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Post by briguy52748 on Jun 12, 2012 8:46:38 GMT -5
How about these for extras:
• "Young Hearts Run Free" by Candi Staton. • "I'd Really Love to See You Tonight" by England Dan and John Ford Coley. • "Play That Funky Music" by Wild Cherry.
I'll go off the chart with a couple of backup extras:
• "Nutbush City Limits" by Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band – not quite his breakthrough hit, as this didn't come close to the top 40. But it would be a rare gem to hear. • "I'll Get Over You," the first Hot 100 charted entry by Crystal Gayle, and this particular week it was her first No. 1 hit on the Hot Country Singles chart. She was at No. 75 this week in her second week on, en route to a No. 71 peak on the Hot 100. I could hear Larry Morgan explain that fact, and that exactly one year later, she'd release her signature song – "Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue" (June 1977 release for "... Brown Eyes Blue," with a peak in the fall.)
There you have it. But lots of choices to pick from – no need to relegate BB King to optional status.
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Post by mayberrymiles on Jun 12, 2012 9:54:15 GMT -5
I'm a little behind due to travelling last week, am just listening to the 6-3-1978 program. Lots of great songs in that program. That was about the time I was graduating from high school, when I thought I knew everything (quickly found out that wasn't the case).
Love the Jimmy Buffett song "Cheeseburger in Paradise", which really paints a great word-picture, particularly since we've been to the original Cheeseburger in Paradise restaurant in Lahina, HI (Maui) about three times. Great setting, open air, right on the ocean, with birds swooping in to grab french fries and other goodies off the floor. By the way, this restaurant is not affiliated with the Cheeseburger in Paradise chain on the mainland. They were involved in a lawsuit with Jimmy Buffett a few years ago and as part of the settlement, only the original location in Lahina and on Waikiki Beach in Honolulu were allowed to keep the Cheeseburger in Paradise name. Other locations of that chain are now called "Cheeseburger Island Style". By the way, the burgers seem to taste better next to the ocean in Maui than sitting in a Cheeseburger in Paradise in Canton, OH (which we visited a few years ago)...but I digress.
The 6-3-1978 countdown also includes my all-time favorite 70's song--Baker Street. I was reading not too long ago, that the single release was actually speeded up, raising the pitch about a half-step, because somebody thought that would make it more radio friendly than the album version. Apparently Gerry Rafferty didn't think too much of it. It creates a problem if you want to splice in the longer version in an AT 40 program.
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Post by reachinforthestars on Jun 12, 2012 10:38:00 GMT -5
The 6-3-1978 countdown also includes my all-time favorite 70's song--Baker Street. I was reading not too long ago, that the single release was actually speeded up, raising the pitch about a half-step, because somebody thought that would make it more radio friendly than the album version. Apparently Gerry Rafferty didn't think too much of it. It creates a problem if you want to splice in the longer version in an AT 40 program. The promotional music video for the song took the opposite approach and reduced the speed by a half-step. After hearing it that way when the Midnight Special aired the video in 1978, I decided to adjust the pitch in the record store the next day to a similar speed. To my surprise, a customer in the store asked to buy the 8-Track that contained the song I was playing. I hope he wasn't disappointed when he played the "City To City" tape and discovered the song was not quite that slow.
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Post by artsmusic on Jun 12, 2012 13:28:49 GMT -5
We talk often (including in that infamous Beatles thread) about the problems comparing chart eras and their charts. Factors include chart policy, recurrent rules, radio and retail reporting methodology, promotion, format and configuration issues.
Here's one striking chart conundrum: A big deal was made at the time and during this countdown week about Elton John having the first album to debut at number one. This was certainly more of an instance of "reported" vs. actual sales.
According to Wikipedia, Dave Matthews Band, Jay-Z, DMX and Metallica all had FIVE studio albums in a row debut at number one. Amos Lee (heard of him??) had an album debut at #1 this year. He fell to #26 the second week!
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Post by johnnywest on Jun 12, 2012 13:33:44 GMT -5
The 6-3-1978 countdown also includes my all-time favorite 70's song--Baker Street. I was reading not too long ago, that the single release was actually speeded up, raising the pitch about a half-step, because somebody thought that would make it more radio friendly than the album version. Apparently Gerry Rafferty didn't think too much of it. It creates a problem if you want to splice in the longer version in an AT 40 program. "Baker Street" got lots of airplay on American Top 10 (2004-2009), especially in the AT10 Spotlight. Casey always credited the saxophonist, Raphael Ravenscroft. On "U.K. Chart Attack" back in the early '90s, I heard a dance remake that was done pretty well.
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Post by Ponderous Man on Jun 13, 2012 4:39:55 GMT -5
Prediction for next weekend's show: June 23, 1979 (Backup prediction: June 24, 1972)
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Post by Ponderous Man on Jun 13, 2012 5:15:20 GMT -5
Cable's Me-TV airs reruns of "The Rockford Files" weekday afternoons. Jukebox, technically Me-TV is not a cable network. It's a digital over the air network like Antenna TV & Bounce TV.
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Post by Ponderous Man on Jun 13, 2012 5:19:48 GMT -5
“ONE OF THESE NIGHTS” – The Eagles “THE ROCKFORD FILES” – Mike Post “RHINESTONE COWBOY” – Glen Campbell Well, lookee here. One of my predictions held true ... and it is country! Whatever! My extra predictions were better. Although, I do like the Rockford Files theme.
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Post by Ponderous Man on Jun 13, 2012 5:25:38 GMT -5
Predictions for the extras: WHY CAN'T WE BE FRIENDS-War MIDNIGHT BLUE-Melissa Manchester JIVE TALKIN'-The Bee Gees Well, lookee here. None of my extras are country. So? (Not to say your predictions are legit, but ... .) Brian Okay Briguy, here's the deal. In my opinion, the majority of country music, for lack of a better term, is boring. I mean, I do like some of the country songs that were pop hits as well back in the '70s & '80s, but I'm just not that into today's country music. I rather prefer a country song in reverse where the singer gets the wife, the dog, & the pickup truck back. All right! Lay it on me, Briguy. Tell me why I'm wrong about country music being boring. I can take it like a man!
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Post by dukelightning on Jun 13, 2012 7:36:28 GMT -5
I will get a head start on this. I listened to country for most of the 2000s before discovering these AT40 rebroadcasts and going in this direction musically. 2000s country is different that 70s and 80s country and that's why a lot of former top 40 listeners switched over too. And when you work a concert by Lady Antebellum and a bunch of young cowgirls are milling around, it's not boring.
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Post by briguy52748 on Jun 13, 2012 9:49:30 GMT -5
[Okay Briguy, here's the deal. In my opinion, the majority of country music, for lack of a better term, is boring. I mean, I do like some of the country songs that were pop hits as well back in the '70s & '80s, but I'm just not that into today's country music. I rather prefer a country song in reverse where the singer gets the wife, the dog, & the pickup truck back. All right! Lay it on me, Briguy. Tell me why I'm wrong about country music being boring. I can take it like a man! I don't have a good answer for you right now on today's country, so I'll skip over that one. Sorry. But as far as this week's predictions that I chose, for the first three – two are disco classics, including one that has become iconic in the genre, and the third has a country connection (Dan Seals), although then they were an AC/pop-rock duo at the time. Again, with one of the iconic hits of the 1970s. The only country hit per se is the backup prediction by Crystal Gayle, which was her first – if not, one of her first – Hot 100 entries. "I'll Get Over You," along with the Bob Seger prediction, are more for "lost gems" hits and set ups to far better-known hits to the pop masses. (For Bob Seger, "Night Moves," and for Gayle, the aforementioned "Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue," although she had at least three other country hits in between.)
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Post by doomsdaymachine on Jun 13, 2012 16:48:02 GMT -5
I will get a head start on this. I listened to country for most of the 2000s before discovering these AT40 rebroadcasts and going in this direction musically. 2000s country is different that 70s and 80s country and that's why a lot of former top 40 listeners switched over too. And when you work a concert by Lady Antebellum and a bunch of young cowgirls are milling around, it's not boring. Give me Hank Williams or Johnny Cash over any country music of the last 30 or so years!
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Post by brianmichaels on Jun 13, 2012 18:46:25 GMT -5
Something to listen for this weekend... You'll find Casey's closing in the 6-19-76 show slightly awkward. Originally, he gave the wrong chart date and Premiere, in turn, edited out that portion of the program. I just listened to my recording of the 6/19/76 show broadcast by SXM in 2009; the ending is rather abrupt and Casey does not say the chart date.
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Post by at40petebattistini on Jun 14, 2012 4:05:23 GMT -5
With Premiere removing the incorrect date given at the end of the June 19, 1976 program, I'm reminded of an original broadcast from Chicago station WDHF when it removed the show date from the June 26, 1976 program. Here's why.
The weekend that show was to air, it wasn't played. An explanation was given that they were having "technical difficulties." However, the 6-26-76 program -- minus the program-ending chart date -- actually was broadcasted on WDHF the following weekend when the Bicentennial Special should've been heard. WDHF's action also resulted in the removal of all of Casey's promos for the upcoming special. They really went out of their way to diffuse listener complaints. I wonder how many other stations exercised their option to not play the July 4, 1976 special.
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Post by dukelightning on Jun 14, 2012 7:57:55 GMT -5
The more things change, the more they stay the same. Just as there is resistance from various places to playing certain shows nowadays i.e. early 80s shows on stations that don't play music that far back or Premiere being hesitant to air a special that has a lot of 60s songs in it for 70s stations/60s and 70s songs in it for 80s stations; the same thing happened in 1976. Stations were leery of a show with half the songs coming from before the rock era.
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