American Top 40 1972
From 1970 to 1988, Casey Kasem (aka Shaggy on Scooby-Doo) hosted a weekly radio countdown program featuring the weeks top 40 songs. It came on Sunday mornings. I was attending a Catholic high school away from home (Portsmouth Abbey in RI; I was from Chicago), and after mass Sunday mornings, wed have to clean up our dorm, and invariably wed do it to the sound of Kasems top 40 songs. This is entirely an exercise in nostalgia. The immediate prompt for me listing all these songs on this blog (the lists can be found elsewhere on the internet, though perhaps not as conveniently as on the links here to the Web Archive) is watching the Marvel movies with my college-age kids during this time of pandemic, and finding fun songs from the 70s showing up at unexpected places in these films. So, without further ado, here goes the trip down memory lane. As noted above, I dont have access to the actual shows: 1970: Casey Kasems Classic American Top 40 Countdown *** 197007/04/70 Using the 7/11/70 Chart Debut Show BACK TO THE TOP 197101/02/71 1970 Year End Countdown (Part 2) BACK TO THE TOP 197201/08/72CD BACK TO THE TOP 197301/06/73CD BACK TO THE TOP 197401/05/74CD BACK TO THE TOP 197501/04/75CD BACK TO THE TOP 197601/10/76CD BACK TO THE TOP 197701/08/77CD BACK TO THE TOP 197801/07/78CD 10/07/78CD First Four-Hour Show BACK TO THE TOP 197901/06/79CD BACK TO THE TOP 198001/05/80TAPE/CD TOP 50 HITS OF THE 70S BACK TO THE TOP 198101/10/81CD BACK TO THE TOP 198201/09/82CD Guest Host Bob Eubanks BACK TO THE TOP 198301/08/83CD Guest Host Charlie Van Dyke BACK TO THE TOP 198401/07/84CD BACK TO THE TOP 198501/05/85CD Guest Host Charlie Van Dyke BACK TO THE TOP 198601/04/86CD 1985 Year End Countdown BACK TO THE TOP 198701/03/87CD/TAPE 1986 Year End Countdown BACK TO THE TOP 198801/02/88CD/TAPE 1987 Year End Countdown BACK TO THE TOP MISCEL03/28/98CD Caseys Return Show BACK TO THE TOP |