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Oldies 103.3 Now Airing All 40 Songs of American Top 40, The Seventies

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I think that sounds good! They did 1974 this week! You get the quality songs along with the cheesy ones of the time also. I never thought that Jim Stafford's "Spiders and Snakes" was nearly as a big hit as it was, #3.
 
I listened to it too and was amazed at just how many top 20 hits were played that you never, ever hear anymore! Some charted much higher than "Heartbreaker" by the Stones, which you can hear quite often on one of greater Boston's 137 classic rock stations. ::)

Listening to Dickie Goodman's "Energy Crisis '74" sure brought back some memories (I'd forgotten about him) and had me laughing out loud! I suppose that his material is too dated to work on radio today, but it sure was fun. Great to hear those old countdown shows, which I listened to as a kid.

As for the AT40 show from 1974, it was the longest I'd listened to WODS in the past week. Aside from that show and the occasional song or two, I actually prefer the music over on North Shore 104.9. It's a much better station, musically.
 
I do like North Shore 104.9 when I can pick it up. It definitely doesn't tow regulated formated line.

Yes, I really like hearing the old Top 40 countdowns as well! Now if they would only air the 80's version as well? On Mix 98-5 perhaps?
 
It was inevitable that Oldies 103.3 had to play all 3 hours of American Top 40 at some point.You realize how great those Billboard charts really were and how lucky we were to grow up listening to such a diverse selection of incredible hit singles.I also notice how little homework Casey Kasem actually did researching the musical acts.But there's no denying his amazing and unique radio voice and those tremendous music charts off the '70s and '80s.You only have to take a gander at a Billboard chart today in 2008 to appreciate the era featured on AT 40.This show now represents the only venue for many of these songs to be played on the radio,besides "The Lost 45s"...... It's interesting that Barry Scott has been taking little shots at 'Countdown shows' on his "Lost 45s" show lately. Doesn't Scott realize that without AT 40 and Billboard Magazine there would be no "Lost 45s" ? I suspect that he views the re-emergence of these Casey Kasem Countdowns as competition to him,and he hears the footsteps behind him and fears the CBS radio ax that fell recently on Patrick Callahan.
 
RickyF said:
It's interesting that Barry Scott has been taking little shots at 'Countdown shows' on his "Lost 45s" show lately. Doesn't Scott realize that without AT 40 and Billboard Magazine there would be no "Lost 45s" ? I suspect that he views the re-emergence of these Casey Kasem Countdowns as competition to him,and he hears the footsteps behind him and fears the CBS radio ax that fell recently on Patrick Callahan.
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I haven't listened enough lately to catch Barry doing that, but he should be aware that if he wants to stay in the managements good graces, he shouldn't put down anything that they air, even if it's reruns of a 35 year old syndicated show.
 
They did 1976 this week. I only caught the tail end of it though, the top 13. I was surprised that I knew every song minus one. A real lot of good ones too! Some need to be played on the radio more!

One thing that I got to ask, Casey Kasem has referred to the Top 40 being the biggest sellers of the week, but last week he mentioned the Hot 100 as being the source. Now isn't that a sales and airplay chart, or was it different back in the 70's?
 
Here was the top 12 from this week back in 1976:

1-December 1963 (Oh What A Night)-Four Seasons
2. All By Myself-Eric Carmen
3. Love Machine-The Miracles
4. Take It To The Limit-Eagles
5. Dream Weaver-Gary Wright
6. Lonely Nights-The Captain and Tenille
7. The Theme From Swat-Rhythm Heritage
8. Love Hurts-Nazareth
9. Sweet Thing-Rufus and Chaka Kahn
10. Junk Food Junkie-Larry Gross
11. 50 Ways To Leave Your Lover-Paul Simon
12. Disco Lady-Johhnie Taylor
 
Retro said:
One thing that I got to ask, Casey Kasem has referred to the Top 40 being the biggest sellers of the week, but last week he mentioned the Hot 100 as being the source. Now isn't that a sales and airplay chart, or was it different back in the 70's?
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The real Billboard chart was the Top 100, of which the top 40 songs would generally get play. Of course, that was not a hard and fast rule and there were regional hits back in the 60s and 70s that didn't chart very high on Billboard, but had huge success in certain cities. Casey would count down songs 40 to 1 from the Top 100 chart. Breaking into the top 40 was indicative of some success, dropping out usually meant that the song was done - even if it hung around down near number 73 for a couple of weeks.
 
Retro said:
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What were they doing previously? Cutting songs out of the pre-recorded countdown?
 
American Top 40 based on Billboard's Top 100 was based on sales AND airplay thruout the country.BRNout referred to regional hits not charting well nationally.A great example of this was a song that was the #1 song in Boston for 1973,yet only reached #59 nationally that year.After the group had 2 more gold albums,they re-released the single and it would hit #6 on Billboard Magazine's top 100 in April of 1976.In fact,you heard on last Saturday's AT 40 show.It was #16 nationally,with no help from Boston,since everyone here had bought this single 3 years earlier.I think you've heard of' 'Dream On'- Aerosmith.
 
Oh yes, we all know that song! I only caught the last 13 of the countdown this past Saturday.

What I was mentioning is Casey Kasem is saying on the recorded show that these are the 40 Best Sellers. Thats why I have gotten a little bit confused.

If memory serves me correctly, somewhere between 1958 and 1962 Billboard introduced the Sales and Airplay "Top 100" chart to be known as the Hot 100 from '62 on. Not sure if they made more changes or not when they introduced the "official" chart at all.
 
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