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Post by Mike on Jan 28, 2021 6:58:37 GMT -5
10/24/87, hosted by Charlie Van Dyke - they did in fact play the album version of "Here I Go Again".
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Post by dth1971 on Jan 28, 2021 7:36:25 GMT -5
10/24/87, hosted by Charlie Van Dyke - they did in fact play the album version of "Here I Go Again". Too bad Casey never mentioned or played the original 1982 version of Whitesnake's "Here I Go Again" from their 1982 album "Saints and Sinners". |
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Post by JMW on Jan 28, 2021 18:10:50 GMT -5
10/24/87, hosted by Charlie Van Dyke - they did in fact play the album version of "Here I Go Again". Has there been other times where this has happened (a version of a song only getting countdown play on a guest hosted show)? |
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Post by Mike on Jan 29, 2021 2:50:26 GMT -5
Has there been other times where this has happened (a version of a song only getting countdown play on a guest hosted show)? I have no idea - I only have a handful of guest-hosted shows.  Someone who has more will have to field this one. And this isn't mentioned in Pete's book, so those can't be relied on as a source to check either. (Not as a complete source for all of them, anyway.) |
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Post by OnWithTheCountdown on Jan 29, 2021 2:53:39 GMT -5
Has there been other times where this has happened (a version of a song only getting countdown play on a guest hosted show)? I have no idea - I only have a handful of guest-hosted shows. Someone who has more will have to field this one. And this isn't mentioned in Pete's book, so those can't be relied on as a source to check either. (Not as a complete source for all of them, anyway.) I have all of them, but I'd have to listen to them. I don't recall any other instances outside of the aforementioned example. |
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Post by dth1971 on Jan 29, 2021 7:55:53 GMT -5
I have no idea - I only have a handful of guest-hosted shows. Someone who has more will have to field this one. And this isn't mentioned in Pete's book, so those can't be relied on as a source to check either. (Not as a complete source for all of them, anyway.) I have all of them, but I'd have to listen to them. I don't recall any other instances outside of the aforementioned example. I can give one example: On the AT40 3/10/1984 Charlie Van Dyke guest hosted episode the album version of "Thriller" by Michael Jackson featuring Vincent Price's spoken parts was played. |
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Post by Mike on Feb 3, 2021 12:24:00 GMT -5
Both 1/26 and 2/2/91 have different remixes of Janet Jackson's "Love Will Never Do (Without You)". (The former is also the Star Trek show.) A double-check of both shows reveals that the two are not the same, which makes this all the more interesting. The remix on 2/2 also seems to still use elements of the original instrumental, including the song's opening. So, January 26 has the UK Funky 7" version: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ane0NmRhlmEWhile February 2 has The Love 7" version: www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyMgJLUOy7oAny other song have as many as three different versions played during its run? (The third, of course, being the original version - well, a radio edit of the original anyway.) The only other song that comes to mind is "Keep it Together". |
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Post by Mike on Feb 3, 2021 19:48:47 GMT -5
Turns out there's two from 1/26/91. I didn't notice it previously because when I first heard this show, I wasn't too familiar with the song in question, and since then I admittedly haven't listened to this show much. Anyway, the other is Cathy Dennis's "Just Another Dream", which had a specific portion of its 12-inch version played. Using this clip here, it started about 45/50 seconds in, then Shadoe cut in at around 4:15 - www.youtube.com/watch?v=sf0WjjSzbSUIn contrast, it was usually the regular version of the song that would get played. The album version and the 7-inch version are basically the same, with the 7-inch being a tighter edit of the album version (about 30 seconds shorter). |
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Post by Mike on Feb 12, 2021 16:41:39 GMT -5
2/16/91: Shadoe interviews Ray Edwards from I-100 (WOKI), who was the first to create a "Desert Shield" version of Styx's "Show Me the Way" - which then gets played.
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Post by dth1971 on Feb 12, 2021 21:28:32 GMT -5
2/16/91: Shadoe interviews Ray Edwards from I-100 (WOKI), who was the first to create a "Desert Shield" version of Styx's "Show Me the Way" - which then gets played. Was I-100/WOKI Knoxville, Tennessee a Shadoe Stevens AT40 station at the 1991 time? |
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Post by Mike on Feb 12, 2021 22:02:10 GMT -5
Was I-100/WOKI Knoxville, Tennessee a Shadoe Stevens AT40 station at the 1991 time? Yes. In fact, per Pete's 80s book, they'd been an affiliate since May 1982 (picking it up from WNOX, which upon checking, must have been when that station flipped to Country). |
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Post by mct1 on Feb 14, 2021 0:15:17 GMT -5
This week's optional extra of "Radioactive" by The Firm uses what is, in my experience, a seldom heard version of the song. I've heard it described as the "single mix", and I've read that it was on the original commercial single release. The album version is certainly more commonly heard today, and my sense is that the album version dominated radio airplay even when the song was new. IINM, the song's music video uses the album version, and AT40, at least on the Premiere rebroadcasts I've heard, played the album version.
The easiest way to tell the album and single versions apart is by listening to Jimmy Page's guitar solo. On the single version, much of the guitar solo is clearly from a different take than the album version. For most of the solo, Page plays lines in pairs. On the album version, each line of each pair sounds similar, with each following an ascending pattern. On the single version, the second line in each pair is more distinctly different from the first, and follows a descending pattern. If you know the song well and are used to the album version, hearing the guitar solo on the single version is jarring. The guitar overdubs in the song's outro also sound different, and the single mix has some kind of noticeable echo or reverb applied to the entire song.
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Post by Mike on Feb 15, 2021 18:19:08 GMT -5
6/29/91: Shadoe plays a live acoustic performance of "Losing My Religion", taken from a radio performance (though the station where it was originally from isn't mentioned).
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Post by Mike on Mar 13, 2021 4:27:17 GMT -5
I hate to be That Guy and re-visit an ancient post, but... 9/25/93 show - Robyn S "Show Me Love" was some god-awful techno club remix that had no business being played as part of the AT40 countdown. The album cut with the hooky synthesizer riff throughout the song was the version that got the most heavy airplay, and was part of what made the song popular. Sounds like a few other people have identified songs where some club version was played during the Shadoe years...hmmm, an attempt by the ABC pukes to promote multiple remixes of a popular song? Yes that Robin S. song is another example. I agree AT40's version was bad. First off. matt, are you referring to this version as the one getting the most airplay? If so, then I hate to break it to the two of you, but it turns out that both versions were remixes. As the history goes, in 1992, this version came about because it was remixed by Swedish DJ StoneBridge. If that makes this the "hit version" (a la "Missing" in 1996), then so be it, but in fact, the original version was released in England in 1990. As to the version AT40 played, that turns out to be a radio edit of the Nick Nice Eagle Mix. For those who haven't heard it, it sounds like this: Personally, I'm of the mind that the StoneBridge mix is the one that sounds much more like a "club version", whereas the Nick Nice Eagle Mix sounds much poppier. As to which one I prefer?  I could take either one. Take your pick - or as Shadoe might say, see what you think...of either one.  |
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Post by OnWithTheCountdown on Mar 13, 2021 6:20:07 GMT -5
Definitely prefer the StoneBridge mix. 👍 It was the one I heard the most back then.
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Someone who has more will have to field this one.
