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Post by Big Red Machine on Jun 29, 2011 10:11:04 GMT -5
^I agree with ponderousman and wahoo. I think it will be 7/14/73 = Frankenstein!!! which made it to #1.
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Post by matt on Jun 29, 2011 10:29:51 GMT -5
Ok, I am the one who is giving the clue for next week's show on Premiere. There is one instrumental that made it to #1 or #2 in the top 40. Remember that all 10 years of the 70s are in the mix. Have fun.  dukedeb--how do you know what the show is?? I'm impressed if you already know... |
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Post by bestmusicexpert on Jun 29, 2011 11:53:28 GMT -5
Hustle is an instrumental for sure. Any song with incidental vocals like Hustle & Fly Robin Fly are technically instrumentals like TSOP is.
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Post by Big Red Machine on Jun 29, 2011 12:13:08 GMT -5
Does anybody know why songs in 1974 and 1975 generally spent a few weeks on the chart? Where as in 1977 and 1978, they tended to stay longer. For example, "Old Days" only spent 7 weeks in the Top 40, where as "Angel In Your Arms" spent 19 weeks, even though it peaked lower. Was this just a coincidence? Or did the chart methodology change somewhere in between? Or did playlists just simply turnover more quickly in 1975, since there were so many songs to play?
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Post by bestmusicexpert on Jun 29, 2011 12:20:01 GMT -5
I wonder that too Franky. I like both songs, but Old Days was certainly a more memorable song, and is the one of those two that is still played.
Take Elton's Lucy In The Sky with Diamonds cover. That was a blip on the map in 1975 AND hit number one PLUS was a BEATLES cover!
Then in 1978 many artists didn't even hit #1 and stayed on the charts almost double the time.
I love I Go Crazy by Paul Davis, but thats a good example...
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Post by bestmusicexpert on Jun 29, 2011 12:41:58 GMT -5
Yeah, ever seen the movie FM? Makes me long for the days when radio wasn't so canned like it is now!
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Post by at40caseyfan on Jun 29, 2011 14:34:24 GMT -5
There are many online radio stream listeners like myself who still utilize low speed connections. It would be great if online radio stations offered both 32kb and 128kb and allowed listeners to select which speed. Otherwise, only offering 128kb eliminates low speed connection listeners. From my experiences, you are definitely correct when you state that sometimes 128 kb is not better than 64 kb, etc. Believe or not: sometimes 64 kb is not better than 32 kb. I found that codecs influence the sound quality of streams more than anything. WOGL has a new "AAS" stream option which is very bright. It's actually clearer for the mid and high-end parts of the records, but slights the bass. I compared it with other high-quality streams and I prefer the others. Check the "AT40 Stations List" thread which is very well-maintained. And sometimes 128kb is not better than 64. What also matters is how the station processes the sound before it goes out on the air or to the internet - i.e. with good compression, limiting, audio enhancement, etc. For me the bottom line has been hit and miss - experiment - check and record a number of stations' streams. Takes some effort to find decent streams. Right now for 70s I'll try to go terrestrial via KKLZ, and if I need 80s on the same weekend, I'll go WFMX and WQSR. If I need 80s only I'll go WRIP which is at the same time as KKLZ. WFMX plays both 80s and 70s shows back to back starting at 1AM EDT. A decent quality stream and they play all the optional extras. That's the simple solution. However on my system Sony Sound Forge Audio Studio won't save a .wav that long, so I wait for commercial, do a quick save (no edits - just save what you got) and quickly start a new file every couple of hours. |
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Post by bestmusicexpert on Jun 29, 2011 14:36:11 GMT -5
I don't think there are enough people with slow connections to not stream at the speed of at least 128, but when your internet is lagging, it IS nice to have that 64!
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Post by jdelachjr2002 on Jun 29, 2011 18:32:29 GMT -5
WHNN has this weekend's cue sheet up.
These artists are featured as optional extras:
Barbra Streisand ("The Way We Were")
Fleetwood Mac ("Over My Head")
James Brown ("Super Bad")
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Post by Ponderous Man on Jun 30, 2011 16:41:40 GMT -5
Since I won't be predicting extras for this week, I will go ahead with the show predictions for next weekend. Prediction for next weekend's show: July 14, 1973 (Backup prediction: July 14, 1979) Won't be predicting extras for July 4th weekend shows? Come on ponderousman aren't you adventurous? I don't predict artists. I predict songs. |
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Post by jgve1952 on Jun 30, 2011 18:36:53 GMT -5
I was looking ahead to July charts, and with the onset now of 1970, I found it so odd that AT 40 used the July 11th charts for both the July 4th and July 11th shows, completely skipped July 18th chart and on July 18th began using the July 25th charts, and stayed a week ahead until May 1971. Does anyone know of why the charts were a week ahead, and why it changed in May 1971. Curious minds want to know   |
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Post by dukelightning on Jun 30, 2011 19:57:11 GMT -5
I was looking ahead to July charts, and with the onset now of 1970, I found it so odd that AT 40 used the July 11th charts for both the July 4th and July 11th shows, completely skipped July 18th chart and on July 18th began using the July 25th charts, and stayed a week ahead until May 1971. Does anyone know of why the charts were a week ahead, and why it changed in May 1971. Curious minds want to know In the beginning, AT40 wanted to air the show and unveil the top 40 before it was published, making AT40 that much more suspenseful for the listener. So it had to be aired the week before the date of the chart to accomplish that. It put a lot of pressure on Casey and the producers, engineers, etc. because they had to do the show within 24-48 hours of when the chart was unveiled to them by Billboard and still get to stations in time for the weekend. They finally decided that this was not worth the effort and the risk of not getting the show to stations on time and in May 1971 went to doing the show to correspond with the chart date. To do that, they had to air a special the week of 5/1/71 to allow the broadcast date to correspond with the chart date. Hardly any listeners knew about the change because Casey was not giving the chart date at the end of each show. So it was an easy transition. |
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Post by jgve1952 on Jul 1, 2011 11:33:00 GMT -5
Thank you Dukedeb for that explanation. It is absolutely awesome how you know so much about AT 40 the 70's and 80's, and congratulations on your upcoming 1000 post!
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Post by matt on Jul 1, 2011 11:36:03 GMT -5
Yes dukedeb - you joined right after me and you are almost at 1000 posts! It's been fun to chat back and forth about the shows...
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Post by mrjukebox on Jul 1, 2011 18:00:43 GMT -5
Prediction for next week's show:7/14/73.
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