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Post by dukelightning on Oct 18, 2023 16:17:32 GMT -5
9/18/93 CT40 today. Casey mentions MTV Video awards twice. Once for Lenny Kravitz, not for his countdown hit "Believe" but for "Are You Gonna Go My Way" which is my fave song by him. Never charted however. And when he said STP was named best new group. "Plush" is a great song. 2Pac debuts with the first of his 4 R&R top 40 hits, "I Get Around". None of them got any higher than #35. Glad to hear "California Love" in the current Jeep ad. That's one of his 3 other R&R chart hits. Casey answers a question about the foreign artist with the most #1 hits in the 90s. Says that 13 have hit #1 but only Phil Collins has done it twice. Mentions that "Another Day in Paradise" was #1 when the decade began. That hit the top in December 1989 so Bryan Adams will actually be the first foreign artist to hit #1 twice in the 90s when "All for Love" does so a few months after this show. Make it 3 times that Casey mentioned the MTV Video awards. Said that En Vogue won 3 awards for "Free Your Mind". Of course that's not in the countdown, "Runaway Love" is. "Ooh Child" is at #14 for Dino. The original is sampled in "Keep Ya Head Up" which is another of 2pac's top 40 hits. Good story about Tony Toni Tone and their CD Sons of Soul. It is a tribute to many of the soul groups of the 60s and 70s. Casey named songs on it and which artist it was a tribute to like Marvin Gaye and Earth, Wind & Fire. "If I Had No Loot" is a tribute to the Stax label whose big name acts were Booker T & the MGs, Rufus Thomas and Sam and Dave. Wonder who "Anniversary" is a tribute to. Was hoping that was in this show but my fave song by TTT is a couple weeks away from the countdown. Here's a statistical quirk of sorts. Madonna has the same number of top 10 hits at this point in her career on both AT40 and CT40 but not with the same hits. "Borderline" is counted as top 10 hit on AT40 but not CT40 since it stopped at 13 on R&R. "Into the Groove" is a top 10 according to CT40 but not AT40 since that was not released as a single.
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Post by chrislc on Oct 19, 2023 17:58:18 GMT -5
August 1981, and I am seasick listening to Stacy Lattisaw. I think the hole was punched about an inch from the edge of the 45.
Just the intro, though. Shannon found a better copy, but someone would have needed to imitate Casey to use the better one for the intro.
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Post by doofus67 on Oct 19, 2023 23:26:58 GMT -5
I noticed their copy of "Fanny (Be Tender with My Love)" was poorly pressed as well. By the way, that song is another example of an unsaid-by-Casey subtitle.
When I was still making mix tapes using 45s and one was off-center, I would do away with the adapter and straighten out the record myself. Could AT40's staff do that?
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Post by at40petebattistini on Oct 20, 2023 0:25:01 GMT -5
I noticed their copy of "Fanny (Be Tender with My Love)" was poorly pressed as well. By the way, that song is another example of an unsaid-by-Casey subtitle. When I was still making mix tapes using 45s and one was off-center, I would do away with the adapter and straighten out the record myself. Could AT40's staff do that? I believe the staff had access to more than one copy of most singles, for obvious back-up purposes. But apparently not in all situations.
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Post by chrislc on Oct 20, 2023 15:15:07 GMT -5
December 1980. OMG I just sat through Sequel. It just gets more and more and more pretentious and cringeworthy as it goes from verse to verse.
I still suspect that Harry had heard through the underground about Same Old Lang Syne and rushed this out to try to get ahead of the curve. Fail!
Also this seems to be my Stacy Lattisaw week. Casey just pointed out how much she sounded like MJ did on Ben.
Was Let Me Be Your Angel a song sung to a rat?
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Post by dukelightning on Oct 23, 2023 8:44:15 GMT -5
10/19/91 AT40 has a pair of firsts. It's the first instance of the Sneek Peek feature with Shadoe saying that "Blowing Kisses in the Wind" had entered the Hot 100 at 47 and was the most played new hit at radio. The other first kicks off the show when John Mellancamp debuts. It's the first time he has been identified that way, having changed to his given name in 1991. Later in the show, Shadoe mentions the artists who have charted under the most different names. John has charted three ways but Prince has had 5 different artist names to date(he will get a 6th with his unpronouncible symbol) but the artist with the most did it 10 times. That's John Lennon who charted 3 different ways with the Beatles and under 7 names on his own. I am guessing that record has been approached this century with the frequency of the featuring situation.
Heard a few songs in the 1985 80s show over the weekend while driving including "Money For Nothing" that Casey said was from the #1 album Brothers in Arms. Shadoe mentioned that album in the Music News segment in saying that Dire Straits had just released their followup album. But I see that it generated no hits, not even anything that reached the Hot 100. Joel Whitburn lists 2 songs from it as notable non-Hot 100 songs, one of which hit #1 on the Rock chart.
The shortest segment was not surprising. It was all of 4:30 consisting of the two fall 1991 hits that AT40 constantly edited, "Mr. Sandman"(one verse and a couple choruses) and "OPP", back to back at 17 and 16. This is also a show with a countdown song as LDD "Everything I Do". The last 1991 show I heard was the one when Sandman debuted and it was 4:30 all by itself!*
"With You" was written by someone who had a crush on a girl but Tony Terry sang it with his 2 year old daughter in mind. So that's another Gilbert O'Sullivan "Clair"/Brotherhood of Man "Save All My Kisses for You" song about a baby or toddler.
*And then they repeated the second verse in "Love of a Lifetime". It's a great song but that's insane, after editing two other songs! So maybe not a production error but certainly a judgment error. I did find 2 real errors however. In the intro to "Love Thy Will Be Done", he said it was #11. It was really #10 and he did correctly state that in the outro saying that Prince was back to back having the #11 hit "Cream" and co-writing Love with Martika. Then in the flashback to 1975, they played a clip of "I'm Sorry" and then Shadoe said it was a double sided hit with "Calypso". But they should have played a clip of "Calypso" and not "I'm Sorry" since the former was listed first on the 10/18/75 Hot 100. The 10/18/75 AT40 was also the first show in which "Calypso" was played and it was played every week through the end of its run.
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Post by dukelightning on Oct 24, 2023 17:33:44 GMT -5
Casey is rounding out hosting 6 months in the second run of AT40 on the 9/19/98 show. It has a band I did not realize was a teenage group. It's Eve 6 who hit the countdown for the first time. Casey informed me of that. Lots of boy bands in the late 90s but they were certainly not that. Great song "Inside Out". Another great one is the biggest mover, "Are You That Somebody". From the Eddie Murphy movie Dr. Dolittle. The next top 10 hit from one of his movies should be "Doesn't Really Matter" by Janet from The Nutty Professor II. She has one of her own hits in this show "Go Deep". Wonder who will be going deep tonight in the NLCS game 7. A couple great songs with a baseball connection, the other being "The Way" by Fastball.
When Casey was restarting AT40 6 months earlier, the 2 hits that combined to be at #1 for 20 weeks were in the countdown. Those 2 hits that are 1 and 2 among the hits that spent the most weeks at #1 in 1998 are in this show. "My Heart Will Go On" was a LDD and "Torn" had Casey talking about whether Natalie Imbruglia wondered if the sweet melody that contrasted the bitter lyrics was the reason it was such a big hit. Could be and it is one of my faves. Speaking of LDDs, Casey mentioned that they had been playing them for 20 years now and requested that people send in an update. Interesting that he says it that way essentially making the AT40 first run, CT40 and the AT40 second run sound like one continuous show.
Back to back teenage acts in the top 10, one great and the other not so much. Talking about Brandy and Monica and then the Backstreet Boys. "The Boy is Mine" is one of those great Darkchild (Rodney Jerkins) productions.
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Post by OnWithTheCountdown on Oct 24, 2023 18:51:50 GMT -5
Interesting that he says it that way essentially making the AT40 first run, CT40 and the AT40 second run sound like one continuous show. Fitz also does that with the Country Top 40, making it sound like it's been in existence since 1978, which is the year Bob Kingsley took over hosting ACC from Don Bowman, and then CT40 began the first week of 2006. I'm going to skip a few weeks ahead of you and play AT40 from 10/24/1998 (25 years ago today). I used to listen to AT40 and AT20 HAC via WAEB FM out of Allentown, PA back then. Gonna be watching NLCS Game 7 also. I like both teams. Exciting how both LCS went the distance this year.
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Post by dukelightning on Oct 25, 2023 9:11:41 GMT -5
2 great LCS this year. Never had a year when all the LCS and World Series went 7 games. This could be that year. 1968 was a year when the World Series went 7 games and in the 8/11/90 AT40, Shadoe makes reference to that series. Before playing 2 Live Crew's "Banned in the USA" because it has a bit of the Star Spangled Banner in it, he plays a clip of Jose Feliciano singing it before game 5 of that series. It caused an uproar because of the way he sang it in a totally different style.
This is a show with a mention of a hit that has not made the top 40 yet. Casey did that for "Thriller" in probably the most well known example of that. Shadoe gets a question from someone who had seen Ghost and had an argument with her father about whether or not "Unchained Melody" that the Righteous Brothers did was a remake or not. Indeed it was a remake of a hit from 10 years earlier. This won't enter the Hot 100 until 2 weeks after this show.
Back on a Monday night in June, there was a album release in 4 cities where people waited in tents for the stroke of midnight. It took me a couple seconds to figure out it was a New Kids album that was being released. All the copies of it were sold by Tuesday morning.
This is the second show(at least) with "Hold On" in it that Shadoe says that En Vogue is from San Francisco instead of Oakland.
Shadoe has a lot of quirky chart factoids in his shows. When Sweet Sensation sings 'kisses me in the warm September rain', it makes for another such factoid. How many #1 songs include lyrics mentioning the month that they hit the top in as "If Wishes Came True" did? #1 in this show is "Vision of Love". And before it I hear essentially the same story I heard a couple days ago when "Emotions" was #1 on the 10/19/91 show. Shadoe mentions how Mariah was a backup singer for Brenda K. Starr and how Brenda presented Mariah's demo tape to label president Tommy Mottola to get her career started. Yep stories are repeated in these shows. Not surprising as there are only so many you can tell.
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Post by doofus67 on Oct 25, 2023 14:11:35 GMT -5
Shadoe has a lot of quirky chart factoids in his shows. When Sweet Sensation sings 'kisses me in the warm September rain', it makes for another such factoid. How many #1 songs include lyrics mentioning the month that they hit the top in as "If Wishes Came True" did? Rod Stewart missed the mark by a mere couple of days. He mentioned "late September" in a song that hit #1 on October 2, 1971.
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Post by djjoe1960 on Oct 26, 2023 6:46:38 GMT -5
I noticed their copy of "Fanny (Be Tender with My Love)" was poorly pressed as well. By the way, that song is another example of an unsaid-by-Casey subtitle. When I was still making mix tapes using 45s and one was off-center, I would do away with the adapter and straighten out the record myself. Could AT40's staff do that? I believe the staff had access to more than one copy of most singles, for obvious back-up purposes. But apparently not in all situations. I am surprised that the staff didn't attempt to correct the sound of records that were a little bit off center. I recall we 'played' with copies of records that weren't pressed properly and eventually would record them onto a cart. I am sure a national program , like AT40, that aired on hundreds of stations probably did the same at some point. I went to CKLW the Big 8 , in January 1973, and know that they were playing all their music from carts to prevent any skips from records and to keep sound quality as high as possible. Pretty amazing when you think that the station was broadcasting in glorious mono and I was listening at the time on a lime green transistor radio. Of course, it would be just a few years later that FM would begin to overtake AM for listenership and sound quality really became an issue.
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Post by woolebull on Oct 27, 2023 10:06:10 GMT -5
"With You" was written by someone who had a crush on a girl but Tony Terry sang it with his 2 year old daughter in mind. So that's another Gilbert O'Sullivan "Clair"/Brotherhood of Man "Save All My Kisses for You" song about a baby or toddler. Let's give it up for Pinehurst's own, Tony Terry! Actually, I think he spent most of his young life in DC, but there are certainly NC connections. Terry in a few episodes will do something I never had heard up to that time: "With You" would "peak", drop, and then go up again...three times. The third time would be (assumingly) because of the chart changes on 11/30/91. Still, "With You" had an interesting chart run to finish up the AT40 shows based on the Hot 100.
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Post by woolebull on Oct 27, 2023 13:57:59 GMT -5
10/19/91 AT40 has a pair of firsts. It's the first instance of the Sneek Peek feature with Shadoe saying that "Blowing Kisses in the Wind" had entered the Hot 100 at 47 and was the most played new hit at radio. The other first kicks off the show when John Mellancamp debuts. It's the first time he has been identified that way, having changed to his given name in 1991. That is absolutely correct from an official standpoint...however, it isn't the first time the name John Mellencamp is mentioned as his real name. I need to go back and find it, but I am pretty sure that it was in August of 1982 when Casey, introing "Jack and Diane" uses the names "John Cougar", "John Cougar Mellencamp" and "John Mellencamp" to refer to the then John Cougar. It was surreal and years later seemed almost clairvoyant. I will try to figure out which show he did it, but I am almost certain it was when "Hurts So Good" was at #2 as well as J&D was climbing the charts.
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Post by dukelightning on Oct 27, 2023 18:17:48 GMT -5
Thanks for pointing that out. I do remember that Casey mentioned his real name back in the day. Hurts and J&D were from An American Fool, his last album as John Cougar. And I knew that Tony Terry was from NC.* Casey had pointed that out in a show I heard earlier this year. A triple peaker there as you illustrated.
I have fast forwarded 5 months from the last show I heard to the 1/12/91 AT40. And this is the third guest hosted show since Shadoe took over by the second guest host duo Matthew and Gunner Nelson, who coincidentally debuted with their first hit on that 8/11/90 show I just heard. Unlike the first guest host duo Hall & Oates, they sound like they wanted to do the show. Got a handful of witty comments like 'why don't you shave?!' 'Because this is radio!' "Then why are you wearing a tuxedo?!'
Show starts with a rarity. An only debut that spends its only week in the countdown at #40. "Love Makes Things Happen". But the Nelson brothers make a mistake when they only identify Pebbles as the artist. I did not know ahead of time as this was a song I did not remember. But listening to it, the voice of Babyface was unmistakable in this duet. Another mistake they made is in teasing Whitney, they said she had 8 #1 hits and the streak began with "Saving My Love for You". The streak they were referring to is her streak of 7 and played a medley of those songs. Then she hit #1 in 1990. The medley was not played before that song but before "All the Man That I need". They did make a correct prediction in saying that could be her 9th #1 hit. "I'm Your Baby Tonight" was that 8th #1 hit and that was later in the show.
Before playing Celine Dion, they mentioned whether there had ever been a French-Canadian singer in the countdown. I immediately thought of France Joli and sure enough a couple seconds later, they played a clip of "Come to Me".
Third guest hosted Shadoe show, second guest host duo and there is a first. This is the first time that an artist got to announce their own countdown song on AT40. Hall & Oates missed by a week of doing it, Debbie Gibson did not do it neither did Donny Osmond. But these guys did after saying that a grandfather and a father of an artist had all hit #1. Their grandfather Ozzie and father Rick. They played a clip of Ozzie hitting the top in 1935 then played of a clip of "Poor Little Fool" by Rick before saying that they had done so with "Love and Affection". Their followup "After the Rain" is what they announced.
*An NC reference on this show but not from one of woolebull's favorite towns. A gal from Chapel Hill wrote to ask about B sides hitting #1. So they said 20 B sides had hit #1 in the rock era and played a medley of some of them. The last 5 were from the AT40 years..."King Fu Fighting"(did not know that), "Black Water", "I Will Survive", "The Greatest Love of All" and "Cold Hearted". Then he played "Play That Funky Music" which was the original A side to the B side "Ice Ice Baby". Funky is the followup release btw. Wonder if Vanilla Ice is the only 2 hit wonder whose hits are from the same single.
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Post by Michael1973 on Oct 28, 2023 7:55:34 GMT -5
Show starts with a rarity. An only debut that spends its only week in the countdown at #40. "Love Makes Things Happen". This song hit #13.
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