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Post by mrjukebox on Nov 21, 2024 20:21:42 GMT -5
On this week's presentation from 11/22/75,Casey did an update on singer Billy Joe Royal-In October 2015,Royal passed away in his sleep at the age of 73.
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Post by mrjukebox on Nov 21, 2024 20:24:04 GMT -5
There's a boatload of forgotten favorites from 11/22/75 such as "Operator","Our Day Will Come","Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain" & "Eighteen With A Bullet".
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Post by dukelightning on Nov 21, 2024 20:37:31 GMT -5
That question is a unique one because the answer changed from the time it was probably written a month or 2 prior to this show. Seeing as how the highest Hot 100 debut occurred just a week earlier. Neither one of the answers hit #1. "Old Days" was at #17 in its first and last week's on AT40. A hit in this show nearly had a similar chart run. "Something Better to do" is spending its only week in the 40 not in the teens. It debuted at 19, peaked at 13 and fell from 17 this week. And "The Last Game of the Season" peaked at 18 or one notch below where "Old Days" debuted.
A story involving an artist doing a commercial in the Grand Canyon was followed by a song whose first verse includes the line 'I would love to slide down into your canyon'. Clever tie in by AT40? Almost certainly not. "I'm Wanna Do Something Freaky to You" was frequently edited as it was to just over 2 minutes in this show. So the edit allowed them to put that story in just before that song. Perfect example of how these stories and extras from earlier times in this 1975 to Sept 1978 time frame forced them to edit sings. Btw, that's not even the shortest song in the show. "Operator" was right at 2 minutes!
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Post by seminolefan on Nov 21, 2024 20:50:30 GMT -5
There's a boatload of forgotten favorites from 11/22/75 such as "Operator","Our Day Will Come","Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain" & "Eighteen With A Bullet". Regarding "Eighteen With a Bullet", in this week's show it's at #18...with a bullet. 😉 |
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Post by jmack19 on Nov 21, 2024 23:26:57 GMT -5
I'll go with 11/26/77 over 12/1/73 for next weekend. 11/26/77 was last aired by Premiere in 2017.
The 1973 show last aired in 2019.
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Post by djjoe1960 on Nov 22, 2024 5:25:34 GMT -5
There's a boatload of forgotten favorites from 11/22/75 such as "Operator","Our Day Will Come","Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain" & "Eighteen With A Bullet". Regarding "Eighteen With a Bullet", in this week's show it's at #18...with a bullet. 😉 The song was #18 in Cash Box (of course with a bullet), while Record World apparently didn't get the memo--placing the song at #19 on their chart.  |
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Post by dukelightning on Nov 22, 2024 6:56:51 GMT -5
This week's show features the latest in the countdown placement of the biggest mover, "Fly Robin Fly" 16-2. This is during the 18 years of the Premiere AT40 series. Paul McCartney had the biggest movers to both #1 and 3 with "Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey 12-1 and "Live and Let Die" 21-3. But neither one were that week's biggest mover.
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Post by at40petebattistini on Nov 22, 2024 7:53:08 GMT -5
Interesting to note that three of the seven debut songs from 11/22/75 were headed for # 1:"Theme From Mahogany","I Write The Songs" & "Love Rollercoaster". If after listening to the 11/22/75 show, and you struggle to remember that Casey recently introduced Barry Manilow's "I Write The Songs" elsewhere (not as a debut single), you're not losing it. The song was dropping on the survey (at #20) on February 28, 1976, the AT40 show just featured Thursday night on XM. "I Write The Songs" remained on AT40 one more week, until March 6, 1976. |
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Post by doofus67 on Nov 22, 2024 17:30:54 GMT -5
Regarding "Eighteen With a Bullet", in this week's show it's at #18...with a bullet. 😉 The song was #18 in Cash Box (of course with a bullet), while Record World apparently didn't get the memo--placing the song at #19 on their chart. Radio & Records was out of the loop as well. They had it at #19, up from #21. |
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Post by dth1971 on Nov 23, 2024 10:49:58 GMT -5
The song was #18 in Cash Box (of course with a bullet), while Record World apparently didn't get the memo--placing the song at #19 on their chart. Radio & Records was out of the loop as well. They had it at #19, up from #21. And I wonder how Gavin Report if it existed in the 1970's ranked "Eighteen with a Bullet". Same for Top 40 radio stations WLS AM Chicago, WCFL AM Chicago, and WABC AM New York City. |
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Post by rgmike on Nov 23, 2024 12:55:25 GMT -5
Radio & Records was out of the loop as well. They had it at #19, up from #21. And I wonder how Gavin Report if it existed in the 1970's ranked "Eighteen with a Bullet". Same for Top 40 radio stations WLS AM Chicago, WCFL AM Chicago, and WABC AM New York City. It was not a big hit on WABC: debuted as a Hot Prospect, was #37 the following week, and then disappeared. |
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Post by at40petebattistini on Nov 23, 2024 13:02:31 GMT -5
And I wonder how Gavin Report if it existed in the 1970's ranked "Eighteen with a Bullet". Same for Top 40 radio stations WLS AM Chicago, WCFL AM Chicago, and WABC AM New York City. It was not a big hit on WABC: debuted as a Hot Prospect, was #37 the following week, and then disappeared. In Chicago, "Eighteen With A Bullet" never appeared on the WLS survey. However, it reached #3 on WCFL. |
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Post by jmack19 on Nov 23, 2024 14:07:51 GMT -5
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Post by dth1971 on Nov 23, 2024 16:02:30 GMT -5
WVLI Kankakee now has for AT40: The 70's 11/22/1975 right now this Saturday afternoon!
The first 7 songs from #40-#34 are debuts!
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Post by dth1971 on Nov 23, 2024 17:25:25 GMT -5
That question is a unique one because the answer changed from the time it was probably written a month or 2 prior to this show. Seeing as how the highest Hot 100 debut occurred just a week earlier. Neither one of the answers hit #1. "Old Days" was at #17 in its first and last week's on AT40. A hit in this show nearly had a similar chart run. "Something Better to do" is spending its only week in the 40 not in the teens. It debuted at 19, peaked at 13 and fell from 17 this week. And "The Last Game of the Season" peaked at 18 or one notch below where "Old Days" debuted. A story involving an artist doing a commercial in the Grand Canyon was followed by a song whose first verse includes the line 'I would love to slide down into your canyon'. Clever tie in by AT40? Almost certainly not. "I'm Wanna Do Something Freaky to You" was frequently edited as it was to just over 2 minutes in this show. So the edit allowed them to put that story in just before that song. Perfect example of how these stories and extras from earlier times in this 1975 to Sept 1978 time frame forced them to edit sings. Btw, that's not even the shortest song in the show. "Operator" was right at 2 minutes! Regarding Manhattan Transfer: It would have been still 2 minutes if the accapella opening was removed and the instrumental bridge or something like that was heard for "Operator". |
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