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Post by mrjukebox on Jul 14, 2024 9:49:53 GMT -5
"Take Me Home,Country Roads" by John Denver is one of the featured songs on this week's A show presentation from 7/10/71-The label lists a group called Fat City-That group featured the husband & wife duo of Bill & Taffy Danoff-Five years later,Bill & Taffy along with Margot Chapman & Jon Carroll formed a quartet called The Starland Vocal Band-Their lone top forty hit "Afternoon Delight" was # 1 on 7/17/76-That happens to be the B countdown this week.
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Post by lasvegaskid on Jul 14, 2024 12:01:57 GMT -5
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Post by mrjukebox on Jul 14, 2024 15:21:12 GMT -5
On this week's B show presentation from 7/17/76,Casey read a QL (Question Letter) from a listener who wanted to know which song spent the most weeks at # 2 without getting to # 1-The answer was "Little Darlin" by The Diamonds which spent eight weeks at # 2 in the spring of 1957-In late 1981-early 1982,"Waiting For A Girl Like You" by Foreigner fared even better-It spent ten weeks in the runner up spot.
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Post by dth1971 on Jul 14, 2024 16:25:05 GMT -5
More on 7/10/1971: I didn't know "Funky Nassau" by Beginning of the End sounds like it could have been used for a tourism commercial for the Nassau Islands. (Who can never forget the commercials in the 1980's for Jamaica tourism with the "Come Back to Jamaica" jingle sung to the tune of John Lennon's Christmas song "Happy Xmas (War is Over))?"
Even the "Rings" by Cymmaron OPTIONAL EXTRA was Casey voiced and not Larry Morgan voiced.
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Post by jgve1952 on Jul 15, 2024 4:49:07 GMT -5
On this week's B show presentation from 7/17/76,Casey read a QL (Question Letter) from a listener who wanted to know which song spent the most weeks at # 2 without getting to # 1-The answer was "Little Darlin" by The Diamonds which spent eight weeks at # 2 in the spring of 1957-In late 1981-early 1982,"Waiting For A Girl Like You" by Foreigner fared even better-It spent ten weeks in the runner up spot. This would be tied with also 10 weeks at #2 in 2002-03 by Missy Elliott with "Work It"
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Post by dth1971 on Jul 15, 2024 6:33:43 GMT -5
I think this coming weekend's AT40: The 70's entries are 7/21/1973 as the A show and 7/22/1978 as the B show.
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Post by trekkielo on Jul 15, 2024 8:15:32 GMT -5
Well, at40petebattistini just gave a hint that 7/21/1973 is what the A show for this week could very well be.
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Post by mga707 on Jul 15, 2024 9:28:38 GMT -5
Well, at40petebattistini just gave a hint that 7/21/1973 is what the A show for this week could very well be. Listening to the three-chart (BB/CB/RW) top 50 of that week right now on thefoxoldies.com .
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Post by bm63 on Jul 16, 2024 18:47:56 GMT -5
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Post by lasvegaskid on Jul 16, 2024 20:39:50 GMT -5
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Post by cursereversed on Jul 17, 2024 1:08:47 GMT -5
7/17/76, which I'm listening to right now on WPNC, was the first Premiere show I ever heard when it aired back in 2008.
While I didn't KNOW that "Misty Blue" was a country hit first it sure sounds like it was (or that if it hadn't been it sure SHOULD have been).
You would probably think that the one airport in the United States at which the Concorde was allowed to land at the time was in New York---but you would be wrong. Service to Washington Dulles had started two months earlier over the vehement objections of Congress. The governors of New York and New Jersey successfully delayed the start of service to Kennedy until the next year. Braniff wanted to buy the Concorde and fly it to Dallas from Europe with a stop at Dulles but the Secretary Of Transportation ruled that the Washington-Dallas segment would have to be flown subsonic which was a complete non-starter economically so they cancelled the order and no U.S. airline ever flew it.
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Post by mga707 on Jul 17, 2024 10:13:52 GMT -5
7/17/76, which I'm listening to right now on WPNC, was the first Premiere show I ever heard when it aired back in 2008. While I didn't KNOW that "Misty Blue" was a country hit first it sure sounds like it was (or that if it hadn't been it sure SHOULD have been). You would probably think that the one airport in the United States at which the Concorde was allowed to land at the time was in New York---but you would be wrong. Service to Washington Dulles had started two months earlier over the vehement objections of Congress. The governors of New York and New Jersey successfully delayed the start of service to Kennedy until the next year. Braniff wanted to buy the Concorde and fly it to Dallas from Europe with a stop at Dulles but the Secretary Of Transportation ruled that the Washington-Dallas segment would have to be flown subsonic which was a complete non-starter economically so they cancelled the order and no U.S. airline ever flew it. While you are correct that neither Braniff nor any other U.S. carrier ever took delivery of a Concorde (only Air France and British Airways had them), they did operate a DFW-IAD-London/Paris (LHR/CDG) interchange service using AF and BA Concordes from January 1979 through May 1980. Braniff flight and cabin crews operated the subsonic DFW-Dulles Airport segments, while Air France or British airways crews took over for the overwater supersonic segments to Europe. 14 Braniff Captains qualified to fly the SST. No Concordes were ever painted in Braniff colors, so photos showing such have all been retouched (pre-Photoshop days!). The Braniff/BA interchange Concorde flights to/from London's Heathrow airport operated three days per week, while the BN/Air France flight to/from Paris' Charles de Gaulle airport operated twice weekly. The interchange service proved unprofitable and only lasted those 16 months. The original Braniff, which had been in existence since 1934, was forced to shut down for economic reasons two years after their brief Concorde services ended, in May 1982. Two short lived successors using the Braniff name operated 1984-89 and in the early 1990s. Brief 'Airways' magazine overview of the Braniff Concorde interchange flights here: www.airwaysmag.com/legacy-posts/braniff-concorde-foray
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Post by jgve1952 on Jul 18, 2024 6:28:10 GMT -5
I am listening to the 7-27-74 show on Internet Archives, and Casey made a blunder. He stated that Three Dog Night's first hit "Try A Little Tenderness" failed to make the Top 40. Hey Casey, #29 peak IS in the Top 40.
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Post by mrjukebox on Jul 18, 2024 7:56:05 GMT -5
Surprised the "AT40" staff made that blunder-I believe Joel Whitburn's Record Research books were around back then-They merely could've looked up the chart info on Three Dog Night.
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Post by 1finemrg on Jul 18, 2024 10:57:04 GMT -5
Surprised the "AT40" staff made that blunder-I believe Joel Whitburn's Record Research books were around back then-They merely could've looked up the chart info on Three Dog Night. Three Dog Night's first single "Nobody" missed the Hot 100. Bubbled under 1 week at #116. Great song.
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