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Post by listenerwants2know on Apr 15, 2024 10:15:30 GMT -5
In the 1987 show Casey mentions “Cassingles” (singles on Cassettes, remember those?). Boy that brings back memories. I think the first one I ever bought was “Vogue” by Madonna and my parents were not happy lol (Madonna was half naked of course). For me it was the following poster of Madonna, which I received from the music store "Sound Of Music" in the center of Salzburg and which made my mother´s eyes "widen" ...
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Post by michaelcasselman on Apr 15, 2024 10:31:56 GMT -5
Neil Diamond's "America" was the original second hour Optional Extra for the 4/25/1981 show before it was replaced by the Geils tribute.
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Post by OnWithTheCountdown on Apr 15, 2024 22:20:14 GMT -5
4/25 was the first 1981 show I heard when I first found the Premiere series. It's hard to pick a favorite from that year, but it's definitely up there. 🙂
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Post by michaelcasselman on Apr 16, 2024 13:10:15 GMT -5
Re: the segment about Taps on the 4/11/1987 show: 'Taps' signifies the end of the day in the military? I always knew 'Retreat' as signifying the end of the (work)day (usually at 5PM), at least as far back as 1993 when I came in the Army. Installations usually play Reveille and Retreat over loudspeakers audible across post so that all personnel can hear it and take whatever steps necessary to stop and salute. As many times as I was outside around 9 or 10PM, I can't say I ever heard Taps played at "lights-out"... at plenty of military funerals and ceremonies honoring the fallen, yes, but never in-garrison.
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Post by mkarns on Apr 16, 2024 21:18:46 GMT -5
This week's optional extras:
April 23, 1983:
Hour #1: "Love My Way" - Psychadelic Furs (#44) Hour #2: "Faithfully" - Journey (#41) Hour #3: "Don't Let It End" - Styx (NR) Hour #4: "I Melt With You" - Modern English (#91)
"Don't Let It End" entered the Hot 100 at #35 the following week. Two of the three others never made the top 40 at all, though they're well known today.
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Post by cursereversed on Apr 17, 2024 11:20:24 GMT -5
Obviously hindsight is 20/20 and I assume he was more popular overseas than he was in the States but I LOL'd at U2 being the opening act and Chris DeBurgh being the headliner.
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Post by matt on Apr 17, 2024 11:28:31 GMT -5
This week's optional extras: April 23, 1983:Hour #1: "Love My Way" - Psychadelic Furs (#44) Hour #2: "Faithfully" - Journey (#41) Hour #3: "Don't Let It End" - Styx (NR) Hour #4: "I Melt With You" - Modern English (#91) "Don't Let It End" entered the Hot 100 at #35 the following week. Two of the three others never made the top 40 at all, though they're well known today. From jdelachjr2002 on the Pulse Music Board: Premiere has replaced The Tubes' "She's A Beauty" as the Hour #2 op extra and Kajagoogoo's "Too Shy" as the Hour #3 op extra with "Faithfully" and "Don't Let It End" respectively. IMHO the two new songs are downgrades from the ones they had before, particularly the Styx cut. To each their own I guess...
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Post by seminolefan on Apr 18, 2024 10:32:19 GMT -5
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Post by mrjukebox on Apr 18, 2024 13:18:33 GMT -5
Our local AC station in Connecticut,WEBE 108,plays "I Melt With You" on a regular basis.
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Post by mjl677 on Apr 19, 2024 2:10:35 GMT -5
Our local AC station in Connecticut,WEBE 108,plays "I Melt With You" on a regular basis. I listen to them on Saturday nights for Studio 108! Awesome music!
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Post by retrodaddy on Apr 19, 2024 9:22:31 GMT -5
This week's optional extras: April 23, 1983:Hour #1: "Love My Way" - Psychadelic Furs (#44) Hour #2: "Faithfully" - Journey (#41) Hour #3: "Don't Let It End" - Styx (NR) Hour #4: "I Melt With You" - Modern English (#91) "Don't Let It End" entered the Hot 100 at #35 the following week. Two of the three others never made the top 40 at all, though they're well known today. From jdelachjr2002 on the Pulse Music Board: Premiere has replaced The Tubes' "She's A Beauty" as the Hour #2 op extra and Kajagoogoo's "Too Shy" as the Hour #3 op extra with "Faithfully" and "Don't Let It End" respectively. IMHO the two new songs are downgrades from the ones they had before, particularly the Styx cut. To each their own I guess... Yeah, it's kind of a bummer when the changes in OEs are downgrades. I've never liked She's A Beauty, so Faithfully is an upgrade. I dig Styx, but I much prefer Too Shy to Don't Let It End.
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Post by dukelightning on Apr 19, 2024 15:40:27 GMT -5
"It Might be You" is not the only song nominated for the 1983 best song Oscar in this show. The first LDD "Eye of the Tiger" was the other one in the show. And another nominee which never reached the countdown was from Best Friends, another duet by James Ingram and Patti Austin, "How Do You Keep the Music Playing", peaked at 45. Just as the Pretenders were inspired by "Chain Gang" by Sam Cooke, the 90s band Garbage was inspired by 2 Pretenders songs "Brass in Pocket(I'm Special)" and "Talk of the Town", the latter a popular album cut from 1981 for their 1999 hit "Special". I must say that I am surprised a third 1983 A show this year is being played while only 1 A show from 1985, 86 and 88 have been played. I heard this show in 2011. Was that the last time it was an A show?
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Post by Hervard on Apr 19, 2024 16:44:03 GMT -5
Well, the 1983 show was cut off right before they got to the Top Five by a d**n ball game. Oh well...
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Post by lasvegaskid on Apr 19, 2024 22:31:11 GMT -5
Casey almost always opened the show with a statement like that, it was his way of selling it. There was really nothing glaring I could see about this chart. The changes were more subtle and not really notable unless you looked at the Hot 100 over time and compared the with those from Spring 1983. The most significant were the elimination of massive drops from the top 40. This week in 1982 alone there were six 35+ point fallers lead by Motels 83-19!! The other were fewer long holds on random places on the chart... the same Motels tune was coming off four weeks at #9. And after "Every Breath Your Take" finished its #1 chart run of 8 weeks, it would be a long several year dry spell before the next 7 or 8 or more weeks at #1 happened. Not to mention the first post Wardlow chart 4/30/83 was when Journey fell 12-8. Not significant on its own. But it ended six weeks at #8 and I can't think of many more chart runs like that in future panels.
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Post by jblues on Apr 20, 2024 9:10:51 GMT -5
Our local AC station in Connecticut,WEBE 108,plays "I Melt With You" on a regular basis. Ours too in Motown (WOMC) does - sometimes twice a day They also play a remade version of Great White's 'Once Bitten, Twice Shy' that is apparently stuck in Audacy's system...
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