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Post by dukelightning on May 28, 2023 8:46:49 GMT -5
That's one reason "Two Princes " being the #1 song of 1993 has a "Some Kind of Wonderful" being #6 for 1975 kind of feel for me. Just can't wrap my arms around it being the #1 song of the year. Of course it got nowhere near #1 on the Hot 100 either for that matter.
Back to the 1994 show, Shadoe said that "Secret" was headed to #1 after its 26 to 11 to 4 move to that point. Nope instead he will be talking about Madonna having the most #2 hits ever in a few weeks. And says that "All I Wanna Do" which is #1 is a great song.
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Post by dukelightning on May 28, 2023 13:28:07 GMT -5
The CT40 from 6/1/96 and like the 1991 show I heard yesterday, there is a story of a harrowing experience involving Bryan Adams. In that 91 show, Bryan escaped with his life in a skydiving experience when his parachute released seconds before he would have hit the ground. This story took place in July 1992 when Bryan was driving through the Swiss Alps to his next concert in Vienna. It was raining very hard and on the mountain road, he saw an oncoming car lose control. It scraped his car and veered off the highway down the mountain. He got out of his car and in the pouring rain, he ran to the side of the road to see what had happened to the other car. It was wedged precariously between two boulders. He made his way to them and was able to get the two people out of the car, saving them.
American duo Voice of the Beehive was having their first US hit with "Scary Kisses". They had 5 hits in Europe previously. Not surprised, they have a Euro sound. La Bouche is a similar type of act being a duo based in Frankfurt, Germany that was made up of 2 Americans. Great song "Be My Lover". I'm sure they had several European hits too.
The question answered on the show was as easy as the sponsored question early in the show. The former was what female artist had the most #1 hits in the 80s while the latter was asking for the title of Jane Child's 1990 hit.
"Forget Me Nots" was a hit that did not quite reach the top 20 for Patrice Rushen. But both George Michael and Will Smith sampled it in top 10 hits, "Fastlove" a week away from doing so. The original would have probably been a top 10 itself had it been released while disco was still hot.
Casey said Tracy Chapman has been singing "Give Me One Reason" in her concerts since the 80s. Wonder why it took her so long to release it. Must predate her first hit "Fast Car".
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Post by Mike on May 28, 2023 15:38:37 GMT -5
That's one reason "Two Princes " being the #1 song of 1993 has a "Some Kind of Wonderful" being #6 for 1975 kind of feel for me. Just can't wrap my arms around it being the #1 song of the year. Of course it got nowhere near #1 on the Hot 100 either for that matter. The thing is...at that point, the broader "pop" charts (the Hot 100 and Top 40 Radio Monitor) skewed against your more rock-leaning hits, because it was the bigger radio stations that contributed to the charts, and those stations favored the dance/urban/rhythmic/"black" hits over rock-leaning ones. The smaller, unmonitored stations still had a way to contribute to the Hot 100, but not to the Radio Monitor - and these smaller stations would either take much longer to get connected to the airplay-monitoring technology, or simply would never get connected at all. It's the same reason why, on the Radio Monitor, you had "Have You Ever Needed Someone So Bad" and "Bed of Roses" - both Top 10 hits on both the Mainstream chart and R&R/CT40 - stop right at the midpoint of the Top 40 (#21 and #20). Why for Aerosmith, you'd have their Get a Grip hits - #17, #11, #9, #7 on Mainstream and three consecutive #7s and a #6 on R&R/CT40 - stop at #38, #23, #26, and #18 on the Monitor. Shall I continue?  |
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Post by freakyflybry on Jun 3, 2023 16:38:07 GMT -5
Casey's Top 40 from June 3, 1989.
This was the era where he still had the "CT40" jingles early on in the run. He talked about how "Like A Prayer" was Madonna's most personal album yet, and shared some subject matter and lyrics from several of its tracks. The album has two songs represented; the title track at #38 and "Express Yourself" at #32, and it was the only week these two songs doubled up on the R&R chart.
On here, there is everything from Hall of Famers (Guns N' Roses, Ozzy Osbourne, Donna Summer, Elton John, Aretha Franklin, Bon Jovi, John Mellencamp, Peter Cetera, the Doobie Brothers, Madonna, Elvis Costello, Stevie Nicks and Tom Petty) to one hit wonders (Waterfront, Jimmy Harnen & Synch, Roachford and Sa-Fire).
Comebacks included the Doobie Brothers, Donna Summer, Bette Midler and Donny Osmond, while Michael Damian and Neneh Cherry was making their top 40 debuts. On their final top 40 hits are Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam (on CT40 only; their 1991 hit "Let The Beat Hit 'Em" failed to make R&R), Stevie Nicks solo, Elvis Costello, The Bangles, Cyndi Lauper, Aretha Franklin (on R&R at least), and Donna Summer.
I liked the story about how Richard Marx used his answering machine to help him remember tunes that got into his head when he was writing a song. Fairly sure Casey told that story several times.
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Post by OnWithTheCountdown on Jun 3, 2023 18:36:44 GMT -5
Great show, dukelightning. Love looking back on tunes from my youth. While 1989 had fast-moving charts, still lots of cool feats were had. I heard that show in 2019 when I was doing a CT40 marathon from the beginning, but after reading your post, I feel like listening to it again. I remember that Richard Marx story ("cutting edge" technology at the time 😂), and indeed, Casey has re-told it a few times. I don't remember which song it was, but it was one of his 1992 hits he told that story again. The "CT40" jingles would be heard through the 7/8/1989 show (which Mark Elliott guest-hosted). Been alternating between 1995 and 1996 CT40 at work, and this morning, it was the first weekend without an AT40 show, 2/4/1995. In the car, currently on AT40 1/15/1983, and then 1/14/1984 (1983 and 1984 alternating after finishing 1982). |
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Post by woolebull on Jun 5, 2023 8:10:36 GMT -5
Casey's Top 40 from June 3, 1989. This was the era where he still had the "CT40" jingles early on in the run. He talked about how "Like A Prayer" was Madonna's most personal album yet, and shared some subject matter and lyrics from several of its tracks. The album has two songs represented; the title track at #38 and "Express Yourself" at #32, and it was the only week these two songs doubled up on the R&R chart. On here, there is everything from Hall of Famers (Guns N' Roses, Ozzy Osbourne, Donna Summer, Elton John, Aretha Franklin, Bon Jovi, John Mellencamp, Peter Cetera, the Doobie Brothers, Madonna, Elvis Costello, Stevie Nicks and Tom Petty) to one hit wonders (Waterfront, Jimmy Harnen & Synch, Roachford and Sa-Fire). Comebacks included the Doobie Brothers, Donna Summer, Bette Midler and Donny Osmond, while Michael Damian and Neneh Cherry was making their top 40 debuts. On their final top 40 hits are Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam (on CT40 only; their 1991 hit "Let The Beat Hit 'Em" failed to make R&R), Stevie Nicks solo, Elvis Costello, The Bangles, Cyndi Lauper, Aretha Franklin (on R&R at least), and Donna Summer. I liked the story about how Richard Marx used his answering machine to help him remember tunes that got into his head when he was writing a song. Fairly sure Casey told that story several times. Let me jump in because I just listened to 5/27/89 show, so most of the same amazing songs you named were there. What stood out to me for on this show was: 1: The CT 40 jingles and mentions 2: I am going to go out on a limb here...but I am guessing this is the only show that ever played Cinderella twice. You had "Coming Home" as well as "Don't Know What You Got (Till It's Gone)" as a R&D 3: Casey tells the story before #1 of Paula Abdul busy working with Meryl Steep as she was getting ready to star in the soon to be movie, "Evita". Looking back, it must be a fascinating story of what happened to the original vision for Evita, and why it took so long to be made with different stars. Hearing this story in 2023 was wild. 4: The songs were amazing. With the exception of three songs, this would be a perfect show for me. Looooooooooove this era. Thanks for your thoughts on 6/3! |
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Post by woolebull on Jun 5, 2023 8:21:19 GMT -5
Since I've last posted, I have listened to a few other shows besides CT 5/27/89. Let me give a brief update.
Countdown America 5/25/85: Tons of amazing songs, and it was cool to hear Simple Minds get a second week at #1 that week. Fun thing that stood out for me: I mentioned I was going to be in Iceland. I was running through Reykjavik listening to this show and "One Night In Bangkok" came on (I believe at #12). To hear Murray say the line, "It's Iceland, or the Philippines, or Hastings, or this place" while literally in Reykjavik hit differently.
Dees 5/30/87: What stood out, besides the great music, was Rick mentioned multiple times about songs getting second chances. This included the sure shot "Never Say Goodbye" and Expose re-releasing "Point Of No Return". Not sure how "Goodbye" had a second chance to chart, since it was never released as a single, right?
Onto CT 6/7/97!
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Post by Mike on Jun 5, 2023 9:44:11 GMT -5
3: Casey tells the story before #1 of Paula Abdul busy working with Meryl Steep as she was getting ready to star in the soon to be movie, "Evita". Looking back, it must be a fascinating story of what happened to the original vision for Evita, and why it took so long to be made with different stars. Hearing this story in 2023 was wild. A few things I will note: I wouldn't call what Meryl and Paula were working on the "original vision" - by this point it was maybe the third incarnation, at least.  First there were competing ideas of having either Liza Minnelli or Elaine Paige as Eva, then Madonna had been in and out of the role once already (she lobbied for it in 1986, then by 1988 she was out) - Meryl Streep was next to follow. After Meryl left the role - see the above article - Madonna would return in 1990, this time to stay (even with the movie not finally being filmed until 1996). Also, riots in Argentina (also reported in the article) that would halt production before it really began had also just begun and were ongoing even as this countdown was airing. |
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Post by OnWithTheCountdown on Jun 19, 2023 9:38:39 GMT -5
Found this thread on page 3. Yikes!
Needing a "change of scenery", and influenced by some recent personal events, I am turning to AT40 from 6/19/1971 this morning. 🙂
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Post by dukelightning on Jun 20, 2023 14:21:22 GMT -5
Found this thread on page 3. Yikes! Needing a "change of scenery", and influenced by some recent personal events, I am turning to AT40 from 6/19/1971 this morning. 🙂 I am partly to blame for that, not having listened to a show in awhile! It's hard to listen to shows when you are bicycling 110 miles over the weekend(Sat and Sun). Today I have one of the handful of shows hosted by a female playing. Debbie Gibson is the one doing the 6/24/89 AT40. She is the first guest host for Shadoe some 10 months after he started his stint. This is also exactly a year after she hit #1 for the first time, with "Foolish Beat".* Wonder if that is the 80s show this week. My initial reaction is best described by the #39 song title, "I Like It". Like that song a lot too! When she says that Warrant is an example of heavy metal bands being more melodic, I wonder if the staff had her say that or whether it was her own words. Then she said that she had requested the Osmonds greatest hits album for a Christmas present when she was growing up. Followed that statement by saying that this is one her favorite Donny and Marie songs and played a clip of "Aint Nothing Like the Real Thing" before playing Donny's "A Soldier of Love", his biggest hit in 18 years as she said. Yep biggest since "Go Away Little Girl". Cute answer to a question about the teenage female with the most top 10 hits. Started by saying that she thinks Shadoe set her up for this one. Said that Tiffany was in third place with 4 and that in second place 'was well me with 5'. But that she had a ways to go to catch the leader which was Brenda Lee with 12. Very talkative. Kind of the anti-Hall & Oates when it comes to guest hosting. Said she likes Guns 'N Roses which may surprise some people, in her words. "Patience" is one of her favorite songs in the countdown. Roachford reminded Debbie of the Motown sound so she played a clip of what she said is her favorite Motown song, "I Want You Back". Not surprised! Though I am surprised that Roachford reminds her of Motown. Sounds like straight rock to me. Answered another teenage artist question, this one for the most #1 hits as a teenager. Turns out Debbie is in a 5 way tie for first. She, Tiffany, Brenda Lee, Chubby Checker and Andy Gibb each had 2. Andy is in there by the narrowest of margins. He turned 20 on 3/5/78. His second #1 hit "Love is Thicker Than Water" hit #1 on 3/4/78, his last day as a teenager! *When it came time for the flashback, Debbie said there was an envelope that she was not to open until afterward. So she could not reveal what year it was flashing back to. Anyone with a half a brain knew what was about to happen here. Went back to that week in 1988 and after it finished, she said 'that was so sweet of you Shadoe'. Gotta love it! |
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Post by Mike on Jun 20, 2023 22:19:47 GMT -5
Oh yeah, they definitely skewed the show towards her a few times there. Worth also noting: It would also be the last show to be sent out only on vinyl, 7/1 would be the first one available by CD. It was also the only one during Shadoe's run to have 3 LDDs, with only one of them being a countdown song that week. |
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Post by dukelightning on Jun 21, 2023 12:17:07 GMT -5
I am amazed that they had time for 2 LDDs that were not in the countdown. Debbie had a LOT to say in between songs. Did not notice any blatant edits. It's yet another guest hosted show now with Mark Elliott doing the 10/5/91 CT40. "Don't Cry" debuts with Mark saying that it was on both of their Use Your Illusion albums. Did not know that but it's true and is the only song to appear on both upon further research on my part. Afterward, he said it was their first top 40 appearance since "Patience". It just so happens that "Patience" was in its last week in the countdown on the 6/24/89 AT40. Different countdowns but interesting that I selected shows the last couple days that bookend their absence from these countdowns. Although they did make AT40 a couple months earlier with "You Could Be Mine" which is my favorite song from either Illusion album.
What a difference a year makes when it comes to R&Ds on CT40. Many times in 1991 a rocker was played as was the case in this show with Motley Crue's "Without You" the first one. By 1992, those type songs were abandoned for the more AC friendly songs due to the AC countdown's inception. Casey will be back the following week and he will be on hand for Bob Seger's last appearance on CT40. "The Real Love" is holding at its #29 peak this week becoming his lowest peaking R&R hit although "Old Time Rock & Roll" like "You Could Be Mine" did not reach CT40 at all.
A chilling story on this show. After recounting how Waylon Jennings gave up his seat on the plane to the Big Bopper in 1959; and saving his life in the process as that was the plane that crashed and took the lives of Buddy Holly, the Bopper and 2 others, Mark told how Eric Clapton was to take a helicopter from Wisconsin to Chicago. But he wanted another cup of coffee and Stevie Ray Vaughan ended up going instead. That helicopter crashed in August of 1990 and all the passengers were killed. Lost a very talented musician there nonetheless.
Mark mentioned how Color Me Badd was another artist with an intentionally misspelled name, also mentioning Led Zeppelin and Def Leppard, in their third week at #1.
No chance that I will hear 3 shows in a row without Casey doing one of them. So now he is at the mic on a show from 10 years later, the AT40 from 7/28/01. Starts by saying that Darude's "Sandstorm" was the first instrumental in the countdown since "Southhampton" 3 years earlier. It drops from 38 to 40 and is in its last week in the countdown.* Question is when will another instrumental hit the countdown? Will another do so? Or this the last week that an instrumental is on AT40? * It's also tied in with another oddity. Both this week and the following week, there is only one debut. Tyrese has this week's only debut at 38. Surely this is the only time in AT/CT40 history that there are back to back weeks with just one debut. Not only that, on that 8/4/01 show, the dropper is "Sandstorm" from #40 and the only debut is at 40 as well.
Interesting factoid from Casey. Usher's new album was to be called All about You. But it was renamed 8701 and that has nothing to do with its release date of 8/7/01. Hmmm! Good song "U Remind Me".
*Scratch that. "Sandstorm" redebuts a couple weeks later so this is not the last week that there is an instrumental in the countdown.
Casey says that 112 is the third artist to hit the countdown using only numbers in their name. 311 and 702 were the first two with 311 hitting in early 1997 with "All Mixed Up", a song I don't remember and 702 which is the Las Vegas area code hitting with "Where My Girls At" in 1999.
After playing "Thank You For Loving Me" as a LDD, Casey said it was a big hit last year for Bon Jovi. That's 2 mistakes in one sentence. It was earlier that year that it was a hit having debuting the first week of 2001. And it only peaked at 24, not making it a big hit IMO. And then a bit later, the wrong jingle was played. #25 was played for the #22 hit which was the biggest mover, from 32 and a fave of mine, "Hit 'Em Up Style". Another fave is "Let Me Blow Ya Mind". When the R&B throwback station plays that song, the first line has that word which rhymes with glasses edited out. But it was heard plainly on this show!
Another sports city reference when Casey says that Nelly is from the home of baseball's Cardinals, football's Rams, hockey's Blues and indoor soccer's Steamers! Never heard him mention indoor soccer before! But I am very familiar with the Steamers. Followed indoor soccer in the 80s and they were a great team with a great following in St. Louis.
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Post by OnWithTheCountdown on Jun 29, 2023 22:01:02 GMT -5
Getting a head start on this weekend's 80s show, 7/4/1987. Love this trip down memory lane. 🙂 If you have the original show, you can hear Richard Marx sing a commercial for Doublemint Gum. His debut on AT40 hadn't occurred yet. Casey is even on a couple of commercials.
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Post by Mike on Jul 3, 2023 23:01:45 GMT -5
Let's dive into Premiere's offering of July 1, 2000... I must say, that is one way to start off a countdown: Brian McKnight says it's been 6 months, 8 days, 12 hours since (she) went away...while Montell Jordan at the very next song wants (her) to go somewhere and, get it on...tonite. I don't suppose that that sort of thing might have had anything to do with the "6, 8, 12"?  (In real life, absolutely not: Montell, as it turns out, has been happily married since even before he first hit with "This is How We Do It" in 1995.) Also kind of funny that Casey had a story about Moby's music becoming so ubiquitous that it was being heard everywhere...except on the Pop chart. As it happens, "Bodyrock" just narrowly missed becoming that first Top 40 hit, stopping at #43 two weeks ago - and this week, it's one of six droppers off the R&R chart. Those R&R chart droppers consist of three natural droppers and our three countdown droppers, all fresh recurrents: "Only God Knows Why" by Kid Rock, "Breathe" by Faith Hill, and "Maria Maria" by Santana and The Product G&B. By the way, these songs would also still have been on a Billboard Mainstream countdown, due to their rule being 20/26: "Amazed" (37-40), "Never Let You Go" (32-34), "Bye Bye Bye" (holding at 23), and "It Feels So Good" (20-21). (Meanwhile, Kid Rock went 28-27, Faith Hill went 24-26, and Santana went 21-22.) The cover of this week's R&R issue - worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Archive-RandR/2000s/2000/RR-2000-06-23.pdf - telegraphs the countdown's highest debut, with a large ad for "Faded". (By the way, check out a certain ad on Page 127 of the PDF...  ) "Thong Song" leads into the "Against All Odds" LDD, which is also a death dedication - how very symbolic of this era, where these oil-and-water pairings happened left and right.  Then again, "I Try" leading into the "Truly Madly Deeply" LDD - how very on the nose! Although structurally Casey's second run remained much the same as it did with CT40, at least during this era they would tweak the formula here and there from time to time. In this case: Hours 2 and 3 both ending with two-song segments instead of just the last song of the hour, with the second song in each of those segments also having a story told with it. (This seemed to be a thing for them around this time, too - July 15, two weeks later, does the same thing.) On the flipside: "Uninvited" given as #1 two years ago this week. No it wasn't - not yet, that was still "Torn". It will never not bug me that they used the R&R magazine date for #1 references rather than the actual countdown date - CT40, at least, had that part right. An afterword to Casey's story on Rob Thomas's higher profile within Matchbox Twenty: Though the rest of the band may have been only too willing to let Rob step into the spotlight focus, they would play out the opposite dynamic in the video for "Bent", with the rest of the band each taking various shots at him. Incidentally: Even with "Doesn't Really Matter" being the only one of the four Premiere extras actually on the R&R chart this week, it very likely would have been a Sneek Peek under a Shadoe-structured countdown, as it's also the week's most-added song at Pop radio (and at radio in general, as R&R's front cover also spotlights). |
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Post by at40petebattistini on Jul 4, 2023 11:58:09 GMT -5
Most appropriate for today, I hope to enjoy an original American Forces Europe radio broadcast of AT40’s first show, from July 5, 1975. On the plus side, commercial breaks offered Casey Kasem-voiced PSAs that were directed toward members of the USA military. On the down side, the AFRTS presentation of the countdown was allocated to a specially-edited two-hour program (beginning with #27) in 1975. Nevertheless, this original broadcast captured AT40’s anniversary with a subtle patriotic tone.
And a great way to celebrate the 4th of July!
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First there were competing ideas of having either Liza Minnelli or Elaine Paige as Eva, then Madonna had been in and out of the role once already (she lobbied for it in 1986, then by 1988 she was out) - Meryl Streep was next to follow.
(In real life, absolutely not: Montell, as it turns out, has been happily married since even before he first hit with "This is How We Do It" in 1995.)
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