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Post by Mike on Mar 9, 2021 19:55:24 GMT -5
Thank you for playing the 3-15-2003 Guest Host: Pat O'brien show. i enjoy it so much. By the way i do not know about pat o'briean, please tell me about him. Is he a famous person in the U.S? This can probably give you a better idea than any one of us individually could. Short answer: He's...somewhat known, and arguably was more known around the time he guest-hosted. Doesn't seem to have done much in the past few years, though. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_O%27Brien_(radio_and_television_personality)Write-up will be forthcoming for tonight's show. Wasn't able to tune in this morning, and ultimately I could not for the life of me find a block of time to dedicate to either one last week. My last mention on the previous page is how my one and only real chance at it went badly. I'll get to those when I can (hopefully later this week).
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Post by Mike on Mar 9, 2021 23:45:56 GMT -5
I must say, you picked a dandy of a chart to request this week - and the reasons for that can be found in the first three songs. See, both "Breathe" and "Don't Know Why" are famous (infamous?) among AT40/R&R chart-watchers familiar with this period for both getting full 20-week runs on the R&R chart, but popping in and out of AT40 multiple times since neither one went higher than the 30s. As Pat mentioned, this is the (initial) debut week for "Breathe", while for "Don't Know Why", this is its SECOND re-entry, as after two months (!) away, the Grammy boost allowed Norah to stick around for all this time, ultimately allowing her to punch back in this week. As it turns out, however, this is finally it for her. Kind of funny that it worked out that way, that we got both its (initial) debut week back in November and now its return for one final week right here. And this being "Breathe" 's initial debut week would explain why we get the original version of that song, as opposed to the arguably well-known remix that features Sean Paul. If Wiki is accurate, its physical single release - which has both versions on it - wasn't until two weeks after this show (March 28). So, for all intents and purposes, much like "Girlfriend" in the 2002 show two weeks ago, the remix didn't yet exist. Incidentally, "Breathe" is one of two CD singles that I ended up buying in 2003. The other will be coming up in about a month and a half (at least). Meanwhile, Pat mentioned that both "Big Pimpin' " and "Party Up" had three separate runs. Both of those can be blamed on the switch to the unconfirmed Mediabase chart in October 2000, as had they stayed following R&R strictly, Jay-Z would have only had one single run and DMX would have only had two. The end of Jay-Z's run in R&R overlapped with the start of the unconfirmed chart period, while DMX had gone recurrent shortly before. (So at the very least, DMX should not have been able to be put back, I'd say.) As it stands, when DMX was "put back" by the chart change, that turned out to be just one last week for him, while Jay-Z returned, fell out again, returned again, then fell out for the third and final time. ODD BULLET BEHAVIOR: Quite a bit of explanations to go with these this week, so...let's do a list. - The first seven songs in the countdown were all bulleted, thus Vi-3 were pushed backward one with a not-that-big spin gain (+77). That said, a good share of blame can fall on the week's highest debut TLC, who also debuted on the entire R&R chart at #34 with the week's third-biggest spin gain (+788), as well as the week's Biggest Mover Daniel Bedingfield, who was riding the week's fourth-biggest spin gain (+662).
- Two recurrents this week ("The Game of Love" and "Your Body is a Wonderland") along with a relatively small spin loss carry "Jenny From the Block" back up two.
- An even smaller spin loss for "Country Girl" couldn't stop that from going up one due to larger triple-digit losses for the two that immediately preceded it ("She Hates Me" and "Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous").
- "Landslide" gets pushed back two while clinging to the smallest bullet on the chart (+23). But don't get any ideas just yet - while, in real time, Natalie Maines's ill-fated speak-out was just 5 days before this show, the resulting backlash would take a few weeks to surface on the charts and in the countdown, as this week's chart covers the airplay week of February 23 to March 1. They'd lose their bullet just next week (March 2-8) - essentially, they'd already peaked. The backlash IS why the song disappeared so quickly, but it's not why the song stopped at #12.
- "All the Things She Said" has a not-particularly-large triple-digit spin gain (+170), not nearly enough to hold off the week's biggest spin-gainer ("In Da Club", +1238) from flying right by.
For these spin gainers, and more, such as how the Top 11 look a lot like a difficult staircase to climb compared to most of the rest of the chart: worldradiohistory.com/Archive-RandR/2000s/2003/RR-2003-03-07.pdf#page=56GOING NOWHERE FAST: "Hidden Agenda". In the last 2003 show, it tied for the week's Biggest Mover (40-31). Now, he slides five notches from his #28 peak with the week's third-biggest spin loss (-634). The biggest spin loss belongs to a dropper, "Pretty Baby" (-770), which also had the biggest fall on the entire chart (33-45). MUSICAL MIX-TERPIECE: What do you get when you cross the two songs in the third segment of Hour 1 ("Unwell" and "Damaged")? You get: The last song in Hour 1, "Stuck"! Say what? Yes - Stacie Orrico's "Stuck" was jointly produced by Matt Serletic (Matchbox Twenty's longtime producer) and Dallas Austin (one of a few with a long history with TLC). "I Drove All Night" is the song that nearly sets the boundaries for the AT40 Pop countdowns here - originally a hit in 1989, about 9 months into the Shadoe Stevens era, it comes back here in 2003, with about that same length of time left to go in Casey's second run. The two won't quite overlap, though, as Celine falls off in April, while Cyndi won't debut until mid-May. A footnote on "Ordinary World" at #1: On Shadoe's AT40, its weeks at #1 were: February 13, February 20, all four weeks of March, and April 3. On CT40, it was just the first two weeks of March. Alas, it's another week with a song requested only for its title - in this case, "Time of Your Life", which is not exactly a happy song. I'd say the song that would have fit better for her dedication sentiment would have been "(I've Had) The Time of My Life" (from Dirty Dancing, no less), yes? FUN TIMES WITH DANCING MUSIC: Ah, yes...the very next song, "Blowin' Me Up (With Her Love)". 2002-03 was my senior year, and one of my favorite memories is requesting that song at a Sadie Hawkins dance. Well...it wasn't just requesting the song, heh - I made the most of when they did play it. 2 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK: Possible sneak preview for next week? I'd wonder if 10 Years Ago was too except that even if we will get 1993, I suspect it won't be 3/13. And why yes, "Lose Yourself", playing now as I type this as the first song following the show, did just go recurrent off R&R the week before.
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Post by saltyhylian on Mar 10, 2021 0:52:39 GMT -5
3/15/03 insight (lots to get into): *Former Access Hollywood host Pat O’Brien fills for Kasem this week. He filled-in three times during early 2003 (this was his final appearance). *Blu Cantrell’s “Breathe” debuts at #40. It is the second of three tracks that year with that same name, after a previous track appeared exactly a month prior ( and it didn’t last long). This one also had an interesting run ( It surpassed “Sexual” as the most inconsistent track on the pop chart, as it came and went then came and went again TWICE!!!!!). Also note that it’s not the version featuring Sean Paul (although I’m not certain on which version any of the main affiliates used the most on their spins during it’s run). *Norah Jones’ “Don’t Know Why” (#38) re-entered the chart for the third time (thanks to the song winning a Grammy for Record of the Year, which briefly caused a resurgence), joining the "3rd Time’s A Charm Club”. It fell out the next week. As someone said, it had a long, strange run (peaked at #35). *VI3’s “Eyes Closed So Tight” falls to #37 after debuting and peaking at #36 the last week. It was the group’s first and only Top 40 track, as they broke up a few weeks later due to one member pursuing a solo career. *Lucy Woodward’s “Dumb Girls” moves up 1 to #36, after debuting the last week at #37. Kasem told a piece on Lucy’s childhood and career beginnings on that last week. *”Damaged” (#34) was TLC’s last Top 40 track to date. It is also their first single without Lisa ‘Left Eye” Lopes, who died on April 2002. *So they looped back to the 2nd verse of Jennifer Lopez’ “Jenny From The Block” (#30) AFTER the third verse. Interesting. *"I Drove All Night (#28) was Céline Dion’s last Top 40 track to date. It is also a cover of the 1989 Cyndi Lauper song. *Boomkat’s ”The Wreckoning” moves up 1 to #24. Boomkat was a duo consisting of actress Taryn Manning (best known for the role of “Pennsatucky” from the Netflix series Orange Is The New Black) and her brother Kellin. *”Miss You” (#22) was Aaliyah’s final Top 40 track after her tragic 2001 death. I believe it was the third posthumously released track on the AT40 chart during the Second Kasem Era (after Tupac Shakur’s “Changes” appeared and peaked at #40 in 1999 then Aaliyah’s last track, “More Than A Woman” debuted seven months after her death, in April 2002). *DF Dub’s (KISS 96.1’s Billy The Kidd) “Country Girl” reached it’s peak at #19. O’Brien tells a piece on Kidd’s success on the Detroit hip-hop scene, after receiving pointers from Kid Rock. *Dixie Chicks’ “Landslide” falls 2 to #14, after peaking at #12 the last week. Out of all the covers on AT40, this one might be the best yet. *Note how O’Brien mentions “Soul Train” the same way as fans of the syndicated shows do.
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Post by Mike on Mar 10, 2021 1:39:31 GMT -5
*Former Access Hollywood host Pat O’Brien fills for Kasem this week. He filled-in three times during early 2003 (this was his final appearance). Still current as of this show - he left in 2004. But with Ryan Seacrest getting the next four guest host spots in 2003, I wonder if these were sort of tryouts? Ryan's, at the least, are said to be. Hence why this week's chart is a dandy - it's the one and only week where these two overlapped. As I noted above, the remix wouldn't have been out yet, but as to who played what, this I wouldn't have insight into. I think my station...maybe played it a handful of times and that's it? This would have been late in its run, with the version featuring Sean Paul. No, my exposure to this song came instead in the form of the MTV Hits channel (which I referred to two weeks ago for the 1994 show). Somewhere not long after this point in the year, I discovered the channel as part of the cable package we had here at home at the time. We had it until sometime in 2005.
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Post by adam31 on Mar 10, 2021 3:38:32 GMT -5
Thank you for playing the 3-15-2003 Guest Host: Pat O'brien show. i enjoy it so much. By the way i do not know about pat o'briean, please tell me about him. Is he a famous person in the U.S? Glad you enjoyed it, thanks for the request and to Mike for the wikipedia link. Pat O' Brien started being known nationally as a sports reporter (believe it or not) for CBS Sports. At the time of his AT40 hosting gig, he was a main entertainment reporter for the syndicated show "Access Hollywood", later on he did was discovered for having done some controversial things, especially calling women and leaving "interesting" phone messages. From what I read, he was one of the top contenders for taking over American Top 40 after Casey Kasem would leave the show for the 2nd time. We all know now Ryan Seacrest got the job and considering what would happen for Pat over the next 5 years, a good choice in foresight. I personally think he did a pretty good job on his guest hosting gigs, kind of dry, but did throw in some personality.
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Post by at40fansince1984 on Mar 10, 2021 4:29:04 GMT -5
Not mentioned was I'd forgotten how much of a jam Ginuwine feat Baby's Hell Yeah was. I can also tell Norah why she didn't come it's because listening to her dull song made him so impotent that Viagra wouldn't even work. Also Jenny From The Block still reminds me of this.
It also REALLY needs those verses from Jadakiss & Styles P instead of repeating the verse of her singing.
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Post by Mike on Mar 10, 2021 7:33:47 GMT -5
Pat was very much a soundalike of Ed McMann - though probably, knowing what he'd already done in his career to this point helped to distinguish the two.
If there's one thing I'd fault them both for, it's that they could easily sound monotonous (not much depth to either one's tone). Things like Souuuuuuuuuuul Train! do help to combat that, though.
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Post by adam31 on Mar 10, 2021 8:01:35 GMT -5
Pat was very much a soundalike of Ed McMann - though probably, knowing what he'd already done in his career to this point helped to distinguish the two. If there's one thing I'd fault them both for, it's that they could easily sound monotonous (not much depth to either one's tone). Things like Souuuuuuuuuuul Train! do help to combat that, though. I admit I liked that, and the forced mention of "Big Pimpin'" during the intro to Norah Jones on songs that had returned to the chart 3 times. Casey's favorite mentioned title I can recall.
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Post by tokyoguy2021 on Mar 10, 2021 9:06:04 GMT -5
Thank you Mike and Adam for the detailed explanation and information. It was very interesting content. I did not know about Pat O'brien was one of the top contenders for taking over American Top 40 after Casey Kasem would leave the show for the 2nd time. And Pat was the host of Access Hollywood.
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Post by Mike on Mar 16, 2021 6:24:24 GMT -5
Let's try 3/6/99 again... And the best way to preface this one is to just post the chart link to start with, because you'll need it to follow the action properly here: worldradiohistory.com/Archive-RandR/1990s/1999/RR-1999-02-26.pdf#page=41For starters, the bottom of the countdown became insanely competitive, with spin levels much higher than they'd usually be. Monifah's 12-notch plunge is actually quite deceptive, as in fact she lost less spins this week than either of the previous two. Unfortunately, the next ten songs above her (39-30) are a solid wall of bullets. Which leads right into... ODD BULLET BEHAVIOR: And this is just all over the place this week! First up, no less than FOUR of those ten all go backward: "Special" (38-39), "Malibu" (36-38), "Nobody's Supposed to Be Here" (30-34), and "Run" (31-33). Now, it should be noted that Hole were clinging to the smallest bullet on the entire chart (just +11), but the other three all had triple-digit spin gains - and yet that wasn't enough to stave off the triple whammy that were this week's three superstar debuts, especially TLC, whose +1014 was the second-biggest spin gain on the entire chart. How else do you explain the previous week's Biggest Mover, Deborah Cox, going 39-30-34?? That 34-30 stretch is completely cutthroat - you have Collective Soul moving ahead of Deborah, only for B*Witched to move ahead of them, only for Everlast to move ahead of them, only for TLC to fly past the whole lot! Then, we get to Hour 3 and three of the first five songs each go up one bulletless notch: "Pretty Fly (For a White Guy)", "Take Me There", and "Unsent", despite losing -199, -348, and -242, respectively. BUT: This is largely driven by the seven-notch drop of "It's All Been Done" (which also has the week's biggest spin loss, -965) and the two-notch drop of another bigger spin-loser, "Hands" (-653). That being said - for 1994 the week before this, I pointed out how the bottom half of the countdown had not very many bulleted songs, whereas the top half easily had more. This week's chart flips that script, as 15 of the bottom 20 are bulleted, whereas just 7 of the Top 20 are. Also in the wall of ten was "Luv Me, Luv Me" - and if the R&R archive is fully accurate, this would be the one and only week in his long and slow decline where Shaggy managed to regain spins. (I say "if it's accurate" because there are some weeks for some songs where bullet status - the chart position having a bolded number - isn't properly indicated.) Elsewhere, "Kiss Me" goes up just two notches in the 20s despite having the week's 4th biggest spin gain (+687). That's a side effect of the previous week's chart - Monifah, at #28 last week, was really at the top of a heap of songs fairly close together consisting of roughly the first third of the countdown (40-28), with a spin gap just over 600 behind the very next song (#27). Well, this week Sixpence had to cross that gap just to try and get anywhere! Then again, that didn't stop the song that was both the week's Biggest Mover AND biggest spin gainer - "The Animal Song", up 34-24 and gaining +1102. Speaking of that song, I originally wasn't that fond of it when it was out, but it sounds much better as part of their album Affirmation. For two recent Shadoe shows - 2/18/89 and 3/2/91 - I mentioned how other hits would likely have been #1 outright had Billboard not still been relying on written reports. The first America's Top Hit, "You Got It" - I can't say for sure that that would also have been #1 outright instead, but at a minimum, it probably would have been bigger than peaking just inside the Top 10, as it was a very rare hit that crossed over TO the Country chart, reaching #7 there. I'd like to think that a #7 Country hit, #2 Album Rock hit, and #1 Adult Contemporary hit - which it was - would have fared better under an all-format ranking than just #9 on the Hot 100. Incidentally, Bonnie Raitt's 1995 cover completely overlaps with Roy's original in terms of time of the year, though hers didn't last as long as his. But speaking of 2/18/89 - why yes, two of America's Top Hits this week were two of that week's 3 debuts. Had "Brick" been the final America's Top Hit this week instead of the second, then it would perhaps have been an answer to the question posed in the very next song at #2, "Slide". FOLLOWING AN UPTEMPO WITH A GODD@MNED DEATH DEDICATION: They commit that Cardinal Sin here in the form of "No Scrubs" leading into the "Tears in Heaven" LDD. EVEN WORSE? Following "Tears in Heaven", Eric Clapton's own dedication to his young son Conor who'd died in a fall from his apartment, with "Father of Mine", Art Alexakis's anguish about his absent father not being there for him. (That being said, had we gotten 3/20/99 followed by 3/28/98, then we'd have gotten...a little closer to matching subject, as Eric Clapton never actually met his biological father.*) WHO MAKES THIS JUNK? Because I don't know what else to conclude after that head-scratching Hour 2. For God knows whatever reason, they put two LDDs in that hour instead of one, and it led to a bevy of second-verse cuts, no less than six countdown songs in that hour. It's the first AT40 from this or any era with two in one hour, but not too long ago I also heard a CT40 with two R&Ds in a single hour (2/1/92). In the meantime, this may be the first show in this era to have 3 LDDs and not have the third one be in the final hour - 5/23/98 also doesn't have one in the final hour, but apparently that one was supposed to, only for it to be edited out for whatever reason. (I say it "may" be, because I haven't heard 1/9, 1/16, 1/23, 2/6, 2/20, or 2/27 - though I wouldn't necessarily place a strong bet on it being the case for any one of those. ) And somehow I'd be willing to bet that Dionne "#1 Pop Hit of 1995" Farris (of the final America's Top Hit) was the one having the last laugh when people told her her ideas were crazy. (Granted it didn't last, but it's still only an elite group - as it were - who get to have #1 singles of a given year.) *With 3/28/98 kicking off the second AT40 era, that's also the only week that particular back-to-back can happen, since Everclear fell out on 3/27/99.
Coming up: This morning's 2001.
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Post by Mike on Mar 16, 2021 11:30:59 GMT -5
DEJA VU: Some links to 1999 that I finally finished up right before this - producer Don Was (of "Too Little Too Late"), whose venture from making his own music to producing others' was told for "Walk the Dinosaur" as an America's Top Hit there. "Every Morning", which was closing in on becoming the Top Hit in the USA. And "Angel of Mine", which of course was in the 1999 countdown. But speaking of Sugar Ray... QUIT YOUR DAY JOB: Probably the best advice that can be given to the palm reader who told them that one hit would be the best they'd ever do. And that's a nice touch to use that story in conjunction with their second hit. But going back to artists moving from their own music to others' for a moment, apparently "Broken Promises" was co-written by Dino (who we haven't heard from in a bit, not since "Romeo" and "Gentle" in the late 1990 shows a few months back). And sticking with late 1990, on 11/3 we also heard Soho's "Hippychick", which combines a sample from "How Soon is Now?" by The Smiths with a Soul II Soul rhythm. I swear, that same combined rhythm - or else a damn-near soundalike - can also be heard in "Southside", but for whatever reason it's not credited. That voiceover guy on the Rate The Music ads sounds a lot like a guy who'd also voice different liners for the station in my area at this time (which was owned by Citadel by this point). My station also played a shorter version of "Ride Wit Me", without City Spud. SO THE DRAMA: Requesting "How Do I Live" for a friend who'll be an exchange student for just a few months...would seem to be overdoing it just a tad, amirite? "Stutter" won't change over to the Double Take Remix (so named for a movie it appeared in) until either 5/5 or shortly before - the original, heard here, is also in 4/7. Another week where Casey didn't read the droppers. Those were: "Storybook Life" by Blessid Union of Souls (LW: 40, 1 week on) and "It Wasn't Me" by Shaggy featuring RikRok (LW: 15, 19 weeks on, "recurrent"). Though this chart didn't have a "formal" recurrent rule, there really isn't any other possible explanation for leaving the countdown from that high up. BOTH THREE SIDES OF THE STORY: "Stutter", "The Call", "Follow Me". Anyone else see the common theme there? In "Free", is Mya looking for a man, or a very specific mold? As "free" as she claims to be in the song, she also seems to have strict requirements for what she's looking for there... On another note, I suspect this was the album version of the song, as it definitely sounded different from what I remember from 2001. And it's the second song in this week's survey to be associated with a not-exactly-successful film - her near-opening line, "you see the bait?" is a reference to parent film, Bait (a Jamie Foxx movie). GOING NOWHERE FAST: "You Make Me Sick". In our last 2001 show, that was going up two to #15. Now, it's going DOWN two to that same mark... FREUDIAN SLIP: This was not the 6th week at #6 for "Don't Tell Me", only the 4th. (And in any case, that only goes for 5 weeks there, not 6.) And if the melody of "Angel" sounds familiar, you can hear the song it's taken from this weekend courtesy of Premiere. (Talking about "Angel of the Morning" of course, at #26 on 3/21/81.)
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Post by saltyhylian on Mar 16, 2021 13:21:43 GMT -5
3/17/01 insight (added the R&R positions on select tracks this week since we’re still on that weird chart):
*Coldplay’s “Yellow” debuts at #40. Kasem, like many others, incorrectly stated that the band were based in Scotland (they’re actually based in London).
*”Too Little Too Late” (#39; #36 on R&R) was Barenaked Ladies’ last Top 40 track to date.
*Canadian singer Sarina Paris’ “Look at Us” moves up 1 to #38 (#45 on R&R). Apparently, she wasn’t happy when it blew up in Italy (where she was based in at that time) because her vocals were computerized by the producers. She eventually embraced it.
*”Broken Promises” (#36; #37 on R&R) was Tonya Mitchell’s first and only Top 40 track. Had no idea who she was (like pretty much anyone else at the time) but I did hear that she was pretty “immature” behind the scenes and also had a tendency of being on the phone constantly during fan meet-and-greets. Also, the track had basically very little to no promotion so this one might have just been picked up by affiliates, possibly via word of mouth from a Memphis area CHR station (where Tonya lived). She retired a year later after the death of her father.
*Daft Punk’s “One More Time” holds at #34. Still shocked that they just split up. It would also be their first and (for 12 years) only AT40 appearance.
*Joe’s “Stutter” moves up #6 to #26 (#32 on R&R). This was the original version and not the more widely-played Mystikal remix (Kasem would not play it until a bit later on).
*The Corrs’ “Breathless” moves up 1 to #24. This appeared 6 months ago (and peaked at #39) and then re-entered 30 days from this show (similar to “Candy” a year ago that date). How it resurged, I have no idea.
*Janet Jackson’s ”All For You” is the weeks highest debut....at #23!!!!! (debuted as a breaker track on R&R at #27). That track went pretty high pretty quickly.
*Mya’s “Free” moves up 2 to #18. Been looking for years for this specific version Kasem initially played seeing that it was a different mix from the album/video (it was later uploaded on streaming services as the “Ricco version”).
*”Never Had a Dream Come True (#16) was S Club 7’s first and only U.S. pop hit, feeding off the success of their Fox Family (now Freeform) shows.
*Cant forget one of my personal favorite tracks: Dream’s “He Loves You Not” (#7; #9 on R&R). Small segue to that next week: They would debut their follow up, “This Is Me” (#44 on R&R that week).
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Post by at40fansince1984 on Mar 16, 2021 16:46:43 GMT -5
I think she was a little more than "friends (lovers maybe)" in her How Do I Live LDD but yeah anything to give a dull song another play much live having to play Celine Dion's dreadful Because You Loved Me as a ATH AGAIN & could that Corrs song sound any more like Shania Twain I guess we know why Mutt Lange produced it.
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Post by laura on Mar 16, 2021 17:57:59 GMT -5
That voiceover guy on the Rate The Music ads sounds a lot like a guy who'd also voice different liners for the station in my area at this time (which was owned by Citadel by this point). "Stutter" won't change over to the Double Take Remix (so named for a movie it appeared in) until either 5/5 or shortly before - the original, heard here, is also in 4/7. I'm pretty sure he also did the liners for 94.5 KSMB, which was the CHR station in my area, and they were also a Citadel-owned station I believe. From what I recall, the remix of "Stutter" they would eventually switch too didn't feature Mystikal and the ending was slightly different from the one that featured him. *Daft Punk’s “One More Time” holds at #34. Still shocked that they just split up. It would also be their first and (for 12 years) only AT40 appearance. *Cant forget one of my personal favorite tracks: Dream’s “He Loves You Not” (#7; #9 on R&R). Small segue to that next week: They would debut their follow up, “This Is Me” (#44 on R&R that week). If you count the credit they got for Kanye West's "Stronger" because they were sampled on that song, then it would just be six years. That's one of my personal favorites too! I strongly remember buying that CD. It also had a cover of New Edition's "Mr. Telephone Man".
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Post by Mike on Mar 16, 2021 19:20:55 GMT -5
I'm pretty sure he also did the liners for 94.5 KSMB, which was the CHR station in my area, and they were also a Citadel-owned station I believe. Wiki says they were, in fact apparently they bought both our stations close together in time. (WIOG was bought in a multi-station transaction at the end of 1998, KSMB was bought in 1999.) From what I recall, the remix of "Stutter" they would eventually switch too didn't feature Mystikal and the ending was slightly different from the one that featured him. I'd have to double-check the shows I have RE: the song ending, but basically it sounded like the remix that there was (the Double Take) - just with Mystikal's r-a-p cut.
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Post by at40fansince1984 on Mar 16, 2021 20:15:27 GMT -5
Did AT40 2.0, AT10 or AT20 ever have theme music for the 2nd 3rd & 4th hours or did they all start with a cold Casey opening?
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Post by laura on Mar 16, 2021 20:37:18 GMT -5
Did AT40 2.0, AT10 or AT20 ever have theme music for the 2nd 3rd & 4th hours or did they all start with a cold Casey opening? Besides 2.0 having that "Countin' down the hits with Casey Kasem" bumper at the end of the first three hours, no.
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Post by saltyhylian on Mar 16, 2021 21:38:43 GMT -5
In "Free", is Mya looking for a man, or a very specific mold? As "free" as she claims to be in the song, she also seems to have strict requirements for what she's looking for there... On another note, I suspect this was the album version of the song, as it definitely sounded different from what I remember from 2001. And it's the second song in this week's survey to be associated with a not-exactly-successful film - her near-opening line, "you see the bait?" is a reference to parent film, Bait (a Jamie Foxx movie). It's not. This was a refined version (assuming for pop radio) which was hard to find until Spotify, Napster, etc. added it to a revised version of Fear of Flying not too long ago (which is labeled the Ricco Version). The album/soundtrack version is longer and sounded a bit different.
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Post by Mike on Mar 16, 2021 21:54:20 GMT -5
Oh, super - so there's three versions out there?
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Post by adam31 on Mar 17, 2021 10:37:26 GMT -5
Did AT40 2.0, AT10 or AT20 ever have theme music for the 2nd 3rd & 4th hours or did they all start with a cold Casey opening? Besides 2.0 having that "Countin' down the hits with Casey Kasem" bumper at the end of the first three hours, no. The open for the hours just sounds cold here because I choose to include America's top hits at the end of every hour if available (2 at end of first hour, 1 at end of 2nd and 3rd, and 1 before #1). It originally sounded as a rolling jingle at the top of the hours to supposedly increase quarter hour ratings by not having an ad break there.
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Post by saltyhylian on Mar 18, 2021 3:19:21 GMT -5
I was digging on previous R&R issues after typing the Tonya Mitchell piece for my insight of the 3/17/01 show and stumbled upon this: This was from the 2/2/01 issue (apparently it got Most Added that week)
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Post by laura on Mar 18, 2021 15:36:20 GMT -5
I was digging on previous R&R issues after typing the Tonya Mitchell piece for my insight of the 3/17/01 show and stumbled upon this: This was from the 2/2/01 issue (apparently it got Most Added that week) View AttachmentOh hey KSMB added it that week it looks like.
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Post by Mike on Mar 19, 2021 4:30:12 GMT -5
I don't think WIOG ever played it outside of maybe specialized programming. (During the 2000s, there'd be an hour-long program that aired on weekends that focused exclusively on new music called "Airbound", but I don't remember what year that started.)
2001 would be quite an interesting year for the station musically, though, as it seems like that year more than any other, they picked up on songs that weren't getting much airplay elsewhere. I mentioned that one of the droppers this week was "Storybook Life" by Blessid Union - they didn't play that, but for whatever reason, did play the follow-up single "That's the Girl I've Been Telling You About" quite a bit for a couple of months. Before she competed on American Idol, Carly Hennessy (her married name being Smithson) released an album on MCA, and from that they played "I'm Gonna Blow Your Mind". Jennifer Paige's last R&R chart appearance to date was with the song "These Days" - they played that. Canadian Crapper Jelleestone would later reach #42 in R&R with "Money (Part 1)" - they played that.
These are just a few examples. At least some, such as Blessid Union, Carly, and Jelleestone, did also coincide with the respective acts being a part of their Lizard Fair concert (one of WIOG's positioners at the time being the "Party Lizard"), but I don't think that was quite true in all cases.
Having said this, they didn't seem to get musically "adventurous", so to speak, until about May or so.
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Post by saltyhylian on Mar 19, 2021 11:22:56 GMT -5
Apparently, WAYV added “Broken Promises” on 2/16 (the week it debuted at #49 on CHR/Pop) but I don’t even remember it being played as much. If I were to guess, WAYV might have played it mostly on their night owl playlist (12am-5am).
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Post by laura on Mar 19, 2021 11:36:26 GMT -5
I think I remember them playing "Broken Promises" on KSMB a bit, but it was probably more during the night where they would play more of the lower-charting stuff more often than in the mornings. They also had Airbound every Sunday morning before the Fox Family (or Fox All Access) Countdown, which played before AT40. I also remember hearing "Storybook Life" quite a bit on there so I was shocked that it only lasted a week on AT40.
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Post by Mike on Mar 19, 2021 11:47:11 GMT -5
The fact that it hit AT40 at all is a testament to the different chart being used - it stopped at #44 in R&R, one of a handful of songs to hit the countdown in late 2000/2001 but only reach the 40s in R&R.
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Post by at40fansince1984 on Mar 19, 2021 12:42:25 GMT -5
I was digging on previous R&R issues after typing the Tonya Mitchell piece for my insight of the 3/17/01 show and stumbled upon this: This was from the 2/2/01 issue (apparently it got Most Added that week) View AttachmentI wonder if the album (in stores Spring 2001) is still awaiting release in Spring 2021?
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Post by Mike on Mar 19, 2021 17:56:03 GMT -5
Apparently it was in fact released on April 10, 2001.
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Post by at40fansince1984 on Mar 19, 2021 18:26:06 GMT -5
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Post by saltyhylian on Mar 20, 2021 12:40:27 GMT -5
Apparently it was in fact released on April 10, 2001. Yep. The album (called “I Represent”) is even available on Spotify, Apple, Napster, etc. to this day. Only $15 too for a relic! May just pick this one up.
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