Debuting at No.1

[corey]

In this week's AT20, Casey referred to the record of debuting at No.1. Casey said here in the U.S.A. it never happened before. But in Japan it is common. The Japanese duo called "Kinki Kids" has a record of debuting at No.1 with their 19 consecutive singles.
Japanese chart is based only on record sales, so songs debuting at No.1 on the chart occurred easily.

I'm very surprised Casey referred to the Japanese chart.

[Scott Lakefield]

corey said:

I'm very surprised Casey referred to the Japanese chart.

Certainly out of the ordinary, but very cool!

[svoigt]

I also noticed that they played this Japanese song as a hook (in the tease as well as in the "Book Of Records"-categorie). Does anybody know when Casey played only a hook of a song for the last time?

I´m not quite sure, but I think this a very rare thing because normally they play a song in full or they don´t play the song out of the categorie.

[Scott Lakefield]

True, drop pieces are seldom used anymore. Not sure when the last one was, but they pop up a few times a year or so.

[BrettVW]

I have always thought it would be cool to play a quick 10 second drop piece of the 3 songs on "Last Week's Top 3" at the beginning of the show.

I remember in early 2003 when Pat O'Brien hosted the shows a few times he used a few drop pieces..mainly on AT40. I liked it.

[Topay]

I remember listening to the AC show in summer of 2003 (when it was still AT20) and hearing Casey doing a drop on Faith Hill. Her songs "One" and "Cry" were both on the countdown, and going into one of them (I forget which one exactly), Casey mentioned that Faith started her career with the Country #1 "Wild One". He then played a clip of "Wild One" and then went into the countdown song.

In September of 2003 - also on the AC show - Casey played a clip of Clay Aiken's "Bridge Over Troubled Water" right before going into his countdown hit "This Is The Night".

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I liked the old robotic sounding Top 10 jimgles that Scott Shannon used. Wish Casey had something like that to use also.

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actually that just reminded me, last weekend Mix 105.1 in Orlando did a #1's of the 80's weekend, and in their promo jingles they used that #1 jingle.

[Matt Cameron]

Dan Ingram used robotic-sounding jingles on "The Top 40 Satellite Survey", which aired in the mid-80's and never really caught on. It was 3 hours instead of 4, though.

[Hervard]

liberaljag said:

Dan Ingram used robotic-sounding jingles on "The Top 40 Satellite Survey", which aired in the mid-80's and never really caught on. It was 3 hours instead of 4, though.

Yeah, actually, those came from Melvin, his computer sidekick. Sometimes, they'd joke around (the last time I remember them doing that was in the intro to "Talk To Me" by Stevie Nicks, sometime in February or March, 1986 (I remember it was the week that "Sara" by Starship hit number one). It went something like this:

Dan: "Talk To Me" by Stevie Nicks, at what number, Melvin?
Melvin: I'm not going to tell you.
Dan: Melvin, will you tell me the number?
Melvin: Say please!
Dan: Alright, PLEASE!!
Melvin: Three!
Dan: I'm gonna get you, Melvin, I'm gonna - I'm gonna get you!

As I recall, they'd had a similar "dispute" earlier in the show.

It's such a shame that the show didn't catch on. Since it was three-hours long, it seems like more radio stations would be willing to air it than other shows that were four-hours long (other than American Top 40). The only thing I can think of is that radio stations didn't like the way that some songs were chopped down. They didn't always cut out the second, verse either. I remember that when they played "Don't Forget Me (When I'm Gone)" by Glass Tiger, they cut out the first verse, starting with "If you could see what I could see" I'm not 100 percent sure exactly when the show got the axe, but the last show may have been the December 27, 1986 show. At least that's the last show that B96 (WBBM-FM) aired. If so, there wasn't even a year-end show for Top 40 Satellite Survey (AT40 Flashback, anyone?)

Paul mentioned the robotic jingles that Scott Shannon used for his "Rockin' America Top 30 Countdown". Weren't those used during the recap of last week's Top Ten? Because as I recall, going into the top song of the previous week, the jingle would go, "Number One...one...one...one", fading out with each "one".

That show, BTW, was picked up by B96 in February, 1987, just weeks after they dropped Top 40 Satellite Survey (or it ceased production or whatever). It was put in an earlier timeslot, 7-10 (as opposed to the 8-11 timeslot of Top 40 Satellite Survey)

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Yes Chris, those were the robotic numbers I am referring to.

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wait, to clarify....on Scott Shannons show, when he would do the last weeks Top 10 lookback. He would also use them occasionally during the show as well.