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Post by mrjukebox on Feb 4, 2024 10:30:44 GMT -5
I can't believe "The Americans" by Byron Mc Gregor was that popular-It sticks out like a sore thumb.
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Post by lasvegaskid on Feb 4, 2024 11:54:43 GMT -5
<<<< WTOJ's 1974 Sunday 9am EST Does that include both versions of “The Americans?” Last weekend SXM played 1/26/74, the only one with both, and I said: “ This, I believe, was the only time when both were played. There were three additional weeks with both versions, but AT40 probably rightly determined that people didn't really want to hear the same editorial speech twice in less than three hours even if they were buying two different versions of it.” Nothing a 'lil Supersizing can't fix, By's version played in full! |
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Post by rgmike on Feb 4, 2024 12:54:46 GMT -5
Listening to the '74 show this morning for the 2nd time this weekend, and it occurred to me that I can't recall another instance of a show opening with FIVE songs in a row before the first commercial appeared.
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Post by lasvegaskid on Feb 4, 2024 13:03:43 GMT -5
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Post by Hervard on Feb 4, 2024 13:08:10 GMT -5
Darn! Well, we shall see if the other two stations mentioned above will air the 1978 show (if not, that's no biggie, since we just heard that year a few weeks back). |
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Post by mga707 on Feb 4, 2024 14:24:49 GMT -5
I can't believe "The Americans" by Byron Mc Gregor was that popular-It sticks out like a sore thumb. How old were you in early '74? I was 15-almost-16, so I can understand its popularity at the time. Although I'm sure both the MacGregor cover and Sinclair original (as well as Tex Ritter's country version) reached their chart positions more from sales than from continued airplay. Trivia: Longtime country star and actor Tex Ritter died on January 3, 1974 from a heart attack, just days before what would have been his 69th birthday. His version of "Americans", released posthumously, was his final recording. Father of the late actor John Ritter, who died even younger (54) from an undiagnosed heart-related (aortic) condition. |
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Post by mkarns on Feb 4, 2024 14:35:35 GMT -5
I can't believe "The Americans" by Byron Mc Gregor was that popular-It sticks out like a sore thumb. How old were you in early '74? I was 15-almost-16, so I can understand its popularity at the time. Although I'm sure both the MacGregor cover and Sinclair original (as well as Tex Ritter's country version) reached their chart positions more from sales than from continued airplay. Trivia: Longtime country star and actor Tex Ritter died on January 3, 1974 from a heart attack, just days before what would have been his 69th birthday. His version of "Americans", released posthumously, was his final recording. Father of the late actor John Ritter, who died even younger (54) from an undiagnosed heart-related (aortic) condition. Plus, looking at the social/political milieu of 1974, with Watergate, energy shortages, inflation/recession, and just after Vietnam, many Americans probably liked the validation that Sinclair's Canadian editorial gave them: that the country was still a force for good and would get out of its current problems. That said, it probably became more popular by word of mouth than by DJ's playing it several times a day. 50 years later it would probably be a hit led by social media-driven streaming. I understand why usually only one version was played (only once in its original run were both heard in the same week). Premiere did do a good job in inserting MacGregor's version. With only 39 current records heard in the original countdown, this was one of the few shows in a three year span (fall 1972 to fall 1975) in which a non-countdown extra was heard, that being "You Don't Mess Around With Jim", title track of the week's #1 album by the then-recently deceased Jim Croce. |
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Post by djjoe1960 on Feb 4, 2024 14:39:43 GMT -5
I can't believe "The Americans" by Byron Mc Gregor was that popular-It sticks out like a sore thumb. How old were you in early '74? I was 15-almost-16, so I can understand its popularity at the time. Although I'm sure both the MacGregor cover and Sinclair original (as well as Tex Ritter's country version) reached their chart positions more from sales than from continued airplay. Trivia: Longtime country star and actor Tex Ritter died on January 3, 1974 from a heart attack, just days before what would have been his 69th birthday. His version of "Americans", released posthumously, was his final recording. Father of the late actor John Ritter, who died even younger (54) from an undiagnosed heart-related (aortic) condition. Byron MacGregor's version of Americans reached #9 on the Radio & Records chart in January 1974--so as you indicate sales probably drove it's chart position in February. |
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Post by Hervard on Feb 4, 2024 15:08:07 GMT -5
WVWP playing 1978 right now!
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Post by 1finemrg on Feb 4, 2024 18:07:24 GMT -5
When Casey highlighted Joe Brooks involvement with the movie & song "You Light Up My Life" in the 1978 countdown, I had forgotten how badly he and his life turned out.
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Post by caseyfan100 on Feb 4, 2024 19:14:14 GMT -5
Listening to the '74 show this morning for the 2nd time this weekend, and it occurred to me that I can't recall another instance of a show opening with FIVE songs in a row before the first commercial appeared. It may have happened another time or two but I can't give examples. I have noticed in some of the early 70's shows Premier will play #40 and #39 then take the first commercial break and then play like six or seven songs in a row before the second commercial break. |
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Post by caseyfan100 on Feb 4, 2024 19:19:41 GMT -5
I can't believe "The Americans" by Byron Mc Gregor was that popular-It sticks out like a sore thumb. This may have not made much difference but who knows. McGregor appeared on an episode of To Tell The Truth in 1974 hosted by Garry Moore. After the game was played he read a few lines from the editorial on the show. Some people may have gone out and purchased the record because of that. Record sales were helped during that time period when singers appeared on variety or late night shows. Johnny Carson would have a musical guest just about every night in the 60's and 70's and some like John Denver,Bobby Goldsboro and Roy Clark guest hosted the show when Carson went on vacation making it a perfect vehicle to sell records. |
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Post by SFGuy on Feb 4, 2024 23:17:43 GMT -5
Listening to the '74 show this morning for the 2nd time this weekend, and it occurred to me that I can't recall another instance of a show opening with FIVE songs in a row before the first commercial appeared.
That is the Premiere version. The original version had the logo after number 39 (and I assume a commercial after). No logo after 39 on the Premiere version.
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Post by OnWithTheCountdown on Feb 5, 2024 8:00:26 GMT -5
The original broadcasts prior to 7/8/1972 had more than six segments per hour, so Premiere will lump them together to come up with the now-standard three segments per hour. The six segments per hour continued all the way through Casey's last ABC show on 8/6/1988. I would think in those instances, Premiere would just merge segments 1 & 2, 3 & 4, and so on, but sounds like that isn't always the case. And once in a while, Premiere will insert a split where there wasn't one originally.
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Post by lasvegaskid on Feb 5, 2024 9:13:11 GMT -5
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