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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #1995 on: March 14, 2010, 09:09:16 AM »
KFRC screwed up yet again -- they're playing last week's 1975 chart.

So I'm in W.Virginia for 1983... wow, how many songs stayed at #40 for 3 consecutive weeks? Not many, I'll wager. But here's Night Ranger (pre-"Sister Christian") doing just that with "Don't Tell Me You Love Me"
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #1996 on: March 14, 2010, 09:49:36 AM »
BOS1 ABC's fab "Poison Arrow". She comes when she comes. Well, duh.
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #1997 on: March 14, 2010, 09:53:37 AM »
WOS Steel Breeze -- despite the imprimatur of Kim Fowley. Mr Fowley is played by Oscar nominee Michael Shannon in The Runaways, which opens Friday.
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #1998 on: March 14, 2010, 10:12:09 AM »
Adam Ant wants to put something subtle in you end-o.

WOS2 LoverSagaBoy, "Turn Me On The Loose" -- c'mon, have you ever seen both bands in the same room at the same time?

WOS3 ATF's worthless Komissar Kover; WOS4 Sammy Hagar "Your Love is Making me Drive 55".

But a big BOS2 to Musical Youth, passing around the pot -- the cooking pot. Git yer mind outta the gutter.

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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #1999 on: March 14, 2010, 11:10:07 AM »
VHM EWF, doing what they do best on the unjustly forgotten "Fall in Love With Me".

BOS3 Mr Joel in "Allentown"; uber-BOS4 Frida (feat Phil C on drums) "There's Something Going On"

wait... Casey sez that "Allentown" was at #17 for 6 consecutive weeks??  WTF?
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #2000 on: March 14, 2010, 11:18:30 AM »
The Vandenberg and Donna Summer were new to me.  As was the instantly forgettable Supertramp tune - but did you know that, per the video, their lead singer for a while was Luke Wilson?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAh7_qH0YFA
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #2001 on: March 14, 2010, 11:42:48 AM »
The Vandenberg and Donna Summer were new to me.  As was the instantly forgettable Supertramp tune - but did you know that, per the video, their lead singer for a while was Luke Wilson?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAh7_qH0YFA

Bwahahaha!

WOS5 (but of course): "Mr Roboto". KEEL-roy!

VHM H&O, but c'mon -- they're really going "One On One" with each other, no?
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #2002 on: March 14, 2010, 07:22:32 PM »

wait... Casey sez that "Allentown" was at #17 for 6 consecutive weeks??  WTF?

6 weeks. It fell the following week. Also during this period, Kenny Loggins (his song fell out of the top 40 that week) had "Heart to Heart" peak at 15 for 5 weeks.

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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #2003 on: March 16, 2010, 12:39:43 PM »
This week, Casey's '70s visits 1978... again. (March 11th 1978)

http://www.charismusicgroup.com/Cue%20Sheets/03-11-78.pdf

except for a couple of debuts (Enchantment, VH and the pre-Golden Girls incarnation of "Thank You For Being a Friend"), just about every song was in the '78 show we heard a month ago.

and the '80s chart will be from March 15th 1980 -- the smallest possible gap between the 2 shows...

http://www.charismusicgroup.com/Cue%20Sheets/03-15-80.pdf

'80 is more interesting: the Knack's shameless "Sharona" knockoff, "Baby Talks Dirty", Peaches & Herb's shameless "Reunited" knockoff "I Pledge My Love", Dr Hook's shameless BeeGees rip "Sexy Eyes" and -- voila! ---"An American Dream"!
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #2004 on: March 19, 2010, 06:34:58 AM »
Yes, the '80 chart is more interesting, as evidenced by WHNN which usually airs 70's replays, but occasionally does early 80's, like this week. Playlist w/commercial breaks & "Extra" tunes:
http://www.whnn.com/goout.asp?u=http://images.radcity.net/5874/4225703.pdf

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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #2005 on: March 21, 2010, 10:20:39 AM »
Since Neil Diamond thinks The 3rd of June = Summer, I'm guessing "September Morn" was recorded on August 12th.

I had the '80s show on the computer and the '70s version on the radio in the bathroom, and I heard "How Deep is Your Love" twice in less than 15 minutes.

VHM Toto's ode to Barbara Feldon

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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #2006 on: March 21, 2010, 11:06:59 AM »
Voila! -- an American BOS from the NGDB feat Ms. Ronstadt. "It's as easy as clothes in your eyes"

Flashback-of-the-week: Chuck Mangione's "Give it all You've Got", his Winter Olympics theme which I truly have not heard since 1980.

VHM the Iggles fine "I Can't Tell You Why", but -- watch out! -- Christopher Cross is about to break "Wind".
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #2007 on: March 21, 2010, 11:29:28 AM »
BOS2 Anne Murray's sweet cover of "Daydream Believer".
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #2008 on: March 21, 2010, 11:57:52 AM »
BOS3 Ms Ronstadt's 2nd appearance of the day on "How Do I Make You", the first hit written by Billy Steinberg, who went on to be quite the superstar songwriter:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Steinberg

He fared a bit better than the Mad Love LP's other discovery, Mark Goldenberg (what was it with Linda and Jewish guys?), whose group The Cretones provided no less than 3 tunes on the album.
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #2009 on: March 21, 2010, 12:17:06 PM »
forgotten hits in the Top Ten: Rupert Holmes' "Him" at #8 and Andy Gibb's "Desire" at #4
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