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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #2175 on: May 01, 2010, 11:51:51 AM »
Dude! she's a DUDE!  If you'd told me in '75 that Queen's ode to a, um, queen would end up an overplayed Classic Rock staple I'd've fainted dead away.
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #2176 on: May 01, 2010, 12:02:22 PM »
OMFG! another Canadian "extra": Gino Vanelli's '80s comeback attempt, the unfairly forgotten "Black Cars"!

and speaking of unfairly forgotten -- do even Lite Rock stations play Mr Manilow's delightful "It's a Miracle" any more?  VHM just because.
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #2177 on: May 01, 2010, 12:12:23 PM »
Casey's career retrospective on producer Rick Hall was quite the eye-opener. Too bad Rick ended up helming hits by Paul Anka, whose whiny "I Don't Like To Sleep Alone" gets a WOS3.

Most Scarily Prophetic Lyric of the Day: Karen Carpenter in "Only Yesterday" sings "in my own time nobody knew/the pain I was goin' thru..."
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #2178 on: May 01, 2010, 10:57:38 PM »
Quote from: Gazoo on April 27, 2010, 10:10:27 AM
Quote from: SFGuy on April 27, 2010, 02:36:14 AM
Quote from: RGMike on April 26, 2010, 10:12:42 AM
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?

I like 1980-early 1985.
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #2179 on: May 02, 2010, 06:35:36 AM »
Listening to '86 this morning, I have no memory of Honeymoon Suite's "Feel It Again."
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #2180 on: May 02, 2010, 07:19:11 AM »
I'd liked Julian Lennon's "Stick Around" when it came out, but 24 years later, it sounds rather awful.

BOS to Sade and the magnificent "Never as Good as the First Time."
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #2181 on: May 02, 2010, 07:32:58 AM »
Bleah: Culture Club going through the motions on "Move Away."
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #2182 on: May 02, 2010, 07:39:10 AM »
VHM to John Taylor's "I Do What I Do," capturing the sexual energy of 9 1/2 Weeks.
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #2183 on: May 02, 2010, 07:54:14 AM »
Wow, I have no memory of Jermaine Jackson's "I Think It's Love" - but I dig it!  Simple lyrics, but infectious and kinda retro.
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #2184 on: May 02, 2010, 08:15:36 AM »
zhum zhum zibididi zhum zhum zibididi

Casey tells a great story about how Sly Fox's (beloved by many here) "Let's Go All the Way" failed as a single a year prior, then got a second chance when a (Houston?) program director put it back in rotation since, as he said, he needed an uptempo record to balance out the number of ballads then on the charts and still believed in this one.  Other PDs took note of the positive response to it and added it to their rotations, and it took off.

I never heard even a follow-up single from them, though.
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #2185 on: May 02, 2010, 08:27:31 AM »
BOS2 to an all-time favorite, Nu Shooz' "I Can't Wait."  Such pure joy coming out of the pores of this record.  Orange sunshine.  And as I've surely mentioned before, I was kinda crushing on both of them, Valerie Day seeming like she could've been a Head of the Class cast member.
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #2186 on: May 02, 2010, 09:57:06 AM »
Quote from: Gazoo on May 02, 2010, 08:27:31 AM
BOS2 to an all-time favorite, Nu Shooz' "I Can't Wait."  Such pure joy coming out of the pores of this record.  Orange sunshine.  And as I've surely mentioned before, I was kinda crushing on both of them, Valerie Day seeming like she could've been a Head of the Class cast member.

I love it too, despite the cheesiest $39.95 Casio keyboard synth-line evah.

But I'm just starting the countdown in Canada. I feel nothing at all for Heart's "Nothing At All"
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #2187 on: May 02, 2010, 10:40:48 AM »
WOS1 Starship's "Tomorrow Doesn't Matter Tonight" -- as generic as '80s AOR sludge gets.
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #2188 on: May 02, 2010, 10:43:22 AM »
Quote from: Gazoo on May 02, 2010, 07:19:11 AM
I'd liked Julian Lennon's "Stick Around" when it came out, but 24 years later, it sounds rather awful.


I don't remember this one at all; thankfully I'll probably never hear it again.
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #2189 on: May 02, 2010, 11:10:56 AM »
VHM the Jets' cute first hit, "Crush on You"; BOS1 Cherrelle & Alexander O'Neal's fab "Saturday Love".
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