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Post by LC on May 12, 2024 13:59:03 GMT -5
With executive producer Tom Rounds objecting to its use, this was the last time Helen Reddy’s “You And Me Against The World” was utilized as an LDD. Why did he not like it?
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Post by bm63 on May 12, 2024 18:11:22 GMT -5
Walking on Sunshine, a sun story Patti Labelle story, snippets of 1964 I Sold My Heart to the Junkman, 1975 Lady Marmalade Soft jingle: things can only get better, night shift Conway Twitty snippet: it's only make believe, most country, similar like Elvis Presley I Ain't got nobody snippet from 1955 Recent #1 dance/disco: axel f, Fresh, New Attitude, in my house Story of group of Mary Jane Girls, exercising Second LDD writer Lily was 17, sad see her parents divorced Opt xtras #2-#4 played in jingles beforehand since it aired in 2011 4 mixed english/American band: Foreigner, Animotion, Katrina and the Waves, Power Station *7 movie songs *each decade #1 songs so far: 1952 instrumental: Leroy Anderson - Blue Tango, 60s: Chubby Checker - The Twist, 70s: You Light Up My Life, 80s decade (halfway): Olivia Newton John - Physical Casey's story related to "Walking On Sunshine" was about the size of the sun shrinking, but in case anyone was worried, it'll only shrink by 7% over the next trillion years. Another, later fun fact about Katrina and the Waves is that they won the annual Eurovision song contest (held this weekend) for Britain in 1997 with "Love Shine a Light". I think the information about the sun has changed since 1985. Last I read, the sun will become a red giant, swallowing up the inner planets, including Earth, in about 5 billion years. It will become a white dwarf after that.
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Post by burcjm on May 12, 2024 18:26:14 GMT -5
My predictions for the last week of May is either 5/31/1980 (last aired in 2017) or 5/29/1982 (last aired in 2016). (I'm leaning toward 1980 since we haven't heard that year since the beginning of March.) I'll go with 5/24/86. We haven't had a 1986 standalone in a while either. Last aired in 2019 (2018 as a standalone).
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Post by at40petebattistini on May 12, 2024 18:49:57 GMT -5
With executive producer Tom Rounds objecting to its use, this was the last time Helen Reddy’s “You And Me Against The World” was utilized as an LDD. Did Tom Rounds always hated that Helen Reddy "You and Me Against the World" song? With executive producer Tom Rounds objecting to its use, this was the last time Helen Reddy’s “You And Me Against The World” was utilized as an LDD. Why did he not like it? This wasn’t a decision based on personal music preference. Tom Rounds was a radio pro and, putting on his ‘affiliate cap’, he recognized that the Helen Reddy recording no longer had a life on most contemporary/Top 40 radio stations. And more importantly, if airplay on AT40 could be avoided, it should be.
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Post by dukelightning on May 12, 2024 19:39:32 GMT -5
Did Tom Rounds always hated that Helen Reddy "You and Me Against the World" song? This wasn’t a decision based on personal music preference. Tom Rounds was a radio pro and, putting on his ‘affiliate cap’, he recognized that the Helen Reddy recording no longer had a life on most contemporary/Top 40 radio stations. And more importantly, if airplay on AT40 could be avoided, it should be. Surely that's not the only instance of that happening. They played a fair share of songs like that as LDDs. Did Premiere edit out Casey's mistake saying that Madonna was 24 years old? I see no comments the whole weekend about that. She was 26 in May 1985.
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Post by mkarns on May 12, 2024 20:24:26 GMT -5
It’s typical for management and record companies to shave some years off artists’ ages, especially when they’re not yet well established. I think early on Madonna was said to have been born in 1960 when it was actually 1958, and in spring 1985 that still seemed truthful from all the AT40 staff or most people knew.
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Post by mkarns on May 12, 2024 20:30:53 GMT -5
Did Tom Rounds always hated that Helen Reddy "You and Me Against the World" song? This wasn’t a decision based on personal music preference. Tom Rounds was a radio pro and, putting on his ‘affiliate cap’, he recognized that the Helen Reddy recording no longer had a life on most contemporary/Top 40 radio stations. And more importantly, if airplay on AT40 could be avoided, it should be. Helen Reddy’s most recent album at that time was “Imagination”, released in 1983. The Wikipedia entry on it includes a quote from Helen’s autobiography in which she recalled that on the day it was released, she and a couple who had written a song on it went to Tower Records in L.A. to find copies and see how it was being promoted. It took them 15 minutes before they found it in the “Nostalgia” section. Shortly thereafter Helen accepted a booking to appear on “Good Morning America” thinking she’d be able to sing or promote the album. Then she found that they only wanted to talk about her then-ongoing divorce and child custody cases, and she didn’t show up.
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Post by dukelightning on May 12, 2024 20:47:20 GMT -5
For Casey to say that Helen was still recording (along with all the other Australian artists he mentioned) and more importantly to imply that she could add to her totals seems a bit presumptuous.
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Post by mkarns on May 12, 2024 20:52:27 GMT -5
For Casey to say that Helen was still recording (along with all the other Australian artists he mentioned) and more importantly to imply that she could add to her totals seems a bit presumptuous. There was also a slightly jinxy quality to mentioning Air Supply, though nobody knew it at the time. Shortly after this show they had one more top 20 hit (“Just As I Am”) and no more top 40 entries thereafter. And neither Men At Work nor Little River Band ever made AT40 again (or had since 1983), and even Rick Springfield only did twice more, never again reaching the top 20. The torch was apparently set to be passed to a new generation of Australian artists.
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Post by trekkielo on May 12, 2024 20:57:34 GMT -5
Casey's story related to "Walking On Sunshine" was about the size of the sun shrinking, but in case anyone was worried, it'll only shrink by 7% over the next trillion years. Another, later fun fact about Katrina and the Waves is that they won the annual Eurovision song contest (held this weekend) for Britain in 1997 with "Love Shine a Light". I think the information about the sun has changed since 1985. Last I read, the sun will become a red giant, swallowing up the inner planets, including Earth, in about 5 billion years. It will become a white dwarf after that. Also, interesting how the most severe solar flare storms in 21 years since 2003 are this weekend causing Northern Lights effects!
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Post by mkarns on May 12, 2024 21:39:04 GMT -5
This wasn’t a decision based on personal music preference. Tom Rounds was a radio pro and, putting on his ‘affiliate cap’, he recognized that the Helen Reddy recording no longer had a life on most contemporary/Top 40 radio stations. And more importantly, if airplay on AT40 could be avoided, it should be. Surely that's not the only instance of that happening. They played a fair share of songs like that as LDDs. Yeah, Tom Rounds must not have had a particularly powerful veto on LDD song choices for much of the 80s as there were many songs and artists used for dedications that had little or no presence at top 40/CHR by then, and often not much even at adult contemporary. One more fun fact about Tom and Long Distance Dedications: the response to Casey’s infamous September 1985 “Is Don on the phone?” was “No, it’s TR”. (That of course related to “Shannon”, another song probably not familiar to most mid-80s top 40 listeners, though it was certainly appropriate for memorializing a dead dog.)
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Post by mga707 on May 12, 2024 22:38:04 GMT -5
It’s typical for management and record companies to shave some years off artists’ ages, especially when they’re not yet well established. I think early on Madonna was said to have been born in 1960 when it was actually 1958, and in spring 1985 that still seemed truthful from all the AT40 staff or most people knew. Laura Branigan's 'people' were even more brazen, taking five years off of her age. Even in 1991 my Joel Whitburn 'Top Pop Singles 1955-1990' book gives her DOB as 7/3/57. It was actually 7/3/52.
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Post by Jessica on May 13, 2024 3:12:26 GMT -5
Casey gets Madonna’s age wrong and it wasn’t the first time. He was off by 2 years. He said Madonna was 24 when in 85 she was 26 (almost 27 born in 1958 just like Michael Jackson and Prince).
On another note I had no idea Belinda Carlisle sang backup on Don Henley’s “All She Wants To Do Is Dance”. Although I knew Martha Davis (of the Motels) and Patty Smyth of Scandal sang on that song as well. The things you learn listening to AT40.
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Post by lasvegaskid on May 13, 2024 9:25:49 GMT -5
Weekend of 5/23... 5/24/86!! www.charismusicgroup.com/Cue%20Sheets/1986-0524.pdfLast played 2019 w/extras: "Mad About You" - Belinda Carlisle "Like A Rock" - Bob Seger & The SBB "If She Knew What She Wants" - The Bangles "We Don't Have To Take Our Clothes Off" - Jermaine Stewart
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Post by matt on May 14, 2024 10:17:04 GMT -5
Casey gets Madonna’s age wrong and it wasn’t the first time. He was off by 2 years. He said Madonna was 24 when in 85 she was 26 (almost 27 born in 1958 just like Michael Jackson and Prince). On another note I had no idea Belinda Carlisle sang backup on Don Henley’s “All She Wants To Do Is Dance”. Although I knew Martha Davis (of the Motels) and Patty Smyth of Scandal sang on that song as well. The things you learn listening to AT40. I think Casey actually got the ages wrong of all 3 of the artists you mention on several shows. I know he got Prince's wrong and I'm pretty sure he did with MJ too. Same thing in all cases -- he said they were all two years younger than they were at the time. I have to wonder if that was the doing of the artists' publicists -- gave an age two years younger to the AT40 staff (Casey was just the messenger in this case, as he often was).
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