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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #2685 on: November 08, 2010, 08:57:53 AM »
this week that '70s show goes to Nov 12th 1977:

http://www.charismusicgroup.com/Cue%20Sheets/11-12-77.pdf

and Casey's '80s is from Nov 12, 1983:

http://www.charismusicgroup.com/Cue%20Sheets/11-12-83.pdf

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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #2686 on: November 13, 2010, 10:12:30 AM »
Steve Miller swings; Frampton does the whitest Motown cover EVAH.

VHM Leo Sayer's completely forgotten "Thunder in My Heart" -- oh, what one of the disco divas of the time could've done with this one.

Always a BOS for Dolly, with the fab Mann/Weill hommage to Petula Clark.

Happy World Contact Day! uber-BOS2 the Carpenters' Klaatuu cover, one of the great "WTF?" singles of all time.  BOS3 LTD with one of the great R&B singles of the late '70s.

HM ED&JFC, goin' too far.

Paul Davis goes crazy; Paul Simon sells snow tires. And Casey misidentifies Simon's LP of the moment as Blatant Greatest Hits, its originally intended title; it was changed shortly before release to Greatest Hits Etc.

another Seals heard from: S&C must have their fair share, dammit!  VHM Eric Carmen's delightful Beach Boys tribute, featuring real BBs on backing vox.
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #2687 on: November 13, 2010, 11:17:46 AM »
Somebody yell "one more time!" -- and Barry M will go all the way!  Er, I'm not spending the nite at HIS house.
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #2688 on: November 13, 2010, 11:37:47 AM »
BOD to "Daybreak," my first 45.  VHMs to the Dolly and Davis tracks, which I never tire of.  WOS to Leo Sayer's misguided disco, and DHM to the unnecessary retread of "Dazz," "Dusic."

No idea what the Carpenters' crew were thinking issuing that as a single.
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #2689 on: November 13, 2010, 12:47:57 PM »
Gotta bail before Ms Boone croons "YLUML" at #1. But a fine morning spent with Mr Kasem.
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #2690 on: November 14, 2010, 07:54:33 AM »
Some fun moments in this '83 set.  Co-BOS to JoBoxers, feelin' jake on "Just Got Lucky," and the Human League, with Phil Oakey as statuary as ever on "Mirror Man."
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #2691 on: November 14, 2010, 08:48:44 AM »
BOS3 to Culture Club and an uncredited Helen Terry, the magnificent "Church of the Poison Mind."

I'd forgotten that "Love Is a Stranger" was as big a hit as it was.  It eluded my attention at the time.
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #2692 on: November 14, 2010, 10:08:53 AM »
Manhattan Transfer's "Spice of Life" sounds like a Rod Temperton compo that both MJ and George Benson turned down.

ETA: Temperton did indeed write it.

WOS ONJ's worthless "Twist of Fate"; WO2 Asia; WOS3 Loverboy -- a trifecta of '80s awfulness.

But ditto all of Gaz's BOSes so far, esp "Mirror Man", a seriously underappreciated/underplayed entry in the Human League catalog.
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #2693 on: November 14, 2010, 11:13:47 AM »
Irene Cara's "Why Me?" sounds like quite the Donna Summer reject, circa "the Wan-duh-wuh".

Luther V sez Aretha saved his life -- oh girlfriend, puh-LEEZE! Save the drama fo' yo' mama!

VHM "Love is a Stranger" -- that summer I was in London, and "Who's That Girl" was the follow-up to "Sweet Dreams" in the UK, so I thought "LIAS" an odd choice as a single here, even tho' I like the song.

VHM "PYT"; and if you don't agree that H&O's "Say it Isn't So" deserves a BOS -- that bites it even more!

"I know when to go out
I know when to stay in
and narrate Peter & the Wolf..."

HM Bowie.

I know THIS much is true: Spandau Ballet's fabulous ballad deserved to get higher than #4. BOS5

Until Sheena Easton got her sexy makeover with "Strut" and "Sugar Walls", she seemed to be doing ONJ's rejects, like "Telefone"
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #2694 on: November 14, 2010, 06:41:01 PM »
BOS3 to Culture Club and an uncredited Helen Terry, the magnificent "Church of the Poison Mind."


If people didn't know, a lot of the Culture Club songs were about Boy George's relationship with Jon Moss.

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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #2695 on: November 14, 2010, 06:52:54 PM »
LOL to the guy who voiced over the AT40 extras who called the Romantics a "British" group.

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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #2696 on: November 15, 2010, 02:32:25 AM »

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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #2697 on: November 16, 2010, 09:20:31 AM »
Casey's 80s: November 20, 1982

http://www.charismusicgroup.com/Cue%20Sheets/11-20-82.pdf

FYI, for those who listen to the Canadian (CKRU) feed on Sundays --- it'll be pre-empted by hockey the next 2 weeks, eh?
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #2698 on: November 16, 2010, 12:00:52 PM »
Casey's 80s: November 20, 1982

http://www.charismusicgroup.com/Cue%20Sheets/11-20-82.pdf

FYI, for those who listen to the Canadian (CKRU) feed on Sundays --- it'll be pre-empted by hockey the next 2 weeks, eh?

thanks, I occasionally catch that one. 

There's something reassuring about Canadian stations bumping AMERICAN Top 40 for the Sport of Canada.  I would expect nothing less. 

Mom, bro and I traveled to Montreal a few years back and were pleased to watch some "Hockey Night On Canada" TV broadcast.  I think it's when the Canadian teams all play each other: Leafs, Flames, Oilers, Canucks, Sanators and Les Habitants.

I've noticed the NBC has co-opted it, calling their Sunday night pre-game show "Football Night In America"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football_Night_in_America
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #2699 on: November 17, 2010, 01:20:18 AM »
BOS3 to Culture Club and an uncredited Helen Terry, the magnificent "Church of the Poison Mind."


If people didn't know, a lot of the Culture Club songs were about Boy George's relationship with Jon Moss.

I've seen and read some great stories about their drama.  It's a shame that as the relationship ended, so did George's creative capacity.  I know he's a respected DJ, but I've been disappointed by almost all of his solo work.
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