JBXMRN
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Post by JBXMRN on Mar 22, 2004 22:58:36 GMT -5
With the new American Top 10 show using a "Theme Extras" segment, It reminds me of the radio show, "The Lost 45s", where the show's host, Barry Scott would do theme titles for his show.
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Post by donmccullen on Mar 23, 2004 7:42:50 GMT -5
With the new American Top 10 show using a "Theme Extras" segment, It reminds me of the radio show, "The Lost 45s", where the show's host, Barry Scott would do theme titles for his show. Except that the "theme" of the show does not completly domnate the show unlike The Lost 45's or Rick Jackson's Country Hall of Fame (which is a Classic Country radio showcase). Maybe that is why it is called the "AT10 Spotlight."
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Topay
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Post by Topay on Mar 23, 2004 9:07:42 GMT -5
I'm looking forward to hearing more of the theme extras. I'm sure Movie/TV themes would be a good one (like we don't hear "I'll Be There For You" enough as a Long Distance Dedication). Some sort of spotlight featuring collaborations of some sort (not just any collaboration, but a special kind of collaboration) would work. I'm sure Premiere has some good stuff up its sleeve.
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Post by Scott Lakefield on Mar 23, 2004 9:16:59 GMT -5
Some sort of spotlight featuring collaborations of some sort (not just any collaboration, but a special kind of collaboration) would work. That's not unlike a recent spotlight segment on Dick Clark's US Music Survey. He featured "great vocal collaborations." I remember "Smooth" by Santana and Rob Thomas being included, as well as "That's What Friends Are For" by Dionne & Friends.
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Post by Hervard on Mar 23, 2004 10:57:07 GMT -5
Scott, something on themed extras would have been a great idea for the "Weekly Poll" if it hadn't been discontinued.
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Timo
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Post by Timo on Mar 28, 2004 19:38:04 GMT -5
This weekend they had 6 Themed Extras and 12 Non-themed Extras. I wish it had been the other way around. There would still have been lots of freedom in choosing the movie songs.
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Post by Michael1973 on Mar 29, 2004 8:37:52 GMT -5
I agree. I like the wider variety of extras, but I don't like the fact that they've become so much more random. I would prefer they play twice as many themed extras and focus more on hits from "X years ago this week" for all the others.
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Post by Hervard on Mar 29, 2004 11:05:30 GMT -5
I myself found myself wondering why the AT10 Archive songs aren't from the same time of year as the show aired. One reason that came to my mind is that maybe diehard countdown fans, such as myself, would know right off the top of their heads what the featured song would be as soon as Casey mentioned the year. Like last week, when Casey played "When A Man Loves A Woman", which was a hit in 1991. If he'd played what song it was this week in 1991, people who really knew their AC music would say, "Oh, this week in 1991 was "Coming Out Of The Dark" by Gloria Estefan. Granted, that is probably not the reason they opted to deviate from the same time of year. Maybe it was just to be different. When Dick Clark had his program "National Music Survey" in the 1980's, the former #1 songs he played weren't always from the same time of year, either.
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JBXMRN
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Post by JBXMRN on Apr 18, 2004 21:23:33 GMT -5
As Casey is playing a whole bunch of extras on American Top 10, it appears that the Premiere Radio Network has a huge music library since so many extras are being played.
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Post by Hervard on Apr 19, 2004 15:30:33 GMT -5
Yeah, when I first heard of the change, I thought they were going to just play more of the extras that they played all the time anyway, only we'd hear them on a more regular basis (like we'd be lucky not to hear the same song twice in a month), but they apparently expanded their library so as to play a bigger variety. I guess I should have known they'd do this all along, since the purpose for changing the show was "to make the show less redundant." Even though we basically hear the same ten songs every week that make up the show (although there was finally a debut this week), there's a wider variety of extras. To play the same, tired old A/C hits week after week would be pretty much defeating the whole purpose of changing the show. That might also have something to do with the fact that the AT10 Archive songs aren't always from the same time of year.
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Post by Deleted on May 10, 2004 17:10:36 GMT -5
I'd like their themed extras for a few weeks to be Top sons of the years from 1970-current.
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Post by Hervard on May 11, 2004 10:33:13 GMT -5
That sounds like a marvelous idea! Maybe not for weeks and weeks on end, but interspersed throughout the year (or years, as it would take several years to feature each year). They wouldn't necessarily have to be in chronological order, but randomly placed (AT40 Flashback, anyone?) Nor would they need to be the Top Five (or top seven - the number of themed extras varies from week to week), but just selected big hits from a given year (and play the number one song from the featured year as the song played before the number one song of the week). That way Casey could say in the outro, something like, "In this week's AT10 Spotlight, that was the number one song of the year 1999, "You'll Be In My Heart" by Phil Collins. Now, we're up to this week's number one song..." The Spotlight feature is much like something Chicago's WLIT used to do before AT20 started. Back in early 1999, they used to do a "Winter Spotlight" feature, and they would play songs with a certain theme. It kicked off with the top songs of 1998 (although they started that one with their top song of the year - not a good idea, that's the song to wrap it up with) and they also did Top songs of 1984 one week. I forget what the top song was. Anyway, Paul has brought up a great idea. Premiere, are you paying attention?
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