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Post by Indycolt on May 6, 2007 9:46:25 GMT -5
I can certainly relate to the post on listening to AT40 via the Armed Forces Network on Sundays when I lived in Germany circa the mid 70's. Used to plan long walks,or even a bike ride when AT40 came on,and we usually had a few people with us. I don't know about listening to it on "Medium Wave" but I got it via AFN Kaiserslautern. To this day,those classic shows from June of 1974 through May of 1977 take me right back to my high school days over there. If music truly "freezes" a moment in time for all of us, then those shows remain the soundtrack to my teenage years!
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Post by MEF on May 6, 2007 22:55:44 GMT -5
When I was listening to AT40 during the 80s, I would never be happy if the ending hour theme and ending themes were chopped off with advertising. When I had a clean copy of the ending hour and end theme music, I would have the tape in the cassette player. I would have it on cue, if the station would cut the ending theme for local ads, I would switch from the radio to the tape player.
Yes, it was weird. However, its was better than listening to an ad from a furniture store "bragging about a big sale, because the sun came out today."
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Post by Hervard on May 18, 2007 11:02:59 GMT -5
Back in the day I used to play Legend of Zelda II while listening to the countdown. (I know, I went and grabbed a post from a long time ago and am commenting on it...I am bored right now. ) Which one was that, "Adventures Of Link"?
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Post by at40petebattistini on Dec 10, 2011 7:15:11 GMT -5
Bumping this up...again!
Some newcomers may want to add their experiences to this thread.
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Post by pizzzzza on Dec 10, 2011 13:32:14 GMT -5
Nice bump there Pete!
Well, in the 'old days', I used to grab my Billboard magazine and follow along with the countdown - also would shuffle through the pages and look at the other charts.
Nowadays, I look at my hard copy of Joel Whitburn Presents The Billboard Hot 100 Charts while listening to the countdown - I treasure my 2 books (Sixties and Seventies) more than anything I own! LOL
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Post by Deleted on Dec 10, 2011 13:55:05 GMT -5
I cant explain how but I did it. The show was aired on AFRTS Rota , Spain at 14.00 hours and I did whatever I hade to do to make all my family have lunch before that hour , because I did not want to miss the show.
I still dont know how I did it. Of course nobody knew the reason of that hurry was Casey.
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Post by dukelightning on Dec 10, 2011 15:29:15 GMT -5
I have never followed along with a Billboard while listening whether back in the day or nowadays. I like to be surprised and nowadays when I get to a certain point in the top 10, I try to guess the songs that are remaining. Anyway, one of the posts from 2006 or so mentioned the hoops and loops that he went through in college to hear AT40. I can relate, I actually found a place in the woods to camp out with my transistor radio to hear AT40. Too many distractions if I stayed in the dorm and I was religious about hearing AT40. In the winter or rainy days, I went into one of the classrooms since the buildings were open and no classes were held on the weekend of course. I sometimes brought a notebook or 2 to fool people into thinking I was in there studying. Did not do much during the shows. Kind of hard when you're in the woods with just your radio and nothing else....lol
Thanks for bumping this up.....good topic.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 10, 2011 15:36:37 GMT -5
When my first time in Madrid, I looked for the Billboard Magazine in kiosks or magazine, newspapers sale sites. The guy there thought I was asking for Virgo, a porn magazine.
It was in Lisbon where I could buy a Billboard magazine. That was in 1994.
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Post by snarfdude on Dec 11, 2011 9:40:25 GMT -5
Maybe this doesn't qualify - you decide. I used to listen to AT40 on Armed Forces Radio - on medium wave. Often I scheduled long sunday afternoon bike rides to listen to it on a walkman radio. Compared to that XM sounds way too good. So I sometimes run recorded shows through "stereo tool" - a free winamp plugin - which does a good job of re-creating the way AT40 is supposed to sound on AM. Then I put the show on my mp3 player and get out the bike for a 10-20 mile tour... Note: Stereo tool is here: www.hansvanzutphen.com/stereo_tool/download/it's a variation of multiband compressor/limiter used my many AM radio stations over the decades, to yes, you will certainly get a AM sound if you pass audio through it. type "optimod"into google, and you'll find one of the most popular am compressor/limiters used in radio. LOVE am's processed using optimods...they have a distinct warm and round sound that few compressors can come close to.
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Post by snarfdude on Dec 11, 2011 9:49:02 GMT -5
I used to get some of the program discs after the fact from a station that was nice to mail them to me when I was a kid, or i'd buy the US versions from record dealers via goldmine mag when they were $10-15 each shortly after they aired in the 80s.
As this was slightly before I started in radio, I had a radio shack disco mixer and mic and two turntables, with remote starts I rigged up.
When I got the show, i'd spend 4 hours in my room literally board oping the countdown myself....occasionally actually doing a newscast at the top of the hour....and commericals I'd tape off air of other stations or elsewhere to fill the breaks....
To this day, I still enjoy board oping....mostly in my control room of my internet radio station in the basement when I take over from the computer and spin records and carts and such. I usually enjoy AT40 when I transfer the vinyl to digital, as you have to listen to it in real time. Usually do that an hour at a time.
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Post by Michael on Dec 11, 2011 11:03:45 GMT -5
Back in the day I used to play Legend of Zelda II while listening to the countdown. (I know, I went and grabbed a post from a long time ago and am commenting on it...I am bored right now. ) Which one was that, "Adventures Of Link"? I was doing that last night listening to part of the 70s countdown. But I was playing the new one The Skyward Sword.
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Post by mrjukebox on Dec 11, 2011 13:10:05 GMT -5
Until I started subscribing to Billboard Magazine almost thirty years ago,I used to write down the chart position & song title on a sheet of paper-Eventually,I was able to glance at the Hot 100 at the same time Casey was counting down the hits-Those were the days!
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Post by atfanmpls on Dec 11, 2011 20:28:58 GMT -5
I find myself listening to AT40(WQSR) in right ear and watching Criminal Minds and Family Guy every Sunday night. I also get lots of things done around the house.
I usually have the cuesheet in the background - but I print off Walt's sheet (on 1 page) and make notes where station IDs/Fills/Extras are - makes editing on Monday night way easier.
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Post by GQ on Mar 21, 2021 9:02:53 GMT -5
been browsing and shopping for autoparts lately to fix up the beater that once was not a beater lol
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Post by GQ on Mar 21, 2021 9:05:26 GMT -5
Nice bump there Pete! Well, in the 'old days', I used to grab my Billboard magazine and follow along with the countdown - also would shuffle through the pages and look at the other charts. Nowadays, I look at my hard copy of Joel Whitburn Presents The Billboard Hot 100 Charts while listening to the countdown - I treasure my 2 books (Sixties and Seventies) more than anything I own! LOL my favorite Whitburn book has got to be the Billboard book of TOP 40 hits, i heavily soiled that with fingerprints
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