Casey Kasem American Top 40

[RGMike]

another early heads-up: Casey's '70s this week visits May 3rd 1975:

http://www.charismusicgroup.com/Cue%20Sheets/05-03-75.pdf

and the '80s version is from May 3rd 1986:

http://www.charismusicgroup.com/Cue%20Sheets/05-03-86.pdf

[SFGuy]

another early heads-up: Casey's '70s this week visits May 3rd 1975:

http://www.charismusicgroup.com/Cue%20Sheets/05-03-75.pdf

and the '80s version is from May 3rd 1986:

http://www.charismusicgroup.com/Cue%20Sheets/05-03-86.pdf

Wow. I will missing two Casey's 80's shows in a row. I don't like 1986 nor 1988.

[Gazoo]

another early heads-up: Casey's '70s this week visits May 3rd 1975:

http://www.charismusicgroup.com/Cue%20Sheets/05-03-75.pdf

and the '80s version is from May 3rd 1986:

http://www.charismusicgroup.com/Cue%20Sheets/05-03-86.pdf

Wow. I will missing two Casey's 80's shows in a row. I don't like 1986 nor 1988.

Which years do you look forward to?

[Wayback]

As you know, Casey Kasem's 78th birthday was this week.  Here's a clip from Howard Stern show, using sound bites of Casey on a prank phone call: placing an order for Chinese food (G-rated, 2 min's long): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJ4D1l_Yu1Q&feature=related

[RGMike]

Saturday morning '70s for me. Instant BOS "Wildfire", one of the loveliest and most-unfairly maligned songs ever.

[Tinka Cat]

Saturday morning '70s for me. Instant BOS "Wildfire", one of the loveliest and most-unfairly maligned songs ever.

Yes!  when I said "Awesome song" the gf said "cheesiest song evah"  and I was all "what?" and she was all "yup."  puh-lease.

another BOSFRA for the Temps and why not give one to Herman Melville Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes.  This Gordon Lightfoot is a little less weighty than some of his other hits, but this lower part of the chart -- as usual -- does not disappoint!

[RGMike]

Saturday morning '70s for me. Instant BOS "Wildfire", one of the loveliest and most-unfairly maligned songs ever.

Yes!  when I said "Awesome song" the gf said "cheesiest song evah"  and I was all "what?" and she was all "yup."  puh-lease.

another BOSFRA for the Temps and why not give one to Herman Melville Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes.  This Gordon Lightfoot is a little less weighty than some of his other hits, but this lower part of the chart -- as usual -- does not disappoint!

"Wildfire" is so obviously (to my ears) a carefully-honed death metaphor. Edgar Allen Poe woulda been proud. I always thought the Lightfoot deserved better, chart-wise.

BOS2 Alice Cooper's still-extraordinary "Only Women Bleed"

[RGMike]

I'll repeat my line from last year: when Lobo says "your hair smells like a Sunday morning" does that mean she smells like the New York Times? Bagels and lox? Wha?

[Tinka Cat]

Chart Date: May 3, 1975

#40 Wildfire – Michael Murphey
#39 Shakey Ground – The Temptations
#38 Bad Luck (Part 1) – Harold Melvin & The Bluenotes
#37 Rainy Day People – Gordon Lightfoot
#36 Only Women – Alice Cooper
#35 Don’t Tell Me Goodnight – Lobo
#34 I’m Not Lisa – Jessi Colter
#33 When Will I Be Loved – Linda Ronstadt
#32 Cut The Cake – The Average White Band
#31 The Immigrant – Neil Sedaka
#30 Shaving Cream – Paul Wynn
#29 Young Americans – David Bowie
#28 Sister Golden Hair – America
#27 Love Won’t Let Me Wait – Major Harris
#Extra: Magic – Pilot
#26 Hijack – Herbie Mann
#25 Autobahn – Kraftwerk
#24 Bad Time – Grand Funk
#23 Shoeshine Boy – Eddie Kendricks
#22 What Am I Gonna Do With You – Barry White
#21 Supernatural Thing Part 1 – Ben E. King
#20 Stand By Me – John Lennon
#19 Emma – Hot Chocolate
#18 L-O-V-E (Love) – Al Green
#17 Lovin’ You – Minnie Riperton
#16 The Bertha Butt Boogie Pt. 1 – The Jimmy Castor Bunch
#15 Thank God I’m A Country Boy – John Denver
#14 Killer Queen – Queen
#Extra: Old Days – Chicago
#13 It’s A Miracle – Barry Manilow
#12 How Long – Ace
#11 I Don’t Like To Sleep Alone – Paul Anka
#10 Only Yesterday – The Carpenters
#9 Long Tall Glasses (I Can Dance) – Leo Sayer
#8 Walking In Rhythm – The Blackbyrds
#7 Shining Star – Earth, Wind & Fire
#6 Jackie Blue – The Ozark Mountain Daredevils
#5 Chevy Van – Sammy Johns
#4 Philadelphia Freedom – The Elton John Band
#3 Before The Next Teardrop Falls – Freddy Fender
#Extra: Love Will Keep Us Together – The Captain & Tennille
#2 (Hey Won’t You Play) Another Somebody Done Somebody Wrong Song – B.J. Thomas
#1 He Don’t Love You (Like I Love You) – Tony Orlando & Dawn

[Tinka Cat]

I'll repeat my line from last year: when Lobo says "your hair smells like a Sunday morning" does that mean she smells like the New York Times? Bagels and lox? Wha?

Sunday morning is when we change the bed linens, so i think of dirty laundry!

[RGMike]

BOS3 Neil Sedaka's shining hour -- even if he hadn't made explicit in interviews that "The Immigrant" was dedicated to Lennon, it's quite a beautiful lyric. (and more relevant than ever)

and one of the OMGWTFLOLs of the century to "Shaving Cream". An example of the now-dead idea that one radio station can launch a hit -- NYC's WNBC starting playing it as a goofy joke and it snowballed.

Yikes -- that 45 edit of "Young Americans" made my head spin.

[RGMike]

Sister's "golden hair surprise" was that her hair wasn't really golden. "Collar doesn't match the cuffs!" as we used to say.

VHM Major Harris' ode to premature ejaculation.

[RGMike]

TANC: we just talked about him last week, and here's Keith Hampshire doing one of the filler selections on this Canadian station, a 1973 hit of his called "Big Time Operator", sounding rather like David Clayton-Thomas.

BOS4 Herbie Mann's fabulously jazzy "Hijack", one of those early-disco hits that was much bigger in NY than anywhere else.

VHM Kraftwerk, fahr'n fahr'n fahr'n auf der autobahn; proxy of Gaz for "Bad Time"

[Tinka Cat]

Yikes -- that 45 edit of "Young Americans" made my head spin.

me too, hacked to pieces. 

I never knew Kraftwerk made the Top 40.  BOS

[RGMike]

"You know how
to make me OWWWW!"

Oh Big Barry you had a way with words, you sexy walrus.

One of my perennial WOS's to Hot Chocolate's horrid "Emma", a young-girl-dies-prematurely epic so misguided it makes Bobby Goldsboro's "Honey" seem like Shakespeare. And WOS2 "Bertha Butt Boogie" -- no question! Those silly "character" voices get old real fast.