Casey Kasem American Top 40

[kahunaburger]

This weekend that Michigan station that usually does 70's is doing July 23, 1983:
http://www.whnn.com/goout.asp?u=http://www.whnn.com/Article.asp?id=583277&spid=

   Have to wonder if WHNN is doing a super 80's weekend or if they are switching to AT40-The 80's on a permanent basis.

[kahunaburger]

This weekend that Michigan station that usually does 70's is doing July 23, 1983:
http://www.whnn.com/goout.asp?u=http://www.whnn.com/Article.asp?id=583277&spid=

too bad, because the '70s edition is a rare 1970 show:  July 25, 1970 -- only Casey's 3rd or 4th show ever! Note the difference in his voice.

http://www.oldies1033.com/pages/4854408.php

TANC: Ronnie Dyson at #26!

    Love it when they dig in the back of the vault and play the 1970 shows.  "Ride Captain Ride Upon Your Mystery Ship!!!"   A lost garage rock classic in Crabby Appleton's "Go Back" was still hangin' on the countdown as well.   Might have to actually wake up before noon (for once) this Saturday to listen.

[RGMike]

This weekend that Michigan station that usually does 70's is doing July 23, 1983:
http://www.whnn.com/goout.asp?u=http://www.whnn.com/Article.asp?id=583277&spid=

too bad, because the '70s edition is a rare 1970 show:  July 25, 1970 -- only Casey's 3rd or 4th show ever! Note the difference in his voice.

http://www.oldies1033.com/pages/4854408.php

TANC: Ronnie Dyson at #26!

    Love it when they dig in the back of the vault and play the 1970 shows.  "Ride Captain Ride Upon Your Mystery Ship!!!"   A lost garage rock classic in Crabby Appleton's "Go Back" was still hangin' on the countdown as well.   Might have to actually wake up before noon (for once) this Saturday to listen.

FYI, kahuna, WODS Boston makes the show available via podcast on their website for weeks after they air:

http://www.oldies1033.com/Oldies-On-Demand-Audio/4334827

...usually beginning the Monday or Tuesday after the original play. I know I'll be listening to this week's more than once. That Crabby Appleton is one of my all-time fave One Hit Wonders.
 

[Gazoo]

FYI - we heard this same ep last year:

This weekend (7/19-20) AT40-The 70's goes wayback to July 25, 1970:
http://www.mynorthwest.com/?sid=22371&nid=119

OMFG! that's only the fourth show he ever did! (AT40 premiered on the 4th of July 1970.) Def looking forward to this -- Gaz will be sorry he was on the road this weekend.

Got back Saturday night in time to tune in on Sunny 101.5 in South Bend.  Marvelous stuff, including the l-o-n-g intro with the Three Degrees' unhinged-lead take on "Maybe."  And "Tell It All, Brother" is really something - how were the First Edition perceived culturally and critically at the time?  It was many years before I heard about them (3WS didn't have them in rotation), so I'm kinda curious.

Meanwhile, the '80s countdown goes to this week in 1980, when the Dirt Band (no more getting down to the Nitty Gritty) debuted at 40 with the anesthetized, lobotomized "Make a Little Magic."

[RGMike]

This weekend that Michigan station that usually does 70's is doing July 23, 1983:
http://www.whnn.com/goout.asp?u=http://www.whnn.com/Article.asp?id=583277&spid=

   Have to wonder if WHNN is doing a super 80's weekend or if they are switching to AT40-The 80's on a permanent basis.

They seem to do this whenever the '70s show is from the first half of that decade.

[RGMike]

Todo da bien -- NO Chevrolet! Magic 98 just played an edited version of "Don't You Worry 'Bout a Thing" that deleted the entire exchange between Stevie and the lady! I've never heard that edit before. No Spanish folks in Wisconsin?

But -- ironically -- cunning linguists are OK, because here's "Cecelia"!

[kahunaburger]

  "Why Don't You Check Out Your Mind...Been With You All The Time. Check Out Your Mind, Check Out Your Mind, Check Out Your Mind!!!"

[kahunaburger]

   Listening to Mungo Jerry's "In The Summertime" now.  Silly but infectious.  Love the skiffle beat and the motorcycle sound effect.  Perfect dare I say Summer song.   #1 in England and I believe in the U.S. on Cashback magazine. 

[RGMike]

FYI - we heard this same ep last year:

Rerun or not this is one spectacular chart -- an embarrassment of (lost) riches.  The aforementioned 3 Degrees, First Edition and Crabby Appleton, plus John Phillips, the Impressions, Mark Lindsay, the 5-D putting more money in Ms Nyro's coffers, Ronnie Dyson and Robin McNamara making up a cast-of-Hair twin-spin, Flaming Ember, White Plains, BJ Thomas, Miguel Rios' glorious "Song of Joy", PG&E... lawd have mercy!

TANC: a 67-year-old (but sounding much older) Charles Wright was interviewed on the KPOO oldies show this week; he has a new CD of re-makes of doo-wop tunes he was involved with long before he formed the Watts 103rd St Rhythm Band. And here they are with the wonderful "Love Land".

[kahunaburger]

   Not done listening to countdown and I nominate "Gimme Dat Ding" as the most annoying and cringe-worthy song on this weeks countdown.  Truly AWFUL!!!  Think I may just puke all over my laptop!!!

[RGMike]

Loved hearing the "extra" in which Casey told the story of how Bob Crewe got the title of "Big Girls Don't Cry" watching Joan Crawford on the Late Late Show. Gee, a gay man watching Joan Crawford movies in the middle of the night -- who'd'a thunk it?

Not only did we get the full monologue on the 3 Degree's "Maybe", we also got the loooong versions of "Song of Joy" and "Spill the Wine" -- I guess, what with the show being brand new, they weren't selling many commercials yet.  We missed, however, an extra that Casey teased at the top of Hour 3: "the longest song ever to make the Top Ten" -- I can only assume that was "Hey Jude"? or "MacArthur Park"?

Chart trivia: at #86 that week was a cover of "Que Sera Sera" by... Mary Hopkin! Produced by Macca, of course. I have never heard that -- hope it's on YouTube. Also, 2 Neil Young songs that would never make the 40: His own "Cinammon Girl" at #55, and Buddy Miles' cover of "Down By The River" at #83. And both versions of "Big Yellow Taxi" are on the chart; Joni's orig is #100 and the cover by Neighborhood is hitbound at # 51.

[RGMike]

This week Casey ventures to August 6, 1977:

http://www.oldies1033.com/pages/4899186.php

Lost gems from the Isleys, the Cat Man, the Bay City Rollers, Leo Sayer and Elvis. Plus: Meri Wilson warbles a HFH, Slave does the electric "Slide", ELO give Green Day the melody for "21 Guns", Stephen Bishop provides the loved by me/hated by Gaz "On & On", and we get a lot of stuff we heard when Casey did '77 a month ago, like "Ariel", "You're My World", "Undercover Angel" etc.

[Gazoo]

Wasn't knocked out by the NTM Isleys, spending their sole week in the 40 with "Livin' in the Life."

HM to Slave's "Slide," which disco cover band Superbooty used to do a grand version of.  The guy who sublet me my first NYC apartment worked with Slave briefly a few years ago during a reunion package thing.  It didn't go very well.

[Tinka Cat]

the Isleys are a great start to any playlist.  When Casey intros Steve Miller's "Jet Airliner," he recounts how Mr Miller has acknowledged blatant borrowing from other artists: he played the intro riffs to Miller's "Rock N Me" (charted in 76) and Free's "All Right Now" (1970) back to back to demonstrate.  But then he says "this next one is all Steve Miller --- here's Jet Airliner."  no mention of Paul Pena, who wrote it.

I like Steve Miller for the most part, but even his buddy Joel Selvin has called him a "careerist" in print.

[Tinka Cat]

Did Cat Stevens write this for a failed TV pilot? 

agree w you, Gaz, on Slade as HM. 

ooh, here's the earworm "Ariel."  I'm into it now!