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| sriv94 MusicFan  Joined: 16September2005 |
me give you the long drawn-out story. Grab yourself a beverage. :) Over the Labor Day weekend, SiriusXM's 70s on 7 channel did a listener-voted countdown of the Top 1000 of I start work, I'm moving along at a really good clip (taking an all-70s playlist I have and working from So the question is this--does anyone know who handles the programming for SiriusXM 70s on 7 so I can at Thx! Edited by sriv94 on 08September2022 at 8:50pm __________________ | ||||
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| eriejwg MusicFan Joined: 10June2007 |
WLS-FM a few years ago and is on 70s on 7 now, is pretty active on Facebook. You may want to reach out to him directly and he might be able to find out for you. __________________ | ||||
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| sriv94 MusicFan Joined: 16September2005 |
eriejwg wrote: Ron Parker, who did afternoons at WLS-FM a few years ago and is on 70s on 7 now, is That's an idea. And I am friends with him on the Book of Face. Thx! __________________ | ||||
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| Paul C MusicFan Joined: 23October2006 |
Ray Charles, which won the 1975 R&B Male Vocal Grammy (#91 Hot 100, #22 R&B)? | ||||
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| sriv94 MusicFan Joined: 16September2005 |
Paul C wrote: Might one of them actually be the superb 1975 version by Ray Charles, which won the 1975 R&B Male Vocal Grammy (#91 Hot 100, #22 R&B)? I would seriously doubt it. Thats a deep cut even for them. :) __________________ | ||||
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| Scanner MusicFan Joined: 14August2019 |
I always marvel how that song is never included in any '70s retrospectives that are not determined objectively (e.g. charts, record sales). I was stunned when I watched "The Year In Music" for 1977 on AXS-TV and they did not even mention the song - they even listed the year's biggest Grammy winners and only noted "Evergreen" as Song Of The Year. The fact that this was the only time two songs tied for the award would have been worth noting "Light" for that reason alone. | ||||
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| sriv94 MusicFan Joined: 16September2005 |
Scanner wrote: Did "You Light Up My Life" rank at all on this countdown? Yes. 450. It was listener-voted, so make from that what you will. Edited by sriv94 on 08September2022 at 8:30pm __________________ | ||||
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| Hykker MusicFan Joined: 30October2007 |
sriv94 wrote: It was listener-voted, so make from that what you will. Uhhhh, yeah. | ||||
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| torcan MusicFan Joined: 23June2006 |
Hykker wrote: sriv94 wrote: It was listener-voted, so Back in the 70s I worked for a station that did a couple There wasn't fudging just on these all-time lists, but Here in Toronto, both CHUM and CFTR published weekly When I was in college. one of my instructors was a former | ||||
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| NightAire MusicFan Joined: 20February2010 |
Filled in one night in 1990 for the night jock on my local top 40. They did a "Top 8 At Eight" every weeknight. Asked where the log of requests were so I could start totaling them up. Was LAUGHED at, told we couldn't trust requests (partially true), and shown how listener input influenced but didn't determine the nightly countdown: "That song wouldn't have fallen from here to there, so we'll only move it a space or two. This song doesn't fit our format even though it got enough requests to land on the charts. We're wanting to see how many people will start reporting they like this song so we're putting it on the countdown every night..." I left the studio that night even more disillusioned than I had been before (which I didn't think was possible). (FWIW, when I survey people for my internet station every week, I'm ACTUALLY counting each vote and ACTUALLY playing songs more or less often based on the votes of my listener advisory board... 12 listeners who tell me each week what they think. That's why I think I can win, because I know broadcast stations DON'T do that. They think they're "smarter" than the listener. Sad, really.) __________________ | ||||
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| Scanner MusicFan Joined: 14August2019 |
how much these listener voted countdowns deviate from what actually occurred on the charts and was heard on the radio back when. I appreciate time does not age all songs the same. "Physical" was is in the midst of its ten week reign atop the Billboard Hot 100 when Journey's "Don't Stop Believing" peaked at No. 9. Yet, it is Journey that 40 years later is played and streamed more often than most current songs! | ||||
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| AdvprosD MusicFan Joined: 12June2020 |
I ended up at Debby Boone school one night at a wedding. Seems I was having a bit of trouble reading the room at a gig. One near-teen came up to me a couple times and requested "You Light Up My Life" more than once. I was figuring that a bad night couldn't get much worse after a few requests. So, Still to this day, I can't understand what was working with Debby. This group was at least two generations behind the music. __________________ | ||||
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| sriv94 MusicFan Joined: 16September2005 |
Records Landecker (one of the greatest of all time) couldn't stand the song, so he hatched a brilliant idea to play the song and keep his sanity. He had the engineer divide the song into twelve 17-second increments, and then he'd play each increment during the course of his four-hour show (he called it "The Debby Boone Installment Plan"). Edited by sriv94 on 12September2022 at 8:43am __________________ | ||||
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| Santi Paradoa MusicFan Joined: 17February2009 |
Installment Plan"). So is there a link somewhere online that takes us to the entire list for this countdown? __________________ | ||||
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| eriejwg MusicFan Joined: 10June2007 |
The only link to the list I found is on Reddit. The link https://www.reddit.com/r/70smusic/comments/x5dabw/siriusxm_ __________________ | ||||
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| Santi Paradoa MusicFan Joined: 17February2009 |
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| Hykker MusicFan Joined: 30October2007 |
AdvprosD wrote: One near-teen came up to me a couple times and requested "You Light Up My Life" more than once. I was figuring that a bad night couldn't get much worse after a few requests. So, I played it, and while I was expecting to be shot by the younger crowd, (Which also greatly outnumbered the older ones), the floor filled all the way up! Still to this day, I can't understand what was working with Debby. This group was at least two generations behind the The song was #1 for 10 weeks in 1977...clearly a lot of somebodies liked it back then. Thing is, because it was on the sriv94 wrote: He had the engineer divide the song into twelve 17-second Hopefully, this was done as a one-time joke with the OK of the PD. | ||||
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| crapfromthepast MusicFan Joined: 14September2006 |
In 1983, WPLJ in New York had a "Maniac-free Weekend", which basically acknowledged that we were all a little tired of the Michael Sembello hit. They ran "Maniac-free Weekend" sweepers during the whole thing, and might have even teased it beforehand. I thought it was a great stunt that resonated with me (as a listener). But I can't think of any other time when a radio station actively disparaged one of its songs. (I remember some jock saying something like "this is really a hit" when playing "Achy Breaky Heart", but that's as far as it went.) __________________ | ||||
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| Scanner MusicFan Joined: 14August2019 |
station a few months after "Saturday Night Fever" was released. As a kid, I got the point, but I did wonder what Bee Gees fanatics thought of the stunt. (Ironically, I recall the same station playing Debby Boone after "Light" dimmed (sorry, couldn't resist!) introducing the song by saying, "Here's Debby Boone for you one more time!") Thanks for posting the countdown - a very intriguing list | ||||
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| PopArchivist MusicFan Joined: 30June2018 |
crapfromthepast wrote: I'd guess that the PD approved the Installment Plan. It was likely well into the song's chart run, and the joke struck the tone that we all (including the listeners) were a little tired of the song. In 1983, WPLJ in New York had a "Maniac-free Weekend", which basically acknowledged that we were all a little tired of the Michael Sembello hit. They ran "Maniac-free Weekend" sweepers during the whole thing, and might have even teased it beforehand. I thought it was a great stunt that resonated with me (as a listener). But I can't think of any other time when a radio station actively disparaged one of its songs. (I remember some jock saying something like "this is really a hit" when playing "Achy Breaky Heart", but that's as far as it went.) I think one morning when I was driving back in 2019 the station here in Albany (102.3) morning show was like "If anyone requests Old Town Road we are not playing it. Let's move on people." If you didn't know Ron, Old Town Road was #1 for 19 weeks and pretty much consumed the air waves for most of 2019. I sure know that I could listen to Maniac 200 more times compares to Old Town Road! __________________ | ||||
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