Casey Kasem American Top 40

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BOS Joan Jett's fab reading of Broooce's "Light of Day".  I'm seeing The Runaways tomorrow.

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Yikes -- WOS to this Boston song I barely remember.

I didn't much care for Ms Lauper's "What's Goin' On" cover in '87; now it seems brave, esp since her subsequent activism has made it an AIDS/gay rights anthem.

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Yikes -- WOS to this Boston song I barely remember.

I didn't much care for Ms Lauper's "What's Goin' On" cover in '87; now it seems brave, esp since her subsequent activism has made it an AIDS/gay rights anthem.

With you on Cyndi.

Wow - I have no memory at all of Shirley Murdock's "As We Lay," peaking here at #23.

And I'm reminded that Eddie Money's post-Ronnie renaissance produced quite a few forgettable and samey hits.  "I wanna go back and do it all over"? You just did!

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Wow - I have no memory at all of Shirley Murdock's "As We Lay," peaking here at #23.

It was big in NY; perhaps mid-America found that title too suggestive.

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BOS2 Peter Wolf's fab "Come As You Are".

lost-hit award of the week: Robbie Nevil's "Dominoes". That's not to say it's *good*, mind you -- just forgotten.

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Wow - I have no memory at all of Shirley Murdock's "As We Lay," peaking here at #23.

It was big in NY; perhaps mid-America found that title too suggestive.

I found it too ungrammatical.

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Wow - I have no memory at all of Shirley Murdock's "As We Lay," peaking here at #23.

It was big in NY; perhaps mid-America found that title too suggestive.

I found it too ungrammatical.

LQTM. Of course, "as we LIE" could be misinterpreted.

BOS3 Dead or Alive, "Brand New Lover"

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I haven't heard REO Speedwagon's "That Ain't Love" since it was on the charts.  In hindsight, it suffers from the same overproduction the Tubes underwent when they decided hits were more important than quality.

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Went to put clothes in the dryer and missed the Beasties. There's a lesson there.

VHM Janet Jackson Jody Watley.  Double Duty Award: Kool & the Gang show up in both the '70s & '80s charts this week -- that's a 13-year span from '74 to '87 -- but I barely remember "Stone Love".

OMGWTF: Hipsway's "The Honeythief" is another unjustly forgotten alt-radio gem.

Hearing this Canadian station do the temperatures in Celsius makes me glad the Sharks beat the Canucks last nite.

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Double Duty Award: Kool & the Gang show up in both the '70s & '80s charts this week -- that's a 13-year span from '74 to '87 -- but I barely remember "Stone Love".

"Stone Love" would be their final Top 40 entry, and broke an unusual streak: their previous 7 hits had all been one-word titles.

Unusual programming decision 'o' the times: in "Sign 'O' the Times," "crack" is bleeped out (but not "reefer").

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BOS4 the Jets doing Rupert Holmes. As creamy-teen-dreamy a record as the '80s produced.  You got it all over me! Ewww!

VHM the Bangles. What a wonderful LP Different Light is, and what a terrible mistake they made by writing their own songs for the follow-up.

Hooray for Canadian "extras"! Gino V. sez people gotta MOVE!

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Should I chastize the Pointers for legitimizing Bruce Willis' Staples cover, or praise them for being the only good thing about it?

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Should I chastize the Pointers for legitimizing Bruce Willis' Staples cover, or praise them for being the only good thing about it?

Good question.  Gotta let R&B mercenaries be R&B mercenaries, I guess.

Still running an hour ahead of you, I give BOS to the ladies of Expose with "Come Go With Me."  I wouldn't learn until years later that this dance-pop movement was called "freestyle," and I still don't know why it got that name.

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Should I chastize the Pointers for legitimizing Bruce Willis' Staples cover, or praise them for being the only good thing about it?

Good question.  Gotta let R&B mercenaries be R&B mercenaries, I guess.

Still running an hour ahead of you, I give BOS to the ladies of Expose with "Come Go With Me."  I wouldn't learn until years later that this dance-pop movement was called "freestyle," and I still don't know why it got that name.

because it was completely free of style?

Ha! Tina's "the oldest singer in the countdown" at 47.  Now I think 47 is young.

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Unusual programming decision 'o' the times: in "Sign 'O' the Times," "crack" is bleeped out (but not "reefer").

I heard that too -- meaning it's the syndicator's decision, not the individual station. Or maybe it was bleeped in the orig show back in '87? Odd. (I heard a late-'75 chart last year on 2 diff stations and one bleeped "bitch" from wacky Sedacky's "Bad Blood" but the other didn't.)