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Post by papathree on Nov 5, 2022 11:38:00 GMT -5
The music reference books I have say that Al is from Forrest City,Arkansas. Which makes some of us question why Casey's writer(s) scripted him to say "Memphis Al Green" as often as he did. It is true Al RECORDED in Memphis, but that doesn't change where he is from.
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Post by djjoe1960 on Nov 5, 2022 14:51:39 GMT -5
Record World folded in April 1982 (as us Fox Oldies listeners know), so Harve must've used a different source after that. Did R&R or Cashbox or Gavin Report have an album chart of their own? Cash Box had an album chart based on sales and R & R had an album airplay chart--not sure about Gavin. Perhaps National Album Countdown used Cash Box or R & R after Record World ended in April, 1982.
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Post by mga707 on Nov 5, 2022 14:59:24 GMT -5
The music reference books I have say that Al is from Forrest City,Arkansas. Which makes some of us question why Casey's writer(s) scripted him to say "Memphis Al Green" as often as he did. It is true Al RECORDED in Memphis, but that doesn't change where he is from. Forrest City is only 40 miles down I-40 from West Memphis AR, right across the Mississippi from Memphis proper. It's in the Memphis area, although not quite Memphis metro.
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Post by dth1971 on Nov 6, 2022 9:15:16 GMT -5
The AT10 Christmas at the Movies episode from the 2000's mentions Casey saying that "A Charlie Brown Christmas" has been a TV tradition every year, but as of this Christmas year in 2022 "A Charlie Brown Christmas" will not be broadcast on TV (1965-2000 on CBS, 2001-2019 on ABC, and 2020-2021 on PBS) and be streamed on AppleTV+.
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Post by dth1971 on Nov 12, 2022 9:14:46 GMT -5
On the AT40 1973 Christmas episode, Casey mentioned before playing "Santa Claus is Watching You" by Ray Stevens that Ray who at the time was country ballard leaning was originally a country novelty act. Little did Casey know that a year later in 1974 Ray Stevens would make a novelty comeback thanks to the #1 song "The Streak".
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Post by lasvegaskid on Nov 12, 2022 10:29:20 GMT -5
On this week's 1978 show Casey reverse jinxed Foreigner saying their last Hot Blooded made it to #3 but 2x vision was trying to go higher. it did, to #2.
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Post by mga707 on Nov 14, 2022 22:25:36 GMT -5
On this week's 1977 show Casey said Swingtown was shifting Miller's hitmaking into high gear. More like neutral, it would be another 4 years before Steve would have another top 40. Am presently listening to the top 50 from this week in '77 on Foxoldies.com. "Swingtown" is substantially lower-ranked on Billboard than on the other three 'trades' of the era: #34, vs 24 on CB, 23 on RW, and already up to 12 on R&R! Peaked only at 17 on BB. I also noticed two months ago that "Jungle Love" peaked lower on Billboard than on the other three. For some reason Billboard didn't rank the second and third singles from "Book Of Dreams" as highly as the other publications did.
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Post by mkarns on Nov 14, 2022 22:36:24 GMT -5
On this week's 1977 show Casey said Swingtown was shifting Miller's hitmaking into high gear. More like neutral, it would be another 4 years before Steve would have another top 40. Am presently listening to the top 50 from this week in '77 on Foxoldies.com. "Swingtown" is substantially lower-ranked on Billboard than on the other three 'trades' of the era: #34, vs 24 on CB, 23 on RW, and already up to 12 on R&R! Peaked only at 17 on BB. I also noticed two months ago that "Jungle Love" peaked lower on Billboard than on the other three. For some reason Billboard didn't rank the second and third singles from "Book Of Dreams" as highly as the other publications did. Even the first single, "Jet Airliner", did better on R&R (#3) than in Billboard (#8). Most people buying the album rather than the singles? Though, conversely, it's worth noting that Steve's biggest hit of the 1980s, "Abracadabra", did better in Billboard (#1) than Radio & Records (#3).
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Post by dth1971 on Nov 15, 2022 6:35:59 GMT -5
Am presently listening to the top 50 from this week in '77 on Foxoldies.com. "Swingtown" is substantially lower-ranked on Billboard than on the other three 'trades' of the era: #34, vs 24 on CB, 23 on RW, and already up to 12 on R&R! Peaked only at 17 on BB. I also noticed two months ago that "Jungle Love" peaked lower on Billboard than on the other three. For some reason Billboard didn't rank the second and third singles from "Book Of Dreams" as highly as the other publications did. Even the first single, "Jet Airliner", did better on R&R (#3) than in Billboard (#8). Most people buying the album rather than the singles? Though, conversely, it's worth noting that Steve's biggest hit of the 1980s, "Abracadabra", did better in Billboard (#1) than Radio & Records (#3). And after "Abracadabra". Steve Miller never made Billboard's Hot 100 top 40 reaches/AT40 reaches again, but in 1993 Steve Miller made the R&R Top 40 reaches used for Casey's Top 40 and Rick Dees once more with "Wide River".
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Post by bobbo428 on Nov 18, 2022 21:19:25 GMT -5
Casey jinxed Burton Cummings in this week's countdown, saying that his solo career was off to a great start. After "Sand Tall," he never made the top 30 again. His only other top-40 hit was featured in a recent 1981 countdown. Cummings deserved better: "I'm Scared" should have made the top 40, and my favorite song of his solo work is 1978's "Dream of a Child," which was an album cut.
The B-side of "Stand Tall" was a song called "Burch Magic," and the only Burch I ever knew, Sue, was when that song was popular.
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Post by lasvegaskid on Nov 18, 2022 21:38:28 GMT -5
Casey jinxed Burton Cummings in this week's countdown, saying that his solo career was off to a great start. After "Sand Tall," he never made the top 30 again. His only other top-40 hit was featured in a recent 1981 countdown. Cummings deserved better: "I'm Scared" should have made the top 40, and my favorite song of his solo work is 1978's "Dream of a Child," which was an album cut. The B-side of "Stand Tall" was a song called "Burch Magic," and the only Burch I ever knew, Sue, was when that song was popular. I'm Scared reached #61 on the Hot 100 as the followup to 'Tall
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Post by lasvegaskid on Nov 20, 2022 12:59:40 GMT -5
Call it the hex of Dave Roberts, on this week's 1981 show he said Endless Love could be the #1 song of the year. But DR & LR finished 2nd to Bette Davis' Eyes.
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Post by mkarns on Nov 20, 2022 13:38:10 GMT -5
Speaking of year end shows, in this week's 1976 show Casey said "A Fifth of Beethoven" was a good candidate for #1 song of the year. Instead it ranked at #10 in Billboard's year end rankings.
Still, that's better than some other big hits in this countdown, such as "Disco Duck"--a former #1 that ranked #97 for 1976--or "Rock'n Me" and "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald", which respectively hit #1 and #2 and didn't show up at all on Billboard's 1976 or 1977 year end lists.
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Post by mkarns on Nov 20, 2022 19:36:20 GMT -5
On 11/22/86, Casey answered a question about women with the most top 40 hits in the 1980s. The winner, “who has yet to have a #1 hit”, was Pat Benatar, who only had one more AT40 hit, “All Fired Up”, which peaked at #19 in summer 1988.
Also mentioned were Diana Ross and Olivia Newton-John, neither of whom had any more pop top 40 hits (unless you count Olivia’s part in the “Grease Megamix”, which made Casey’s Top 40 in 1996-97.)
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Post by dth1971 on Nov 20, 2022 21:25:37 GMT -5
Call it the hex of Dave Roberts, on this week's 1981 show he said Endless Love could be the #1 song of the year. But DR & LR finished 2nd to Bette Davis' Eyes. Was that Casey's jinx of that song a few weeks prior on 10/31/1981?
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