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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #2190 on: May 02, 2010, 11:23:45 AM »

BOS to Sade and the magnificent "Never as Good as the First Time."

Agreed -- BOS2 from me.

And I'll actually VHM ZZT's "Rough Boy", which I always assumed was a tongue-in-cheek Eagles parody.
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #2191 on: May 02, 2010, 11:33:02 AM »
VHM to John Taylor's "I Do What I Do," capturing the sexual energy of 9 1/2 Weeks.

But why you'd want to capture anything about that awful film is anybody's guess ;)

Tender BOS3 "Tender Love" by the Force MD's, aka "the Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers of Hip-Hop".
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #2192 on: May 02, 2010, 12:14:13 PM »
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.

uber-BOS4 from me -- the cleverness of this Prince/Beatles mashup never fails to make me smile. Wheeeeeeeeeeeee!

VHMs to Nu Level Forty-Tooz.  I remember hearing "I Can't Wait" in Sept of '85 while on vacay in Portland OR (Nu Shooz' hometown) -- it was getting a ton of airplay on the local Top 40 station. Took 6 months for the rest of the country to catch up.

"I love you... even when you don't drive" is a fave mondegreen from that decade.
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #2193 on: May 02, 2010, 12:27:42 PM »
Best hair combo: Patti LaB  & Michael McD.



VHM the creamy-dreaminess of "On My Own"
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #2194 on: May 02, 2010, 12:39:31 PM »
I bought the 45 of Seger's "American Storm" for the B-side, a live cover of "Fortunate Son".
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #2195 on: May 04, 2010, 12:45:32 PM »
This week's casey's '70s goes to May 14th 1977:

http://www.charismusicgroup.com/Cue%20Sheets/05-14-77.pdf

and the '80s version is from May 10th 1980:

http://www.charismusicgroup.com/Cue%20Sheets/05-10-80.pdf


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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #2196 on: May 04, 2010, 09:56:39 PM »
and the '80s version is from May 10th 1980:

http://www.charismusicgroup.com/Cue%20Sheets/05-10-80.pdf

Lot of forgottens in this underserved year - some, deservedly so, like Neil Sedaka's effort with his untalented daughter.  (And to think that Neil procreated - will wonders never cease.)
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #2197 on: May 08, 2010, 07:02:54 AM »
1977 kicks off with a NTM, John Miles' "Slow Down."  It's kind of a shrieking disco mess, sung by a guy who, Casey informs me, sang on an Alan Parsons hit (that I've only heard once), "Dr. Tarr and Professor Feather."
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #2198 on: May 08, 2010, 07:33:24 AM »
Firefall's "Cinderella" is NTM.  There's a story in there but I couldn't keep up with what was going on.

And John Denver sounds a hell of a lot better singing "My Sweet Lady" than that awful Cliff DeYoung did.
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #2199 on: May 08, 2010, 08:00:48 AM »
Shoot, "Your Love" deserved better than a #15 peak.  I guess R&B duets in the Gaye-Terrell tradition were mostly done by this point.
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #2200 on: May 08, 2010, 10:21:56 AM »
Shoot, "Your Love" deserved better than a #15 peak.  I guess R&B duets in the Gaye-Terrell tradition were mostly done by this point.

Glad you like -- I much prefer that one to "You Don't Have To Be a Tar Baby", and its Mavin-n-Tammi-ness floors me every time. And here it's back-to-back with one of my other favorite lost soul hits, "Whodunit". "Hey Barretta won't ya please go get her?"
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #2201 on: May 08, 2010, 07:19:11 PM »
1977 kicks off with a NTM, John Miles' "Slow Down."  It's kind of a shrieking disco mess, sung by a guy who, Casey informs me, sang on an Alan Parsons hit (that I've only heard once), "Dr. Tarr and Professor Feather."

I'd forgotten this one -- and sadly you're right about it being a mess. Miles had an interesting and varied career; his song "Music" the year before, an overblown Neil Diamond-esque epic produced by Parsons, was a big British chart hit and a fave on NYC prog-FM. (and "Slow Down" got to #10 in the UK) But earlier he did Fauxtownish pop records like this one from '73:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddf_PDTnzAY
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #2202 on: May 08, 2010, 07:29:35 PM »
aaack! Kenny Nowwan, "Wuv's Gwown Deep".

And speaking of songs that deserved better chartwise: the Jacksons' "Show You the Way to Go" remains one of my faves of their post-Motown career. BOS1

BOSes 2 & 3 to the aforementioned Tavares and Marilyn/Billy hits.
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #2203 on: May 08, 2010, 09:00:12 PM »
surprising to hear "Don't Leave Me This Way" still in the chart in mid-May; I remember hearing it on the radio in January of that year.

more delightfully diverse '70s soul: BOS4 Joe Tex's funny disco novelty and BOS5 Hot's wonderful "Angel in Your Arms".

VHM Whinyface's breezy cover of "Hello Stranger"
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #2204 on: May 08, 2010, 09:14:29 PM »
WOS Capt & Tenille's "Can't Stop Dancin'" -- sorry, kids, just 'cause ya put "Dancin" in the title don't make it disco.

BOS6 Kenny Rogers' "Lucille" (despite the truncated version -- WTF?) as fine a piece of country songwriting as the '70s produced. Could a lyric this dark get country airplay today?

and another VHM to Rose Royce (and Norman Whitfield), beautifully evoking "Just My Imagination"-era Tempts on "I Wanna Get Next To You"
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