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Post by cursereversed on May 16, 2022 12:04:46 GMT -5
May 19 1984 notes: 12 English acts Scorpions band members lost the voice in 1980, story of it Beatles solo had sep hits top 40 same time late 1974 and early 1975 Album version borderline played Romy high school reunion - dance hall days Shalamar story Man story for game show, Fred payne, 1963 peaked #3 snippet Hard to hold soundtrack Julio Iglesias a sex symbol Soft jingle hold me now, almost paradise In the story about Klaus Meine (spoken as 'mine') of the Scorpions, Casey kept calling him Klaus 'Mine-ah'. (Guess he wasn't very well known then...) This was the second consecutive week that Casey had done a stretch story involving the Scorpions. The previous week it was the history of the hamburger since, as he said, they were from Hamburg. The week before that, in one of my favorite harmonic convergences ever on AT40, he had preceded A Fine, Fine Day by then-Frankfurt resident Tony Carey by giving listeners the history of the hot dog .
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Post by JMW on May 16, 2022 13:03:56 GMT -5
With 5/30/1987 coming soon, it looks like the chance of getting the "last aired in 2012" 6/20/1987 show is slim. However, getting the 6/6/1981 show (also last aired 10 years ago) the first week of June is all but guaranteed at this point.
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Post by dth1971 on May 16, 2022 13:16:04 GMT -5
With 5/30/1987 coming soon, it looks like the chance of getting the "last aired in 2012" 6/20/1987 show is slim. However, getting the 6/6/1981 show (also last aired 10 years ago) the first week of June is all but guaranteed at this point. Wasn't 6/20/1987 a B show some years back?
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Post by Hervard on May 16, 2022 13:39:19 GMT -5
With 5/30/1987 coming soon, it looks like the chance of getting the "last aired in 2012" 6/20/1987 show is slim. However, getting the 6/6/1981 show (also last aired 10 years ago) the first week of June is all but guaranteed at this point. Wasn't 6/20/1987 a B show some years back? Yeah, back in 2017. It's conceivable that it could be a "B" offering this year as well, since it's several weeks after the upcoming 1987 show. The aforementioned June 6, 1981 show, however, has never been played since its first run in 2012, so I'm also hoping that we get that show the weekend of June 4/5.
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Post by JMW on May 16, 2022 14:29:49 GMT -5
Wasn't 6/20/1987 a B show some years back? Yeah, back in 2017. It's conceivable that it could be a "B" offering this year as well, since it's several weeks after the upcoming 1987 show. I didn't start paying close attention to to "B" shows until a year later, so I wasn't aware of its second airing.
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Post by matt on May 17, 2022 9:22:44 GMT -5
Wasn't 6/20/1987 a B show some years back? Yeah, back in 2017. It's conceivable that it could be a "B" offering this year as well, since it's several weeks after the upcoming 1987 show. The aforementioned June 6, 1981 show, however, has never been played since its first run in 2012, so I'm also hoping that we get that show the weekend of June 4/5. Me too--that's a fantastic show. Some 1981 naysayers might disagree, but '81 was really good by the beginning of June.
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Post by cursereversed on May 17, 2022 11:51:13 GMT -5
"Girls On Film" was a non-charting single. Was it ever actually released as a single in the U.S.? I thought it was an album cut.
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Post by mrjukebox on May 17, 2022 19:04:01 GMT -5
One of the optional extras on the countdown from 5/30/87 is "Never Say Goodbye" by Bon Jovi-It appeared on their album "Slippery When Wet" but was never released as a single.
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Post by matt on May 18, 2022 8:47:51 GMT -5
One of the optional extras on the countdown from 5/30/87 is "Never Say Goodbye" by Bon Jovi-It appeared on their album "Slippery When Wet" but was never released as a single. Good to see Premiere playing songs like that as op extras. Anyone listening to the radio back in May/June 1987 probably remembers hearing that song a time or two. Like many of those songs that weren't released as singles but got a decent amount of airplay, it did hit on Radio & Records -- peaked at #35 on 6/13/87.
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Post by doofus67 on May 18, 2022 9:26:45 GMT -5
"Girls On Film" was a non-charting single. Was it ever actually released as a single in the U.S.? I thought it was an album cut. Yes, on Harvest 5070, with "Faster Than Light" as the B side. It peaked at #17 on the Dance chart in October 1981.
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Post by cursereversed on May 18, 2022 11:05:54 GMT -5
Was it ever actually released as a single in the U.S.? I thought it was an album cut. Yes, on Harvest 5070, with "Faster Than Light" as the B side. It peaked at #17 on the Dance chart in October 1981. OK, thanks. The person/people who wrote/edited the Wikipedia article made it sound like Duran Duran didn't come out in the U.S. until after Rio had made it big here. Kind of surprised they didn't release the singles weren't the same when they re-released it.
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Post by OnWithTheCountdown on May 18, 2022 11:12:33 GMT -5
One of the optional extras on the countdown from 5/30/87 is "Never Say Goodbye" by Bon Jovi-It appeared on their album "Slippery When Wet" but was never released as a single. Good to see Premiere playing songs like that as op extras. Anyone listening to the radio back in May/June 1987 probably remembers hearing that song a time or two. Like many of those songs that weren't released as singles but got a decent amount of airplay, it did hit on Radio & Records -- peaked at #35 on 6/13/87. I remember hearing that song quite a bit in late spring and very early summer. Was hoping back then it would make AT40...nope. That was before I understood the charts. I have the 5/30 Dees show, in which it debuts at #40.
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Post by mga707 on May 18, 2022 11:15:26 GMT -5
The person/people who wrote/edited the Wikipedia article made it sound like Duran Duran didn't come out in the U.S. until after Rio had made it big here. The LP was released in the U.S. in '81 but didn't hit the LP chart until February of '83, after both "Rio" (June '82) and the 'Mini LP' "Carnival" (October '82) had both charted. "Carnival" included a remixed version of "Girls On Film".
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Post by mkarns on May 18, 2022 16:11:44 GMT -5
Optional extras for May 21, 1983:
Hour #1: "Girls On Film" - Duran Duran (NR) Hour #2: "Wishing (If I Had A Photograph Of You)" - A Flock Of Seagulls (#69) Hour #3: "Come Dancing" - The Kinks (#50) Hour #4: "Our House" - Madness (#52)
"Girls On Film" hit #5 in Britain in 1981; it wasn't a single, at least not a charting one, in the US, but became popular due in large part to its video (a censored version of which had to be shown on MTV) and remains a fan favourite so its inclusion here makes sense.
It's one of two songs in this week's Premiere show not to chart. Crystal Gayle's "You Never Gave Up On Me" is a Long Distance Dedication; it reached #5 on the country chart a year earlier but never made the Hot 100.
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Post by mrjukebox on May 18, 2022 18:46:44 GMT -5
"Our House" was later used in an ad campaign for Maxwell House coffee.
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