AT40: The 70s ... This Week's Show

[dukelightning]

Nov 1, 2024 0:32:23 GMT -5 mkarns said:

Oct 31, 2024 20:48:43 GMT -5 dukelightning said:

Quite a show with the long versions of not 1 but 2 songs...""American City Suite" and "Nights in White Satin". Now playing 2 long versions of songs that are only a minute or so longer as happened with "Freddie's Dead" on the last 1972 show is one thing. But the long versions of those 2 songs are a lot more than a minute longer. This is the only AT40 in which that happened. Hearing this show for the second time ever and except for maybe hearing it on YouTube once or twice, these are the only times I have heard the long version of Suite. Enjoyed it.
Now this was a professionally done show as they all were by Casey. But I counted 7 or 8 songs which were cut off to make room for those long versions. Didn't think that was too good. This seems to be the first time they ever had to cutoff or edit songs as it was not necessary previously. Later on they would get more creative and professional by editing out verses as happened in last weeks 1976 show. Bottom line, they should have played one of the long versions and played the other one the next week. This was the only time either song's long version was played too.

And this wasn't the longest version of "American City Suite". The 45 ran for 7:45, but the album version lasted nearly eleven minutes. At least Premiere apparently didn't cut it down this week as they sometimes have before.

Unfortunately, we probably won't get a supersized version of this show from WTOJ as tomorrow they start their Christmas programming. But if you're looking for the holiday show then they should play it.

That's a good point about "American City Suite". Pete correctly noted it as an edited long version in his book. I think i can count on one hand the number of times Pete made that notification in his 2 books.