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Post by 40fan on Jan 1, 2012 0:57:21 GMT -5
As 1983 turned to 1984 in the central time zone WLS Chicago started the year with a montage of hits of the Rock era. Supposedly they were all #1s according to WLS weekly surveys. The mixing and editing here is nothing short of fantastic! www.4shared.com/audio/SJNSp-OG/WLS_Montage_1984.htmlThe "Do I remind you of wild hickory nuts?" bit is WLS DJ John Records Landecker from a Dickie Goodman style recording he made about the Watergate scandal. Listen for bits of "Life Is A Rock" and "Mr. Jaws" that were customized for the station. From 1979 to 1982 WLS had a very rock-leaning playlist with many of that period's Urban and AC hits left off. That's reflected here. In 1982 an earlier version of this montage was sent from WLS to WABC New York where it was played as part of their final day of Top 40. OMG...28 years later and I still get a rush listening to this! |
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Post by at40petebattistini on Jan 1, 2012 9:52:43 GMT -5
The "Do I remind you of wild hickory nuts?" bit is WLS DJ John Records Landecker from a Dickie Goodman style recording he made about the Watergate scandal. 40fan, Thank you for this link. It's perfect for New Year's Day listening. By the way, the Landecker quote was a parody of the late naturalist, Euell Gibbons, who became popular as a health food advocate back in the mid-70s. And, to complete the connection, here's further evidence from his page on Wikipedia: ...A 1974 television commercial for Post Grape-Nuts cereal featured Gibbons asking viewers "Ever eat a pine tree? Many parts are edible." While he recommended eating Grape Nuts over eating pine trees (Grape Nuts' taste "reminds me of wild hickory nuts"), the quote caught the public's imagination and fueled his celebrity status.... |
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Post by mstgator on Jan 5, 2012 21:03:24 GMT -5
Excellent production work there, and the following segue from Arthur Brown to Jeannie C. Riley cracked me up:
"I AM THE GOD OF HELLFIRE... AND I BRING YOU... the Harper Valley PTA!"
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Post by Shadoe Fan on Jan 5, 2012 21:43:14 GMT -5
I took something like this and made my own montage of #1s starting from 1984 to 1999, so I have one that runs from the beginning of the rock era through the end of the 1990s. Of course I used one of Casey's #1 montages to help.  |
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Post by dukelightning on Jan 5, 2012 21:52:58 GMT -5
That was neat. I like the way they did not go in chronological order totally. They basically took all the #1 songs from a year and put them in the best order i.e. they played Tonight's the Night, Oh What a Night and Afternoon Delight in that order from 1976. And monster hits like Endless Love and Physical did not hit #1 on WLS judged by their omission. But great songs that did not sniff the #1 position on Billboard like Heart's "Crazy on You" did hit #1. Will have to listen to it again to see if I can identify the songs I could not identify the first time.
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Post by Hervard on Jan 28, 2012 21:50:29 GMT -5
I have a version of the WLS montage from the beginning of 1986 and I couldn't help but notice that 1984 was absent from the montage. It went right from the end of "What About Me" by Moving Pictures to "Axel F" by Harold Faltermeyer (there may have been a jingle in between). Was that year also excluded from the year before?
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