Casey Kasem American Top 40

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From AT40 Fun and Games site. Next weekend:

Casey 70's - September 25 1971

http://www.oldradioshows.com/at40/092571.html

much cool stuff, but be advised: according to the geeks at the above-mentioned board, Casey plays the wrong side of a record -- Glass Bottle's "I Ain't Got Time Anymore" gets the accidental B-side treatment. Too bad, I love that one.

Freddie Hart sez evvah-day's Thanksgiving; Casey's still perpetuating the Diana Ross-discovered-the-Jackson 5 lie. But VHM "Surrender" anyway.

and another VHM Tommy Roe's underrated cover of "Stagger Lee".

Roe's SL was NTM; I'd have thought it was Johnny Rivers without the ID.  And I'm kinda digging this Glass Bottle B-side, which I'd never have heard if not for the gaffe.

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Casey tells a nice story about the perseverance of the Dells, who wow me with "The Love We Had Stays on My Mind."

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Do the breakdown, chilldun!  Rufus is sounding winded - ain't him fresh clean, do?

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BOS2 the mighty mighty Dells, "The Love We Had (Stays On My Mind)"

VHMs Rufus Thomas' "The Breakdown" and Noel "Paul" Stookey's "Wedding Song".

BOS3 Hari Georgeson, "Bangla Desh"; BOS4 and proxy-of-Gaz, Free Movement "I Found Someone Of My Own".

Oh, and I just discovered KFRC is now running the show on Saturday morning from 10 to 1 -- same as our Canadian friends. I'll stick with the Canuck version; at least it's in Ontario Stereo.

ETA: glad you're here, Gaz.

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BOS "Bangla-Desh," a noble effort though a failed one.

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BOS4 and proxy-of-Gaz, Free Movement "I Found Someone Of My Own".

A pre-emptive answer record to "Torn Between Two Lovers"?

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VHM 3DN; BOS5 to an all-time-fave of mine from Bobby "Mr Vicki Lawrence" Russell, channelling Roger Miller rather nicely.

WOS to an all-time-HFH of mine: The Persuaders, "Thin Line etc" Are you HAWN-gry HAWN-ey?

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Mike, I know how much you hate the Persuaders' trip to the hos-pi-TUUHHL, but I love this song.  What do you think of the Pretenders' cover?

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VHM 3DN; BOS5 to an all-time-fave of mine from Bobby "Mr Vicki Lawrence" Russell, channelling Roger Miller rather nicely.

Did you notice he gets Harry's gender wrong in the last verse?

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O Canada!  I could hardly have hoped for a finer AT40 Extra than Lighthouse's "One Fine Morning."

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VHM 3DN; BOS5 to an all-time-fave of mine from Bobby "Mr Vicki Lawrence" Russell, channelling Roger Miller rather nicely.

Did you notice he gets Harry's gender wrong in the last verse?

Well, he'll always be a "he" to them, I guess -- as to the Pretenders cover of "Thin Line", it's better because Chrissie changes the lyric. At age 16, I found the whole image of this big black guy getting beaten within a inch of his life by a woman absurd and laughable, and yet the reading is sooooo serious. To paraphrase Tim Goodman, "everything I know about black people I learned from pop music".

OMG -- Casey does his own Canadian extra with your beloved Lighthouse!

But this "she talks crazy talk" is familar, yet I can't ID.  And The Guess Who are coming up in the next hour.

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John Denver's in West Virginia mountin' his mama -- I hear that's rather prevalent there.

VHM Guess Who -- where'd ya get the GUN, John?

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VHM Guess Who -- where'd ya get the GUN, John?

NTM, and I find it almost as baffling as "Albert Flasher."  I appreciate their going out on a limb, but wtf.

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VHM Guess Who -- where'd ya get the GUN, John?

NTM, and I find it almost as baffling as "Albert Flasher."  I appreciate their going out on a limb, but wtf.

and speaking of WTF: "Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep" -- out on a limb, indeed.

Holy crap: Mac & Katie Kissoon were BLACK!! *faints*

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VHM The Osmonds' "Yo-Yo" -- props to the talented Mr Joe South. WOOT, now!

love the story about Al Green's "Back-Up Train" peaking at #41.  BOS6 "Tired of Being Alone".