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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #3540 on: December 03, 2011, 10:07:21 AM »
Hour 1: Stevie wishes; Norman Connors comes too soon; Travolta tries to croon.

BOS1 Bread's comeback; BOS2 the Bar-Kays shakin' they rump to da funk, y'alls.

Freddie wants somebody to love; David Dundas says "no thanks" and puts his jeans back on.

VHM the Rollers covering Dusty.

Not only is this the umpteenth '76 chart this year; the show itself is a rerun: I'm recognizing Casey's stories and intros, like his mentioning (twice) that BOC sound like the Byrds on "Reaper".  I will probably bail around the halfway mark, tho' I am jonesin' to hear Englebert.

BOS3 Chicago with Leopold "Butters" Stoch's favorite song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahp-AmJFpb8

Hey everybody, yeah! VHM LRB.

I don't remember CKRU playing Xmas tunes last December, but they're rather welcome today.
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #3541 on: December 03, 2011, 11:05:22 AM »
Old friends are like flowers, sez Crapton. I'm thinking he has poppies in mind. Just a hunch.

Whose wine? What wine? Whythehell must Frampton whine?

proxy "Haaaay" for "Dazz". I prefer the gay version, "Dizz, Dizz, Disco jizz".

Steve Miller goes all the way to Tacoma. Wish he'd stayed there.  BOS4 the Sylvers' dee-liteful "Hot Line". Baby wooooo!

BOS5 LTD's lovely "Love Ballad". Sing it, Mr Osborne. And uber-BOS6 Englebert's wonderful, old-school-MOR "After the Lovin'". His love is real! It makes me cry!

VHM Whinyface's lovely BeeGees-penned "Love Me"


another BOS(7) Burton Cummings, standing tall with Richard Perry's help.

VHM the absurd cheeziness of "Best Disco in Town".

Ballad time: BOSes 8 & 9 to Alice's "I Never Cry" and EJ's "Sorry Seems to be the Gayest Word"
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #3542 on: December 03, 2011, 11:42:26 AM »
Joining the show a bit late, BOS to "Love Ballad."  Casey seems to really not like the Ritchie Family's "Best Disco in Town" pastiche-co.
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #3543 on: December 03, 2011, 11:49:01 AM »
How is Whistling Jack Smith's "I Was Kaiser Bill's Batman" not an instrumental?  It wasn't a cappella whistling!

Here's an (unintentionally?) funny "lip-synching" of the song on the U.K.'s Beat Club show: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQQ5sEOhbjQ
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #3544 on: December 03, 2011, 12:07:48 PM »
 "No direction!  No purpose! ...  AWW, girl!"  VHM to the over-the-top "Just to Be Close to You."
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #3545 on: December 03, 2011, 12:36:09 PM »
Hour3: I'm back in time for Marilyn McCoo and Uncle Remus too: "You Don't Have to be a Tar Baby to Be in My Show"

Sadly, I didn't get to do my "You Are the Woman" line, but at least I missed "More Than a Feeling", praise jeebus.

BOS10 the BeeGees, "Love So Right".
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #3546 on: December 04, 2011, 10:16:46 AM »
'82 Hour 1: instant BOS and proxy "Haaaay" to Kool & the Gang, "Let's Go Dancin'" OOO-La-la-lah!

PG shocks his monkey. We got UN-lucky: TP shows up. eek.

"What About Me?" -- the song that charted twice.

VHM Tavares' sweet, forgotten "Penny For Your Thoughts". Love shouldn't feel so darn confused!

Billy Squier says everybody wants me -- who you been talkin' to, bub?

WOS1 LRB, at the end of their creative rope with "The Other Guy".

VHM JCM; BOS2 Jeffrey Osborne on the wings of adult-contempo lurve.
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #3547 on: December 04, 2011, 11:13:07 AM »
Hour 2: I'm so excited the Pointers are still standing.

WOS2 Starship's "Be My Lady". Where's that guitar riff stolen from? sounds familiar.

wow, a girl dedicating "We've Only Just Begun" to another girl?


Phunky Phil's "Can't Hurry Love" is one of the most unnecessary remakes evah.

I guess the plane's down in "Africa". or something.
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #3548 on: December 04, 2011, 12:06:01 PM »
Hour 3: BOS3 and H-2 ABC; BOS4 BJ with his Peter Pan advice. Psych-1, Psych-2 -- what does he know?

Dionne W told the BeeGees: "do for me what you did for dat Streisand bitch -- and i'll introduce you to my coke dealer"

Livvy's "Heart Attack" plummets from #3 to #16 --deservedly, IMHO. But always a BOS(5) to Sylvia's "Nobody"

VHM Supertramp's forgotten "It's Raining Again"; please don't ejaculate while Mahvin masturbates.
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #3549 on: December 04, 2011, 06:30:24 PM »
Next week That '70s Casey visits Dec 12th 1974 -- one of those weeks where all 4 Beatles are in the Top 40 as solos:

http://www.charismusicgroup.com/Cue%20Sheets/12-14-74.pdf

And Casey's '80s is from Dec 13th 1986:

http://www.charismusicgroup.com/Cue%20Sheets/12-13-86.pdf
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #3550 on: December 10, 2011, 10:05:44 AM »
'74/Hour 1: John gets us started.

OMG I haven't heard this Bo Donaldson obscurity ("Heartbreak Kid") since '74. And with good reason, it appears.

the Guess Who are "Dancin' Fool"s. Andy Kim's on fire -- losing your butt-virginity will do that to a guy. I don't remember this one, but it's another dead-on Neil Diamond impression; funny because "Longfellow Serenade" is in Hour 2.

BOS1 the early disco of Carl Carlton's "Everlasting Love" reboot.

WOS1 the Righteous Bros -- has there ever been a more worthess "comeback" than theirs in '74?

Surprised VHM Donny & Marie -- nice.

BOS2 Shirley Brown -- ah gots to tell you, woman 2 woman, dat he MAH man, bitch! Evvahthang he gots ah bought wit MAH welfare checks!

BOS3 George, making it 4 Beatles in the 40 at once. VHM the Carpenters -- delivvah de lettah de soonah de bettha!

Having heard Scott English's orig "Brandy" the other day, I'll have to BOS4 Barry M's re-imagining of it as "Mandy"

BOS5 Kiki Dee, "I've Got the Vibrator Music In Me"; BOS6 and early-disco "HAAAAAAY!" Gloria Gaynor.
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #3551 on: December 10, 2011, 11:12:25 AM »
Hour 2: Crapton gets a hand-job, er, -jive. Tull bungles and Paul Anka cheats on Odia Coates. But she's a one-man reggae woman.

BOS7 Neil D working on his longfellow. uber-BOS8 Gladys -- he makes her feel just like a WOO-mun!

BOS9 Geils, the musically fabulous but grammatically horrendous "Must Of Got Lost"

VHM Bobby Vinton with the cheezy MOR goodness of "My Melody of Love".  Like kielbasa and pierogies set to music.

WOS2 Ringo -- easily one of his weakest singles.

BOS10 Stones -- another of my fave Motown covers. Wacky Sedacky sings like a girl; Chicago wish you were here; Elvis works on a T-Bone steak alla-carty. JT had done a version of "Promised Land" earlier that year on his Walking Man LP -- wonder if that's where Elvis got the idea.

Hour 2 extra: Frankie V. His eyes adored you but his nose abhorred you.
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #3552 on: December 10, 2011, 11:45:08 AM »
Agreed on just about everything you've said here.  Too bad it would be a few more weeks til we heard from the answer record to Shirley, Barbara Mason's "From His Woman to You."  Very fond memories of the Vinton and Sedaka from my earliest days.
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #3553 on: December 10, 2011, 12:06:08 PM »
Hour 3 begins with the sweet country harmonies of... the Pointers?? BOS11 the sublime "Fairytale"

VHM Rufus; uber-BOS12 my fave Macca 45, "Juniors Farm". Take me down, Jimmeh!

BOS13 "Angie Baby", with kudos to songwriter Alan O'Day. WOS3 Mr Chapin's middlebrow sap-fest.

Loved Jose F's AT40 thread on FB -- who knew mondegreens were a Communist plot?

The 3 Degrees show us their hoo-hahs... and their hah-hoos!
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #3554 on: December 10, 2011, 12:57:57 PM »
The link crapped out on me several times.  It's gotten harder to catch full eps lately, with so many stations having gone all-Christmas.
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