Casey Kasem American Top 40

[Gazoo]

Chart oddity: Owing to a 27-week (!) chart run, Mac Davis's "Satisfaction" rewrite "One Hell of a Woman" places higher in the year-end survey (#10) than it ever did on a weekly chart (#11 peak).

[RGMike]

Chart oddity: Owing to a 27-week (!) chart run, Mac Davis's "Satisfaction" rewrite "One Hell of a Woman" places higher in the year-end survey (#10) than it ever did on a weekly chart (#11 peak).

She really *was* one helluva woman.

[Gazoo]

Found this one of the AT40 Fun and Games thread. It's a database of every chart from 1940 to current. Just put the date (or close to it) in and you'll get the chart.

http://umdmusic.com/default.asp?Lang=English&Chart=D

I decided to check out the chart for the week of my brother's birthday:

http://umdmusic.com/default.asp?Lang=English&Chart=D&ChDay=19&ChMonth=8&ChYear=1971&ChBand=&ChSong=

and found this hilarious typo:

The Love We Had (Stays On My Hand)

THE DELLS

[RGMike]

Found this one of the AT40 Fun and Games thread. It's a database of every chart from 1940 to current. Just put the date (or close to it) in and you'll get the chart.

http://umdmusic.com/default.asp?Lang=English&Chart=D

I decided to check out the chart for the week of my brother's birthday:

http://umdmusic.com/default.asp?Lang=English&Chart=D&ChDay=19&ChMonth=8&ChYear=1971&ChBand=&ChSong=

and found this hilarious typo:

The Love We Had (Stays On My Hand)

THE DELLS

BWAHAHAHAHAHA!  Or as Chuck Berry once sang:

We boogied in the kitchen
We boogied in the hall
I got some on my finger
So I wiped it on the wall

[RGMike]

Any year-end chart that starts with "Sugar Walls" at #100 is gonna be good.  Go Sheena!

I barely remember Night Ranger's "Sentimental Street" but here it is at #99. First WOS of the day, tho' it's probably the only chart hit to mention "the Avenues", a very SF reference.

[RGMike]

Chart oddity: Owing to a 27-week (!) chart run, Mac Davis's "Satisfaction" rewrite "One Hell of a Woman" places higher in the year-end survey (#10) than it ever did on a weekly chart (#11 peak).

And on the 1985 list, the Time's "Jungle Love" is at #91, tho' it never got higher than #20 -- but it had a 25-week run. And here's my fave that I BOSed last week: Jermaine J's "Do What You Do"

Hey soul sister, they're playing Mr Mister as an extra.

Awwwww: VHM DeBarge's sweet "Who's Holding Donna Now?"

kudos Madonna, with 5 songs in the Top 100 of '85: earlier we heard "Dress You Up"; here's the forgotten "Angel" -- this got as high as #5 and now you never hear it.

I'll give Wham's "Freedom" a BOS just this once, twice, forever.

Aaack! the original Katrina back-to-back with Bryan Adams.

Another BOS for Macca's "No More Lonely Nights"; VHM ABC, "Be Near Me"

Miss Lead! She married Mr Wood and they had a family of little pencils.

[SFGuy]

For the weekend of January 1-2, 2011:

Casey's 70s:

January 7, 1978: http://www.charismusicgroup.com/Cue%20Sheets/01-07-78.pdf

Casey's 80s:

Second half of the Top 100 of 1985: http://www.charismusicgroup.com/Cue%20Sheets/01-04-86.pdf

[RGMike]

For the weekend of January 1-2, 2011:

Casey's 70s:

January 7, 1978: http://www.charismusicgroup.com/Cue%20Sheets/01-07-78.pdf

BTW Magic 98 in Madison is doing a New Year's Day AT40 Marathon (all times Central)

6-9am: 12-25-74 ("The Top 40 Hits of 1974")

9am-noon: 12-1-73

noon-3pm: 11-22-75

3-6pm: 12-11-76

6-9pm: 10-19-74

9pm-mid: 1-7-78

And that Jan '78 cahrt features Macca's little-heard "Girls School" ands Donny & Marie's desecration of "Soul & Inspiration"

[RGMike]

CKRU started Casey an hour early -- dunno if this is a new permanent thing or a one-week-only deal (maybe there's hockey at noon?)

Three cheers for the "Girls' School"!  BOSFRA this Macca rocker -- best known for having "Mull of Kintyre" as its flip, one of the biggest-selling singles in UK chart history.

BOS2 Miss Ross' underappreciated "Gettin' Ready For Love" -- brand new start! here's mah heart!

Dan Hill would rather hurt you honestly than mislead you with a sappy ballad. Oops! Too late, Dan.

VHM the Bay City Rollers lovely "The Way I Feel Tonite"

BOS3 Andy Gibb, "Love is Thicker Than My Penis"

VHM Ms Ronstadt, "It's So Weezy"



WOS Leif Garrett.

Freddie's had his share of sand kicked in his face. And that's not the only thing he's had in his face.

BOS4 High Inergy's fab "You Can't TUrn Me Off" -- why did they not have a career?

VHM Eric Cartman Styx, sailing ay-way; BOS3 Shawn Cassidy's deelightful Eric Carmen cover; Rod the Bod says "urine my heart"

AAAAACK! Debby Boone on her way down with "YLUML". I've said this before: never mind the sappiness, it isn't even that well-produced.

[RGMike]

so I switched over to the "Magic 98" Casey Marathon just in time for the "18 With a Bullet"-at-#18-with-a-bullet chart coinkydink. Be mah A-side, baby!

[RGMike]

The marathon continues: Casey's doing an Oct '74 chart that includes ABBA's underheard "Honey Honey" and EWF's equally underplayed "Devotion".

I heard Carl Carlton's remake of "Everlasting Love" before I ever heard the orig, which somehow flopped in NYC despite being huge in Philly. Talk about regionalism. That'd never happen these days.

Yikes! Brownsville Station's (deservedly) forgotten "Kings of the Party".

Wow -- rare Steppenwolf, "Straight Shootin' Woman", quite a rocker that I don't remember getting any NYC airplay in '74. BOSFRA.

Jim Weatherly's "The Need To Be" is a bit sappy; the delivery doesn't help. Would that he'd given it to Gladys; Esther Satterfield did a nice version a few years later, iirc.

Casey played the looooong version of "Beach Baby". VHM just because. Bwahahaha! -- Cheech & Chong feat 'Alice Bowie', "Earache My Eye". Best LOL of Set.

BOS one of the Osmonds' shining hours: "Love Me For a Reason" (like, you're one of my 17 wives?)

Another version of "Never My Love" was unnecessary in '74, but still, the Blue Swede version is a fab production; makes you wonder why some soul outfit didn't come up with a funky, horn-laden cover sooner. (if someone did, please hip me to it)

Yay! First "Carole King sings to her bra" reference of 2011!

[RGMike]

Donny & Marie's desecration of "Soul & Inspiration"

I missed this one this morning; here it is on the Magic 98 replay -- the orig was "blue-eyed soul"; this is dead-eyed trolls.

But nice to hear "Girls School" twice in one day.

[RGMike]

Part 2 of Casey's Top 100 of 1985 leads off with an instant WOS: "Separate Lives", one of the more worthless ballads of the decade.

Indeed, entirely too much Collins in this countdown: "Sussudio", "One More Blight"... yeesh.

But always a BOS for RFTW's "Oh Sheila"

OMFG: "Lovergirl" and "Loverboy" are back-to-back at #s 29 & 28! uber-BOS2 and RIP Lady T.

Grace & Mickey are knee-deep in the hoopla.

[SFGuy]

Part 2 of Casey's Top 100 of 1985 leads off with an instant WOS: "Separate Lives", one of the more worthless ballads of the decade.

Indeed, entirely too much Collins in this countdown: "Sussudio", "One More Blight"... yeesh.

I actually like Phil Collins. "Separate Live"....not so much.

[SFGuy]

But I HATE "You're the Inspiration" (personal reasons) and "We Built This City" (IMO, THE worst song of the 80s).