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Post by trekkielo on Jul 15, 2024 10:33:09 GMT -5
Yay! After a 14-year wait, the “Casey’s Ghost to Ghost” show finally gets another spin. Perfect for that show along with Ghostbusters 40th Anniversary!
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Post by michaelcasselman on Jul 15, 2024 10:53:18 GMT -5
July 31, 1982 for the weekend of July 27-28, according to KOLA
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Post by at40petebattistini on Jul 15, 2024 11:40:50 GMT -5
If you listened to the closing credits of 7/16/88, Elizabeth Rollins was program producer, not Tom Rounds. He was working other facets outside of program production by then, including the addition of more international affiliates. In other words, a different decision maker was in charge. Just an example Peteski... you can go back to 86 and 87 and find plenty of Bread and England Dan/ John Ford Coley in the same boat. LVK, I have too much respect for you to argue the point. I can only share what I know as fact.
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Post by lasvegaskid on Jul 15, 2024 12:15:30 GMT -5
Just an example Peteski... you can go back to 86 and 87 and find plenty of Bread and England Dan/ John Ford Coley in the same boat. LVK, I have too much respect for you to argue the point. I can only share what I know as fact. Likewise Peteski, I'm not questioning your claim. But I just find it strange one innocuous song would be singled out because it sounded a little dated. There has to be more to that story....
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Post by michaelcasselman on Jul 15, 2024 12:24:28 GMT -5
England Dan Seals was having a successful country career around that time, and IIRC, Bread was one of those groups constantly being promoted on TV for Time/Life compilation 'greatest hits' albums, so at least they had some visibility. Reddy's career was stalled out, in part for her name being late-night comedian shorthand for schmaltzy, out-of-vogue singers, as well as a messy divorce and her ex taking steps to get her blacklisted in the industry.
Maybe there was just a lot of negative feedback from affiliates from the previous uses? It was used in 1979, 1981, 1982 and 1985 as LDDs. By 1985, Top 40 radio had moved on from that heavy-AC early '80's sound that Reddy would have appealed to, let alone by an artist that was seen as a punchline.
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Post by lasvegaskid on Jul 15, 2024 12:39:43 GMT -5
England Dan Seals was having a successful country career around that time, and IIRC, Bread was one of those groups constantly being promoted on TV for Time/Life compilation 'greatest hits' albums, so at least they had some visibility. Reddy's career was stalled out, in part for her name being late-night comedian shorthand for schmaltzy, out-of-vogue singers, as well as a messy divorce and her ex taking steps to get her blacklisted in the industry. Maybe there was just a lot of negative feedback from affiliates from the previous uses? It was used in 1979, 1981, 1982 and 1985 as LDDs. By 1985, Top 40 radio had moved on from that heavy-AC early '80's sound that Reddy would have appealed to, let alone by an artist that was seen as a punchline. Again just examples. I'm sure there were other LDDs by Barry Manimellow, Kenny Rogers, Christopher Cross just as toxic in the MTV era.
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Post by michaelcasselman on Jul 15, 2024 13:04:23 GMT -5
England Dan Seals was having a successful country career around that time, and IIRC, Bread was one of those groups constantly being promoted on TV for Time/Life compilation 'greatest hits' albums, so at least they had some visibility. Reddy's career was stalled out, in part for her name being late-night comedian shorthand for schmaltzy, out-of-vogue singers, as well as a messy divorce and her ex taking steps to get her blacklisted in the industry. Maybe there was just a lot of negative feedback from affiliates from the previous uses? It was used in 1979, 1981, 1982 and 1985 as LDDs. By 1985, Top 40 radio had moved on from that heavy-AC early '80's sound that Reddy would have appealed to, let alone by an artist that was seen as a punchline. Again just examples. I'm sure there were other LDDs by Barry Manimellow, Kenny Rogers, Christopher Cross just as toxic in the MTV era. Yet those artists had had far more recent chart presence than Helen Reddy (even well-into the MTV era), and hadn't quite become the pop-culture also-ran that Reddy was.
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Post by lasvegaskid on Jul 15, 2024 14:00:37 GMT -5
Elizabeth Rollins would be named producer in the closing on the same show the theme music changed, 4/4/1987. Tom Rounds is mentioned as a show creator at this point, no longer a producer. Not sure why that would have any impact. If this was strictly a market based decision.... we are no longer gonna play certain songs/ artists because they don't test well and they make affiliates uneasy... that wouldn't change just because you swap honchos.
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Post by LC on Jul 15, 2024 14:00:52 GMT -5
England Dan Seals was having a successful country career around that time, and IIRC, Bread was one of those groups constantly being promoted on TV for Time/Life compilation 'greatest hits' albums, so at least they had some visibility. Reddy's career was stalled out, in part for her name being late-night comedian shorthand for schmaltzy, out-of-vogue singers, as well as a messy divorce and her ex taking steps to get her blacklisted in the industry. Maybe there was just a lot of negative feedback from affiliates from the previous uses? It was used in 1979, 1981, 1982 and 1985 as LDDs. By 1985, Top 40 radio had moved on from that heavy-AC early '80's sound that Reddy would have appealed to, let alone by an artist that was seen as a punchline. Again just examples. I'm sure there were other LDDs by Barry Manimellow, Kenny Rogers, Christopher Cross just as toxic in the MTV era. I got so tired of Kenny's "Through the Years" being used as LDDs....
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Post by listenerwants2know on Jul 15, 2024 14:22:06 GMT -5
Ah finally 1982. Thought it would be this week. But it has the same calendar as 1971 and for me anyway, both years were a lot better in the second half. Please don´t - we had this discussion exactly one year ago, when 7/24/82 and not 7/21/84 was chosen ... but at least my Christmas wish from 2023 ( at40fg.proboards.com/post/217155) came true ... even if it took a little longer.
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Post by mkarns on Jul 15, 2024 15:01:46 GMT -5
Again just examples. I'm sure there were other LDDs by Barry Manimellow, Kenny Rogers, Christopher Cross just as toxic in the MTV era. Yet those artists had had far more recent chart presence than Helen Reddy (even well-into the MTV era), and hadn't quite become the pop-culture also-ran that Reddy was. Even so, “You and Me…”‘wasn’t the only LDD even at that time with a song or artist that was at least forgotten by top 40 listeners. To cite an especially (in)famous example, Henry Gross’ “Shannon” probably got little if any recurrent play from top 40 or CHR stations in 1985. Though some stations still playing AT40 in the mid to late 80s may have shifted in a more adult contemporary direction and might have been only playing the show due to contractual reasons or whatever when they might have preferred a more AC countdown with more older songs (which Casey started doing in the 90s.). I thought that about this weekend’s 1988 show with “Key Largo” in it—a song that was starting to sound a bit anachronistic for CHR even in 1982.
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Post by Jessica on Jul 16, 2024 6:03:32 GMT -5
In the 1988 show, Casey tells a story about the now late lead singer of INXS, Michael Hutchence, living in Hong Kong and the “Countdown to 1997” (the “handover” of Hong Kong). 1997 was also the year that Hutchence would sadly commit suicide.
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Post by dth1971 on Jul 16, 2024 6:23:29 GMT -5
When this 1982 airs the last weekend of July, I predict "Somebody's Baby" or "Ran So Far Away" will be replaced by "Bobbie Sue" by the Oak Ridge Boys since a member of this country group recently passed away.
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Post by OnWithTheCountdown on Jul 16, 2024 18:49:06 GMT -5
Elizabeth Rollins would be named producer in the closing on the same show the theme music changed, 4/4/1987. Tom Rounds is mentioned as a show creator at this point, no longer a producer. Not sure why that would have any impact. If this was strictly a market based decision.... we are no longer gonna play certain songs/ artists because they don't test well and they make affiliates uneasy... that wouldn't change just because you swap honchos. So all I did was simply expand on Pete's point. Wouldn't expect anything less of a supersized response from you.
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Post by lasvegaskid on Jul 16, 2024 20:34:53 GMT -5
I would not be surprised if "If This Is It" Huey Lewis & The News, which is one week from the countdown, is an optional extra next week. Extras are unchanged...
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