Casey Kasem American Top 40

[Gazoo]

BOS Don McLean's "Vincent", one of the ballsier follow-ups to a #1 single I can recall.

I don't think there's any other way one could have followed up "American Pie."  BOS to "Vincent," whose lyrical intricacies I'd never fully noticed til now.

And I misheard the trivia question as "What's the highest a working DJ has ever got?"  To which the answer is unanswerable.

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I misheard the trivia question as "What's the highest a working DJ has ever got?"  To which the answer is unanswerable.

[RGMike]

Whitney finds the greatest love of all. Just say NO to crack, babe!

BOS (and Cheeziest Synth Line EVAH) Nu Shooz! How much did that Casio keyboard cost, guys?  Bonus mondegreen: "I love ya ... even when you don't drive"

BOS(Level 4)2: "Something About You".

John Taylor do what he do. Do tell!

VHM Jackson Browne, trying to pull a Springsteen by putting "America" in the title/chorus of a political song.

Proxy of Duckie: OMD.


BOS3 Cherrelle/Alex O'Neal finding "Saturday Love" on Sunday morning.  WOS Opus' idiotic Eurotrashy "Live is Life" -- and it's recorded "live" -- GET IT?? Sheesh.

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Hour2: BOS4 Stevie's lovely "Overjoyed". VHM Seger's "American Storm" another Springsteen cop, down to the Bittan-esque piano -- I bought this 45 because the flip is his live cover of "Fortunate Son".

Whatever happened to Robert Tepper? You could've easily guessed his cheezeball OHW "No Easy Way Out" was from the Rocky !V sndtk. But he also co-wrote Benny Mardones' "Into the Night".

Surprise BOS5 to Jermaine's forgotten "I Think It's Love"

Boston? oh, it's the Outfield.

Another Jackson heard from: BOS6 Janet with (amazingly) her first Top40 hit, "WHYDFML?"

odd extra this hour: Wilkes-Barre's own Synch, with "Where Are You Now?", which flopped in '86 but was re-released in '89 and went Top Ten.

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Hour3: proxy of shray, "King For a Day".

WOS2 the Goat with the 2nd "I Can't Wait" in the countdown.

OMGWTF: ELO's "Calling America", one of their least-played Top40 hits. WOS3 Starship's utterly generic "Sara". WOS4 Loverboy, just because they're... Loverboy.

VHM PSBs, "WEGs". BOS7 Force MD's, "the 'Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers' of Hip-Hop".

and another VHM EJ's "Nikita", countin' ten tin soldiers in a row.

And as I get ready to exit, uber-BOS8 (and another proxy of shray), Sly Fox's fantabulous "Let's Go All the Way". Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

[sundaygal]

Tuned in late, but BOS to Falco's rainbow Mozart wig!

[RGMike]

Tuned in late, but BOS to Falco's rainbow Mozart wig!

I should've requested "Rock Me Jerry Lewis" for AL's "Foolish" set!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IgCv5Zo4-0

[RGMike]

That '70s Casey hits April 10th 1976:

http://www.charismusicgroup.com/Cue%20Sheets/04-10-76.pdf

and Casey's '80s is from April 11th 1981:

http://www.charismusicgroup.com/Cue%20Sheets/04-11-81.pdf

[RGMike]

Instant WOS this Stampeders/Wolfman Jack abomination.

From a Wolf to a Goat: "Rhiannon" appears out of the mists of time.

Listen to me good, baby: VHM "Misty Blue". Ditto Mr. Manilow, "Tryin' to Get the Feeling". Try looking at this picture of Pat Burrell, Barry.

This Larry Santos OHW, "We Can't Hide it Anymore", is NTM and quite a nice surprise. He sounds kinda like Brook Benton/Arthur Prysock. VHM.

It's Strange Madge -- ICK!  And smiling Sara is right behind her. Creepy.

Another VHM to the Ohio Players' forgotten "Fopp". Ditto Freddy Fender's cover of "You'll Lose a Good Thing".

Proxy of shray: Styx, shackin' up with Lorelei.  And still another lost hit: Jigsaw's "Love Fire". A little pennicillin will clear that right up, guys.

By '76 it had become fashionable to hate John Denver; VHM "Looking For Space", sounding quite lovely this morning. And our Hour 1 festival of forgotten 45s concludes with Ms King's beautiful "Only Love is Real" -- BOS.

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Hour2: O'Jays are "Livin'", Henry Gross' dog is dyin'.  BOS2 the dee-liteful retro-'40s disco of "Tangerine". Who said gay men were powerless in 1976? 

Eagles take it to the (borerdom) limit.  BOS3 ABBA, "I Do" x 5 -- best Connie Francis record evah.

Best innuendo of set: "Love Machine", making my meter start to rise, heh heh.

Dude! Sweet!  BOS4 "Action". Intellectual need! Insatiable greed!

Classic Rock Overkill: Queen followed by Frampton.

BOS5 Commodores, "Sweet Love", aka "Lionel Ritchie when he was good".

Yo, Toni: stop calling the Captain "little man". How humiliating!

[sundaygal]

BOSing Don't Stop The Music by Rihanna Yarbrough & Peoples.
On the top of the list of songs I never have to hear again:  Celebration - K&TG (which always makes me think of bad dancing at weddings)

Oh, and not sure how I feel about the Gino Vanelli song now, which I used to have on a K-Tel comp called The Elite (I think).  I'm pretty sure I used to fast forward over it. 

[RGMike]

On the top of the list of songs I never have to hear again:  Celebration - K&TG (which always makes me think of bad dancing at weddings)

Indeed -- I actually danced to it at a wedding in '81!

More WOSes to count today (4 in the first hour alone) but BOSes to Champaign, Gino Vannelli (swoon!) and Babs'n'Barry. Speaking of Gibbs... VHM Terri, "Somebody's Knockin'". And Andy Gibb's "Me Without You" was one I'd totally forgotten.

Best Future Drag Queen Favorite of Set: ABBA, dun-choo-see?

Dolly tumbles outta bed -- force of habit. And gravity.

[RGMike]

not sure how I feel about the Gino Vanelli song now, which I used to have on a K-Tel comp called The Elite (I think).  I'm pretty sure I used to fast forward over it. 

rrrrowrrrrr...

[RGMike]

Casey sez Smokey R is "the oldest artist in the countdown" -- at age 41.  Way to make me feel ancient, dude.

And here's the nearly-as-old (he was 40 then) Neil Diamond, "Hello Again".  BOS4. I have, amazingly, never seen The Jazz Singer. Oy vey.

Juice Newton wants you to touch her cheeks before you leave.

Yeesh & Sheesh: our 2nd dose of REO Snoozewagon today. Time to head out into the sunshine...

[sundaygal]

From another cassette from the early days - Sheena Sugar Walls on her Morning Train.