey, Run" had more of a tongue-in-cheek, self-parody 'feel' to it than "Rocky', which went for the pathos. Geddes' follow-up, though, was certainly in the melodramatic mold, IMO: "The Last Game Of the Season". Austin Roberts' "Rocky" is pretty maudlin lyrically, but at least the fast tempo keeps it listenable to me. "Run Joey Run" was apparently supposed to be cinematic in its drama, but instead comes of as a cheesy and hackneyed melodrama. Years ago I wrote a song to the tune of “Honey”. It takes the guy left behind in “Honey” and the woman left behind in “Billy, Don’t Be A Hero” and paired them up. The song as I wrote it explains how they get together and ends with “And Honey, I no longer miss you, I’m not being good. I’ve no need to be with you. We chopped down that tree and now it’s firewood”.
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Post by mrjukebox on Oct 12, 2021 20:02:33 GMT -5
Never liked "Run Joey Run"-I enjoyed the follow up hit a lot better-That was "Last Game Of The Season".
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Post by mga707 on Oct 12, 2021 20:16:45 GMT -5
Never liked "Run Joey Run"-I enjoyed the follow up hit a lot better-That was "Last Game Of The Season". Opposite for me--"Last Game Of the Season" is one of the worst things ever recorded, IMO. As I said above, "Joey" has a touch of self-parody that I kind of like.
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Post by bobbo428 on Oct 12, 2021 23:43:53 GMT -5
Casey says "I Am Woman" is "the first women's lib song" to make the 40, but Laura Lee's "Women's Love Rights" was in the 40 in the fall of '71. As far back as 1964, Lesley Gore had a top-five hit with "You Don't Own Me." In 1966, Sandy Posey's "Born a Woman sounded like a women's lib song at first but then devolved into a less feminist stance later in the song.
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