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Post by burcjm on May 25, 2023 22:50:39 GMT -5
For the first two weeks of June I will predict 6/7/80 and 6/13/81. Both last aired in 2016 with the 1981 show as a 'B'. I will stay with my 6/13/81 prediction for the week of June 10.
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Post by jmack19 on May 25, 2023 23:55:41 GMT -5
For the B show next week, I'll go with June 4, 1988. It last aired in 2021.
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Post by Mike on May 26, 2023 0:03:21 GMT -5
(though who can figure out why "Power Of Love" was a modest hit for Laura but a huge smash for Celine) In both cases: Timing. When Laura released hers, it had come after two unsuccessful versions of the song in successive years (Air Supply going to #68 in '85 and Jennifer Rush's original going to #57 in '86), and it was also the second single off Touch (after "Shattered Glass" stopped at #48). Laura was also herself hitting her career decline after "Self Control" by then - ultimately, things...just did not really align for her. If anything, there's something to be said for her version even getting as far as #26. Celine, on the other hand: She'd just had her true breakthrough in '92 with her self-titled album (surpassing her success with Unison), and her version was the lead single off The Colour of My Love. (Although that album also has "When I Fall in Love", that served more as a single off the Sleepless in Seattle soundtrack.) So she had both a better career trajectory and a better single positioning going for her.
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Post by Mike on May 26, 2023 0:10:46 GMT -5
Laura wasn't old, but she was pushing mid 30s at a time over 50% of MTVs audience was 12-24. Same thing happened to ONJ. One key difference, FWIW, is that Laura had had more of a middling career (a string of hits from late 1982 through 1984, followed by decline), whereas Olivia had had a career span which covered two real "hit period"s (1974-75 and mid-1978 to early 1984). Even without MTV, I'd wager that Olivia would've been hitting for only so much longer anyway - could the same absolutely be said for Laura?
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Post by OnWithTheCountdown on May 26, 2023 8:46:57 GMT -5
If 6/4/1988 airs, pay attention to the date in the closing. I have a copy of the original show (straight up vinyl transfer), and the remastered show. The former has the correct date, while the latter says the date is 6/11, which somebody switched along the way (the outro for "One More Try" at #1 is correct, though). When this show also aired as a Flashback, the 6/11 date was mentioned also - so it's been wrong for a couple of decades, at least.
I alerted Shannon about this a while back.
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Post by dukelightning on May 27, 2023 17:14:24 GMT -5
Regarding another artist at the start of a long career, Madonna, Casey said she was 23 when she was actually 25 at the time--but this practice of shaving some years off an artist's age is a pretty common one, especially for those who are new to the charts and public. Casey always quoted Madonna's age as two years younger than it was. I think he did the same with maybe Prince and/or Michael Jackson (ironically all were born the same year). The AT40 staff more than likely gave Casey that info, and they probably got it from each artist's publicist or something like that. Shadoe Stevens got her age right twice and wrong once in the same show. In the 8/15/92 show when doing the music news and mentioning various artist birthdays, he correctly stated that Madonna was turning 34 on August 16th. But then in the flashback to 1985, he mentioned that Madonna got married to Sean Penn on her 26th birthday that year. She actually turned 27 then. Finally, before he played "This Used to be My Playground", he said she was turning 34 that weekend.
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Post by mrjukebox on May 27, 2023 18:10:02 GMT -5
Wow!-I'm listening to the countdown from 5/25/85 & "Private Dancer" by Tina Turner is the 4th hour optional extra-Kudos to Premiere for getting that song on so quickly.
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Post by kenmartin on May 27, 2023 18:26:05 GMT -5
Wow!-I'm listening to the countdown from 5/25/85 & "Private Dancer" by Tina Turner is the 4th hour optional extra-Kudos to Premiere for getting that song on so quickly. That song was already planned for that position before she passed. Just a coincidence.
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Post by Jessica on May 27, 2023 23:26:33 GMT -5
Wow that LDD from Tracy in Louisiana was like a Soap Opera (or something you used to see on Jerry Springer). She meets a guy then finds out he has a wife. Hope everything worked out for them but yikes, what a way to start a marriage.
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Post by secretman on May 28, 2023 0:22:03 GMT -5
If 6/4/1988 airs, pay attention to the date in the closing. I have a copy of the original show (straight up vinyl transfer), and the remastered show. The former has the correct date, while the latter says the date is 6/11, which somebody switched along the way (the outro for "One More Try" at #1 is correct, though). When this show also aired as a Flashback, the 6/11 date was mentioned also - so it's been wrong for a couple of decades, at least. I alerted Shannon about this a while back. Premiere solved that issue by editing the date in the closing. This is the original closing with the wrong date. This is the Premiere version taken from 2021, last aired.
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Post by listenerwants2know on May 28, 2023 1:44:17 GMT -5
All those "1989" extras actually debuted on the Hot 100 in 1988. None of them were released in 1989. If Premiere did what they did for Prince, as Mike mentioned, they could use "The Best" as one of the extras. "Batdance" was used as one of the extras for the Prince tribute show. A possible Tina Turner tribute show could be the AT40: The 80's September 1, 1984 AT40 show with these Tina Turner OPTIONAL EXTRAS: "The Best" "Typical Male" "We Don't Need Another Hero" "Better Be Good To Me" Another option is the 2/18/84 show. In this week, Tina entered the Top 40 for the first time (solo and in the 80s) with the Al Green song "Let´s Stay Together". And also from the album "Private Dancer" comes "Show Some Respect", in the 5/25/85 show at #38.
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Post by Jessica on May 28, 2023 2:58:41 GMT -5
(though who can figure out why "Power Of Love" was a modest hit for Laura but a huge smash for Celine) In both cases: Timing. When Laura released hers, it had come after two unsuccessful versions of the song in successive years (Air Supply going to #68 in '85 and Jennifer Rush's original going to #57 in '86), and it was also the second single off Touch (after "Shattered Glass" stopped at #48). Laura was also herself hitting her career decline after "Self Control" by then - ultimately, things...just did not really align for her. If anything, there's something to be said for her version even getting as far as #26. Celine, on the other hand: She'd just had her true breakthrough in '92 with her self-titled album (surpassing her success with Unison), and her version was the lead single off The Colour of My Love. (Although that album also has "When I Fall in Love", that served more as a single off the Sleepless in Seattle soundtrack.) So she had both a better career trajectory and a better single positioning going for her. Great points Mike! One other thing Celine had was super producer David Foster, responsible for Whitney Houston’s Bodyguard Soundtrack, as well as working with Madonna, Barbara Streisand and writing Chicago’s biggest hits.
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Post by dth1971 on May 28, 2023 8:08:21 GMT -5
As I am listening to AT40: The 80's 5/25/1985 this Sunday morning via WXXM Rewind 92.1 FM Madison, Wisconsin: Do you think the #39 song called "Oh Girl" by Boy Meets Girl is rare to you? It only spent 1 week in the top 40, and Boy Meets Girl wouldn't return to the top 40 until 3 years later with "Waiting For a Star to Fall" - and that charted on AT40 after the Shadoe Stevens takeover from Casey Kasem that Fall 1988. (And that first Boy Meets Girl song was sandwiched between the #40 one and only Mick "Lucky in Love" Jagger and the #38 recently deceased Tina "Show Some Respect" Turner).
5/25/1985 also features a feature by Casey about the record breaking most weeks at #1 Billboard Classical Album chart 1969-1973 album "Switched on Bach" by a man named Walter Carlos who became after a sex change a woman named Wendy Carlos - Was that also told in a 1979 AT40 show?
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Post by bm63 on May 28, 2023 9:34:23 GMT -5
Wow!-I'm listening to the countdown from 5/25/85 & "Private Dancer" by Tina Turner is the 4th hour optional extra-Kudos to Premiere for getting that song on so quickly. That song was already planned for that position before she passed. Just a coincidence. The 4th hour OE on WWIS the other day was "Not Enough Love In The World" by Don Henley. Perhaps some stations got the new extra?
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Post by OnWithTheCountdown on May 28, 2023 10:45:18 GMT -5
If 6/4/1988 airs, pay attention to the date in the closing. I have a copy of the original show (straight up vinyl transfer), and the remastered show. The former has the correct date, while the latter says the date is 6/11, which somebody switched along the way (the outro for "One More Try" at #1 is correct, though). When this show also aired as a Flashback, the 6/11 date was mentioned also - so it's been wrong for a couple of decades, at least. I alerted Shannon about this a while back. Premiere solved that issue by editing the date in the closing. This is the original closing with the wrong date. This is the Premiere version taken from 2021, last aired. Really interesting, they edited out that entire portion of the closing. Wonder why they did that. The original that I have has Casey actually saying "June 4th".
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