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Post by seminolefan on Jul 18, 2024 11:15:14 GMT -5
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Post by dukelightning on Jul 18, 2024 12:36:49 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 #110. Great song. For many years, I thought Three Dog Night were the artist with the most top 40 hits without ever missing the top 40(21). Because not all of the Record Research books had information on singles which missed the Hot 100. So when I saw that all of their Hot 100 entries reached the top 40, I thought what I posted in the first sentence. The first Record Research book on the Hot 100 came out in 1970. I have always wondered if that book came out before AT40 began and whether AT40 ever purchased that book.
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Post by dukelightning on Jul 18, 2024 12:48:11 GMT -5
When Casey opened the top 50 of the 70s countdown by saying 'Call it rhythm and blues, psychedelic or rock and roll but call it funky', he was referring to "Family Affair". I am reminded of that whenever I hear "Brother Louie". While I figure its subject matter was the key factor in it hitting #1, I wonder how much that funky sound was a factor too. I am told the Stories were originally a Beatle inspired band. But they changed things up big time to come up with this song and its funky sound. This is one of only 5 shows in which the song was not edited. The others are 7/14, 9/15, 10/20/73 and 4/14/79 in the archives feature(7/14 and 10/20 are its first and last weeks in the countdown). Which means neither of its 2 weeks at #1 was it played unedited. In the edited versions, they removed the second verse(there are only 2 verses). So "Brother Louie" has the dubious distinction of being the first hit in AT40 history which was edited more often than not. A distinction held by songs such as "Jivetalkin", "It's Ecstasy When You Lay Down Next to Me" and "Love is Like Oxygen" among others.
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Post by mga707 on Jul 18, 2024 21:16:04 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. Agree, a good rocker. I recall it getting a little airplay in early 1971, when 3 Dog Night's first 'Greatest Hits' LP, "Golden Bisquits" was released early that year. "Nobody" is on that LP. IIRC it was a sizeable hit in Los Angeles in early '69 but failed to 'break' nationally.
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Post by jmack19 on Jul 18, 2024 23:26:46 GMT -5
For the last weekend of July, 1974 looks like a good option. 7/27/74 last aired as an A show in 2012, a B show in 2013.
There have been 7 shows in which the leadoff song on the chart remained at #40. 7/29/72, which last aired in 2018, would make that the eighth show.
Given that, I'll go with 7/25/70 over 7/22/72 for next weekend. 1970 show last aired in 2017. 7/22/72 last aired in 2016. For the B show, I'll go with 7/26/75.
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Post by mrjukebox on Jul 19, 2024 4:10:04 GMT -5
We're due for a 1970 show-I'll also go with 7/25/70 for next weekend.
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Post by mkarns on Jul 19, 2024 11:10:09 GMT -5
We're due for a 1970 show-I'll also go with 7/25/70 for next weekend. Especially as in the past three years we've only gotten one A from 1970 during July or most of August (8/8/70 in 2022). In 2023 they didn't play a 1970 A until the last weekend of August, and in 2021 not until mid-September.
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Post by at40petebattistini on Jul 19, 2024 16:51:23 GMT -5
The 7/21/73 show is loaded with some of the best R&B of the 70s, including The Intruders, Manu Dibango, Foster Sylvers, Aretha, Barry White, Fred Wesley, Al Green, Gladys Knight, and the list goes on.
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Post by jmack19 on Jul 20, 2024 11:01:06 GMT -5
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Post by kani on Jul 20, 2024 12:24:31 GMT -5
I missed little of first hr in WPNC for 1978, maybe I will try tomorrow WPAC 4pm
11 foreign acts 1978
WVWP is replaying last week's AT40: Jul 10, 1971, mono to stereo
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Post by jgve1952 on Jul 20, 2024 14:16:58 GMT -5
The 7/21/73 show is loaded with some of the best R&B of the 70s, including The Intruders, Manu Dibango, Foster Sylvers, Aretha, Barry White, Fred Wesley, Al Green, Gladys Knight, and the list goes on. The Spinners were also very prominent. My favorite song by them would come out in a few weeks--"Ghetto Child."
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Post by lasvegaskid on Jul 21, 2024 8:01:02 GMT -5
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Post by rgmike on Jul 21, 2024 11:51:06 GMT -5
listening to the "regular" version, it seemed we got a pretty complete version of "Uneasy Rider", altho' they did censor "A*ses" and "the other F-word".
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Post by johnnywest on Jul 21, 2024 14:22:58 GMT -5
During the first optional of the 1973 show, Larry mentioned that Helen Reddy had appeared in "Airport 1975." Coincidentally, Maureen McGovern was on the chart that week at #20. Maureen would go on to parody Helen's role in that film as a singing nun in "Airplane!"
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Post by mrjukebox on Jul 21, 2024 14:24:26 GMT -5
The WTOJ version of 7/21/73 ended sometime after 12:30 this afternoon.
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