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Post by Deleted on Apr 16, 2006 7:17:38 GMT -5
To all of you who celebrate, Happy Easter. To the rest....Happy Sunday!  |
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Post by BrettVW on Apr 16, 2006 8:26:34 GMT -5
Yes, a Happy Easter/Happy Passover to all who celebrate. I'm sure many of us have stories about fighting to hear Casey Kasem on Easter Morning while going to church or having to attend some sort of family function  |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 16, 2006 13:25:52 GMT -5
Actually believe it or not, no I don't. We either didn't go to church and I listened or it was on early enough to listen before I went. And when we did go to a family function the times we didn't go to church I would carry the radio with me and I would have my headphones.
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Post by at40petebattistini on Apr 16, 2006 15:42:41 GMT -5
I can't pass up this stream without making an observation. As described in my book, it was Easter Sunday 1971 (35 years ago) when I stumbled across an AT40 program for the first time. I didn't hear the show's beginning or its end, but I heard just enough to make an initial connection. And I recall that AT40's Sunday broadcast time (on WTHI-AM in Terre Haute, Indiana) was from 12-3pm. The middle-of-the-day scheduling seemed to me to be the perfect weekend time slot. Unfortunately, I was never able to hear another AT40 program on WTHI or at that time of day.  |
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Post by at40petebattistini on Apr 16, 2006 16:48:58 GMT -5
Forgot to mention that two of the songs from AT40 on Easter Sunday in 1971 were played on this weekend's AT10 program. One of the songs -- Three Dog Night's Joy To The World -- was the #1 record 35 years ago. Geez I'm old! |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 16, 2006 17:15:54 GMT -5
I can't pass up this stream without making an observation. As described in my book, it was Easter Sunday 1971 (35 years ago) when I stumbled across an AT40 program for the first time. I didn't hear the show's beginning or its end, but I heard just enough to make an initial connection. And I recall that AT40's Sunday broadcast time (on WTHI-AM in Terre Haute, Indiana) was from 12-3pm. The middle-of-the-day scheduling seemed to me to be the perfect weekend time slot. Unfortunately, I was never able to hear another AT40 program on WTHI or at that time of day. Why not Pete? Did the show get cancelled, a special airing time, or did you not live near there? |
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Post by at40petebattistini on Apr 16, 2006 21:16:00 GMT -5
Paul,
That Easter Sunday, my family spent the holiday weekend at my grandmother's house. We lived about three hours away, not far from Chicago. Because we lived so far away, I couldn't hear the show every week. We got back to Terre Haute a couple of months later but our visit was not well-timed and I was not able to hear any AT40. (I recall begging my mom to let us stay longer but we had to get home because my dad had to go to work.) WTHI dropped AT40 some time later in 1971, possibly when Watermark discontinued network commercials and started charging stations for the program in October 1971.
And it wasn't until June 1972 before a Chicago station (WCFL) began airing AT40. The show was heard then Saturday night/Sunday morning starting at 1 a.m.!!
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Post by Scott Lakefield on Apr 17, 2006 13:52:43 GMT -5
Yes, a Happy Easter/Happy Passover to all who celebrate. I'm sure many of us have stories about fighting to hear Casey Kasem on Easter Morning while going to church or having to attend some sort of family function The Easter edition of AT40 that I remember was the 1983 one, which I believe is the week the entire top 10 stayed the same from the previous week. |
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Post by BROWNJB1 on Apr 17, 2006 22:45:55 GMT -5
I do have a couple of Easter Sunday stories of my own relating to AT40. Back on Easter Sunday in 1989, me and my family were visiting my grandparents in Geiger, Alabama, and I brought my radio down there with me, and on that Sunday, I wanted to listen to AT40, and unfortunately, I didn't get the show. I scrambled across the FM dial for over 2 hours to find AT40, but to no avil. However, I did get to listen to Casey's Top 40 that day.
The next year in 1990, I was in Selma, AL, visiting family while we were on Spring Break. We were down there for my grandfather's funeral, and his funeral was the day before Easter, and on Easter Sunday, I didn't get to listen to AT40 because I left my headphone radio in my parent's van. I spent the whole day kicking myself.
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Post by BrettVW on Apr 18, 2006 9:27:02 GMT -5
This reminds me of all the arguments my now ex-girlfriend and I used to have on Sundays. She would *always* want me to do something with her on Sunday, generally around 11 am. Be it go out to brunch with her or her family, come over to hang out, or go to church with her earlier in the morning.
I remember her asking me on more than one occasion "What is more important? Me, or that dumb radio show? " Not that we didn't other problems......but as girls come and go, the countdown continues!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 18, 2006 16:51:11 GMT -5
You should have asked her the same question, seems only fair!
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