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Post by Deleted on May 8, 2005 19:07:54 GMT -5
In Robs book it mentions how cash strapped Westwood One was at one point, how close were they really to going under and having to cease productions of their shows? And when exactly was that time period? I am asking because I seem to remember both Scott Shannons show and Future Hits being WW1 productions and they were around in 86 and before.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 2, 2005 10:42:03 GMT -5
I forgot I ever asked this questions, does no one know?
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Post by Hervard on Nov 30, 2005 19:22:23 GMT -5
I forgot I ever asked this questions, does no one know? I'm not quite clear on the question. The thread is entitled "Casey's Top 40 Early Years", but I don't believe that Westwood One was cash strapped in the early 1990s. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 5, 2005 9:18:33 GMT -5
I believe this is touched on (WW1 was having money problems) in Robs book.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 25, 2006 14:46:45 GMT -5
A year and a half and still no answer...LOL!
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Post by Radioman on Nov 27, 2006 2:46:13 GMT -5
A year and a half and still no answer...LOL! Paul, I can see you're the king of man that can hardly give up on something, right ? Probably that makes it for the two of us ........ Do you have an automatic schedule that brings up your old topics all along a year later ? |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 27, 2006 5:04:45 GMT -5
nope, there isn't really anything in this topic, so it wasn't hard to find.
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Post by mycool44 on Dec 28, 2006 11:25:48 GMT -5
I found it interesting that, in the beginning, Casey used to kick off the show by playing the #1 song from a week ago (the very first show it was "Two Hearts" by Phil Collins) - and he would announce the title and artist going into the record, unlike the AT40 days when he would just do generic intros like "and last week at #3 was this big hit." I know it's not earth-shattering, but I used to love the top 3 recaps.
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Post by dukelightning on Jan 4, 2014 14:21:13 GMT -5
Listening to the CT40 from 1/4/92 on its anniversary date and Casey introed and outroed "In My Dreams" by Party and it sure sounded like he was not made aware that this is a cover of a huge hard rock genre hit for Dokken. And then I looked it up in Whitburn's 1993 Pop book and he does not list these together which he always does when they are the same song. So he did not think it was a cover either. But it most definitely is the same song. Prefer Dokken's version but not by much.
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Post by rayshae3 on Jan 4, 2014 23:13:42 GMT -5
Listening to the CT40 from 1/4/92 on its anniversary date and Casey introed and outroed "In My Dreams" by Party and it sure sounded like he was not made aware that this is a cover of a huge hard rock genre hit for Dokken. And then I looked it up in Whitburn's 1993 Pop book and he does not list these together which he always does when they are the same song. So he did not think it was a cover either. But it most definitely is the same song. Prefer Dokken's version but not by much. Whitburn apparently corrected it in subsequent editions. I have his 13th edition of Top Pop book that goes till 2011; the 2nd part (The Title Song index) has it listed being the same song with different versions by Dokken and Party. |
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Post by dukelightning on Jan 30, 2014 20:24:01 GMT -5
One change from his AT40 days to his CT40 days is how Casey handles the frozen weeks. In the late 70s and 80s on AT40, he counted the frozen week toward a song's total at #1. But on the 1/30/93 CT40, he obviously did not. Said "I Will Always Love You" had attained the most weeks at #1 in the 90s with its 7th week on top. However, it hit #1 on 12/5/92 which means he did not count the 2 frozen or unpublished weeks. So Whitney had in actuality already attained that status and ended up with 9 weeks on top. Also made it the longest running #1 in CT40 history at the time.
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Post by mkarns on Jan 31, 2014 13:17:29 GMT -5
One change from his AT40 days to his CT40 days is how Casey handles the frozen weeks. In the late 70s and 80s on AT40, he counted the frozen week toward a song's total at #1. But on the 1/30/93 CT40, he obviously did not. Said "I Will Always Love You" had attained the most weeks at #1 in the 90s with its 7th week on top. However, it hit #1 on 12/5/92 which means he did not count the 2 frozen or unpublished weeks. So Whitney had in actuality already attained that status and ended up with 9 weeks on top. Also made it the longest running #1 in CT40 history at the time. Casey didn't always count frozen weeks in the 70s/80s AT40s, particularly below the #1 spot. A couple of weeks ago I heard the 1/14/78 show on SXM, in which he said Linda Ronstadt's "Blue Bayou" slipped from the #3 position after three weeks there. It was four weeks if you count the "frozen" one. I think he also said at least once that Chic's "Le Freak" was #1 for five weeks in 1978-79, which would be six with the "frozen" week. |
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