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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #1845 on: February 06, 2010, 07:47:01 PM »
BOS1 Isaac Hayes' "Joy"; BOS2 Anne Murray with her 2nd Loggins cover in a year.
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #1846 on: February 07, 2010, 10:55:12 AM »
Listening to Casey's '80s this afternoon: February 1982.  WOS: "Pac-Man Fever," marginally played.  NTM: Eddie Schwartz (?), "All Our Tomorrows," a mopey snoozer I'll never hear again.
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #1847 on: February 07, 2010, 10:58:42 AM »
Quote from: Gazoo on February 07, 2010, 10:55:12 AM
Listening to Casey's '80s this afternoon: February 1982.  WOS: "Pac-Man Fever," marginally played.  NTM: Eddie Schwartz (?), "All Our Tomorrows," a mopey snoozer I'll never hear again.

I just tuned in-- the Canadian station, yes?  The era of '60s comebackers produced by then-current artists: we heard Del Shannon rescued by Tom Petty; the following year we'd get Mitch Ryder covering Prince produced by JCM.  (And of course Broooce/Gary US Bonds was the previous spring)
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #1848 on: February 07, 2010, 11:26:14 AM »
BOS Mr Manilow's "Somewhere Down the Road" -- too bad he was past his sell-by date (chartwise) in '83, because this is one of his loveliest forgotten gems.  And it's appropriate, lyrically, since I attended my friend Joe D's memorial service yesterday.

ETA: speaking of forgotten gems, VHM Stevie's "That Girl"  -- when do you ever hear this one on the radio?
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #1849 on: February 07, 2010, 11:38:20 AM »
What Urban Cowboy hath wrought: snoozy early-'80s country/AC crossover ballads like Alabama's "Love in the First Degree". No wonder the New Traditionalist movement sounded so fresh at the end of that decade.
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #1850 on: February 07, 2010, 11:45:14 AM »
Mira! Mira! it's "Mirror, Mirror"!
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #1851 on: February 07, 2010, 12:01:47 PM »
Guaranteed I never hear this one again: a Canadian "extra" called "Patio Lanterns" by Kim Mitchell (who?)

And here's the original Man-Who-Looks-Like-Kenny Rogers with the wedding-anniversary dance special "Thru the Years".
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #1852 on: February 07, 2010, 12:43:10 PM »
Quote from: RGMike on February 07, 2010, 11:38:20 AM
What Urban Cowboy hath wrought: snoozy early-'80s country/AC crossover ballads like Alabama's "Love in the First Degree". No wonder the New Traditionalist movement sounded so fresh at the end of that decade.

Thank you for ID'ing the source of the trend.  Zzzzzzz.

And yeah, I'm listening to the Petersboro station - "a high of -3"!
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #1853 on: February 07, 2010, 12:47:55 PM »
Gayest song of set: Air Supply, "Sweet Dreams."  I can't imagine how anyone hears this as anything but Graham and Russell singing their respective verses to each other.
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #1854 on: February 07, 2010, 12:52:01 PM »
Is there another act besides Air Supply who had so many HUGE hits in a short time and are now relegated to the dust heap of musical history (without an actual scandal like Milli Vanilli)?

"Close your eyes
I want to ride the skies"

er, huh?

BOS2 and TANC Paul Davis on a cool night -- if it don't feel right, you can go.
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #1855 on: February 07, 2010, 12:53:44 PM »
Quote from: Gazoo on February 07, 2010, 12:47:55 PM
Gayest song of set: Air Supply, "Sweet Dreams."  I can't imagine how anyone hears this as anything but Graham and Russell singing their respective verses to each other.

Bwahaha! HGM Cliff Richard doing "Daddy's Home"  ;)
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #1856 on: February 07, 2010, 01:03:19 PM »
it's clap-track nirvana!  VHM to the uber-cheeziness of "Hooked on Classics".  Better this than "Stars on 45" any day.
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #1857 on: February 07, 2010, 01:04:13 PM »
Quote from: RGMike on February 07, 2010, 12:52:01 PM
Is there another act besides Air Supply who had so many HUGE hits in a short time and are now relegated to the dust heap of musical history (without an actual scandal like Milli Vanilli)?

New Kids on the Block?

Meanwhile, WOS to "Hooked On Classics."  More specifically, worst drums of set.  Pause CLAP Pause CLAP Pause CLAP
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #1858 on: February 07, 2010, 01:05:01 PM »
Quote from: RGMike on February 07, 2010, 01:03:19 PM
it's clap-track nirvana! 

Clap jinx.

And point taken on Dame Cliff.
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #1859 on: February 07, 2010, 01:06:08 PM »
DHM "Shake It Up," doing the move with a quirky jerk.  (Don't be so hard on yourself, Ric!)
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