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Post by doomsdaymachine on Jun 22, 2012 16:53:29 GMT -5
I have three guesses for next week's '70s AT40 program on Premiere radio: 1. June 26, 1971 2. June 25, 1977 3. June 29, 1974 Each of these AT40 program charts have exactly two new songs in the top 10. Other years have either one or no new top 10 songs, or their charts fall in the first week of July, which have mostly special countdowns. The 1974 chart actually has three new songs in the top ten: "Annie's Song," "Rock Your Baby," and "Rock The Boat."
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Post by mkarns on Jun 22, 2012 17:06:55 GMT -5
The 1974 chart actually has three new songs in the top ten: "Annie's Song," "Rock Your Baby," and "Rock The Boat." But as I said, that's not what AT40 used that week. They were on a tight schedule that week due to Casey's acting commitments, and didn't get the Hot 100 in time, so the staff basically guessed the chart and Casey recorded the show using the guesstimated chart. Ultimately, only three of the songs on that countdown matched their Hot 100 positions (though the top two were correct.) One song heard on this countdown, ZZ Top's "La Grange", at #33, didn't actually make the top 40 in Billboard at all.
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Post by mrjukebox on Jun 22, 2012 18:12:11 GMT -5
Prediction for next week's show: 6/25/77.
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Post by dukelightning on Jun 22, 2012 18:13:26 GMT -5
I doubt if it was anything contractual. I think it was just that Casey had only missed 3 shows in 4 years so missing 2 out of 3 shows as it would have been might have been too awkward a situation. As it was, he did not miss 2 shows in 2 or 3 weeks until early 1985. So I think having as much continuity as possible with Casey hosting the show was the goal.
Maybe instead of this, they could have arranged for a 2 week special which could have been recorded in advance. They already did the top 40 acts of the 70s for the one special that 4th of July. Maybe the top 40 songs of the 70s could have been done for another special making them tie into each other somewhat.
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Post by at40petebattistini on Jun 22, 2012 20:05:54 GMT -5
After listening to the beginning of the 6-23-73 show today, I remembered a previous observation from 2 years ago...
A blend of two genre extremes kicks in right at the start of the show -- at #40, the funk of Fred Wesley's "Doin' It To Death", to #39 and the country of Jeanne Pruett's "Satin Sheets." Gotta love Top 40!
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Post by kahunaburger61 on Jun 23, 2012 7:12:27 GMT -5
The 1974 chart actually has three new songs in the top ten: "Annie's Song," "Rock Your Baby," and "Rock The Boat." But as I said, that's not what AT40 used that week. They were on a tight schedule that week due to Casey's acting commitments, and didn't get the Hot 100 in time, so the staff basically guessed the chart and Casey recorded the show using the guesstimated chart. Ultimately, only three of the songs on that countdown matched their Hot 100 positions (though the top two were correct.) One song heard on this countdown, ZZ Top's "La Grange", at #33, didn't actually make the top 40 in Billboard at all. I have always wondered how the AT40 staff made such a way off prediction with "LaGrange"!!!
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Post by dukelightning on Jun 23, 2012 7:46:06 GMT -5
Amazing how Premiere edits the same songs they edited the last time they played this show. So much for merging these shows together. Mark it down....they don't like Perry Como, the Independents and Skylark, the latter 2 ones that I do like.
BTW, I get a kick how many times Casey says, "Remember this one back in 1964". Most listeners surely did not. I would not have had I heard this show back then.
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Post by 40fan on Jun 23, 2012 8:08:46 GMT -5
Sharp-eared listeners, take note. I believe the final segment of the 6-23-73 program heard in the U.S. is slightly different than the International version. Let's see if anyone else notices the two differences. Not sure if this is what you're referring to but I've caught a serious production error at the beginning of hour#2 on two different streams. The hour begins with a repeat of "Doin' It To Death (#40) then suddenly gets back on track with "Leavin' Me". The leadoff song for hour#2, "So Very Hard To Go", is not heard. I heard this earlier in the week on CKWW and thought it was an issue with their replay bar but I just heard it again on another stream.
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Post by dukelightning on Jun 23, 2012 8:15:18 GMT -5
That's probably it because I am listening to the international broadcast and there was no problem at the beginning of the second hour.
Anyone that wants to take Casey up on his offer of a station directory, don't hesitate. The USPS could use the money from all those stamps....lol
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Post by erik on Jun 23, 2012 9:00:37 GMT -5
Sharp-eared listeners, take note. I believe the final segment of the 6-23-73 program heard in the U.S. is slightly different than the International version. Let's see if anyone else notices the two differences. Not sure if this is what you're referring to but I've caught a serious production error at the beginning of hour#2 on two different streams. The hour begins with a repeat of "Doin' It To Death (#40) then suddenly gets back on track with "Leavin' Me". The leadoff song for hour#2, "So Very Hard To Go", is not heard. I heard this earlier in the week on CKWW and thought it was an issue with their replay bar but I just heard it again on another stream. Stations where I caught this are WBBG and KQQL. I was wondering if it was a Clear Channel-specific error.
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Post by dukelightning on Jun 23, 2012 9:31:02 GMT -5
Sharp-eared listeners, take note. I believe the final segment of the 6-23-73 program heard in the U.S. is slightly different than the International version. Let's see if anyone else notices the two differences. I have only heard the international version but I would guess that in the US version, Larry Morgan records a new show closing whereas in the int'l version, they let the version run that was broadcast in 2010. In that version, Larry does not mention Scott Lakefield and himself IIRC.
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Post by Hervard on Jun 23, 2012 10:17:02 GMT -5
And with that wonderful news, they have officially put the kibosh on playing shows for the first time from every month omitted so far. Meaning June 1979 will not be played . Any guesses on what year they finally finish playing every month for the first time? BTW, 1979 has the longest drought going right now. I'm thinking that perhaps this means that they'll play the Disco special the weekend of July 7-8. Of course, there wouldn't have been anything wrong with broadcasting a regular weekly show the week before - it would help boost the show count from 1979. But maybe they didn't want to do that. Of course, we still haven't been told, or even been given a hint what show we'll hear that weekend...
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Post by at40petebattistini on Jun 23, 2012 10:23:22 GMT -5
Sharp-eared listeners, take note. I believe the final segment of the 6-23-73 program heard in the U.S. is slightly different than the International version. Let's see if anyone else notices the two differences. I have only heard the international version but I would guess that in the US version, Larry Morgan records a new show closing whereas in the int'l version, they let the version run that was broadcast in 2010. In that version, Larry does not mention Scott Lakefield and himself IIRC. That's one of the differences; it also gives credit to a previous producer. The other difference is the length of that last segment. The U.S. version heard this week is about 45 seconds shorter than this international segment from 2010.
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Post by Hervard on Jun 23, 2012 10:26:29 GMT -5
I'll go with the 1974 show for next week. Just a hunch. I thought 1979 was a slam-dunk, but no. I'm going to make another wrong prediction: That we get the 1979 disco special from 7/7/79 the following week, then the regular 1979 show for the next week. I know - same year, back-to-back weeks. Strange, but so are some of Premiere's selections. I really want this to be the case, because I want to hear Supertramp's "The Logical Song" while it's still in the countdown. We. Shall. See. Another reason that they wouldn't do the regular 1979 show the week after the disco show is that they played that show last year. Moreover, "The Logical Song" was still in the survey the weekend of July 21, at #24, so you'd hear it even if your station only ran the three-hour version. Perhaps they'll run that show, but if they run the disco special, as several of us have predicted, they might not go with 1979 again so soon.
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Post by upland1425 on Jun 23, 2012 11:08:44 GMT -5
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