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Post by jgve1952 on Sept 10, 2024 16:09:34 GMT -5
For the 1975 countdown, it is great to see the reassembled Jefferson Starship, and the fans sure loved it, making "Red Octopus" the #1 album of the week on the Album Chart.
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Post by mga707 on Sept 10, 2024 16:55:10 GMT -5
For the 1975 countdown, it is great to see the reassembled Jefferson Starship, and the fans sure loved it, making "Red Octopus" the #1 album of the week on the Album Chart. The group had put out an album in 1974 titled "Dragon Fly", but Marty Balin only appeared on one track, "Caroline". The single "Ride the Tiger" from that LP reached #84 late that year.
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Post by trekkielo on Sept 10, 2024 19:01:57 GMT -5
For the 1975 countdown, it is great to see the reassembled Jefferson Starship, and the fans sure loved it, making "Red Octopus" the #1 album of the week on the Album Chart. The group had put out an album in 1974 titled "Dragon Fly", but Marty Balin only appeared on one track, "Caroline". The single "Ride the Tiger" from that LP reached #84 late that year. The lengthy progressive power ballad "Caroline" originated from music by Paul Kantner. Wanting it to have romantic lyrics, he ended up tapping ex-Airplane singer Marty Balin to supply them. Balin had not appeared on an Airplane or Airplane-offshoot album since Volunteers in 1969, but the results were so artistically satisfying that he also volunteered to sing the song as a guest artist; his photo even appeared with that of the rest of the band members on the back cover. This collaboration ultimately paved the way for Balin to rejoin his old band mates full time in Jefferson Starship the following year, where he would remain until 1978. For the fall 1974 tour promoting Dragon Fly, just prior to Marty rejoining as a full-time member, Freiberg took lead vocal on the song.
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Post by Rodney on Sept 10, 2024 20:32:39 GMT -5
Always enjoy taking a look at AT40’ s 1978 yearbook whenever Premiere features a ’78 show. How unfortunate that this was a one-year-only publication. So true… would have to loved to have one for each year from 70-88
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Post by at40petebattistini on Sept 11, 2024 4:09:47 GMT -5
Bringing the 2024 list up to date, another Premiere week with a single repeating at #40...
1/16/71: Most Of All – B.J. Thomas 2/13/71: Your Time To Cry – Joe Simon 4/08/72: King Heroin – James Brown 3/31/73: Daisy A Day - Jud Strunk 4/10/76: Hit The Road Jack – Stampeders 6/10/72: Automatically Sunshine - The Supremes 6/28/75: I'll Do Anything You Want Me To - Barry White 9/13/75: Give It What You Got - B.T. Express
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Post by LC on Sept 11, 2024 13:34:59 GMT -5
And I bet I know which song in the countdown will need it the most....
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Post by dukelightning on Sept 11, 2024 14:11:18 GMT -5
LC, I hope you enlighten us with what your guess was. My guess would have been "Jivetalkin" since it had been edited in nearly every show. "Jivetalkin" being to 1975 what "It's Ecstasy when You lay down next to Me" was to 1977 and "Love is like Oxygen" was to 1978. And that is the song that was repeatedly edited. Not aware of such a song for 1976 btw. Anyway, the song that was edited the most in this show, down to 2 minutes was "That's the way of the World". "Jivetalkin" was not edited.
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Post by LC on Sept 11, 2024 16:00:02 GMT -5
LC, I hope you enlighten us with what your guess was. My guess would have been "Jivetalkin" since it had been edited in nearly every show. "Jivetalkin" being to 1975 what "It's Ecstasy when You lay down next to Me" was to 1977 and "Love is like Oxygen" was to 1978. And that is the song that was repeatedly edited. Not aware of such a song for 1976 btw. Anyway, the song that was edited the most in this show, down to 2 minutes was "That's the way of the World". "Jivetalkin" was not edited. "Someone Saved My Life Tonight." It's easy to tell by looking at the cue sheet. The first hour, 4th segment has a total run time of 9:57. There's no way you can fit "Mr. Jaws," "Brazil," and all 6:45 of Elton John's masterpiece in that amount of time.
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Post by mrjukebox on Sept 11, 2024 20:00:13 GMT -5
Thank goodness that 9/13/75 will be supersized on WTOJ this Sunday.
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Post by mga707 on Sept 11, 2024 21:00:14 GMT -5
LC, I hope you enlighten us with what your guess was. My guess would have been "Jivetalkin" since it had been edited in nearly every show. "Jivetalkin" being to 1975 what "It's Ecstasy when You lay down next to Me" was to 1977 and "Love is like Oxygen" was to 1978. And that is the song that was repeatedly edited. Not aware of such a song for 1976 btw. Anyway, the song that was edited the most in this show, down to 2 minutes was "That's the way of the World". "Jivetalkin" was not edited. "Someone Saved My Life Tonight." It's easy to tell by looking at the cue sheet. The first hour, 4th segment has a total run time of 9:57. There's no way you can fit "Mr. Jaws," "Brazil," and all 6:45 of Elton John's masterpiece in that amount of time. Did AT40 ever run the unedited 45? Seems like the "...and I would have walked head-on into the deep end of the river..." verse was always cut.
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Post by dukelightning on Sept 12, 2024 7:49:35 GMT -5
LC and mga707, you both nailed it. "Someone Saved My Life Tonight" was never played in its entirety. Most of the time, it was edited down to about 4:15. On the 7/26/75 show, it was back to back with "Jivetalkin" which was also edited as it was for most of its chart run, to 2:25. I will call that one of the lowest points in AT40 history there. Songs by the top 2 artists of the 70s were both edited. On top of that, Casey also said that Someone was headed to #1 which of course did not happen. You have to wonder if it had whether they would played the whole 6+ minute version. We'll never know! Btw, I am also going to replace Jive with Someone as the most consistently edited song of 1975. Guess they needed to go to 4 hours in July 1975 and played the #1 hits of the 50s in the archive segment.
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Post by seminolefan on Sept 12, 2024 10:29:44 GMT -5
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Post by trekkielo on Sept 12, 2024 10:41:50 GMT -5
LC and mga707, you both nailed it. "Someone Saved My Life Tonight" was never played in its entirety. Most of the time, it was edited down to about 4:15. On the 7/26/75 show, it was back to back with "Jivetalkin" which was also edited as it was for most of its chart run, to 2:25. I will call that one of the lowest points in AT40 history there. Songs by the top 2 artists of the 70s were both edited. On top of that, Casey also said that Someone was headed to #1 which of course did not happen. You have to wonder if it had whether they would played the whole 6+ minute version. We'll never know! Btw, I am also going to replace Jive with Someone as the most consistently edited song of 1975. Guess they needed to go to 4 hours in July 1975 and played the #1 hits of the 50s in the archive segment. Yeah, on 8/2/75 Casey Kasem said it was headed to #1! What about its debut week 7/12/75? That show's cue sheet has 9:49 for the segment with "Every Time You Touch Me (I Get High)" & "Someone Saved My Life Tonight". Charlie Rich's single should only clock in at around 2:59.
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Post by dukelightning on Sept 12, 2024 12:48:33 GMT -5
You guys are all on top of this one. Trekkielo is right too. I had seen that 9:49 segment time when I checked on this earlier and figured the same thing as trekkielo. But when I checked it, Someone clocked in at just over 3 minutes. Figured the Charlie Rich song was extended or there was a story in the segment. Nope! The culprit...those editing gurus at Premiere! Didn't realize it was a Premiere show I was listening to. I do have the original show and I just heard the real version they played. It was just under 6 minutes. There you go!
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Post by dukelightning on Sept 12, 2024 13:06:16 GMT -5
Incidentally that Premiere airing of the 7/12/75 was from either 2013 or 2016. It was aired again last year. So maybe Premiere re-recorded the show and spared Someone the butchers knife. Someone here must know whether or not that happened.
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