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Casey Kasem American Top 40
RGMike:
As I await Casey on Magic 98, their "Saturday Seventies" feature gives me my OMGWTF-of-the-Day, if not the week: Bob Welch's forgotten "Precious Love" from early '79. I cannot remember when I last heard this one. Deserved better than its #19 peak.
ETA: even more OMGWTF-ier is Roger Voudouris' "Get Used to It", also from '79, which I barely remember from hearing it on AT40; it got no NYC airplay that I can recall.
RGMike:
"Soul Makossa" spends its 3rd and final week (!) in the Top 40 at the shockingly low peak of #35 (!!) -- amazing for such an influential record that was selling like hotcakes as an import thanks to NYC disco play.
And I'm astounded to see "Playground in My Mind" still hanging on at #34 in August; I recall hearing it on NY radio in February when WPIX-FM played it on their weekly make-it-or-break-it new singles feature (listeners gave it a big thumbs up). Still sweet and (IMHO) undeserving of the HFH brickbats it's had tossed at it over the years. Clint Holmes is doing a fine Johnny Mathis imitation here.
And speaking of sweet, Foster Sylvers does his best MJ with "Misdemeanor" -- but since he's on MGM Records, is he really doing a Donny Osmond reject?
Tinka Cat:
--- Quote from: RGMike on August 08, 2009, 07:33:52 PM ---"Soul Makossa" spends its 3rd and final week (!) in the Top 40 at the shockingly low peak of #35 (!!) -- amazing for such an influential record that was selling like hotcakes as an import thanks to NYC disco play.
And I'm astounded to see "Playground in My Mind" still hanging on at #34 in August; I recall hearing it on NY radio in February when WPIX-FM played it on their weekly make-it-or-break-it new singles feature (listeners gave it a big thumbs up). Still sweet and (IMHO) undeserving of the HFH brickbats it's had tossed at it over the years. Clint Holmes is doing a fine Johnny Mathis imitation here.
And speaking of sweet, Foster Sylvers does his best MJ with "Misdemeanor" -- but since he's on MGM Records, is he really doing a Donny Osmond reject?
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yes, that Foster Sylvers sounds just like MJ. And speaking of MJ, I only recently learned that he borrowed heavily from Manu Dibango's Soul Makossa refrain "Mama ko mama sa maka makoosa" for Wanna Be Startin' Somethin.' I had never put that together until I read it in the New Yorker last month: http://www.newyorker.com/talk/2009/07/06/090706ta_talk_sanneh
RGMike:
BOS the 4 Tops and the longest, thickest thumbs you evah saw! Nothing like getting the shaft in Africa.
BOS2 Charlie Rich, with his baby who's always a lady unril she get her freak on "Behind Closed Doors"
And BOS3 Gladys & Co, on their Buddah debut, "Where Peaceful Waters Flow", which sadly got ambushed by Motown's simultaneous release of "Daddy Could Swear". I'd forgotten that "WPWF" was a Jim Weatherly compo.
RGMike:
VHM Ree-Ree's "Angel". That Lobo thing was truly a forgotten hit. And TO & Dawn wonder who's in the strawberry burlesque patch with gypsy Sally. Or something.
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