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Post by pb on Nov 5, 2019 18:59:16 GMT -5
"Tonight's The Night" turned out to be Rod's biggest hit-By the way,the gal that speaks French towards the end of the song is actress Britt Ekland who was his main squeeze back then. The late Dan Peek of America claimed once that Rod was inspired to write his song when he heard the title of America's song "Today's The Day." |
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Post by mga707 on Nov 5, 2019 21:05:48 GMT -5
"Tonight's The Night" turned out to be Rod's biggest hit-By the way,the gal that speaks French towards the end of the song is actress Britt Ekland who was his main squeeze back then. The late Dan Peek of America claimed once that Rod was inspired to write his song when he heard the title of America's song "Today's The Day." That claim does not pass the 'smell test' for the simple fact that both Rod's album "A Night On the Town", which contains "Tonight's the Night", and America's LP "Hideaway", which has "Today's the Day" in it, were released only two months apart in 1976. The America LP came out the end of April, with Rod's LP following in early July. The songs on it would have been written and recorded long before the America album was released. |
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Post by matt on Nov 6, 2019 11:26:02 GMT -5
So we know 11/17/79 is coming a week from this weekend, and here's a possible run of shows penciled in for the remainder of the year:
November 23, 2019: 11/23/74
November 30, 2019: 11/27/71
December 7, 2019: 12/10/77
December 14, 2019: 12/15/73
December 21, 2019: 12/22/79 or 12/16/72
December 28, 2019: 1/1/72 (Top 40 Songs of 1971)
January 4, 2020: 1/5/80 (Top 50 Songs of the 1970's)
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Post by matt on Nov 6, 2019 11:35:34 GMT -5
Speaking of 11/17/79 being on the schedule for next weekend, these were the optional extras last time it aired (November 17-18, 2012):
Hour #1: "Rapper's Delight" - The Sugarhill Gang (#72)
Hour #2: "Disco Lady" - Johnnie Taylor (original AT40 Archive)
Hour #3: "Don't Do Me Like That" - Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers (#71; debuted)
Hour #4: "Video Killed The Radio Star" - The Buggles (#74)
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Post by mrjukebox on Nov 6, 2019 17:25:25 GMT -5
"Video Killed The Radio Star" was the first video shown on MTV on Saturday August 1,1981.
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Post by pb on Nov 6, 2019 18:59:56 GMT -5
The late Dan Peek of America claimed once that Rod was inspired to write his song when he heard the title of America's song "Today's The Day." That claim does not pass the 'smell test' for the simple fact that both Rod's album "A Night On the Town", which contains "Tonight's the Night", and America's LP "Hideaway", which has "Today's the Day" in it, were released only two months apart in 1976. The America LP came out the end of April, with Rod's LP following in early July. The songs on it would have been written and recorded long before the America album was released. FWIW, in the quote I found on the Wiki page for Rod's song, Peek said that Rod heard the song before it was released: "According to Dan Peek of America, Stewart's inspiration for "Tonight's the Night" was America's Top 30 hit "Today's the Day": Peek recalls that one evening when he and his guest Rod Stewart were playing together in Peek's home recording studio: "I played 'Today's the Day', the song I had been working on. Rod said that he liked it and that it gave him an idea for a song. Of course after his recording of 'Tonight's the Night' came out I laughed when I remembered what he'd said. I'm sure I probably smacked my forehead and said: 'Why didn't I think of that?'"[3]" How (or whether) Rod ended up in Peek's studio, I don't know. |
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Post by mga707 on Nov 6, 2019 19:08:39 GMT -5
That claim does not pass the 'smell test' for the simple fact that both Rod's album "A Night On the Town", which contains "Tonight's the Night", and America's LP "Hideaway", which has "Today's the Day" in it, were released only two months apart in 1976. The America LP came out the end of April, with Rod's LP following in early July. The songs on it would have been written and recorded long before the America album was released. FWIW, in the quote I found on the Wiki page for Rod's song, Peek said that Rod heard the song before it was released: "According to Dan Peek of America, Stewart's inspiration for "Tonight's the Night" was America's Top 30 hit "Today's the Day": Peek recalls that one evening when he and his guest Rod Stewart were playing together in Peek's home recording studio: "I played 'Today's the Day', the song I had been working on. Rod said that he liked it and that it gave him an idea for a song. Of course after his recording of 'Tonight's the Night' came out I laughed when I remembered what he'd said. I'm sure I probably smacked my forehead and said: 'Why didn't I think of that?'"[3]" How (or whether) Rod ended up in Peek's studio, I don't know. That additional information makes it certainly possible. |
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Post by seminolefan on Nov 7, 2019 11:10:39 GMT -5
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Post by matt on Nov 7, 2019 11:57:56 GMT -5
"Video Killed The Radio Star" was the first video shown on MTV on Saturday August 1,1981. Funny thing that MTV would choose a video for a song that had been released two years earlier. But it was for obvious reasons, and interestingly enough, would end up fitting MTV's eventual appetite for new wave and British pop within about a year of the station's launch. I like the story the first VJs all tell about the launch of MTV on that date--that it was picked up by so few cable providers that they had to leave their NY studio and head over into some suburb in New Jersey to watch the launch. And they had to find a bar that would be able to tune into MTV at midnight of that date! Funny to think of both MTV and even cable TV as a whole in its infancy back then, and how cable TV today has really run its course and can probably be considered to be somewhat out of date, or at least certainly past its prime. MTV of course, was past its prime 25 years ago but still lives on with programming that mostly appeals to the lowest common denominator. It certainly has next to nothing to do with music anymore. |
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Post by pizzzzza on Nov 7, 2019 13:21:13 GMT -5
Am looking forward to the upcoming 11/13/76 show for the simple reason that I have never heard it, not even when new. At the time I was listening to AT40 on an FM station out of Phoenix (120 or so miles away), KBBC. If I put my portable radio in a certain place and had the antenna just so, I could pick them up on Sunday mornings for the show. Heard the show the previous Sunday, when 'Rok'n Me' made it somewhat unexpected move to the #1 spot, and was interested to see if it would stay there another week. But no AT 40 that next Sunday morning--KBBC had dropped the show! Yes, I was ticked off. Never would nave guessed that ol' Rod the Mod would jump up from #8 to #1 for his seven (or eight, if one counts the 'dead week') stay at the top. Wouldn't know it for a few months until I finally found out that my University library had a 'Billboard' subscription. You sound just like me back then! I had to position my receiver in a certain part of the room to pick up the only station that played AT 40 very early Saturday mornings - it was about 40 miles away for me with a very weak signal. It was either that try to stay awake to listen to WCFL in the middle of the night on my transistor radio - such fun days/times looking back - wouldn't trade it for the world. In addition, I too stumbled upon my local community college library and discovered they had Billboard Magazine as well - was that a shock! |
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Post by pizzzzza on Nov 7, 2019 13:25:46 GMT -5
Looking forward to next week's presentation from 11/13/76-That was my senior year in high school. You will never forget the music of your senior year of high school! |
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Post by cursereversed on Nov 7, 2019 14:32:49 GMT -5
"Video Killed The Radio Star" was the first video shown on MTV on Saturday August 1,1981. Funny thing that MTV would choose a video for a song that had been released two years earlier. But it was for obvious reasons, and interestingly enough, would end up fitting MTV's eventual appetite for new wave and British pop within about a year of the station's launch. I like the story the first VJs all tell about the launch of MTV on that date--that it was picked up by so few cable providers that they had to leave their NY studio and head over into some suburb in New Jersey to watch the launch. And they had to find a bar that would be able to tune into MTV at midnight of that date! Funny to think of both MTV and even cable TV as a whole in its infancy back then, and how cable TV today has really run its course and can probably be considered to be somewhat out of date, or at least certainly past its prime. MTV of course, was past its prime 25 years ago but still lives on with programming that mostly appeals to the lowest common denominator. It certainly has next to nothing to do with music anymore. I do a countdown of my favorite Halloween songs on Facebook every year and when I get to Thriller at #2 I always tell the story about how most of the city of Tampa didn't have cable but the rock-and-roll loving history teacher whose classroom was across from that of my teacher lived outside the city and therefore did have cable. He taped the special about the making of the video and invited my class to come across the hall to watch it with his class. |
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Post by mrjukebox on Nov 7, 2019 17:22:24 GMT -5
Can't understand why MTV & VH-1 abandoned their original formats & have opted for reality shows-That's a head scratcher.
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Post by statenislandfan on Nov 7, 2019 19:40:25 GMT -5
How about when TBS played music videos all night long and Friday Night Videos aired on NBC and their very first video was Beat It By MJ. Without looking for it on line, Which came first, America's Top 10 or MTV?
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Post by mga707 on Nov 7, 2019 20:11:08 GMT -5
How about when TBS played music videos all night long and Friday Night Videos aired on NBC and their very first video was Beat It By MJ. Without looking for it on line, Which came first, America's Top 10 or MTV? And don't forget "Night Flight", late nights Friday and Saturday on the USA Network. Some videos on there that MTV would not play. |
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