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Post by vto66 on Oct 15, 2007 0:25:39 GMT -5
This weekend's (9/29-30/07) edition of "Casey Kasem's American Top 40: The 70s" features a rebroadcast of the program from 9/29/73. I was hoping they would play the last 3-hour show!(9/30/78). I understand your disappointment. Personally, I was hoping XM 70s would run one of the four AT40 shows from late 1979 that used a different opening theme (the same one that stayed on as hour-opening and show-closing theme music until 1984), but so far they haven't. They did come close, however, playing the October 27, 1979 show, which was a week after the opening music was changed back. Maybe that 9/30/1978 show (which XM did run) will be on the syndicated AT40 next year. |
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Post by Scott Lakefield on Oct 17, 2007 10:08:38 GMT -5
This weekend's (10/20-21/07) edition of "AT40: The 70s" will feature a rebroadcast of the show from 10/16/71.
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Post by Scott Lakefield on Oct 23, 2007 13:44:57 GMT -5
Well, this ought to be interesting...this weekend's (10/27-28/07) edition of "AT40: The 70s" will feature a rebroadcast of the show from 10/14/78. That was a four-hour show originally...question is, how long will the show be when it re-airs? Four hours? Or will it be crammed into three hours? Details...coming up!  |
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Post by Scott Lakefield on Oct 25, 2007 10:43:22 GMT -5
So, for those of you wondering "how do you get a four-hour show squeezed into three hours" for this week's rebroadcast of the 10/14/78 show on "AT40: The 70s," it was actually pretty easy. There were 8 non-countdown songs (2 LDDs plus 6 extras) played in the show originally...none of which will be heard on the rebroadcast.
The songs NOT heard are:
"Lowdown" / Boz Skaggs (originally heard after #38)
"Thank You" / Sly & the Family Stone (originally heard after #31)
LDD/"Knowing Me, Knowing You"/Abba (orig. heard after #28)
"Bridge Over Troubled Water" / Simon & Garfunkel (orig. after #21)
"Evil Ways" / Santana (originally heard after #16)
"Let It Be" / Beatles (originally heard after #11)
LDD/"Afternoon Delight" / Starland Vocal Band (orig. after #6)
"Bad, Bad Leroy Brown" / Jim Croce (originally heard after #5)
If you ask me, this works. My guess is that none of the countdown songs needed to be edited to make this happen. And you still get to hear Casey count down the top 40, which is the main purpose (duh) of "American Top 40."
Now, what I'd love to see Premiere do to increase the variety of the "AT40: The 70s" show, is to edit the previous week's top 3 plus extras from 1979 shows and presenting those as three-hour rebroadcasts.
What DID surprise me, however, is that none of the optional segments in the rebroadcast contains any of the original extras or LDDs. Personally, I would have given Ed McMann the week off. Other than that, I think this will be a good presentation.
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Post by Mark Johnson on Oct 26, 2007 1:52:33 GMT -5
Are they playing the AT40 Archives on this show since they had just started?
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Post by Scott Lakefield on Oct 26, 2007 9:47:58 GMT -5
No. There are NO extras heard on the show. Just numbers 40 through 1.
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Post by nickle98499 on Oct 26, 2007 10:26:23 GMT -5
The way that they are airing this four hour show in a three hour timeslot kind of sounds like the way they used to do the AT40 Flashback shows, only for AT40 Flashback they started the countdown in the 31-34 range and they aired all the LDD's and even some of the extras.
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Post by steveironcity on Oct 27, 2007 16:55:07 GMT -5
Afternoon delight as a LDD? Id like to hear that one!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Post by steveironcity on Oct 27, 2007 17:08:58 GMT -5
This stations streams this great show every saturday night at 8 pm eastern time www.wnns.com/ |
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Post by Scott Lakefield on Oct 30, 2007 11:04:21 GMT -5
This weekend's (11/3-4/07) edition of "AT40: The 70s" will feature a rebroadcast of the show from 11/7/70. Other than the rebroadcast of the first show, this will be the first show from 1970 heard as part of this series.
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Post by dtradio on Oct 31, 2007 16:37:45 GMT -5
This stations streams this great show every saturday night at 8 pm eastern time www.wnns.com/Like most stations, this is a 32K stream with a decent sound and keeps you logged in case you record it while doing other things(!) The show that precedes the countdown is worth a listen too. KCEZ Chico, CA ( www.chicooldies.com/) also has a decent continuous stream for Saturday mornings at 7 Pacific (10AM Eastern). On the subject of the 4-to-3 hour conversion, who is to thank for letting us hear the 78-79 material? Last week's re-broadcast was great. |
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Post by dtradio on Oct 31, 2007 16:52:55 GMT -5
No. There are NO extras heard on the show. Just numbers 40 through 1. Actually, two extras not in the original were thrown in. Filling time perhaps: 1. Ed introduces Al Stewart's "Time Passages" as "climbing up the chart" 2. Casey introduces Edgar Winter Band's "Frankenstein" as the "Hallowe'en Extra", which may have been from the 10/30/76 broadcast (complete with the mid-70's Moog music bed). |
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Post by Scott Lakefield on Nov 1, 2007 12:50:44 GMT -5
Ooops...I meant to say that there were no extras aside from the optional segments.
The "Frankenstein" piece voiced by Casey wasn't from the 1978 show.
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Post by joshb80 on Nov 1, 2007 17:55:31 GMT -5
I just discovered this past weekend that Magic 96 WMJJ in Birmingham, AL is airing these programs on Saturday morning's and Sunday afternoons. It appears to be the same show each day, or at least it was last weekend. Maybe they will start airing the 70's show on Saturdays and the 80's on Sundays. Just thankful that Casey is back on Magic 96!
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Post by tacomalo on Nov 1, 2007 23:10:41 GMT -5
For us early 1970s geezers, that is great news. I assume it is the 11/7/70 broadcast of the 11/14/70 chart? This weekend's (11/3-4/07) edition of "AT40: The 70s" will feature a rebroadcast of the show from 11/7/70. Other than the rebroadcast of the first show, this will be the first show from 1970 heard as part of this series. |
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