Casey Kasem American Top 40

[Gazoo]

I just noticed that the "cahrismusicgroup" chart posted by the other AT40 message board, and the "oldradioshows" chart posted by Waybck are from 2 different weeks but both say 10/17/70. Hrm.

The oldradioshows chart is for the week ending October 24, 1970. The other one is for week ending October 17, 1970. Wasn't the early charts where a show on October 17th be from the October 24th chart?

You guys have wondered about this before, IIRC, and it makes my head spin.  I gets confuzzled.

[RGMike]

Wow, this Five Flights Up song is a Philly-ish ballad. Kinda nice.

BOS1 Freda Payne's unjustly forgotten "Deeper & Deeper".

BOS2 Candi Staton -- if you stand by your man, he'll call you babybabybaby all nite long!

VHM Super-bad JB; proxy of cairo BS&T&"Lucretia"

BOS3 the Poppy Family, another unfairly "lost" hit.

No General Johnson in this chart, but BOS4 to his labelmates 100 Proof with the fabulous "Somebody's Been Sleeping"

and always a VHM (at least) to Mr Nesmith's "Joanne".

Now THAT'S a great first hour!

[RGMike]

BOS6 Ms Ronstadt's achingly beautiful "Long Long Time"

TANC: General Johnson *does* show up (as a songwriter) with "Patches"

TANC2: GFR with the sailing song AL didn't get around to. Mark Farner getting closer to home, before he got closer to Jeebus.

BTW, KFRC is replaying last week's show yet again.

VHM S&G "ECP"

[RGMike]

VHM Eve Graham doing her best Melanie impression on the New Seekers' cover of "LWTDTMS,M"

And another VHM to Ms Murray, giving us the (snow)bird. BOS7 3DN and Paul Williams.

[RGMike]

#40: Joyce "Human Hand Puppet" Kennedy!! I never realized that was her duetting with Jeffrey Osborne on the rather lovely "The Last Time I Made Love".  VHM for the lost craft of songwriting.

I barely remember Laura Branigan's "The Lucky One"; I'd rather forget Lionel Ritchie's "Penny Lover".  And Barry Gibbs' "Shine Shine" is NTM -- VHM just for the Bellafonte-esque flourishes.   

WOS1 Night Ranger -- glad the radio stations I listened to back then avoided dreck like this.  BOS1 Ms Lauper's "All Thwoo tha Nite".

And TANC: as the Giants eke out yet another 1-run win, VHM the Jacksons' "Torture"

BOS2 this week's first "extra": Macca's "No More Lonely Nights"

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BOS3 Tina's "Better Be Good" -- this one gets better with age. Fab production.

BOS4 Lindsey Buckingham, "Go. In. Sane."

WOS2 "Bop 'Til You Drop" -- Rick Springfiled sounding a bit desperate to keep the hits coming.  This sounds like "Owner of a Lonely Heart" and "She Blinded Me With Science" mated and had a devil child.

More desperation: dunno what Donna Summer was thinking with this remake of "There Goes My baby".

Grammar Police to Huey Lewis: "one way or the 'nother"? Seriously? Who are you supposed to be? Buckwheat?

WOS3 John Cafferty/Beaver Brown. Funny, this sounds infinitely worse 25 years later than it did at the time, when the imitation-Springsteen aspect was somewhat amusing.

[RGMike]

This week that '70s Casey is from 10/23/76:

http://www.charismusicgroup.com/Cue%20Sheets/10-23-76.pdf

and Casey's '80s is from 10/22/83:

http://www.oldradioshows.com/at40/102283.html

[SFGuy]

and Casey's '80s is from 10/22/83:

http://www.oldradioshows.com/at40/102283.html

#1 and #2 from that week were produced by the same person, Jim Steinman.

[Gazoo]

I like the cocktail party of names in positions 21-14 in this '76 chart: Marianne, Fernando, Nadia, Sam, Sue, Beth, Romeo, Juliet, and Edmund Fitzgerald.

[RGMike]

VHM Marilyn McCooo & Uncle Remus too: "You Don't Have to Be a Tar Baby"

This is another of those October charts fiiled with songs I identify with summer: BOS Silver's delightful "Wham Bam Shang a Lang" -- it's a sha-la-la-la-la-la thing.

And Rod the Bod begins his long chart run of letting his inhibitions run wild with Britt.



VHM the Brothers Funk, "Get Your Johnson Outta Mah Face".

and speaking of, I always thought Jefferson Starship shoulda done a song called "You are My Connors"

Ringo gets a dose -- this was quite a misstep for him, at a time when everything Macca touched turned to platinum. This song is ripping off another melody --what is it?

BOS2 Barry M's lovely "This One's For You", which deserved better than a #29 peak.

[RGMike]

Yeesh, Wolfman Jack makes an appearance on the worthless "Did You Boogie With Your Baby", by Sha-na-na clones Flash Cadillac & the Continental Kids, riding in on the '50s nostalgia train.

I'm in the minority here, and yes Ray Sawyer is creepy, but Dr Hook's mid-'70s Capitol period is underrated. It's the disco-y later stuff that's TRULY awful.

Lawd, it's a Burton Cummings fest!  The Casey "extra" is "Stand Tall" and CKRU follows with "No Sugar Tonight/New Mother Nature".

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"you are the woman!"

"no, YOU be the woman! I was the woman last time!"

(that just never gets old)

VHM Firefall.

Quite the cheezefest in this stretch that Gaz mentioned above. Suzy & Sam are singin' and jingin' a jango -- er, wha??

[Wayback]

The 10/23/76 chart:
http://www.oldradioshows.com/at40/102376.html

[RGMike]

Stacy Lattisaw leads off the '83 chart with one for the same-title-diff-song list: "Miracles". VHM.

WOS1 Journey; "Nice Try, But Seriously... Why?" Award to Joan Jett's reinterp of Sly's "Everyday People"

Little did I know in '83 that "Everyday I Write the Book" -- his *first* Top 40 hit in the US! -- would become a radio staple 25 years later.

Speaking of reinterps: WOS2 Taco's horrid "Puttin on the Ritz". Lord, it's awful -- I can't believe there are people who even tolerate it, much less remember it fondly.

OMGWTF-of-the-Day: Agnetha F, trying to follow in Frida's footsteps with "Can't Shake Loose" -- more than a bit of "Abracadabra" and other then-recent hits in this one, which I barely remember ever hearing on the radio in '83.

[RGMike]

a NTM Canadian "extra": "Rainshowers" by Michael Pagliaro -- a total rip of the Stones "Wild Horses", to my ears...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81_i_OIVbSY

and speaking of ripoffs: Hour 2 begins with the Moodies totally cloning "Running on Empty" with "Sitting at the Wheel" -- call the lawyers (in love)!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Hlm8KbtlRU

BOS Eurythmics, "Love is a Stranger"

VHM MAW, "Dr Heckle...", one of theirs that hasn't been played into the ground.