Casey Kasem American Top 40

[RGMike]

This weekend's Casey70's: Sept 16, 1978.   Did we hear this chart a year ago?

Dunno if we heard this chart last year, but we just visited '78 a month ago, so we have to suffer thru Babs' "Eyes of Laura Mars" theme again, as well as "Whenever I Call You 'Goat'". But we do get "Paradise By the Dashboard Light", which only spent 2 weeks in the 40.

[Tinka Cat]

This weekend's Casey70's: Sept 16, 1978.   Did we hear this chart a year ago?

Dunno if we heard this chart last year, but we just visited '78 a month ago, so we have to suffer thru Babs' "Eyes of Laura Mars" theme again, as well as "Whenever I Call You 'Goat'". But we do get "Paradise By the Dashboard Light", which only spent 2 weeks in the 40.

suffer through Whenever I Call You 'Friend?' ---  guilty pleasure for me, I'll admit. 



Chart Date: September 16, 1978

#40 Paradise By Dashboard Light – Meat Loaf
#39 My Angel Baby – Toby Beau
#38 Two Tickets To Paradise – Eddie Money
#37 Love Will Find A Way – Pablo Cruise
#36 5-7-0-5 – City Boy
#35 Who Are You – The Who
#34 Talking In Your Sleep – Crystal Gayle
#33 I Love The Night Life (Disco Round) – Alicia Bridges
#32 You Never Done It Like That – The Captain & Tennille
#31 She’s Always A Woman – Billy Joel
#30 Rock & Roll Fantasy – The Kinks
#29 Come Together – Aerosmith
#28 Get Off – Foxy
At40 Extra: Double Vision – Foreigner
#27 Just What I Needed – The Cars
#26 Back In The U.S.A – Linda Ronstadt
#25 Close The Door – Teddy Pendergrass
#24 Right Down The Line – Gerry Rafferty
#23 Love Theme From Eyes Of Laura Mars (Prisoner) – Barbra Streisand
#22 Magnet & Steel – Walter Egan
#21 Oh Darlin – Robin Gibb
#20 Miss You – The Rolling Stones
#19 Whenever I Call You ‘Friend’ – Kenny Loggins (With Stevie Nicks)
#18 Grease – Frankie Valli
LDD: Sometimes When We Touch - Dan Hill
#17 Hollywood Nights – Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band
#16 You Needed Me – Anne Murray
#15 Reminiscing – The Little River Band
At40 Extra: How Much I Feel – Ambrosia
#14 You And I – Rick James
#13 Love Is In The Air – John Paul Young
#12 Fool If You Think It’s Over – Chris Rea
#11 Hot Child In The City – Nick Gilder
#10 Shame – Evelyn "Champagne" King
#9 Got To Get You Into My Life – Earth, Wind & Fire
#8 Don’t Look Back – Boston
#7 Summer Nights – John Travolta & Olivia Newton-John
#6 An Everlasting Love – Andy Gibb
#5 Kiss You All Over – Exile
#4 Hopelessly Devoted To You – Olivia Newton-John
#3 Hot Blooded – Foreigner
At40 Extra: Ready To Take A Chance Again – Barry Manilow
#2 Three Times A Lady – The Commodores
#1 Boogie Oogie Oogie – A Taste Of Honey

[SFGuy]

This weekend's Casey70's: Sept 16, 1978.   Did we hear this chart a year ago?
http://www.whnn.com/goout.asp?u=http://www.whnn.com/Article.asp?id=583277&spid=

Hmm. This was played on XM's version last week. Casey had a look at a concert promoter who was born Wolfgang Grajonca (I'm certain most of you know who this is), including a short bio on his life.

[Gazoo]

We get an edit of "Paradise" that omits Phil Rizzuto but includes Eileen Foley.  Fair enough, I guess.  Only tracks I didn't remember were Crystal Gayle's "Talking in Your Sleep" and La Ronstadt's "Back in the U.S.A."  A very stagnant chart: nothing moved upward more than 5 slots; six straight tunes, from 36 to 31, were each up 4 slots; and Nick Gilder was in the midst of what was then the longest journey to #1.  (An honor now held by "Macarena," unlikely to ever be broken.)

[RGMike]

We get an edit of "Paradise" that omits Phil Rizzuto but includes Eileen Foley. 

That's Ellen Foley, bub -- erstwhile girlfriend of the Clash's Mick Jones. Or was it Joe Strummer?

And no surprise on the edit, the full LP cut is 8-1/2 mins. I assume you got a fuck-free edit of "Who Are You?" as well.

[Tinka Cat]

The version of Eddie Money's Two Tickets To Paradise was not the one I'm used to hearing. This one had those twin guitar leads that Geoff described a copuple months back somewhere on this board as Duane Allman-esque, plus the chorus vox were different.


this stretch of songs gets BOS from me:

#15 Reminiscing – The Little River Band
At40 Extra: How Much I Feel – Ambrosia
#14 You And I – Rick James
#13 Love Is In The Air – John Paul Young
#12 Fool If You Think It’s Over – Chris Rea
#11 Hot Child In The City – Nick Gilder

ETA: if I may, I'd like to add these
#7 Summer Nights – John Travolta & Olivia Newton-John
#5 Kiss You All Over – Exile

[Tinka Cat]

I assume you got a fuck-free edit of "Who Are You?" as well.

yes, fuck-free.  They just repeated the same exact line Daltrey sang ("Aaaah really wanna know!") twice

[RGMike]

We get an edit of "Paradise" that omits Phil Rizzuto but includes Eileen Foley. 

That's Ellen Foley, bub -- erstwhile girlfriend of the Clash's Mick Jones. Or was it Joe Strummer?

And no surprise on the edit, the full LP cut is 8-1/2 mins

And not a terribly artful edit, at that. Not easy to bring 8-1/2 mins down to less than 5, but still...

[RGMike]

The version of Eddie Money's Two Tickets To Paradise was not the one I'm used to hearing. This one had those twin guitar leads that Geoff described a copuple months back somewhere on this board as Duane Allman-esque, plus the chorus vox were different.

Damn, that really was a completely different mix, if not an alternate take. 

VHM to City Boy's ELO-meets-Queen-at-a-Styx-concert amalgam, "5-7-0-5", one of my fave OHWs  -- saw them open for Hall & Oates, of all acts, at the Palladium in NYC that fall. Their first LP, the one with the beautiful "Haymaking Time" is worth seeking out. And another VHM to Crystal Gayle's lovely "Talking in Your Sleep".

Always a BOS to the always fabulous Alicia Bridges: she love the nightlife, she gots to boogie. 

[RGMike]

I'm tempted to WOS Aerosmith, groovin' up slow-lah, but I'll save my brickbats for Foxy's "Get Off", easily one of the worst disco records of that era. "Tie me up at your place/I can love you crazy"? Yeesh.

[RGMike]

Not much to say about Hours 2 & 3, tho' Casey's story about Robin Gibb's involvement with "Sesame Street Fever" was cute. My ears detected quite a few truncated versions of songs -- the 4-hour version of AT40 would make its debut in a few more weeks to alleviate edits and add more Long-Distance Dedications. More dead dogs for Casey!  So it was nice to hear Mr Manilow's "Ready to Take a Chance" as an extra; that meant we heard 2 of the eventual Best Song Oscar nominees, the other being ONJ's "Hopelessly Devoted". (Thankfully, the Academy bypassed Babs' "Laura Mars" atrocity.) The winner that year: "Last Dance".

[Wayback]

This weekend Casey70's goes back to Oct 2, 1971
(the last month or so, we seem to be rotating among the same few years):
http://www.whnn.com/goout.asp?u=http://www.whnn.com/Article.asp?id=583277&spid=

[Gazoo]

the 4-hour version of AT40 would make its debut in a few more weeks

A side result of that is that we're cheated out of all 1979 sets.  I wish they'd add those to the '80s roster.

[RGMike]

This weekend Casey70's goes back to Oct 2, 1971
(the last month or so, we seem to be rotating among the same few years):
http://www.whnn.com/goout.asp?u=http://www.whnn.com/Article.asp?id=583277&spid=

Looks good -- the 4 Tops' cover of "MacArthur Park" is a major rarity -- but I fear this ends the 5-week-window in which we'd've heard the Chi-Lites' "Stoned Out of My Mind" in a 1973 set. One of  my all-time faves. Bummer.

[kahunaburger]

This weekend Casey70's goes back to Oct 2, 1971
(the last month or so, we seem to be rotating among the same few years):
http://www.whnn.com/goout.asp?u=http://www.whnn.com/Article.asp?id=583277&spid=

  I don't think they have played any '72 shows since May!!!