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Post by ontheair on Feb 12, 2008 3:08:44 GMT -5
D.O.A. on the 2/13/71 show? No.
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Post by dadetim on Feb 12, 2008 20:27:21 GMT -5
funny that they skipped over 1973 and 1977
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Post by mrjukebox on Feb 13, 2008 23:32:23 GMT -5
I've heard "DOA" on Dr.Demento's syndicated show-It definitely creeps you out-Interesting bit of trivia:Jim Rutledge of Bloodrock went on to produce Meri Wilson's "Telephone Man",which was a sizeable hit in 1977-FYI:That's another song Dr.D has played a time or two.
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Post by vto66 on Feb 14, 2008 21:02:34 GMT -5
funny that they skipped over 1973 and 1977 There is a 1973 show scheduled for AT40 on XM next weekend. It's from February 24. |
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Post by drummer1965usa on Feb 15, 2008 23:38:50 GMT -5
I am ANXIOUSLY awaiting the first 1977 show for this year! It was on 2/13/1977 that I began making AT40 a weekly ritual of mine by tuning in every Sunday at 2:00 on KFAB in Omaha.
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Post by ontheair on Feb 18, 2008 1:57:53 GMT -5
Having listened to this week's show (2-13-71), I have to ask...
who at Premiere edits these??? Looking at the original cue sheet at the Charis site, it seems two stories Casey told in the original show were used as the supplemental "AT40 Extra" segments; and a story in the 3rd hour was teased, but the thing was never played! (Again, looking at the cue sheet, it would've been a story about The Band, including the song "The Weight").
It's one thing to cut the split logos, but to not pay off a story is just ridiculous!
(On the other hand, it was a treat to hear the commercial for the Cruisin' albums included...but an Eydie Gorme commercial??? I like
Eydie, but that last line in the spot predicting a Grammy win for that song? That is hubris!)
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Post by Scott Lakefield on Feb 18, 2008 18:42:19 GMT -5
This weekend's (2/23-24/07) edition of "Casey Kasem's American Top 40: The 70s" features a rebroadcast of the show from 2/24/73.
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Post by dougray2 on Feb 18, 2008 19:15:53 GMT -5
What I didn't understand was why they played all the other extras or "specials" from the 60s except The Weight by the Band. Instead of that, they played Wild World by Cat Stevens. That's what happened on the station I listened to in Las Vegas, other stations may have played it.
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Post by ontheair on Feb 19, 2008 11:00:43 GMT -5
I listened to it on other stations, dougray...none of them played The Weight by The Band.
Does anybody have that missing segment?
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Post by tacomalo on Feb 19, 2008 23:26:52 GMT -5
That is the same show as XM this weekend. Has that ever happened before? I know that there have been times when XM and AT the 70s have had the same show a week apart, but I can't remember them having the same show on the same weekend.  This weekend's (2/23-24/07) edition of "Casey Kasem's American Top 40: The 70s" features a rebroadcast of the show from 2/24/73. |
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Post by mrjukebox on Feb 23, 2008 12:02:05 GMT -5
Interesting fact about the countdown from 2/24/73-It was the first show to air in stereo,although "Crocodile Rock" by Elton John was heard in mono-This comes straight from Pete Battistini's great book "AT40-The 70's".
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Post by jamesanderson on Feb 23, 2008 22:46:21 GMT -5
This was also the week the smelliest hit ever on the Top 40 debuted at number 40.
That was 'Dead Skunk' by Lowden Wainwright, III. From what I remember it peaked a couple months later at #16. Was a massive hit in rural areas where you at this time of year begin to find them coming out and they cross the road groggily from their hibernation, which means more get hit. Bigger places back east saw little radio or sales action on the record.
I don't recall having come across the one from 'Superfly' originally. Maybe it is because the singer got all the right nuances to sound like Curtis Mayfield right. Similar to what Barry Gibb did with Samantha Sang a few years later.
Casey got his timing wrong with 'Dueling Banjos' so he walked over the heart of the song after the intro of the guitar and banjo warming up.
The Roberta Flack story was interesting. Did the mention of the original recording that she heard on the airplane ever trigger any action in regards the original. I also recall the song being written as describing songs done by Don McLean. He was on with 'Dreidel'.
Casey also cued everyone in on 'Also Sprach Zarachustra'. When Deodato did it live they got it on tape and released a CD with an 11-minute version (the version the single was pulled from was just under 9 minutes). The younger kids there had no idea about the rest of the music being a jazz concert, but got into that one once they recognized it. You can find the live version on 'Live at Felt Forum' by Deodato. Sadly, what we heard today was his only hit. He had two others hit the Hot-100, including 'Rhapsody in Blue'. He would not top the charts until he became a producer and did that for Kool and the Gang's 'Celebration'.
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Post by mrjukebox on Feb 24, 2008 19:40:01 GMT -5
The Barbara Mason song was rather obscure to say the least-The only song of hers that I'm familiar with is "Yes,I'm Ready" from 1965,which was also a hit for Teri De Sario & KC in late 1979-early 1980.
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Post by mrjukebox on Feb 24, 2008 20:45:02 GMT -5
The countdown from 2/24/73 had some great songs:"Aubrey" by Bread,"Don't Expect Me To Be Your Friend" by Lobo,"Ain't No Woman Like The One I Got" by the Four Tops,& "Oh Babe,What Would You Say" by Hurricane Smith-Smith was a recording engineer at Abbey Road Studios in England & worked with The Beatles on their early recordings-He became a singer pretty much by accident.
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Post by mrjukebox on Feb 24, 2008 20:49:34 GMT -5
Just saw an article on Wikipedia that talked about Hurricane Smith-He just celebrated his 85th birthday on Friday (2/22).
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