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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #900 on: January 10, 2009, 09:01:28 AM »
browsing ahead in the chart, I see that Ringo has another song at #16. 
Jim Croce has two in this week, too.
Also with two on this chart, Barry White, at #17 and #8. And three Beatles, Ringo at #32 and #16, John at #25 and Paul at #12.
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #901 on: January 10, 2009, 09:10:33 AM »
I've been listening to this in bed all morning, just now stirring to post.  BOS to GK and the Pips, "I've Got to Use My Imagination."
“The choir of children sing their song.  They've practiced all year long.  Ding dong.  Ding dong.  Ding dong.”

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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #902 on: January 10, 2009, 09:27:32 AM »
BOS2 to "GYBR," still one of the saddest melodies I've ever heard (used to make me cry when I was a little kid).
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #903 on: January 10, 2009, 09:39:08 AM »
BOS2 to "GYBR," still one of the saddest melodies I've ever heard (used to make me cry when I was a little kid).
Another that would make my tears well up... "Smokin' in the Boys Room"... from all the second-hand smoke.

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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #904 on: January 10, 2009, 09:46:43 AM »
We get to hear David Essex "Rock On" for second time today as the AT40 Extra. They were supposed to have played Greg Allman "Midnight Rider" last hour.

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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #905 on: January 10, 2009, 09:49:15 AM »
WOS "The Joker."  I will always find this song's success unfathomable.
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #906 on: January 10, 2009, 09:52:41 AM »
WOS "The Joker."  I will always find this song's success unfathomable.
As a teen then, it was fun to sing in the car with your friends the line, "really love your peaches, wanna shake your tree. WHAAA WHAAA!"

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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #907 on: January 10, 2009, 10:00:04 AM »
WOS "The Joker."  I will always find this song's success unfathomable.
As a teen then, it was fun to sing in the car with your friends the line, "really love your peaches, wanna shake your tree. WHAAA WHAAA!"

there's always an audience for stoner tunes, dude.
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #908 on: January 10, 2009, 10:27:35 AM »
NTM #36 Ian Thomas "Painted Ladies." The vocals sound like America tho' the melody is funkier.  You can listen now via chicooldies.com

A great lost OHW, and yes it does sound very America-ish.  Ian Thomas is the brother of Dave Thomas of SCTV/MacKenzie Bros fame.
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #909 on: January 11, 2009, 08:31:38 AM »
Casey's '80s land on Dec. 24, 1983.  NTM at 39: Deborah Allen, "Baby I Lied."  Not the Fame actress; a C-W singer.

This weekend we land in January 1984 - so it's mostly this countdown all over again.  :(  Nothing to see here, move along ...
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #910 on: January 11, 2009, 08:44:57 AM »
Amazing that Kool & the Gang's sound of "Jungle Boogie" (debuting at #37 on this chart) and "Hollywood Swinging" would evolve into the soft "Cherish" and "Joanna."

Funnily enough, "Joanna" (which I prefer to sing as "Joe Mama") appears in this week's Casey's '80s countdown.
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #911 on: January 11, 2009, 11:04:28 AM »
I'm here, missed Merle Haggard, dangit. Don't know if that one was a-comin' or a-goin' in the charts.
Painted Ladies is NTM, too.
How about the old-timey cheesey sounds of Tony Orlando and Dawn's "WHO’S IN THE STRAWBERRY PATCH WITH SALLY"  at #33?  and then Ringo's great single "Photograph" at #32 right after that?  what a difference...!
Yeah, I missed Haggard, joined in on "Jungle Boogie."  Will have to hear it on another replay this weekend.  Yeah, Dawn got some mileage out of the vaudeville sound.  Now some comedy with "Spiders and Snakes" and "Sister Mary Elephant."

I posted the Haggard tune in my "Christmas Countdown" thread if you've never heard it.  Hearing it back-to-back with Paul Simon's "American Tune" was quite a one-two punch, given that the economy is in even sadder shape now than in the "Nixon recession" of '73-'74 that inspired the Haggard song.
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #912 on: January 15, 2009, 07:26:28 PM »
This weekend (1/17-18) Casey70's visits Jan 14, 1978. Playlist:
http://www.whnn.com/goout.asp?u=http://images.radcity.net/5874/3399801.pdf

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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #913 on: January 15, 2009, 10:01:05 PM »
This weekend (1/17-18) Casey70's visits Jan 14, 1978. Playlist:
http://www.whnn.com/goout.asp?u=http://images.radcity.net/5874/3399801.pdf

thanks for posting this!  I look fwd to AT40 all the time now, but a lot of this seems very familiar. We heard a similar one  (Dec 77) last month: http://10at10club.com/forum/index.php?topic=4243.msg91825#msg91825
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #914 on: January 16, 2009, 01:27:02 AM »
I was disappointed that the Sirius/XM 80's version on Jan. 11th still have the year-end countdown from 1984 while the 70's went back to the weekly show on Jan. 10th (from Jan. 11, 1975).