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Post by JMW on Aug 28, 2021 17:11:54 GMT -5
What version of Cherish was played on the 8/24/1985 show? It sounded a little more mellow than that's normally heard.
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Post by johnnywest on Aug 28, 2021 17:49:59 GMT -5
Not really an "odd version", so much as one rarely heard on AT40. The original studio version of "Candle in the Wind" (from Goodbye Yellow Brick Road). Casey played it at least once, on 1/30/88 in place of the live single that week, and Shadoe played it on 6/2/90 as it was that week's LDD (in memory of Ryan White). Question: Are these the only two weeks it was ever played, or are there other weeks I'm missing? I checked the 80s book on the weeks of the live single's run because I thought I'd remembered it happening at least once - I just couldn't remember the week. But anytime during the 70s, or even earlier in the 80s? I figure asking is faster.  Has the 1974 Candle in the Wind version ever played as an OPTIONAL EXTRA in an AT40: The 70's 1974 show when "Bennie and the Jets" by Elton was in an AT40 show? Yes it was played as an optional at some point in the last five years but I don’t remember which week. |
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Post by Mike on Aug 31, 2021 10:54:35 GMT -5
This one will mainly be familiar for those of us more familiar with the second AT40 era... On 8/30/2003, they played a remix of Mya's "My Love is Like...Wo". Apparently, there were two "sequel remixes", so to speak, made for the song, and this one is Part II - the Allstar Remix. It features a rap from a rapper named John Doe, who Casey refers to in the week's promos and in and around where the song is that week (#28): www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrutVzfW13k |
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Post by OnWithTheCountdown on Aug 31, 2021 11:19:29 GMT -5
What version of Cherish was played on the 8/24/1985 show? It sounded a little more mellow than that's normally heard. According to Wikipedia, that's the album version. The single/video version is the one that's mostly played. |
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Post by Mike on Aug 31, 2021 11:47:05 GMT -5
What version of Cherish was played on the 8/24/1985 show? It sounded a little more mellow than that's normally heard. According to Wikipedia, that's the album version. Sounded like this? (Admittedly, I didn't tune in 1985 this past weekend...) |
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Post by OnWithTheCountdown on Aug 31, 2021 12:18:27 GMT -5
According to Wikipedia, that's the album version. Sounded like this? (Admittedly, I didn't tune in 1985 this past weekend...) Yep, that's it. The biggest key is that first verse. The single mix has percussion once the vocals start. |
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Post by johnnywest on Aug 31, 2021 14:45:53 GMT -5
It's worth noting that the Hot AC version of AT40 plays versions that don't include hip hop stars, such as "Close To Me" without featuring Swae Lee, "Holy" without Chance The Rapper and "Havana" without Young Thug, to name some.
And someone pointed out on another message board that there's a special remix of "Beautiful Mistakes" on the Canadian AT40 show that still has Megan Thee Stallion but not the version played on the CHR version. So AT40 was simultaneously playing 3 versions of the same song before it fell off CHR.
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Post by Mike on Sept 2, 2021 23:40:33 GMT -5
Whitney Houston's "My Name is Not Susan" had a slightly different mix played - harder to spot unless you compare the two directly. Album version: www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBlucfg46EAAT40 version: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dz4mrWZ-CX4"Susan" had a Power Radio Mix done, both with a rap from Monie Love and without. AT40, obviously, played the one without. It's probably the only version of "Susan" that they played - I have 8/10, 8/17, and 9/7/91, and it's in all three. |
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Post by dth1971 on Sept 4, 2021 8:30:49 GMT -5
Was it my imagination or did AT40: The 70's 9/2/1972 (airing on WXXM Rewind 92.1 FM Madison Wisconsin this 9/4/2021 Saturday morning) play for the #36 song a little longer version of Mouth and MacNeal's "How Do You Do"?
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Post by Hervard on Sept 5, 2021 9:40:43 GMT -5
"Hold Me 'Til The Morning Comes" by Paul Anka was only on the chart for two weeks, but both weeks they featured a version that was different from the one I heard on the radio back in the day. Peter Cetera's vocals in the chorus weren't quite as prominent and it had an electric guitar solo in the bridge instead of an acoustic guitar like in the version I remember. The version heard on AT40: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghtEqXYEb7UThe other version: www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPPsSvMsxg0 |
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Post by Mike on Sept 10, 2021 7:07:31 GMT -5
Got another Flashback entry. And this one, you really have to be paying attention to catch it. On 8/29/92, the Flashback is 8/30/86, where "Papa Don't Preach" is #3. It appears that they used the version of "Preach" that comes from The Immaculate Collection for the Flashback - which isn't radically different, but the sound is distinct enough that you can tell there's a difference if you directly compare the two. To wit: The Flashback clip uses the song's first chorus. Below are the versions taken from True Blue and from The Immaculate Collection, with times set at the first chorus. True Blue: youtu.be/6CuZARbr8o4?t=78Immaculate: youtu.be/spsbYZ3y83E?t=79The underlying synth isn't as heavy on the Immaculate Collection version. As it happens, it may be no accident that the Immaculate Collection version was used here - turns out, that was the first album to be released that featured songs being processed using QSound; everything on that album except for its two (new) singles would be remixed by Shep Pettibone, Goh Hotoda, and Michael Hutchinson through QSound. AT40, meanwhile, would make a show of introducing their own use of QSound beginning with the 1991 July 4th special - instead of the regular hour-closing theme, each hour in that show ended with: "D'Shadoe counts 'em down - in QSound!" |
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Post by dth1971 on Sept 10, 2021 8:18:28 GMT -5
Got another Flashback entry. And this one, you really have to be paying attention to catch it. On 8/29/92, the Flashback is 8/30/86, where "Papa Don't Preach" is #3. It appears that they used the version of "Preach" that comes from The Immaculate Collection for the Flashback - which isn't radically different, but the sound is distinct enough that you can tell there's a difference if you directly compare the two. To wit: The Flashback clip uses the song's first chorus. Below are the versions taken from True Blue and from The Immaculate Collection, with times set at the first chorus. True Blue: youtu.be/6CuZARbr8o4?t=78Immaculate: youtu.be/spsbYZ3y83E?t=79The underlying synth isn't as heavy on the Immaculate Collection version. As it happens, it may be no accident that the Immaculate Collection version was used here - turns out, that was the first album to be released that featured songs being processed using QSound; everything on that album except for its two (new) singles would be remixed by Shep Pettibone, Goh Hotoda, and Michael Hutchinson through QSound. AT40, meanwhile, would make a show of introducing their own use of QSound beginning with the 1991 July 4th special - instead of the regular hour-closing theme, each hour in that show ended with: "D'Shadoe counts 'em down - in QSound!" Just think if AT40: The Shadoe Years was offered (if iHeartMedia and Cumulus agreed on a merger), we would hear Larry Morgan intro like this for example: "And now, Premiere Networks proudly presents American Top 40: The Shadoe Stevens Years, this week's presentation is the first Shadoe Stevens hosted AT40 show from August 13, 1988 featurung QSound remastering by Ken Martin". |
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Post by JMW on Sept 11, 2021 13:28:21 GMT -5
Living in a Box on the 9/5/1987 sounds more like a club remix rather than the version usually heard.
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Post by Hervard on Sept 12, 2021 7:22:32 GMT -5
Living in a Box on the 9/5/1987 sounds more like a club remix rather than the version usually heard. Also, right before that, they played the album version of "Lies" by Jonathan Butler, which contains a slightly longer second chorus, plus the part near the end (where Butler sings "Cheated on me with the white lies...") was slightly longer, as well as the scat singing before the fade. |
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Post by Mike on Sept 17, 2021 4:17:06 GMT -5
Two different, if a bit similar, versions of Lisa Stansfield's "This is the Right Time" that I can determine. On 9/15/90, it had The Rhythm Edit played - this was a radio edit of a remix done by Yvonne Turner. On 10/13/90, however, it sounds like what they did was they took The Rhythm Mix (the full-length version of that remix - linked here as the "U.S. Remix", but it's the same), and then spliced in the original version of the song starting at the moment where she starts singing. Two more remixes from 9/15/90: Black Box's "Everybody Everybody" had its Love Unlimited Mix played, and Stevie B's "Love and Emotion" had its Hot Radio Edit played. Lisa, Black Box, and Stevie B were all in Hour 2 that week, by the way. One non-remix that same week would be the album version of the new #1 song that week, Wilson Phillips's "Release Me". FOOTNOTE FOR 10/13: The intro that plays underneath is definitely from the Rhythm Mix; Shadoe reads station mentions and gives his intro for the song over it - but, right after he finishes, there's a bit of a jump, like it changes from one mix to another. I'd wonder if someone else did that before I got this copy - but if so, then whoever did it was very conscious of time, as this is in the last segment of Hour 2 that week, which runs 13:24, and my copy has that segment at that length as well. I do sincerely doubt that it ever just used a carefully edited Rhythm Mix this week, as upon listening to it, that wouldn't have timed out correctly. |
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