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Post by mkarns on Nov 21, 2019 19:59:40 GMT -5
at40petebattistini said this over two months ago, "One other tidbit -- there is only one 1971 program left for us in 2019", I think that ended up being 10/30/71! I thought of that...but did he mean one 1971 period, or one 1971 'A' show? If so, there should be another '71 show. There's only been one since the beginning of July, and that happened in mid-August. That seems like a long time to go between shows, but maybe Pete really meant one more 1971, A or B... The weekend of August 17-18 was the last time we got a 1971 A. If there are no more such shows this year (except maybe the year end show), it would be the earliest, or possibly second earliest,* cutoff of regular A or standalone shows for any year in the 1970s or 80s series, with the obvious exception of 1988. *This depends on how you want to count 1974 in 2009. There were no regular weekly 1974 countdowns aired that year after June, but in October Premiere did play the Top Producers of the 1970s special in regular rotation by itself, as was done in 1974. Also in 2009 Premiere nearly outdid itself in this sense by running no 1972 countdowns from early May until December, the last week before the year end shows started. |
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Post by pb on Nov 21, 2019 20:27:09 GMT -5
From this issue I learned that First Class followed up "Beach Baby" with a song titled "Dreams Are Ten A Penny" which debuted on the hot 100 that week, and did not get higher than #83. Listening to it, it's a less inspired song than "Beach Baby," but catchy. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElZlpbEchzM |
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Post by billyonaire on Nov 22, 2019 0:28:30 GMT -5
This week's presentations (Weekend of November 30-December 1, 2019): December 1, 1973. American Top 10: An American Top 10 Christmas – Christmas Around The World – November 20, 2004 (HOLIDAY) - 3 hours. Cue sheets: December 1, 1973: charismusicgroup.com/Cue%20Sheets/12-01-73.pdf |
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Post by matt on Nov 22, 2019 12:21:48 GMT -5
^So this probably does mean that our last 1971 'A' show was the 8/21/71 show? If so, it means that getting the Top 40 of 1971 at the end of the year is pretty much a given.
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Post by mkarns on Nov 22, 2019 13:04:57 GMT -5
^So this probably does mean that our last 1971 'A' show was the 8/21/71 show? If so, it means that getting the Top 40 of 1971 at the end of the year is pretty much a given. 12/4/71 or 12/11/71 could still be played in December. (12/18 probably not since that was aired two years ago). But the 1971 year end show hasn't been played, even as a B, since 2008, longer than any other from 1970-87. It only takes up one three hour show so if it is, I wonder if we'll get a second year end A/standalone show or other special to follow it. |
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Post by matt on Nov 22, 2019 13:45:10 GMT -5
^So this probably does mean that our last 1971 'A' show was the 8/21/71 show? If so, it means that getting the Top 40 of 1971 at the end of the year is pretty much a given. 12/4/71 or 12/11/71 could still be played in December. (12/18 probably not since that was aired two years ago). But the 1971 year end show hasn't been played, even as a B, since 2008, longer than any other from 1970-87. It only takes up one three hour show so if it is, I wonder if we'll get a second year end A/standalone show or other special to follow it. It wouldn't surprise me if the Top 50 of 1970 got another spin the week after the Top 40 of 1971. It also won't surprise me if the Top 50 of 1979 is played somewhere in there--it's now been three years since that one last aired. |
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Post by mkarns on Nov 22, 2019 15:02:32 GMT -5
12/4/71 or 12/11/71 could still be played in December. (12/18 probably not since that was aired two years ago). But the 1971 year end show hasn't been played, even as a B, since 2008, longer than any other from 1970-87. It only takes up one three hour show so if it is, I wonder if we'll get a second year end A/standalone show or other special to follow it. It wouldn't surprise me if the Top 50 of 1970 got another spin the week after the Top 40 of 1971. It also won't surprise me if the Top 50 of 1979 is played somewhere in there--it's now been three years since that one last aired. That would appear to make the most sense, since one week of 1971 and the other of 1970 or 1979 could be paired with a B being a two parter from 1974-78. Or there could just be a single year end week, with 1971 coupled with either 1973 or 79 (the other two single week year end shows), or half of one of the two week shows. However, I think it's more likely there will be two weeks of year end countdowns. |
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Post by trekkielo on Nov 23, 2019 7:42:18 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...  Speaking about the 40th Anniversary of Discovery and "Confusion"... In one of his earliest jobs, comedian/actor Brad Garrett, dressed in Middle Eastern clothes and turban, appears on the back cover as the menacing palace guard who is drawing his scimitar. The model seen on the cover of the Discovery album is the actor/comedian Brad Garrett, well before he became famous as an actor (famous for his role in the Everybody Loves Raymond series). Brad himself confirmed this via a Twitter post, although he did not confirm which picture(s) were of him. Jim Shea was the photographer and confirmed that it is Brad on the album's back cover, standing menacingly in a doorway holding a sword. An alternate shot was also used for the Confusion single advertisement. It is not Brad on the album's front cover, nor on the inside cover holding the ELO spaceship treasure and running across the desert. Brad would have been about 19 at the time the images were shot and it was done well before Brad's comedy and acting career. Sources The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn, February 2000 The Bob & Tom Show, January 2000 Jeff Lynne Song Database - Exposing the Secrets! |
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Post by Hervard on Nov 23, 2019 8:31:15 GMT -5
This week's presentations (Weekend of November 30-December 1, 2019): December 1, 1973. American Top 10: An American Top 10 Christmas – Christmas Around The World – November 20, 2004 (HOLIDAY) - 3 hours. Wasn't the 11/20/04 version of AT10 "Christmas At The Movies"? |
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Post by at40nut on Nov 23, 2019 8:35:50 GMT -5
After listening to the 11-23-74 show, I thought the story of Harry Chapin's "liberal guilt" seemed a little cryptic when he said that the world wouldn't make it past the year 2000. The sad irony is that he would not see the world for it's achievements and failures after July 16, 1981. I think the moral of the story that maybe he felt that time was short unconditionally to one's destiny or fate, or to the world itself . Harry Chapin and John Lennon were in the countdown together that week, and next week's 1980 show would sadly be their last appearance together with hits of their own.
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Post by darnall42 on Nov 24, 2019 7:09:50 GMT -5
LM radio just starting the show from Nov 21st 1970
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Post by mrjukebox on Nov 24, 2019 8:29:31 GMT -5
The late Harry Chapin was instrumental in the foundation of World Hunger Year or WHY for short.
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Post by albe on Nov 24, 2019 9:47:27 GMT -5
This week's presentations (Weekend of November 30-December 1, 2019): December 1, 1973. American Top 10: An American Top 10 Christmas – Christmas Around The World – November 20, 2004 (HOLIDAY) - 3 hours. Wasn't the 11/20/04 version of AT10 "Christmas At The Movies"? From my records I have 11-12-2005 as Christmas at the Movies |
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Post by Hervard on Nov 24, 2019 11:26:02 GMT -5
Right, but billyonaire had previously listed 11/20/04 as "Christmas At The Movies" and 11/27/04 as "Christmas All Over The World". I believe the 2005 broadcasts of the show were, for the most part, the same as 2004, only played on different weeks and maybe changing up a few of the songs.
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Post by jmack19 on Nov 25, 2019 22:47:25 GMT -5
The optional extras for December 1, 1973:
"Smokin' In The Boys Room" Brownsville Station
"Let Me Be There" Olivia Newton-John
"Love's Theme" The Love Unlimited Orchestra
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