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Post by mellongraig on Mar 6, 2023 22:58:40 GMT -5
Let's hope the last 2 weekends in March are 1977 and 1972 respectively - either which way. Not gonna happen; 3/18/72 was played in 2022 and 3/25 is the Dick Clark guest hoster. I wouldn't rule out 3/18/1972 being a B show this year if... 1979 happens to be the A show. But it doesn't look like it for 3/17/1979 since it was played as a B show in 2021. Maybe 3/24/1979? That last played in 2019 so it could be doable for 3/23 and they choose 3/18/1972 as a B that week. I'd say the weekend of 3/16 we get 3/19/1977... outside chance they go with 3/12/1977 if they go back that far (which I actually think the latter should have been the show featured for this weekend given it was last played in 2016 as a B, and 2012 as an A).
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Post by mkarns on Mar 7, 2023 9:18:01 GMT -5
I think if they were going to play 3/12/77 it would have been next weekend, instead of 3/11/78. (If 1977 is aired the following week we’ll have the now-rare occurrence of three 70s standalones in a row.)
3/12 was of course the show when Casey had to retroactively correct the positions of three songs that had already been played, as Billboard made some last minute chart changes and when he and the AT40 staff found out there evidently wasn’t time to re-record the relevant segments.
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Post by at40petebattistini on Mar 7, 2023 12:50:55 GMT -5
With the recent loss of the last original member of Lynyrd Skynyrd, coincidentally, the group's last Top 40 single appears in this weekend's 3/11/78 program.
And here's a related chart trivia question... What recording acts had the same number of weeks-on-chart for their first and final Top 40 singles? Lynyrd Skynyrd qualifies, with both their debut and last Top 40 hits remaining on the survey for 11 weeks.
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Post by michaelcasselman on Mar 7, 2023 13:19:36 GMT -5
The question was what hit(s) has(have) spent the most weeks at #1 in the 70s. Answer: "Bridge Over Troubled Water", "Joy to the World", "First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" and "Alone Again Naturally" all spent 6 weeks on top. And for anyone that might be curious, this listener question was included in the 2011 airing of 3/6/76. But for some reason, it sounds like they decided to omit it from this airing. Again, why not just replay the show same as last time when all segments from the original show were included? A pointless change that diminishes the quality of the show. I just re-listened to this last week's 3/6/76 show... This sounds like another example of the side effects of reconfiguring the music sets within the show that has been going on over the last few years. Perhaps someone could confirm, but I would imagine that when Premiere originally aired the show, the second hour was probably broken up 26-23, 22-19, and 18-14. A 4 song-4 song-5 song split, and typical of how a 13-song hour was broken up by Premiere. Here in 2023, the same hour was broken up 26-23, 22-17, and 16-14... a 4-6-3 split. In order to preserve the Listener Question as well as any other possible tease and story in that block, they shifted it to the third hour and found a tease-less, story-less place to sneak it in.
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Post by jmack19 on Mar 7, 2023 18:15:11 GMT -5
With the recent loss of the last original member of Lynyrd Skynyrd, coincidentally, the group's last Top 40 single appears in this weekend's 3/11/78 program. And here's a related chart trivia question... What recording acts had the same number of weeks-on-chart for their first and final Top 40 singles? Lynyrd Skynyrd qualifies, with both their debut and last Top 40 hits remaining on the survey for 11 weeks. Jethro Tull - 10 weeks Bread - 13 weeks David Gates - 5 weeks
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Post by lasvegaskid on Mar 7, 2023 18:16:57 GMT -5
And for anyone that might be curious, this listener question was included in the 2011 airing of 3/6/76. But for some reason, it sounds like they decided to omit it from this airing. Again, why not just replay the show same as last time when all segments from the original show were included? A pointless change that diminishes the quality of the show. I just re-listened to this last week's 3/6/76 show... This sounds like another example of the side effects of reconfiguring the music sets within the show that has been going on over the last few years. Perhaps someone could confirm, but I would imagine that when Premiere originally aired the show, the second hour was probably broken up 26-23, 22-19, and 18-14. A 4 song-4 song-5 song split, and typical of how a 13-song hour was broken up by Premiere. Here in 2023, the same hour was broken up 26-23, 22-17, and 16-14... a 4-6-3 split. In order to preserve the Listener Question as well as any other possible tease and story in that block, they shifted it to the third hour and found a tease-less, story-less place to sneak it in. Correct me if I am wrong, but I think Ken has said here before segments of the show get moved around to make it flow better on radio in 2023. His Supersized shows go a step further, last week's 1976 aired commercial free from #40-34! 22+ minutes with no break!!
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Post by michaelcasselman on Mar 7, 2023 19:19:05 GMT -5
As did the non-Supersized version, which also clocked in the same. Hours 2 and 3 each had an extra ~6 minutes each on WTOJ vs. the regular Premiere offering (including a much longer version of the hour 3 extra, 'City Of New Orleans').
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Post by at40petebattistini on Mar 8, 2023 11:38:25 GMT -5
With the recent loss of the last original member of Lynyrd Skynyrd, coincidentally, the group's last Top 40 single appears in this weekend's 3/11/78 program. And here's a related chart trivia question... What recording acts had the same number of weeks-on-chart for their first and final Top 40 singles? Lynyrd Skynyrd qualifies, with both their debut and last Top 40 hits remaining on the survey for 11 weeks. Jethro Tull - 10 weeks Bread - 13 weeks David Gates - 5 weeks An interesting charting contrast between Bread's first and last Top 40 entries. "Make It With You" lasted 10 weeks in the Top 10 (peaking at #1), while "Lost Without Your Love" climbed only to #9, remaining in the Top 10 for just one week.
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Post by mga707 on Mar 8, 2023 12:06:33 GMT -5
"Make It With You" lasted 10 weeks in the Top 10 (peaking at #1), while "Lost Without Your Love" climbed only to #9, remaining in the Top 10 for just one week. Two weeks in the top 10 in Feb '77: #10 then #9.
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Post by at40petebattistini on Mar 8, 2023 12:20:46 GMT -5
"Make It With You" lasted 10 weeks in the Top 10 (peaking at #1), while "Lost Without Your Love" climbed only to #9, remaining in the Top 10 for just one week. Two weeks in the top 10 in Feb '77: #10 then #9. Oops! You're right. Posting without my glasses.
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Post by cursereversed on Mar 8, 2023 13:25:18 GMT -5
As did the non-Supersized version, which also clocked in the same. Hours 2 and 3 each had an extra ~6 minutes each on WTOJ vs. the regular Premiere offering (including a much longer version of the hour 3 extra, 'City Of New Orleans'). I thought 'City Of New Orleans' seemed awfully short when I heard it on WPNC last night.
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Post by michaelcasselman on Mar 8, 2023 14:50:38 GMT -5
As did the non-Supersized version, which also clocked in the same. Hours 2 and 3 each had an extra ~6 minutes each on WTOJ vs. the regular Premiere offering (including a much longer version of the hour 3 extra, 'City Of New Orleans'). I thought 'City Of New Orleans' seemed awfully short when I heard it on WPNC last night. The WTOJ version of that extra segment ran about 5:11, compared to 3:41 on the regular Premiere version.
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Post by matt on Mar 9, 2023 13:08:12 GMT -5
February 10, 1979:Hour #1: "Music Box Dancer" - Frank Mills (#64) Hour #2: "Take Me Home" - Cher (#75; debuted) Hour #3: "Knock On Wood" - Amii Stewart (#51) Hour #4: "I Get Around" - The Beach Boys (original AT40 extra; all other original extras stay in place) Jumping back to last month...so maybe this was answered at some point, but "I Get Around" was left off the AT40 cue sheets and doesn't appear on the 2/10/79 chart on Walt Bailey's Old Radio Shows website either. Was it ever said where that extra was originally placed in the countdown? If I had to guess, I would assume between #7 ("I Will Survive") and #6 ("Every 1's a Winner") -- it would presumably be within the 4th hour and that's about the best place I can find where a song might have been cut out. But just a guess...
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Post by djjoe1960 on Mar 9, 2023 13:46:21 GMT -5
I thought 'City Of New Orleans' seemed awfully short when I heard it on WPNC last night. The WTOJ version of that extra segment ran about 5:11, compared to 3:41 on the regular Premiere version. The single version of that Arlo Gutherie song is about 4 and a half minutes.
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Post by OnWithTheCountdown on Mar 9, 2023 15:34:35 GMT -5
February 10, 1979:Hour #1: "Music Box Dancer" - Frank Mills (#64) Hour #2: "Take Me Home" - Cher (#75; debuted) Hour #3: "Knock On Wood" - Amii Stewart (#51) Hour #4: "I Get Around" - The Beach Boys (original AT40 extra; all other original extras stay in place) Jumping back to last month...so maybe this was answered at some point, but "I Get Around" was left off the AT40 cue sheets and doesn't appear on the 2/10/79 chart on Walt Bailey's Old Radio Shows website either. Was it ever said where that extra was originally placed in the countdown? If I had to guess, I would assume between #7 ("I Will Survive") and #6 ("Every 1's a Winner") -- it would presumably be within the 4th hour and that's about the best place I can find where a song might have been cut out. But just a guess... That's a great guess, cuz you're right. 🙂
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