Casey Kasem American Top 40

[Wayback]

This weekend Casey70's is from Sept 11, 1977. The Playlist:
 http://www.wbbgfm.com/pages/pp_caseykasem.html
(note: 5 weeks ago we heard the chart from 8/6/77).

[kahunaburger]

This weekend Casey70's is from Sept 11, 1977. The Playlist:
 http://www.wbbgfm.com/pages/pp_caseykasem.html
(note: 5 weeks ago we heard the chart from 8/6/77).

   Not a stellar week in AT40 history.  "Surfin' USA" by Leif Garrett is the worst Beach Boys remake of all time.  The late Dr. Eugene Landy would be turning in his grave!!!

[Tinka Cat]

This weekend Casey70's is from Sept 11, 1977. The Playlist:
 http://www.wbbgfm.com/pages/pp_caseykasem.html
(note: 5 weeks ago we heard the chart from 8/6/77).

   Not a stellar week in AT40 history.  "Surfin' USA" by Leif Garrett is the worst Beach Boys remake of all time.  The late Dr. Eugene Landy would be turning in his grave!!!

yeah, it sucks pretty bad.  But I bet Leif can surf better than Mike Love

[Tinka Cat]

still listening, my BOSes so far.   I think there's a rich vein of AM Gold here.   many faves and fond memories, I was glued to my top 40 station radio back then.

#40 I Wouldn’t Want To Be Like You – The Alan Parsons Project
#39 She Did It – Eric Carmen
#38 Don’t It Make My Brown Eyes Blue – Crystal Gayle
#37 Help Is On Its Way – The Little River Band -- very nice
#36 Star Wars (Main Title) – The London Symphony Orchestra
#35 Another Star – Stevie Wonder
#34 I Believe You – Dorothy Moore  -- BOS
#33 Surfin’ Usa – Leif Garrett -- bleaah!
#32 Just Remember I Love You – Firefall
#31 Cat Scratch Fever –Ted Nugent --
#30 How Much Love – Leo Sayer  -- BOS2
#29 Daytime Friends – Kenny Rogers -- ho hum
#28 The King Is Gone – Ronnie Mcdowell  -- my stream cut out in the middle of this.. a sign?
#27 The Greatest Love Of All – George Benson
-- Extra The Rubber Band Man – The Spinners -- hey y'all gather 'round..
#26 Heaven On The 7th Floor – Paul Nicholas 
#25 Smoke From A Distant Fire – Sanford-Townsend
#24 Jungle Love – The Steve Miller Band  -- good whistling selection
#23 Signed, Sealed, And Delivered – Peter Frampton
#22 It Was Almost Like A Song – Ronnie Milsap-py
#21 You Light Up My Life – Debby Boone  -- bleaah2
#20 (Your Love Has Lifted Me) Higher And Higher – Rita Coolidge
#19 Brickhouse – The Commodores -- yow!
#18 Way Down – Elvis Presley
#17 Don’t Worry Baby – B.J. Thomas
#16 I Feel Love – Donna Summer  -- go Georgio Moroder!
#15 Boogie Nights – Heatwave  --
#14 Swayin’ To The Music (Slow Dancin’) – Johnny Rivers  -- memories of make-out parties
-- Extra Love Will Keep Us Together -- Captain and Tennille
#13 On And On – Stephen Bishop
#12 Nobody Does It Better – Carly Simon  -- I recall vividly seeing The Spy Who Loved me in the theater
#11 Handy Man – James Taylor --
#10 Cold As Ice – Foreigner
-- Extra Play That Fuky Music -- Wild Cherry
#9 That’s Rock ‘N’ Roll – Shaun Cassidy
#8 Star Wars Title Theme – Meco -- yay! 12 year olds like disco, too!
#7 Telephone Line – Electric Light Orchestra  --  pick up that telly-phone
#6 I Just Want To Be Your Everything – Andy Gibb - the edit was like 90 seconds long
#5 Strawberry Letter 23 – Brothers Johnson  -- another BOS3
#4 Keep It Comin’ Love – K.C. & The Sunshine Band
#3 Don’t Stop – Fleetwood Mac
#2 Float On – The Floaters  -- float on!  BOS4
#1 Best Of My Love – The Emotions

[RGMike]

still listening, my BOSes so far.   I think there's a rich vein of AM Gold here.   many faves and fond memories, I was glued to my top 40 station radio back then.


#39 She Did It – Eric Carmen

This one has actual Beach Boys on backing vox.

and the chart is from Sept 24th 1977.

[RGMike]

early VHMs to Mr Carmen, indulging his Beach Boys fetish; Crystal Gayle's superb pop single that happened to be a #1 Country hit; and Stevie's "Another Star" -- why there weren't at least 5 Top Ten singles from SITKOL is baffling.

TANC LRB, and I'll 2nd TC's BOS for Dorothy Moore's *other* hit, "I Believe You" (I'd forgotten it was written by the Addrisi Bros!), nicely covered a few years later by the Carpenters, who were a couple weeks away from debuting with their Klaatu cover!

[RGMike]

I'm hearing Ronnie McDowell's "The King is Gone" for the 2nd time this week, and that's 2 times 2 many.  But another VHM to George Benson's orig (and superior) version of "The Greatest Love of All". Whitney's '80s cover would be much bigger (#1 in fact) but this is sublime -- and shame on the Academy for bypassing it at Oscar time.

[RGMike]

WOS Frampton's "SS&D", the Whitest. Motown. Cover. EVAH!

But BOS2 Ronnie Milsap's superb Barry Manilow hommage, "It Was Almost Like A Song". Quality "adult contermpo" -- unlike Debby Boone's WOS2, "YLUML", which isn't merely sappy, but crappily recorded. And yet it won an Oscar *and* several Grammys. 

I'd forgotten the story about how "Higher & Higher" almost became a Booker T comeback hit. But he gave it to Rita Coolidge -- who was his sister-in-law!

[RGMike]

she's a cow, she's a cow now! And she's built like a, well, you know.

BOS3 the *real* King with "Way Down" -- I continue to be flummoxed by the fact that this has never shown up on anybody's version of 10@10, even tho' they all have tons of "Elvis died today" clips in '77 sets.

What a bizarre chart to have 2 Beach Boys covers, plus some BBs themselves backing up Eric Carmen, plus an Eric Carmen cover by Shaun Cassidy. And the king of the covers, Johnny Rivers, gets a VHM for slow dancin', or swayin', or whateverthef--k he's doin'.

BOS4 Stephen Bishop's sublime "On & On" -- fine songwriting, glistening production. Truly one of my fave 45s of that year; I never tire of it. Gaz: think of him as the Jazn Mrazzz of his day.

[RGMike]

so, has ELO sued Green Day yet for ripping off "Telephone Line"?

Lawd! The brothas are showin' off their johnson, KC keeps it common-law, and Charles from the Floaters likes a woman who carryth herthelf like... Mith Univerth! (He probably wants to borrow her tiara.)

[RGMike]

Nearly forgot to mention the then-married Carly and James back-to-back at #'s 12 and 11. Ms Simon tells JT that nobody does it better; he proves her point by making her cum-a, cum-a, cum-a, cum-a, cum cum!

[SFGuy]

XM version of the 80's was from September 10, 1983 which included Elton John wanting to "Kiss the Bride". A hit from hell: Taco's "Puttin' on the Ritz". Also included two songs, where I thought one artist was ripping off the other because it sounded so similar: Bonnie Tyler "Total Eclipse of the Heart" and Air Supply "Making Love Out of Nothing at All" until I later found out was written and produced by the same person, Jim Steinman (4 weeks later both of his songs were #1 and #2 for three straight weeks).

[RGMike]

two songs, where I thought one artist was ripping off the other because it sounded so similar: Bonnie Tyler "Total Eclipse of the Heart" and Air Supply "Making Love Out of Nothing at All" until I later found out was written and produced by the same person, Jim Steinman (4 weeks later both of his songs were #1 and #2 for three straight weeks).

Yes! That was Steinman's commercial peak -- he also produced a hit for Barry Manilow (!) around that time, and worked with Billy Squier and Barbara Streisand (!!).

[Gazoo]

Dorothy Moore's *other* hit, "I Believe You" (I'd forgotten it was written by the Addrisi Bros!), nicely covered a few years later by the Carpenters

I've long secretly wished that our very own Princess would do a cover of that song.  (Though maybe sans the verse about baby-making.)

[kahunaburger]

    Great countdown this week from September 19, 1970.  The initial bow of one of the greatest ballads in pop history "I'll Be There" by The Jackson 5 and the first hit (well semi hit) from a former member of the Monkees Mike Nesmith & the First National Band "Joanne" (great f'n song!).                                                        http://www.oldies1033.com/pages/5240598.php