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Post by michaelcasselman on Oct 26, 2023 18:28:41 GMT -5
WSMG went back to August 25, 1984 tonight.
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Post by mrjukebox on Oct 26, 2023 19:44:25 GMT -5
"Breaking Up Is Hard To Do" by Neil Sedaka is one of the featured "AT40 Archive" songs from this week's A show presentation 11/1/80-The original version which went to # 1 in the summer of 1962 was decidedly upbeat-Fourteen years later,in 1976,Neil released a new rendition which was rather mellow-Evidently,the record buying public liked it-It peaked at # 8 on the Billboard Hot 100 & spent a week at # 1 on the AC chart.
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Post by dukelightning on Oct 26, 2023 21:28:43 GMT -5
Quickly checking UMD there are two things about 10/25/86 (which was the day the Red Sox collapsed in the 10th inning of Game 6 of the World Series ) that are special, one of which I'm not sure I've ever seen before: 1. All four droppers had been Top 10 hits (Walk This Way, Dancing On The Ceiling, Words Get In The Way and Love Zone) 2. There are NO songs that never got out of Hour 1 The lowest peaking hit was "Point of No Return" at 28. Makes you wonder what regular show had the highest peaking lowest peak.
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Post by mrjukebox on Oct 27, 2023 14:13:08 GMT -5
On this weekend's A show presentation from 11/1/80,Casey mentioned that Paul Simon had not only written the screenplay & songs for the movie "One Trick Pony" but he was also the star-However,this wasn't the first time that Simon had appeared in front of the camera-In 1977,he landed a small role as a record producer in Woody Allen's Oscar winning "Annie Hall".
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Post by jmack19 on Oct 27, 2023 17:17:44 GMT -5
WQCY (Sat 11AM) is going with October 25, 1986 this weekend.
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Post by LC on Oct 28, 2023 9:23:59 GMT -5
Also, H3S2 has the Al Jarvis story for those who haven't heard it in a while. We could have heard it twice in the same weekend if Premiere were playing 10/30/76. But that was aired as a standalone just two years ago, and so was unlikely even if we hadn't just had a 1976 standalone two weeks ago. (In 2012 10/30/76 and 11/1/80 were aired in back to back weeks.) How many different times did Casey tell the story? I feel like I've heard it 4-5 times in recent years.
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Post by mkarns on Oct 28, 2023 13:24:54 GMT -5
We could have heard it twice in the same weekend if Premiere were playing 10/30/76. But that was aired as a standalone just two years ago, and so was unlikely even if we hadn't just had a 1976 standalone two weeks ago. (In 2012 10/30/76 and 11/1/80 were aired in back to back weeks.) How many different times did Casey tell the story? I feel like I've heard it 4-5 times in recent years. Five times on AT40s that Premiere can and does play: 10/30/76. 5/20/78, 11/1/80, 2/2/85, and 1/23/88. Plus at least once more on a 1989 Casey’s Top 40. I don’t know if he did so later.
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Post by dth1971 on Oct 28, 2023 13:52:17 GMT -5
How many different times did Casey tell the story? I feel like I've heard it 4-5 times in recent years. Five times on AT40s that Premiere can and does play: 10/30/76. 5/20/78, 11/1/80, 2/2/85, and 1/23/88. Plus at least once more on a 1989 Casey’s Top 40. I don’t know if he did so later. Casey never told the Al Jarvis story on the second AT40 era nor even AT20/AT10 AC and AT20 Hot AC.
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Post by mrjukebox on Oct 28, 2023 16:19:03 GMT -5
On this week's A show presentation from 11/1/80,Casey played an excerpt of "More Than I Can Say" which was a minor hit for Bobby Vee in 1961-The original version peaked at # 61-Leo Sayer's remake fared slightly better peaking at # 2.
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Post by jblues on Oct 29, 2023 6:34:01 GMT -5
On this week's B show presentation from 1986 - two questions came to mind. Casey mentioned how Eddie Money had a run in with his future manager Bill Graham (yes that one, the famous SF promoter) and the police a few years before he became famous and never told Bill he was the guy. I wonder if he ever did tell him before Bill passed in 1991? Also there was a LDD for Faithfully by Journey from a fellow in the service who stopped receiving letters from his fiancée because she got in a car wreck and was in a wheelchair. The doctors said she possibly wouldn't walk again, so she stopped writing because she didn't want to be a burden to him. He went home and spent two week leave with her. Wonder if they eventually got married and she eventually walked again?
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Post by LC on Oct 29, 2023 8:16:42 GMT -5
Also there was a LDD for Faithfully by Journey from a fellow in the service who stopped receiving letters from his fiancée because she got in a car wreck and was in a wheelchair. The doctors said she possibly wouldn't walk again, so she stopped writing because she didn't want to be a burden to him. He went home and spent two week leave with her. Wonder if they eventually got married and she eventually walked again? Someone should create a podcast (or the like) to follow up on noteworthy LDDs and tell "the rest of the story" after all these years.
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Post by kani on Oct 29, 2023 8:50:04 GMT -5
WNSN somehow I think..started several or 10 or 15ish minutes late. but even after opt xtra4, finally managed to air last segment [top 3 songs in last segment]
12 foreign acts in Nov 1, 1980. 10 movie songs
KOKZ now airing Oct 25, 1986 soft jingles: emotion in motion, all cried out they played opt xtra jingles, bumpers though. KOKZ skipped third opt xtra Gloria Loring, snippet of updated facts of life theme, she sung that cherelle - i didnt mean to turn you on snippet, from 1984, not in top 40, but in hot 100
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Post by lasvegaskid on Oct 29, 2023 8:56:29 GMT -5
Also there was a LDD for Faithfully by Journey from a fellow in the service who stopped receiving letters from his fiancée because she got in a car wreck and was in a wheelchair. The doctors said she possibly wouldn't walk again, so she stopped writing because she didn't want to be a burden to him. He went home and spent two week leave with her. Wonder if they eventually got married and she eventually walked again? Someone should create a podcast (or the like) to follow up on noteworthy LDDs and tell "the rest of the story" after all these years. at40fg.proboards.com/thread/6171/podcast-track-ldd-writers
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Post by dth1971 on Oct 29, 2023 9:02:43 GMT -5
Glad "The Stripper" by David Rose was restored in the AT40: The 80's 11/1/1980 show though demoted to OPTIONAL EXTRA status, it was even used in TV commercials for Noxzema medicated shaving cream in the late 1960's ("Take it off, take it all off!").
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Post by dth1971 on Oct 29, 2023 10:49:15 GMT -5
AT40: The 80's 11/1/1980 had a QUESTION LETTER to Casey about the BIGGEST SELLING SINGLES in the 1950's, 1960's, and 1970's. For the 1950's it was the famous Bill Haley and the Comets "Rock Around The Clock", in the 1960's it was Elvis Presley's "It's Now or Never", and the 1970's it was "Rock Your Baby" by George McCrae. Now what do you think the BIGGEST SELLING SINGLE for the 1980's (45's and cassette singles) and 1990's (cassette and CD singles) are? I guess by the 2000's cassette and CD singles became obsolete even with the age of downloading music songs for your iPod/iPhone/iPad/Apple Watch including iTunes and later Apple Music - unless we can count downloaded singles in the 2000's, 2010's, and 2020's.
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