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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #2880 on: February 22, 2011, 10:51:59 PM »
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This week That '70s Casey is from Feb 27th 1971:

http://www.charismusicgroup.com/Cue%20Sheets/02-27-71.pdf

And Casey's '80s is from Feb 27th 1988:

http://www.charismusicgroup.com/Cue%20Sheets/02-27-88.pdf

Mike, technically the show date is Feb 20th, 1971.

And Gaz will be happy to know this is one of those 3-versions-of-"Love Story" charts, and we also get "Jody Got Yo' Girl and Gone", which more than offsets the appearance of the execrable "D.O.A" by Bloodrock.

Happy I am indeed.  Early BOS to that Johnnie Taylor song.  And I'm perversely curious to hear if Casey has anything to say about that morbid piece of hell "D.O.A."
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #2881 on: February 26, 2011, 09:48:31 AM »
wow, before Casey, our Canadian friends are playing a song by Strange Advance that *isn't* "Worlds Away" -- "We Run", presumably a hit north of the border.

Just 7 numbers can straighten out Levi's life. Mega-Millions is a bitch. VHM the 4 Tops.

Ms. McCoo fries just one egg, and makes Mick LaSalle's head explode.

WOS, naturally, to Bloodrock's horrid plane-crash saga.
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #2882 on: February 26, 2011, 10:06:41 AM »
HM Four Tops.  Seven numbers could straighten out my life too - if there were a dollar sign in front of them.
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #2883 on: February 26, 2011, 10:15:28 AM »
Quote from: Gazoo on February 26, 2011, 10:06:41 AM
HM Four Tops.  Seven numbers could straighten out my life too - if there were a dollar sign in front of them.

semi-jinx!

BOS "Miss" Jackie Moore -- why, did someone think she was a dude? "you been dealin' in dirt -- just WALLOWIN' in dirt, yes yah have!"

Mr Williams croons our first of 3 "Love Story"s, which means I never have to say I'm sorry. Or something. 

More movie music: "Burning Bridges", from Kelly's Heroes. Too bad Mike Curb was such an asswipe.

Hey, how 'bout a lay, er, a Lai? Frances arrives with "Love Story" #2. And Bobby Sherman has nobody to hold his tremblin' hand -- here's a VHM, bub.

Back-to-back divas with back-to-back BOSes: Miss Ross' fab "Remember Me" and Babs' career-changing "Stoney End"

BOS4 Mr C, doin' it old-school MOR and doin' it right, and that's not "Impossible". Unless Jody's got your girl. VHM Johnny Taylor, the natch'l wailer.
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #2884 on: February 26, 2011, 10:36:39 AM »
DHM to Bobby Sherman, one of his weaker hits.
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #2885 on: February 26, 2011, 10:38:37 AM »
BOS to Diana's big balloon of a farewell.  If only this had been a full-on Supremes single.
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #2886 on: February 26, 2011, 10:43:34 AM »
BOS2 to Babs, goin' down to Stoney End.  Love how she holds those long notes.

And the head-turning delivery of "I can still remember him."
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #2887 on: February 26, 2011, 11:11:30 AM »
Quote from: RGMike on February 26, 2011, 09:48:31 AM
WOS, naturally, to Bloodrock's horrid plane-crash saga.

I agree with you on its putritude, but there's something enjoyable about hearing it alongside "It's Impossible" and "Do the Push and Pull."
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #2888 on: February 26, 2011, 11:12:38 AM »
Hour 2 begins with Sammi Smith giving Mr Kristofferson his first charted version of "Help Me Make It..." -- I prefer Gladys' version the following year. Of course, it's easier to make it thru the nite when you have 6 sister-wives.

EJ kicks off the moss. And probably smokes some too.  Sombody musta gave Rufus Thomas the new swimsuit issue -- he's doin' the old "Push'n'Pull". Er, eww.

VHM the GrassRoots, struggling with "Temptation".  and speak Gladys' name and she will appear: BOS5 "If I Were One of Your Women".
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #2889 on: February 26, 2011, 11:14:53 AM »
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VHM the GrassRoots, struggling with "Temptation".

Ha, I thought you were going to diss this as a repetition of their template.  This one stands out for the piano's clank-clank-clank.
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #2890 on: February 26, 2011, 11:18:06 AM »
Quote from: Gazoo on February 26, 2011, 11:14:53 AM
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VHM the GrassRoots, struggling with "Temptation".

Ha, I thought you were going to diss this as a repetition of their template.  This one stands out for the piano's clank-clank-clank.

I was thisclose to a "just when the formula was starting to get stale" remark. But it does hold up as well-produced pop.
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #2891 on: February 26, 2011, 11:20:21 AM »
Quote from: RGMike on February 26, 2011, 11:12:38 AM
Hour 2 begins with Sammi Smith giving Mr Kristofferson his first charted version of "Help Me Make It..." -- I prefer Gladys' version the following year. Of course, it's easier to make it thru the nite when you have 6 sister-wives.

EJ kicks off the moss. And probably smokes some too.  Sombody musta gave Rufus Thomas the new swimsuit issue -- he's doin' the old "Push'n'Pull". Er, eww.

VHM the GrassRoots, struggling with "Temptation".  and speak Gladys' name and she will appear: BOS5 "If I Were One of Your Women".

Elton must've grown up in Middle Earth, where mossy roofs are plentiful.    TANC: We have a cat with one blue eye AND one green eye!  true!

WOS PushNPull
BOS Grass Roots.
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #2892 on: February 26, 2011, 11:30:33 AM »
BOS6 BeeGees, Mr Sunshine. I didn't know music could be "nonchalant".  Tina likes it nice'n'easy; Ike prefers it nice'n'ruff. "Where mah coke, bitch?"

They seem to have edited out the orig commercials for MGM LPs by Eydie Gorme (!) and Paul Frees (!!). I remember hearing them in previous late-1970 and early-1971 shows.

VHMs the wicked Pickett and the perky Partridges.  "where is love? and who is love? I gotta KNOW!"

VHM TJ, teaming up with Paul Anka for a double-header of misogyny. But misogyny you can dance to!

lawd, I hated "Watching Scotty Grow" in '71. Now it seems rather sweet.

BOS7 Jerry Reed. Left arm gone clean up to the elbow!  And that's Thibideaux, Louisiana -- not "tippy-toe".

Wadsworth Mansion arrive to insult Italians everywhere. "Wop, Wop, Wop!". Guess they're dick-wads(worth).

uber-BOS8 Lynn Anderson. Always a VHM to TO&D, knockin'.

BOS9, J-5, sendin' those chills up-n-down mah spine. And Donny & Bros are sockin' it to ya at #1, climaxing a helluva week for Mike Curb.
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #2893 on: February 27, 2011, 09:34:39 AM »
Quote from: Gazoo on February 22, 2011, 10:51:59 PM
Quote from: RGMike on February 22, 2011, 08:13:10 AM
Quote from: SFGuy on February 20, 2011, 11:23:13 PM
Quote from: RGMike on February 20, 2011, 11:14:37 PM
This week That '70s Casey is from Feb 27th 1971:

http://www.charismusicgroup.com/Cue%20Sheets/02-27-71.pdf

And Casey's '80s is from Feb 27th 1988:

http://www.charismusicgroup.com/Cue%20Sheets/02-27-88.pdf

Mike, technically the show date is Feb 20th, 1971.

And Gaz will be happy to know this is one of those 3-versions-of-"Love Story" charts, and we also get "Jody Got Yo' Girl and Gone", which more than offsets the appearance of the execrable "D.O.A" by Bloodrock.

Happy I am indeed.  Early BOS to that Johnnie Taylor song.  And I'm perversely curious to hear if Casey has anything to say about that morbid piece of hell "D.O.A."

I missed the first hour yesterday, but I just heard Bloodrock's D.O.A..  Wow, there's some gruesome imagery in there.  One wikipedia entry says the song was about the Wichita State Football team's plane crash, another says it's a band member's homage to a pilot friend who crashed shortly after a take-off.  The band member says he witness the crash. 

Either way, it's too much.  Can the Vietnam War as a background be to blame?  Yikes.  As Andy Williams sings a few songs later "Where do I begin?"

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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #2894 on: February 27, 2011, 09:54:00 AM »
Damn, our Canuck friends start Casey 10 minutes early today.  And the chart begins with a future All-Time Moreytrina, "Wishing Well". I'm crying, and they ain't Crocodile tears.

early WOS: Aerosmith's "Angel". The power ballad is the most evil invention of the 20th century.

Not alot of obscurities in this first hour. VHM JCM, checkin' it out; ditto George when he was fab. BOS1 Pebbles' delightful "Girlfriend" with backing vox from the Deele. "that is the ques-tee-own!"

VHM Natalie Cole's lovely forgotten ballad "I Live For Your Love"; OMGWTF and BOS2 Swingout Sister's "Twilight World", which I barely remember as the follow-up to "Breakout". Shame they didn't have a bigger career.
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