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Post by Mike on Sept 14, 2021 5:48:03 GMT -5
That reminds me of one I remember quite differently then actually was. Janet Jackson's "Again" according to Wikipedia was released October 12, 1993 but I remember it getting heavy airplay around the time of my high school commencement which would have been over four months before. Two things in play here. 1) It had a bit of a late release date - it was already getting substantial airplay when the commercial single would then be issued, leading to its debuting on the Hot 100 on 10/23/93. 2) That early airplay. It...might not be out of the question? Turns out, the song did get early radio interest beginning right around when the Janet. album was released, which was on May 18. "Again" actually debuted on the Top 40 Radio Monitor (soon to be re-named to Hot 100 Airplay) in the June 12 issue at #65 - I can't be sure, but I want to say that the airplay tracking week for that week would have been the same for all airplay charts, and the tracking week for 6/12 is mentioned elsewhere as May 24-30. So, that'd correspond to a week after the album was released, and would...probably be somewhere around commencement time? In any case, she debuted on the Monitor on 6/12 at #65. "Again" would go 65-56-59-69-off, before then returning on 8/7 at #66 on Hot 100 Airplay (tracking week: July 19-25) and staying, building up airplay until being issued as the album's third single. Of interest: Had AT40 still been using the Top 40 Radio Monitor/Hot 100 Airplay, "Again" would have hit the countdown on 8/28 - over a month before it hit either the Mainstream chart or R&R. Also: She had another album track, "Where Are You Now", that would pick up even more radio interest at the same time that "Again" initially did in May/June - only, it would stick around for a single run. While it never had a commercial single release, it did manage to reach #30 on Hot 100 Airplay (thus, it too would have hit a countdown using this chart).
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Post by OldSchoolAT40Fan on Sept 14, 2021 9:33:42 GMT -5
Apparently, "Mary's Prayer" along with Chris De Burgh's "Fatal Hesitation" (the latter of which didn't make it to AT40 but did get airplay in Canada) did have sort of an "end of summer" feeling. The summer of 1987 was wonderful, and it was sad to see summer wrap up (though at least the school year where I live started on September 9). Even though it was great to see some of my classmates upon returning to school, I really enjoyed summer that year so greatly and it was sad to see it end. Not to mention that some students I really liked seeing prior to summer 1987 had moved away - possibly due to their parents having been laid off from their job and prompting them to find work in other places in Canada, and I have to admit, my province (Newfoundland) was likely faced with an ongoing saga of deficits during that time, otherwise those impacted students wouldn't have moved away.
I also feel the same way with T'Pau's power ballad "China in Your Hand" (which also didn't make it to AT40), even though the song wasn't released until later in the fall of 1987. The song sounds like a real tearjerker to me, and when I heard it on Second Life in late-August 2019, I now associate that song with having an "end of summer" and melancholy feeling, plus the song gets stuck in my head even if I hear it once. It wasn't until the next day that I suddenly started to appreciate rock music more for a while, but nowadays, when I am at a club in Second Life, I keep the stream turned off and play my own music - music of which is upbeat and I enjoy a lot - through WinAmp while on Second Life.
T'Pau's and Chris De Burgh's aforementioned songs would tend to get stuck in my head, but thankfully "Mary's Prayer" doesn't.
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Post by mrjukebox on Sept 14, 2021 17:31:27 GMT -5
The voice you hear on Starship's "We Built This City" belongs to Les Garland who was one of the executives at MTV which was then at the height of its popularity.
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Post by dth1971 on Sept 14, 2021 18:19:43 GMT -5
The voice you hear on Starship's "We Built This City" belongs to Les Garland who was one of the executives at MTV which was then at the height of its popularity. I thought Les Garland was a San Francisco D.J. at the 1985 time.
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Post by OnWithTheCountdown on Sept 14, 2021 22:07:22 GMT -5
Yeah, I don't know what it is about "Mary's Prayer", but it just feels more like a late September-early October peaking song for me. I know the BB charts say otherwise. This is more in my own mind than anything, but I was sure I wasn't the only one who felt that, and looks like I wasn't. I was reacquainted with that song in August 2015, and it just brought me back to late summer 1987, which I would love to re-live. That is the one summer (and overall year) from my youth that if I could ever turn back the clock, in a heartbeat, that'd be the year. "Mary's Prayer" is and has been an earworm this time of year, and puts me in a sentimental/reflective mode. Another late summer 1987 hit that seems to have a slightly different peak than it did is "Jump Start" by Natalie Cole. This was the opposite of "Mary's Prayer" in that it seemed to peak much earlier than it did on BB. Maybe it was more influenced by the heavier airplay it got on local radio prior to and early in its top 40 run, but didn't hear it as much even as it climbed and eventually peaked in October. To me, these two songs just peaked at different times than they actually did. "Jump Start" feels more like a late summer hit than a fall hit. matt - maybe you can confirm, you live(d) in the Twin Cities area. Remember WLOL? Loved that station. They, along with KDWB (which carried AT40 then and still does today), were the two big top 40 stations. WLOL seemed to play a lot of non-top 40 songs like the aforementioned "Be There", and earlier in the year, songs like "Wild Horses" (Gino Vannelli) and "One Simple Thing" by the Stabilizers got a lot of spins, despite not reaching the 40. I remember many songs WLOL in particular played quite a bit of in the late 1980s that didn't reach the top 40. Sadly, WLOL went off the air in February 1991. I wish I would've kept all the tapes I made from that station back in 1986-1990. Sorry, just taking a trip down memory lane here. Don't mind me...
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Post by matt on Sept 15, 2021 13:38:34 GMT -5
Optional extras for September 21, 1985: Hour #1: "I Miss You" - Klymaxx (#74) Hour #2: "Lay Your Hands On Me" - Thompson Twins (#56; highest debut) Hour #3: "You Belong To The City" - Glenn Frey (#46) Hour #4: "We Built This City" - Starship (#45) (I think these are the same ones as used before?) Interesting to note that this week's and next week's shows were also played in consecutive weeks back in 2013. 9/21/85 was played the weekend of September 14th, 9/22/84 was played the following weekend. And yes -- those are indeed the same extras as the 2013 airing.
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Post by bm63 on Sept 15, 2021 18:24:08 GMT -5
Optional extras for September 21, 1985: Hour #1: "I Miss You" - Klymaxx (#74) Hour #2: "Lay Your Hands On Me" - Thompson Twins (#56; highest debut) Hour #3: "You Belong To The City" - Glenn Frey (#46) Hour #4: "We Built This City" - Starship (#45) (I think these are the same ones as used before?) Interesting to note that this week's and next week's shows were also played in consecutive weeks back in 2013. 9/21/85 was played the weekend of September 14th, 9/22/84 was played the following weekend. And yes -- those are indeed the same extras as the 2013 airing. And last week's B show, 9/5/1987, was played the weekend of September 7 in 2013.
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Post by seminolefan on Sept 16, 2021 10:12:20 GMT -5
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Post by matt on Sept 16, 2021 10:43:17 GMT -5
Interesting to note that this week's and next week's shows were also played in consecutive weeks back in 2013. 9/21/85 was played the weekend of September 14th, 9/22/84 was played the following weekend. And yes -- those are indeed the same extras as the 2013 airing. And last week's B show, 9/5/1987, was played the weekend of September 7 in 2013. Indeed it was! 9/26/81 would complete the shows from September 2013...but that probably won't happen the first weekend in October.
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Post by mkarns on Sept 16, 2021 10:58:04 GMT -5
And last week's B show, 9/5/1987, was played the weekend of September 7 in 2013. Indeed it was! 9/26/81 would complete the shows from September 2013...but that probably won't happen the first weekend in October. No, but 10/10/87 is another show from 2013 that would be good for the second weekend in October. That was the first and only time it's been an A or standalone thus far, though it was also a B in 2015. For the first weekend in October it would almost have to be 10/4/86, as its one and only previous airing was in 2009 (and then not until mid-October), though 10/3/81 would also work. So would 10/3/87 if the following week isn't on tap.
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Post by burcjm on Sept 18, 2021 22:14:14 GMT -5
Prediction for next show:
10/4/86
All year long Premiere has been taking shows off the shelf that haven't been aired since 2009 or before and this should be no exception.
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Post by listenerwants2know on Sept 19, 2021 1:39:51 GMT -5
Prediction for next show: 10/4/86 All year long Premiere has been taking shows off the shelf that haven't been aired since 2009 or before and this should be no exception. ... and that´s a "philosophy" that I like ...
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Post by kani on Sept 19, 2021 15:38:42 GMT -5
I should've also done notes for last week: Sept 13, 1980 (A) yep wnsn aired
my Sept 21, 1985 notes B side story , A side 13 women snippet (1954), failed to make chart. Story Rock Around the Clock B side, rock n roll single all time and snippet played too
3 canada acts, 19 foreign acts (i hope reading right..)
first LDD 17 yr old to boy phillipines Joey, exchange program, best male friends, be there if problems with boyfriends, had great time, from Amy in Michigan
second LDD is something about from japan culture... ?
third LDD 19 yr old husband Mike, from she 17 yr old woman dawn in baltimore, its hard since they had two baby girls twins.. very hard to deal with, dedicate to Mike
#1 soul: Oh Sheila #1 dance: Dare Me
i will later update....
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Post by mkarns on Sept 19, 2021 17:49:15 GMT -5
The second LDD, “Sukiyaki”, was in effect an obituary for Kyu Sakamoto who originally had a hit with it.
Incidentally it followed Whitney Houston’s ballad “Saving All My Love For You”; someone apparently got the hint from what happened when recording the previous week’s show and made a concerted effort to make sure that Casey didn’t have to come out of an uptempo g**d*** number before reading a death dedication. (Maybe they also got him the pictures he was supposed to see.)
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Post by BrettVW on Sept 19, 2021 19:05:14 GMT -5
Clearly somebody used his ****ing brain...
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