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Post by secretman on Aug 3, 2024 12:59:15 GMT -5
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Post by jmack19 on Aug 3, 2024 13:06:46 GMT -5
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Post by dukelightning on Aug 3, 2024 13:50:47 GMT -5
Casey mentions that Pink Lady is only the second Japanese artist to ever hit the chart in the US. It's quite the week for artists from or songs recorded in Japan on the Premiere networks. Because in both the 1979 and 1980 shows are to my knowledge, the only songs recorded in Japan to make the top 40 in the rock era. "I Want You to Want Me" in 1979 and Eric Clapton's "Tulsa Time"(as well as its flipside "Cocaine") were both recorded in the Budokan theatre in Japan. I am not aware of any other songs recorded in Japan nor artists from there since. A bit of a coincidence that Casey answers the question about the hit that fell off the chart from #1. He had previously mentioned "Then Came You" as Dionne Warwick's last appearance in the top 40. That was the hit along with "Nothing From Nothing" the week before that took the biggest drops from #1 since "Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer".
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Post by kani on Aug 3, 2024 13:57:43 GMT -5
In 8/4/1979 note: Very interesting to note that for McFadden and Whitehead was to get interview last notice, from Chicago to Los Angeles, but sadly plane crashed.
Interesting on hour 3; segment 2 and segment 3 were swapped playing, lol.
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Post by lasvegaskid on Aug 3, 2024 15:00:13 GMT -5
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Post by dukelightning on Aug 3, 2024 16:21:29 GMT -5
Back to back songs by Elt in this show.* Hard to pick which one I prefer. "Mama Can't Buy You Love" is produced by Thom Bell who was largely responsible for the Philly sound. Of course Elt had connections to Philadelphia with his "Philadelphia Freedom". Then Casey listed the members of Raydio. Jerry Knight is the one alternating vocals with Ray Parker Jr. I bought that listening directory Casey was promoting. It had a gal in a bikini on the front of it IIRC. * It happened at least one other time that an artist had an archive song and a countdown song back to back. Rupert Holmes did it with "Escape" and "Answering Machine".
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Post by LC on Aug 3, 2024 16:51:58 GMT -5
I bought that listening directory Casey was promoting. It had a gal in a bikini on the front of it IIRC. The one I got in the summer of '79 had a pic of good ol' Casey on it....
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Post by dukelightning on Aug 3, 2024 16:56:42 GMT -5
Must have been another one or maybe it was elsewhere in the directory. But I definitely remember a gal in a bikini in one of those directories. I'll take that back. Courtesy of Pete's book, I see that it was actually in a Billboard advertisement for AT40. Casey made a slight mistake is saying that Chic used to be called New York City. What actually happened is that Bernard Edwards and Nile Rodgers joined that group who coincidentally had one of those Philly sound hits produced by Thom Bell, "I'm Doin Fine Now". Though they were indeed from NYC. Then a couple years later, Edwards and Rodgers formed the group Chic with members that had nothing to do with New York City.
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Post by jmack19 on Aug 3, 2024 18:16:35 GMT -5
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Post by dth1971 on Aug 3, 2024 20:31:00 GMT -5
I bought that listening directory Casey was promoting. It had a gal in a bikini on the front of it IIRC. The one I got in the summer of '79 had a pic of good ol' Casey on it.... Has that AT40 directory from 1970's years shown up on ebay?
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Post by dth1971 on Aug 4, 2024 6:39:48 GMT -5
Casey mentions that Pink Lady is only the second Japanese artist to ever hit the chart in the US. It's quite the week for artists from or songs recorded in Japan on the Premiere networks. Because in both the 1979 and 1980 shows are to my knowledge, the only songs recorded in Japan to make the top 40 in the rock era. "I Want You to Want Me" in 1979 and Eric Clapton's "Tulsa Time"(as well as its flipside "Cocaine") were both recorded in the Budokan theatre in Japan. I am not aware of any other songs recorded in Japan nor artists from there since. A bit of a coincidence that Casey answers the question about the hit that fell off the chart from #1. He had previously mentioned "Then Came You" as Dionne Warwick's last appearance in the top 40. That was the hit along with "Nothing From Nothing" the week before that took the biggest drops from #1 since "Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer". Speaking of "Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer", Casey mentioned that it was the only #1 song that fell out of the Billboard chart the highest although Casey overlooked another Christmas song that fell out of the Billboard pop chart from #1 after the Christmas holiday - "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus" by Jimmy Boyd (However, both fell out of the Billboard chart completely from #1 Christmas songs did get mentioned in a QL on the December 23, 1989 Shadoe Stevens AT40 episode!) By the way, the other Japanese artist to hit the Billboard chart in the USA besides Pink Lady is the Japanese born singer Kyu Sakamoto who it #1 in 1963 with the Japanese language "Sukiyaki".
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Post by Hervard on Aug 4, 2024 7:13:17 GMT -5
I'll definitely be on the lookout for the 1975 show today. It seems that every time there is a weekend in which I'm interested in all four shows offered, I'm scheduled to work on Saturday.
I'm not that concerned about the 1983 show, as we just had one a few weeks back, from three weeks before the one for this weekend.
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Post by jmack19 on Aug 4, 2024 9:44:40 GMT -5
I'll definitely be on the lookout for the 1975 show today. It seems that every time there is a weekend in which I'm interested in all four shows offered, I'm scheduled to work on Saturday. WMSA aired show at 8 am. KXGL is currently in hour 1. WVWP should have show at 3 pm. WSMG will probably air the show at 7 pm. Times are eastern.
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Post by Hervard on Aug 4, 2024 14:06:18 GMT -5
August 2, 1975 now playing on WVWP!
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Post by lasvegaskid on Aug 5, 2024 8:14:17 GMT -5
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