AT10 - 5/29/04

[Hervard]

LC TC SONG/ARTIST
02 01 First Cut Is The Deepest/Sheryl Crow (9 weeks)
01 02 White Flag/Dido
03 03 100 Years/Five For Fighting
06 04 This One's For The Girls/Martina McBride
04 05 You Raise Me Up/Josh Groban
05 06 Forever And For Always/Shania Twain
07 07 Ain't No Mountain High Enough/Michael McDonald
08 08 Love's Divine/Seal
09 09 Calling All Angels/Train
10 10 Drift Away/Uncle Kracker f/Dobie Gray

AT10 Extras:
Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now/McFadden & Whitehead
Carribbean Queen (No More Love On The Run)/Billy Ocean
Take Me Home Tonight/Eddie Money f/Ronnie Spector
You May Be Right/Billy Joel

Long Distance Dedications:
Wind Beneath My Wings/Bette Midler
Every Breath You Take/The Police

AT10 Archives:
1965: My Girl/The Temptations
1971: You've Got A Friend/James Taylor
1971: Maggie May/Rod Stewart
1978: Last Dance/Donna Summer
1984: Time After Time/Cyndi Lauper
1987: Always/Atlantic Starr
1988: Red Red Wine/UB40
1990: Hold On/Wilson Phillips
1999: Strong Enough/Cher
1999: I Need To Know/Marc Anthony
1999: Kiss Me/Sixpence None The Richer

AT10 Spotlight: (Artists who have since passed on)
Something/The Beatles (George Harrison on lead)
Let's Get It On/Marvin Gaye
Operator (That's Not The Way It Feels)/Jim Croce
You Got It/Roy Orbison
I Could Fall In Love/Selena
How Deep Is Your Love/The Bee Gees (Maurice Gibb)

Kind of a surprise that they were generous with the AT10 Archive songs, yet there were only six songs by artists who have passed on. What about Harry Chapin or Robert Palmer or Elvis Presley or others who have passed away? Maybe they'll do this spotlight feature again before long, because I imagine they're sort of running out of ideas.
It was appropriate for them to choose Memorial Day weekend to feature artists who are no longer with us, since we're remembering war veterans who gave their lives to help save our country. It's been awhile since I've heard Jim Croce's "Operator" (and I know of at least one guy on these boards who loves that song a lot) and "Let's Get It On". I've heard "How Deep Is Your Love" and "Something" quite frequently in the past few months, but that's because I have a tape with both of those songs on it.
They sure were keen on 1999 for the archive feature, as they did that year three times. 1999 wasn't even that good of a year (but that's my opinion). They're still doing songs from the 1960s and even did two from 1971. They cut out the second verse of "Maggie May" (hmm, didn't AT10/AT20 used to loop songs instead?), but that's OK; it's not like I never hear that song anymore).
As for the countdown, well, surprise, surprise - no new songs. The bottom part of the chart has no movement whatsoever. The top part of the chart is rather interesting (well, by A/C standards, anyway). Martina McBride, who practically fell out of the chart about a month ago, breaks into the Top Five with "This One's For The Girls", the biggest mover of this week (which Casey didn't mention, probably because it was only up two spots). Could this song be a future number one song? I think it has a shot. I actually like the song (especially the line "Living on dreams and Spaghettios". A shameless plug for Franco American, perhaps?)
Well, let's hope that Lionel Richie or someone else is able to break into the Top Ten next week! I mean, we all know it ain't gonna happen, but we can dream, can't we?

[richie]

On the AT10 website(Rob Durkee's) the spotlight is called
Rock & Roll Heaven. I actually had this idea about 3 years ago and contacted the now-defunct Oldies Countdown about having one of their specials playing songs by artists who had died, and playing it on Memorial Day Weekend. I even said they could call it Rock & Roll Heaven. They e-mailed me back, and said they would never use the idea, but thanked me for listening. Perhaps because they thought it was too morbid, or that strictly speaking like ulij20 said Memorial Day is to honor the war dead.
Anyway, I wonder if somebody who now works for AT10 remembered my idea, or if it was independent. I was very surprised, in either case.
The song Rock and Roll Heaven could even have been played now that Bobby Hatfield of the Righteous Brothers
died last year.
One more thing: I didn't listen to the whole show, but Casey seems to be pointing out the fact that they are playing hits from the past and the present.

[chebingeo]

Ain't No Stopping Us Now could've qualified since Whitehead died earlier this month.

[johnnywest]

ulij20 said:

Kind of a surprise that they were generous with the AT10 Archive songs, yet there were only six songs by artists who have passed on.  What about Harry Chapin or Robert Palmer or Elvis Presley

I'm guessing that Elvis Presely doesn't have any songs that are being played at AC stations (gotta keep those stuffy PDs from having a hissy fit). The only one I can think of that Harry Chapin has that's AC-friendly is "Cats In The Cradle," and I know that AT20 (AC) used to play it every so often when the show was airing here. Has Casey played it recently?

[Michael1973]

He played it within the last two weeks.