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Post by dth1971 on Jun 15, 2024 8:06:23 GMT -5
As I am listening to AT40: The 70's 6/17/1978 this Saturday morning via WXXM Rewind 92.1 FM Madison, Wisconsin:
This is the first week without a Bee Gees song on the AT40 chart? I guess this ended a streak of the Bee Gees' 3 songs from the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack. Though the show started with 2 songs written by the Bee Gees: "Warm Ride" by Rare Earth at #40 and "Grease" by Frankie Valli at #39.
Though not Bee Gees related, #38 on that 6/17/1978 AT40 chart is another great one week in the top 40 wonder: "Everybody Dance" by Chic.
And Ken Martin: Let's hope your supersized 6/17/1978 AT40: The 70's airing on WTOJ tomorrow morning doesn't cause any glitches on the station!
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Post by dth1971 on Jun 15, 2024 8:14:36 GMT -5
I'll go with 6/21/75 over 6/23/73 & 6/19/71 for next weekend. 6/21/75 last aired in 2018. 6/23/73 was last an A show in 2012, B show in 2020. 6/19/71 aired in 2017. For B show, 6/19/76. Yeah, that works because 7/21/1973, not aired at all since 2011, is well overdue now, unless Premiere wants to play both. Another contender for next weekend could be 6/29/1974 - featuring the chart that didn't follow the same week's Billboard chart (i.e. "La Grange" by ZZ Top at #33 when it didn't make Billboard's Top 40 reaches at all!) because Casey did it in advance so he can go on vacation in Hawaii to be in a guest role on a "Hawaii Five-O" episode. Then for the last weekend of June 2024: I am guessing 6/30/1979 as the A show with the B show being the first AT40 show from July 4, 1970 (Could also be the other way around), unless the first 7/4/1970 AT40 show can wait until the first weekend of July 2024.
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Post by jmack19 on Jun 15, 2024 13:07:27 GMT -5
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Post by mga707 on Jun 15, 2024 13:14:14 GMT -5
I posted this on the Sirius-XM thread, but I'll repeat it here: This week's ''60's Satellite Survey' show with Dave Hoeffel on '60s Gold is from the week ending June 27, 1970. Two weeks before the very first AT40. On now, repeats both tomorrow morning and Wednesday evening.
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Post by kani on Jun 15, 2024 14:51:17 GMT -5
I former back in around 2019 listened Jun 16, 1978 around 2019, I accidentally missed much WPNC today due to being busy, but I will try other station tomorrow or so..
teases there will be July 4th special, top acts of 70s decade
WVWP now finally Jun 17, 1978.
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Post by mga707 on Jun 15, 2024 16:02:21 GMT -5
I posted this on the Sirius-XM thread, but I'll repeat it here: This week's ''60's Satellite Survey' show with Dave Hoeffel on '60s Gold is from the week ending June 27, 1970. Two weeks before the very first AT40. On now, repeats both tomorrow morning and Wednesday evening. What a great countdown! And thank you, Dave Hoeffel, for cluing me in as to the historical figures that 'The Corporation' (Motown's J5 songwriting team) mentions in the new #1, "The Love You Save": Sir Isaac (Newton), Benjamin (Franklin), Christopher (Columbus), and Alexander (Graham Bell). Never fully 'got' that until this day, 54 years after the song hit.
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Post by mrjukebox on Jun 15, 2024 17:32:18 GMT -5
Looking forward to this countdown!
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Post by dth1971 on Jun 16, 2024 8:07:03 GMT -5
I posted this on the Sirius-XM thread, but I'll repeat it here: This week's ''60's Satellite Survey' show with Dave Hoeffel on '60s Gold is from the week ending June 27, 1970. Two weeks before the very first AT40. On now, repeats both tomorrow morning and Wednesday evening. What a great countdown! And thank you, Dave Hoeffel, for cluing me in as to the historical figures that 'The Corporation' (Motown's J5 songwriting team) mentions in the new #1, "The Love You Save": Sir Isaac (Newton), Benjamin (Franklin), Christopher (Columbus), and Alexander (Graham Bell). Never fully 'got' that until this day, 54 years after the song hit. I didn't know the J5 Corporation were named after historical figures!
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Post by mrjukebox on Jun 16, 2024 8:38:22 GMT -5
The Jackson Five were on the proverbial hot streak back then:3 consecutive # 1's in a row-Their fourth chart topper was "I'll Be There" in the fall of 1970.
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Post by rgmike on Jun 16, 2024 11:09:47 GMT -5
ooops: KPPT The Otter played "Wonderful Tonite" right before the start of AT40 -- roughly 20 minutes before we'll hear it again in the countdown.
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Post by mga707 on Jun 16, 2024 11:35:42 GMT -5
What a great countdown! And thank you, Dave Hoeffel, for cluing me in as to the historical figures that 'The Corporation' (Motown's J5 songwriting team) mentions in the new #1, "The Love You Save": Sir Isaac (Newton), Benjamin (Franklin), Christopher (Columbus), and Alexander (Graham Bell). Never fully 'got' that until this day, 54 years after the song hit. I didn't know the J5 Corporation were named after historical figures! The four famous people I mention are in the song's lyrics. Mentioned by first name only, but from the context it's clear who they are: "Isaac said he kissed you, beneath the apple tree When Benji held your hand he felt electricity When Alexander called you he said he rang your chime Christopher discovered you're way ahead of your time" The members of Motown's 'The Corporation' songwriting team were: Berry Gordy Freddie Perrin Alphonzo Mizzell Deke Richards 'The Corporation' started writing songs for the label after longtime top songwriting team Holland-Dozier-Holland had left the company in 1969 to form their own label, Invictus Records. Invictus was on this 6/27/70 chart with Freda Payne's "Band Of Gold" at 11 and The Flaming Ember's "Westbound #9" on subsidiary Hot Wax Records at 34. The Motown group of labels was 'hot' on this chart: Besides the J5 at the top, they had The Temptations and Rare Earth in the top 10 and The Four Tops farther down (at 25). Diana Ross had just fallen out of the 40.
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Post by mga707 on Jun 16, 2024 11:53:01 GMT -5
The Jackson Five were on the proverbial hot streak back then:3 consecutive # 1's in a row-Their fourth chart topper was "I'll Be There" in the fall of 1970. Followed in quick order in the first half of 1971 by two more #2s: "Mama's Pearl" (kept from #1 by The Osmonds' J5 'soundalike' "One Bad Apple") and then the 'shoulda hit #1' "Never Can Say Goodbye". But then the wheels sort of came off of the 'hit wagon', as "Maybe Tomorrow" struggled to make it to #20 that summer. No more #1s, and they only hit #2 once more, in '74 with "Dancing Machine".
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Post by michaelcasselman on Jun 16, 2024 15:59:08 GMT -5
Even though it was introduced by Larry Morgan as a Supersized "June 2, 1979" episode, this morning's 6/17/1978 episode on WTOJ clocked in just a few minutes shy of 3 hours long (!!) after editing out the commercials.
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Post by mga707 on Jun 16, 2024 19:20:52 GMT -5
Even though it was introduced by Larry Morgan as a Supersized "June 2, 1979" episode, this morning's 6/17/1978 episode on WTOJ clocked in just a few minutes shy of 3 hours long (!!) after editing out the commercials. A standard three-hour show minus commercials would be under 2 1/2 hours in length, so nearly 3 hours isn't bad at all.
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Post by at40petebattistini on Jun 17, 2024 8:17:39 GMT -5
For this week’s “A” show, here’s a rare opportunity for listeners to enjoy some “Bad Luck” while experiencing a “Bad Time.”
And the “B” channels samples of “TV” music.
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