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Post by mkarns on Aug 28, 2023 17:37:06 GMT -5
More connecting-the-charts trivia… After debuting on last week’s Hot 100 dated August 29, 1973, Bobby ‘Boris’ Pickett’s “Monster Mash” ranks among the Top 40 on this week’s 9/1/73 countdown. MM was #13 on the 8/25/73 H100 Peteski, there was no 8/29/73 chart? I think he meant 1970, when “Monster Mash” briefly recharted at #91. |
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Post by TheOriginalArtist on Aug 28, 2023 21:21:47 GMT -5
"B" show: 9/1/79 www.charismusicgroup.com/Cue%20Sheets/1979-0901.pdfLast played 2018 Extras: Hour #1: "Street Player" - Chicago Hour #2: "Lady Marmalade" - LaBelle Hour #3: "Spooky" - Atlanta Rhythm Section Hour #4: "Please Don't Go" - KC & The Sunshine Band That's strange... the previous week's show from 8/25/79 also has Please Don't Go as an extra... but with a completely different intro by Larry. Lady Marmalade is "another of the number one songs of the seventies", from March 1975. Spooky, like The Monster Mash in the 9/1/73 show "gets a lot of airplay around Halloween" (according to Larry). I guess these two songs being played on shows from September 1st are like the musical version of today's omnipresent pumpkin spice.  |
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Post by TheOriginalArtist on Aug 28, 2023 21:30:36 GMT -5
Awesome!-Another 1979 show-"Street Player" was a track from "Chicago 13"-Unfortunately,it wasn't released as a single. It was sampled on the 1995 dance song by the Bucketheads called "The Bomb". The horns are also sampled on Pitbull's "I know you want me". |
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Post by dth1971 on Aug 29, 2023 7:10:53 GMT -5
"B" show: 9/1/79 www.charismusicgroup.com/Cue%20Sheets/1979-0901.pdfLast played 2018 Extras: Hour #1: "Street Player" - Chicago Hour #2: "Lady Marmalade" - LaBelle Hour #3: "Spooky" - Atlanta Rhythm Section Hour #4: "Please Don't Go" - KC & The Sunshine Band That's strange... the previous week's show from 8/25/79 also has Please Don't Go as an extra... but with a completely different intro by Larry. Lady Marmalade is "another of the number one songs of the seventies", from March 1975. Spooky, like The Monster Mash in the 9/1/73 show "gets a lot of airplay around Halloween" (according to Larry). I guess these two songs being played on shows from September 1st are like the musical version of today's omnipresent pumpkin spice. Don't forget for 1980's pumpkin spice music fans Ray Parker Jr.'s "Ghostbusters" and Michael Jackson's "Thriller". |
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Post by TheOriginalArtist on Aug 29, 2023 10:46:16 GMT -5
Don't forget for 1980's pumpkin spice music fans Ray Parker Jr.'s "Ghostbusters" and Michael Jackson's "Thriller". Sure, there are other Halloween related songs out there, but not in This Week's Show(s). |
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Post by mkarns on Aug 29, 2023 11:43:16 GMT -5
Don't forget for 1980's pumpkin spice music fans Ray Parker Jr.'s "Ghostbusters" and Michael Jackson's "Thriller". Sure, there are other Halloween related songs out there, but not in This Week's Show(s). Going up to the present day AT40, there's Olivia Rodrigo's "Vampire", where she uses the "bloodsucker" metaphor to denounce a former lover. |
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Post by lasvegaskid on Aug 29, 2023 13:57:50 GMT -5
Per Wikipedia,the album version of "You & Me" clocks in at 5:09. Like everything else on Wiki the timing numbers are rarely accurate. |
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Post by lasvegaskid on Aug 29, 2023 13:58:40 GMT -5
KOKZ going w/1973
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Post by michaelcasselman on Aug 29, 2023 14:12:52 GMT -5
Per Wikipedia,the album version of "You & Me" clocks in at 5:09. Like everything else on Wiki the timing numbers are rarely accurate. There's a version I found on Spotify that's listed as 5:06, and there's a YouTube that comes in at 5:08. It probably depends on how much 'fade out' is counted towards the time, but it's in the ballpark, compared to a 3:25ish single version. |
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Post by mga707 on Aug 29, 2023 17:05:45 GMT -5
I know I'm several days late in mentioning this, but KDRI 'The Drive' had their first major screw up on Sunday morning, after one year minus one week of running the show: The show started about 10 minutes late and continued that way through all three hours. After running the final extra right about when the show should have ended had they started on time, they never ran the final segment. No Carpenters/Bread/Edwin Starr.
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Post by mkarns on Aug 29, 2023 17:09:10 GMT -5
Perhaps disappointing some who were looking for the four hour 1979 show. It's true that they just played 1979 three weeks earlier, but in between came back to back 1975 shows. In addition to the regular 70s and 80s show times, as mentioned elsewhere KOKZ will a bonus special from July 1987 (Top Hits of the 80s So Far) on Monday. |
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Post by LC on Aug 29, 2023 21:54:08 GMT -5
Perhaps disappointing some who were looking for the four hour 1979 show. It's true that they just played 1979 three weeks earlier, but in between came back to back 1975 shows. In addition to the regular 70s and 80s show times, as mentioned elsewhere KOKZ will a bonus special from July 1987 (Top Hits of the 80s So Far) on Monday. Maybe WPAC will run 1979. |
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Post by michaelcasselman on Aug 30, 2023 7:38:09 GMT -5
I wouldn't count out WPNC running 1979 as well (Saturday noon and then Tuesday night/Wednesday morning at midnight)
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Post by Dale Latimer on Aug 30, 2023 8:15:22 GMT -5
Do we have a list, in one post, of all of Ken's "Chronological #1 Hits of the 70s"?
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Post by michaelcasselman on Aug 30, 2023 8:41:28 GMT -5
There's been a few versions of the Chronological Hit's of the 70's series. There's the version that Ken testbedded on WTOJ (before the station went online), then the first version of the first couple of 4-hour episodes, then the second version which had a few songs shifted around to better accommodate commercial breaks, and then the final 6-part, 4-hour version. Then a year or so ago they started offering the series again for holiday weekends, this time broken down into 3-hour episodes (which, since I haven't heard this latest iteration, I'm assuming were reconfigured again to accommodate the differences between the commercial breakdowns of 3 and 4 hour shows, Larry Morgan intro/end credits, etc.
ETA: And I might be skipping or missing an evolution of the series somewhere in there. As of Memorial Day 2015, Ken had only gotten up to mid-1982 with the 80's series, but it was 'complete' by Labor Day a few months later, so some of the tinkering may have occurred in that timeframe.
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