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Post by jgve1952 on Sept 22, 2019 18:35:40 GMT -5
Listening to 1973 when Casey stated Barry White's "I'm Gonna Love You A Little Bit More" peaked at #4 when it actually reached #3.
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Post by jgve1952 on Sept 22, 2019 19:03:14 GMT -5
I guess I will be hearing "Half Breed" twice during CKWW's presentation of this week's show. It was just played as a filler after the first hour--geeesshhh!
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Post by kchkwong on Sept 23, 2019 5:30:24 GMT -5
Predictions of the optional extras:
Blue Collar Man
Two Tickets To Paradise
My Best Friend’s Girl
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Post by djjoe1960 on Sept 23, 2019 6:45:51 GMT -5
Am struck by how heavily 'soulful' the first hour of this week's show is: Eight of the songs in the hour were also on the R&B chart, probably all of them charting higher on that chart than on the 'Hot 100'. Also a ninth song, 'In the Midnight Hour', that is a pop remake of an R&B classic. For me personally, that's what makes the music of the 70s so special..... The variety on any given week....soul, pop, country and rock back-to-back-to-back, with an occasional novelty song thrown in. Unfortunately, I don't think we'll ever experience that again in our lifetimes. This musical diversity you wrote about was really more prevalent in the 1960's but continued over into the first half of the '70's. I think as the independent record labels disappeared, the music industry turned more into a business and the same happened to radio in the 1990's. |
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Post by at40petebattistini on Sept 23, 2019 10:17:14 GMT -5
Optional extras for September 30, 1978…
Hour #1: Just What I Needed – The Cars
Hour #2: Straight On – Heart
Hour #3: Baby Hold On – Eddie Money
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Post by mrjukebox on Sept 23, 2019 16:21:42 GMT -5
Kudos to Premiere for acknowledging the recent passings of Eddie Money & Ric Ocasek.
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Post by at40petebattistini on Sept 24, 2019 20:08:11 GMT -5
A quick look at the two shows from Premiere this weekend (9/30/78; 9/29/84) and there are a few artist similarities…
…Donna Summer appeared on both countdowns
*with “MacArthur Park” in 1978 and 1984’s “There Goes My Baby”
…The Brothers Gibb, as solo artists
*Robin Gibb (“Oh Darlin”) and Andy Gibb (“An Everlasting Love”) charted in 1978, while Barry Gibb debuted on the 1984 survey with “Shine Shine”
…and Lionel Richie with the Commodores in 1978 (“Three Times A Lady”) and without them (“Stuck On You”) in 1984
Optional extras, like batteries, not included.
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Post by mga707 on Sept 24, 2019 22:09:24 GMT -5
A quick look at the two shows from Premiere this weekend (9/30/78; 9/29/84) and there are a few artist similarities… …Donna Summer appeared on both countdowns *with “MacArthur Park” in 1978 and 1984’s “There Goes My Baby” …The Brothers Gibb, as solo artists *Robin Gibb (“Oh Darlin”) and Andy Gibb (“An Everlasting Love”) charted in 1978, while Barry Gibb debuted on the 1984 survey with “Shine Shine” …and Lionel Richie with the Commodores in 1978 (“Three Times A Lady”) and without them (“Stuck On You”) in 1984 Optional extras, like batteries, not included. Two artists missed being in both by one week: The Cars had just fallen off of the '78 countdown ("Just What I Needed") and were near the top of the '84 chart ("Drive"), while Daryl Hall and John Oates debuted in the '78 show with "It's a Laugh" and were just a week away from doing the same in '84 with "Out Of Touch". |
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Post by mitchm on Sept 25, 2019 9:12:37 GMT -5
Any word on whether Ken/WTOJ will give us a supersized 1978 alternative? I did listen to the WTOJ version of this countdown back in 2015 when Ken played the non-truncated version of songs. It timed out at 3 hours and 22 minutes. |
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Post by OnWithTheCountdown on Sept 25, 2019 9:21:31 GMT -5
This week on WTOJ you'll hear an UNEDITED version of the 1978 countdown. This was the last week for the 3 hour show and AT40 needed to edit a lot of songs to make it fit. However, this week on WTOJ, no Premiere edits, no AT40 edits. Every song as released on 45. Radio station edits will be there, so you'll get the 3:22 version of "Who Are You", but that's what you heard on Top 40 radio in 1978. Yes, the countdown will run long, but that's OK. Starts 9 AM Eastern, Sunday morning. Re-posting from page 1159 (9/22/2015). Guessing this will run again. |
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Post by matt on Sept 25, 2019 10:00:16 GMT -5
I'll go with: "Blue Collar Man (Long Nights)" "Straight On" "My Best Friend's Girl" Guessing they won't do both "In Nemoriam" OE's the same week so Eddie Money will be memorialized on the 10/6/79 show with "Maybe I'm A Fool" And as to Matt speculating about which Cars song will be used "Just What I Needed" was a Benjamin Orr vocal. Yeah "Just What I Needed" was led-sung by Ben Orr -- he sounds enough like Ocasek in that song I forget that it was Orr. So maybe "My Best Friend's Girl"? Funny--Premiere did decide to go with "Just What I Needed" despite the fact that Ric Ocasek was not the lead vocalist on that song. Seems like "My Best Friend's Girl" would've made more sense, but I do personally prefer "JWIN" out of those two. |
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Post by pb on Sept 25, 2019 18:32:06 GMT -5
Even if Ocasek didn't sing "Just What I Needed," it's a fine example of his writing and Orr sounds pretty similar to him there.
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Post by mrjukebox on Sept 25, 2019 18:53:59 GMT -5
Last weekend's episode of "The Lost 45's" was a tribute to Eddie Money-Barry Scott played the 45 RPM version of "Two Tickets To Paradise"-Barry stated that the single version is way different than the one that appeared on Money's self titled debut album in 1977.
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Post by mga707 on Sept 25, 2019 22:18:44 GMT -5
Last weekend's episode of "The Lost 45's" was a tribute to Eddie Money-Barry Scott played the 45 RPM version of "Two Tickets To Paradise"-Barry stated that the single version is way different than the one that appeared on Money's self titled debut album in 1977. It is, and as I recall it was the version heard on AT40 in '78. Don't recall ever hearing the LP version on the show. |
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Post by seminolefan on Sept 26, 2019 10:39:40 GMT -5
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