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Post by dth1971 on Aug 26, 2024 9:05:32 GMT -5
1977 should be featured this week as either an "A" or "B" or standalone. Which one? 8/27/1977 (with the Elvis "Suspicious Minds Live" extra) or 9/3/1977? If 1977 is the B, could the A show be 8/26/1972?
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Post by papathree on Aug 26, 2024 9:13:52 GMT -5
Maybe that Desmond Dekker song hit #1 in the UK. It did, in early '69, a few months before it charted in the U.S. I personally do not recall Casey stating that "Israelites", hit #1 in the U.S., but maybe I wasn't paying close attention either time I heard the '70 show (Thursday on WSQL, this morning on KDRI). But maybe I wasn't paying close attention. "Get up in the morning, slaving for bread, sir, so that every mouth can be fed..." Always liked the song--very different from what was the chart norm in '69. Here's what Casey read (from his script, I'll wager): "He's toured The United States . . . just last year after 'The Israelites' hit #1 on the American charts."
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Post by mkarns on Aug 26, 2024 11:49:45 GMT -5
1977 should be featured this week as either an "A" or "B" or standalone. Which one? 8/27/1977 (with the Elvis "Suspicious Minds Live" extra) or 9/3/1977? If 1977 is the B, could the A show be 8/26/1972? If a standalone, probably 8/27/77, as 9/3 was played by itself just two years ago. If a B to a 1972-75 A (since we just got 1970 and 71), either one.
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Post by lasvegaskid on Aug 26, 2024 21:04:56 GMT -5
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Post by mrjukebox on Aug 26, 2024 22:41:12 GMT -5
This week's countdown from 8/27/77 features a tribute to Elvis Presley-Casey played a live version of "Suspicious Minds".
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Post by mkarns on Aug 26, 2024 23:41:46 GMT -5
In addition, there will be the April 1975-October 1976 segment of #1 hits of the 70s offered as a bonus, with these optional extras (all #2's in 1975-76): Hour #1: "Dream Weaver" - Gary Wright Hour #2: "I'm Not In Love" - 10cc Hour #3: "Lyin' Eyes" - The Eagles Hour #4: "The Rubberband Man" - The Spinners Plus the AT40 from September 2, 2000, as noted elsewhere.
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Post by dth1971 on Aug 27, 2024 7:15:26 GMT -5
I wonder if this show will be SUPERSIZED for WTOJ so that it will include the long 7 minute version of Elvis' "Suspicious Minds Live" since the Premiere version cut it to about 4 minutes.
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Post by dukelightning on Aug 27, 2024 13:59:48 GMT -5
This week's show may have the strongest set of songs at the start when using chart peak as the criteria as any AT40 during Casey's first run. The first 3 hits peaked at 2,2 and 1 for a cumulative peak of 5. Adding in #37 which peaked at 4 gives those 4 hits a cumulative peak of 9. Could be the only single digit value for #40-37 in the first run. In fact, the cumulative peak of the top 4 is just barely less, at 8.
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Post by lasvegaskid on Aug 27, 2024 15:06:50 GMT -5
I wonder if this show will be SUPERSIZED for WTOJ so that it will include the long 7 minute version of Elvis' "Suspicious Minds" since the Premiere version cut it to about 4 minutes. Ken is busy. There is probably a lot going on on Watertown radio row as Summer wraps up. I'm not hopeful of any WTOJ extras over a packed Labor Day weekend.
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Post by dukelightning on Aug 27, 2024 15:37:37 GMT -5
Outside of "Suspicious Minds", there is little reason to super-size this show. Despite the length of that song in a segment with 2 other songs, neither of those "Black Betty" nor "Telephone Man", is edited since they are so short. And that's the way things are in August 1977 with an unusual number of short songs giving the editing machine a bit of a break on AT40. Part of that can be explained by the several remakes in the countdown with Casey saying that there are only 19 artists who wrote or cowrote their hits, the fewest in 2 years.
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Post by dukelightning on Aug 28, 2024 11:13:59 GMT -5
Here's more data on this show that shows how unique it is in this regard. This show starts a 6 week run that is the longest in the first run of AT40 in which there are more #2 hits in it than #1s. It's 6 to 4 this week. 1977 is an anomaly when it comes to #2 hits. There was only one hit that peaked at #2 in the first half of the year and that was "Fly Like an Eagle". In the second half there were 7 and this is the first of 2 shows in a row when all of those were played or mentioned. 6 were played and the 7th "Don't it Make My Brown Eyes Blue" was mentioned as the #1 country song both weeks.
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Post by cursereversed on Aug 28, 2024 11:25:01 GMT -5
This week's show may have the strongest set of songs at the start when using chart peak as the criteria as any AT40 during Casey's first run. The first 3 hits peaked at 2,2 and 1 for a cumulative peak of 5. Adding in #37 which peaked at 4 gives those 4 hits a cumulative peak of 9. Could be the only single digit value for #40-37 in the first run. In fact, the cumulative peak of the top 4 is just barely less, at 8. Ah, another person who likes to look at the numerology at the bottom of the Top 40! Also, notice the chart performance of the four droppers. Two of them had hit #1-"Da Doo Ron Ron" and "Looks Like We Made It". The other two fell out from their peak position of 37 and 39, respectively--"It's A Crazy World" and "Sunflower".
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Post by kenmartin on Aug 29, 2024 7:59:30 GMT -5
This weekends 1977 show will be supersized on WTOJ / Magic 103.1.
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Post by dth1971 on Aug 29, 2024 9:22:56 GMT -5
This weekends 1977 show will be supersized on WTOJ / Magic 103.1. And with it will be the 7 minute live version of Suspicious Minds by Elvis in it, of course!
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Post by seminolefan on Aug 29, 2024 15:32:58 GMT -5
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