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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #2325 on: June 12, 2010, 08:07:58 AM »
BOS '71 "Funky Nassau."  Ain't it funky nah!
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #2326 on: June 12, 2010, 09:30:11 AM »
BOS2 to the Cornelius Brothers and Sister Rose ... and then they sat back down again.  (Thank you, Mike - or rather, Dan Ingram)
“The choir of children sing their song.  They've practiced all year long.  Ding dong.  Ding dong.  Ding dong.”

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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #2327 on: June 12, 2010, 09:40:57 AM »
BOS2 to the Cornelius Brothers and Sister Rose ... and then they sat back down again.  (Thank you, Mike - or rather, Dan Ingram)

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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #2328 on: June 12, 2010, 09:59:42 AM »
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...   :)

worst TANC evah: the Canadian station is playing "Oh Sherrie" right before the '70s show.
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #2329 on: June 12, 2010, 10:19:27 AM »
whenever I hear this Bobby Sherman thing, "The Drum", I think "have I ever heard this before?". I have, of course, but it never sticks in my head very long. A year from now when we hear it again I'll say the same thing.
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #2330 on: June 12, 2010, 10:51:11 AM »
BOS Carly's still-lovely "That's The Way I've Always Heard It Should Be".

VHM The Crusaders Paul Humphrey & His Kool-Aid Chemists, "Put It Where You Want It" "Kool-Aid".

BOS2 ol' Whinyface herself with the orig "IDKHTLH". Sorry, Ms Reddy -- you'll have to settle for having gotten higher on the chart.
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #2331 on: June 12, 2010, 11:12:43 AM »
BOS3 "She's Not Just Another Woman". 8th Day escaped the OHW curse by hitting the 40 with the follow-up "You've Gotta Crawl Before You Can Walk"

"Funky Nassau" always reminds me of the first gay guy I ever knew -- a classmate at a Catholic boys high school back then (still amazing as I think back on it). He was from Honduras originally and he loved anything Carribbean; this song was a big fave of his.

Yo, Miss Brenda! what's that on the tip of yo' tongue? Why, it's BOS4!  Didn't you KNOW?? Couldn't you SEE IT??
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #2332 on: June 12, 2010, 11:59:54 AM »
hooray for Canadian "extras": Gino V shakes his behind like-a dynamite on "People Gotta Move"

BOS5 Ree-Ree, doin' "Bridge Over Troubled Water" as Mr Simon originally intended it.

VHM the Partridges, meeting me halfway.
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #2333 on: June 12, 2010, 12:52:57 PM »
VHM Jean Knight with an "extra" -- one of my fave m'greens evah, "Mr Pit Stop". ah KNOW you broke dey hearts oneaftanutha, now!
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #2334 on: June 13, 2010, 07:30:43 AM »
Today's 1984 set is sounding really, really good to me.  BOS votes to the Style Council's ever changing moods, the Thompson Twins' request for a doctor in the house, and HoJo's rumination on agape.  And OMGWTF to Willie and Julio's self-congratulation on a lifetime of conquests, which I hadn't actually listened to in many years.
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #2335 on: June 13, 2010, 10:06:08 AM »
Today's 1984 set is sounding really, really good to me.  BOS votes to the Style Council's ever changing moods, the Thompson Twins' request for a doctor in the house, and HoJo's rumination on agape.  And OMGWTF to Willie and Julio's self-congratulation on a lifetime of conquests, which I hadn't actually listened to in many years.

the Canadian stream ain't workin' this morning and I am majorly bummed.
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #2336 on: June 13, 2010, 05:11:24 PM »
Frederick Knight's "I've Been Lonely for So Long" is NTM, and frankly, I can't believe it cracked the 40.  Quavering falsetto like Pete Wingfield's "18 With a Bullet," with the mildest of melodies.

TANC: here's the song again on Barry Scott's show -- Mr Knight also wrote "Ring My Bell" for Anita Ward!
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #2337 on: June 13, 2010, 05:20:34 PM »
Frederick Knight's "I've Been Lonely for So Long" is NTM, and frankly, I can't believe it cracked the 40.  Quavering falsetto like Pete Wingfield's "18 With a Bullet," with the mildest of melodies.

TANC: here's the song again on Barry Scott's show -- Mr Knight also wrote "Ring My Bell" for Anita Ward!

If you hadn't posted this, I was gonna!  Listening with ya.
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #2338 on: June 14, 2010, 11:52:04 AM »
This week's heads-upses...

Casey's '70s goes to June 23rd 1973

http://www.charismusicgroup.com/Cue%20Sheets/06-23-73.pdf

and the '80s hits June 25th 1983

http://www.charismusicgroup.com/Cue%20Sheets/06-25-83.pdf

we're overdue for  '78 and '88 charts, no? (as someone pointed out over on the AT40 message board, there are only a few more Casey-in-'88 shows left before he left and was replaced by Shadoe Stevens).
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #2339 on: June 15, 2010, 01:43:43 AM »
This week's heads-upses...

Casey's '70s goes to June 23rd 1973

http://www.charismusicgroup.com/Cue%20Sheets/06-23-73.pdf

and the '80s hits June 25th 1983

http://www.charismusicgroup.com/Cue%20Sheets/06-25-83.pdf

we're overdue for  '78 and '88 charts, no? (as someone pointed out over on the AT40 message board, there are only a few more Casey-in-'88 shows left before he left and was replaced by Shadoe Stevens).

Anybody here keep track of which shows are played? I keep wondering if any of these are repeats from previous years (such as last year or 2008).