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Post by dukelightning on May 27, 2022 13:26:24 GMT -5
Conflicting birth dates for him: 2/17/25 (Wikipedia) or 8 years later, 2/17/33 (Whitburn). Wasn't paying close attention, but I think Casey went with the '33 date. Speaking of conflicting birth dates, in the very first AT40 Casey wished a happy birthday to Louis Armstrong and played "Hello, Dolly!" as an extra. At the time Armstrong was thought to have been born on July 4, 1900 (Louis always said so), but baptismal records later revealed his actual birthdate to be over a year later (August 4, 1901). This didn't become known until the mid-1980s, though, so Casey and Don Bustany (who wrote that and other early shows) were simply going by what was known and commonly accepted in 1970. Casey still referred to his birth date as July 4, 1900 in the 80s show this week despite the 1901 birth date being known in the mid-80s.
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Post by mga707 on May 27, 2022 13:29:23 GMT -5
'mkarns' wrote:
Laura Branigan was another chart artist with a 'fudged' DOB. Her bio said July 3, 1957, which is what AT40 probably went by, but after her untimely death in 2004, her true birth year of 1952 emerged. Unknown why she shaved five years off of her age.
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Post by mkarns on May 27, 2022 15:14:41 GMT -5
WPNC will have a “Casey marathon” from 9 AM to midnight Monday. They haven’t yet specified exactly which shows will be played when, but it should probably include the weekend’s specials, the 90s show among them.
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Post by bobbo428 on May 27, 2022 18:59:58 GMT -5
Sounds like that 'Big Fat Woman' knocked ol' Joe off of the dance floor after only about two minutes. This show faded it pretty early. It was a guilty pleasure of mine. in fact, the Joe Tex 45 and Bob Seger's "Mainstreet" were the 45 I bought, 45 years ago today at a locally-owned record store near my high school. I was hoping the Seger tune would be as big as "Night Moves," and it sounded like a top tenner to me, possibly carrying it into August on the countdown. Unfortunately, the tune would lose its momentum on June 4 and plunge out of the top 40 a week later.
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Post by bobbo428 on May 27, 2022 19:21:47 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. Barring a major makeover in the Carpenters' image (similar to Olivia Newton-John in the late-'70s and early-'80s), the Carpenters likely would have been relegated to adult contemporary radio by the mid-1980s anyway. Many soft-rock artists found their hitmaking days ended by MTV's emphasis on youthful sounds and attitudes by 1983-84. The duo (or Karen solo) might have had a comeback power-ballad hit from a movie, probably written by Diane Warren, in the late-1980s or early 1990s, however. It is hard to tell. She wouldn't have turned 40 until 1994, so she might have had AC hits until the mid-'90s or later.
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Post by mkarns on May 27, 2022 19:43:08 GMT -5
Sounds like that 'Big Fat Woman' knocked ol' Joe off of the dance floor after only about two minutes. This show faded it pretty early. It was a guilty pleasure of mine. in fact, the Joe Tex 45 and Bob Seger's "Mainstreet" were the 45 I bought, 45 years ago today at a locally-owned record store near my high school. I was hoping the Seger tune would be as big as "Night Moves," and it sounded like a top tenner to me, possibly carrying it into August on the countdown. Unfortunately, the tune would lose its momentum on June 4 and plunge out of the top 40 a week later. Probably because most were buying the album and not the singles by then? There was a third Night Moves single, “Rock and Roll Never Forgets”, that just missed AT40 (reaching #41) but became an enduring FM/classic rock favorite.
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Post by caseyfan100 on May 27, 2022 19:43:57 GMT -5
Territory FM 104 Darwin,Australia is airing 5-29-76. It started just after 8:30 p.m. eastern time.
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Post by bobbo428 on May 27, 2022 20:11:59 GMT -5
It was a guilty pleasure of mine. in fact, the Joe Tex 45 and Bob Seger's "Mainstreet" were the 45 I bought, 45 years ago today at a locally-owned record store near my high school. I was hoping the Seger tune would be as big as "Night Moves," and it sounded like a top tenner to me, possibly carrying it into August on the countdown. Unfortunately, the tune would lose its momentum on June 4 and plunge out of the top 40 a week later. Probably because most were buying the album and not the singles by then? There was a third Night Moves single, “Rock and Roll Never Forgets”, that just missed AT40 (reaching #41) but became an enduring FM/classic rock favorite. \ Many AOR tunes were like that--"Night Moves" was a big-selling album, as was Seger's next few LPs. "Old Time Rock and Roll," which has received astronomical airplay for decades, only reached #26 or thereabouts. It was the fourth single from "Stranger in Town," probably explaining its lackluster showing on the top 40.
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Post by mkarns on May 27, 2022 20:24:29 GMT -5
“Old Time Rock’n’Roll” originally peaked at #28 in 1979, and #48 in 1983 when reissued after “Risky Business”. The chart positions of course don’t really reflect its long term popularity.
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Post by bobbo428 on May 27, 2022 21:17:49 GMT -5
Aargh! Just as I had feared, my favorite part of Heart's "Crazy On You" (the instrumental interlude) was cut out! Such are the perils of listening to three-hour countdowns from 1975-78. I'll listen to my MP# later as a consolation prize. This was the first I had ever heard of Heart, when I heard this song on the countdown on 5/30/76 on Endicott, NY's WENE.
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Post by mrjukebox on May 27, 2022 21:40:33 GMT -5
I'm thinking that the instrumental opening of "Crazy On You" was deleted by Mushroom Records,which was Heart's label at that time.
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Post by mkarns on May 28, 2022 0:05:56 GMT -5
Aargh! Just as I had feared, my favorite part of Heart's "Crazy On You" (the instrumental interlude) was cut out! Such are the perils of listening to three-hour countdowns from 1975-78. I'll listen to my MP# later as a consolation prize. This was the first I had ever heard of Heart, when I heard this song on the countdown on 5/30/76 on Endicott, NY's WENE. This countdown was Heart's first ever AT40 appearance (and "Crazy On You" only had one more week on AT40). WTOJ will play a "supersized" version of this on Sunday morning, if it helps.
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Post by mga707 on May 28, 2022 0:24:40 GMT -5
I'm thinking that the instrumental opening of "Crazy On You" was deleted by Mushroom Records,which was Heart's label at that time. IIRC the "Crazy On You" 45 was indeed an edit of the more commonly-heard LP cut.
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Post by dth1971 on May 28, 2022 6:10:28 GMT -5
I'm thinking that the instrumental opening of "Crazy On You" was deleted by Mushroom Records,which was Heart's label at that time. IIRC the "Crazy On You" 45 was indeed an edit of the more commonly-heard LP cut. And "Crazy on You" charted again on Billboard's Hot 100 2 years later.
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Post by TheOriginalArtist on May 28, 2022 7:58:11 GMT -5
It was in the mid-70's that AOR stations began to pop up around the country and cuts like Crazy on You found a home there. Other "hard rock" songs from AC/DC, Pink Floyd, Boston, and Led Zeppelin would become standards there before becoming 70's standards on what is now "oldies" radio. AT40 was becoming more pop and less rock (and soul). The fact that You Shook Me All Night Long only peaked at 35 in 1980 while it was a huge hit at the time (but only via the album) and continues to be an "oldies standard" is evidence.
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