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Post by doofus67 on May 23, 2024 15:22:30 GMT -5
Few 1988 notes: Glass Tiger $20 story for food.. Prediction future story, based Times Two Jets is largest family group: 15 kids 11 British acts? Terence Trent D'Arby Heavyweight champion story as well as music career 5 duos 9 acts Band #1 for cities, especially Miami Sound Machine! Speaking of which, the question about acts whose name included the name of a city to hit #1 was partially wrong. Casey forgot The Kingston Trio, who hit #1 in 1958 with "Tom Dooley". I seem to remember hearing another show where either he aired a correction adding them or the same question was asked and he DID remember to add them. Also, the Hollywood Argyles may have named themselves after "Tinseltown" but it isn't a city; it's part of Los Angeles. Hollywood Florida, however, IS a city (it's the home of Fort Lauderdale Airport) so they would still count. Fun fact: Gary Paxton happened to be driving through the intersection of Hollywood Boulevard and Argyle Avenue in Hollywood when the name came to him. So the "group," more of a studio creation, is named for the two streets.
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Post by seminolefan on May 23, 2024 16:44:52 GMT -5
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Post by dukelightning on May 24, 2024 7:49:43 GMT -5
If you did not know any better, you would say that there are 3 Texas bands in this show all singing about the masculinity associated with the lone star state. But we do know better by listening to the show(among other ways) since one of those bands, Boys Don't Cry is not from Texas but the UK. Sounds like a topic for a new thread but I can think of another artist who could have inherited a fortune from an industry outside of entertainment besides Mike Nesmith. That's Carly Simon whose father was co-founder of Simon & Schuster. The difference between the situations of Mike and Carly is that her father died several years before her musical career whereas Mike's mother died several years after his stint with the Monkees.
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Post by dukelightning on May 24, 2024 8:56:57 GMT -5
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.) Another such LDD in this week's show, "Somewhere". Would have been appropriate for an AC show. But even when Casey did those in the 90s and 2000s, the AC show appropriate songs were still played on CT/AT40.
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Post by friarboy on May 25, 2024 8:15:26 GMT -5
38 years ago, when I was 15, I was taping this show. I recognize Casey's outro from Simple Minds' "All the Things she Said" from catching the beginning of it before I shut the tape off.
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Post by kani on May 25, 2024 14:07:42 GMT -5
WMMX this morning for last segment of hour 4 played 1988 instead of 1986..
Also it repeated Memorial Day, as well as same last segment 1988 AGAIN!
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Post by mrjukebox on May 25, 2024 15:47:35 GMT -5
On this week's show from 5/24/86,Casey did an update on The Monkees-He said that three of the members:Davy Jones,Mickey Dolenz & Peter Tork would be reuniting for a summer tour-It was around that time that MTV began airing reruns of their TV series which ran from 1966-1968-Later that summer,The Monkees released their comeback single "That Was Then,This Is Now" which reached the top twenty-That particular song featured Mickey Dolenz & Peter Tork on vocals.
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Post by mkarns on May 25, 2024 20:59:33 GMT -5
Casey answered a question on 5/24/86 about artists who were blocked from #1 by a song they wrote for someone else, and the only one (at least to that time) was Gene Pitney in 1962. But if the peak positions of "Kiss" and "Manic Monday" had been reversed just over a month earlier, the same thing would have happened to Prince.
He also talked about cricket (leading into the Outfield), citing the British consulate in Los Angeles. I saw a cricket game/demo at the British embassy in Washington DC a few weeks ago.
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Post by burcjm on May 25, 2024 21:53:40 GMT -5
I predict 6/13/81 for the weekend of June 8. Last aired in 2016 and last played by itself in 2014.
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Post by kani on May 26, 2024 6:44:55 GMT -5
Some 1986 notes:
First LDD writer was 23 years old woman in wheelchair
Ian Stewart story former member of Rolling Stones, passed away in December 1985
Station Fort Wayne, IN 97.3 mentioned!
1984 Bumper jingles for opt xtras played since first aired 2011
18 British acts, 17 from Britain, 1 from Scotland
Soft jingles: a different corner, live to tell
The Jets, largest family act 8 brothers and sisters, first time since 1977 The Sylvers
LOL weird first hour WNSN, after first commercial break after H1S1 it got longer, however after H1S2, commercial was very limited; to balance out.
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Post by dth1971 on May 26, 2024 8:12:01 GMT -5
I predict 6/13/81 for the weekend of June 8. Last aired in 2016 and last played by itself in 2014. I guess 6/5/1982 for the June 8-9, 2024 weekend. And 6/14/1980 for the June 14-15. 2024 weekend. But for the June 8-9, 2024 weekend we may have to wait until Tuesday due to the Memorial Day holiday.
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Post by dth1971 on May 26, 2024 8:16:53 GMT -5
Some 1986 notes: First LDD writer was 23 years old woman in wheelchair Ian Stewart story former member of Rolling Stones, passed away in December 1985 Station Fort Wayne, IN 97.3 mentioned! 1984 Bumper jingles for opt xtras played since first aired 2011 18 British acts, 17 from Britain, 1 from Scotland Soft jingles: a different corner The Jets, largest family act 8 brothers and sisters, first time since 1977 The Sylvers Also: A question to Casey about the youngest female singer to hit #1: Then 15 year old Little Peggy March with "I Will Follow Him" in 1963 (Although in 1987-1988 Tiffany and Debbie Gibson nearly broke L.P.M.'s record since they were 1-2 years older (ages 16-17) when they hit #1.
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Post by johnnywest on May 26, 2024 9:57:54 GMT -5
Jojo broke the record on AT40 in 2004 when she was about 13 hitting #1 with “Leave (Get Out).”
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Post by lasvegaskid on May 26, 2024 19:04:23 GMT -5
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Post by at40petebattistini on May 27, 2024 3:24:56 GMT -5
Weekend of Saturday, June 8th show 6/13/81!! www.charismusicgroup.com/Cue%20Sheets/1981-0613.pdfThe optional extras for June 13, 1981 back in 2014 were: Hour #1: "Slow Hand" - Pointer Sisters Hour #2: "Queen Of Hearts" - Juice Newton Hour #3: "The Breakup Song" - Greg Kihn Band Hour #4: "In The Air Tonight" - Phil Collins
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