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Post by blackbowl68 on Apr 1, 2013 8:20:43 GMT -5
I'm just curious...did AT40 always play that all hi-NRG version of "Livin' For The Weekend" throughout its chart run? I do remember the song had slow/mid-tempo parts at the beginning & end of the record.
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Post by Showman on Apr 1, 2013 9:24:05 GMT -5
I didn't notice how short it was! I wonder if that's the way it was originally broadcast in 1976, or if that's Premiere's doing. It was obvious from listening to only a short segment of it that it was the 1973 commercial single/1976 promotional single version, though, which is not only shorter than the album version but also a noticeably different mix. That 3:25/Intro 0:13 timing matches what is printed on the label of both the 1973 U.S. commercial single and the "short version" side of the 1976 U.S. promotional single, so I'm sure it's the same version. Interesting that Holland and the U.K. apparently went with the 1973 single version when this song resurfaced in '76, while the U.S. went with the album version for the commercial release. "Somebody" was on the B-side of both the 1973 and 1976 U.S. singles. According to Wikipedia, "Dream On" wasn't a big hit in the U.K. (the 1976 release only got to #76), where Aerosmith was apparently never very popular until the late '80s; not sure about The Netherlands. Thanks for the info. 'Dream On' belatedly entered the Dutch Top 40 in January 1994 peaking at #12! www.top40.nl/aerosmith/aerosmith-dream-on_6100 |
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Post by JMW on May 24, 2013 16:40:34 GMT -5
Was the version of One Night in Bangkok that can be heard on this week's 1985 countdown the only one played on AT40?
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Post by michaelcasselman on May 24, 2013 16:54:42 GMT -5
I'm pretty sure they played both the longer orchestral opening (LP?) and the shorter synth opening (singles version?) during it's run.
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Post by mstgator on May 24, 2013 20:33:21 GMT -5
^ My memory is that they always played the orchestral opening (you are correct, this is the LP version). Apart from AT40, I always heard the single version on the radio.
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Post by JMW on Jun 21, 2013 16:28:31 GMT -5
Heart's Nothing At All on the 6/21/1986 countdown sounds a lot different than what I've heard on the radio over the years. Does anyone know what version it is?
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Post by kchkwong on Jun 27, 2013 9:09:06 GMT -5
Heart's Nothing At All on the 6/21/1986 countdown sounds a lot different than what I've heard on the radio over the years. Does anyone know what version it is? It's the original album version. Later releases of the album used an alternate mix of the song (I think the alternate mix is the single version). |
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Post by JMW on Jul 5, 2013 16:55:12 GMT -5
Was the version of Safety Dance that was played as the third extra in this week's 1983 show ever heard on AT40 or was it only the "SSSS-AAAA-FFFF-EEEE-TTTT-YYYY" version (which is the only version I've heard whenever a 1983 show aired with that song in the countdown)?
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Post by mstgator on Jul 6, 2013 14:46:21 GMT -5
Was the version of Safety Dance that was played as the third extra in this week's 1983 show ever heard on AT40 or was it only the "SSSS-AAAA-FFFF-EEEE-TTTT-YYYY" version (which is the only version I've heard whenever a 1983 show aired with that song in the countdown)? My recollection is that AT40 never played the album version of "The Safety Dance" (which has the word "safety" spelled out in the intro and the bridge), aside from a piece heard in a Flashback during the Shadoe years. Instead they stuck with the shorter single mix. |
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Post by bestmusicexpert on Jul 27, 2014 8:50:42 GMT -5
Bump due to the mention of the thread.
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Post by cachiva on Aug 10, 2014 15:23:06 GMT -5
As Casey mentioned that Steve Miller stole the intro to "Rockin' Me" from Free's "All Right Now" while introducing "Jet Airliner" on the show that Sirius XM played this week (August, 1977), it reminded me of the very different version of "All RIght Now" that Casey played when the song debuted back in 1970. Does anyone remember that?
Another, from the Spring of 1973, was an impossibly long version of "I'll Always Love My Mama" which felt like it went on for 10 minutes!
Lastly, on the May 12, 1979 show, Casey plays an extended version of Sylvester's "I Who Have Nothing" (while teling a very gay-friendly for the times story of Sylester's cross-dressing). I have never found that version anywhere else. Also curious is that this is the only song he plays for the entire segment. The show had opened with the replay of the previous week's top 3, then took a break, and came back to play just Sylvester at #40. I have never heard an American Top 40 where only one song was played to fill an entire segment. Have you?
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Post by 80sat40fan on Aug 10, 2014 15:43:12 GMT -5
The show had opened with the replay of the previous week's top 3, then took a break, and came back to play just Sylvester at #40. I have never heard an American Top 40 where only one song was played to fill an entire segment. Have you? This happened a few times when the previous week's Top 3 was replayed. In fact, this weekend's 80's show, from August 7, 1982, features last week's Top 3 replay, and then "Early In The Morning" by The Gap Band was played by itself at #40. This week's "A" show from the 70's, from August 12, 1972, features "Outa Space" by Billy Preston at #36 with no other songs. Right after the commercial, they played three in a row. That segment featured a story about the Sonny & Cher song at #33, but it makes you wonder why they didn't play 36 and 35 together, and then 34 and 33 in their own segment. The shows from 1970 through early 1972 featured more than six commercial breaks each hour so it was very common then to have only one song in a segment. The cue sheets for all of the past shows can be found here: www.charismusicgroup.com/calendar.htm You can see what shows featured segments with one song. |
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Post by johnnywest on Aug 10, 2014 16:13:56 GMT -5
There was a terrible mix of "This Is The Right Time" by Lisa Stansfield that AT40 played in 1990 and I never heard it anywhere else. Two local Top 40 stations and both Casey and Rick played the single version which was the same as the album version.
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Post by bestmusicexpert on Aug 22, 2014 14:00:57 GMT -5
I was confused today listening to the 8-21-76 show. They played the album mix of Say You Love Me by Fleetwood Mac. All 3 singles from the album had remixed versions on the 45. Surprised that they used the album version.
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Post by mct1 on Oct 10, 2014 0:00:12 GMT -5
This past week's 10/3/70 show featured the 45 version of Free's "All Right Now", which is a noticeably different mix from the LP version. In my experience, the 45 version is obscure today; the LP version is pretty much universally the version I hear.
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