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Post by dth1971 on Dec 19, 2023 6:28:27 GMT -5
No word yet on this weekend's non-Christmas AT40: The 70's show yet? I still hope it is 12/22/1979.
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Post by bm63 on Dec 19, 2023 7:10:14 GMT -5
Per KOKZ's website it's 12/22/1979.
"105.7 KOKZ is your home for classic American Top 40 shows every weekend! This Saturday morning from 8 to noon, join Casey Kasem for the top songs from December 22nd, 1979. Then Sunday morning at 8 we’re in the 80’s for the top songs on December 20th, 1986. And Christmas morning from 8 to noon, join us for a special holiday edition of the show. Classic American Top 40 this weekend on 105.7 KOKZ."
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Post by dth1971 on Dec 19, 2023 7:57:33 GMT -5
Per KOKZ's website it's 12/22/1979. "105.7 KOKZ is your home for classic American Top 40 shows every weekend! This Saturday morning from 8 to noon, join Casey Kasem for the top songs from December 22nd, 1979. Then Sunday morning at 8 we’re in the 80’s for the top songs on December 20th, 1986. And Christmas morning from 8 to noon, join us for a special holiday edition of the show. Classic American Top 40 this weekend on 105.7 KOKZ." Yes! 12/22/1979, but where can you find a station that can play the full 4 hour 12/22/1979 show if not all Christmas music? WVLI Kankakee when it plays October 1978-December 1979 AT40: The 70's shows starts with hour 2 without the first optional hour. And will we hear the correct original 1979 "Pop Muzik" by M to start off hour 2 if not the remix version this time?
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Post by Hervard on Dec 19, 2023 8:22:27 GMT -5
Well, this weekend, it will be official - all Casey-hosted regular American Top 40 shows from the 1970s will have been featured in full.
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Post by michaelcasselman on Dec 19, 2023 8:52:30 GMT -5
Yes! 12/22/1979, but where can you find a station that can play the full 4 hour 12/22/1979 show if not all Christmas music? WVLI Kankakee when it plays October 1978-December 1979 AT40: The 70's shows starts with hour 2 without the first optional hour. And will we hear the correct original 1979 "Pop Muzik" by M to start off hour 2 if not the remix version this time? Well, you could start with KOKZ... WSQL and/or WPNC would be likely to play the show unless they do a last minute flip to all-Christmas for the weekend...
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Post by caseyfan100 on Dec 19, 2023 10:24:46 GMT -5
Per KOKZ's website it's 12/22/1979. "105.7 KOKZ is your home for classic American Top 40 shows every weekend! This Saturday morning from 8 to noon, join Casey Kasem for the top songs from December 22nd, 1979. Then Sunday morning at 8 we’re in the 80’s for the top songs on December 20th, 1986. And Christmas morning from 8 to noon, join us for a special holiday edition of the show. Classic American Top 40 this weekend on 105.7 KOKZ." Yes! 12/22/1979, but where can you find a station that can play the full 4 hour 12/22/1979 show if not all Christmas music? WVLI Kankakee when it plays October 1978-December 1979 AT40: The 70's shows starts with hour 2 without the first optional hour. And will we hear the correct original 1979 "Pop Muzik" by M to start off hour 2 if not the remix version this time? Try WSQL on Thursday night starting at 6 p.m. eastern time. They replay the show on Saturdays starting at 4 p.m. eastern time,but this weekend could be all holiday too. Let's find out.
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Post by briguy52748 on Dec 19, 2023 10:43:02 GMT -5
Can we do optional extra predictions now? For once again, really and truly?
My picks for Dec. 22, 1979:
* "Romeo's Tune" – Steve Fobert. At No. 48 this week, would eventually peak at No. 11. Very catchy danceable song that is somewhat heard on classic hits/oldies radio today ... one of those forgotten chestnuts. * "Crazy Little Thing Called Love" – Queen. Eventually became their first (of two) No. 1 hits. A successful country cover version came via Dwight Yoakam in 1999, his version reaching No. 12 on the Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart. * "Daydream Believer" – Anne Murray. A top 5 country hit and No. 12 pop hit, her famous cover of the Monkees No. 1 hit from (almost) that same week 12 years earlier (1967). * "Message In a Bottle" – The Police. This'n only reached No. 74 on the Hot 100, but I do think this was a big mainstay on classic rock and classic hits/oldies stations. Somehow, you don't have to have it be a big hit initially to be a song that is one of the Police's most memorable.
Backup: "An American Dream" – The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band (during their days when they were known as just The Dirt Band), with backing vocals by Linda Ronstadt. Written by Rodney Crowell, who was one of the biggest behind-the-scenes men at the time. He had produced then-wife Rosanne Cash's first top 40 country single, "No Memories Hangin' 'Round" (a duet with Bobby Bare), and had written two songs just starting to make their mark on country radio: "Leaving Louisiana In the Broad Daylight" by the Oak Ridge Boys, and "I Ain't Livin' Long Like This" by Waylon Jennings, with Rosanne's first solo hit (with Rodney produced), "Couldn't Do Nothin' Right" making airplay as an album track (a few trade magazines, including Radio & Records, actually did track album tracks played on country radio) and released as a single in very early January 1980.
Shalamar's "Second Time Around," Dan Fogelberg's "Longer," and the duet "With You I'm Born Again" by Billy Preston and Syretta Garrett were also future top 10 hits that are possibilities for optional extra status. Might also hear Neil Diamond's "September Morn" (eventually No. 17 on the Hot 100), too.
Anyone else up for Molly Hatchett's "Flirtin' With Disaster"? (Even though it wouldn't make its Hot 100 debut until after the new year, and only peaked at No. 42? I imagine it was getting plenty of CHR and album rock airplay in December 1979.)
So there you have it ... a little bit of my old Country Connections and a look at what was up and coming on pop radio just before Christmas 1979.
Brian
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Post by jgve1952 on Dec 19, 2023 11:33:48 GMT -5
5 out of the Top 6 all #1 records! Hip hip hooray!
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Post by djjoe1960 on Dec 19, 2023 12:06:55 GMT -5
Can we do optional extra predictions now? For once again, really and truly? My picks for Dec. 22, 1979: * "Romeo's Tune" – Steve Fobert. At No. 48 this week, would eventually peak at No. 11. Very catchy danceable song that is somewhat heard on classic hits/oldies radio today ... one of those forgotten chestnuts. * "Crazy Little Thing Called Love" – Queen. Eventually became their first (of two) No. 1 hits. A successful country cover version came via Dwight Yoakam in 1999, his version reaching No. 12 on the Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart. * " Daydream Believer" – Anne Murray. A top 5 country hit and No. 12 pop hit, her famous cover of the Monkees No. 1 hit from (almost) that same week 12 years earlier (1967). * "Message In a Bottle" – The Police. This'n only reached No. 74 on the Hot 100, but I do think this was a big mainstay on classic rock and classic hits/oldies stations. Somehow, you don't have to have it be a big hit initially to be a song that is one of the Police's most memorable. Backup: " An American Dream" – The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band (during their days when they were known as just The Dirt Band), with backing vocals by Linda Ronstadt. Written by Rodney Crowell, who was one of the biggest behind-the-scenes men at the time. He had produced then-wife Rosanne Cash's first top 40 country single, " No Memories Hangin' 'Round" (a duet with Bobby Bare), and had written two songs just starting to make their mark on country radio: " Leaving Louisiana In the Broad Daylight" by the Oak Ridge Boys, and " I Ain't Livin' Long Like This" by Waylon Jennings, with Rosanne's first solo hit (with Rodney produced), " Couldn't Do Nothin' Right" making airplay as an album track (a few trade magazines, including Radio & Records, actually did track album tracks played on country radio) and released as a single in very early January 1980. Shalamar's "Second Time Around," Dan Fogelberg's "Longer," and the duet "With You I'm Born Again" by Billy Preston and Syretta Garrett were also future top 10 hits that are possibilities for optional extra status. Might also hear Neil Diamond's "September Morn" (eventually No. 17 on the Hot 100), too. Anyone else up for Molly Hatchett's "Flirtin' With Disaster"? (Even though it wouldn't make its Hot 100 debut until after the new year, and only peaked at No. 42? I imagine it was getting plenty of CHR and album rock airplay in December 1979.) So there you have it ... a little bit of my old Country Connections and a look at what was up and coming on pop radio just before Christmas 1979. Brian Listening to the 12/22/79 show, Casey calls Prince--Rogers Nelson (implying that Prince is a stage name) at the end of I Wanna Be Your Lover (#22). Of course, I thought Prince was the name of a band and said so when I did a year end countdown way back in 1980 (although, my snafu was only heard on a local station in Eufaula, AL not on a nationwide countdown).
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Post by jmack19 on Dec 19, 2023 16:05:58 GMT -5
For optional extras, I'll go with:
"Voices" "Fool In The Rain" "On The Radio" "Crazy Little Thing Called Love"
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Post by michaelcasselman on Dec 19, 2023 16:18:44 GMT -5
The OE's back in 2011 were: "I Need A Lover" - John Cougar (Mellencamp, #33 that week) "Train Train" - Blackfoot (#38 that week) "Sara" - Fleetwood Mac (#35 that week)
Steve Miller Band's "Rock 'n Me", Rod Stewart's "Tonight's The Night" and the LDD of "Three Times A Lady" by the Commodores were included in the show. Some of this guessing may hinge on whether they use "If You Leave Me Now" by Chicago (the first hour Archives extra) in it's proper place or if they move it to an Optional Extra slot... or if they move any of the other Archives Extras.
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Post by mga707 on Dec 19, 2023 16:59:03 GMT -5
Per KOKZ's website it's 12/22/1979. Typical end-of-year slow chart. Biggest mover, Smokey's "Cruisin'" (NOT from the controversial Al Pacino film of the same name ), only moved up 7 spots.
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Post by mkarns on Dec 19, 2023 20:18:11 GMT -5
Optional extras:
December 22, 1979:
Hour #1: "Heartbreaker" - Pat Benatar (#76; debuted) Hour #2: "99" - Toto (#85; debuted) Hour #3: "Daydream Believer" - Anne Murray (#67; debuted) Hour #4: "Crazy Little Thing Called Love" - Queen (#58; highest debut)
Obviously a new crop of optionals were needed, as the ones used in 2011 were all in AT40's first hour, which wasn't played at all then but is optional now. Apparently all the Archives and other extras will remain in place.
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Post by dukelightning on Dec 19, 2023 21:31:21 GMT -5
Here's what Larry Morgan should say about the first one...'Debuting on the last official chart of the 70s, here is the song that disqualified Pat Benatar from the top Newcomers of the 80s special in 1988, "Heartbreaker". Talk about an anal ruling!
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Post by at40petebattistini on Dec 19, 2023 23:43:56 GMT -5
Bookending chart trivia for the 70s…
The December 22, 1979 survey was the final Hot 100 tabulation for the 1970s. Looking back to the first chart (dated January 3, 1970), there were at least four artists with Top 40 singles on each survey: *Michael Jackson (“I Want You Back” w/Jackson 5 and “Rock With You”) *Stevie Wonder (“Yester-Me, Yester-You, Yesterday” and “Send One Your Love”) *Smokey Robinson (“Point It Out” w/The Miracles and “Cruisin’”) *Dionne Warwick (“I’ll Never Fall In Love Again” and “Déjà Vu”)
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