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Post by jmack19 on Aug 20, 2016 23:23:19 GMT -5
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Post by mkarns on Aug 21, 2016 0:46:22 GMT -5
A question was asked on the 8-23-80 show about two different songs with the same title that were in the Top 40 at the same time. Did they leave out the 1971 occurrence with The Carpenters with "Superstar" and The Temptations "Superstar (Remember How You Got Where You Are), even though a subtitle was used in one of the songs? Remember, that happened in 1989 with Roy Orbison's "You Got It" with NKOTB's "You Got It" (The Right Stuff ). This subject came up on a later show that aired in 2013, but I don't know from what year. It also came up on 4/5/86, with the two "I Can't Wait"s; Nu Shooz debuted that week, and the story was told for Stevie Nicks's song. He mentioned it was the third time this had happened, with 1971 being the first; droppieces were also included. There was also one (guest hosted) week in April 1979 when Poco and the Allman Brothers Band both had top 40 hits called "Crazy Love". I remember Shadoe mentioning that, I think around 1990 (when Wilson Phillips and En Vogue had simultaneous hits called "Hold On.")
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Post by trekkielo on Aug 21, 2016 2:00:00 GMT -5
Did you ever think you would hear Lawrence Welk on American Top 40? Calcutta is actually a great record and coming from an old accordian player like me, it is probably one of the few, if not the only record to ever hit #1 that featured an accordian. Kind of surprised Premiere didn't edit out that song, but I'm glad the left it. Lawrence Welk and "Calcutta" were featured before as an Oldie with a story about him not being square between #3 & #2 on American Top 40 from 8/1/70, using the 8/8/70 chart, 10 years before 8/23/80!
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Post by freakyflybry on Aug 21, 2016 2:42:53 GMT -5
On the 1980 show, Casey said that Williams was the last name with the most artists to hit #1.
Since then I can think of two others to extend the lead - Vanessa Williams (Save The Best For Last, 1992) and Pharrell Williams (Happy, 2014).
Also interesting to hear Casey say Olivia Newton-John had her longest running #1 to date with "Magic" - little did he know HOW long "Physical" would top the chart for, just the following year!
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Post by spock on Aug 21, 2016 11:58:34 GMT -5
When the 1980 show ended on WOCL this morning, Domino, who is the music director and afternoon drive jock on the station and also does Saturday 10-2 live, made mention that as he was driving into work listening to Casey he forgot "just how many bad songs there were in 1980." 1980 may be a somewhat weaker period than some others (like 1984), but I don't see that many bad songs on this week's show. Most of my issues are at the start of this week's show: #39 and #38, then #35 and #34, the latter being my least favorite McCartney hit (the album version is even worse than the live 45). The other clunkers for me are #21 (weak Commodores) and #2 (my wife loves SiriusXM's Yacht Rock channel, and I do too -- except when they play Christopher Cross). (Although #19 is better in its cover version by Buckwheat.) I'm sure I'm in the minority here, but I really enjoyed this week's 1980 show. There's always a few songs on any week that I might not like that much or aren't the biggest hits of whichever group/musician. I do like hearing those songs that are not played as much. Music like any art is so subjective. I'm just content to hear pretty much any week from say 1978 through 1988
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Post by caseyfan100 on Aug 21, 2016 12:31:14 GMT -5
KZOY is playing the 1980 "A" show today instead of the 1985 "B" show that was scheduled to run starting at 1pm EDT. I just emailed the GM/PD and will post what his response is. I'm still waiting for a response from KZOY. I am assuming they will replay 1980 tomorrow at 1pm, but I've got my fingers crossed for 1985. KZOY is playing 1980 again today.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 21, 2016 12:31:23 GMT -5
There was a show from I think late June 1980 that aired a few years back. I knew all of like 3 songs on it. On top of that, none of the others were ones I thought "hey this is cool stuff, I can really get into this." It was a long hard slog through the show. When I'm begging for LDD's to somehow, someway save the show or the OE's to save it, it's not good. None of those saved it either.
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Post by OnWithTheCountdown on Aug 21, 2016 12:59:56 GMT -5
1980 may be a somewhat weaker period than some others (like 1984), but I don't see that many bad songs on this week's show. Most of my issues are at the start of this week's show: #39 and #38, then #35 and #34, the latter being my least favorite McCartney hit (the album version is even worse than the live 45). The other clunkers for me are #21 (weak Commodores) and #2 (my wife loves SiriusXM's Yacht Rock channel, and I do too -- except when they play Christopher Cross). (Although #19 is better in its cover version by Buckwheat.) I'm sure I'm in the minority here, but I really enjoyed this week's 1980 show. There's always a few songs on any week that I might not like that much or aren't the biggest hits of whichever group/musician. I do like hearing those songs that are not played as much. Music like any art is so subjective. I'm just content to hear pretty much any week from say 1978 through 1988. Count me amongst the minority - I enjoy all the 1980 shows. I think there's a lot of great tunes that 1980 gave us, from MJ to ONJ to ELO, Blondie, Irene Cara, Cliff Richard, just too many to mention. I like these just as much as those from the heart of the decade.
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Post by pb on Aug 21, 2016 13:06:55 GMT -5
I enjoy the disco hangover, slow song heavy fall 1979 to fall 1982 era myself, but I'm sure that is partly because those are the first new songs I remember hearing on the radio.
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Post by spock on Aug 21, 2016 13:49:41 GMT -5
Is it me, or was "Oh Sheila" seriously butchered this week? I don't think that its playing time was much more than a minute. "... from their album 'Ready for the Chopping Block' , here's their debut single 'Oh Sh-'"No, definitely not you... I counted it lasted right around 2min.
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Post by Mike on Aug 21, 2016 13:54:54 GMT -5
Repeats abound for next week. The "A" show last aired in 2012. It's 8/28/1982: www.charismusicgroup.com/Cue%20Sheets/08-28-82.pdfThe "B" show is, certainly, something of a surprise. Aired just last year, it's 8/25/1984: www.charismusicgroup.com/Cue%20Sheets/08-25-84.pdfAnd both sets of extras will remain the same as previous. 1982: "Nobody" - Sylvia "Steppin' Out" - Joe Jackson "I Ran (So Far Away)" - A Flock Of Seagulls "You Don't Want Me Anymore" - Steel Breeze 1984: "I Just Called To Say I Love You" - Stevie Wonder "Flesh For Fantasy" - Billy Idol "There Goes My Baby" - Donna Summer "Lucky Star" - Madonna Color me skeptical that very many stations will pick up the '84. I'd say not putting '86 in that slot is highly suggestive of that being the first "A" show in September, but that's not a given quite yet.
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Post by OnWithTheCountdown on Aug 21, 2016 14:10:21 GMT -5
Given the recent airings, there weren't many options for a "B" show paired with the 1982 "A". Figured 1986 would be held out until September - good chance we'll hear the new 9/6 show, which I'm thinking will be the following weekend (unless Premiere for some odd reason airs 9/5/1981 or 9/5/1987 that weekend (maybe even pairing them), and holding 9/6/1986 for the weekend of 9/10). Not many options for the first weekend of September.
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Post by mkarns on Aug 21, 2016 14:52:56 GMT -5
For stations that choose the B, this is reminiscent of the 2010 airing of two summer 1984 shows just two weeks apart, except that time stations didn't have a choice. I don't really see much point in choosing the B show, aside from its redundancy; unlike 1980 or 1981, summer 1982 has a lot of still replayed songs and overall fits what is now considered the 1980s sound very well.
As for the B show choice, Premiere may well be saving 1986 for an A, but 8/29/87 would have made sense; the last 1987 A was just three weeks earlier, but that's one week before the last 1984 show.
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Post by OnWithTheCountdown on Aug 21, 2016 15:08:32 GMT -5
8/29/1987 would've been a good choice indeed. Wondering if 1987 might be on tap next weekend (as either an "A" or "B") and 1986 is held out until the following weekend.
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Post by mga707 on Aug 21, 2016 15:12:30 GMT -5
I enjoy the disco hangover, slow song heavy fall 1979 to fall 1982 era myself, but I'm sure that is partly because those are the first new songs I remember hearing on the radio. Sounding like a broken record, but I'll say it yet again: I love 1980! One of my all-time favorite musical years. The memories from that year are wonderful.
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