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Post by adam31 on Dec 18, 2020 15:31:03 GMT -5
Anyone know if Shadoe ever played this version of Mariah Carey's "Someday"? I'd have to double-check to be sure, but I don't think I've heard it in an AT40, and I have about half of the shows from its run. On the other hand, I know of at least one CT40 (!) that has it. None of the Shadoe AT40 shows have that version, at least during its 1991 chart run and year-end show. Not sure about any subsequent plays, however. For CT40, it's played in all shows from 1/26 through 3/9 (chart run 1/19 to 4/27). The station I worked at during this time was an affiliate of Rick Dees "Weekly Top 40" and they played this remix as well. We also got promotional CD singles with the versions listed on the label of this record. I had a preference for this version over the album version which had the guitar solo. I played it on air every chance I got! |
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Post by dth1971 on Dec 19, 2020 9:22:27 GMT -5
None of the Shadoe AT40 shows have that version, at least during its 1991 chart run and year-end show. Not sure about any subsequent plays, however. For CT40, it's played in all shows from 1/26 through 3/9 (chart run 1/19 to 4/27). The station I worked at during this time was an affiliate of Rick Dees "Weekly Top 40" and they played this remix as well. We also got promotional CD singles with the versions listed on the label of this record. I had a preference for this version over the album version which had the guitar solo. I played it on air every chance I got! Even then Shadoe Stevens AT40 affiliate at the time WYTZ Z-95 FM Chicago might have played this "Someday" remix when the station was in its POWER PIG-ish top 40/dance mode in early 1991. |
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Post by laura on Jan 12, 2021 20:19:20 GMT -5
Right now I'm listening to the 1/12/2002 episode of AT40 and they're playing the album version of "Ain't It Funny" by Jennifer Lopez, not the remix version that featured Ja Rule that was played more often. Does anyone know how many other times the regular version of the song was played on there? I think it was played one another time.
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Post by OnWithTheCountdown on Jan 12, 2021 20:59:09 GMT -5
Right now I'm listening to the 1/12/2002 episode of AT40 and they're playing the album version of "Ain't It Funny" by Jennifer Lopez, not the remix version that featured Ja Rule that was played more often. Does anyone know how many other times the regular version of the song was played on there? I think it was played one another time. I don't think it was played too often. I'd have to listen to the shows to confirm which ones. The remix is better. 🙂 ETA: 3/23/2002 also has the album version, which Casey even introduces as such. The song dropped out on 6/22. |
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Post by Mike on Jan 12, 2021 22:05:22 GMT -5
To the above: They billed it as a remix, but fact of the matter is, it's an entirely different song.  I don't quite remember exactly when the Murder Inc. version completely supplanted the original, but it obviously didn't take nearly as long as it did with "I'm Real". (The push for the Murder Inc. version probably wasn't yet underway when the show was recorded.) And I will add a second song from that same show: The P. Diddy remix of Janet's "Son of a Gun". (A remix that, IMO, really wasn't necessary - the remix with just Missy Elliott added and not both her and Diddy was more than fine.) |
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Post by dth1971 on Jan 13, 2021 7:57:01 GMT -5
Do you also remember for Casey's Top 40 in 1997 (1 year before the Casey AT40 relaunch) when the show played for the first week the original slow version of Madonna's "Don't Cry For Me Argentina" from the movie version of "Evita" but then in later weeks switched to a dance version of the same Madonna song?
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Post by Michael1973 on Jan 16, 2021 11:30:15 GMT -5
To the above: They billed it as a remix, but fact of the matter is, it's an entirely different song. That drove me crazy, mostly because I preferred the originals of both songs, but also because why would you count two completely different songs as one? |
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Post by OnWithTheCountdown on Jan 16, 2021 11:35:39 GMT -5
To the above: They billed it as a remix, but fact of the matter is, it's an entirely different song. That drove me crazy, mostly because I preferred the originals of both songs, but also because why would you count two completely different songs as one? Interesting scenario, for sure. I can see both sides of it. For my preference, I'm halfway with you. Maybe I'm weird...while I prefer the original of "I'm Real", I prefer the remix of "Ain't It Funny". Maybe because both of my preferences were the more popular versions heard at the time, at least on AT40 and on local radio. |
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Post by Mike on Jan 16, 2021 13:48:42 GMT -5
That drove me crazy, mostly because I preferred the originals of both songs, but also because why would you count two completely different songs as one? To game the system of course, to make it as easy as possible to score another #1 hit. If you've ever heard or seen the Billboard rule that they instituted that year to where they could count two completely different versions of a song* by the same (main) artist with the same title as one...if you've ever heard or seen that rule derisively referred to as "the J. Lo rule", this is why. *Where both versions were completely different songs. A song that is remixed but is otherwise still the same song (I.E. it has most of or all the same lyrics) was already counted toward the original chart entry, but that at least makes sense. |
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Post by mrjukebox on Jan 16, 2021 19:17:46 GMT -5
Not sure if anyone's mentioned this already:"Two Tickets To Paradise" by Eddie Money.
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Post by chrislc on Jan 16, 2021 20:38:27 GMT -5
Not sure if anyone's mentioned this already:"Two Tickets To Paradise" by Eddie Money. Yes, I think I mentioned that earlier in this thread or maybe another thread. I have no recollection of hearing that version in 1978 or at any time since then except for these shows. Of course there probably is a lot I have forgotten about 1978, thank God. |
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Post by Mike on Jan 24, 2021 3:21:53 GMT -5
On 3/23/91, "You're in Love" gets its album version played - you can tell it's not the single version since we get the music break and then a half chorus, instead of one last full chorus, after the short bridge.
Actually, they seemed to be fairly generous during the final hour that week - they let most of the Top 10 play out a bit longer than they normally would (it's also particularly noticeable with "Rescue Me"), but this is the only song to get a "different than usual" version out of that. Then again, the chart situation probably helped that week as well - four songs go flying out of the Top 10 down 9 notches apiece (except for Celine Dion, who slides 10), and just one song is falling within the upper tier, last week's #1 (down to #2).
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Post by Mike on Jan 25, 2021 8:39:21 GMT -5
And here's a second album version: George Michael's "Monkey" on 10/1/88 (also its last week in the countdown).
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Post by Hervard on Jan 25, 2021 10:35:29 GMT -5
And here's a second album version: George Michael's "Monkey" on 10/1/88 (also its last week in the countdown). Was that the one that began with the screeching monkey sound effects? |
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Post by Mike on Jan 25, 2021 16:29:28 GMT -5
And here's a second album version: George Michael's "Monkey" on 10/1/88 (also its last week in the countdown). Was that the one that began with the screeching monkey sound effects? No, that's the single version. The album version starts cold, with George singing a chorus right away. |
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I don't quite remember exactly when the Murder Inc. version completely supplanted the original, but it obviously didn't take nearly as long as it did with "I'm Real". (The push for the Murder Inc. version probably wasn't yet underway when the show was recorded.)