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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #765 on: November 22, 2008, 09:39:32 AM »
Billy Preston's "Space Race" is cute, but it's no "Outa Space," that is FO SHO.
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #766 on: November 22, 2008, 10:00:09 AM »
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #767 on: November 22, 2008, 10:31:29 AM »
Well, it's nice to know not EVERYBODY is doing all-Xmas.  I look forward to hearing this via Idaho Sunday morning (I'll be at the Sharks game tonite).

As to "GYBR", it's clearly about a "rent boy" (who came to the big city straight from the farm) being kept by a rich old queen. Whether the boy is gay or just "gay for pay" is open to interpretation.

And I agree about "Ruby Red Dress" -- either she had an abortion or was forced to give the child up. And wouldn't Diana Ross' "Last Time I Saw Him" have made the ideal follow-up to "Ruby" for Ms. Reddy?
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #768 on: November 22, 2008, 08:44:54 PM »
Quote from: Tinka_Cat on November 22, 2008, 09:32:32 AM
I'm really curious about these, which I can't recall:

#18 “CHEAPER TO KEEP HER” – Johnnie Taylor
#17 “WHY ME” – Kris Kristofferson
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#12 “YOU’RE A SPECIAL PART OF ME” – Diana Ross & Marvin Gaye
#11 “ALL I KNOW” – Garfunkel


18: clever languid blues shuffle
17: Calvinist minimal gospel
12: bloody mess with no direction but predictably great vox
11: oversung mild-lyric ballad with astonishingly overblown outro that gets away with it b/c it's Art Fucking Garfunkel and Jimmy Fucking Webb
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #769 on: November 22, 2008, 09:13:47 PM »
Quote from: Gazoo on November 22, 2008, 08:44:54 PM
11: oversung mild-lyric ballad with astonishingly overblown outro that gets away with it b/c it's Art Fucking Garfunkel and Jimmy Fucking Webb

To be clear: They DESERVE to get away with this.  I applaud.
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #770 on: November 23, 2008, 08:08:23 AM »
Quote from: Gazoo on November 22, 2008, 07:05:16 AM
Barry White kicks things off nicely with the indulgently titled "Never NEVER Gonna Give You Up."


Quittin' just ain't his "stick" -- and neither is Yiddish, obviously.

Glad you finally got to hear "All I Know", which I adore, and glad you, er, liked it (?). The whole LP is worth a listen. Instant BOS to Marvin's sublime "Come Get to This". He wanted "to do somethin' freaky to you" years before Leon Haywood did.

BTW this 11/17/73 show is a rerun (yes, I know, they'll all technically reruns, but we heard it during the KFRC "marathon" last month). And your sig quote reminds me of another childhood joke: "What's brown and lays in the street?" Gomer's Pyle.


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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #771 on: November 23, 2008, 09:29:27 AM »
Quote from: Tinka_Cat on November 22, 2008, 09:08:26 AM
Casey recounts the woes of klutzy Bobby Goldsboro, who cut his big toe when he walked barefoot over some breakfast cereal that had spilled -- and then hardened overnight -- into the carpet.

What the hell is he eating?



"KRUSTY-Os -- they'll chase the boy in you away!"

WRIH (Worst Rhyme in History) to that "julep/two lips" travesty.
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #772 on: November 23, 2008, 10:18:23 AM »
Quote from: Gazoo on November 22, 2008, 09:13:47 PM
Quote from: Gazoo on November 22, 2008, 08:44:54 PM
11: oversung mild-lyric ballad with astonishingly overblown outro that gets away with it b/c it's Art Fucking Garfunkel and Jimmy Fucking Webb

To be clear: They DESERVE to get away with this.  I applaud.

"The ending always comes at last
Endings always come to pass
They come too fast
But they pass too slow"

It's worth noting that this is something of a sledgehammer for me; it was released in late August and instantly got lots of NYC radio play. And I was saying goodbye then to high school friends who were going off to college for the first time, so the above lyric had serious impact.
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #773 on: November 23, 2008, 10:37:05 AM »
Chart Oddity of the Week (and TANC, since he figured into the Kristofferson story): at #77 is a version of the Thom Bell/Linda Creed comp "I'm Comin' Home" by... Johnny Mathis! -- a year before the Spinners took it to the Top 40!
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #774 on: November 23, 2008, 11:04:28 AM »
Bwahahaha! This was the week Casey swore off predicting the next week's #1 song!
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #775 on: November 25, 2008, 03:47:17 PM »
This weekend Casey70's visits Nov 27, 1976. Scroll in here for the playlist:
http://www.957kjrfm.com/pages/events.html?feed=111843&article=4192995
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #776 on: November 25, 2008, 04:05:29 PM »
Quote from: Wayback on November 25, 2008, 03:47:17 PM
This weekend Casey70's visits Nov 27, 1976. Scroll in here for the playlist:
http://www.957kjrfm.com/pages/events.html?feed=111843&article=4192995

the gales of November, remembered.
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #777 on: November 29, 2008, 07:12:22 AM »
I heard half of this set on that Philly station, which condenses the countdown to 2:30 instead of a full 3:00.  But Chico is playing the '73 set again!   >:( 
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #778 on: November 29, 2008, 07:15:19 AM »
BOS: "Nadia's Theme," just for it striking out-of-placeness and the vividness with which I remember it

WOS: Ritchie Family, "The Best Disco in Town" (if it is, I'm moving)

OMGWTFLOL: Commodores, "Just to Be Close to You" (that spoken-word stuff is SO over the top)

OMGWTFLOL^2: didn't get to hear it here, but Travolta's pathetically sung "Whenever I'm Away From You"
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #779 on: November 29, 2008, 06:13:14 PM »
Quote from: Gazoo on November 29, 2008, 07:15:19 AM
Travolta's pathetically sung "Whenever I'm Away From You"

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