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Post by adam31 on Jul 22, 2011 11:55:46 GMT -5
Would any kind soul share/trade the recent 1979 show with me? I recorded the 1988 show but ran out of space for 1979. I have most shows for the last year for trade. Please pm me if can. Thanks!
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Post by dukelightning on Jul 23, 2011 6:21:30 GMT -5
There was Soul Makossa, considered by many to be the first disco song. Now the first disco song to hit #1 is considered by many to be Rock the Boat although it can be argued that Love's Theme or TSOP were the first. However, RTB was recorded before either of those songs. In fact, it was probably recorded around the time this show was recorded in July 73. It was on a Hues Corporation album that was released near the end of July making the recording of this song sometime that month in all likelihood.
Incredible all the great soul and funk on this countdown....Sly Stone, Johnny Taylor, James Brown's backup band, the song I mentioned above, Barry White and a few more, like Doctor John.
Did not live here at the time but that listing of all the stations in NC was incredible. Who would have thought that NC was such a hotbed for AT40?
That was a bittersweet story about Jim Croce. If does not make the career change he probably does not get on the plane that takes his life.
Casey got the prediction right to get their record up to 20 right and 9 wrong.
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Post by rgmike on Jul 23, 2011 12:45:47 GMT -5
There was Soul Makossa, considered by many to be the first disco song. But why didn't somebody correct Casey's mispronounciation of "makossa" -- Mr Dibango's correct pronouncer is right there on the record!  Note the after-the-fact censoring of the word "f*g" in "Uneasy Rider". |
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Post by reachinforthestars on Jul 23, 2011 12:48:14 GMT -5
There was Soul Makossa, considered by many to be the first disco song. Now the first disco song to hit #1 is considered by many to be Rock the Boat although it can be argued that Love's Theme or TSOP were the first. However, RTB was recorded before either of those songs. In fact, it was probably recorded around the time this show was recorded in July 73. It was on a Hues Corporation album that was released near the end of July making the recording of this song sometime that month in all likelihood. Don't forget those who believe "Love Train" was the first disco song. The Top 40 song I felt first embodied the sound of the disco era was "Armed And Extremely Dangerous" by First Choice. It's the first song that I can picture playing with a turning mirror ball. |
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Post by artsmusic on Jul 23, 2011 13:01:37 GMT -5
In my mind, when I hear the original K-Jee by the Nite-Liters that sure sounds like what we'd later identify as disco...and it was in the fall of 1971.
The "disco-ness" of that song in history is later reinforced by the MFSB cover version played in Saturday Night Fever.
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Post by erik on Jul 23, 2011 19:44:04 GMT -5
Those 1973 AT40 jingles are my all-time favorites. They were just a little bit "funkier." I always wondered why they ditched them in 1974 to return to the simpler jingles from the show's earlier years.
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Post by erik on Jul 23, 2011 19:53:29 GMT -5
I caught three censored lyrics from this weekend's 7/21/73 edition:
From "Uneasy Rider"
-"Well he's a friend of them long-haired hippie type pinko f***"
-"Well I had them all out there steppin' and fetchin' like their heads were on fire and their a**** was catchin'"
From "Money"
-"Don't give me that do goody good bull****"
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Post by caseyfan100 on Jul 23, 2011 20:14:01 GMT -5
Prediction for next weekend's show: July 31, 1976 (Backup prediction: July 31, 1971) I'll say the same. |
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Post by vto66 on Jul 23, 2011 21:46:53 GMT -5
Those 1973 AT40 jingles are my all-time favorites. They were just a little bit "funkier." I always wondered why they ditched them in 1974 to return to the simpler jingles from the show's earlier years. Yes, I wondered that myself. I thought those 1973 jingles were a little unusual at first, but, I have to say, I've grown quite fond of them, and I think AT40 may have made a mistake by returning to the original jingles in mid-1974. |
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Post by chrislc on Jul 23, 2011 22:50:22 GMT -5
There was Soul Makossa, considered by many to be the first disco song. Now the first disco song to hit #1 is considered by many to be Rock the Boat although it can be argued that Love's Theme or TSOP were the first. However, RTB was recorded before either of those songs. In fact, it was probably recorded around the time this show was recorded in July 73. It was on a Hues Corporation album that was released near the end of July making the recording of this song sometime that month in all likelihood. Don't forget those who believe "Love Train" was the first disco song. The Top 40 song I felt first embodied the sound of the disco era was "Armed And Extremely Dangerous" by First Choice. It's the first song that I can picture playing with a turning mirror ball. The ones I have heard cited most are Love Train, Keep On Truckin', TSOP, and Rock The Boat. Love Train really had a "new" sound to it at the time. I remember that. It was very exciting. The Love I Lost might be another contender when you think about it. |
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Post by chrislc on Jul 23, 2011 22:57:23 GMT -5
Oh wow. Yesterday Once More. Another one of those double-whammy nostalgia songs like Gladys Knight Try To Remember/The Way We Were.
I thought Yesterday Once More was sappy when I was 16. I was young and stupid. It is so beautiful and so d**n sad.
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Post by Hervard on Jul 24, 2011 10:03:11 GMT -5
Prediction for next weekend's show: July 31, 1976 (Backup prediction: July 31, 1971) Those sound like logical predictions. I'll go with those myself. |
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Post by briguy52748 on Jul 24, 2011 12:48:11 GMT -5
Sticking with my guns ... going back to AT40's very beginings and saying either July 25 or Aug. 1, 1970.
Yeah, I know both shows have been aired before, and in the case of July 25, it's been run twice. But this is one of those "musts," IMO ... and even know we know what to expect, it's one that listening to the show it just seems like you're a regular listener of "AT40: The 70s."
If it HAS to be a year other than 1970, I'd go Aug. 3, 1974 ... the first countdown produced and aired in my younger brother's lifetime. (Although he was born on July 25, the July 27 show reflects what was popular just before he was born.)
Brian
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Post by jmorgan on Jul 24, 2011 13:41:32 GMT -5
Just to let everyone know, I heard "Uneasy Rider" on this week's Rick Jackson's Country Hall Of Fame show, and it was played uncensored.
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Post by Dale Latimer on Jul 24, 2011 21:12:39 GMT -5
I caught three censored lyrics from this weekend's 7/21/73 edition: From "Uneasy Rider" -"Well he's a friend of them long-haired hippie type pinko f***" -"Well I had them all out there steppin' and fetchin' like their heads were on fire and their a**** was catchin'" From "Money" -"Don't give me that do goody good bull****" I think we've established, from earlier posts on 1973 shows, that the word after 'pinko' was edited by Premiere, while the other two were done by the respective record labels. |
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