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Post by dukelightning on Jan 19, 2024 15:06:03 GMT -5
Listening to hour two of the '79 show and it began and ended with the Reverend Al Green. The first song of the hour was Take Me To The River recorded and co-written by Green. The hour ends with his #1 hit of '72 Let's Stay Together. All 3 hits from the archives were covered by very successful divas, Madonna, Tina and Mariah. |
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Post by dukelightning on Jan 19, 2024 16:03:12 GMT -5
Casey says there are about 8 disco songs in the countdown. It's either 9 or 10 depending on whether "Baby I'm Burnin' is classified as disco or not. The others are by Chic, Village People, Rod Stewart, Hot Chocolate, Earth, Wind & Fire, Cheryl Lynn, Chanson, Gloria Gaynor and Donna Summer by my count. It's resetting the record in this time frame for number of disco songs in the countdown. It reached 10 in 1976 IIRC and then dipped all the way down to one in mid 1977.
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Post by jmack19 on Jan 19, 2024 17:16:41 GMT -5
Anyone have insight on which stations might air the '71 countdown? Likely: Saturday 9 am – WXXM 2 pm - WQMV Sunday 10 am - KXGL 3 pm - WVWP 7 pm - WSMG |
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Post by caseyfan100 on Jan 19, 2024 18:36:16 GMT -5
Territory FM Darwin Australia started the 4 hour '79 show at 6:30 p.m. eastern time.
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Post by jgve1952 on Jan 20, 2024 7:29:42 GMT -5
Sorry I misread Pete's thread where he first mentioned XM doing the 1970 countdown featured in January 1971, and mistakenly thought he was referring to XM doing 1-16-71. My apologies. SXM hasn't announced this weekend'show yet, and while there's a first time for everything (recently they started airing guest hosted shows on the weekends without any special circumstances in play), SXM 7 doesn't usually duplicate Premiere's show so we can likely count out 1971 and 1979. Probably 1977 too as last night's "Wheel" was from that February. I remember one time in 2023 when Premiere and Sirius did the same year, but different weeks. It hasn't happened since that I am aware of. |
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Post by Hervard on Jan 20, 2024 8:24:44 GMT -5
Anyone have insight on which stations might air the '71 countdown? I have the same question about the four-hour version of the 1979 show. Either today or tomorrow (since I should hope we'll be closed today, due to all the snow we got yesterday - not to mention that the roads haven't been plowed yet). |
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Post by dth1971 on Jan 20, 2024 9:01:11 GMT -5
Anyone have insight on which stations might air the '71 countdown? Likely: Saturday 9 am – WXXM 2 pm - WQMV Sunday 10 am - KXGL 3 pm - WVWP 7 pm - WSMG Well, WXXM Rewind 92.1 FM Madison, Wisconsin is now airing this January 20, 2024 Saturday morning...the AT40: The 70's A show of January 20, 1979 starting with hour #2 (#30 - "Take Me To The River" by Talking Heads). Guess WXXM is now trying to concentrate on A shows for AT40: The 70's on Saturday mornings. |
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Post by at40nut on Jan 20, 2024 9:07:51 GMT -5
Yep KLFM and WXXM both went with 1979. Makes me wonder why Premiere even offered a B show this weekend. I guess I'll have to check it out tomorrow morning on that Amarillo TX station.
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Post by michaelcasselman on Jan 20, 2024 11:11:32 GMT -5
The real schism is fewer stations are programming to the early 70's. Stations seem to go with an early-70's show only if it's the A show. Otherwise, more stations are leaning later-70's regardless if that later-70's show is an A or a B.
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Post by lasvegaskid on Jan 20, 2024 11:19:57 GMT -5
With a first hour that includes an AT40 "one week wonder", albeit one of the better known ones from the 70s/80s, Meat Loaf's "You Took the Words Right Out of My Mouth" which makes its only countdown appearance at #39 (and was rather awkwardly edited). I wonder if this an original or Premiere butcher? Surely only 3 1/2 months into the 4hr era, they weren't so pressed for time they needed to take a :40 chunk outta the single? |
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Post by mga707 on Jan 20, 2024 11:32:11 GMT -5
Anyone have insight on which stations might air the '71 countdown? I have the same question about the four-hour version of the 1979 show. Either today or tomorrow (since I should hope we'll be closed today, due to all the snow we got yesterday - not to mention that the roads haven't been plowed yet). WSQL ran all 4 hours on Thursday. Per the '70s station list, they replay it at 4PM ET today. |
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Post by lasvegaskid on Jan 20, 2024 11:35:12 GMT -5
Anyone have insight on which stations might air the '71 countdown? I have the same question about the four-hour version of the 1979 show. Either today or tomorrow (since I should hope we'll be closed today, due to all the snow we got yesterday - not to mention that the roads haven't been plowed yet). Squirrelly radio 4pm EST Ken has already posted WTOJ will have a Supersized 4hrs Sunday 9am EST Doesn't WPNC air Saturday noon EST? Also available right now AT38: ice42.securenetsystems.net/media/WPAC/ondemand/Mornings.m4a |
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Post by caseyfan100 on Jan 20, 2024 11:43:55 GMT -5
WPNC at Noon and WSQL at 4 p.m. eastern time today will have the entire 4 hour '79 show.
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Post by kenmartin on Jan 20, 2024 11:58:27 GMT -5
With a first hour that includes an AT40 "one week wonder", albeit one of the better known ones from the 70s/80s, Meat Loaf's "You Took the Words Right Out of My Mouth" which makes its only countdown appearance at #39 (and was rather awkwardly edited). I wonder if this an original or Premiere butcher? Surely only 3 1/2 months into the 4hr era, they weren't so pressed for time they needed to take a :40 chunk outta the single? Keep in mind the 1979 version of the show had 12 minutes available for commercials per hour. The current version has 5 minutes for the local station along with another 5 for national spots. That's 10 minutes. Then, you have to tack an additional approximately 3:30 for the optional extra. That's 13:30 or 90 seconds longer for commercials and non-original AT40 programming. The version Premiere offers will always need to be edited to fit today's timing constraints. Plus, as an added problem, sometimes the original show actually put incorrect timings. The segments would run longer than what was listed on the cue sheet. Stations would still have that 12 minutes of commercial time, but the hour would run longer than 48 minutes. |
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Post by jmack19 on Jan 20, 2024 12:01:22 GMT -5
Anyone have insight on which stations might air the '71 countdown? I have the same question about the four-hour version of the 1979 show. Either today or tomorrow (since I should hope we'll be closed today, due to all the snow we got yesterday - not to mention that the roads haven't been plowed yet). WPNC just started four-hour version of the 1979 show. ice23.securenetsystems.net/WPNC |
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