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Post by dukelightning on Sept 3, 2024 10:39:30 GMT -5
And that's shows dated 9/1 and 9/20 in consecutive weeks. Has to be close to the record for biggest such gap in the 17 year history of the series.
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Post by burcjm on Sept 4, 2024 0:51:14 GMT -5
And that's shows dated 9/1 and 9/20 in consecutive weeks. Has to be close to the record for biggest such gap in the 17 year history of the series.
The first two weeks of the series we had 3/5/83 and 4/6/85, a difference of 32 days.
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Post by dth1971 on Sept 4, 2024 7:17:10 GMT -5
And that's shows dated 9/1 and 9/20 in consecutive weeks. Has to be close to the record for biggest such gap in the 17 year history of the series.
The first two weeks of the series we had 3/5/83 and 4/6/85, a difference of 32 days.
How about a difference of gap days for the 2000-2001 AT40 Flashback series?
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Post by seminolefan on Sept 5, 2024 11:07:57 GMT -5
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Post by dukelightning on Sept 5, 2024 12:33:30 GMT -5
A brother and sister were much more successful but Jermaine is the only Jackson to appear on 3 hits in a countdown. Did it for 3 weeks spanning this show. 6th artist in AT40 history to do that after Melanie, Marvin Gaye, Paul McCartney, Bee Gees and Diana Ross.
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Post by dukelightning on Sept 6, 2024 8:23:24 GMT -5
Casey was at best misleading in the story about Stevie Wonder being involved in that serious accident. Misleading because he says it occurred while traveling from Greenville to Raleigh on highway 85. With no mention of a state, one quickly assumes it is a trip entirely in NC since Raleigh is in it. Here's a factoid for you. The only town name that is in all 50 states is Greenville. It is not Greenville, NC but Greenville, SC that Stevie was traveling from as his concert tour records show. And highway 85 which is I-85 goes between Greenville, SC and Raleigh not between Greenville, NC and Raleigh(actually nearby Durham which is where he was headed for his next show). Also interesting that "Higher Ground" was the song sung to him as that had been released just days before the accident. So the Drifters' "There Goes My Baby" is to soul what "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" is to heavy metal, "Rock the Boat" is to disco, "Pop Muzic" is to synth, "Rapper's Delight" is to rap and "Smells Like Teen Spirit" is to alternative. Songs that ushered in those genres. All big hits except Gadda and Delight.
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Post by lasvegaskid on Sept 6, 2024 10:15:35 GMT -5
Weekend of Sept 5th (OMG it can't be Sept already).... 9/1/84!!! www.charismusicgroup.com/Cue%20Sheets/1984-0901.pdfLast played 2018 w/extras: "Strut" - Sheena Easton "On The Dark Side" - John Cafferty & The Beaver Brown Band "Some Guys Have All The Luck" - Rockin' Rod "I'm So Excited" - Pointer Sisters Will they replace extra w/ Alibis... #57 on the Hot 100 that week?
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Post by LC on Sept 6, 2024 12:05:18 GMT -5
Weekend of Sept 5th (OMG it can't be Sept already).... 9/1/84!!! www.charismusicgroup.com/Cue%20Sheets/1984-0901.pdfLast played 2018 w/extras: "Strut" - Sheena Easton "On The Dark Side" - John Cafferty & The Beaver Brown Band "Some Guys Have All The Luck" - Rockin' Rod "I'm So Excited" - Pointer Sisters Will they replace extra w/ Alibis... #57 on the Hot 100 that week? Why? Oh, Sergio Mendes passed away today at 83. :-(
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Post by mkarns on Sept 6, 2024 12:27:17 GMT -5
Will they replace extra w/ Alibis... #57 on the Hot 100 that week? Why? Oh, Sergio Mendes passed away today at 83. :-( That would be nice, but it may be too late for that. Maybe they'll salute him with "Never Gonna Let You Go" the next time we get 1983 (it was no longer in the top 40 by September/October of that year.)
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Post by dukelightning on Sept 6, 2024 13:44:41 GMT -5
Last week's show was from Labor Day weekend. This week's show is from Labor Day weekend. Last week's show featured Van Halen with lead singer Sammy Hagar and former lead singer turned into a solo artist David Lee Roth. This week's show features Van Halen with lead singer David Lee Roth in the countdown for the last time and future lead singer Sammy Hagar as a solo artist.
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Post by mct1 on Sept 6, 2024 23:32:51 GMT -5
Seems like there's something in common with the age bit, and the conclusion I've come to is this: Madonna, Belinda Carlisle, Prince, and Michael Jackson all have something in common besides Casey stating their age as two years younger than they are. And that is, all of them were born in 1958. He gave their ages at multiple times as if they all were born in 1960. Some of that may have been deliberate shaving years off their age by the artists' publicists. In an MTV, youth-obsessed culture, artists may have felt pressure to be seen as young as possible. My guess is that virtually all of it is. I suspect that it was very rare for AT40 to actually make a mistake in reporting an artist's age/date of birth. In virtually all cases, AT40 was just reporting the age that artist claimed to be, and was publicly believed to be, at the time. I don't think these cases should be described as AT40 making "errors" or AT40 being "incorrect" - they were just stating what was public knowledge at the time. This also happed a lot historically with baseball players, and everything I said above about AT40 could also be said of manufacturers of baseball cards. Very true in Laura Branigan's case. 5 years magically gone: 1952 actual birth year, 1957 was in her bio for years. Ric Ocasek is another one. He was born in 1944 but most sources will state he was born in 1949. In the cases of Branigan and Ocasek, their true ages did not become public knowledge until after their deaths. For the entire time they were famous, they were claiming to be five years younger than they really were. Any source from the time when they were alive - AT40, a reference book, a newspaper article, whatever - will say that Branigan was born in 1957 and Ocasek in 1949, because that's what they were telling people, and it had not yet become public knowledge that this wasn't really true.
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Post by dmvden on Sept 7, 2024 8:48:38 GMT -5
Apologies if this has been mentioned before, but I just now noticed that AT40 swapped #12 and #15 from the official Billboard charts on Sept 1 1984. Round and Round at #12 on Billboard was announced at #15, while I Can Dream About You at #15 on Billboard was announced at #12
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Post by mkarns on Sept 7, 2024 11:33:18 GMT -5
Seems like there's something in common with the age bit, and the conclusion I've come to is this: Madonna, Belinda Carlisle, Prince, and Michael Jackson all have something in common besides Casey stating their age as two years younger than they are. And that is, all of them were born in 1958. He gave their ages at multiple times as if they all were born in 1960. Some of that may have been deliberate shaving years off their age by the artists' publicists. In an MTV, youth-obsessed culture, artists may have felt pressure to be seen as young as possible. My guess is that virtually all of it is. I suspect that it was very rare for AT40 to actually make a mistake in reporting an artist's age/date of birth. In virtually all cases, AT40 was just reporting the age that artist claimed to be, and was publicly believed to be, at the time. I don't think these cases should be described as AT40 making "errors" or AT40 being "incorrect" - they were just stating what was public knowledge at the time. This also happed a lot historically with baseball players, and everything I said above about AT40 could also be said of manufacturers of baseball cards. Very true in Laura Branigan's case. 5 years magically gone: 1952 actual birth year, 1957 was in her bio for years. Ric Ocasek is another one. He was born in 1944 but most sources will state he was born in 1949. In the cases of Branigan and Ocasek, their true ages did not become public knowledge until after their deaths. For the entire time they were famous, they were claiming to be five years younger than they really were. Any source from the time when they were alive - AT40, a reference book, a newspaper article, whatever - will say that Branigan was born in 1957 and Ocasek in 1949, because that's what they were telling people, and it had not yet become public knowledge that this wasn't really true. Sometimes birth records emerge late in peoples' lives that change the dates that we've long been accustomed to. Carly Simon, who is still alive and well, was long believed to be born in 1945 but records that have recently become public backdate her birth to 1943. (Her autobiography doesn't give a precise year.) And in 2017 it was officially confirmed that Doris Day, long thought to have been born in 1924, was actually born in 1922. Doris herself was surprised to learn that--did her parents mislead her all her life or something? (She died two years later.)
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Post by dth1971 on Sept 7, 2024 20:30:12 GMT -5
Will they replace extra w/ Alibis... #57 on the Hot 100 that week? Why? Oh, Sergio Mendes passed away today at 83. :-( Premiere can wait until October when they can play a 1983 AT40: The 80's show - maybe 10/8/1983 is possible (10/1/1983 isn't - It was guest hosted by Charlie Van Dyke).
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Post by burcjm on Sept 7, 2024 21:40:10 GMT -5
Why? Oh, Sergio Mendes passed away today at 83. :-( Premiere can wait until October when they can play a 1983 AT40: The 80's show - maybe 10/8/1983 is possible (10/1/1983 isn't - It was guest hosted by Charlie Van Dyke). ... Or possibly 9/24/83 the week of September 21.
Thinking 9/25/82, last played by itself in.... 2010 (!) will wait until the last week of September.
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