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Post by 80sat40fan on Oct 26, 2014 9:35:09 GMT -5
Optional extra predictions for the 11/1/75 show:
* "Yesterday" by The Beatles (original 1st hour "oldie") * "Indian Reservation" by The Raiders (original 2nd hour "oldie") * "I Love Music (Part 1)" by The O'Jays
This is the week where Neil Sedaka's "Bad Blood", with Elton John on background vocals, is replaced at #1 by... Elton John with "Island Girl". It's not often that a song drops from #1 to #8 with the new #1 song rising from #8 but that happens on this week's show.
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Post by itsyspider on Oct 26, 2014 12:10:00 GMT -5
OE predictions for 11/1/75:
Mexico - JAMES TAYLOR Welcome To My Nightmare - ALICE COOPER Never Been Any Reason - HEAD EAST
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Post by mrjukebox on Oct 26, 2014 12:35:27 GMT -5
Optional Extra Predictions for 11/1/75: 1)."Theme From Mahogany"-Diana Ross 2)."Yesterday"-Beatles (Original "AT40" Extra) 3)."Indian Reservation"-The Raiders (Original "AT40" Extra)
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Post by freakyflybry on Oct 26, 2014 13:54:07 GMT -5
Predictions for extras:
Hot Chocolate - You Sexy Thing Diana Ross - Theme From Mahogany Rod Stewart - Sailing
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Post by michaelcasselman on Oct 26, 2014 19:18:50 GMT -5
What was the extra from hour 2 (10/14/78)? WODC didn't play it this morning.
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Post by mkarns on Oct 26, 2014 19:22:34 GMT -5
What was the extra from hour 2 (10/14/78)? WODC didn't play it this morning. "Frankenstein" by the Edgar Winter Group. WODC played it last night.
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Post by seminolefan on Oct 27, 2014 11:54:51 GMT -5
Through early November, here's how the regular weekly 70s countdown shows stack up year by year:
NOTE: This includes alternate shows.
1970- 3 (8/01, 8/29, 10/03)
1971- 5 (1/30, 4/03, 5/22, 7/24, 10/30)
1972- 5 (2/26, 4/08, 6/03, 8/12, 9/09)
1973- 5 (2/17, 3/10, 5/12, 7/14, 10/20)
1974- 5 (1/19, 4/27, 6/08, 6/29, 8/24)
1975- 7* (2/01, 2/22, 3/29, 6/14, 8/16, 9/27, 11/01)
1976- 8 (1/10, 3/13, 4/10, 5/01, 6/05, 6/26, 9/11, 10/09)
1977- 6 (2/05, 3/26, 5/07, 7/23, 8/13, 9/24)
1978- 7 (1/21, 3/04, 4/15, 6/24, 7/29, 9/09, 10/14)
1979- 5 (2/17, 3/31, 6/02, 7/28, 9/22)
*Part II of The Top 100 of 1975 aired the first weekend in January.
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Post by Dale Latimer on Oct 27, 2014 12:55:57 GMT -5
WODC's 1978 running way long -- 12:07 AM and just started #4. In case you are listening tomorrow AM to the replay you might want to plan to have it go a bit long. A half-hour either side generally works for me, tho it's gotten real close a couple of times from 'ODC... dL
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Post by dukelightning on Oct 27, 2014 14:09:20 GMT -5
Not this week's show but it is a show for today's date. In the 10/27/79 show, Casey said that Barbra Streisand and Donna Summer, teaming up for "No More Tears" each had 3 #1 hits. And that the tie would not be broken if they hit #1 which of course they did. Tie ended up being broken exactly a year later when Babs hit the top with "Woman in Love" on 10/25/80. And that's the way it ended up with Barbra having 4 #1 hits to 3 for Donna (5 and 4 including this duet). One of the shortest but certainly the funniest LDD I have ever heard...a teenage girl writes in to say that she read an article about Leif Garrett reading Playboy just for the interviews. She insisted that he really read it for the centerfolds and so dedicated "Does Your Mother Know" to him. LOL!!!
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Post by bobbo428 on Oct 27, 2014 19:57:30 GMT -5
Optional extra derby choices for 11-1-75:
--Saturday Night-Bay City Rollers --You Sexy Thing-Hot Chocolate --Mexico-James Taylor
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Post by kchkwong on Oct 28, 2014 0:57:13 GMT -5
Predictions for the optional extras:
Yesterday - The Beatles Indian Reservation - The Raiders You Sexy Thing - Hot Chocolate
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Post by mct1 on Oct 28, 2014 22:07:56 GMT -5
WODC's 1978 running way long -- 12:07 AM and just started #4. In case you are listening tomorrow AM to the replay you might want to plan to have it go a bit long. A half-hour either side generally works for me, tho it's gotten real close a couple of times from 'ODC... dL WODC's nighttime AT40 specials have been running long over the past few months. I typically dar.fm shows 15 minutes before the scheduled start time and 15 minutes after the scheduled ending time, but a couple of months ago I had a couple of recordings of WODC Sunday night specials that ran over their time slot by more than 15 minutes, cutting off the last few songs. After it happened twice I began tacking an extra half hour onto my dar.fm recording time anytime I was recording off WODC (you can only do half hour increments, not 15 minutes). The overrun on the Saturday night 10/14/1978 broadcast was pretty extreme, though. An extra 15 minutes wouldn't have been enough; I needed the whole half hour to hear the entire show. Some of this may have just been the cumulative effect of having four hours to fall behind rather than the usual three. Historically, WODC's nighttime shows often dropped some of the optional extras, apparently because there wasn't enough time for them along with the ads and all of the iHeart features. If the show fell behind, the station's automation system would look to cut things out in an attempt to get back on schedule, and the optional extras were the first things to go. At one point I recall Mike saying that they were going to set up the nighttime shows so that they would be allowed to run over without the automation system dropping the optional extras. The optional extras alone don't account for all of the coverages, but maybe the automation system had been throwing out more than just the optional extras (e.g., some of the iHeart radio features) and now we're getting those as well.
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Post by mct1 on Oct 28, 2014 22:25:56 GMT -5
The optional extras in the 10/14/78 show were announced by both Larry and Casey, in a way; Larry introed the first hour extra (expected, since it wasn't a chart hit); then the second was recycled from Casey's old shows; the third was Larry leading into a 1974 intro in which Casey stated that he didn't want to see "The Exorcist"; and the fourth was Casey's. Both the "Frankenstein" and "Monster Mash" intros appear to have been recycled from the 10/30/76 show. That third hour "Tubular Bells" optional extra was one strange animal. The "cut and paste" Casey-voiced extras are usually presented so that the casual listener might think that it was simply an original extra from this week's show. Either the song was an extra in whatever show it came from, or its intro and outro have been edited from whatever Casey originally said to make it sound like an extra. In this case, we got what I'm assuming was Casey's complete intro and outro from the 3/30/74 show (when "Tubular Bells" debuted at #34), with no attempt to disguise the fact that it was a clip of Casey presenting a regular countdown song from a different show than the one we were listening to. An additional intro from Larry was then tacked on to the front to explain that it was an extra and provide further context. I'm guessing that Premiere wanted to use the song with Casey's comments about not wanting to see the movie because it was too scary -- it was a good song to use, and they had a recording of Casey presenting the song where his comments fit in perfectly with the Halloween theme -- but couldn't figure out a way to cleanly edit what Casey said to remove the references to the song being #34 or to otherwise make it sound like an extra. So they left it the way it was without editing it, and tacked on the intro from Larry. The end result allowed us to hear an interesting clip from Casey, but was kind of choppy-sounding.
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Post by mct1 on Oct 28, 2014 22:40:54 GMT -5
Has anyone looked at the original Watermark cue sheet for 10-14-1978 on the Charis website? Includes a show rundown with notes on which version of each song is used. The initials "TR" appear at the top of the page. I assume these were notes from Tom Rounds. Interesting to see the "Tape" versions of songs, which I assume were edits made by the AT 40 staff. As interesting as it was to see that old song list with the various versions considered and the notes from (presumably) Tom Rounds, it doesn't match what we heard today. Get Off was even more severely truncated, for example... I clocked it 1 minute, 19 seconds! When I first looked at the list, I asked myself "Why would they need custom edits of so many songs? When the show first expanded to four hours, they were looking for things to fill up time." Then it dawned on me that this was only the second week of four-hour shows -- most of these songs had debuted on the chart when the show was still three hours. In the last days of the three-hour shows, they were probably doing custom edits of as many songs as possible. Odd edit from this week's show: hearing A Taste Of Honey lead vocalist/bassist Janice Marie Johnson sing, "listen to my bass"...only to have her bass solo that follows that line edited out. Not sure if that was Premiere's doing, or if the original show/45 had that edit.
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Post by Dale Latimer on Oct 28, 2014 22:48:55 GMT -5
^Gotta be Premiere. 45 had part of the bass line. Orig. cue sheet had that segment as 3:43. Actual time playing it from my DAR was less. dL
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