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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #1590 on: October 11, 2009, 05:13:04 PM »
Apparently XM has canceled American Top 40 80's shows. So I will have to listen to an online stream.

Luckily I could find a list here:
http://radiotime.com/options/p_154285/American_Top_40_-_The_80s.aspx

For those who want the 70's list:
http://radiotime.com/options/p_117092/American_Top_40_-_The_70s.aspx

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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #1591 on: October 12, 2009, 10:20:11 PM »
Apparently XM has canceled American Top 40 80's shows. So I will have to listen to an online stream.

Luckily I could find a list here:
http://radiotime.com/options/p_154285/American_Top_40_-_The_80s.aspx

For those who want the 70's list:
http://radiotime.com/options/p_117092/American_Top_40_-_The_70s.aspx

These lists appear to cover more ground than the Wikipedia links on Page 1 of this thread - thanks for posting them!
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #1592 on: October 13, 2009, 01:15:34 AM »
Apparently XM has canceled American Top 40 80's shows. So I will have to listen to an online stream.

Luckily I could find a list here:
http://radiotime.com/options/p_154285/American_Top_40_-_The_80s.aspx

For those who want the 70's list:
http://radiotime.com/options/p_117092/American_Top_40_-_The_70s.aspx

These lists appear to cover more ground than the Wikipedia links on Page 1 of this thread - thanks for posting them!

It's probably the same show but with stations that can stream, you have a lot of choices in case you miss it at a certain time.

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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #1593 on: October 14, 2009, 09:33:35 PM »
This weekend's Casey70's is from Oct 13, 1973!  The Playlist:
http://www.whnn.com/goout.asp?u=http://www.whnn.com/Article.asp?id=583277&spid=

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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #1594 on: October 15, 2009, 07:23:43 AM »
This weekend's Casey70's is from Oct 13, 1973!  The Playlist:
http://www.whnn.com/goout.asp?u=http://www.whnn.com/Article.asp?id=583277&spid=

sure enuf, we arrive at '73 a week or 2 too late for the Chi-Lites. But at least theres Millie Jackson's fabulous "Hurts So Good".
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #1595 on: October 17, 2009, 09:22:30 AM »
Chart Date: October 13, 1973

#40 I Got A Name – Jim Croce 
#39 Jimmy Loves Mary-Anne – Looking Glass
#38 Jesse – Roberta Flack
#37 Theme From Cleopatra Jones – Joe Simon F/The Main Streeters
#36 Let Me In – The Osmonds
#35 You’re A Special Part Of Me – Diana Ross & Marvin Gaye
#34 Ecstasy – The Ohio Players
#33 Summer (The First Time) – Bobby Goldsboro
#32 Funky Stuff – Kool & The Gang
#31 We May Never Pass This Way Again – Seals & Crofts
#30 In The Midnight Hour – Cross Country
#29 Hurts So Good – Millie Jackson
#28 Get It Together – The Jackson Five
#At40 Extra: Just You ‘N’ Me – Chicago
#27 You’ve Never Been This Far Before – Conway Twitty
#26 Space Race – Billy Preston
#25 Touch Me In The Morning – Diana Ross
#24 Rocky Mountain Way – Joe Walsh
#23 Why Me – Kris Kristofferson
#22 Brother Louie – Stories
#21 Say, Has Anybody Seen My Sweet Gypsy Rose – Dawn F/Tony Orlando
#20 Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door – Bob Dylan
#19 All I Know – Garfunkel
#18 Delta Dawn – Helen Reddy
#17 Basketball Jones F/Tyrone Shoelaces – Cheech & Chong
#16 My Maria – B.W. Stevenson
#15 China Grove – The Doobie Brothers
#14 Free Ride – The Edgar Winter Group
#At40 Extra: Top Of The World – The Carpenters
#13 Paper Roses – Marie Osmond
#12 Heartbeat It’s A Lovebeat – The Defranco Family
#11 Yes We Can Can – The Pointer Sisters
#10 We’re An American Band – Grand Funk
#9 Keep On Truckin – Eddie Kendricks
#8 Midnight Train To Georgia – Gladys Knight & The Pips
#7 Loves Me Like A Rock – Paul Simon
#6 That Lady – Isley Brothers
#5 Angie – Rolling Stones
#4 Higher Ground – Stevie Wonder
#3 Let’s Get It On – Marvin Gaye
#At40 Extra: The Most Beautiful Girl – Charlie Rich
#2 Ramblin’ Man – Allman Brothers Band
#1 Half-Breed – Cher
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #1596 on: October 17, 2009, 03:27:10 PM »
Apparently XM has canceled American Top 40 80's shows. So I will have to listen to an online stream.

Luckily I could find a list here:
http://radiotime.com/options/p_154285/American_Top_40_-_The_80s.aspx

For those who want the 70's list:
http://radiotime.com/options/p_117092/American_Top_40_-_The_70s.aspx

These lists appear to cover more ground than the Wikipedia links on Page 1 of this thread - thanks for posting them!

Not sure how up-to-date that list is. There's a station in Portland (KLTH, Oldies 106.7) that carries the 70s show and is not on the Radiotime list but is on the Wikipedia one. (Sundays 10am to 1pm, if anyone cares.)
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #1597 on: October 17, 2009, 07:25:28 PM »
Jim Croce debuts posthumously at #40; Looking Glass only feel dead as their wonderful "Jimmy Loves Mary Anne" drops to 39 from its #33 peak.  And Roberta Flack's forgotten "Jesse" (a Janis Ian compo) sneaks in at 38, followed by Joe Simon with the first of 2 hits from the Cleopatra Jones sndtk.

VHM the Osmonds' "Let Me In" -- they were far more appealing in ballad mode than with Merrill screeching his lungs out on stuff like "Yo-Yo".
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #1598 on: October 17, 2009, 07:40:45 PM »
Marvin & Diana's "You're a Special Part of Me" is not my fave duet of theirs. Talk about a song without a hook.  And I barely remember the Ohio Players' "Ecstasy", with its weird chart action: debuts at 34, spends 2 weeks there, drops to 45, then re-enters at... 34. And next week it will drop out again, only to re-enter a third time (!) the week after that.

Gaz is missing quite a week for deflowering: Bobby Goldsboro chases the boy in him away, and a few songs later Conway Twitty says "You've Never Been This Far Before".

But VHM Kool & the Gang's "Funky Stuff" -- their first Top 40 appearance!
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #1599 on: October 17, 2009, 08:03:12 PM »
I remember us discussing this America-ish cover of "In the Midnight Hour" by Cross Country (former members of the Tokens) last year. It completely escaped my notice in '73.

BOS1 Miss Millie Jackson's superb perf on "Hurts So Good", our 2nd Cleo Jones hit.  And the J-5 say "get up off yo' high horse, girl!"

Interesting stat: of the 13 songs we've heard in the first hour, only ONE would make it to the Top Ten -- "I Got a Name".
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #1600 on: October 17, 2009, 08:42:51 PM »
uber-BOS2 Art Garfunkel's glorious interpretation of Jim Webb's "All I Know". BOS3 Cheech & Chong (& Tyrone Shoelaces), "Basketball Jones". Ah got more moves than Ex-Lax!
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #1601 on: October 17, 2009, 09:45:07 PM »
Gladys takes the Midnite Train to Utah to be the only black singer in a Mormon choir, but Paul Simon beats her to the punch by inventing Jewish gospel.
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #1602 on: October 18, 2009, 11:16:48 PM »
   Casey put the hex on The Pointer Sisters "Yes We Can Can" by declaring it was on it's way to the top 10.  Great countdown. Not even Bobby Goldboro, Tony Orlando & Dawn or Marie Osmond can mess it up. While "Why Me" by Kris Kristofferson had a long run (19 weeks in the 40) it only reached #16. It ended up in the top 10 for 1973 (#6 as a matter of fact). Dylan called it one of the best songs ever written. One of the few songs me and my parents could agree on. "Keep on Truckin'" and "That Lady" rule!!!  Gladys Knight & The Pips "Midnight Train To Georgia" still sounds great after all these years.
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #1603 on: October 19, 2009, 10:24:08 AM »
While "Why Me" by Kris Kristofferson had a long run (19 weeks in the 40) it only reached #16. It ended up in the top 10 for 1973 (#6 as a matter of fact).

Is there a way to get the Billboard end-of-year charts?

Sorry I didn't get to hear this; easily one of the more diverse charts, sonically, in memory.
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #1604 on: October 19, 2009, 10:29:31 AM »
While "Why Me" by Kris Kristofferson had a long run (19 weeks in the 40) it only reached #16. It ended up in the top 10 for 1973 (#6 as a matter of fact).

Is there a way to get the Billboard end-of-year charts?


They're not on the Billboard website?  I used to save them -- have a bunch at home somewhere, but I wasn't yet buying the mag in '73.
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