|
|
Post by kenmartin on Jan 21, 2024 8:46:06 GMT -5
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. Amazing explanation! Which begs the question... why offer the extras? Is it so those affiliates with healthy commercial loads can have that extra ad time available. Exactly. |
|
|
|
Post by kenmartin on Jan 21, 2024 8:50:06 GMT -5
Whether affiliates use ads, PSAs or music, filling time during AT40 broadcasts goes all the way back to the summer of 1970. As noted in Rob’s book, Watermark produced Casey Kasem-voiced vignettes available to stations interested in rounding out each hour, and completing the show’s professed 3-hour schedule. These tapes contained the *original* optional extras, with the first Watermark release spotlighting Billboard’s number one singles and artists from 1969. This is the first I'm hearing of these. I'm wondering why Shannon hasn't come across these while transferring the original tapes. WKBO in Harrisburg where I worked did have a Casey voiceover that said something like "Lets pause a moment in the countdown for this AT40 extra, one of WKBO's biggest hits." It wasn't attached to any song, just a dry VO. I don't have that in my collection, but I wish I did. |
|
|
|
Post by michaelcasselman on Jan 21, 2024 9:11:35 GMT -5
Whether affiliates use ads, PSAs or music, filling time during AT40 broadcasts goes all the way back to the summer of 1970. As noted in Rob’s book, Watermark produced Casey Kasem-voiced vignettes available to stations interested in rounding out each hour, and completing the show’s professed 3-hour schedule. These tapes contained the *original* optional extras, with the first Watermark release spotlighting Billboard’s number one singles and artists from 1969. This is the first I'm hearing of these. I'm wondering why Shannon hasn't come across these while transferring the original tapes. WKBO in Harrisburg where I worked did have a Casey voiceover that said something like "Lets pause a moment in the countdown for this AT40 extra, one of WKBO's biggest hits." It wasn't attached to any song, just a dry VO. I don't have that in my collection, but I wish I did. Were these 'original extras' on a separate LP or tape sent to the stations? I wonder if any of these survived... stations may have deferred to their own VO talent to introduce songs ^unless* it was within the body of the countdown show, which would have rendered these other extras as superfluous and (unfortunately) dispensible. |
|
|
|
Post by lasvegaskid on Jan 21, 2024 9:39:34 GMT -5
This is the first I'm hearing of these. I'm wondering why Shannon hasn't come across these while transferring the original tapes. WKBO in Harrisburg where I worked did have a Casey voiceover that said something like "Lets pause a moment in the countdown for this AT40 extra, one of WKBO's biggest hits." It wasn't attached to any song, just a dry VO. I don't have that in my collection, but I wish I did. Were these 'original extras' on a separate LP or tape sent to the stations? I wonder if any of these survived... stations may have deferred to their own VO talent to introduce songs ^unless* it was within the body of the countdown show, which would have rendered these other extras as superfluous and (unfortunately) dispensible. These were mainly time fillers since most stations still had live DJs and on a weekend try to get a DJ to come in early. Remember the weekend jock was usually a part timer and/or young guy that might not have gone to bed until 4am. |
|
|
|
Post by cursereversed on Jan 21, 2024 13:15:52 GMT -5
WQOK starting the full 4 hours of 1979. Note that Casey incorrectly says the male lead on "Heaven Knows" is Bruce Sudano; in fact it was Joe Esposito. And a few weeks later Casey aired a correction, courtesy of........Joe Esposito's mother, who was a regular listener. |
|
|
|
Post by mga707 on Jan 21, 2024 13:53:04 GMT -5
I disagree with Casey's answer to a listener letter of the '79 show (just heard it on KDRI). Casey states that 1957's pre-Hot 100 "Wake Up Little Susie" by The Everly Brothers is the biggest duet hit of all time. That song was #1 for 4 weeks on the 'Most Played By Jockeys' chart, but only 2 weeks at #1 on the 'Top 100' and one week on the 'Best Sellers In Stores' chart. All three of these charts disappeared at the time of or shortly after the 'Hot 100' chart began in August 1958.
In 1970 "Bridge Over Troubled Waters" by Simon and Garfunkel spent six week on top of the 'Hot 100'. That is the record that I would have named as the biggest duet.
And that would change about two and a half years later due to a certain single by Diana Ross and Lionel Richie.
|
|
|
|
Post by at40petebattistini on Jan 21, 2024 14:54:59 GMT -5
WQOK starting the full 4 hours of 1979. Note that Casey incorrectly says the male lead on "Heaven Knows" is Bruce Sudano; in fact it was Joe Esposito. Casey corrected this error during the February 17, 1979 show. I disagree with Casey's answer to a listener letter of the '79 show (just heard it on KDRI). Casey states that 1957's pre-Hot 100 "Wake Up Little Susie" by The Everly Brothers is the biggest duet hit of all time. That song was #1 for 4 weeks on the 'Most Played By Jockeys' chart, but only 2 weeks at #1 on the 'Top 100' and one week on the 'Best Sellers In Stores' chart. All three of these charts disappeared at the time of or shortly after the 'Hot 100' chart began in August 1958. In 1970 "Bridge Over Troubled Waters" by Simon and Garfunkel spent six week on top of the 'Hot 100'. That is the record that I would have named as the biggest duet. And that would change about two and a half years later due to a certain single by Diana Ross and Lionel Richie. There was a changing of the guard at Watermark in early 1979. At least 3 key staff members left AT40 and new staff members (or recently new) assumed those duties. It's possible this answer to a listener question went unchecked due to the changes. Just a guess on my part. |
|
|
|
Post by jmack19 on Jan 21, 2024 15:08:16 GMT -5
|
|
|
|
Post by mga707 on Jan 21, 2024 15:25:05 GMT -5
|
|
|
|
Post by mga707 on Jan 21, 2024 15:30:34 GMT -5
"Well they raised up a son who could eat up his weight in groceries". For 53 years I was never able to figure out that "Amos Moses" lyric line. Until just now.  |
|
|
|
Post by mga707 on Jan 21, 2024 16:07:44 GMT -5
What is this 'station'? They're not on the station list, and don't sound 'legit'--does Premiere know that they are running the show? Anyway, legit or not, switched over to this following week's show since the chart date more closely matches this week. |
|
|
|
Post by trekkielo on Jan 21, 2024 16:23:09 GMT -5
"Well they raised up a son who could eat up his weight in groceries". For 53 years I was never able to figure out that "Amos Moses" lyric line. Until just now. Jerry Reed had a similar line 6 years later in 1977's Smokey and the Bandit, "I need to pull off, suck up a little go-go juice and put some groceries down my neck"  |
|
|
|
Post by rgmike on Jan 21, 2024 16:34:19 GMT -5
"Well they raised up a son who could eat up his weight in groceries". For 53 years I was never able to figure out that "Amos Moses" lyric line. Until just now. And don't forget the MANY folks who thought he was singing about "Tippytoe", Louisiana. (The town is actually Thibodeaux.) |
|
|
|
Post by mga707 on Jan 21, 2024 16:39:06 GMT -5
"Well they raised up a son who could eat up his weight in groceries". For 53 years I was never able to figure out that "Amos Moses" lyric line. Until just now. And don't forget the MANY folks who thought he was singing about "Tippytoe", Louisiana. (The town is actually Thibodeaux.) Ha ha--yep! That one I knew, because back in '71 when I bought the 45 and attempted to learn the lyrics I got out my Rand McNally Road Atlas and looked at the 'Loozy-anna' (as Jerry sang it) map, spotting Thobodeaux just off of U.S. 90 down in 'Cajun Country'. |
|
|
|
Post by kani on Jan 21, 2024 16:49:50 GMT -5
seems they dont play opt xtras... but wvwp does, although i accidentally missed 1st opt xtra oh wait, now i realize that was jan 23, 1971, not jan 16, 1971. wvwp is jan 16. |
|
