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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #2250 on: May 22, 2010, 09:39:52 AM »
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Jimmy Dean's IOU is pretty dang sappy, but you cannot deny a man's tribute to his mother.  It's NTM and I can see why it's not a classic -- or is it?

a lot of country stations still play it every Mother's Day.
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #2251 on: May 22, 2010, 10:34:32 AM »
Quote from: RGMike on May 22, 2010, 09:39:52 AM
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Jimmy Dean's IOU is pretty dang sappy, but you cannot deny a man's tribute to his mother.  It's NTM and I can see why it's not a classic -- or is it?

a lot of country stations still play it every Mother's Day.

God that was an endurance test.  BOS to Johnny Cash, NTM with his final Top 40 hit.
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #2252 on: May 22, 2010, 10:44:26 AM »
I would have preferred Elvis's A-side, "Hurt," to the charting B-side "For the Heart."
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #2253 on: May 22, 2010, 11:40:28 AM »
VHM to Neil Sedaka's ode to cruising, "Love in the Shadows."
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #2254 on: May 22, 2010, 04:45:48 PM »
Quote from: Gazoo on May 22, 2010, 11:40:28 AM
VHM to Neil Sedaka's ode to cruising, "Love in the Shadows."

Bwhahaha!  A good way to get "Bad Blood", these days.
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #2255 on: May 22, 2010, 07:12:20 PM »
Instant BOSes to Eric Carmen's wonderful "NGFILA" and Boz's fab "It's Over" -- few remember it was the leadoff single from Silk Degrees; its sad #38 peak nearly sank the whole enterprise. Good thing Columbia kept the faith and followed it with "Lowdown".
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #2256 on: May 22, 2010, 07:20:08 PM »
You'd've thought, if you were a fan of Tim Moore's "Rock'N'Roll Love Letter" (as I was/am), that it was just MADE to be covered by the Bay City Rollers... but their version disappointed in '76 and doesn't sound much better now.
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #2257 on: May 22, 2010, 07:59:12 PM »
Al Wilson's forgotten "I've Got a Feeling" (NOT the Beatles tune) is in the same bag as (and pre-dates slightly) Lou Rawls' "You'll Never Find..."

VHM Marvin's "I Want You".
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #2258 on: May 22, 2010, 08:27:16 PM »
Quote from: RGMike on May 22, 2010, 07:20:08 PM
You'd've thought, if you were a fan of Tim Moore's "Rock'N'Roll Love Letter" (as I was/am), that it was just MADE to be covered by the Bay City Rollers... but their version disappointed in '76 and doesn't sound much better now.

I've always liked the Rollers' song, but I'm not familiar w Tim Moore. 

Googling him turns up his Facebook page >>  http://www.facebook.com/pages/Tim-Moore/73986413209
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #2259 on: May 22, 2010, 08:37:52 PM »
BOS3 Billy Ocean's fabulously Fauxtown "Love Really Hurts..." -- bet Levi and the Tops were jealous when they heard this one.

WOS Bad Co's remake of "Young Blood" -- one of the whitest covers of an R&B classic, like, EVAH.  VHM the Blackbyrds forgotten "Happy Music" at its #19 peak; I'd forgotten it made it to the Top 20.
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #2260 on: May 22, 2010, 08:45:06 PM »
Quote from: Tinka_Cat on May 22, 2010, 08:27:16 PM
Quote from: RGMike on May 22, 2010, 07:20:08 PM
You'd've thought, if you were a fan of Tim Moore's "Rock'N'Roll Love Letter" (as I was/am), that it was just MADE to be covered by the Bay City Rollers... but their version disappointed in '76 and doesn't sound much better now.

I've always liked the Rollers' song, but I'm not familiar w Tim Moore. 

Googling him turns up his Facebook page >>  http://www.facebook.com/pages/Tim-Moore/73986413209

Moore wrote "Second Avenue", a ballad that Art Garfunkel had a minor hit with in '74; Mr Moore's orig version of "RnRLL" was a huge "turntable hit" at NYC's WNEW-FM in late '75, and I was crushed when it failed to hit as a single

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_cvnHv5gx8

I think it would not have been out-of-place on that first Eric Carmen solo LP.  I was excited when the Rollers recorded it; "hooray! now at least it'll be a hit". But their version is just, I dunno, "off" somehow, and it wasn't that big a hit anyway.
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #2261 on: May 22, 2010, 08:48:04 PM »
Quote from: RGMike on May 22, 2010, 04:45:48 PM
Quote from: Gazoo on May 22, 2010, 11:40:28 AM
VHM to Neil Sedaka's ode to cruising, "Love in the Shadows."

Bwhahaha!  A good way to get "Bad Blood", these days.

"you gotta put your faith in things you can touch -- if you dare to". There were a lotta "dark hallways" in the West Village in '76 for Neil. See the docu Gay Sex in the '70s if you never have -- quite eye-opening.
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #2262 on: May 22, 2010, 08:56:00 PM »
astounding to think there was a time when Frampty's "Show Me The Way" was new and fresh-sounding. Ditto the Maxine Nightengale.

Nothing in Hour 3 that I'm dying to hear again; I think I'll listen to the KaBOOM sndtk -- it'll be weird without the fireworks.
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #2263 on: May 23, 2010, 10:09:57 AM »
aaack! the '87 chart begins with Donna Allen's forgettable "Serious" and 2 WOSes from Heart and Starship.

Thank gawd for Ree-Ree & George and The System.

ETA: that "oldest woman ever to sing on a #1 single" stat for Grace Slick was one that I'd missed until now. Nothin's gonna stop her, indeed.
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #2264 on: May 23, 2010, 10:42:34 AM »
I totally do not remember the Thompson Twins' "Get That Love"
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