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Post by RJSchex on Oct 7, 2004 0:01:14 GMT -5
I have a question about the AT40 episode from October 7, 1978--the first four-hour show:
Was it on this show that the new hour-closing jingle was introduced? (The one used until the early 80's.)
As late as 1978, the hour-ending jingle had been the original 1970 electronic theme music (later a minor-key remix), and was used strictly as time-filler, being played (on the original recording, not necessarily on air) to various lengths with a fade-out ending. All hour-close jingles since 1979 have been fixed-length with a cold ending.
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Post by mstgator on Oct 16, 2004 21:04:11 GMT -5
Yep, the 10/7/78 show was the first to use the new hour-ending music. The minor-key organ theme was still in place on the 9/30/78 show.
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Post by vto66 on Dec 3, 2006 1:22:36 GMT -5
Regarding the October 7, 1978 unveiliing of the new 4-hour American Top 40 (which I caught for the first time when XM played it a few months back), I noticed that the first 4-hour AT40 show did have the new hour-closing theme, but the "bumper" jingles were the same ones they had been using for the past year or so. Another website said that AT40 introduced new "bumpers" on the same day that the show expanded to 4 hours. Does anyone know exactly how soon after AT40's expansion from 3 to 4 hours did they change the jingles, just out of curiosity?
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Post by lasvegaskid on Oct 9, 2020 19:43:47 GMT -5
I can't wait! We got a little taste yesterday from Squirrelly radio but their mono stream isn't the way this gem should be heard!
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Post by mga707 on Oct 9, 2020 19:46:06 GMT -5
I can't wait! We got a little taste yesterday from Squirrelly radio but their mono stream isn't the way this gem should be heard! I think you just set a record as far as resurrecting a long-dead thread: Nearly 14 years!  |
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Post by dth1971 on Oct 10, 2020 8:06:14 GMT -5
Few to several weeks into the 4 hour AT40 format, we even had besides new bumper jingles:
* The short lived "Long Distance Dedication" singing into bumper (That didn't last long into early 1979, I think).
* An instrumental AT40 Archive musical note intro lasting until the end of the AT40 Archives segments in November 1981.
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Post by johnnywest on Oct 10, 2020 15:18:13 GMT -5
I’m pretty sure the first 4-hour AT40 show was in December 1974, although it didn’t stay that way.
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Post by mga707 on Oct 10, 2020 15:23:35 GMT -5
I’m pretty sure the first 4-hour AT40 show was in December 1974, although it didn’t stay that way. I have never heard of any four-hour AT40--except possibly for year-end countdowns--prior to this week's 10/7/78 show. |
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Post by OnWithTheCountdown on Oct 10, 2020 16:43:21 GMT -5
I’m pretty sure the first 4-hour AT40 show was in December 1974, although it didn’t stay that way. I have never heard of any four-hour AT40--except possibly for year-end countdowns--prior to this week's 10/7/78 show. Maybe that's what he meant? 🤔 Either way, you're both right. 😁 |
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Post by dth1971 on Oct 10, 2020 17:56:52 GMT -5
I’m pretty sure the first 4-hour AT40 show was in December 1974, although it didn’t stay that way. The 4 hour experiments was used originally for the 1974-1977 AT40 year end countdowns. |
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Post by mga707 on Oct 10, 2020 18:06:26 GMT -5
I’m pretty sure the first 4-hour AT40 show was in December 1974, although it didn’t stay that way. The 4 hour experiments was used originally for the 1974-1977 AT40 year end countdowns. 50 countdown songs per four hours. Not quite the same thing. |
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Post by bobbo428 on Oct 10, 2020 19:11:07 GMT -5
I’m pretty sure the first 4-hour AT40 show was in December 1974, although it didn’t stay that way. I heard the "four-hour show on WILK Radio--Wilkes Barre, Pa--12/29/74) as an eight-hour show. One week before, I had tried to catch the "four-hour" show on WFBL in Syracuse, NY on 12/21/74, but they opted for a rebroadcast of the 7/6/74 special survey of the top acts of the '70s to date. I lived halfway between Wilkes Barre and Syracuse, so my listens were often filled with static (and interference from other stations during colder months). |
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Post by mkarns on Oct 10, 2020 21:28:58 GMT -5
It took some time for AT40 to hit its stride in terms of the four hour shows. Perhaps inevitably, it went from feeling overly chopped up to feeling padded for a while. The replay of the top 3 which started in early 1979 helped fill time, and in the 80s as songs continued to lengthen the longer time felt more natural, with fewer extras needed.
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Post by at40petebattistini on Oct 11, 2020 0:57:36 GMT -5
I’m pretty sure the first 4-hour AT40 show was in December 1974, although it didn’t stay that way. I have never heard of any four-hour AT40--except possibly for year-end countdowns--prior to this week's 10/7/78 show. For 2020's 70s year-end shows, I wonder if both "A" and "B" offerings will be 4-hour broadcasts. |
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Post by dth1971 on Oct 11, 2020 6:51:54 GMT -5
I have never heard of any four-hour AT40--except possibly for year-end countdowns--prior to this week's 10/7/78 show. For 2020's 70s year-end shows, I wonder if both "A" and "B" offerings will be 4-hour broadcasts. 1970's and 1972's AT40 year enders were 6 hours total over 2 weeks. |
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