Casey Kasem American Top 40

[Gazoo]

Don't often hear the "Never Can Say Goodbye" rewrite "Looking Through the Windows," but here it is in the Top 20.   A shocking number of these songs are new to me, including Bobby Vinton's unnecessary xerox of "Sealed With a Kiss."

[Gazoo]

Many worthy BOS candidates, but I'll give mine to Luther Ingram's "If Loving You Is Wrong, I Don't Want to Be Right."  I've heard 4 excellent versions of this song and no bad ones.

[Gazoo]

WOS to Sailcat; I can't harley listen to "Motorcycle Mama."

[Gazoo]

Mac Davis and his hot-blooded woman-child at #6.  Beats having a Faulknerian man-child, I suppose.

[Gazoo]

This weekend (9/6-7) Casey70's is from Sept 2, 1972.  Playlist:
http://www.wbbgfm.com/pages/pp_caseykasem.html
PS- you can listen via that Ohio station Sat & Sun mornings and Tuesdays 7pm ET.

At #40, funny to hear Bud commercial turned love song (or is it other way 'round?) by Sonny & Cher, showcasing Sonny's 'singing' voice.

When you curr enough to sund yer vurry best ...

[RGMike]

At #37, Streisand sure sounds Aretha-esque in latter half of that tune. 

And it made her one of the few artists to chart with diff versions of the same tune; her original studio version of "Where You Lead" hit #40 the previous summer, and this live medley version peaked here at 37. And didya know she charted with "Sing" 4 months before the Carpenters did?

[RGMike]

At #36, Dutchmen Mouth & MacNeal's naughty pub rocker 'How Do You Do'

Once I said "I want a shoe"... I don't remember why.

But I do remember loving "Speak to the Sky" -- one of the best of the "Jesus rock" hits of the era.

[RGMike]

Casey always has a great Neil Diamond anecdote, it seems. And "Play Me" is one of my faves from his incredible period on the Uni label.

"Where is the love?" asks Donny.

"Out on that window ledge", replies Roberta...

[RGMike]

wow, I'd forgotten just how shamelessly derivative Flash's "Small Beginnings" was -- "Yours is No Disgrace" meets "Pinball Wizard"! LOL!

[RGMike]

WOS to Sailcat; I can't harley listen to "Motorcycle Mama."

no argument there; it's easily one of the worst hit singles of the '70s. But I'd put it in a WOS tie with Donna Fargo. The Sailcat is dreadful; the Fargo is dreadful and saccharine. Skip-a-dee-doo-dah my ass.

BTW, Gaz, were you the one who told me "Daddy Don't You Walk So Fast" was orig done by Daniel "Beautiful Sunday" Boone?  (Boone's hit is here today at #16.)  I still say Tom Jones woulda sang the hell out of it.

[RGMike]

Don't often hear the "Never Can Say Goodbye" rewrite "Looking Through the Windows"

The similarity had never occurred to me, but you're certainly right. It's one of my favorite "lesser" J-5 hits from that period between "Maybe Tomorrow" and "Dancing Machine", along with "Corner of the Sky".

It's funny how many of these songs I think of as Summer-of-'72 hits, when in fact they didn't peak, chart-wise, until fall: "Saturday in the Park", "Go All the Way", "Black & White", and of course a pre-kiddieporn Gary Glitter with "Rock'n'Roll, Pt. 2"

[RGMike]

#1 again, naturally: I'd forgotten about Gilbert O dropping out of the top slot and then moving back up.

[Gazoo]

#1 again, naturally: I'd forgotten about Gilbert O dropping out of the top slot and then moving back up.

I almost posted about that yesterday: that knowledge was NTM.

Meanwhile, Casey's '80s take us to Sept. 20, 1986, where Art of Noise and Max Headroom have an improbable #40 with "Paranoimia."

[Gazoo]

TANC: Nu Shooz' "Point of No Return" at 35.

[Gazoo]

Paul McCartney appears twice in proximity: up to 26 with the Beatles and "Twist & Shout," and peaking at 21 with the (underappreciated, to my ears, though he himself doesn't think much of it) "Press."

And now the OMGWTFLOL of set: Don Johnson's "Heartbeat," as Casey explains how he made stubble fashionable.