Casey Kasem American Top 40

[RGMike]

#33, I Just Want To Make Love To You by Foghat is a live cut, w crowd noises, applause, etc. 

Makes me wonder: What live song charted the highest? 

-- and by "live" I mean a version that was truly recorded live

There have been several "live" singles to make it to #1: Stevie Wonders' "Fingertips" is the most obvious, along with Marvin Gaye's "Got To Give it Up" and (sadly) Chuck Berry's "My Ding-a-Ling".  I'm sure we'll think of others...

[Wayback]

Chart Date: October 29, 1977

At40 Extra: If You Leave Me Now – Chicago

how odd: the #1 song from last week's 1976 chart is an extra this week. WTF?  Obviously "Butters" Stotch is working as an intern at AT40!

Sometimes those Extras are from the original show with Casey introducing it, and sometime he'll play #1 tune from year earlier, as in recent Sept '77 replay where he intro'd #1 from year ago, "Play That Funky Music"

[Wayback]

#33, I Just Want To Make Love To You by Foghat is a live cut, w crowd noises, applause, etc. 
Makes me wonder: What live song charted the highest? 
-- and by "live" I mean a version that was truly recorded live

There have been several "live" singles to make it to #1: Stevie Wonders' "Fingertips" is the most obvious, along with Marvin Gaye's "Got To Give it Up" and (sadly) Chuck Berry's "My Ding-a-Ling".  I'm sure we'll think of others...

Perhaps some from '80's to present that I'm not aware of

[RGMike]

#33, I Just Want To Make Love To You by Foghat is a live cut, w crowd noises, applause, etc. 
Makes me wonder: What live song charted the highest? 
-- and by "live" I mean a version that was truly recorded live

There have been several "live" singles to make it to #1: Stevie Wonders' "Fingertips" is the most obvious, along with Marvin Gaye's "Got To Give it Up" and (sadly) Chuck Berry's "My Ding-a-Ling".  I'm sure we'll think of others...

Perhaps some from '80's to present that I'm not aware of

More:

John Denver, "Thank God I'm a Country Boy" (1975)
Macca, "Coming Up (Live at Glasgow)" (1980)
Billy Idol "Mony Mony" (1987)
Elton John/George Michael "Don't Let The Sun Go Down on Me" (1992)

I'm still not clear on whether "Bennie and the Jets" was "live" or doctored.

[Tinka Cat]

#33, I Just Want To Make Love To You by Foghat is a live cut, w crowd noises, applause, etc.
Makes me wonder: What live song charted the highest? 
-- and by "live" I mean a version that was truly recorded live

There have been several "live" singles to make it to #1: Stevie Wonders' "Fingertips" is the most obvious, along with Marvin Gaye's "Got To Give it Up" and (sadly) Chuck Berry's "My Ding-a-Ling".  I'm sure we'll think of others...

Perhaps some from '80's to present that I'm not aware of

More:

John Denver, "Thank God I'm a Country Boy" (1975)
Macca, "Coming Up (Live at Glasgow)" (1980)
Billy Idol "Mony Mony" (1987)
Elton John/George Michael "Don't Let The Sun Go Down on Me" (1992)

I'm still not clear on whether "Bennie and the Jets" was "live" or doctored.

thanks for the info, Mike!

[RGMike]

Wow, Rose Royce's "Do Your Dance" is as unmemorable a groove as I can imagine from that dance-happy era. Meanwhile First Choice's uber-fabulous "Dr Love" is stuck at its #41 peak, never to see the light of Top 40 day.  Unfair, sez I.

Chart-geek alert: Paul Davis is here with "I Go Crazy", in the first of its many many weeks in Casey's countdown.

[RGMike]

Seals & Crofts' "My Fair Share" gets the bizarre lyric award of the week, from the Robbie Benson basketball movie One on One: "Lay me down with justice in a long white gown". Er... wha??

Props to Styx for resisting the impulse to rhyme "virgin sea" with "emergency". But Casey can't restrain himself from gushing over Ms Ronstadt's two big... hits.

BOS and proxy of Gaz for Mr Manilow's "Daybreak"; Barry was very nearly back-to-back with Ronnie Milsap's imitation of him, but Judy Collins got between them. And yes, TC, I agree: her "Send in the Clowns" sounds warped -- must be the same copy Casey played in '75 when it charted the first time! Maybe he left it on the radiator.

[RGMike]

The idle mind is the playground of the Devil!  BOS2 Peter Brown's "Do Ya Wanna Get Funky Wit Me?" 

I remember this chart now -- it's the one where Casey creams his jeans over the fact that there are "five remakes in a row!"  Jeez, Casey...chill, dude.

[Gazoo]

Casey's '80s this week hit November 1983, the height of British Invasion II, where my co-BOS votes go to JoBoxers' "Just Got Lucky" and Culture Club's "Church of the Poison Mind" (NB: Casey called the legendary Helen Terry an unofficial band member!).  HM to Pat Benatar, "Love Is a Cattlefield."  Only one I didn't remember was Rick Springfield's "Souls," and I've promptly forgotten it again already.

[RGMike]

The idle mind is the playground of the Devil!  BOS2 Peter Brown's "Do Ya Wanna Get Funky Wit Me?" 

I remember this chart now -- it's the one where Casey creams his jeans over the fact that there are "five remakes in a row!"  Jeez, Casey...chill, dude.

Meant to mention last nite that we heard the long-forgotten "clean" version of "Changes in Latitudes/Attitudes", which substitutes the phrase "scratches & stitches" for "son-of-a-bitches" (!) -- I totally did not remember that even existed.

[SFGuy]

Casey's '80s this week hit November 1983, the height of British Invasion II, where my co-BOS votes go to JoBoxers' "Just Got Lucky" and Culture Club's "Church of the Poison Mind" (NB: Casey called the legendary Helen Terry an unofficial band member!).  HM to Pat Benatar, "Love Is a Cattlefield."  Only one I didn't remember was Rick Springfield's "Souls," and I've promptly forgotten it again already.

"Souls" sounded like every other Rick Springfield that era. He could use the beat to "Human Touch", "Love Somebody" or "Affair of the Heart".

[Gazoo]

Casey's '80s this week hit November 1983, the height of British Invasion II, where my co-BOS votes go to JoBoxers' "Just Got Lucky" and Culture Club's "Church of the Poison Mind" (NB: Casey called the legendary Helen Terry an unofficial band member!).  HM to Pat Benatar, "Love Is a Cattlefield."  Only one I didn't remember was Rick Springfield's "Souls," and I've promptly forgotten it again already.

"Souls" sounded like every other Rick Springfield that era. He could use the beat to "Human Touch", "Love Somebody" or "Affair of the Heart".

*chuckle*  Precisely.  But I gotta say, I dug his eccentric side on "Bop Til You Drop" and "Celebrate Youth."

[Wayback]

Next Casey70's is a chart we heard a year ago, Nov 8, 1975:
http://www.whnn.com/goout.asp?u=http://www.whnn.com/Article.asp?id=583277&spid=

[kahunaburger]

Next Casey70's is a chart we heard a year ago, Nov 8, 1975:
http://www.whnn.com/goout.asp?u=http://www.whnn.com/Article.asp?id=583277&spid=

The repeats are also getting on my nerves. How many weeks has it been since a '72 show has aired?! "Rockin' All Over The World" (obvious Chuck Berry cop) "Born To Run" and "Lady Blue" are great songs that never cracked the top 10. "Miracles" and "Lyin' Eyes" are 2 great songs that did (but unjustly didn't make it to #1). "Saturday Night" and "S.O.S. are great pop cheese. "Let's Do It Again" is a great song from a terrible movie.   I love Elton John but "Island Girl" has to be one of the worst songs he ever recorded from a terrible album "Rock of the Westies".  He has wisely kept it out of his concert set.  It edges out "Feelings" as worst song in this weeks countdown.

[RGMike]

Next Casey70's is a chart we heard a year ago, Nov 8, 1975:
http://www.whnn.com/goout.asp?u=http://www.whnn.com/Article.asp?id=583277&spid=

The repeats are also getting on my nerves.

indeed, not the most exciting of charts, other than Ms Baez's "Diamonds & Rust" and Sweet Melissa's unjustly forgotten "Just Too Many People", and Esther Phillips' "What a Difference a Gay Disco Remakes"