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Post by TheOriginalArtist on Jun 14, 2024 17:29:51 GMT -5
Never realized the first three words in the verse are "Lake Huron rolls". Just listened to it on CD. Don't know how I missed it for 48 years. The line about "in the rooms of her icewater mansions" is always a jolt. What poetry. One of my all-time favorite songs. Mine too. I also love this imagery: "That good ship and crew was a bone to be chewed..." Wow.
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Post by mrjukebox on Jun 14, 2024 17:38:24 GMT -5
Can't believe "The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald" was kept from # 1 by "Tonight's The Night" by Rod Stewart-I'm sure Gordon Lightfoot wasn't happy about that.
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Post by trekkielo on Jun 14, 2024 17:49:53 GMT -5
Never realized the first three words in the verse are "Lake Huron rolls". Just listened to it on CD. Don't know how I missed it for 48 years. The line about "in the rooms of her icewater mansions" is always a jolt. What poetry. One of my all-time favorite songs. Yeah, I also like his lyrics! Lake Huron rolls, Superior sings In the rooms of her ice-water mansion Old Michigan steams like a young man's dreams The islands and bays are for sportsmen Gordon Lightfoot's The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald has always been among my all-time favorite songs, then also Sundown, Carefree Highway, Rainy Day People and If Could Read My Mind. ![8-)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/cool.png)
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Post by trekkielo on Jun 14, 2024 17:55:14 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. ![8-)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/cool.png)
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Post by mga707 on Jun 14, 2024 20:06:51 GMT -5
The line about "in the rooms of her icewater mansions" is always a jolt. What poetry. One of my all-time favorite songs. Having dipped my toes into Superior's waters in both 'Da Yoopers' (UP of Michigan) and Wisconsin (Apostle Islands), I heartily agree with Gord's assessment. COLD!!
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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. ![8-)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/cool.png) 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 lasvegaskid on Jun 16, 2024 8:01:20 GMT -5
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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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