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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #1830 on: February 03, 2010, 01:02:21 PM »
This weekend (2/6-7) Casey70's visits Feb 2, 1974:
http://www.wods.com/pages/6269260.php
Note that Casey didn’t play song #5 since another version of 'Americans' was played at #26.  NTM, I didn't know there was another hit called “ABRACADABRA” (De Franco Family) before Steve Miller's hit.

Meanwhile, Casey80's visits Feb 6, 1982:
http://www.whnn.com/goout.asp?u=http://images.radcity.net/5874/4163844.pdf
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #1831 on: February 04, 2010, 02:34:20 AM »
Quote from: Wayback on February 03, 2010, 01:02:21 PM
This weekend (2/6-7) Casey70's visits Feb 2, 1974:
http://www.wods.com/pages/6269260.php
Note that Casey didn’t play song #5 since another version of 'Americans' was played at #26.  NTM, I didn't know there was another hit called “ABRACADABRA” (De Franco Family) before Steve Miller's hit.

Meanwhile, Casey80's visits Feb 6, 1982:
http://www.whnn.com/goout.asp?u=http://images.radcity.net/5874/4163844.pdf

Looking at the Cue sheets throughout Feb of 1974, it appears Casey alternated between the two versions playing one version one week, then the other next week.
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #1832 on: February 04, 2010, 07:37:50 AM »
Quote from: Gazoo on January 27, 2010, 09:33:50 PM
I feel as though we haven't hit '74 in a long time. 

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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #1833 on: February 04, 2010, 10:08:10 AM »
Quote from: Wayback on February 03, 2010, 01:02:21 PM
NTM, I didn't know there was another hit called “ABRACADABRA” (De Franco Family) before Steve Miller's hit.

It's wincingly bad.  Tony DeFranco was flatter than Pink.
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #1834 on: February 06, 2010, 07:22:31 AM »
Grand Funk's "Walk Like a Man" was NTM.  I'll put it back where I found it.
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #1835 on: February 06, 2010, 07:42:45 AM »
BOS to Elton's GYBR.  Another of the very first songs I ever heard; it made me cry, even though I had no idea then what the words meant.  I only knew it was the saddest melody I'd ever heard, and even today it makes me pause when I hear it.

Temps' "Let Your Hair Down," an R&B #1, is forgettable to my ears: I almost called it NTM, but then checked, and it's indeed on the Temps 2-CD anthology I have.
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #1836 on: February 06, 2010, 07:56:05 AM »
BOS2 to La Ross, "Last Time I Saw Him."  Don't cry, honey!  TANC: I just watched Lady Sings the Blues for the first time last night.  Diana was passable, but the storytelling was poor.  Whose fault is that - the director?
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #1837 on: February 06, 2010, 08:06:23 AM »
Odd pronunciation in "Americans": "Nic-a-rag-u-a"?
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #1838 on: February 06, 2010, 08:36:16 AM »
BOS3 to "Boogie Down."  I wish I liked Macca's "Helen Wheels" more, but the lo-fi production bugs me.

I'm puzzled by the chart action on the Stones' "Heartbreaker," which debuts all the way up at #22 this week but goes on to peak only at #15, lasting only 6 weeks on the chart.  Surprising for a follow-up to a #1 that itself remains a classic-rock recurrent.
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #1839 on: February 06, 2010, 09:09:34 AM »
"New York - just like I pictured it."  Casey plays the l-o-n-g version of Stevie's inner-city opus.
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #1840 on: February 06, 2010, 09:41:57 AM »
BOS4 to Gladys Knight and the Pips at their most powerful, usin' their imagination.

"Since we've already heard Sinclair's version, we'll move on to #4."  Ha!
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #1841 on: February 06, 2010, 11:45:50 AM »
Quote from: Gazoo on February 06, 2010, 07:56:05 AM
BOS2 to La Ross, "Last Time I Saw Him."  Don't cry, honey!  TANC: I just watched Lady Sings the Blues for the first time last night.  Diana was passable, but the storytelling was poor.  Whose fault is that - the director?

Caught some of it last nite too. Billy Dee -- Oh MY!  But yeah, it's a typical cliched H'wood biopic. Not a great screenplay. The director was Sidney J Furie, who was a guy that did a lot of genre shlock before graduating to stuff like The Ipcress File with Michael Caine.  LSTB was supposed to be his big leap to respectability, but it was all downhill after that.
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #1842 on: February 06, 2010, 07:22:19 PM »
Quote from: Gazoo on February 06, 2010, 07:22:31 AM
Grand Funk's "Walk Like a Man" was NTM.  I'll put it back where I found it.

indeed. Now, if they'd covered the 4 Seasons' "Walk Like a Man", they mighta had somethin'.  Looooved hearing Casey sing on the outro from "Dark Lady". 
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #1843 on: February 06, 2010, 07:32:17 PM »
VHM smooth Smokey's lovely/sexy "Baby Come Close".
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #1844 on: February 06, 2010, 07:39:25 PM »
The last time Helen Reddy saw him, she said "leave me alone", so he hooked up with Sweet Gypsy Rose in the strawberry patch.
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