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Post by doofus67 on Jan 13, 2024 7:55:32 GMT -5
The 1978 chart for this week was a pivotal moment for me, I was seven years old at the time. I got $1 a week for an allowance. With that I started buying 45’s, the first handful of singles I got were all big this week, “Hot Blooded” was the very first 45 I got followed in the coming weeks by “Kiss You All Over”, “Hot Child In The City” and “Grease”. am curious about how much one of those singles cost back in those days? the lowest price i recall buying in the mid 80s was 1,69 @ Target In the late '70s, a 45 was typically 99 cents to $1.19. |
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Post by 1finemrg on Jan 13, 2024 8:10:23 GMT -5
am curious about how much one of those singles cost back in those days? the lowest price i recall buying in the mid 80s was 1,69 @ Target In the late '70s, a 45 was typically 99 cents to $1.19. Remember going to Sears in the late 60s/early 70s and picking up 45s on sale for 69 cents each. In those days, I wondered why one of my friends would go to Woolworth's to pick up past hit 45s sleeved in plastic bags at 4 for $1.00. Remember seeing a bunch of Atlantic/Stax/Volt hits from the late sixties...Aretha, Sam & Dave, Otis Redding, etc. Also some RCA Guess Who 45s, some of which were recorded at Nimbus 9 studios in Chicago. Ironic that "Living In The Past" is playing as I post this... As Ronnie Wood originally sane on Faces' "Ooh La La". "I wish that I knew what I know now when I was younger". |
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Post by dth1971 on Jan 13, 2024 9:01:32 GMT -5
WXXM Rewind 92.1 FM Madison, Wisconsin is now airing this Saturday morning the A show of January 6, 1973 for AT40: The 70's with mono2stereo conversion by Ken Martin and leading off with that Chuck Berry "Reelin' and Rockin' song at #40. Followed by the #39 song of "Corner of the Sky" by the Jackson 5 which Casey said it's 5-6-7-8 weeks for the song.
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Post by LC on Jan 13, 2024 9:17:13 GMT -5
leading off with that Chuck Berry "Reelin' and Rockin' song at #40. Jeepers, that song seemed to go on forever....  |
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Post by kenmartin on Jan 13, 2024 9:56:48 GMT -5
leading off with that Chuck Berry "Reelin' and Rockin' song at #40. Jeepers, that song seemed to go on forever.... Ran 4:16 and that's an edit of the LP version which ran over 7 minutes long!  |
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Post by LC on Jan 13, 2024 10:55:28 GMT -5
Listening to Austin Roberts' "Something's Wrong With Me," something about it sounded familiar. Then I realized the first two lines of the chorus have a melody that's nearly identical to that of the first two chorus lines of "I Write the Songs."
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Post by doofus67 on Jan 13, 2024 11:01:35 GMT -5
In the late '70s, a 45 was typically 99 cents to $1.19. Remember going to Sears in the late 60s/early 70s and picking up 45s on sale for 69 cents each. In those days, I wondered why one of my friends would go to Woolworth's to pick up past hit 45s sleeved in plastic bags at 4 for $1.00. Remember seeing a bunch of Atlantic/Stax/Volt hits from the late sixties...Aretha, Sam & Dave, Otis Redding, etc. Also some RCA Guess Who 45s, some of which were recorded at Nimbus 9 studios in Chicago. Ironic that "Living In The Past" is playing as I post this... As Ronnie Wood originally sane on Faces' "Ooh La La". "I wish that I knew what I know now when I was younger". I just ran the numbers through the US Inflation Calculator. An item that cost between 99 cents and $1.19 in 1978 would go for $4.63 to $5.56 today. |
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Post by lasvegaskid on Jan 13, 2024 11:40:08 GMT -5
am curious about how much one of those singles cost back in those days? the lowest price i recall buying in the mid 80s was 1,69 @ Target I got a $1 and I seem to recall them being 99 cents. I know I always had to find some change to cover the tax. Yet in 2024 you can get a download for $.99-$1.29. And sales are still way down. You can see why artists and songwriters cry they aren't making any money anymore from sales and they have to split the half a penny they get from every stream. |
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Post by kani on Jan 13, 2024 12:04:26 GMT -5
WPNC is now airing Jan 14, 1978, im afraid i would skip... im very busy at this
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Post by mga707 on Jan 13, 2024 13:16:52 GMT -5
Remember going to Sears in the late 60s/early 70s and picking up 45s on sale for 69 cents each. The K-Mart that opened on my side of town in June 1970 was my 'go to' 45 source in my early '70s pre-driving days. It was within biking distance, 1 and a half miles from my house. Singles there were 74 cents plus a couple of pennies sales tax. Plus, they had a decent selection and I soon learned to bike there on Saturdays after they had received their weekly shipments of new records. Picked up my weekly KTKT Top 40 survey sheet there also. There was a local department store, Levy's, that sold 45s for a dime less than K-Mart (64 cents!) but they weren't 'bikeable' so I had to wait until Mom or Dad was going to the mall (our city's first) that Levy's was in. Warning--off-topic retail store discussion follows: Levy's went through a whole series of buyouts/mergers in the '80s and '90s: Levy's>Sanger Harris>Foley's>Robinson's-May>Macy's. Similar to so many regional store chains during that period. That El Con Mall Levy's location made it through all of those mergers and acquisitions, but Macy's closed it about 20 years ago and the building was demolished/rebuilt and is now a Wal-Mart as that mall has evolved from an old-style enclosed mall to a 'power center' with a Target and Home Depot in addition to the Wally World. again, similar to what has occurred in many places. There is only one Macy's left here now, in a newer, bigger mall that opened in the '80s and is still fairly healthy with only one vacant 'anchor' store--the last Sears here that closed in 2020. They even still have a JC Penney! I did buy some 45s at Sears back then, but they were pricier than either K-Mart or Levy's. Can't recall exactly what they charged, but it was under a buck. |
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Post by rgmike on Jan 13, 2024 14:29:55 GMT -5
"Loggins is a songwriter and Messina is a heavy name in rock", said Casey, explaining to his audience just who L&M, charting with their first hit, were. Interestingly, there was another Loggins on this chart: Dave Loggins, Kenny's cousin, wrote 3 Dog Night's hit "Pieces of April".
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Post by michaelcasselman on Jan 13, 2024 16:30:28 GMT -5
Just noticing that WvWP is going with the B show in the slot they should be doing their A show. They must have flipped their A/B showtimes recently.
Edit: They're actually playing the last 3 hours of the top 100 of 1978
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Post by dth1971 on Jan 13, 2024 18:49:36 GMT -5
All 3 OPTIONAL EXTRAS for AT40: the 70's 1/6/1973 were Casey voiced rather than Larry Morgan voiced. Were they created with Casey Kasem AT40 bits?
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Post by matt on Jan 13, 2024 22:59:14 GMT -5
All 3 OPTIONAL EXTRAS for AT40: the 70's 1/6/1973 were Casey voiced rather than Larry Morgan voiced. Were they created with Casey Kasem AT40 bits? They would've had to be -- more of the latest trend of fabricating extras from bits of other shows. Funny thing, I believe the same songs were played as op extras during the previous airing in 2015, and those would've been Larry Morgan voiced...could've just run with those? |
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Post by dth1971 on Jan 14, 2024 7:38:40 GMT -5
All 3 OPTIONAL EXTRAS for AT40: the 70's 1/6/1973 were Casey voiced rather than Larry Morgan voiced. Were they created with Casey Kasem AT40 bits? They would've had to be -- more of the latest trend of fabricating extras from bits of other shows. Funny thing, I believe the same songs were played as op extras during the previous airing in 2015, and those would've been Larry Morgan voiced...could've just run with those? And this was before A.I. existed. For the Bette Midler "Do You Want To Dance" OPTIONAL EXTRA besides the snippet of Bobby Freeman's version there was no mention or snippet of the 1960's Beach Boys version. |
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