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Post by mkarns on Oct 11, 2020 7:20:52 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. Based on that clue, I'll guess that the A will be 1978 in complete, unedited form with optional first hours as an A for the first time (it was a B at the end of 2018), and B will be something from 1974-77. 1978 has only been the main year end show once, in 2007, and that was in heavily edited form. |
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Post by Hervard on Oct 12, 2020 13:07:35 GMT -5
For 2020's 70s year-end shows, I wonder if both "A" and "B" offerings will be 4-hour broadcasts. Based on that clue, I'll guess that the A will be 1978 in complete, unedited form with optional first hours as an A for the first time (it was a B at the end of 2018), and B will be something from 1974-77. 1978 has only been the main year end show once, in 2007, and that was in heavily edited form. Yeah - and after hearing the repeat of that form of the show in 2012, how refreshing it was to hear the full, four-hour show, played as a "B" at the end of 2018! |
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Post by OnWithTheCountdown on Oct 12, 2020 19:23:45 GMT -5
With the playing of this show and reading through this thread (started over 16 years ago), I didn't see a response to a question asked about the changing of the jingles since the transition to four hours began. Obviously, the hour close jingles are new but more changes would shortly follow, listed below:
10/28/1978 - new bumper jingles (later replaced with stereo jingles on 8/25/1979)
11/11/1978 - AT40 Archives jingle debuts
Unsure of the exact show date (will have to listen to them again), but as previously mentioned, the "Long Distance Dedication" intro started around late 1978 and didn't last very long.
2/24/1979 - Top 3 recap is introduced
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Post by Mike on Oct 12, 2020 22:29:26 GMT -5
Unsure of the exact show date (will have to listen to them again), but as previously mentioned, the "Long Distance Dedication" intro started around late 1978 and didn't last very long. Consulting my newly-arrived frame of reference - one of THREE packages that arrived today, if you can believe that! - tells me that...it started 10/21/78. 10/28 apparently didn't have it, but presumably it was used again the week after that and then continued until...whenever. Pete doesn't list when it stopped (either that or it continued past May 1979, which was where I stopped looking). |
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Post by OnWithTheCountdown on Oct 14, 2020 16:45:54 GMT -5
Unsure of the exact show date (will have to listen to them again), but as previously mentioned, the "Long Distance Dedication" intro started around late 1978 and didn't last very long. Consulting my newly-arrived frame of reference - one of THREE packages that arrived today, if you can believe that! - tells me that...it started 10/21/78. 10/28 apparently didn't have it, but presumably it was used again the week after that and then continued until...whenever. Pete doesn't list when it stopped (either that or it continued past May 1979, which was where I stopped looking). That one package in and of itself is a must-have. 🙂 I have Pete's 70s and 80s books, plus Rob Durkee's "Countdown Of The Century". It's been a lot of fun to go through those, and the books have really come in handy for references. I plan on doing some detailed tagging/grouping with all my files so I can find these things quicker, which will take me a long time. Looking back through the original cue sheets, some songs listed as "extras" are really LDDs, which is why I need to do that detailed stuff. But, anyway... I had listened to all the 1979 shows in order last year, and I remember the LDD jingle in a good number of them, yet I don't exactly know when it stopped. But I remember it not lasting very long. I'll have to edit this post when I find it. ETA: The first 1979 show not to feature the LDD jingle was 2/24, the same show of the top 3 recap debut feature. I don't think any others past this point had it either. I don't think any dedication jingles would be heard again until 1/21/1989, the debut show of Casey's Top 40. |
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Post by dth1971 on Oct 17, 2020 8:04:05 GMT -5
Unsure of the exact show date (will have to listen to them again), but as previously mentioned, the "Long Distance Dedication" intro started around late 1978 and didn't last very long. Consulting my newly-arrived frame of reference - one of THREE packages that arrived today, if you can believe that! - tells me that...it started 10/21/78. 10/28 apparently didn't have it, but presumably it was used again the week after that and then continued until...whenever. Pete doesn't list when it stopped (either that or it continued past May 1979, which was where I stopped looking). At least the short lived LDD jingle isn't unlike the 1975-1978 "Now, on with the countdown" singing bumper jingle. When Casey's Top 40 had REQUEST AND DEDICATIONS, it started with brief instrumental notes (later recycled for AT40 second run in 2001-2004). |
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Post by lasvegaskid on Oct 4, 2024 14:06:24 GMT -5
These early 4hr shows were American Top Filler. Notice how some songs start after Casey finishes talking instead of having him talk over the intro? I presume this is to stretch out the time as was Casey doing a more wordy intro.
Quite a change from 7 days earlier with butchered songs, shortened theme music and Casey talking like a chipmunk.
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