Casey Kasem American Top 40

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Unexpected BOS2 Jim Capaldi, "That's Love", which I barely remember at all from '83

WOS The Goat, "Stand Back"; VHM Rod Stewart's overlooked "Baby Jane"

OMGWTF: the Bee Gees' "The Woman in You", from the dreadful SNF sequel Staying Alive, actually got as high as #24?  And another totally forgotten song at #22: LRB's "We Two".

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BOS3 DeBarge's creamy-dreamy "All This Love" -- this was their breakout year; shame about what happened to them.

VHMs to EJ, still standing, and MJ, finding inspiration in "Soul Makossa" on "WBSS" -- always a treat to hear something other than "Billie Jean" or "Beat It" from Thriller.

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'83 in full effect: an odd first hour, with double doses of Prince AND Bryan Adams.  VHM the late Ms Branigan's "Solitaire", which I didn't really appreciate at the time.

BOS Chris DeBurgh's "Don't Pay the Ferryman" -- this and the Branigan are the only songs of the first 10 that really qualify as "songs radio hardly ever plays anymore"

And for the 4th of July 1983, Casey did "the 40 biggest artists of the '80s... so far"?? Talk about jumping the gun!

And according to this http://www.charismusicgroup.com/Cue%20Sheets/07-02-83.pdf, top act "so far" was Hall and Oates and Casey played "Maneater".

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This week's '70s show is from June 28th 1975:

http://www.charismusicgroup.com/Cue%20Sheets/06-28-75.pdf

and JJ Fad fans rejoice: Casey's '80s goes to June 25th 1988:

http://www.charismusicgroup.com/Cue%20Sheets/06-25-88.pdf

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'75 is off to an interesting start - ballads from Charlie Rich and Roger Whittaker are interspersed with Barry White, the Commodores and Kool & the Gang each knocking off their previous hit.

IDKT: Mike "Rockford Files" Post was from Berkeley.

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Miss Manchester's "Midnight Blue" always touches a warm note inside me.

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Geekery: My Whitburn copy doesn't identify either Gladys Knight & the Pips' "Try to Remember/ The Way We Were" or Seals & Crofts' (Arts & Crafts, heh, love it) "I'll Play for You" as a "live" recording.  Were crowd noises dubbed into both, I wonder?  Either way, VHMs to these back-to-back forgotten gems.

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Livvy's ever charming "Please Mr. Please" gets a HM even though she wastes an entire stanza on explaining the concept of a jukebox.

Bonus track: here she is, hoofing it with Andy Gibb and ABBA: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhW68WE8F8s

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Geekery: My Whitburn copy doesn't identify either Gladys Knight & the Pips' "Try to Remember/ The Way We Were" or Seals & Crofts' (Arts & Crafts, heh, love it) "I'll Play for You" as a "live" recording.  Were crowd noises dubbed into both, I wonder?  Either way, VHMs to these back-to-back forgotten gems.

My copy, the newest edition, says both are live -- the S&C sure *sounds* fake to me.

I'll catch up with Casey later, I'm enjoying AL's Pride replay, this set really impressed me.

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Tony Camillo's Bazuka's "Dy-no-MITE!" seemed a silly let's-cash-in-on-a-catchphrase throwaway in '75; now it strikes me as a fun, tight little instrumental, easily better than that "Kool-Aid" thing we heard a few weeks ago.

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uber-BOS Ray Steven's fabulous countrified re-imagining of "Misty". It is my goal to get AL to play it in a '75 set sooner than later.

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BOS2 "Swearin' to God" -- Frankie V goes disco months before the Four Seasons charted with their "Who Loves You" comeback.

"no one gets me up there like you can
but you have a nose like a toucan..."

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"man got his woman to take his seed..." and that woman's name is: Alice Cooper!  BOS3 to one of chartdom's greatest OMGWTFs, "Only Women Bleed"

VHM Major Harris' ode to premature ejaculation.

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For the first time since we've been listening to these Klassic Kasems, Casey's promos for a special show "next week" are for reals -- we really are gonna hear the replay of the very first (July 4th 1970) AT40. And I cannot wait.



love the "for details call collect" part -- "800" numbers didn't exist in 1970.

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For the first time since we've been listening to these Klassic Kasems, Casey's promos for a special show "next week" are for reals -- we really are gonna hear the replay of the very first (July 4th 1970) AT40. And I cannot wait.



love the "for details call collect" part -- "800" numbers didn't exist in 1970.

Anybody have the capability to tape it? This is something I'm sure a lot us would love to save on our computer. Or at the very least knows a station that will archive it.