Casey Kasem American Top 40

[RGMike]

BOS4 "I’ve Found Someone Of My Own", Free Movement -- a small gem.

Everyone remembers John Lennon's "Imagine" as a #1 record, but it actually (astoundingly) peaked at #3.

[Gazoo]

Casey's '80s hit this week in November 1987.  BOS to the Jets' forgotten "I Do U."  Fun lite funk.

[SFGuy]

Casey's '80s hit this week in November 1987.  BOS to the Jets' forgotten "I Do U."  Fun lite funk.

I mentioned it in between Mike's 250 posts in a row. I mentioned one of the hits was part of Friday's rerun of the HFH 10 @ 10 show.

A couple of the stations chose not to play the November 14, 1987 show and repeated last week's 1982 show. The first station of the weekend did it and posted it here until I realized it was last week's show and deleted the post.

[kahunaburger]

     WODS has gone all Christmas all the time so one less station playing the hits from coast to coast!!!

[SFGuy]

     WODS has gone all Christmas all the time so one less station playing the hits from coast to coast!!!

The River, WRVF, in Toledo, OH has gone Christmas, too. So no 80's Casey show on that station. There are far less 80's than 70's Casey shows.

[RGMike]

I mentioned it in between Mike's 250 posts in a row. .

ROTFL! Guilty as charged, your honor.

[RGMike]

Took a while to find a station that isn't pre-empting Casey for All-Xmas, but it turns out this week we're getting a chart from Nov 28th, 1970!! Gaz! Very rare Flaming Ember! Mashmakan! Candi Staton's cover of "Stand By Your Man"! LAWD! I'm stoked for this one.

http://www.957kjrfm.com/pages/events.html?feed=111843&article=4192995

#40 “I’M NOT MY BROTHER’S KEEPER” – Flaming Ember
#39 “CAN’T STOP LOVING YOU” – Tom Jones
#38 “DEEPER & DEEPER” – Freda Payne
#37 “STAND BY YOUR MAN” – Candi Staton
#36 “LOLA” – The Kinks
#35 “BE MY BABY” – Andy Kim
#34 “HE AIN’T HEAVY…. HE’S MY BROTHER” – Neil Diamond
#33 “HEED THE CALL” – Kenny Rogers & The First Edition
#32 “CRACKLIN’ ROSIE” – Neil Diamond
#31 “AS THE YEARS GO BY” – Mashmakhan
#30 “FOR THE GOOD TIMES” – Ray Price
#29 “AFTER MIDNIGHT” – Eric Clapton
#28 “STILL WATER (LOVE)” – The Four Tops
#27 “BLACK MAGIC WOMAN” – Santana
#26 “LET’S WORK TOGETHER” – Canned Heat
#25 “ONE LESS BELL TO ANSWER” – The Fifth Dimension
#24 “NO MATTER WHAT” – Badfinger
#23 “YELLOW RIVER” – Christie
#22 “ALL RIGHT NOW” – Free
#21 “STONED LOVE” – The Supremes
#20 “DOES ANYBODY REALLY KNOW WHAT TIME IT IS?” – Chicago
#19 “IT DON’T MATTER TO ME” – Bread
#18 “SOMEBODY’S BEEN SLEEPING” – 100 Proof Aged in Soul
#17 “SUPER BAD (PART 1)” – James Brown
#16 “SHARE THE LAND” – Guess Who
#15 “5-10-15-20 (25-30 YEARS OF LOVE)” – Presidents
#14 “ENGINE NUMBER 9” – Wilson Pickett
#13 “CRY ME A RIVER” – Joe Cocker
#12 “SEE ME, FEEL ME” – The Who
#11A “PATCH IT UP” – Elvis Presley
#11B“YOU DON’T HAVE TO SAY YOU LOVE ME” – Elvis Presley
#10 “GREEN-EYED LADY” – Sugarloaf
#9 “HEAVEN HELP US ALL” – Stevie Wonder
#8 “MONTEGO BAY” – Bobby Bloom
#7 “INDIANA WANTS ME” – R. Dean Taylor
#6 “GYPSY WOMAN” – Brian Hyland
#5 “FIRE AND RAIN” – James Taylor
#4 “WE’VE ONLY JUST BEGUN” – The Carpenters
#3 “I’LL BE THERE” – The Jackson 5
#2 “THE TEARS OF A CLOWN” – Smokey Robinson & The Miracles
#1 “I THINK I LOVE YOU” – The Partridge Family

I guess that "11A/11B" thing means we hear both sides of the Elvis hit.

[Gazoo]

Hey! I think I love this set!  Will be listening via Chico in the morning.

[Gazoo]

Surprising number of NTMs in this set: #s 39, 34, 33, 13, and 11A.  All enjoyable except Neil's karaoke take on "He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother."

[Tinka Cat]

so far
BOS Andy Kim - Be My Baby - good remake
WOS  Neil Diamond - He Ain't Heavy...  Not a good remake, not digging that one.

Casey intros Neil's second tune (Cracklin' Rosie) saying something about "Neil's cup still has some rosé left in it!"  harhar.

I'm listening to a Canadian station play AT40 and they gave us Don Goodwin's This Is Your Song (1973) as an extra, right before #27, where I think other audiences probably got a true AT40 extra.  Nice one, and I assume it fulfilled the Canadian broadcasting requirement that a certain percentage of songs (30%) must be from the Great White North...

[RGMike]

Surprising number of NTMs in this set: #s 39, 34, 33, 13, and 11A.  All enjoyable except Neil's karaoke take on "He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother."

I'm astounded you'd never heard the Cocker cover of "Cry Me a River" -- from the live LP, and an AOR staple for years and years. Leon Russell, of course, on piano. Ze Mad Dogs... ze Englishmen... et Zho Co-KAIR!

[SFGuy]

The 80's version this weekend is from November 15, 1980.

[RGMike]

instant BOS Flaming Ember's "I'm Not My Brother's Keeper".  This Tom Jones thing is NTM -- not on the TJ best-of I have. One of his lesser, generic ballads of the period, but he gives it his all.

VHM she-took-2-Tylenol-and-now-she's Freda Payne with the unjustly forgotten "Deeper and Deeper". Quite a fab H-D-H production. And LawdHaveMercy! Candi Staton's let's-take-this-up-a-notch retooling of "Stand By Your Man" surely deserved better, pop-chart-wise.

Bwhahaha! Casey says "Lola" is "about a girl who's not a girl... or a guy who's not a guy". Speaking of, here's Andy Kim (nee Andrew Joachim) years before someone, er, rocked him gently, with his 2nd Ronettes cover, pretty much a carbon copy of his first.

[RGMike]

Wow, I barely recall this KR&TFE hit, "Heed The Call". I can almost imagine the Partidges doing this one.  Another VHM for one of my favorite OHWs, Mashmakan's "As Years Go By".  Fastball definitely listened to this before writing "The Way", methinks.

BOS2 Ray Price, "For The Good Times" -- a modern classic, smooth as good bourbon. No wonder Al Green covered it.

[RGMike]

Tons o'favorites in this 2nd hour -- the 5-D, Badfinger, Christie, the Guess Who. But it's really all about the soul: Supes' "Stoned Love", 100 Proof's "Somebody's Been Sleeping", JB's "Super Bad", and the Presidents' "5-10-15-20".  And there's still the wicked Pickett and my favorite Stevie Wonder lyric of all time coming up in hour 3.