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Post by JMW on Nov 16, 2019 17:21:32 GMT -5
While WPAC has usually played four-hour 1979 episodes recently (and made them available on the "Mornings" link), today they played only three hours. That sucks; now I have to get up early tomorrow morning to catch it on WTOJ. |
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Post by darnall42 on Nov 17, 2019 7:20:13 GMT -5
listening to the 1979 show i can see why the disco sucks movement was so popular ! especially that awful france joli track(which was just cher's take me home with different lyrics  ) |
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Post by at40nut on Nov 17, 2019 10:07:33 GMT -5
I like that we got a double shot of Chris Hamlet Thompson on the 79 show this week. We heard the full single version of "Blinded By The Light" in which he sang lead on the first LDD, and his own hit "If You Remember Me" at #20.
Another footnote- The musical arrangement in APP's "Dam#ed If I Do" reminds me of music of classic NFL films.
Finally, KRNY got a great radio stations mention-I totally forgot that they carried AT40 in my area back then. I always remembered it on KQ106 back in the 80's. I'm thinking that KQ106 picked up AT40 in either 1982 or 1983. KQ106 was a brand new station back in 1979.
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Post by mga707 on Nov 17, 2019 11:28:11 GMT -5
listening to the 1979 show i can see why the disco sucks movement was so popular ! especially that awful france joli track(which was just cher's take me home with different lyrics ) Of course, "Come To Me" happens to be one of my favorite songs from the 'late Cretaceous' of the 'disco era'!  Will grant you it's melodic and structural similarity to "Take Me Home", but for me at least it's a much more powerful song. And, as I recall from the time, always a dance floor packer. Two other observations about the song: 1) Miss Joli sure doesn't look 16 in the video, but she was! 2) The male counterpoint vocalist sure sounds a lot like Paul Anka, but it wasn't. |
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Post by trekkielo on Nov 17, 2019 12:04:35 GMT -5
November 17th, 1979 This is Casey Kasem on American Top 40 in Hollywood, well now, I have the hit by the group who perform on the most expensive stage set in the history of rock, a sixty foot wide spaceship that cost them more than three hundred thousand dollars, picture this if you will, you're sitting in a concert hall, the lights are out, and suddenly there's a sound of space music starting softly, but building louder and louder into an exciting crescendo, and as you look toward the, dimly lit stage, you can just barely make out something that looks like a space vehicle, the top of it begins to rise, and inside being lifted up on a huge platform, is the group you came to see, the lights on the bottom and the top of the spaceship, go on, the lasers begin to shoot out in all directions from the ship, lighting up the entire hall, fire is shooting from the back of the ship, and a rear screen projector is filled with laser lights, spelling out messages to the crowd, and this is how the Electric Light Orchestra begins their concert, the cost, three hundred thousand dollars just to build the set, the most expensive set for a rock group, we know of, and now, here is ELO, at #37 in the countdown, The Electric Light Orchestra debut with, Confusion...  |
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Post by rgmike on Nov 17, 2019 13:58:19 GMT -5
listening to the 1979 show i can see why the disco sucks movement was so popular ! especially that awful france joli track(which was just cher's take me home with different lyrics ) Of course, "Come To Me" happens to be one of my favorite songs from the 'late Cretaceous' of the 'disco era'! Will grant you it's melodic and structural similarity to "Take Me Home", but for me at least it's a much more powerful song. And, as I recall from the time, always a dance floor packer. Two other observations about the song: 1) Miss Joli sure doesn't look 16 in the video, but she was! 2) The male counterpoint vocalist sure sounds a lot like Paul Anka, but it wasn't. I always considered it the best Donna Summer imitation ever (well, at least until Laura Branigan's "Gloria" came along). |
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Post by at40petebattistini on Nov 17, 2019 16:01:20 GMT -5
Note that the Hot 100 for November 23, 1974 is misdated as November 16, 1974.
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Post by jmack19 on Nov 17, 2019 16:10:51 GMT -5
While WPAC has usually played four-hour 1979 episodes recently (and made them available on the "Mornings" link), today they played only three hours. WPAC is currently airing the first hour of the 4-hour '79 show: ice7.securenetsystems.net/WPAC.m3u |
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Post by MrGeno502 on Nov 17, 2019 22:07:17 GMT -5
On this weeks Nov. 17 1979 show Casey said that Barry Manilow was the only artist that had hit the Top 40 with every single he released and was the only artist to do so.
Thinking of Paul McCartney (as a solo artist) I believe that every one of his solo singles hit the Top 40.Ironically Paul would go on to miss the Top 40 later in 1979 with Wonderful Christmastime.
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Post by mga707 on Nov 18, 2019 0:29:14 GMT -5
On this weeks Nov. 17 1979 show Casey said that Barry Manilow was the only artist that had hit the Top 40 with every single he released and was the only artist to do so. Thinking of Paul McCartney (as a solo artist) I believe that every one of his solo singles hit the Top 40.Ironically Paul would go on to miss the Top 40 later in 1979 with Wonderful Christmastime. As of November 1979 that is correct. Barely, in the case of both "Letting go" and "London Town", both of which peaked at #39, but they still count as top 40 records. Disregarding the Xmas song (which I would), sir Paul would not miss the 40 until "Tug Of War" would peter out at #53 in the fall of '82. Barry's top 40 streak would end a year and a half earlier, when "Lonely Together" would top out at #45 in the spring of '81. |
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Post by MrGeno502 on Nov 18, 2019 1:01:49 GMT -5
On this weeks Nov. 17 1979 show Casey said that Barry Manilow was the only artist that had hit the Top 40 with every single he released and was the only artist to do so. Thinking of Paul McCartney (as a solo artist) I believe that every one of his solo singles hit the Top 40.Ironically Paul would go on to miss the Top 40 later in 1979 with Wonderful Christmastime. As of November 1979 that is correct. Barely, in the case of both "Letting go" and "London Town", both of which peaked at #39, but they still count as top 40 records. Disregarding the Xmas song (which I would), sir Paul would not miss the 40 until "Tug Of War" would peter out at #53 in the fall of '82. Barry's top 40 streak would end a year and a half earlier, when "Lonely Together" would top out at #45 in the spring of '81. Waterfalls in 1980 missed the Hot 100 entirely. |
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Post by at40petebattistini on Nov 18, 2019 2:21:28 GMT -5
On this weeks Nov. 17 1979 show Casey said that Barry Manilow was the only artist that had hit the Top 40 with every single he released and was the only artist to do so. Thinking of Paul McCartney (as a solo artist) I believe that every one of his solo singles hit the Top 40.Ironically Paul would go on to miss the Top 40 later in 1979 with Wonderful Christmastime. In theory, you make a good point. But I believe Casey and staff were working on a 'solo artist' premise. According to Casey: "...(Barry Manilow) has hit the Top 40 with every single record he's released. And we can't find another solo artist of superstar stature who's managed to turn that trick..." McCartney's 2nd Top 40 single as a solo artist ("Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey") was, on the label, a duet with Linda McCartney. And obviously, Wings received label credit on other releases. That may explain Manilow receiving the solo distinction. |
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Post by mga707 on Nov 18, 2019 17:10:02 GMT -5
As of November 1979 that is correct. Barely, in the case of both "Letting go" and "London Town", both of which peaked at #39, but they still count as top 40 records. Disregarding the Xmas song (which I would), sir Paul would not miss the 40 until "Tug Of War" would peter out at #53 in the fall of '82. Barry's top 40 streak would end a year and a half earlier, when "Lonely Together" would top out at #45 in the spring of '81. Waterfalls in 1980 missed the Hot 100 entirely. I didn't think that was released as a commercial single in the USA. Was it? |
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Post by pb on Nov 18, 2019 18:56:32 GMT -5
I didn't think that was released as a commercial single in the USA. Was it? Looking in 45cat, yes, there was a U.S. "Waterfalls" single released in July 1980. www.45cat.com/record/111335 |
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Post by slf on Nov 18, 2019 19:47:08 GMT -5
listening to the 1979 show i can see why the disco sucks movement was so popular ! especially that awful france joli track(which was just cher's take me home with different lyrics ) Of course, "Come To Me" happens to be one of my favorite songs from the 'late Cretaceous' of the 'disco era'! Will grant you it's melodic and structural similarity to "Take Me Home", but for me at least it's a much more powerful song. And, as I recall from the time, always a dance floor packer. Two other observations about the song: 1) Miss Joli sure doesn't look 16 in the video, but she was! 2) The male counterpoint vocalist sure sounds a lot like Paul Anka, but it wasn't. Yeah, it's one of my favorite disco songs as well! I think she had the misfortune of releasing that awesome song after the "Demolition Disco " event at Comensky Park and the resulting decline in that music genre. If her record company had recorded and released that song in '77 or even '78, she might have built a substantial career in music which just might have outlasted disco, just as Donna Summer's career did. |
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Will grant you it's melodic and structural similarity to "Take Me Home", but for me at least it's a much more powerful song. And, as I recall from the time, always a dance floor packer. Two other observations about the song: 1) Miss Joli sure doesn't look 16 in the video, but she was! 2) The male counterpoint vocalist sure sounds a lot like Paul Anka, but it wasn't.
