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Post by OldSchoolAT40Fan on Jun 9, 2012 6:10:59 GMT -5
I am wondering what radio countdown program had the longest string of years on the air? I know AT40 is out of the running because the first version served 24 1/2 years on the air, and the current version has been airing for 14 years now.
My guess is, at 28 years, is Rick Dees' Weekly Top 40 the longest a countdown program has been on the air for?
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Post by mrjukebox on Jun 9, 2012 8:30:03 GMT -5
I would tend to think so.
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Post by Michael on Jun 9, 2012 9:19:49 GMT -5
What about American Country Countdown? Thats been on the air since '73 with no breaks.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 9, 2012 9:59:51 GMT -5
American Country Countdown is more than likely the longest, followed by Rick Dees Weekly Top 40. After that my guess would be the Weekly Country Music Countdown. EDIT: It's American Country Countdown, then probably the Weekly Country Music Countdown which began in 1981, then Rick Dees. The WCMC info is here: affiliates.westwoodone.com/music/wkly-country-ctdn.asp |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 9, 2012 12:25:04 GMT -5
I reread my previous post and it sounds horrible. Didn't sleep well last night but took a late morning/early afternoon nap and feel much better. Let me restate logically what I said earlier. If I didnt leave anything out, the longest continually run countdown shows are as follows:
1. American Country Countdown - 39 years (1973 - current)
2. Weekly Country Music Countdown - 31 years (1981 - current)
3. Rick Dees Weekly Top 40 - 29 years (1983 - current)
4. American Top 40 - 24 1/2 years (1970 - 1995)
5. Country Countdown USA - 20 years (1992 - current)
Perhaps this gets revised some if someone knows the lineage of the Dick Clark countdown shows but I don't so I can't. I know there was National Music Survey, US Music Survey, and Countdown America but I dont know if these were separate or one morphed into another or what.
If you are figuring in other non countdown shows youd also have to figure in somewhere:
-Dick Clark's Rock, Roll, and Remember
-Powerline
-Country Crossroads
-Open House Party
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Post by baylink on Jun 9, 2012 13:29:06 GMT -5
And, of course, the question was "longest running"... which is a different question from "oldest". If you phrased it that way, AT40 would be a reasonable answer.
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Post by rayshae3 on Jun 10, 2012 22:38:15 GMT -5
Walt Baby Love's "The Countdown" started in 1981 and from the very beginning used R&R Urban chart. nenad.net site removed the show last year accordingly because it stopped production.
Grand Ol' Opry (originally distributed by WSM) is one of the oldest...has been in syndication since late 1930s.
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Post by OldSchoolAT40Fan on Jun 11, 2012 16:21:46 GMT -5
Perhaps this gets revised some if someone knows the lineage of the Dick Clark countdown shows but I don't so I can't. I know there was National Music Survey, US Music Survey, and Countdown America but I dont know if these were separate or one morphed into another or what. could be considered the same show, regardless of who hosted. But that series got canned sometime in the 1990s, I think. U.S. Music Survey is likely a separate entity and we can say the same thing for Countdown America. The latter didn't have that long a run - I think it was cancelled in late 1994. |
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Post by mrjukebox on Jun 12, 2012 20:04:24 GMT -5
You could consider "The Dr.Demento Show" as a longevity champ-It ran in syndication from 1974-2010-New programs can be heard each week on his website:www.drdemento.com
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Post by Deleted on Jun 12, 2012 20:27:07 GMT -5
This may be a stupid question but I've never heard him before. Heard of him, but never heard him. Is this a music oriented program?
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Post by jmorgan on Jun 12, 2012 23:28:51 GMT -5
Yes. They showcase novelty records from the past and present. They have a theme every week ranging from food to sports. At the end of the month, they have a top 10 based on viewer requests online.
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Post by baylink on Jun 14, 2012 15:31:00 GMT -5
This may be a stupid question but I've never heard him before. Heard of him, but never heard him. Is this a music oriented program? His syndie peak was probably around the time I discovered him; '81-82. I think he was on 25 radio stations *just in Florida* that year; I listened to him (as did everyone else I went to high school with) on Tampa Bay's 98ROCK, WQXM 97.9. He was on, alas, from midnight to... well, after I went to sleep, so I didn't often get to hear the Funny 5 (he did an annual Funny 25, too, which puts him sort of right on topic for this board). The Doc's real name is Barrett Hansen, and he supplied... d**nit; I don't remember, *some* off-beat musical clip to Casey for a show, for which he got namechecked. He's probably most notable for breaking Weird "Al" Yankovic. |
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Post by jmorgan on Jun 14, 2012 18:26:08 GMT -5
The song that you're thinking of, baylink, is "Shaving Cream". Recorded in 1948, it made the top 30 in '75 thanks to Dr. D.
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Post by at40petebattistini on Jun 17, 2012 1:50:09 GMT -5
The Doc's real name is Barrett Hansen, and he supplied... d**nit; I don't remember, *some* off-beat musical clip to Casey for a show, for which he got namechecked. He's probably most notable for breaking Weird "Al" Yankovic. Prior to "Shaving Cream", Dr. Demento supplied a recording of "Rock And Roll" by the Boswell Sisters to Casey, who used it in the January 11, 1975 program. |
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Post by mrjukebox on Jun 17, 2012 8:28:28 GMT -5
Recently Dr.Demento was the subject of a trivia question on "Jeopardy" which said "This radio doctor hung up his stethoscope in 2010"-That was totally incorrect-As previously stated,Dr.Demento continues to host a new show each week on his website-Obviously,the "Jeopardy Clue Crew" was unaware of this.
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