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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #2910 on: March 19, 2011, 10:03:56 AM »
A mixed-bag of a first hour begins with a BOS: the Maestro and his Love Unltd Orch with the great, forgotten "Satin Soul".

VHM the Blackbyrds, brightening up a rainy weekend with their sunny "Walking in Rhythm"; WOS CDB, praising the Confederacy.

BOS2FRA Fanny's "Butter Boy". "He was hard as a rock and I was ready to roll" -- do tell!

EJ's free in Philly; BadCo take the GG Bridge in the wrong direction. I wonder if they knew Diesel.

VHM Freddie Fender's teardrops; ditto Mr Fogelberg's plan.

WOS2 one of my all-time HFHs, Hot Choc's painfully awful "Emma".  Death songs really have to earn their tears honestly and intelligently, and this one fails on both counts for me.
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #2911 on: March 19, 2011, 11:06:26 AM »
VHM BTO, rollin' on; BOS3 Ms Reddy's fab "Emotion" -- has it really been a year since we heard this and I posted YT clips of the other versions?

WOS3 "Chevy Van" -- she's like a pitcher? So Sammy's a catcher? Wha?

Chaka likes the way ya do it when ya do it.  BOS4 BJT, "(HWYP)ASDSWS"

MJ & his bros would like to sprinkle theyself around you. BOS5 the still-fabulous "I Am Love". And of course BOS6 (and proxy of Gaz) "Sad Sweet Dreamer" -- OooWaWaOooWaWaOoo!  BOS7 Al Martino -- alla porte del Sol!  Watch out, Al -- get too close to the sun and you'll go "Up in a Puff of Smoke". BOS8 Polly Brown.

More foreign-speak: Shirley & Co are goin' to every discotay. Or something.

VHM Ringo with the rarely-heard "Snookeroo", the B-side of "No No Song".

And Hour 3 begins with the song that changed the Eagles' careers forever.

ONJ don't mean to make you frown; she just wants you to go down! And Labelle are doing more than that!

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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #2912 on: March 19, 2011, 08:10:47 PM »
Quote from: RGMike on March 19, 2011, 11:06:26 AM
BOS3 Ms Reddy's fab "Emotion" -- has it really been a year since we heard this and I posted YT clips of the other versions?

Nearly to the day:

http://babyivebeenthinking.blogspot.com/2010/03/helen-reddy-emotion.html

One of my favorite entries from the blog, I must say.
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #2913 on: March 19, 2011, 08:55:32 PM »
Quote from: RGMike on March 19, 2011, 11:06:26 AM
WOS3 "Chevy Van" -- she's like a pitcher? So Sammy's a catcher? Wha?

Peg!  It will come back to you!
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #2914 on: March 19, 2011, 09:13:20 PM »
Quote from: RGMike on March 19, 2011, 11:06:26 AM
And Hour 3 begins with the song that changed the Eagles' careers forever.

We had the Eagles' 1971-79 GH anth on 8-track when it came out.   "Best of My Love" fell awkwardly in between two tracks, and to this day my mind inserts a fade, click, fade in at the line "...we could never rise above."
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #2915 on: March 22, 2011, 07:52:38 AM »
That '70s Casey this week is from March 25th 1978  -- BeeGees Mania!!:

http://www.charismusicgroup.com/Cue%20Sheets/03-25-78.pdf

and Casey's '80s is from March 24th 1984:

http://www.charismusicgroup.com/Cue%20Sheets/03-24-84.pdf
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #2916 on: March 26, 2011, 09:59:31 AM »
Quote from: RGMike on March 22, 2011, 07:52:38 AM
That '70s Casey this week is from March 25th 1978  -- BeeGees Mania!!:

There are something like 6 SNF sndtk cuts in the 40, plus the BeeGees producing Samantha Sang and brother Andy's "Love is Thicker Than My Penis".  An amazing time.  First up: "Disco Inferno", the Trammps spark gets hot -- I used to think they were saying their "spunk" got hot.  Er... ouch.

BOS1 Mr Lightfoot's lovely "The Circle is Small", which barely registered with me in '78 but our Canadian friends at CKRU play it a lot, and I've come to like it quite a bit.

VHM VH, bucking the disco trend with their Kinks cover.

Proxy of Gaz, "Count on Me"; proxy of sundaygal, "Feels So Good"

VHM ABBA, "Name of the Game"; BOS2 Andrew Gold and the future Golden Girls theme.  (ooo -- the looong version!)

BOS3 Roberta & Donny, "The Closer I Get to the Window Ledge"
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #2917 on: March 26, 2011, 11:04:52 AM »
Sweet Lou starts Hour 2 with a BOS4: the sounds-like-it-was-written-for-the-Spinners "Lady Love"

VHM Gene Cotton.
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #2918 on: March 26, 2011, 11:21:34 AM »
Quote from: RGMike on March 26, 2011, 09:59:31 AM
Quote from: RGMike on March 22, 2011, 07:52:38 AM
That '70s Casey this week is from March 25th 1978  -- BeeGees Mania!!:

BOS3 Roberta & Donny, "The Closer I Get to the Window Ledge"

Oh, schnap!  (Love the song, BTW)
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #2919 on: March 26, 2011, 11:24:23 AM »
Quote from: sundaygal on March 26, 2011, 11:21:34 AM
Quote from: RGMike on March 26, 2011, 09:59:31 AM
Quote from: RGMike on March 22, 2011, 07:52:38 AM
That '70s Casey this week is from March 25th 1978  -- BeeGees Mania!!:

BOS3 Roberta & Donny, "The Closer I Get to the Window Ledge"

Oh, schnap!  (Love the song, BTW)

I never pass up a Donny H jumper joke.


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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #2920 on: March 26, 2011, 12:09:21 PM »
VHM LeBlanc & Carr; ditto Chic -- yowsah!

AAAAACK! "Thunder Island"!! NOOOOOOOOO!!!  Well, at least "Dreadlock Holiday" never made the Top 40...

proxy of Gaz, "I Go Crazy"

Samantha Sang! And the world listened! (that just never gets old...)
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #2921 on: March 27, 2011, 10:14:02 AM »
"Underneath the hood, the kid's American" - not necessarily a compliment, according to this study.
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #2922 on: March 27, 2011, 10:17:26 AM »
Quote from: RGMike on March 26, 2011, 09:59:31 AM
Quote from: RGMike on March 22, 2011, 07:52:38 AM
That '70s Casey this week is from March 25th 1978  -- BeeGees Mania!!:

There are something like 6 SNF sndtk cuts in the 40, plus the BeeGees producing Samantha Sang and brother Andy's "Love is Thicker Than My Penis".  An amazing time.  First up: "Disco Inferno", the Trammps spark gets hot -- I used to think they were saying their "spunk" got hot.  Er... ouch.

BOS1 Mr Lightfoot's lovely "The Circle is Small", which barely registered with me in '78 but our Canadian friends at CKRU play it a lot, and I've come to like it quite a bit.

VHM VH, bucking the disco trend with their Kinks cover.

Proxy of Gaz, "Count on Me"; proxy of sundaygal, "Feels So Good"

VHM ABBA, "Name of the Game"; BOS2 Andrew Gold and the future Golden Girls theme.  (ooo -- the looong version!)

BOS3 Roberta & Donny, "The Closer I Get to the Window Ledge"
Thanks.  Agreed on the "Count on Me" BOS, with BOS2 to Barry's "Can't Smile Without You."  But WOS to the Andrew Gold, because he seems to be singing too close to the mic the whole time.  And pity about Stargard - going to all that trouble of dreaming about stardom, only to score a major role in Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and watch their career sink with it.
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #2923 on: March 27, 2011, 10:21:10 AM »
Matthew Wilder's "The Kid's American" is ho-hum. You might think it's hysterical; I just think it's The Cars.

Wang Chung's "Don't Let Go" was their first hit -- several months before "Dance Hall Days". VHMFRA.

AAAAACK! WOS Yes.

UB40 on their first go-'round with "Red Red Wine", which would peak at #34 in this year -- it wouldn't be a #1 smash until the '88 re-release.

VHMs to APP's "Don't Answer Me" and Rick Springfield's "Love Somebody"

Nice surprise: This hour's LDD is Gallery's forgotten Mac Davis cover, "I Believe in Music". Play that cheezy synth!
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #2924 on: March 27, 2011, 10:36:43 AM »
VHM Alan Parsons Project, one of my favorite videos of all time.
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