AT10 - March 27, 2004

[Hervard]

LC TC SONG/ARTIST
01 01 First Cut Is The Deepest/Sheryl Crow
04 02 White Flag/Dido
02 03 You Raise Me Up/Josh Groban
03 04 Forever And For Always/Shania Twain
05 05 Unwell/Matchbox Twenty
07 06 Drift Away/Uncle Kracker
08 07 100 Years/Five For Fighting
06 08 Calling All Angels/Train
09 09 Dance With My Father/Luther Vandross
10 10 Ain't No Mountain High Enough/Michael McDonald

AT10 Extras:
My Guy/Mary Wells
Sometimes When We Touch/Dan Hill (Geico, anyone?)
Free Fallin'/Tom Petty
I'm With You/Avril Lavigne

Long Distance Dedications:
Picture/Kid Rock w/Sheryl Crow
Your Song/Elton John

AT10 Spotlight:
Flashdance (What A Feeling)/Irene Cara (from "Flashdance")
I Believe I Can Fly/R. Kelly (from "Space Jam")
(Everything I Do) I Do It For You/Bryan Adams (from "Robin Hood: Prince Of Thieves")
Kiss From A Rose/Seal (from "Batman Forever"
I Need You/LeAnn Rimes (from the TV movie "Jesus")
You'll Be In My Heart/Phil Collins (from "Tarzan")

AT10 Archives:
1975: Best Of My Love/The Eagles
1977: Brick House/The Commodores
1978: Baby Come Back/Player
1978: Baby Hold On/Eddie Money
1978: You're In My Heart (The Final Acclaim)/Rod Stewart
1979: Got To Be Real/Cheryl Lynn
1983: Total Eclipse Of The Heart/Bonnie Tyler
2003: The Game Of Love/Santana f/Michelle Branch

Once again, they looped several songs in order to fill out the show to three hours instead of just inserting another song! When "Baby Come Back" was just about over with, they looped the song back to the second verse ("All day long wearing a mask of false bravado..."), but Casey faded it out during the following chorus (so, like, what was the point?)
They also did that with "Baby Hold On" by Eddie Money and I think they repeated part of "Calling All Angels". At least they played the full album version of "Total Eclipse Of The Heart" by Bonnie Tyler.
Also, does anyone remember in which segment "I Need You" by LeAnn Rimes was played? If not for the "This week on AT10 and AT20" on the AT40 website, that song would have slipped my mind (since I was busy playing Donkey Kong Land-3 on my Game Boy in order to keep awake).
All in all, a pretty good show like last week was.

[richie]

I went to at40.com and can't find the link to AT10 and AT20.
Sorry, but can you help? Thanks.

[Arson]

So the Spotlight was songs from movies?

Did they have to throw in a TV-movie in with "I Need You"?

[johnnywest]

I was out of town this weekend and heard the Top 10 for the first time. From what I understood, "I Need You" wasn't part of the spotlight. It was just a "former big hit" that happened to fit into the spotlight this week.

[Hervard]

johnnywest said:

I was out of town this weekend and heard the Top 10 for the first time. From what I understood, "I Need You" wasn't part of the spotlight. It was just a "former big hit" that happened to fit into the spotlight this week.

Well, as I said, I was playing a game so I wouldn't doze off during the countdown. Since I remember Casey mentioning that it was from the movie "Jesus", so I figured it was a Spotlight song, especially since it was listed on the "This week on AT10" page on Rob Durkee's AT40 site (not the AT40.com page, to clarify richie's question) as a Spotlight song. Just like last week, several songs were listed as being part of the Spotlight even though they were played as AT10 Archive songs ("If I Could Turn Back Time" by Cher is the one that I remember off the top of my head. As far as I know, Casey didn't even mention that she was part of Sonny & Cher and had a successful solo career). But last week, I was giving the show my undivided attention, since I was hearing it for the first time (and even though I was really tired, instead of playing video games to stay awake, I got up and ran in place for about five minutes every time I found myself starting to nod off because I was so tired that I would have even fallen asleep playing games).

[richie]

Thanks for clarifying the website. Anyway, I decided that this show really doesn't have an identity. Before, at least the majority of songs were part of a countdown, but now the countdown is almost incidental to the program. So what we have is a real mish-mash.
Also Casey keeps making mistakes. Not his fault if he is just reading a script. Last week after Lou Bega's song he called it AT20, and this week he gave the correct year(1964) before Mary Welles song My Guy, and after it he said it was from 1967. So at least the tradition of making mistakes continues.

[johnnywest]

richie said:

Thanks for clarifying the website.  Also Casey keeps making mistakes.  Not his fault if he is just reading a script.  Last week after Lou Bega's song he called it AT20, and this week he gave the correct year(1964) before Mary Welles song My Guy, and after it he said it was from 1967.  So at least the tradition of making mistakes continues.

It isn't Casey himself with all the errors. There are weekly mistakes on Rick Dees, Dick Clark, AT40 and Backtrax USA. Just last week, Rick said that "Bye Bye Bye" was certified platinum. It wasn't even released as a single.

That's just something that happens in syndicated radio. No biggie.