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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #1545 on: September 17, 2009, 03:34:42 PM »
Quote from: kahunaburger on September 17, 2009, 03:18:12 PM
    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

awesome stuff there, esp the usual "lesser" hits in the first hour -- Chairmen of the Board, Poppy Family, the post-Diana Supes. All this and "Rubber Duckie" too!  This is one chart I've never heard before. Can't wait.
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #1546 on: September 17, 2009, 04:36:42 PM »
Quote from: kahunaburger on September 17, 2009, 03:18:12 PM
  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


#40 I’ll Be There – The Jackson 5
#39 Green-Eyed Lady – Sugarloaf
#38 Everything’s Tuesday – Chairmen Of The Board
#37 That’s Where I Went Wrong – Poppy Family F/Susan Jacks
#36 Lola – The Kinks
#35 Indiana Wants Me – R. Dean Taylor
#34 Look What They’ve Done To My Song Ma – The New Seekers F/Eva Graham
#33 Out In The Country – Three Dog Night
EXTRA -- Green Door - Jim Lowe
#32 Peace Will Come (According To Plan) – Melanie
#31 Closer To Home – Grand Funk Railroad
#30 Long Long Time – Linda Ronstadt
#29 Everybody’s Got The Right To Love – The Supremes
#28 Joanne – Micheal Nesmith & The First National Band
EXTRA -- Little Darlin' - The Diamonds
#27 Neanderthal Man – Hotlegs
#26 Express Yourself – Charles Wright & The Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band
#25 It’s A Shame – The Spinners
#24 (If You Let Me Make Love To You Then) Why Can’t I Touch You? – Ronnie Dyson
EXTRA -- Suspicion - Terry Stafford
#23 Solitary Man – Neil Diamond
#22 Hi-De-Ho – Blood, Sweat, & Tears
#21 Hand Me Down World – The Guess Who
#20 All Right Now – Free
#19 Signed, Sealed, Delivered (I’m Yours) – Stevie Wonder
#18 Rubber Duckie – Ernie (From Sesame Street)
#17 Groovy Situation – Gene Chandler
#16 Spill The Wine – Eric Burdon & War
#15 I (Who Have Nothing) – Tom Jones
#14 (I Know) I’m Losing You – Rare Earth
#13 Snowbird – Anne Murray
#12 Cracklin’ Rosie – Neil Diamond
#11 Don’t Play That Song – Aretha Franklin With The Dixie Flyers
#10 Make It With You – Bread
#9 Candida – Dawn
#8 (They Long To Be) Close To You – The Carpenters
#7 In The Summertime – Mungo Jerry
#6 25 0r 6 To 4 – Chicago
#5 Julie, Do Ya Love Me – Bobby Sherman
#4 Patches – Clarence Carter
#3 Lookin’ Out My Back Door/Long As I Can See The Light – Creedence Clearwater Revival
#2 War – Edwin Starr
#1 Ain’t No Mountain High Enough – Diana Ross
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #1547 on: September 19, 2009, 07:17:11 PM »
VHM the Chairmen of the Board, with one of their great shoulda-been-bigger mid-charters, "Everything's Tuesday".

OMGWTFLOL to the Poppy Family's *other* hit, "That's Where I Went Wrong", which I've maybe heard once or twice since 1970.

BOS-in-perpetuity, "Indiana Wants Me"
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #1548 on: September 19, 2009, 07:49:21 PM »
BOS2 3DN's "Out in the Country" -- no secret that I love that one.

Melanie gets 2 hits on this chart; the New Seekers' cover of "Look What They've Done To My Song", and her own "Peace Will Come" -- VHM for another example of how political songs made the charts regularly back then.

GFR get closer to a hit than they'd been previously. It's worth remembering how HATED they were by critics at the time.

BOS3 Ms Ronstadt's exquisite rendering of "Long Long Time".
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #1549 on: September 19, 2009, 08:02:55 PM »
Quite an embarrassment of riches here, and we're still in the first hour!  VHM the Supes with another of their post-Ross gems, "Everybody's Got the Right to Love".  And BOS4 Michael Nesmith's lovely "Joanne".

But just plain embarrassing is Hotlegs' "Neanderthal Man" -- even a 10cc worshipper like me can't defend this one.

But lawd have mercy! BOS5 Charles Wright and the Watts 103rd Street Longest-Group-Name-Ever, 'spressin' theyself.
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #1550 on: September 19, 2009, 08:27:02 PM »
Another BOS(6)-in-perpetuity to the Spinners: "It's a Shame" is always on my list of best Motown singles of all time.  VHM the late Ronnie Dyson's "(IYLMMLTYT)WCITY?"  And Neil Diamond shows up with the first of *his* 2 hits, a re-release of "Solitary Man".

BS&T get some o' that ole sweet roll; the Guess Who enjoy the fuzzy-wuzzy love'n'touch explosion. Or something.
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #1551 on: September 19, 2009, 08:56:17 PM »
ah, there's nothing like playing with something that's yellow and chubby, eh Ernie? NYC had 3 active Top 40 stations in 1970; all of them ignored "Rubber Duckie", to their everlasting shame.

Me, I'd've preferred to play with Tom Jones in 1970. Rrrrrrrrowr!  BOS7 "I Who Have Nothing".
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #1552 on: September 19, 2009, 09:19:07 PM »
Casey sez Anne Murray became a phys ed teacher because she had 5 brothers. Yeah, right.  VHM the short, sweet, "Snowbird"

More all-time-faves of mine: BOS8 "Cracklin' Rosie", BOS9 "Don't Play That Song", one of my 3 or 4 fave Aretha singles -- and the 2nd Ben E King cover in the Top 20.  And BOS10 (!) is a Ben E King hommage, Dawn's "Candida" -- the Drifters and everyone at the Brill Building would be proud.
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #1553 on: September 19, 2009, 09:44:01 PM »
Casey says "25 or 6 to 4" cribs from a Stan Kenton record, but doesn't say which one.  Bobby Sherman is tossin' & turnin' & freezin' & burnin'. And I'm exhausted: this has been one terrific chart.
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #1554 on: September 20, 2009, 10:49:03 AM »
Ooops, almost forgot my WOS: I've always hated the lump of treacle that is "Patches".

2 days later poppa passed away
and I became a man that day

So... he lost his virginity on the day his father died?
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #1555 on: September 20, 2009, 07:59:27 PM »
Quote from: RGMike on September 20, 2009, 10:49:03 AM
Ooops, almost forgot my WOS: I've always hated the lump of treacle that is "Patches".

2 days later poppa passed away
and I became a man that day

So... he lost his virginity on the day his father died?

well, funerals often make people passionate and randy... "oh man, I can't believe s/he died.. life is short! I better get laid!"

The Buoys' Timothy is about that taboo subject cannibalism... uh... er...  have any songs about necrophilia ever charted?   
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #1556 on: September 21, 2009, 07:41:16 AM »
Quote from: Tinka_Cat on September 20, 2009, 07:59:27 PM
have any songs about necrophilia ever charted?   

dunno about charted singles, but there's Alice Cooper's "Cold Ethyl" and some people think the Stones' "She's So Cold" is necromantic.
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #1557 on: September 21, 2009, 11:21:29 AM »
What's the URL for the station that archives the weekly ATF broadcast for replay on demand?
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #1558 on: September 21, 2009, 11:53:19 AM »
Quote from: urth on September 21, 2009, 11:21:29 AM
What's the URL for the station that archives the weekly ATF broadcast for replay on demand?

The station no longer does that, much to everyone's dismay.  They were offered here:
http://www.oldies1033.com/Oldies-On-Demand-Audio/4334827

I'm sure the AT40 folks threatened the station  w some ponderous legal action for offering those links .... ponderous.
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #1559 on: September 23, 2009, 08:09:27 PM »
This weekend's Casey70's: Sept 16, 1978.   Did we hear this chart a year ago?
http://www.whnn.com/goout.asp?u=http://www.whnn.com/Article.asp?id=583277&spid=
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