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Post by at40nut on Aug 11, 2020 10:20:08 GMT -5
MERC from 10-21-89. They played the single remix version of "Heaven" by Warrant. I haven't heard that version in a long time. I liked the Ric Ocasek tribute.
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Post by Dale Latimer on Aug 15, 2020 9:52:42 GMT -5
4/27/1974... Casey teases Joni Mitchell's "Help Me" with the story of her art teacher (correctly) predicting she wouldn't be making her living with easels and brushes...
I'd forgotten that "Both Sides Now" was hers and not its best-known singer's (Judy Collins, a fabulous songsmith in her own right)
EDIT: ...and what a sloppy job on Jim Croce and Redbone!
dL
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Post by adam31 on Aug 17, 2020 11:33:02 GMT -5
AT40 8-14-93. Although Shadoe doesn't make a big deal of it, saying it's the highest debut "this year", Mariah Carey's "Dreamlover" comes on at #12. It still holds the record to this day for highest debut on the Billboard Pop Songs Chart.
Also, a female group has three songs in the Top 40 for the first time since 1969 when the Supremes did it. That's SWV with "I'm So Into You", "Right Here", and "Weak".
Flashback features 1988, Shadoe's first countdown as he celebrates his five year anniversary. He would get to six and that's it.
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Post by OnWithTheCountdown on Aug 18, 2020 23:19:52 GMT -5
What are the odds...I have the CT40 show from that same date playing. That week of hits represented a key moment in my life. I'm going to be hearing this show again next year as I run through 1993.
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Post by OnWithTheCountdown on Aug 20, 2020 10:47:11 GMT -5
Back from a long but very overdue trip. Got some catching up to do on my shows. Up next: CT40 from 8/15/1992, then AT40 from 8/16/1980.
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Post by OnWithTheCountdown on Aug 24, 2020 7:35:34 GMT -5
At work this morning, it's CT40 from 8/26/1989. Rarely is it that everyone I work with was alive back then. Many of my co-workers were born in the mid to late 1990s or later, so I usually play something during their lifetime. Still the oldest by far...
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Post by at40nut on Aug 25, 2020 9:31:23 GMT -5
At work this morning, it's CT40 from 8/26/1989. Rarely is it that everyone I work with was alive back then. Many of my co-workers were born in the mid to late 1990s or later, so I usually play something during their lifetime. Still the oldest by far... I love it-teaching the kids what better music sounds like as opposed to the music (if you could call it that) of today.
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Post by OnWithTheCountdown on Aug 25, 2020 10:19:32 GMT -5
At work this morning, it's CT40 from 8/26/1989. Rarely is it that everyone I work with was alive back then. Many of my co-workers were born in the mid to late 1990s or later, so I usually play something during their lifetime. Still the oldest by far... I love it-teaching the kids what better music sounds like as opposed to the music (if you could call it that) of today. I try... 🙂 There is hope, though...one of the girls I work with (she's 22, less than half my age) thought my recent playing of an ACC year-end countdown from 1993 was a "killer playlist". And she usually listens to her own music. That was, pardon the pun, music to my ears. There's still some really good music out today, IMO...I know the lyrical content, auto-tune and sounding the same as many other songs can be a turn-off. I really like a lot of Marshmello songs, along with LZ7 (they're Christian but very pop and dance), Ed Sheeran, Dua Lipa, and Kygo (among many others). Speaking of, check out his re-working of Tina Turner's 1984 hit "What's Love Got To Do With It" - love it. My girlfriend is much younger than me, but she really likes a lot of music that predates her time here, especially Elvis. As I often do, though, I get nostalgic...the 80s are undoubtedly my favorite decade, though the 70s aren't far behind. And thanks to djjoe1960's countdowns, I've been listening to 1960s music more...which is a decade my relatives identify with very well. Been listening to AT40 from 8/23/1980 in the car commuting to and from work...slowly catching up. It includes the remake of a tune that kicks off Joe's latest posted countdown - "More Love", which happens to be one of my favorite songs from 1980.
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Post by adam31 on Aug 26, 2020 12:14:54 GMT -5
I love it-teaching the kids what better music sounds like as opposed to the music (if you could call it that) of today. I try... 🙂 There is hope, though...one of the girls I work with (she's 22, less than half my age) thought my recent playing of an ACC year-end countdown from 1993 was a "killer playlist". And she usually listens to her own music. That was, pardon the pun, music to my ears. There's still some really good music out today, IMO...I know the lyrical content, auto-tune and sounding the same as many other songs can be a turn-off. I really like a lot of Marshmello songs, along with LZ7 (they're Christian but very pop and dance), Ed Sheeran, Dua Lipa, and Kygo (among many others). Speaking of, check out his re-working of Tina Turner's 1984 hit "What's Love Got To Do With It" - love it. My girlfriend is much younger than me, but she really likes a lot of music that predates her time here, especially Elvis. As I often do, though, I get nostalgic...the 80s are undoubtedly my favorite decade, though the 70s aren't far behind. And thanks to djjoe1960's countdowns, I've been listening to 1960s music more...which is a decade my relatives identify with very well. Been listening to AT40 from 8/23/1980 in the car commuting to and from work...slowly catching up. It includes the remake of a tune that kicks off Joe's latest posted countdown - "More Love", which happens to be one of my favorite songs from 1980. Wow, you get to play AT40 to a crowd at work?!!! What kind of heaven job is this?!!! Dua Lipa rules by the way... (do the kids still say rules, or is it "rulez"? I'm about your age and love her music!
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Post by Shadoe Fan on Aug 27, 2020 16:27:36 GMT -5
I play shows at my work too, when I'm on overnight shifts. This past week I listened to AT40/CT40 from about this week in '82-'95.
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Post by OnWithTheCountdown on Aug 31, 2020 10:10:20 GMT -5
adam31, not really a dream job 😂, but it works for now. It's at a grocery, and I can play music during non-business hours. Once doors open though, gotta kill it. Finishing up AT40 from 8/30/1980 today. Then it's on to the September shows with CT40 from 1992, and AT40 from 1980. Gordon Elliott hosts the 9/6 show, exactly 52 weeks after he previously sat in for Casey. Then Lon Thomas was at the mic on 9/27. So only half of the September 1980 shows were hosted by Casey. He also missed two shows in September 1979.
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Post by OnWithTheCountdown on Sept 2, 2020 0:08:14 GMT -5
Stepping outside the countdown world briefly...it's Reconstruction Radio episodes with David Thulin. Every so often I get into an EDM mood. Good, positive dance music from Christian artists.
In the car, going to start CT40 from 9/5/1992 in the morning.
Ironic how the CT40 1992 and AT40 1980 shows from this first weekend of September are both hosted by Elliott...Mark and Gordon, respectively.
And, in the 9/6/1980 show, Gordon pronounces debut "da-boo". 🤣😂 Currently in hour 2 of this show.
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Post by OnWithTheCountdown on Sept 11, 2020 6:53:33 GMT -5
At work currently, got CT40 from 9/10/1994 playing. I don't listen to this year much, though I'll be doing a 1994 marathon in a couple of years. I was slightly out of touch with pop music then, due to life's circumstances. 1994 and 1995 are probably the two years I listen to the least out of the decade (and maybe overall), but I'll get to all the shows eventually.
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Post by OnWithTheCountdown on Sept 16, 2020 23:33:16 GMT -5
Apart from my 1980 and 1992 marathons this year... It's AT40 from 9/17/1988. We've heard many baseball references from Casey over the years, and now Shadoe throws one in right before #39. To quote: "Shadoe Stevens on American Top 40. We're in the first inning of Billboard's chart game of the week, waiting for the grand slam, #1."Will go back and read Mike's analysis of this show...I really enjoyed those. It'll be a while until I get to 1988 in my marathons. Been alternating between 40 years ago (began in 2018 with the first show of 1978 corresponding to the current week, as 1978 also begins my musical "sweet spot"), and 28 years ago (began in April 2019, as the calendar then lines up with the current year's calendar which will be the case through 2099). Sometimes I just gotta mix it up without deviating from those two years. This show is during the 5-month period when Casey wasn't counting down the hits. Seemed like forever back then.
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Post by Mike on Sept 17, 2020 8:01:16 GMT -5
It's AT40 from 9/17/1988. We've heard many baseball references from Casey over the years, and now Shadoe throws one in right before #39. To quote: "Shadoe Stevens on American Top 40. We're in the first inning of Billboard's chart game of the week, waiting for the grand slam, #1."Will go back and read Mike's analysis of this show...I really enjoyed those. You won't find it. I didn't have, and still don't have, 9/17. After 9/10, the next one I was able to do wasn't till 10/8.
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