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Post by dth1971 on May 28, 2022 8:11:25 GMT -5
WXXM Rewind 92.1 Madison, Wisconsin is airing in its AT40: The 70's Saturday morning spot instead of the 1976 regular countdown part 1 of the Ken Martin created with Casey bits #1 songs of the 1970's (The Memorial Day bonus special) - Starting with the first #1 song of the 1970's - "Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head" by B.J. Thomas (That was 6 months before AT40 was launched, of course). I thought from some source that this starts with the first #1 on AT40 "Mama Told Me Not To Come". And with it being 3 hours for #1 Songs of the 1970's, is this going to take 3 years during the Memorial Day/July 4th./Labor Day/maybe Halloween periods?
What will WXXM play for tonight's Saturday night AT40: The 80's time slot? Maybe the Top 40 1980's Newcomers special?
I guess I will catch this weekend's 5/29/1976 AT40: The 70's show via WVLI Kankakee later today.
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Post by michaelcasselman on May 28, 2022 8:56:38 GMT -5
The Number Ones of the 70's special(s) have always begun with 'Raindrops". However, now instead of 6 four-hour shows, it appears they're repackaging it as 8 three hour specials {likely to avoid the unpleasantries of having many stations dropping an hour each time due to them not carrying the optional first hour of four-hour shows). All it would take is a slight reconfiguring of the third-hours' commercial breaks.
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Post by LC on May 28, 2022 9:29:08 GMT -5
Coming off a #1 song, Paul Simon's "Still Crazy..." should've been a bigger hit, and I still don't know why it wasn't.
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Post by kenmartin on May 28, 2022 9:38:42 GMT -5
The Number Ones of the 70's special(s) have always begun with 'Raindrops". However, now instead of 6 four-hour shows, it appears they're repackaging it as 8 three hour specials {likely to avoid the unpleasantries of having many stations dropping an hour each time due to them not carrying the optional first hour of four-hour shows). All it would take is a slight reconfiguring of the third-hours' commercial breaks. Toby Petty asked me to make each part 3 hours instead of 4. Of course, I couldn't leave well enough alone and the first part was completely reworked. Many of the Casey stories were changed and the entire show was updated to take advantage of new production tools I've learned since the original airing.
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Post by jmack19 on May 28, 2022 11:26:13 GMT -5
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Post by dukelightning on May 28, 2022 13:12:06 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. But it is those AOR stations and their playing of the Lp cuts of songs like "Magic Man", "Night Moves", "Blinded by the Light", "Carry on Wayward Son" and "Fool in the Rain" among many others that make me used to hearing those versions. So it is always a rude awakening when I hear an AT40 show and the single version which pales in comparison to said Lp versions IMO.
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Post by LC on May 28, 2022 13:43:08 GMT -5
But it is those AOR stations and their playing of the Lp cuts of songs like "Magic Man", "Night Moves", "Blinded by the Light", "Carry on Wayward Son" and "Fool in the Rain" among many others that make me used to hearing those versions. So it is always a rude awakening when I hear an AT40 show and the single version which pales in comparison to said Lp versions IMO. The single edit for another AOR staple, the Who's "Won't Get Fooled Again," is horrendous.
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Post by kani on May 28, 2022 13:45:50 GMT -5
Casey teased for 1976 that there will be upcoming july 4th special.
Chubby Chekker The Twist, story for it, and became a hit in dance style.
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Post by dth1971 on May 28, 2022 15:02:15 GMT -5
And now I tuned into to WVLI Kankakee, Illinois - and the regular AT40: The 70's May 29, 1976 show is airing right now. Just heard Jimmy Dean's spoken word "I.O.U." (originially done in the 1950's but not charted until 1976?), it's kind of touchy and sad, I guess...
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Post by mga707 on May 28, 2022 15:27:03 GMT -5
The single edit for another AOR staple, the Who's "Won't Get Fooled Again," is horrendous. Have that 45. Remember buying it at Kresge's on Labor Day 1971, the day before 8th Grade started. Don't think that I had yet heard the full "Who's Next" track at that time.
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Post by mrjukebox on May 28, 2022 15:47:29 GMT -5
Agree that the single edit on "Won't Get Fooled Again" is horrendous-I prefer the full-length version from "Who's Next".
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Post by dth1971 on May 28, 2022 16:45:40 GMT -5
Also for AT40: The 70's 5/29/1976: Is Johnny Cash's "One Piece at a Time" a CB jargon song in the style of "Convoy" and "The White Knight"?
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Post by mrjukebox on May 28, 2022 18:04:31 GMT -5
On this week's countdown from 5/29/76,Casey stated that Diana Ross was the female artist with the most # 1 songs in the rock era-I'm under the assumption that Casey was just counting her solo hits-I'm inclined to think Mariah Carey is way ahead of Diana-She's racked up 19 # 1 hits.
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Post by mkarns on May 28, 2022 23:07:21 GMT -5
Also for AT40: The 70's 5/29/1976: Is Johnny Cash's "One Piece at a Time" a CB jargon song in the style of "Convoy" and "The White Knight"? Mostly no, except at the end when Johnny talks to the trucker asking about the "psychobilly Cadillac" and says "It's a '49-'50-'51..."
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Post by mga707 on May 29, 2022 0:08:34 GMT -5
Also for AT40: The 70's 5/29/1976: Is Johnny Cash's "One Piece at a Time" a CB jargon song in the style of "Convoy" and "The White Knight"? No. Did you listen to the lyrics? They're pretty easy to understand, as Cash's singing always was. It has zero to do with CB radio, except for the bit at the fade-out that mkarns mentions above.
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