AT40: The 80s ... This Week's Show

[Scott Lakefield]

Thanks, Pete, for "filling in" for me on these topics while I was away on my honeymoon!

Now, back to business...

This weekend's (8/25-26/07) edition of "AT40: The 80s" will feature a rebroadcast of the show from 8/30/80.

[Hervard]

Awesome show this week! And, what's so weird is, the first hour of this show had only three songs that one would be considered "obscure", while the shows over the past two weeks, both of them late-80s shows, had more than that, especially last week's 1987 show.

[Scott Lakefield]

This weekend's (9/1-2/07) edition of "AT40: The 80s" will feature a rebroadcast of the show from 9/10/83.

[retromike32]

I'll be enjoying it!!!!..Happy Labor Day Weekend




Mike B

[Scott Lakefield]

This weekend's (9/8-9/07) edition of "AT40: The 80s" will feature a rebroadcast of the show from 9/14/85.

Yes, folks...it's "Dead Dog Dedication" time!

[shadster]

Would anyone be willing to send me a .wav/mp3/wma/cda file of the actual dedication? I have a copy of the 'rant' Casey did, complete w/ explitives(sp?), ripped into media player.

[Hervard]

I'm going to guess 1984 for next week's show. It's been the longest since they've done a show from that year, and so far, there have been only two shows from then.

So far, 1985 is in the lead, with four shows. That was also the year that they did most on AT40 Flashback, tying with 1983. Must have been a good year for someone on Premiere's staff. Not that I'm complaining, since both years had some pretty darn good music!

[Scott Lakefield]

This weekend's (9/15-16/07) edition of "Casey Kasem's American Top 40: The 80s" features a rebroadcast of the program from 9/13/86.

[Hervard]

So it isn't 1984? Maybe next week.

On the plus side, however, this is a show that wasn't among the AT40 Flashback series!

[Michael1973]

admin said:

This weekend's (9/15-16/07) edition of "Casey Kasem's American Top 40: The 80s" features a rebroadcast of the program from 9/13/86.

What I remember vividly about this show was that the week after it originally aired, AT40 was dropped from my local station (which soon switched formats to oldies) and I was unable to listen regularly for over a year.

[Shannon Lynn]

ulij20 said:

So it isn't 1984? Maybe next week.

On the plus side, however, this is a show that wasn't among the AT40 Flashback series!

1984 is coming....I saw the upcoming schedule for the next 2 months.

[Scott Lakefield]

I'm playing a bit of "catch up" on the rebroadcasts, and today was listening to the 7/13/85 show. On this show, Casey features the "American Top 40 Hall of Fame," which I believe Rob mentioned in his book was used only once as a feature on the show.

What's interesting is if you listen to the sound effects that are used as Casey opens the door and walks into the Hall of Fame. If my ears are hearing what they think they're hearing, these are the same sound effects used in the "Theater of the Mind" open to Shadoe Stevens' first AT40 show, where he enters the "AT40 Hall of History."

Not sure this is really worth anything, but I found it kind of interesting.

[Mark Johnson]

Didn't they do that twice? I was thinking that one was Elvis, and the other was Ray Charles. I could be wrong though. ;D

[Scott Lakefield]

This weekend's (9/22-23/07) edition of "Casey Kasem's American Top 40: The 80s" features a rebroadcast of the program from 9/29/84.

[Scott Lakefield]

This weekend's (9/29-30/07) edition of "Casey Kasem's American Top 40: The 80s" features a rebroadcast of the program from 9/26/87.