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Post by lasvegaskid on Jan 1, 2021 11:16:41 GMT -5
SXMs errors aren't limited to Casey lite. Last night I tuned in to hear what Wheel they were playing and the display showed American Top 40. It wasn't until the big voice guy came on...you are listening to the Top 300 as voted by you......I realized AT40 had been preempted.
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Post by jblues on Jan 1, 2021 13:16:51 GMT -5
Just some catch up from 1987: 1. Alan said Stephen Bray wrote I Do You. The Jets 7" lists the writers as Linda Millah and Rick Kelly and I don't think those were pseudonyms. 2. Alan had a Power outage. He said Jenn Rush charted in 1984 and Air Supply in 1985. Alan had them reversed as Jennifer's 'Love didn't come until 1986. For Stephen Bray...Alan must have been reading Wikipedia. As mentioned above, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Do_You says the songwriter is Stephen Bray and Linda Mallah. (But in the corner of page says Rick Kelly and Linda Mallah.) Possibly Rick/Ricky Kelly was Bray's writing pseudonym? (Although he used Stephen Bray for the credit on Like a Prayer...)
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Post by jgve1952 on Jan 3, 2021 9:07:34 GMT -5
Mark Goodman said the countdowns were going back as far as the 40's--no Mark, just the 50's (unless a song from the 50's was re-released?
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Post by jgve1952 on Jan 9, 2021 12:52:34 GMT -5
After "There's The Girl" played, Nina calls the song, "There Goes The Girl."
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Post by Michael1973 on Jan 9, 2021 14:14:19 GMT -5
Also, at one point Nina states that this is a 1981 countdown.
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Post by jgve1952 on Jan 10, 2021 8:36:38 GMT -5
81? That's not even CLOSE to 88 SIGH
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Post by laura on Jan 10, 2021 20:18:18 GMT -5
They played a #38 jingle before the #37 song, "That's What Love Is All About".
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Post by jimjterrell4210 on Jan 10, 2021 22:06:49 GMT -5
^^ 1. The #35 jingle was also played before the #34 single ("Everywhere", by Fleetwood Mac).
2. Alan, after "Heaven is a Place on Earth", didn't mention the #20 single from Prince's "Sign o' the Times" album.
3. Alan also said that the Bangles' cover of "(A) Hazy Shade of Winter" got to #3, but its peak was actually #2.
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Post by OnWithTheCountdown on Jan 10, 2021 22:12:44 GMT -5
Apparently whatever is in the air and/or water at the studio (or wherever the shows are assembled) has affected the production staff as well. 🙄
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Post by laura on Jan 15, 2021 21:05:48 GMT -5
The display read "VJ Big 40 1988" during the first intro and for some reason the first song "Bad Boy" isn't showing up on the display either.
Neither does Manilow's version of "Memory". Speaking of which, is this the first time this song has ever been played on the Big 40?
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Post by lasvegaskid on Jan 15, 2021 21:13:46 GMT -5
Mark said Now and Forever was the last platinum album for Air Supply. Of course their Hits package later in 1983 was Graham and Russell's biggest disc ever.
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Post by lasvegaskid on Jan 15, 2021 21:54:36 GMT -5
Alan said Juice was up a couple. Heart of the Night was ^29-32. Then he said Ooh la la was a #7 song for Kool and the Gang. It was Dancin' this week at a peak of #30.
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Post by lasvegaskid on Jan 15, 2021 22:18:44 GMT -5
In their ever changing definition of a hit, Alan said by 1982, it had been 5 years since Fleetwood's Mac last biggie album. Huh? Tusk in 1979?!
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Post by lasvegaskid on Jan 15, 2021 22:50:14 GMT -5
In her weekly content screw up Nina said the early-mid 80s saw an Aussie invasion that included LRB. The guys from Melbourne invaded in 1976. She also included Dr. Noah Drake even though he was Speaking to the Sky in 1972.
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Post by laura on Jan 15, 2021 23:05:48 GMT -5
In their ever changing definition of a hit, Alan said by 1982, it had been 5 years since Fleetwood's Mac last biggie album. Huh? Tusk in 1979?! If he's talking from a standpoint where back then Tusk was considered a flop compared to Rumours, then I can see why he said that, because I think there were some that considered it a disappointment compared to that 1977 album.
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