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Post by at40petebattistini on Oct 23, 2024 9:51:45 GMT -5
With Christmas programs from Premiere becoming available starting next weekend (November 2-3), the 2024 schedule with B-labeled weekly countdown shows is complete.
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Post by mga707 on Oct 23, 2024 10:27:00 GMT -5
With this years World Series set, I don't think anyone commented on Casey's story about Bobby Goldsboro in last week's show. But the World Series that year was wrapping up the weekend of the 10/20/73 show with games 6 and 7 played on the 20th and 21st. (old person rant) ...which is when the Series SHOULD be played. NOT stretching into November! |
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Post by cursereversed on Oct 23, 2024 11:59:39 GMT -5
Normally I would be annoyed at having #1 spoiled (I actually thought it was "Midnight Train To Georgia) but in this case now I know I can turn the show off a little early. Only Stones song I can honestly say I hate. Sorry, didn't even think about 'spoiling'. Guess I assume everyone active here has access to Whitburn, UMD, Billboard archives, etc. One week early for Gladys. I do have access to them, I just choose not to look. And I probably shouldn't have made it sound that harsh--I knew "Angie" and the even worse "Half Breed" were up there and were around #1, I just wasn't sure which one was at the top. (I ended up turning it off during the intro to Cher) |
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Post by at40petebattistini on Oct 23, 2024 12:25:07 GMT -5
AT40 trivia for October 1976…
With the end of 1976 in sight, many of AT40’s 350 affiliates noticed a weekend conundrum with Christmas Day appearing on a Saturday. And as announced to stations earlier in the year, the only Casey Kasem program available for airing the weekend of December 25-26 was the Top 100 of 1976, either in part or in its entirety. Like in 1974 and 1975, Watermark temporarily broke AT40’s weekly 3-hour timeframe and designed 1976’s year-end production as two 4-hour shows or one complete 8-hour broadcast. But Christmas on a weekend offered a programming complication. In addition, notification sent to stations also pointed out that the next ‘new’ show would not be available until the weekend of January 8-9, 1977.
Obviously, for the year’s Top 100, affiliates had numerous programming options. And as a result, some ‘American Top 40’ outlets discovered the need for a filler program. Thinking outside the box, a few inquired about the possibility of also airing the AT40 Christmas show from 3 years earlier. Watermark’s response was to provide interested stations with the 1973 holiday countdown, slightly updated, for affiliate use during AT40’s regular timeslot the weekend of December 25-26. It was a solution that many stations took advantage of, and provided this as a bonus program to listeners.
One station’s action… In Chicago, WMET-FM regularly aired AT40 on Sundays from 7-10am. Passing on the Christmas show idea as part of their holiday schedule, they opted to showcase the entire Top 100 of 1976 in a one-time airing, with the station slating Casey’s year-end presentation as a New Year’s Eve broadcast (Friday, Dec. 31), from 4pm-12midnight. With two Sunday morning AT40 slots needing to be filled (December 26 and January 2), WMET spotlighted two previously aired AT40 specials, the “Top 40 Artists of the 1950s” and the “Top 40 Singles of the Beatle Years.” Overexposure to Casey Kasem? Never!
And now back to the countdown…
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Post by OnWithTheCountdown on Oct 23, 2024 13:32:11 GMT -5
With this years World Series set, I don't think anyone commented on Casey's story about Bobby Goldsboro in last week's show. But the World Series that year was wrapping up the weekend of the 10/20/73 show with games 6 and 7 played on the 20th and 21st. (old person rant) ...which is when the Series SHOULD be played. NOT stretching into November! I would agree, though there's added rounds of the postseason now...and the start of the regular season is a little early, too, from a weather perspective...yet the owners won't shorten the season from 162 games, in which I side with them. Well, if the Dodgers or Yankees can win it within 5 games, we won't have November baseball. 😁 That said, go Dodgers!!! |
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Post by doofus67 on Oct 23, 2024 17:30:48 GMT -5
One station’s action… In Chicago, WMET-FM regularly aired AT40 on Sundays from 7-10am. Passing on the Christmas show idea as part of their holiday schedule, they opted to showcase the entire Top 100 of 1976 in a one-time airing, with the station slating Casey’s year-end presentation as a New Year’s Eve broadcast (Friday, Dec. 31), from 4pm-12midnight. It must have been WMET's lead that WRKR, an FM station about 70 miles up the road in Racine, followed when they made the same programming decision. The first year-end show I enjoyed was 1980, but I'm sure the New Year's Eve thing was happening at least a couple of years before that. |
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Post by at40petebattistini on Oct 23, 2024 18:27:45 GMT -5
One station’s action… In Chicago, WMET-FM regularly aired AT40 on Sundays from 7-10am. Passing on the Christmas show idea as part of their holiday schedule, they opted to showcase the entire Top 100 of 1976 in a one-time airing, with the station slating Casey’s year-end presentation as a New Year’s Eve broadcast (Friday, Dec. 31), from 4pm-12midnight. It must have been WMET's lead that WRKR, an FM station about 70 miles up the road in Racine, followed when they made the same programming decision. The first year-end show I enjoyed was 1980, but I'm sure the New Year's Eve thing was happening at least a couple of years before that. A very possible scenario. Casey first welcomed WRKR in December 1975, just before the year-end show. In addition, I believe Gary Price, WMET’s program director, worked in Milwaukee prior to moving to Chicago. |
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Post by dukelightning on Oct 23, 2024 21:16:15 GMT -5
(old person rant) ...which is when the Series SHOULD be played. NOT stretching into November! I would agree, though there's added rounds of the postseason now...and the start of the regular season is a little early, too, from a weather perspective...yet the owners won't shorten the season from 162 games, in which I side with them. Well, if the Dodgers or Yankees can win it within 5 games, we won't have November baseball. 😁 That said, go Dodgers!!! We will need to get back to tye countdown here as this is getting off track a bit. But 50 years ago, not only did the World Series end in October but the Super Bowl was in January and the NBA and NHL seasons ended in May. Now all 4 leagues go into the next month! |
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Post by doofus67 on Oct 23, 2024 23:40:31 GMT -5
We will need to get back to tye countdown here as this is getting off track a bit. Listen to the boss. |
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Post by OnWithTheCountdown on Oct 24, 2024 3:14:45 GMT -5
We will need to get back to the countdown here as this is getting off track a bit. Listen to the boss. Oh, I have...in many of the 1984 AT40 shows I've listened to this year. 😂 |
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Post by dth1971 on Oct 24, 2024 7:09:58 GMT -5
It must have been WMET's lead that WRKR, an FM station about 70 miles up the road in Racine, followed when they made the same programming decision. The first year-end show I enjoyed was 1980, but I'm sure the New Year's Eve thing was happening at least a couple of years before that. A very possible scenario. Casey first welcomed WRKR in December 1975, just before the year-end show. In addition, I believe Gary Price, WMET’s program director, worked in Milwaukee prior to moving to Chicago. Did Metromedia, then owner of WMET, own WRKR Racine, Wisconsin too? |
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Post by dukelightning on Oct 24, 2024 19:36:55 GMT -5
Casey mentioned on several occasions that the Bay area group had 3 incarnations...Jefferson Airplane, Jefferson Starship and Starship. But they really had a 4th incarnation...Jefferson Starship 2.0 I'll call it. And that easy listening sound that Casey talked about precipitated it. After their 4 such hits, some band members were concerned about their image as more of a soft rock band. By the way, it's interesting hearing Casey using the terms "easy listening' and "acid rock'. Rarely used them especially acid rock. Of course the chart that is known as the AC chart was still called Easy Listening, until 1979. Anyway, that was not a sound that Grace Slick for example was fond of. So changes were made. Marty Balin was shown the door and was replaced by Mickey Thomas. Jefferson Stsrship 2.0 started in 1979 with their hit "Jane" introducing mainstream rock as their new sound.
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Post by mga707 on Oct 24, 2024 20:55:44 GMT -5
WSQL's stream did sound a bit better this afternoon/evening than it has the past two post-Helene Thursdays.
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Post by jmack19 on Oct 24, 2024 23:22:49 GMT -5
I'll go with 11/4/72 over 11/3/79 & 11/5/77 for next weekend. The 1972 show was an A show in 2012, a B show in 2015.
1979 is due. 11/3/79 only airing as the A show was the 3-hour version in 2010, but it did air as a B show in 2022.
1977 has not been featured as an A show since August. 11/5/77 was last featured by Premiere in 2021.
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Post by seminolefan on Oct 25, 2024 0:24:43 GMT -5
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