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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #1905 on: February 20, 2010, 09:20:44 AM »
WOS Art Garfunkel (with James Taylor and Paul Simon), "Wonderful World."  I call bullshit - no way I'm buying what Art's selling when he sings "Don't know much about alegbra"; he's got a fricking math masters degree and reads several books a month.

BOS1 to Odyssey, "Native New Yorker," really hit the spot this morning.  IDKT: this was written by the Linzer/Randell team.

BOS2 to the much-maligned Rod the Cad, "You're in My Heart."  OMG: They silently bleeped out "big-bosomed"!!

LOL re: Art G and math.  I missed this one, got here during Short People #14, but maybe I'll hear it later.  JT's presence might be enuf for me to call BS on that song.

I find even Rod Stewart's lame hits to be fun, Do Ya think I'm Sexy, Young Turks, Tonight I'm Yours... all good. It's true he sold waaaay out, peaked w the early records, but I'm a fan.
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #1906 on: February 20, 2010, 09:48:15 AM »
WOS Art Garfunkel (with James Taylor and Paul Simon), "Wonderful World."  I call bullshit - no way I'm buying what Art's selling when he sings "Don't know much about alegbra"; he's got a fricking math masters degree and reads several books a month.


Gaz WOS's a Sam Cooke song -- shockah!  ;)

I'm about to begin the '70s show at the top of the hour on that Canadian station.
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #1907 on: February 20, 2010, 10:07:20 AM »
early BOS to Sweet Lou Rawls, "Lady Love" -- I've said it before: it sounds like a lost Spinners song to me.
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #1908 on: February 20, 2010, 10:27:35 AM »
VHM David Gates' "Goodbye Girl" -- robbed of a Best Song Oscar nom (it was the year "You Light Up My Life" won. sheesh)

BTW, we've been amused to hear this station give the weather and say "the high today will be -4 degrees", but it turns out that's Celsius; they're Canucks, after all.

BOS2 Santa Esmeralda's inspired disco-flamenco cover of "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood"
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #1909 on: February 20, 2010, 11:02:36 AM »
LAWD! the Canucks play Canadian "extras" between segments of AT40 -- here's Gino Vanelli's "People Gotta Move", which (TANC) he sang when he was the first white guy on Soul Train. *swoon*!
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #1910 on: February 20, 2010, 07:27:35 PM »
Chart Date: February 25, 1978


#33 Goodbye Girl – David Gates

#25 Theme From Close Encounters – Meco
#13 Theme From Close Encounters Of The Third Kind – John Williams

 

TANC: TCM showed these 2 movies back-to-back tonight (they both star Richard Dreyfuss, who had to beg Spielberg for the CEotTK part, which he got only after Steve McQueen and Jack Nicholson turned it down).
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #1911 on: February 21, 2010, 09:30:18 AM »
Casey's '80s BOS1 (and proxy of shray): Sly Fox, "Let's Go All the Way", one of my fave OHWs of all time

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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #1912 on: February 21, 2010, 09:47:57 AM »
BOS2 ABC's wonderful "How to Be a Millionaire" --why this never made it into Dave's annual Tax Day set remains a mystery.
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #1913 on: February 21, 2010, 10:09:04 AM »
WOS1 the Goat, "Bleat Talk To Me", back-to-back with WOS2, Macca's ridiculous "Spies Like Us".

and AAACK! it's Loverboy with WOS3, "This Could Be The Night I Finally Take Off These Silly Red Leather Pants"
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #1914 on: February 21, 2010, 10:18:23 AM »
WOS1 the Goat, "Bleat Talk To Me", back-to-back with WOS2, Macca's ridiculous "Spies Like Us".

You're listening right now?  Which station?  (I can't get .m3u playlists to play on my computer, so I'm locked out of that back-to-back station you mentioned.)
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #1915 on: February 21, 2010, 10:27:32 AM »
JCM's rock name-checking on "R.O.C.K..." leads to a feature on the "all-time name-dropping song", Reunion's "Life is a Rock".
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #1916 on: February 21, 2010, 10:29:08 AM »
WOS1 the Goat, "Bleat Talk To Me", back-to-back with WOS2, Macca's ridiculous "Spies Like Us".

You're listening right now?  Which station?  (I can't get .m3u playlists to play on my computer, so I'm locked out of that back-to-back station you mentioned.)

Magic 97.9 in West Virginia

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(our Canadian friends are running hockey today)
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #1917 on: February 21, 2010, 10:35:53 AM »
Hey, Simple Minds: sanctify yo' OWN damn selves!
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #1918 on: February 21, 2010, 10:52:28 AM »
eeek: Casey's Long-Distance Dedication is for the Space Shuttle Challenger astronauts, and it's... "Come Sail Away" by Styx.

meanwhile, I didn't know Elton was into aging bald men



and VHM RFTW's forgotten "Digital Display"

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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #1919 on: February 21, 2010, 11:28:46 AM »
uber-BOS3 "Tarzan Boy", another all-time-fave OHW.

VHM Wham's forgotten "I'm Your Man"

BOS4 Sheila E's equally forgotten "A Love Bizarre" -- a line like "swallow the pride and joy of my ivory tower" could only have been written by Prince.
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