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Post by dth1971 on Oct 14, 2024 17:58:11 GMT -5
So 10/20/73 is the A and 10/20/79 the B? A Facebook post just about confirms this.  Yes, 1973 is A and 1979 is B. I guess for the last weekend of October we could get 10/25/1975 as an A. Then we get for November and December the standalone period with Christmas B shows, followed by the year ender - Hoping it's the Top 80 of 1973 with #80-41 done by Ken Martin originally for WTOJ in 2016. |
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Post by trekkielo on Oct 14, 2024 19:13:16 GMT -5
A Facebook post just about confirms this. Yes, 1973 is A and 1979 is B. I guess for the last weekend of October we could get 10/25/1975 as an A. Then we get for November and December the standalone period with Christmas B shows, followed by the year ender - Hoping it's the Top 80 of 1973 with #80-341 done by Ken Martin originally for WTOJ in 2016. My Mom's birthday weekend, last spun in 2019, so I'm hoping for 11/22/1975, not played by Premiere since 2010! |
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Post by at40petebattistini on Oct 14, 2024 19:49:24 GMT -5
Nobody's asking about 1974? We're now 50 years out and, at this point in time, chart activity was whacked with #1s dropping like summer's insects.  |
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Post by mga707 on Oct 14, 2024 20:09:40 GMT -5
Nobody's asking about 1974? We're now 50 years out and, at this point in time, chart activity was whacked with #1s dropping like summer's insects. From listening to The Fox Oldies' multi-chart top 50 1974 countdowns every Thursday, Billboard's odd charts from 50 years ago are well-illustrated. A perfect example is Barry White: "Cant Get Enough Of Your Love Babe" is holding at #4 on last week's 10/12/74 Fox 50 chart, with wildly different chart positions on the four 'trades'--42 on Billboard; 23 on Cashbox; 18 on Record World; and #2 on the then-year-old Radio and Records 30-position chart! |
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Post by mga707 on Oct 14, 2024 20:11:38 GMT -5
Nobody's asking about 1974? We're now 50 years out and, at this point in time, chart activity was whacked with #1s dropping like summer's insects. Not to mention weird 'yo-yoing' chart runs for certain songs such as "Sweet Home Alabama". |
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Post by dth1971 on Oct 15, 2024 6:53:51 GMT -5
Yes, 1973 is A and 1979 is B. I guess for the last weekend of October we could get 10/25/1975 as an A. Then we get for November and December the standalone period with Christmas B shows, followed by the year ender - Hoping it's the Top 80 of 1973 with #80-341 done by Ken Martin originally for WTOJ in 2016. My Mom's birthday weekend, last spun in 2019, so I'm hoping for 11/22/1975, not played by Premiere since 2010! One alternate A show rather than 1975 could be 11/2/1974 (last aired in 2020) for the last weekend of October 2024. 10/26/1974 was played last year. |
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Post by lasvegaskid on Oct 15, 2024 9:02:30 GMT -5
KOKZ going w/4hr 1979
KQEL going w/AT32
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Post by lasvegaskid on Oct 15, 2024 9:05:31 GMT -5
Add Joyce and Jeff from last week's 1984 to your list Peteski You need to begin a post spotlighting these stats in the 80s thread. I could never match your AT40 wisdom and eloquencey Peteski. |
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Post by mrjukebox on Oct 15, 2024 16:51:06 GMT -5
What are the optional extras for 10/20/73?
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Post by mkarns on Oct 15, 2024 20:13:50 GMT -5
What are the optional extras for 10/20/73? A: October 20, 1973: Hour #1: "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" - Elton John (NR) Hour #2: "Monster Mash" - Bobby "Boris" Pickett & The Crypt-Kickers (NR) Hour #3: "Hello It's Me" - Todd Rundgren (#69) “Monster Mash” in 1973 had just returned to the top 10 upon reissue. It fits as an October optional extra with Halloween coming up (this is the same week it first hit #1 in 1962.) B: October 20, 1979: Hour #1: "No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)" - Barbra Streisand & Donna Summer (#59; highest debut) Hour #2: "That's The Way (I Like It)" - K.C. & The Sunshine Band (original AT40 Archive song) Hour #3: "Take The Long Way Home" - Supertramp (#54) Hour #4: "Cool Change" - The Little River Band (#73; debuted) |
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Post by at40petebattistini on Oct 15, 2024 21:07:18 GMT -5
What are the optional extras for 10/20/73? No optional extra tribute to Kris Kristofferson is needed as his lengthy, survey-riding “Why Me, Lord” appears in this countdown. But if anyone is listening for an artist tribute, Casey reflects on the Top 40 career of Jim Croce during this show, following his tragic death one month earlier. |
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Post by dth1971 on Oct 16, 2024 7:33:17 GMT -5
What are the optional extras for 10/20/73? A: October 20, 1973: Hour #1: "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" - Elton John (NR) Hour #2: "Monster Mash" - Bobby "Boris" Pickett & The Crypt-Kickers (NR) Hour #3: "Hello It's Me" - Todd Rundgren (#69) “Monster Mash” in 1973 had just returned to the top 10 upon reissue. It fits as an October optional extra with Halloween coming up (this is the same week it first hit #1 in 1962.) B: October 20, 1979: Hour #1: "No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)" - Barbra Streisand & Donna Summer (#59; highest debut) Hour #2: "That's The Way (I Like It)" - K.C. & The Sunshine Band (original AT40 Archive song) Hour #3: "Take The Long Way Home" - Supertramp (#54) Hour #4: "Cool Change" - The Little River Band (#73; debuted) Besides "Monster Mash" returning to Billboard's Hot 100 every Halloween season, other Halloween leaning songs have returned to Billboard's Hot 100 every Halloween season in recent years (like in the same matter old Christmas songs have returned to Billboard's Hot 100 in recent years thanks to streaming services and downloads or something like these) - mostly "Ghostbusters" by Ray Parker, Jr.; and "Thriller" by Michael Jackson. |
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Post by cursereversed on Oct 16, 2024 11:42:56 GMT -5
10/20/73 was the day of the "Saturday Night Massacre", when Richard Nixon ordered Attorney General Elliot Richardson to fire Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox, who was making serious headway into implicating Nixon in the Watergate scandal. Richardson refused and resigned instead, as did Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus when he was given the same order. Solicitor General Robert Bork was next in line to be AG and he did fire Cox. Impeachment proceedings against Nixon began 10 days later and he was forced to appoint a new Special Prosecutor.
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Post by dukelightning on Oct 16, 2024 16:13:32 GMT -5
What are the optional extras for 10/20/73? No optional extra tribute to Kris Kristofferson is needed as his lengthy, survey-riding “Why Me, Lord” appears in this countdown. But if anyone is listening for an artist tribute, Casey reflects on the Top 40 career of Jim Croce during this show, following his tragic death one month earlier. I had forgotten about that tribute and how Casey played clips of Jim Croce's first 4 hits. This was the first tribute to a just deceased artist in AT40 history. The tribute to Janis Joplin in 1971 came a few months after her death. AT40 knew about Croce's death before the previous show. But as Casey said, "I've got a name" debuted at 40. That would have been an awkward start to the show to have a tribute at that point. Casey did refer to him as the late Jim Croce in announcing the song in that show. |
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Post by dth1971 on Oct 17, 2024 7:47:45 GMT -5
No optional extra tribute to Kris Kristofferson is needed as his lengthy, survey-riding “Why Me, Lord” appears in this countdown. But if anyone is listening for an artist tribute, Casey reflects on the Top 40 career of Jim Croce during this show, following his tragic death one month earlier. I had forgotten about that tribute and how Casey played clips of Jim Croce's first 4 hits. This was the first tribute to a just deceased artist in AT40 history. The tribute to Janis Joplin in 1971 came a few months after her death. AT40 knew about Croce's death before the previous show. But as Casey said, "I've got a name" debuted at 40. That would have been an awkward start to the show to have a tribute at that point. Casey did refer to him as the late Jim Croce in announcing the song in that show. We also know the tribute Casey did for Elvis in 1977 and (via a last minute replacement disc) John Lennon after their deaths. But what's more memoriable was the 1991 Freddie Mercury tribute Shadoe Stevens did on a December 1991 AT40 with a Queen medley that ended with the best part of "Bohemian Rhaspody". |
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