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Post by freakyflybry on May 22, 2022 1:26:01 GMT -5
Aside from Harry Chapin's "Taxi" and "Bohemian Rhapsody" by Queen, I can't think of any other 6-minute single that was played in its entirety every week it appeared on Billboard's Top 40. Fairly sure, in the case of Harry Chapin, his "Sequel" was also generally played unedited, and it was quite long too.
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Post by dth1971 on May 22, 2022 7:57:22 GMT -5
For the B show of 5/28/1977: Dean "Ariel" Friedman who entered AT40 that week was once considered a crummy name?
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Post by rgmike on May 22, 2022 11:45:31 GMT -5
For the B show of 5/28/1977: Dean "Ariel" Friedman who entered AT40 that week was once considered a crummy name? I think the record company was being sarcastic for the sake of publicity.
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Post by rgmike on May 22, 2022 13:10:07 GMT -5
A couple more observations: Don McLean's "Vincent" appears in both the A and B shows this week. And both Michael Jackson and the J-5 are doing '50s remakes -- Motown jumping on the nostalgia bandwagon for that decade fairly early. That spring I saw the orig off-B'way production of "Grease" as a high school English Lit class trip.
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Post by mkarns on May 22, 2022 22:34:33 GMT -5
Early word on the Memorial Day weekend shows: we have three offerings for each decade, only one of which is a regular weekly show for each.
The regular show: May 29, 1976.
Optional extras:
Hour #1: "Casey talks about 'Waltzing Matilda' by Jimmie Rodgers" (that's what it says on the cue sheet) Hour #2: "Tossin' And Turnin'" - Bobby Lewis (original AT40 extra) Hour #3: "The Twist" - Chubby Checker (original AT40 extra)
The "Waltzing Matilda" story appeared in the original show between #37 and 38. I guess if it's an optional extra the whole song gets played as well?
Special: The first installment of #1 Hits of the 70s, as Ken Martin constructed it, now appearing in three hour installments instead of four hour ones.
Optional extras:
Hour #1: "What's Going On" - Marvin Gaye Hour #2: "We've Only Just Begun" - The Carpenters Hour #3: "Never Can Say Goodbye" - The Jackson Five
And as a further bonus...AT40 from May 23, 1998. (Memorial Day weekend that year.)
Optional extras:
Hour #1: "Closing Time" - Semisonic Hour #2: "You Mean The World To Me" - Toni Braxton (America's Top Hits) Hour #3: "Give Me One Reason" - Tracy Chapman (America's Top Hits) Hour #4: "The Boy Is Mine" - Brandy & Monica
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Post by dth1971 on May 23, 2022 5:55:53 GMT -5
Early word on the Memorial Day weekend shows: we have three offerings for each decade, only one of which is a regular weekly show for each. The regular show: May 29, 1976.Optional extras: Hour #1: "Casey talks about 'Waltzing Matilda' by Jimmie Rodgers" (that's what it says on the cue sheet) Hour #2: "Tossin' And Turnin'" - Bobby Lewis (original AT40 extra) Hour #3: "The Twist" - Chubby Checker (original AT40 extra) The "Waltzing Matilda" story appeared in the original show between #37 and 38. I guess if it's an optional extra the whole song gets played as well? Special: The first installment of #1 Hits of the 70s, as Ken Martin constructed it, now appearing in three hour installments instead of four hour ones. Optional extras: Hour #1: "What's Going On" - Marvin Gaye Hour #2: "We've Only Just Begun" - The Carpenters Hour #3: "Never Can Say Goodbye" - The Jackson Five And as a further bonus...AT40 from May 23, 1998. (Memorial Day weekend that year.) Optional extras: Hour #1: "Closing Time" - Semisonic Hour #2: "You Mean The World To Me" - Toni Braxton (America's Top Hits) Hour #3: "Give Me One Reason" - Tracy Chapman (America's Top Hits) Hour #4: "The Boy Is Mine" - Brandy & Monica And so the 1978 A (standalone) show dry spell still goes on. Maybe 1978 could be the year end countdown for 2022?
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Post by cursereversed on May 23, 2022 10:51:37 GMT -5
WQOK in Greenville, SC played the correct show (1972) last night----but the news updates they aired at the top of the hour were from the previous Sunday!
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Post by matt on May 23, 2022 11:52:47 GMT -5
And so the 1978 A (standalone) show dry spell still goes on. Maybe 1978 could be the year end countdown for 2022? I am thinking that in the 70's series, you will continue to see the 76-78 (3-hour) shows get offered more as B's than A's. Reason being that enough stations are picking those over 1970-75 shows that there are plenty of options to catch the B shows (and maybe even more than the A in some cases). It should be noted that each year from 1976-79 has been offered five times total (counting the coming weekend's 5/29/76 show). By comparison, 1973 and '74 have each had three spins, and 1975 just two so far in 2022. I don't know that the A/B thing makes as much difference as it did 5-10 years ago. Now as far as the year-end special, it's probably too early to make too much of an educated guess, but 1978 wouldn't be a bad choice for the end of this year.
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Post by mkarns on May 23, 2022 13:19:08 GMT -5
1978 has only been the main year end show once, in 2007 before Premiere regularly aired four hour shown and it edited the two four hour halves down into three (that's 50 songs jammed into three hours, something that was never actually done originally.) At the end of 2018 1978 was a B to a 1972 A, with the complete original four hour versions offered with the first hour optional as is done for regular 1978-79 shows, and it may well be time to make that the A this year.
The first weekend of June may be time to break the 1978 standalone drought, with 6/3/78 which has only been played by itself once, in 2012 (it was a B in 2017.) 1971 is the year with the second longest drought, last played in the second weekend of March. 6/12/71 would work well this year, as it's been played as an A in 2010, B in 2013, and never since.
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Post by michaelcasselman on May 23, 2022 15:15:41 GMT -5
For those who caught this last weeks 1977 B show... was this the first they replaced the B side of 'Got To Give It Up' with the correct version? The 2012 Premiere airing had the original mistaken side intact.
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Post by LC on May 23, 2022 16:45:47 GMT -5
No, they played the B side.
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Post by mrjukebox on May 23, 2022 19:04:08 GMT -5
Interesting to note that this week's presentation from 5/29/76 features "The Twist" by Chubby Checker as an optional extra-On this past weekend's presentation from 5/21/77,Casey did an update on Hank Ballard who first wrote & recorded that song-By the way,Ballard passed away at the age of 76 on 3/2/2003-The cause of death was throat cancer.
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Post by lasvegaskid on May 23, 2022 19:11:06 GMT -5
WTOJ's 1976 will be <<<<<< Sunday 9am EDT
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Post by jgve1952 on May 23, 2022 19:58:02 GMT -5
For this coming week's A show--"Sara Smile" sure was a sleeper hit. It is just entering the Top 10 in its 18th week on the Hot 100. It would be the first of many Top 10 hits for the most successful duo in rock history. Had Karen Carpenter not died so tragically early in life, I always wonder if she and Richard would have been the most successful duo.
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Post by mrjukebox on May 23, 2022 21:57:17 GMT -5
While The Carpenters were a dynamic duo,Hall & Oates reigned supreme-H & O had six chart toppers while Karen & Richard only had three.
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