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Post by cursereversed on Nov 2, 2023 12:03:10 GMT -5
This week's optional extras: November 4, 1978:Hour #1: "The Gambler" - Kenny Rogers (#84; debuted) Hour #2: "(We're Gonna) Rock Around The Clock" - Bill Haley & His Comets (original AT40 extra) Hour #3: "Y.M.C.A." - The Village People (#68) Hour #4: "Lights" - Journey (#77) "Rock Around the Clock" is the only extra in the original show that wasn't Archives or Long Distance Dedication. It replaces Billy Joel's "My Life" as an optional extra. "Christmas At the Movies", an AT10 from 2005, will be the B. I'm always curious as to how they pick things like that with the extras -- why "My Life" instead of one of the others? Particularly "Lights", which never hit the top 40. My personal preference would've been to see "Y.M.C.A." get the boot. "Lights" is a lot like "Message In A Bottle" by The Police-huge fan favorite (a friend of mine saw Sting in concert a few weeks ago and he opened the show with MIAB) that probably would have been a big hit if the band had already had a track record. Agree with you on both "My Life" and "Y.M.C.A."-that's going to be my bathroom break song this week.
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Post by lasvegaskid on Nov 2, 2023 12:03:51 GMT -5
Going Christmas early gives stations more time to get ratings. It's an absolute proven winner with Nielsen. Some stations can double or even triple their normal listenership during the Holiday. Plus, the Nielsen ratings period usually ends right after the first weekend in December, going early means more weeks of Christmas programming in the "book". It also gives stations an extra month to get holiday money from businesses wanting to spend on advertising. It's all about the mean green. Another reason to be suspicious of rating services. Whenever LVK hears Xmas music before Xmas, it's an automatic channel change. Especially when it is 70 degrees like today. And I've never listened to any of the AT40 Xmas shows.
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Post by jmack19 on Nov 2, 2023 17:04:07 GMT -5
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Post by jmack19 on Nov 2, 2023 21:58:28 GMT -5
9 of the last 10 primary ("A") shows previously aired as the "A" show in 2016 or 2017. 1971 was last featured in July. 11/13/71 last aired in 2016.
Given that, I'll go with 11/12/77 for next weekend. 11/12/77 last aired in 2012.
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Post by TheOriginalArtist on Nov 3, 2023 3:10:45 GMT -5
Ah, yes. The infamous 19-notch leap for a song that stalled 7 more spots higher but should have gone Top 5.... I don't know why this is all that "infamous". Alive Again by Chicago jumped from 40, which is basically like entering the 40 from "bubbling under" status. I think it made that leap up to 21 because of radio airplay based on the band's name recognition and it only climbed two spots each of the following 3 weeks because (I'm guessing) the sales didn't match the airplay. In '78 this brassy song was a bit of an oddball because it wasn't in the current trends of disco, power pop/rock or ballads. Considering the really stiff competition in that year for which the top 100 is packed with standards still played ad nauseum, Top 15 is pretty fortunate if you ask me.
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Post by dth1971 on Nov 3, 2023 8:15:19 GMT -5
If WXXM Rewind 92.1 Madison, Wisconsin doesn't start its all Christmas music sweep this Saturday morning, the station will play 11/4/1978 starting with hour #2.
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Post by cursereversed on Nov 3, 2023 10:24:06 GMT -5
Ah, yes. The infamous 19-notch leap for a song that stalled 7 more spots higher but should have gone Top 5.... I don't know why this is all that "infamous". Alive Again by Chicago jumped from 40, which is basically like entering the 40 from "bubbling under" status. I think it made that leap up to 21 because of radio airplay based on the band's name recognition and it only climbed two spots each of the following 3 weeks because (I'm guessing) the sales didn't match the airplay. In '78 this brassy song was a bit of an oddball because it wasn't in the current trends of disco, power pop/rock or ballads. Considering the really stiff competition in that year for which the top 100 is packed with standards still played ad nauseum, Top 15 is pretty fortunate if you ask me. And Tusk, which we heard on the 1979 "B" show last week, has Alive Again beat. Moved 25 spots after debuting at #40 and stalled 7 spots higher. Also spent one fewer week moving up then Alive Again did. Agree with both of you, though, that Alive Again was just as worthy of the Top 5 as most of the other Chicago songs in the 70's but fell victim to the trends of the year.
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Post by dukelightning on Nov 3, 2023 10:32:33 GMT -5
I've always considered the followup release "No Tell Lover" as a top 10 hit since there were so many disco records above it. Get the number of disco hits back to 1976-78 levels and it's #14 peak turns it into a top 10 hit.
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Post by OnWithTheCountdown on Nov 3, 2023 14:24:08 GMT -5
I've always considered the followup release "No Tell Lover" as a top 10 hit since there were so many disco records above it. Get the number of disco hits back to 1976-78 levels and it's #14 peak turns it into a top 10 hit. That's one of my favorite Chicago hits from the 1970s. Definitely worthy of the top 10.
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Post by djjoe1960 on Nov 3, 2023 15:01:23 GMT -5
I've always considered the followup release "No Tell Lover" as a top 10 hit since there were so many disco records above it. Get the number of disco hits back to 1976-78 levels and it's #14 peak turns it into a top 10 hit. That's one of my favorite Chicago hits from the 1970s. Definitely worthy of the top 10. Both Alive Again (#7) and No Tell Lover (#9) reached the Top 10 in Radio & Records. I am sure the singles did not sell as well but lead to LP sales instead. The album, Hot Streets, did sell over a million copies.
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Post by mga707 on Nov 3, 2023 15:24:39 GMT -5
That's one of my favorite Chicago hits from the 1970s. Definitely worthy of the top 10. Both Alive Again (#7) and No Tell Lover (#9) reached the Top 10 in Radio & Records. I am sure the singles did not sell as well but lead to LP sales instead. The album, Hot Streets, did sell over a million copies. On a personal note, I bought "Hot Streets" the week it was released, just as I had done with previous studio Chicago LPs dating back to '72's 'V'. 'VI', 'VII' (even though it was a double LP), 'VIII', 'X', and 'XI' followed each successive year. Didn't buy 'IX', the greatest hits album, as I had nearly all of the group's pre-72 hits on 45. But "Hot Streets" just didn't 'do it' for me. I guess what I most liked about the band died with Terry Kath. Wound up selling the album to a used record store a year or two later. And I never bought another Chicago LP, although I did eventually get the first 3 albums on vinyl as well as the 2002 "The Very Best Of" 2-disc hits compilation on CD. Also have the remastered 'V' through 'XI' (minus 'IX') on disc, with extra tracks on each.
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Post by caseyfan100 on Nov 3, 2023 20:06:21 GMT -5
KLFM starting AT30 at 9:05 eastern time (U.S) after top of the hour national news and sport update.
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Post by SFGuy on Nov 4, 2023 3:03:21 GMT -5
I'm always curious as to how they pick things like that with the extras -- why "My Life" instead of one of the others? Particularly "Lights", which never hit the top 40. My personal preference would've been to see "Y.M.C.A." get the boot. "Lights" is a lot like "Message In A Bottle" by The Police-huge fan favorite (a friend of mine saw Sting in concert a few weeks ago and he opened the show with MIAB) that probably would have been a big hit if the band had already had a track record. Agree with you on both "My Life" and "Y.M.C.A."-that's going to be my bathroom break song this week.
Maybe they should switch Y.M.C.A. to the Japanese version (this guy also did a version Careless Whisper):
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Post by dth1971 on Nov 4, 2023 7:59:45 GMT -5
If WXXM Rewind 92.1 Madison, Wisconsin doesn't start its all Christmas music sweep this Saturday morning, the station will play 11/4/1978 starting with hour #2. Actually, WXXM Rewind 92.1 FM Madison, Wisconsin went all Christmas music the afternoon of 11/3/1978, I can catch 11/4/1978 via WVLI Kankakee this afternoon.
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Post by mkarns on Nov 4, 2023 10:12:03 GMT -5
Ah, yes. The infamous 19-notch leap for a song that stalled 7 more spots higher but should have gone Top 5.... I don't know why this is all that "infamous". Alive Again by Chicago jumped from 40, which is basically like entering the 40 from "bubbling under" status. I think it made that leap up to 21 because of radio airplay based on the band's name recognition and it only climbed two spots each of the following 3 weeks because (I'm guessing) the sales didn't match the airplay. In '78 this brassy song was a bit of an oddball because it wasn't in the current trends of disco, power pop/rock or ballads. Considering the really stiff competition in that year for which the top 100 is packed with standards still played ad nauseum, Top 15 is pretty fortunate if you ask me. Its fast start and quick stall aren't particularly unusual, but certainly there was reason to think it would end up bigger in light of a move like that. Casey's intro seemed to think so. Also in this show, the cue sheet places an LDD asking for Barry Manilow's "Even Now" in the 4th hour, but Premiere's presentation at least has it in the 2nd.
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