Reruns of American Country Countdown

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I asked Bob himself on his facebook page . This is what he answered :

Looked into it for you...it appears you think the date on the Top 40 Acts Special might be wrong, and that there was actually a regular countdown for 1-1-2000. There was not. The dates printed on the two specials you have are correct.
Since there are two weeks with no chart, we did two specials that year...the normal year-end show and then the Top 40 Acts special the following weekend. Hope that helps! And many thanks for being a loyal listener. Bob.


This was my question:

Hi Bob , I have a question about the final ACC shows of 1999. I have a show dated on december 25, 1999 which is Top 50 of 1999, then another show that I have dated as January 01, 2000 ( Top 40 Acts of the 20th Century Special) and finally Christmas in America 1999.
My question is if the second show , Top 40 Acts of the 20th Century Special, is really dated December 25, 1999 and the 1st show of January 2000 is a regular show that I miss. i hope you can give some light here. Thanks.

[mellongraig]

Just caught towards the end of WLAW 92.5 and they are playing 1994 - August 20, 1994 to be exact. That leaves 1995, 1996, 1998, and 2000 still left to be aired.

[rayshae3]

Aug 22, 2015 7:52:50 GMT -5 mellongraig said:

Just caught towards the end of WLAW 92.5 and they are playing 1994 - August 20, 1994 to be exact. That leaves 1995, 1996, 1998, and 2000 still left to be aired.

Back in the 90s, I followed the country chart religiously only for a couple of years; and 1994 was one of them.

The new rewind Top 30 with quick comments:
#1 BE MY BABY TONIGHT-JOHN MICHAEL MONTGOMERY Second week at #1
#2 LOVE A LITTLE STRONGER-DIAMOND RIO Good harmonies.
#3 DREAMING WITH MY EYES OPEN-CLAY WALKER Highest song without the commercial single cassette release
#4 HALF THE MAN-CLINT BLACK Highest song this week without an official video
#5 HANGIN’ IN-TANYA TUCKER From the album ‘Soon”
#6 WHISPER MY NAME-RANDY TRAVIS …against the quiet backdrop of organ and guitar.
#7 SUMMERTIME BLUES-ALAN JACKSON Former #1 for 3 weeks.
#8 NATIONAL WORKING WOMAN’S HOLIDAY-SAMMY KERSHAW From the album ‘Feelin’ Good Train’
#9 WHAT THE COWGIRLS DO-VINCE GILL Host of the recent “The Vinny” golf tournament that included Garth Brooks and Amy Grant.
#10 THE MAN IN LOVE WITH YOU-GEORGE STRAIT With chord changes and lush strings.
#11 XXX’S AND OOO’S (AN AMERICAN GIRL)-TRISHA YEARWOOD Could be TV theme to a country version of ‘Mary Tyler Moore’ show.
#12 SHE CAN’T SAY I DIDN’T CRY-RICK TREVINO Ballad from Tex-Mex country.
#13 GIRLS WITH GUITARS-WYNONNA composed by Mary Chapin-Carpenter; and if you came from rock to country, you’d appreciate quotes from “Smoke on the Water” and “Sunshine of Your Love”
#14 INDEPENDENCE DAY-MARTINA MCBRIDE About a woman loose from her chains.
#15 THIRD ROCK FROM THE SUN-JOE DIFFIE Title track from his album, the highest album debut on BB Country Top 10 portion.
#16 RENEGADES, REBELS AND ROGUES-TRACY LAWRENCE Highest airplay only album cut not available as a commercial single
#17 HARD TO SAY-SAWYER BROWN The fourth and the last single from album ‘Outskirts of Town’.
#18 MORE LOVE-DOUG STONE Premier ballad
#19 DOWN ON THE FARM-TIM MCGRAW The bigger of two Airpowers this week (the other at #21) for the first-time 2500 detections on the 136 stations monitored.
#20 WHAT’S IN IT FOR ME-JOHN BERRY Immediate follow-up to his #1 “You Love Amazes Me”
#21 SHE DREAMS-MARK CHESNUTT Debut single for his new label.
#22 THINKIN’ PROBLEM-DAVID BALL Title track from his top 10 album.
#23 O WHAT A THRILL-THE MAVERICKS Last week’s #34 on the extended chart, the biggest climber in the Top 40 as well as the highest debut in the Top 30 portion.
#24 EVERY ONCE IN A WHILE-BLACKHAWK The trio with their second ever single.
#25 POCKET OF A CLOWN-DWIGHT YOAKAM Johnny Cash's favorite country singer.
#26 ELVIS AND ANDY-CONFEDERATE RAILROAD Guys from the South singing about a Yankee girl.
#27 SHE THINKS HIS NAME WAS JOHN-REBA MCENTIRE Subject: About a woman dying of AIDS.
#28 COWBOY BAND-BILLY DEAN Fiddles and guitars in place.
#29 FOOLISH PRIDE-TRAVIS TRITT Former #1, his fourth
#30 WHO’S THAT MAN-TOBY KEITH (last week’s #38; big climb)

[tcat]

raeshay3: You are as into this countdown as I am! AND I have to hand it to you; I thought I knew a ton of trivia but man you have me beat on that too! LOVED reading your comments on the top 30 this week in 1994. So cool!

[rayshae3]

Oh stop! (blush) There are far better country experts on this board. I'd be able to only comment on country songs quickly for charts from late 70s/early 80s; and mid 90s (like the 2 years I said earlier I was following the country charts i.e. 1993&1994) and maybe songs from about 6-7 years ago. But I hope now that the ACC is re-run, I can catch and discover some of the songs I missed out the first time around, when for the reason of time or money I couldn't be as studious as I wished about contemporary country music. But thanks nevertheless.

[tcat]

rayshae3:

I know this is probably the 10th time or so I have posted these, but I just love these top 100 year-end countdowns from the 80s and 90s. I bet you know 1993 and 1994 really well.

media.radcity.net/zacc/year_end_charts/top100-80.html
media.radcity.net/zacc/year_end_charts/top100-81.html
media.radcity.net/zacc/year_end_charts/top100-82.html
media.radcity.net/zacc/year_end_charts/top100-83.html
media.radcity.net/zacc/year_end_charts/top100-84.html
media.radcity.net/zacc/year_end_charts/top100-85.html
media.radcity.net/zacc/year_end_charts/top100-86.html
media.radcity.net/zacc/year_end_charts/top100-87.html
media.radcity.net/zacc/year_end_charts/top100-88.html
media.radcity.net/zacc/year_end_charts/top100-89.html
AND the 90s: Full Top 100 in here EVERY YEAR, EVEN in 1999, when only the top 50 actually aired......
www.thomasreil.de/english/country/z_acctitel.htm
Remember any of these?

[rayshae3]

Of the entire 80s decade, I only comfortably remember top 100 from 1980 (thanks to AFN in west Germany whose signal was strong enough I could pick up ACC on its AM station all the way in England too.) That's where I also listened to AT40 until later on discovered another station from Irish Rep. that carried Casey as well.
At that time, BBC Radio 1 had also its own Billboard Top 30 show on Sat. afternoons.

After 81 I was so much into my studies that ended up rationing my chart radio diet, until I returned to the US a few years after.

BTW, the earliest ACC year end show I remember was from 1976/77. I recall the entire Top 100 aired over the two holiday weekends but Watermark devoted six hours to the year end ACC specials (as opposed to eight hours for the year-end AT40, when AT40 was still a weekly 3-hours countdown too.) Sometimes even 17 country songs was compacted into an hour (or rather 48-50min. excluding the commercials) on those ACC yearend specials. Unbelievable how short the country 45s were in the mid-70s, usually under three minutes, sometimes barely over 2 minutes long.)

[rayshae3]

This weekend ACC Rewind on terrestrial radio is from August 29, 1998.

[55bazooka]

What radio stations can i hear rewind on?
Does anyone know?

[mellongraig]

Well we can now take 1996 off the table as that is airing right now - September 7, 1996 to be exact. Wondering if listener requests were done by this point...

Edit: OK, I can now say they were put into place by this point based on this week's show - probably not the earliest time though...

[mkarns]

Aug 31, 2015 21:47:58 GMT -5 55bazooka said:

What radio stations can i hear rewind on?
Does anyone know?

There's always www.ct40.com/ , which is the official website for Bob Kingsley's Country Top 40. It includes his current show for the week as well as his ACC replays.

[rayshae3]

This weekend's latest episode of ACC Rewind is from September 11, 2004.

[mellongraig]

Well, now that's the third time that 2004 has aired (the others being May 8 and July 17 as the week ending charts).

[tcat]

That is odd. I remember when the last 2004 episode aired less than 2 months ago. I was surprised how many good songs were in there actually because I have always felt like country music went down fast in the early 21st Century. I think what I liked about the last '04 episode was how many songs I remembered when they were new. My niche is 90s country but ironically I did not get into Country Radio until about 2002 when I was a freshman in high school. Listened to it a lot for four years until I graduated in the class of 2006 then in college, used ITUNES to over the course of the next 5 years, find and download each of the top 100 year-end countdowns from 1990 to 1999. Man those were WAY BETTER YEARS than when I was in high school! (2002-06) I LOVE this REWIND show because although I know what songs I "missed" as a little kid in the 90s, I think even better are the STORIES and just listening to the narrations between the songs at a time when Country Music was AWESOME! I LOVED the Aug. 29, 1998 addition of ACC a couple of weeks ago (I was just starting 5th grade then) because I knew every song (At least half of them were still playing 4 years later when I was in high school and the rest I had downloaded in college!) 1998 was a really sweet year for Country Music because although it had really gone pop at that point, there were still a lot of songs with depth (Try listening to modern country in 2015 and no offense if you are a fan, but I can hardly find anything as good as 17 years ago! I listened to the current Bob Kingsley Country Top 40 the other week just to give "New Country" another try and there was hardly anything in there that impressed me! Maybe a few songs but that was it!) Anyway what was cool about 2004 though is that country music, although it had come way down since the 90s, because that was still 11 years ago, it had still not come down nearly as far as it has now! Took me back to junior year in high school when those songs were airing for the first time! 90s Country, which is by far my favorite, reminds me of high school (because recurrent hits were still playing) and college (when I downloaded all the rest of them!) but I do not remember when any of those were new even though that was my childhood. Anyway the 90s shows are my favorites but in 2004, I was actually listening to this show! (Loved the first hour (#40 to 31) when all the new songs would be played that I had not gotten sick of yet!) So far my favorite flashbacks have been July 1992 (Man were those good songs and Country was still really country that year! I was in preschool) and 1998 (really great pop country and great memories!) I think around 2000, Country just got too pop for my liking but anyway, love this show.

[mellongraig]

1994 again so soon? Oh well...

September 17, 1994 is what we are featuring this week.