Casey Kasem AT40 on XM!

[top40dj]

Starting next weekend, 80s on 8 will start playing Casey Kasem's AT40!!!

WOO HOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[tobedawg]

Definitely some awesome news.. They are also doing a marathon on 70's on 7.. Starting Friday.. There is no time posted for when exactly the marathon will start though.. but I will be listening when I'm not at work..

[johnnywest]

This is great! Where has it been advertised? I didn't hear about it.

[tobedawg]

From the XM Signal Newsletter that is sent to subscribers:
Casey Kasem's American Top 40 comes to XM on the 70s and 80s. We celebrate with an all-Casey Kasem countdown marathon weekend. Ron and Fez salute some of their favorite comedians on XM Comedy®. Wanda Sykes drops by and reveals all. Planet Priestly checks in with the latest stars - Paris Hilton, Brittney Snow and Cassie to name a few! Check out a new show, US Country Road Trip, and Willie Nelson visits Bill Mack on Open Road. Plus a new episode of From the Living Room to The Loft with Martha Wainwright and Jim Campilongo and a live concert with The Fray. All this and more, only on XM.

AND..
Casey Kasem Marathon
The 70's - XM 7 - Friday thru Sunday, August 4 - 6,
All Weekend Marathon
The 80's - XM 8 - Friday thru Sunday, August 4 - 6,
All Weekend Marathon
Casey Kasem's American Top 40 comes to The Seventies on 7 & The Eighties on 8. And we're celebrating his arrival with an all-Casey Kasem countdown marathon weekend!

[tico]

Super cool! I'll be listening.

[derek]

Will they be playing old countdowns? That's cool if they are. :)

[shadster]

Yes. countdowns from the 80s will air on the 80s channel, an shows form 70s will air on the 70s channel.

[tobedawg]

Looks like it's starting at 8 PM EST/ 5PM PST on Friday Night..

[charlypp]

Casey's classic AT40 shows,that's great!!!

[shadster]

It's starting Friday nite 8pm edt and ending sunday @midnite. Not sure how they are selecting the shows, most likely random shows, I don't think they'll be ALL shows from August (thru the years) but you never know. Then you can catch the 70s countdown every saturday @ noon est/edt and the 80s countdown every sunday @10am est/edt. w/ repeats on weds & thurs nites respectivly @10pm........i dunno, does it say those will be repeats? or new shows? *shrug*

[tobedawg]

LESS THAN 20 MINUTES UNTIL THE MARATHON STARTS..

Also looks like XM will be running the weekly shows at random.. On the XM website they are scheduled to run a March 5, 1983 show on Thursday on the 80's Channel and also on the 80's Channel a show from October 19, 1985 on Sunday..

[billme]

Update the first show of the 70's 7-18-70....it makes sense as the first two shows are missing parts from the original broadcast. This is the first complete (still available) show of AT40.

[StephL]

Cool, the stream is available AOL Radio and Winamp.  Not the highest quality stream, but it is free.

AOL Radio
music.aol.com/radioguide/bb.adp

Winamp 70's
uvox://64.236.34.107/stream/13299

Winamp 80's
uvox://64.236.34.107/stream/13300

70's 1st show is 7/25/70.  Missed the intro, but it sounds like the 80's show is from November, 1980

[Hot AC Archiver]

The first '80s show is 11/1/80

[billme]

Actually, until 5-8-71 the AT40 date was not the same as Billboard's chart (a week ahead), so 7-25-70 was broadcasted on 7-18-70. They caught up by running a special called Top 40 Acts Of The Rock ‘N’ Roll Era ’55-’71 on May 1, 1971.

[StephL]

Weird, I did not know about the differing dates. Too bad they having both marathons on the same weekend. That means I have to choose one or another. If they held one off until next week, I could have listen to them both.

[tobedawg]

Interesting how the 80's shows didn't seem to have an XM intro and went straight into the show with Casey counting down the top 3 from the previous week, while the 70's had an intro done by Casey and a more elaborate promotion of the show..

[mst3k]

Second '70s show is 3/5/77...

...and '80s is 2/27/88.

[StephL]

First hour of 2/27/88 was something different. However, the rest of the show has probably been played a gazillion times already on WMMX. Looks like the 70's countdown show is one hour ahead of the 80's channel.

[StephL]

04/03/71 is on now.

09/17/83 just started.  Forgot that those old AT40's were only 3 hours long, so that is why the shows are not at the same position on the countdown. This 09/17/83 show started about 1 1/4 hours after the 04/03/71 began.

[StephL]

What the heck, gotta hear one more show. Up now: 03/03/79.

[billme]

I had to call a night as well.  What a radio listening treat with weekend.  Thank you XM!!!

I just heard the beginning 8-22-70 show & they edited out "Cracklin' Rosie" @ #40....strange. On my copy of that show, there's anything wrong with the song.

[billme]

So far, here's rundown of the marathon:


70’s Channel Chronological Airing Rundown:
1) 7-18-70
2) 3-5-77
3) 3-27-71
4) 3-3-79
5) 8-4-73
6) 4-17-71
7) 11-11-78
8) 8-22-70
9) 12-1-73
10) 4-14-79
11) 3-11-78
12) 1-15-72
13) 3-5-77
14) 6-23-79
15) 3-2-74
16) 5-8-71
17) 7-28-79
18) 9-12-70
19) 8-4-73

80’s Channel Chronological Airing Rundown:
1) 11-1-80
2) 2-27-88
3) 9-17-83
4) 3-28-87
5) 9-26-81
6) 8-17-85
7) 8-14-82
8) 10-4-86
9) 8-6-88
10) 2-25-84
11) 8-6-83
12) 9-26-87
13) 9-18-82
14) 4-9-88
15)12-13-80

[StephL]

Seems as though they rushed everything together at the last minute so they could play the shows this weekend. Lots of glitches were evident such as random parts of one song inserted into the countdown song or Casey introducing a song that was just played. Last night, they seemed to take forever to finish one show because another part of a 2nd show kept interrupting the first. In fact, the proper show probably never ended correctly, so I switched to the other channel.

[tobedawg]

woo hoo!! The Top 50 of the 70's is on right now!! =)

[tobedawg]

Looks like the 70's show they decided to run tonight is the March 2, 1974 show..

[hanafyka]

So I decided to listen to Casey Kasem's AT 40 show from March 2, 1974.  Since I was only 3 years old back then, I didn't expect to know many songs.  But one I did hear, which I couldn't believe, was Energy Crisis '74 by Dickie Goodman.  For those who aren't familiar with Dickie Goodman, he interviews someone (this time it was the President) and the responses are very short clips from popular songs.  He had another "song" like this, in which he was interviewing Jaws.  Believe it or not, my parents took me and my sister to see Jaws when I was 3 and she was 5.  Of course, we had nightmares.  My sister is still traumatized by that experience (not really).  The Dickie Goodman interview with Jaws includes a song from the Eagles, James Taylor and 10cc (I'm Not in Love).  Everytime my sister hears any of these songs, especially I'm Not in Love, she immediately thinks of Jaws.  I never knew it was a release.  All these years (30+ years), I thought it was made up by some local yokel, until last night.  Now I have to find that "song," although I don't know if I will give it to my sister.

[mst3k]

"Mr Jaws" in fact made it to #4, so if XM gets around to airing AT40s from late summer/early fall 1975 you'll get to hear its rapid climb and fall on the chart. :)

[retromike32]

What's the deal. No AT40 on XM Channel 8 tonight. It's past 7pm PST. They playing 80's Wanna Bes programming instead. What's the problem?






Mike B

[tobedawg]

I was going to post that right now.. It's 7:38 and they are still playing regular music when it says that they should be running the march 5 1983 show right now.. damn!