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Post by jmack19 on Sept 21, 2023 21:46:20 GMT -5
I'll go with 10/01/77 over 9/28/74 & 10/02/71 for next weekend. The last time 10/1/77 was the A show was 2016. 1977 has not been featured as an A show since June.
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Post by mrjukebox on Sept 21, 2023 21:47:38 GMT -5
I'll also go with 10/1/77 for next weekend.
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Post by dth1971 on Sept 22, 2023 6:30:05 GMT -5
I'll go with 10/01/77 over 9/28/74 & 10/02/71 for next weekend. The last time 10/1/77 was the A show was 2016. 1977 has not been featured as an A show since June. My guess for next weekend: 9/28/1974 for the A show and 10/1/1977 for the B show.
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Post by at40petebattistini on Sept 22, 2023 11:02:01 GMT -5
For those select few who, in 1970, had access to Billboard magazine *and* followed AT40’s weekend broadcast, they likely enjoyed Casey’s countdown review using the previous week’s Hot 100. Or perhaps accessing a handwritten listing of the prior chart. This may have been a routine practice for those listeners at the time due, of course, to Watermark’s advance chart production.
Just wondering if anyone will stay true to this set-up, having the 9/19/70 chart in hand this week, following Casey’s introductions to each single without spoiling the effect with a peek at the 9/26/70 survey.
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Post by mga707 on Sept 22, 2023 12:33:59 GMT -5
For those select few who, in 1970, had access to Billboard magazine *and* followed AT40’s weekend broadcast, they likely enjoyed Casey’s countdown review using the previous week’s Hot 100. Or perhaps accessing a handwritten listing of the prior chart. This may have been a routine practice for those listeners at the time due, of course, to Watermark’s advance chart production. Just wondering if anyone will stay true to this set-up, having the 9/19/70 chart in hand this week, following Casey’s introductions to each single without spoiling the effect with a peek at the 9/26/70 survey. I used my handwritten list. At that time I only listed the top 30 with full annotation (last week's position and weeks on chart), as 30 songs fit exactly on a sheet of college-ruled notebook paper, with a space between 10-11 and 20-21. #s 31-40 I wrote on the back with just the titles/artists and a 'D' if they were debuts.
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Post by LC on Sept 22, 2023 13:08:53 GMT -5
I wrote down the songs every week in a spiral binder, putting a star next to the debut songs. I kept my lists until Joel Whitburn's Top Pop supplement books came out for the previous year.
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Post by jmack19 on Sept 22, 2023 17:37:59 GMT -5
WQCY (Sun 11 am) goes with September 23, 1978.
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Post by dth1971 on Sept 23, 2023 8:04:49 GMT -5
WXXM Rewind 92.1 FM Madison, Wisconsin is now airing this Saturday morning for AT40: The 70's...the B show of September 23, 1978 (2 weeks before the show went to 4 hours).
Later today I can catch via WVLI Kankakee the A show of September 26, 1970.
For 9/23/1978: How's this for a pairing to start off the show? Dolly Parton's "Heartbreaker" at #40 and Meat Loaf's "Paradise By The Dashboard Light" at #39.
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Post by kani on Sept 23, 2023 11:01:00 GMT -5
11:50am WPNC 1978, #39!
So it started several minutes early!
7 english acts, including 13 foreign acts
Linda Ronstadt's remakes in history songs
first LDD: from Paula (shes from denver colorado) vacation New Mexico, met guy Raoul (hes from california), spent time together summer, later time for goodbye, song heard summer nights, exactly based on their real life
4 remakes Again Casey introed and outroed for Cheeseburger in Paradise, instead of Larry Morgan..
Boogie Oogie Oogie played in longer version, but 2nd verse cut out
So I missed #40... I will try again maybe WPAC? tomorrow 4pm ---------------- WVWP playin Sept 26, 1970 3pm est today 4 English acts; I stopped nearly 3rd hr....
Tomorrow listened remaining 1970 on where fm Credence Clearwater played A song long as I can see the light Mono to stereo conversion
Wpac I listened 1978 4pm, for shortly
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Post by mga707 on Sept 23, 2023 11:05:50 GMT -5
11:50am WPNC 1978, #39! So it started several minutes early! At least 15 minutes early, assuming all seven-or-so minutes of #39 was aired.
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Post by mkarns on Sept 23, 2023 12:02:18 GMT -5
In case anyone was wondering, the Andy Griffith TV show referred to in the 9/26/70 AT40 due to Linda Ronstadt singing the theme song was called "Headmaster", and Linda sang the song "Only a Man". It had just debuted when this countdown was broadcast, but unfortunately it only lasted half a season.
(Incidentally I heard this today while listening to the countdown on WKGX from Lenoir, North Carolina, not far from Andy's native Mount Airy and thus probably Mayberry.)
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Post by mrjukebox on Sept 23, 2023 12:17:25 GMT -5
"Headmaster" was subsequently cancelled by CBS due to low ratings-In early 1971,CBS presented "The New Andy Griffith Show"-They were hoping that viewers would make this show as popular as the original "Andy Griffith Show"-Lightning didn't strike twice & the show was off the network within a few weeks.
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Post by mga707 on Sept 23, 2023 13:07:47 GMT -5
"Headmaster" was subsequently cancelled by CBS due to low ratings-In early 1971,CBS presented "The New Andy Griffith Show"-They were hoping that viewers would make this show as popular as the original "Andy Griffith Show"-Lightning didn't strike twice & the show was off the network within a few weeks. "Headmaster"--13 episodes, September 1970 to January 1971, re-run in summer '71. "The New Andy Griffith Show"--10 episodes, January to May 1971. Both CBS. "New Andy" debuted the week after "Headmaster"s last original episode aired, in the same Friday 8:30-9:00ET time slot. Doubt if either has ever shown up on any form of home video. Griffith would have to wait until 1986 for another hit TV series, when "Matlock" debuted for a nine-season run, 6 on NBC followed by 3 more on ABC. That was one more season than he had spent as Sherriff Andy Taylor on CBS from 1960 to 1968. ...and, who would've guessed, there's a "Matlock 'reboot' in the works. ![;)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/wink.png)
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Post by michaelcasselman on Sept 23, 2023 14:11:38 GMT -5
Listening to the 1970 show on WVWP, H1S1 started right with the AT40 theme instead of the Larry Morgan intro. Aberration, station goof-up, or is that how it got sent out?
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Post by mrjukebox on Sept 23, 2023 14:29:00 GMT -5
I'm thinking that's how Premiere sent the show to the affiliate stations.
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