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Post by seminolefan on Mar 28, 2024 15:59:53 GMT -5
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Post by michaelcasselman on Mar 29, 2024 14:18:56 GMT -5
Bill Benjamin just announced an AT40 marathon on the AT40 the 80s Facebook page starting Monday 4/1 at 6AM. No further details yet on FB or on the Magic 95.9 website.
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Post by dukelightning on Mar 29, 2024 15:22:38 GMT -5
One of my Record Research books lists rock & roll hits prior to 1955 and "Sixty Minute Man" had to be one of those R&B songs that Alan Freed played on his station. In the book, it says 'regarded as the first rock 'n roll (R&B) record to hit the pop charts. It did so in August 1951 reaching #17, about 6 months before that incident Casey talked about. Weird Al is so weird that he has achieved something that no one may have done. His next top 40 hit on the Hot 100 was "Smells Like Teen Spirit" in 1992. Then he had his only top 10 hit with "White & Nerdy" in 2006 which is a parody of "Ridin'", a big rap hit. Then in 2014 he parodied a massive hit "Blurred Lines" into "Word Crimes" for his last top 40 hit. That is exactly one top 40 hit in 4 consecutive decades. Not sure anyone else has done that. And he could make it 5 in a row with a hit here in the 20s.
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Post by dth1971 on Mar 29, 2024 18:11:38 GMT -5
One of my Record Research books lists rock & roll hits prior to 1955 and "Sixty Minute Man" had to be one of those R&B songs that Alan Freed played on his station. In the book, it says 'regarded as the first rock 'n roll (R&B) record to hit the pop charts. It did so in August 1951 reaching #17, about 6 months before that incident Casey talked about. Weird Al is so weird that he has achieved something that no one may have done. His next top 40 hit on the Hot 100 was "Smells Like Teen Spirit" in 1992. Then he had his only top 10 hit with "White & Nerdy" in 2006 which is a parody of "Ridin'", a big rap hit. Then in 2014 he parodied a massive hit "Blurred Lines" into "Word Crimes" for his last top 40 hit. That is exactly one top 40 hit in 4 consecutive decades. Not sure anyone else has done that. And he could make it 5 in a row with a hit here in the 20s. "White and Nerdy" and/or "Word Crimes" both failed to make Ryan Seacrest AT40, I guess.
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Post by dukelightning on Mar 29, 2024 19:04:57 GMT -5
No appearances on any countdown after "Eat it".
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Post by dth1971 on Mar 29, 2024 21:03:16 GMT -5
No appearances on any countdown after "Eat it". Although a December 1994 Rick Dees Weekly Top 40 episode played Weird Al's "Headline News" as a sure shot.
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Post by SFGuy on Mar 30, 2024 2:32:31 GMT -5
Bill Benjamin just announced an AT40 marathon on the AT40 the 80s Facebook page starting Monday 4/1 at 6AM. No further details yet on FB or on the Magic 95.9 website.
An actual marathon or an April Fools joke?
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Post by Hervard on Mar 30, 2024 7:20:08 GMT -5
Next week's show is...3/31/1984. Is 1984 a surprise ? Not really for me, because it´s Easter again and therefore another Easter weekend with 1984. An April Fool´s joke ? No, even though Easter Monday is 4/1 this year. Yeah, I remember that, more often than not, a 1984 show was run on Easter weekend (in fact, I believe it happened five or so years in a row at one point). Also, I just noticed something - of the three times that Premiere ran this particular show, it was always on the weekend of March 30 - that is, it was played in years on which 3/30 fell on a Saturday - the only three times that the calendar fell like that during the run of the show - how about that (and one of those other times (2013), it was Easter weekend as well). Easter was late in 2019, on April 21. That would have been too weird if it had been March 31, but that year, the full moon occurred just hours after the Vernal Equinox.
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Post by dukelightning on Mar 30, 2024 7:26:19 GMT -5
Easter was on April 21 in 2019. I would not have looked this up but for the oddity of it being on the 24th. Is it possible for Easter to be that late? Answer, yes it can be. April 25th is the latest possible date.
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Post by OnWithTheCountdown on Mar 30, 2024 8:01:50 GMT -5
Easter was on April 21 in 2019. I would not have looked this up but for the oddity of it being on the 24th. Is it possible for Easter to be that late? Answer, yes it can be. April 25th is the latest possible date. I'm guessing he meant to type April 21, but the 4 key is right above the 1. Just a guess. 🙂
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Post by dth1971 on Mar 30, 2024 8:02:44 GMT -5
I guess 3/31/1984 had no April Foolish jokes from Casey just like he did one for AT40 2.0 on 3/31/2001 and Shadoe did for AT40 3/31/1990.
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Post by Hervard on Mar 30, 2024 9:56:20 GMT -5
Easter was on April 21 in 2019. I would not have looked this up but for the oddity of it being on the 24th. Is it possible for Easter to be that late? Answer, yes it can be. April 25th is the latest possible date. I'm guessing he meant to type April 21, but the 4 key is right above the 1. Just a guess. 🙂 That is indeed what happened - I meant April 21. By the way, Easter was last on April 24 not too long ago - 2011 to be exact. It will not be on April 25 again until 2038.
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Post by listenerwants2know on Mar 30, 2024 10:08:57 GMT -5
3/31/84:
It´s probably a rarity that two LDD songs come from the same artist. And with Carole King, both songs are also from the same album: "Tapestry" from 1971.
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Post by listenerwants2know on Mar 30, 2024 10:19:35 GMT -5
I'm guessing he meant to type April 21, but the 4 key is right above the 1. Just a guess. 🙂 That is indeed what happened - I meant April 21. By the way, Easter was last on April 24 not too long ago - 2011 to be exact. It will not be on April 25 again until 2038. The earliest possible date for Easter is 3/22. The last time this rare event took place was in 1818. The next time it will not take place until 2285. The latest possible date for Easter is 4/25. The last time such an Easter was celebrated in the middle of the most beautiful spring was in 1943. As you have already mentioned, the next Easter Sunday on 4/25 will not occur again until 2038.
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Post by mrjukebox on Mar 30, 2024 10:35:07 GMT -5
dukelightning-One small correction regarding "Smells Like Teen Spirit"-Weird Al Yankovic's parody was called "Smells Like Nirvana".
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