Casey Kasem American Top 40

[RGMike]

Hour 2: I was a Jesse Winchester fan in the early '70s; I totally didn't remember that he scored a Top40 hit in '81. VHMFRA.

BOS2 Rosanne Cash's great "Seven Year Ache". Her only pop hit, shamefully. "heartaches are heroes when their pockets are full".

RB Greaves was from Guyana? Color me gobsmacked.

Yeesh, the adult-contmpo-ization of Top40 radio was reaching peak saturation in '81.  Air Supply come up later (after I've tuned out, I hope) but APP, PPL, Manhattan Xfer... it's a mellow world.  This NTM Jim Photoglo tune is another example. Like the Carole Bayer Sager song last hour, it's almost a parody of that smooth-jazzy formula. All these cheezy sax solos seem especially offensive the day after a REAL sax-man left us.

But re: PPL, I do loves me some Vince Gill, so VHM "Still Right Here in My Heart"

unexpected BOS3 Sheena Easton's unfairly overlooked "Modern Girl", sounding quite nice today.  WOS2 & 3 the Moodies and Santana.

I still marvel that, as the pop world was discoverng '60s nostalgia in the '80s, country artists were just realizing how much they loved the '50s: VHM the doo-woppy cheeze of "Elvira".  Dear Kenny Rogers, actually... I don't need YOU.

[RGMike]

Hour 3: VHM forgotten EJ, "Nobody Wins"

Believe it or not: uber-BOS4 Joey Scarbury.  Proxy of Gaz, Marty Balin's "Hearts"

Still more smooth-jazz: Lee Ritenour. I don't remember this one at all. Bill Champlin on vocals!

Kenny Rogers reappears, helping out the late Dottie West, who earns a VHM for "What Are We Doin' in Love?"  Meanwhile, I wish REO *would* take it on the run, baby.

**SWOON** -- BOS5 Gino V, livin' inside hisself.


TANC: BOS6 Gary US Bonds' fabtastic "This Little Girl", feat a certain recently departed sax player.

As I depart before Hour 4, a warning: prepare to be unheezed!

[RGMike]

OMG.  "The Theme from the Greatest American Hero".  BOS6.  Talk about flashback!

We must get AL to play this one.

[RGMike]

This week That '70s Casey hits June 21st 1975:

http://www.charismusicgroup.com/Cue%20Sheets/06-21-75.pdf

and Casey's '80s is from June 27th 1987:

http://www.charismusicgroup.com/Cue%20Sheets/06-27-87.pdf

Company B! Expose! Lisa Lisa! 2 Janet Jackson appearances! (4 artists AL has never played, BTW -- we gotta change that)

[sundaygal]

Casey's '80s is from June 27th 1987:

http://www.charismusicgroup.com/Cue%20Sheets/06-27-87.pdf

Company B! Expose! Lisa Lisa! 2 Janet Jackson appearances! (4 artists AL has never played, BTW -- we gotta change that)

Head to tooooooooe - I knooooow!  Gosh, how I love that song. 

I did speak to AL about integrating more dancey stuff into 10@10s.  I just don't think she has any in her own personal collection and KFOG certainly doesn't.  She also told me she needed to be more careful about dipping into her record cellar - now that she has a boss and everything.   

[Tinka Cat]

Casey's '80s is from June 27th 1987:

http://www.charismusicgroup.com/Cue%20Sheets/06-27-87.pdf

Company B! Expose! Lisa Lisa! 2 Janet Jackson appearances! (4 artists AL has never played, BTW -- we gotta change that)

Head to tooooooooe - I knooooow!  Gosh, how I love that song. 

I did speak to AL about integrating more dancey stuff into 10@10s.  I just don't think she has any in her own personal collection and KFOG certainly doesn't.  She also told me she needed to be more careful about dipping into her record cellar - now that she has a boss and everything.   

Company B Fascinated.  I remember dancing to that one at the Tunnel Club in 87.

[RGMike]

Company B Fascinated.  I remember dancing to that one at the Tunnel Club in 87.

I'm fascinated
By your love, boy
And I'm fascinated
By your love toy

so, she's fascinated by his, er, weiner? or does he own a vibrator?

[sundaygal]

Casey's '80s is from June 27th 1987:

http://www.charismusicgroup.com/Cue%20Sheets/06-27-87.pdf

Company B! Expose! Lisa Lisa! 2 Janet Jackson appearances! (4 artists AL has never played, BTW -- we gotta change that)

Head to tooooooooe - I knooooow!  Gosh, how I love that song. 

I did speak to AL about integrating more dancey stuff into 10@10s.  I just don't think she has any in her own personal collection and KFOG certainly doesn't.  She also told me she needed to be more careful about dipping into her record cellar - now that she has a boss and everything.   

Company B Fascinated.  I remember dancing to that one at the Tunnel Club in 87.

I misread that as Kennel Club (which was on Divisadero).  Where was the Tunnel Club? 

RG...you had to go there!

[Tinka Cat]

Casey's '80s is from June 27th 1987:

http://www.charismusicgroup.com/Cue%20Sheets/06-27-87.pdf

Company B! Expose! Lisa Lisa! 2 Janet Jackson appearances! (4 artists AL has never played, BTW -- we gotta change that)

Head to tooooooooe - I knooooow!  Gosh, how I love that song. 

I did speak to AL about integrating more dancey stuff into 10@10s.  I just don't think she has any in her own personal collection and KFOG certainly doesn't.  She also told me she needed to be more careful about dipping into her record cellar - now that she has a boss and everything.   

Company B Fascinated.  I remember dancing to that one at the Tunnel Club in 87.

I misread that as Kennel Club (which was on Divisadero).  Where was the Tunnel Club? 

RG...you had to go there!

West 27th in NYC, I think.

And RGMike:  Weiner.  Final answer.

[RGMike]

Early VHM Barry White's forgotten "I'll Do Anything etc"; BOSes Mike Post and Glen... uh... I forgot his last name...

Proxy of cairo, the Dan's "Black FRiday", which I'd forgotten actually made the Top 40 as a single.

aaack! Dwilley's on fy-uh yet again.

unexpected BOS3 Elvis' "T-R-O-U-B-L-E", a fun rocker that was covered in the early '90s by... Travis Tritt? VHM ONJ, battling that button-pushing cowboy.

BOS4 Gwen McCrae, who wants to be your "Rockin Chair" -- ah loves me a good sexual euphemism.



And BOS5 sweet Melissa's "Midnight Blue", from the album Past Tense.

VHM smoove Smokey -- backatcha!

[RGMike]

Hour 2: Frankie V takes the lawds name in vain. "Just call me a one-woman lover/I can't even look at your mother".  BOS6 for early-disco fabulousness alone; props to the fab Patti Austin for the female vocal.

BOS7 "Dy-no-MITE!", the delightfully cheezy semi-instrumental.


OMG: HM BTO, shamelessly recycling themselves on "Hey You".

uber-BOS8 Ray Stevens' glorious country-fication of "Misty"

eh-eh-EH-vabody's talking 'bout da good old days! VHM Gladys.

Big boys don't cry. But big girls dance with "Attitude"! BOS9 Carly Simon's unfairly forgotten hit.

There's something... comforting about the very-old-school MOR smoothness of Roger Whittaker's Hemingway-esque narrative. BOS10 "The Last Farewell"

From Philly to Chicago to the country... this chart has it all.

[RGMike]

"Bad Luck"? "Bad Time"? you could use some "Magic", bub!

BOS11 Alice's superb "Only Women Bleed", despite a rather truncated version here.

"We gonna Kung-Fu-Bump 'til it's time to go!" VHM Joe Simon, doing a fictional dance-step.

Major Harris has a major problem with premature ejaculation.  Maybe Jessie Colter can help.

Always a BOS(12) to "Wildfire".

[RGMike]

The girls in Company B are fascinated by your love toys, giving new meaning to the phrase "boogie woogie bugle", boy. BOS1.



In your dreams, indeed: VHM Deborah Gibson's first hit.  Bono gives himself away to Julie Taymor. Bad move.

Sounds like Restless Heart grew up listening to Dan Fogelberg.

OMG: one of Robbie Nevil's *other* hits: "Wot's it To Ya?" -- did he know Captain Sensible? This is NTM and an early WOS.

a teen-dream twin-spin: Glenn Medieros followed by The Jets. VHMs for sugary goodness. WOS2 Europe. 

Take back. Tom Petty. Take back his heart-break-ers.

VHM the smooth-soul of Surface's "Happy", tho' it's no "Shower Me with Your Love"

[RGMike]

Speaking of sex toys: Miss Jackson-if-ya-nasty discovers the Pleasure Prnciple. VHM.  And BOS2 Klymaxx's "I'd Still Say Yes".

George wants your sex. Which makes no sense, grammatically. Maybe that's why Casey refused to say it out loud most weeks. 

proxy of Swellegant Tim, the Partland Bros.

VHM the Nylons, making Steam's 1969 hit almost bearable. Sting still hasn't found the B'way laurels he's been looking for.

BOS3 Chris DeBurgh: "Lady In Red" is one of the best songs of its kind -- far superior to Crapton's "Wonderful Tonight", for example.

OTOH, the Money Man's "Endless Nights" is, er, endless.

[Tinka Cat]

HA!  Casey intros 10CC's I'm Not In Love by talking about the band's name.  Producer Jonathan King, who also named Genesis, said the name, uh, came to him in a dream. 

sure, dude.... better clean the sheets, there's a nasty stain that's lying there.