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Post by TheOriginalArtist on Aug 13, 2023 21:38:34 GMT -5
I love the show but I never understood the need for the Top 3 recap at the beginning of the show when Casey is just going to play them again at the end. I guess it was for chart buffs who missed "last week's episode." Plus, it helped fill up the extra time when the show went to four hours. Um... I don't think it was to fill time. They could have had four LDD's and "The number one hit from five years ago" and so forth if that is what they wanted to do. My theory is this: To provide the most popular songs in America during the first hour as well as in the last hour. Yes, it serves as a reminder of what the top 3 were and builds suspense for what will be the top songs at the end (nearly four hours later!), but not everyone listened to four straight hours of the show each week and also, because these shows were played on current hits radio (CHR), the top songs in the land just HAD to be heard at least once every 3 hours! These are the songs you're buying and listening to the most across the land! So there you have it. The top songs in the land being played amongst the bottom 10 of the current week's top 40 songs. While to us they are now dusty crusty oldies, those three songs were, at the time, the most desired and beloved songs of that week in time and people just LOVED them! It's what the people wanted and most likely what the programmers wanted as well.
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Post by mga707 on Aug 13, 2023 21:54:51 GMT -5
Um... I don't think it was to fill time. They could have had four LDD's and "The number one hit from five years ago" and so forth if that is what they wanted to do. My theory is this: To provide the most popular songs in America during the first hour as well as in the last hour. Yes, it serves as a reminder of what the top 3 were and builds suspense for what will be the top songs at the end (nearly four hours later!), but not everyone listened to four straight hours of the show each week and also, because these shows were played on current hits radio (CHR), the top songs in the land just HAD to be heard at least once every 3 hours! These are the songs you're buying and listening to the most across the land! So there you have it. The top songs in the land being played amongst the bottom 10 of the current week's top 40 songs. While to us they are now dusty crusty oldies, those three songs were, at the time, the most desired and beloved songs of that week in time and people just LOVED them! It's what the people wanted and most likely what the programmers wanted as well. You got it. From the radio station management/PD perspective, that's the reason.
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Post by mga707 on Aug 13, 2023 21:59:50 GMT -5
It's been a four-day slog, but finally got the 1970/79/80 shows wrapped up with the end of hour one of 1980 on KOLA right now. Don't really care about the '86 show. A quick observation: Even in 1980 I'm sure a lot of affiliate station PDs didn't really like the 'moldy oldie' 1960 #1s that AT40 was slogging through at the rate of three per week. Wonder if any stations deleted them at the time?
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Post by mkarns on Aug 13, 2023 22:03:28 GMT -5
The opening of ONJ's "Magic" sounds like the opening of #DN's "Mama Told Me (Not To Come)"? Uhm... really? That seems like quite the streeeeeeetch story to try to introduce the #1 song on the 1980 show, other than trying to make some backhanded acknowledgement that AT40 had just turned 10 years old. Was this just their way of making up for not mentioning that anniversary in the previous 6 weeks? Casey didn't mention that "Mama Told Me" was #1 on the first AT40, but he did ask listeners if they thought the opening of it and "Magic" were similar. My answer is no, until you pointed it out....
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Post by Jessica on Aug 13, 2023 22:06:52 GMT -5
KOSF airing 1986 show. Currently at “Dreamtime” by Daryl Hall (#39).
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Post by at40petebattistini on Aug 13, 2023 23:01:09 GMT -5
It's been a four-day slog, but finally got the 1970/79/80 shows wrapped up with the end of hour one of 1980 on KOLA right now. Don't really care about the '86 show. A quick observation: Even in 1980 I'm sure a lot of affiliate station PDs didn't really like the 'moldy oldie' 1960 #1s that AT40 was slogging through at the rate of three per week. Wonder if any stations deleted them at the time? An interesting thought until you recall that, in 1980, Casey was the king of weekend radio, a ratings winner in markets of all sizes. He was also considered the authority of Billboard’s charts, past and present. However, if there were stations that deleted any of the early 60s archived #1 songs, then the Book of Records special – which aired just 6 weeks prior – was that same PD/affiliate’s nightmare. The non-countdown show contained 4 hours of Elvis, Pat Boone, the Everly Brothers, the Mills Brothers, the Dominos (no Derek!), ‘Little’ Stevie Wonder, Little Peggy March, Perez Prado, Domenico Modugno, Maurice Williams, Chubby Checker and more. For some, the BOR program was another July 4th Bicentennial review, which AT40’s affiliate in Chicago refused to air in 1976 due to its dated content. With that, I’m sure there are many AT40 fans today who continue to enjoy Casey’s presentations of nostalgic music from pre-Beatles eras.
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Post by listenerwants2know on Aug 14, 2023 6:31:27 GMT -5
It's been a four-day slog, but finally got the 1970/79/80 shows wrapped up with the end of hour one of 1980 on KOLA right now. Don't really care about the '86 show. A quick observation: Even in 1980 I'm sure a lot of affiliate station PDs didn't really like the 'moldy oldie' 1960 #1s that AT40 was slogging through at the rate of three per week. Wonder if any stations deleted them at the time? I would not fundamentally set such things in stone. When comparing the current "1980-1986" combination, I personally would probably give preference to the 1986 show, but probably only because I didn´t really listen to the AT40 consistently until the 4/7/84 show as well. Still, it was interesting for me this week to hear a show from 1980 this time. Last week´s show (8/6/88) was also broadcast in the "Flashback" series, and I remember very well thinking to myself at the time when I heard the song "Parents Just Don´t Understand": No, this is musically no longer my time. In the meantime I can even get something out of this song, at least in part. Apropos Flashback: Weren´t the archive songs deleted in the Flashback series, the running time reduced to 3 hours after a few months and from spring 2002 shows from the years 1980 and 1981 not used anymore ? Well, and years later we experience the original shows from all years with mostly all AT40 elements ... including the year 1980, which you obviously like better than the year 1986. That is to say: musical taste can of course remain, but also change a bit, expand, ..., whatever you want to call it. And to the recaps from my side only so much: I think that the recaps wanted and should make primarily "desire on the countdown". They are due to their chart position in general "best known" and they should maybe also spread a positive mood, in my eyes similar to a curiosity arousing teaser or ultimately also the AT40 jingles or the respective Station ID´s.
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Post by burcjm on Aug 14, 2023 7:43:03 GMT -5
The opening of ONJ's "Magic" sounds like the opening of #DN's "Mama Told Me (Not To Come)"? Uhm... really? That seems like quite the streeeeeeetch story to try to introduce the #1 song on the 1980 show, other than trying to make some backhanded acknowledgement that AT40 had just turned 10 years old. Was this just their way of making up for not mentioning that anniversary in the previous 6 weeks? Casey didn't mention that "Mama Told Me" was #1 on the first AT40, but he did ask listeners if they thought the opening of it and "Magic" were similar. My answer is no, until you pointed it out.... Even after he pointed it out, I still don't think so.
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Post by lasvegaskid on Aug 14, 2023 9:26:13 GMT -5
Weekend of 8/24...8/29/87 www.charismusicgroup.com/Cue%20Sheets/1987-0829.pdfLast played 2019 w/extras: Hour #1: "Let Me Be The One" - Expose Hour #2: "Victim Of Love" - Bryan Adams Hour #3: "I Think I'm A Clone Now" - Tiffany Hour #4: "You Are The Girl" - The Cars
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Post by dth1971 on Aug 14, 2023 9:31:10 GMT -5
Another last played in 2019 show. We still have yet to find out what will be the B show for 8/22/1981 this coming weekend, maybe 8/27/1983 could be the B show?
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Post by mellongraig on Aug 14, 2023 9:54:55 GMT -5
If 8/27/1983 is the B show planned for this weekend (or perhaps 8/20/1983 as the B show since it's close to air date wise), I'm hoping that the next 1983 standalone show will be 10/15/1983, airing on the weekend of October 14-15 because of two solar eclipses (annular in October, total in April 2024) within a six month period, and the #1 song that week fits the theme.
That's if Premiere is willing to acknowledge that two solar eclipses are happening and taking it into account when choosing the AT40 show that particular weekend.
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Post by dth1971 on Aug 15, 2023 12:38:02 GMT -5
No word on the B show for 8/22/1981 yet?
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Post by caseyfan100 on Aug 15, 2023 12:39:41 GMT -5
No word on the B show for 8/22/1981 yet? A post on Facebook says the B show is 8-25-84.
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Post by JMW on Aug 15, 2023 14:25:11 GMT -5
A post on Facebook says the B show is 8-25-84. Take a wild guess on when this show last aired.
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Post by mkarns on Aug 15, 2023 15:40:15 GMT -5
A post on Facebook says the B show is 8-25-84. Take a wild guess on when this show last aired. When it did, it was a B to 8/29/87, scheduled for next weekend. (8/25/84 has only been played on its own once, in 2015.) Meanwhile, both this week's A's (8/16/75 and 8/22/81) were played as such in 2014, and are now being aired for the first time since.
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