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Post by at40nut on Aug 16, 2016 11:12:16 GMT -5
A quick observation on the upcoming 8-24-85 show. That was the show that really started it all for me as far as listening to AT40 on a weekly basis back then. IMO, that was as close to as a perfect countdown as it could get for 1985. It definitely helps to have A-ha's "Take On Me" and Dire Straits' "Money For Nothing" on the chart at the same time for the first time. The videos of thoses two songs were the best of that time as well as the 80's decade. Too bad that a Ratt had to be exterminated from that countdown though.
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Post by dth1971 on Aug 16, 2016 14:29:56 GMT -5
I notice on WMGM Magic 98 Madison's site in the AT40 section they currently have listed for this Sunday August 21, 2016 as "To be announced". Wonder why?
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Post by OnWithTheCountdown on Aug 16, 2016 14:51:50 GMT -5
I notice on WMGM Magic 98 Madison's site in the AT40 section they currently have listed for this Sunday August 21, 2016 as "To be announced". Wonder why? Hmm, interesting indeed. They last aired 1980 on the weekend of 7/2 (was the "B" show), and 1985 was last aired on 6/12 when 6/15 was the "A" show (1982 was aired on 7/31 when 7/27/1985 was the "A" show that weekend). I bet they air 1985 this weekend.
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Post by trekkielo on Aug 16, 2016 21:17:44 GMT -5
I'm not sure, since I don't listen to it enough. The Casey Kasem page is still up and everything, it's just not listing shows. Not sure what to make of it. trekkielo - your thoughts?
www.kolafm.com/casey-kasem/
Casey Kasem: The 80’s
The weekend of August 20th, Casey will feature the American Top 40 (Chart Date August 23, 1980).
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Post by OnWithTheCountdown on Aug 17, 2016 9:07:34 GMT -5
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Post by OnWithTheCountdown on Aug 17, 2016 9:15:07 GMT -5
I'm not sure, since I don't listen to it enough. The Casey Kasem page is still up and everything, it's just not listing shows. Not sure what to make of it. trekkielo - your thoughts?
www.kolafm.com/casey-kasem/
Casey Kasem: The 80’s
The weekend of August 20th, Casey will feature the American Top 40 (Chart Date August 23, 1980).
Wow - color me surprised. KOLA and 1980 in the same sentence, in a week with a regular alternate show?!?! What is going on over there?
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Post by matt on Aug 17, 2016 10:53:28 GMT -5
Prediction for next week's show:
1st Guess - 8/27/83 2nd Guess - 8/28/82
Gotta be '83 for next week. If it's not, the only other two shows that would make any sense are 1982 or perhaps 8/30/86, but my crystal ball tells me shows from those years will be played the first two weeks in September.
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Post by dukelightning on Aug 19, 2016 12:13:55 GMT -5
That first LDD is right up there among the worst ever for me. That lady needs to get a life! I can almost count on one hand the number of times that Casey said a song would hit #1 in BOTH the intro and an outro, for "Upside Down". Liked that he pointed out how many artists had first charted 15 years earlier. Except he omitted one, Eric Clapton. He was part of the Yardbirds "For Your Love" in 1965. Obviously he was counting artists who had originally been in a group 15 years ago so it is not that. So that makes it 10 such artists on the show.
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Post by dmvden on Aug 19, 2016 14:43:21 GMT -5
That first LDD is right up there among the worst ever for me. That lady needs to get a life! Thanks for sharing that... it made the LDD that much more hilarious when I heard it just now on WWIS. I agree, she sounds like the crazy kind of groupie that Ann Wilson was bemoaning in one of last week's countdown's song intros.
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Post by rondixon66 on Aug 19, 2016 18:11:41 GMT -5
In the post disco backlash era of the 1980s that "Love Sensation" song was a welcomed choice and really caught me off guard kudos for putting that on instead of some standard song that would eventually hit the chart in a few weeks anyway. When the sampling was mentioned and she broke into her 'good vibration' Marky Mark Mix I could hear that song over again in my head. Now the mention of Black Box got my attention as I actually have that CD and the song that was completely sampled there was that one used in the 1990's movie "The Cutting Edge" many different verses from Love Sensation must have been reformulated to craft the Black Box version. For a compare I dug up that CD and sure enough the song "ride on time" is there with a 'featuring Loleatta Holloway' credited on the tune. Not sure if Black Box had her reformulate the song or because so much of the lyrics were her's she got credit but glad to see the credit due after the whole C+C music factory / Martha Wash business which happened around the same time period.
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Post by matt on Aug 19, 2016 19:36:40 GMT -5
Wow - color me surprised. KOLA and 1980 in the same sentence, in a week with a regular alternate show?!?! What is going on over there? Make that surprised x2 going with 8/28/82 next week when there will likely be a later 80s option. Wow...well, I guess that means my prediction of 8/27/83 will not be correct. The only other show I can come up with that would make sense as an alternate show to match with 8/28/82 is 8/30/86, unless they decide to go with a second 1987 show in the month of August...
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Post by matt on Aug 19, 2016 19:40:16 GMT -5
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Post by johnnywest on Aug 19, 2016 20:07:27 GMT -5
In the post disco backlash era of the 1980s that "Love Sensation" song was a welcomed choice and really caught me off guard kudos for putting that on instead of some standard song that would eventually hit the chart in a few weeks anyway. When the sampling was mentioned and she broke into her 'good vibration' Marky Mark Mix I could hear that song over again in my head. Now the mention of Black Box got my attention as I actually have that CD and the song that was completely sampled there was that one used in the 1990's movie "The Cutting Edge" many different verses from Love Sensation must have been reformulated to craft the Black Box version. For a compare I dug up that CD and sure enough the song "ride on time" is there with a 'featuring Loleatta Holloway' credited on the tune. Not sure if Black Box had her reformulate the song or because so much of the lyrics were her's she got credit but glad to see the credit due after the whole C+C music factory / Martha Wash business which happened around the same time period. I believe it was also sampled in Samantha Fox's "I Wanna have Some Fun."
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Post by jmack19 on Aug 20, 2016 0:01:23 GMT -5
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Post by skuncle on Aug 20, 2016 7:19:23 GMT -5
That first LDD is right up there among the worst ever for me. That lady needs to get a life! Thanks for sharing that... it made the LDD that much more hilarious when I heard it just now on WWIS. I agree, she sounds like the crazy kind of groupie that Ann Wilson was bemoaning in one of last week's countdown's song intros. Perhaps a better song choice for the LDD would have been "Hey There Lonely Girl". Too bad the Bee Gees hadn't recorded that!
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