Casey Kasem American Top 40

[RGMike]

oh Charlene, your "subtle whoring" is really boring.  VHM Karla Bonoff's sweet "Personally" and OMGWTF to the Smurf voices on "Murphy's Law", a trend that would soon overstay its welcome.

Dionne W thinks she and Johnny Mathis are "Friends in Love". Er... Dionne, honey, there's a reason why Johnny's nickname is "the African queen".

WOSes Foreigner, Martha Motel and Kansas.

[RGMike]

I don't remember Sheena E's "When He Shines" at all. Sample lyric:

Sometimes a tramp
Sometimes a dude
He changes colour just like a chameleon
Who can't find the mood


Yeesh.

[RGMike]

WOS4 Loverboy. WTF-of-the-Week: S&G's live-in-Central Park version of "Wake Up Little Suzie" -- can't believe this even charted much less made the Top 40.

Completely forgettable follow-ups to big hits back-to-back: Frankie & the Knockouts' "Without You" and Donnie Iris' "My Girl"

[RGMike]

My fantasy is never having to hear "Fantasy" again. WOS5 Aldo Nova.

Oddity of the week: Charlie Daniels' "Still in Saigon", his last gasp of relevance before becoming a sad parody of a redneck.

[RGMike]

VHM Juice Newton, "Love's Been a Little Bit Hard On Me"... Heh-heh, she said "hard-on"!



BOS Queen's forgotten "Body Language", just because. BOS2 Ms Flack's lovely movie theme song, "Making Love"  But, unfortunate segue of the day: "Making Love" is followed by "Did it in a Minute". Er...

And big BOS3 Deniece Williams' wonderful remake of "Gonna Take a Miracle"

[urth]

Was sitting in a brewpub in McMinnville last night & heard a good chunk of a Summer '76 ATF that included Silly Love Songs and You Should Be Dancin', among others. No idea if it was on radio, Sirius/XM, or what.

[SFGuy]

And the '80s version is from June 5th 1982

http://www.oldradioshows.com/at40/060582.html

Too bad I'll be out of town; several NTMs and long-forgottens in this set, including 5/6 of the opening:

40:    PERSONALLY – KARLA BONOFF
39:    MURPHY’S LAW - CHERI
38:    FRIENDS IN LOVE – DIONNE WARWICK AND JOHNNY MATHIS       
37:    FORGET ME NOTS – PATRICE RUSHEN     
36:    I DON’T KNOW WHERE TO START – EDDIE RABBITT     
35:    BREAK IT UP - FOREIGNER

'77, on the other hand, can be safely ignored; we just heard most of those a few weeks ago.

Considering it's Johnny Mathis, I don't think the "Friends in Love is between Dionne and himself.

[Wayback]

This weekend Casey70's does June 12, 1971:
http://www.whnn.com/goout.asp?u=http://images.radcity.net/5874/4341184.pdf

[RGMike]

This weekend Casey70's does June 12, 1971:
http://www.whnn.com/goout.asp?u=http://images.radcity.net/5874/4341184.pdf

ooo! Donny O spunks twice and Brenda gets it on the tip of her tongue!

meanwhile, the '80s version goes to June 16th 1984

http://www.charismusicgroup.com/Cue%20Sheets/06-16-84.pdf

[Gazoo]

This weekend Casey70's does June 12, 1971:
http://www.whnn.com/goout.asp?u=http://images.radcity.net/5874/4341184.pdf

ooo! Donny O spunks twice and Brenda gets it on the tip of her tongue!

Please don't ever pair those two images together again.

Thank you,
The Ministry of Tabulation Tabernacle Ejaculations

[SFGuy]

This weekend Casey70's does June 12, 1971:
http://www.whnn.com/goout.asp?u=http://images.radcity.net/5874/4341184.pdf

ooo! Donny O spunks twice and Brenda gets it on the tip of her tongue!

meanwhile, the '80s version goes to June 16th 1984

http://www.charismusicgroup.com/Cue%20Sheets/06-16-84.pdf

I bet you just "love" Jefferson Starship and Steve Perry that are part of the top 40 that week in 1984, Mike.  

[RGMike]

This weekend Casey70's does June 12, 1971:
http://www.whnn.com/goout.asp?u=http://images.radcity.net/5874/4341184.pdf

ooo! Donny O spunks twice and Brenda gets it on the tip of her tongue!

meanwhile, the '80s version goes to June 16th 1984

http://www.charismusicgroup.com/Cue%20Sheets/06-16-84.pdf

I bet you just "love" Jefferson Starship and Steve Perry that are part of the top 40 that week in 1984, Mike.  

The Starship tune I barely remember but the perry is an all-time HFH for me. But his *other* hit that year, "Foolish Heart" is just lovely and sadly underplayed.

[Gazoo]

Diana Ross's retooling of "Reach Out, I'll Be There," seemingly modeled after her "Ain't No Mountain," is NTM.  It never really catches fire.

[Gazoo]

WOS: Tom Jones' lost and misguided take on "Puppet Man," with horribly screechy femvox battling him the whole way.

[Tinka Cat]

This weekend Casey70's does June 12, 1971:
http://www.whnn.com/goout.asp?u=http://images.radcity.net/5874/4341184.pdf

ooo! Donny O spunks twice and Brenda gets it on the tip of her tongue!

meanwhile, the '80s version goes to June 16th 1984

http://www.charismusicgroup.com/Cue%20Sheets/06-16-84.pdf

I bet you just "love" Jefferson Starship and Steve Perry that are part of the top 40 that week in 1984, Mike. 

The Starship tune I barely remember but the perry is an all-time HFH for me. But his *other* hit that year, "Foolish Heart" is just lovely and sadly underplayed.

That's a decent 84 chart.  Oh Sherrie is much maligned, but I've always liked it, despite the opening screams "Well you shoulda been gonnnne!" -- I agree that's waay over the top, those lines make me cringe just a tad -- but the verse and chorus are nice to me.     Waddy Wachtel, the session guitarist for hire on the song, plays a really simple solo, and he took crap for that.  heh, I guess lots of folks just don't like that song, and I can see why...