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Post by Hervard on Jan 30, 2021 8:24:50 GMT -5
^That annoyance that was "Nu Nu" comes to mind...
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Post by dth1971 on Jan 30, 2021 9:09:17 GMT -5
^That annoyance that was "Nu Nu" comes to mind... Why was "Nu Nu" an annoyance?
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Post by Hervard on Jan 30, 2021 9:13:58 GMT -5
Well, it certainly was to me. Just so repetitive and plain annoying. I wouldn't mind hearing it when on a dance floor, but just casual radio listening - no thanks!
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Post by Mike on Jan 30, 2021 9:34:35 GMT -5
Even ABC Watermark screwed up AT40 allowing to use the songs making the top 40 the Billboard Hot 100 chart source until it abandoned the chart source in November 1991. Blame it on songs making the top 40 that were rap or fueled by sales! Before you go totally crucifying ABC on that score...save some nails for the members of the buying public who bought those songs and therefore made them hits in the first place. And all things considered, good luck with that one.
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Post by mkarns on Jan 30, 2021 10:21:06 GMT -5
ABC irritated Casey and Don almost from the start when they changed the AT40 logo from the Uncle Sam hat to the more generic one that was just lettering. (In fairness, the original logo which had been in use since 1970, while certainly more distinctive, probably looked dated by the 1980s.)
And I tend to agree that Shadoe was stifled creatively; he knew and appreciated the basic formula of the show but it would have been interesting to hear him add a bit more humour or "theatre of the mind", as he called it. Instead they basically just wanted him to be Casey with a lower voice register--when after a few months stations could instead opt for Casey himself again.
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Post by LC on Jan 30, 2021 20:53:16 GMT -5
Man, Premier's edit of "Working for the Weekend" has to be one of the worst they've ever done. Totally sloppy, cutting the first chorus in half and shoving another complete chorus next to it. Yikes!
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Post by dth1971 on Jan 30, 2021 21:09:12 GMT -5
Anyone looking for the 1/25/1986 AT40: The 80's B show? WXXM Rewind 92.1 FM Madison, Wisconsin has it now at 8 PM Midwest CST!
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Post by Jessica on Jan 30, 2021 21:52:38 GMT -5
Man, Premier's edit of "Working for the Weekend" has to be one of the worst they've ever done. Totally sloppy, cutting the first chorus in half and shoving another complete chorus next to it. Yikes! You weren’t kidding. I usually don’t like to complain about the edits but that was a weird one.
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Post by at40nut on Jan 30, 2021 22:31:41 GMT -5
Anyone looking for the 1/25/1986 AT40: The 80's B show? WXXM Rewind 92.1 FM Madison, Wisconsin has it now at 8 PM Midwest CST! They played the first hour, but now they are playing the 82 show WTF!!!!!
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Post by BrettVW on Jan 30, 2021 22:33:40 GMT -5
The 'A' show automatically uploads into the NextGen automation system for iHeart stations. To get the 'B' show someone has to manually switch it over. Looks like someone didn't do that for Hour 2 Seg 1. Oops.
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Post by listenerwants2know on Jan 31, 2021 8:13:20 GMT -5
Anyway...back to the countdown on WWIS from 1982. Enjoying the PAC-MAN story by Casey and all the sound effects. I blew every quarter I could find on all the arcade co-ops as a kid! I was at all the SoCal local arcades like Aladdin in Redlands Mall, Inland Center, Fiesta Village, Castle Park and Disneyland's Starcade, etc. "Well now we're up to the new hit record inspired by a melody that was played four billion times during 1981, a tune that never had the possibility of hitting the charts because it wasn't released as a record, it came from a form of entertainment that's taking over the world, the video games, Space Invaders, Pac-Man, Defender, Asteroids and more coming all the time, and their flashing video screens are accompanied by sound effects, boops 'n' beeps, and crunching 'n' crashing, and even jingles 'n' songs, and there's one particular game that features a piece of music that was played more often last year than any other song in the USA, it couldn't be found on a jukebox, or heard on the radio, or bought in a record store, but drop a quarter in the machine and out comes...according to the trade journal RePlay Magazine, that's the theme of the biggest money making video game of 1981, the average machine is played 136 times a day, that's nearly 50,000 plays a year, and with more than 90,000 of these machines gobbling up quarters all over the country, it totaled more than four billion plays in the year 1981, let's make it four billion and one...that's the jingle from the Pac-Man video game, the one where the little round Pac-Man tries to gobble up monsters in the maze before they gobble him up, well now the inevitable has happened, someone has made a commercial recording of the Pac-Man jingle, and here it is debuting at #38 this week on American Top 40, Pac-Man Fever by Buckner & Garcia..." [...] When I heard this story, the following immediately occurred to me: This was the first video to air on MTV. The network launched 8/1/1981, and this provided the first evidence that MTV was going to make it. The song was a big hit in England in 1979, but pretty much unknown in America, where it peaked at #40 in December 1979. When MTV went on the air, it was on only a few cable systems, but record stores in those areas started selling lots of Buggles albums. Radio stations weren´t playing the song and almost no one in the US had heard of the Buggles, so it was clear that MTV was selling records - an early indication of the network´s influence. Billboard ran a story quoting a record store owner in Tulsa as saying he had 15 copies of the album sitting in a bin for eight months, but weeks after MTV launched, they were all gone. Trevor Horn said of this song in the book I Want My MTV: "It came from this idea that technology was on the verge of changing everything. Video recorders had just come along, which changed people´s lives. We´d seem people starting to make videos as well, and we were excited by that. It felt like radio was the past and video was the future. The was a shift coming." From 1979 here are The Buggles with "Video Killed The Radio Star":
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Post by Hervard on Jan 31, 2021 8:13:30 GMT -5
Man, Premier's edit of "Working for the Weekend" has to be one of the worst they've ever done. Totally sloppy, cutting the first chorus in half and shoving another complete chorus next to it. Yikes! I noticed that too. We heard "Everybody's working for the weekend/Everybody wants a new romance" twice in a row.
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Post by dth1971 on Jan 31, 2021 8:51:36 GMT -5
I was at all the SoCal local arcades like Aladdin in Redlands Mall, Inland Center, Fiesta Village, Castle Park and Disneyland's Starcade, etc. "Well now we're up to the new hit record inspired by a melody that was played four billion times during 1981, a tune that never had the possibility of hitting the charts because it wasn't released as a record, it came from a form of entertainment that's taking over the world, the video games, Space Invaders, Pac-Man, Defender, Asteroids and more coming all the time, and their flashing video screens are accompanied by sound effects, boops 'n' beeps, and crunching 'n' crashing, and even jingles 'n' songs, and there's one particular game that features a piece of music that was played more often last year than any other song in the USA, it couldn't be found on a jukebox, or heard on the radio, or bought in a record store, but drop a quarter in the machine and out comes...according to the trade journal RePlay Magazine, that's the theme of the biggest money making video game of 1981, the average machine is played 136 times a day, that's nearly 50,000 plays a year, and with more than 90,000 of these machines gobbling up quarters all over the country, it totaled more than four billion plays in the year 1981, let's make it four billion and one...that's the jingle from the Pac-Man video game, the one where the little round Pac-Man tries to gobble up monsters in the maze before they gobble him up, well now the inevitable has happened, someone has made a commercial recording of the Pac-Man jingle, and here it is debuting at #38 this week on American Top 40, Pac-Man Fever by Buckner & Garcia..." [...] When I heard this story, the following immediately occurred to me: This was the first video to air on MTV. The network launched 8/1/1981, and this provided the first evidence that MTV was going to make it. The song was a big hit in England in 1979, but pretty much unknown in America, where it peaked at #40 in December 1979. When MTV went on the air, it was on only a few cable systems, but record stores in those areas started selling lots of Buggles albums. Radio stations weren´t playing the song and almost no one in the US had heard of the Buggles, so it was clear that MTV was selling records - an early indication of the network´s influence. Billboard ran a story quoting a record store owner in Tulsa as saying he had 15 copies of the album sitting in a bin for eight months, but weeks after MTV launched, they were all gone. Trevor Horn said of this song in the book I Want My MTV: "It came from this idea that technology was on the verge of changing everything. Video recorders had just come along, which changed people´s lives. We´d seem people starting to make videos as well, and we were excited by that. It felt like radio was the past and video was the future. The was a shift coming." From 1979 here are The Buggles with "Video Killed The Radio Star": The Buggles song should have been recharted in 1981 thanks to MTV's launch. Maybe AT40: The 80's could play that Buggles song as an OPTIONAL EXTRA later this year around the first weekend in August 2021 if AT40: The 80's plays the AT40 show aired on the first ever MTV weekend - August 1, 1981 - either as a A show or B show or special bonus show.
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Post by dth1971 on Jan 31, 2021 9:25:32 GMT -5
Anyway...back to the countdown on WWIS from 1982. Enjoying the PAC-MAN story by Casey and all the sound effects. I blew every quarter I could find on all the arcade co-ops as a kid! I was at all the SoCal local arcades like Aladdin in Redlands Mall, Inland Center, Fiesta Village, Castle Park and Disneyland's Starcade, etc. "Well now we're up to the new hit record inspired by a melody that was played four billion times during 1981, a tune that never had the possibility of hitting the charts because it wasn't released as a record, it came from a form of entertainment that's taking over the world, the video games, Space Invaders, Pac-Man, Defender, Asteroids and more coming all the time, and their flashing video screens are accompanied by sound effects, boops 'n' beeps, and crunching 'n' crashing, and even jingles 'n' songs, and there's one particular game that features a piece of music that was played more often last year than any other song in the USA, it couldn't be found on a jukebox, or heard on the radio, or bought in a record store, but drop a quarter in the machine and out comes...according to the trade journal RePlay Magazine, that's the theme of the biggest money making video game of 1981, the average machine is played 136 times a day, that's nearly 50,000 plays a year, and with more than 90,000 of these machines gobbling up quarters all over the country, it totaled more than four billion plays in the year 1981, let's make it four billion and one...that's the jingle from the Pac-Man video game, the one where the little round Pac-Man tries to gobble up monsters in the maze before they gobble him up, well now the inevitable has happened, someone has made a commercial recording of the Pac-Man jingle, and here it is debuting at #38 this week on American Top 40, Pac-Man Fever by Buckner & Garcia..." "Four billion times?" I bet Pac-Man would later get dethroned by the Super Mario Bros. in the mid to late 1980's and then Sonic the Hedgehog in the 1990's.
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Post by kani on Jan 31, 2021 10:05:48 GMT -5
Jan 30, 1982
12 foreign acts Casey talks about dream story, Air Supply Sweet Dreams
Recent #1 soul Turn Your Love Around, #1 country The Sweetest Thing
Biggest record 10 wks #1 3 way tie, Olivia Newton John Physical, Debby Boone You Light Up My Life, what other?
Also record 10 wks #2 5 way tie, foreigner waiting for a girl like you
I enjoyed Casey's story about Pacman game and these electronic sounds, from 1981
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