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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #660 on: November 01, 2008, 09:27:35 AM »
Quote from: Wayback on November 01, 2008, 09:22:55 AM
Quote from: Gazoo on November 01, 2008, 09:15:32 AM
I hate this "I Get Around" segment they often play during commercial breaks - Mike Love is such a fucking dick.
I know, who does he think he is, the best tambourine player around??

LOL -- Good one!


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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #661 on: November 01, 2008, 09:29:12 AM »
I assume we'll get the 3-minute single edit of "Miracles" - oh well.

WOS to La Ronstadt, in what I'm sure Mike would agree is an even more unnecessary remake than "Our Day Will Come."
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #662 on: November 01, 2008, 09:36:28 AM »
Quote from: Gazoo on November 01, 2008, 09:29:12 AM
I assume we'll get the 3-minute single edit of "Miracles" - oh well.

WOS to La Ronstadt, in what I'm sure Mike would agree is an even more unnecessary remake than "Our Day Will Come."

That's the one thing I'd like to change about these AT40 shows: give us the full versions!

When I started re-listening to them, I realized how the show -- and AM radio in general -- uses the radio edits (maybe they even make their own edits when necessary..?). 

... and agree about Linda, there she is YELLING again -- "YEAH, YEAH!!"
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #663 on: November 01, 2008, 09:40:15 AM »
Quote from: Tinka_Cat on November 01, 2008, 09:36:28 AM
Quote from: Gazoo on November 01, 2008, 09:29:12 AM
That's the one thing I'd like to change about these AT40 shows: give us the full versions!
When I started re-listening to them, I realized how the show -- and AM radio in general -- uses the radio edits (maybe they even make their own edits when necessary..?). 
Yes, I'm sure Casey cut down songs even further, for "time considerations".
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #664 on: November 01, 2008, 09:51:00 AM »
Okay, Mshray just called, so I'm out the door now to meet him and Dave Morey at Peet's Walnut Creek.  Later ...
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #665 on: November 01, 2008, 09:53:27 AM »
Quote from: Wayback on November 01, 2008, 09:51:00 AM
Okay, Mshray just called, so I'm out the door now to meet him and Dave Morey at Peet's Walnut Creek.  Later ...

Have fun!  Give Mark (and Dave) my best!
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #666 on: November 01, 2008, 09:55:23 AM »
Wincing at "Island Girl" at #1, a rare displeasure in a triff set from my second-favorite year in pop music.

Tinka, have a good weekend!
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #667 on: November 01, 2008, 10:03:32 AM »
Quote from: Gazoo on November 01, 2008, 09:55:23 AM
Wincing at "Island Girl" at #1, a rare displeasure in a triff set from my second-favorite year in pop music.

Tinka, have a good weekend!

see y'all later....  wish I was in Walnut Creek to say hi to Davey.

Oh "Island Girl,"  I played this 45 to death.  When I eventually got bored of it and flipped the record over, I found I liked the B-side:   "Grow Some Funk of Yer Own."  Who knew that records had two playable sides?
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #668 on: November 01, 2008, 06:15:29 PM »
Quote from: Tinka_Cat on November 01, 2008, 10:03:32 AM
Who knew that records had two playable sides?

I certainly didn't on first discovery of 45s.  I was introduced to the medium in '77 when I was 4 via my mom's collection, to which I gravitated "Convoy" and "Shimmy Shimmy Ko-Ko Bop."  (This should go a long way to explaining my tastes.)  I have no idea what was on the flip of either of those.
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #669 on: November 01, 2008, 07:49:19 PM »
"Diamonds & Rust" is still quite amazing -- I remain astounded that it made the Top 40 at all.  No idea who the woman duetting with Frankie Valli is; guess they thought she'd be his Odia Coates.

Anyone else notice that Casey never actually named the Elvis song that debuted at #10 and peaked at #3?  I've scoured Billboard and can't find the answer!
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #670 on: November 01, 2008, 07:54:32 PM »
"Get a lay! Get a lay!" advises John Fogerty. Er... OK!

And appropriately, he's followed by Leon Haywood, who wants to slide into somebody's canyon. Sounds like he needs a "Wide Receiver".

Gaz, I'd never considered that Diana Ross comparison regarding Ms Manchester's "Just Too Many People", but you're dead on. La Ross shoulda done it instead of "Last Time I Saw Him", which I've always thought would've been an ideal "Ruby Red Dress" follow-up for Helen Reddy.
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #671 on: November 01, 2008, 08:14:08 PM »
The second-oddest white-gospel hit of 1975 (after the Simon/Snow "Gone at Last"): Manhattan Transfer's "Operator".

Miss Mavis feels like a Butterfinger. I'm a Snickers guy myself.
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #672 on: November 01, 2008, 08:25:19 PM »
The local ads on this Madison, WI station are always colorful, but this floored me: The NYC Board of Education is running spots (voiced by the great Cynthia Nixon) recruiting for teachers in Wisconsin!
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #673 on: November 01, 2008, 09:11:48 PM »
OMG -- this Wisconsin station censored the word "bitch" in Sedaka's "Bad Blood". Oh by cracky!

But Leon Russell's lady blew, and they let that thru. 
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #674 on: November 02, 2008, 01:46:16 AM »
Quote from: Tinka_Cat on November 01, 2008, 09:27:35 AM
Quote from: Wayback on November 01, 2008, 09:22:55 AM
Quote from: Gazoo on November 01, 2008, 09:15:32 AM
I hate this "I Get Around" segment they often play during commercial breaks - Mike Love is such a fucking dick.
I know, who does he think he is, the best tambourine player around??

LOL -- Good one!


Top 22 Pictures of Mike Love Looking Like a Douche

His nephew is playing in the NBA. Actually he looks like a douche as well.
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