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Gazoo

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Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 12/31/07
« Reply #15 on: January 05, 2008, 08:08:04 AM »
Some OMGWTF!s in the Top 20 this week: Ray Price, "For the Good Times"; Lynn Anderson, "Rose Garden"; Supes/4 Tops, "River Deep/Mountain High."  And ask Joe Mama!  "Pay to the Piper" up to 13.

And Perry Como somehow ambles up to 12 with "It's Impossible."  Surreal.
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Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 12/31/07
« Reply #16 on: January 05, 2008, 08:23:34 AM »
This countdown is really making my morning.  Babs up to 9 with "Stoney End," my favorite vocal performance of hers.
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Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 12/31/07
« Reply #17 on: January 05, 2008, 09:00:27 AM »
#1 for the week of 1/16/71: George Harrison, "My Sweet Lord."  Still in awe of the slide guitar and the backing vox arrangement on this.
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Re: CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 12/31/07
« Reply #18 on: January 05, 2008, 10:29:56 AM »
Quote from: Gazoo on January 05, 2008, 09:00:27 AM
#1 for the week of 1/16/71: George Harrison, "My Sweet Lord."  Still in awe of the slide guitar and the backing vox arrangement on this.

I am SOOOO glad you got to hear the entire 40 -- truly amazing stuff. A treasure trove of you-NEVER-hear-these-songs-anymore mind-bogglers. I'd never heard that BJ Thomas tune, and isn't "Games" by Redeye the best CSNY imitation evah? And the Curtis Mayfield -- hoo lawd! Plus Elvis, the Edwin Starr "War redux", Ray Price, and on and on. 

AT40 didn't begin airing in NYC until March of '71 so this was truly a show I'd never heard before. Didya notice the suble difference in Casey's voice? A bit gruffer. It took another 6 months to a year before he got into his sincere/syrupy groove. Assuming KFRC continues the shows, I'm hoping they replay the very first show (July 4th 1970) when the time comes.

Chart addendum: the Harrison is indeed shown as "My Sweet Lord/Isn't It a Pity" thru-out its run. And the Elvis was double-sided too.
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