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July 4th marked the 50th anniversary of the first "American Top 40 Show", long hosted by Casey Kasem. Here's the first countdown: "American Top 40," July 4, 1970No. 40, "The End of Our Road," Marvin Gaye No. 39, "Silver Bird," Mark Lindsay No. 38, "Spill the Wine," Eric Burdon and War No. 37, "Go Back," Crabby Appleton No. 36, "I Just Can't Help Believing," B.J. Thomas No. 35, "Spirit in the Dark," Aretha Franklin and the Dixie Flyers No. 34, "Mississippi," John Phillips No. 33, "Westbound #9," the Flaming Ember No. 32, "It's All in the Game," Four Tops No. 31, "Save the Country," the 5th Dimension No. 30, "Ohio," Crosby, Stills Nash & Young No. 29, "Everything Is Beautiful," Ray Stevens No. 28, "Check Out Your Mind," the Impressions No. 27, "Question," the Moody Blues No. 26, "Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours," Stevie Wonder No. 25, "Sugar, Sugar," Wilson Pickett No. 24, "Teach Your Children," Crosby, Stills Nash & Young No. 23, "Which Way You Goin' Billy?," the Poppy Family No. 22, "Love on a Two-Way Street," the Moments No. 21, "Mississippi Queen," Mountain No. 20, "Make It With You," Bread No. 19, "Are You Ready?," Pacific Gas and Electric No. 18, "Love Land," Charles Wright and the Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band No. 17, "Tighter, Tighter," Alive & Kicking No. 16, "My Baby Loves Lovin'," White Plains No. 15, "A Song of Joy (Himno A La Alegria)," Miguel Rios No. 14, "United We Stand," the Brotherhood of Man No. 13, "Get Ready," Rare Earth No. 12, "O-o-h Child," the 5 Stairsteps No. 11, "Gimme Dat Ding," the Pipkins No. 10, "Hitchin' a Ride," Vanity Fare No. 9, "The Wonder of You," Elvis Presley No. 8, "The Long and Winding Road," the Beatles No. 7, "(They Long to Be) Close to You," Carpenters No. 6, "Lay Down (Candles in the Rain)," Melanie with the Edwin Hawkins Singers No. 5, "Band of Gold," Freda Payne No. 4, "Ride Captain Ride," Blues Image No. 3, "Ball of Confusion (That's What the World Is Today)," the Temptations No. 2, "The Love You Save," Jackson 5 No. 1, "Mama Told Me (Not to Come)," Three Dog Night https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/chart-beat/957503/american-top-40-flashback-july-4-1970
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I wish I'd have known beforehand; I'd have had my brother queue up the list on our radio station.
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Looking at that list I thought there were quite a few AM hits that I hated back then, but there were 10-15 that I really liked. "Band Of Gold" by Freda Payne was my fave song back then. It also occurred to me that pretty soon after this was when I migrated over to FM Progressive/AOR on WMMS and WNCR (now gone).
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Looking at that list I thought there were quite a few AM hits that I hated back then, but there were 10-15 that I really liked. "Band Of Gold" by Freda Payne was my fave song back then. It also occurred to me that pretty soon after this was when I migrated over to FM Progressive/AOR on WMMS and WNCR (now gone). Band of Gold was the first 45 I owned, to go with the new record player I got for my birthday that year. The one that caught my eye was Gimmie Dat Ding. LOL That song was horrid.
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The one that caught my eye was Gimmie Dat Ding. LOL That song was horrid. Yeah, I hated that too, along with "Which Way You Going, Billy?", "Spill The Wine", and others. I was also surprised how many I don't remember at all.
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Recently heard one of those songs for the first time and really seemed to like it, musically, consider it probably top 15 at the moment, you can just guess which one,
surprised it's 50, what year was that? 1970? aw cmon Casey Casems' gotta be older than that.
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Yeah, Casey's quite a bit older than 50. He was born in 1932 and died in 2014.
"Mississippi Queen" still gets air time, so I'll guess that's the one you heard.
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I don’t know or recognize many titles on that list ... maybe if i heard them
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I used to listen to it every Sunday late morning when it was replayed.
"Ride Captain Ride" is my favorite from the list.
There are 4 or 5 I don't recognize at all (Miguel Rios, The Poppy Family......)
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I listen to music literally ALL the time. Sometimes one gets away from an artist or genre because something else grabs your interest in the near term. Seeing Stevie Wonder on this list just made me do a deep dive into his music again.
I know that was not your intent, but thank you.
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I'm old enough to remember when he was "Little Stevie Wonder". I liked the Motown years best - "I Was Made To Love Her" was a great song.
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I only recognize a few songs on that list, and I’ve got a pretty good memory for old Pop/rock.
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Nice Memory Lane thread, Dave.
That wasn't the best year for music in my opinion, but there were some good ones on that list.
Loved the Stevie Wonder, CSNY, Four Tops, Temptations, Rare Earth songs.
I kind of miss how things were more simple back then. We weren't bombarded by media outlets. We would actually look forward to the countdown and curse if one of our favorite songs wasn't ranked as high as we thought it should be. Life seemed to more pure back then. Now, it's a convoluted mess because the media is out-of-hand in it's constant effort to stir-up controversy.
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July 4th marked the 50th anniversary of the first "American Top 40 Show", long hosted by Casey Kasem. Here's the first countdown: "American Top 40," July 4, 1970No. 40, "The End of Our Road," Marvin Gaye No. 39, "Silver Bird," Mark Lindsay No. 38, "Spill the Wine," Eric Burdon and War No. 37, "Go Back," Crabby Appleton No. 36, "I Just Can't Help Believing," B.J. Thomas No. 35, "Spirit in the Dark," Aretha Franklin and the Dixie Flyers No. 34, "Mississippi," John Phillips No. 33, "Westbound #9," the Flaming Ember No. 32, "It's All in the Game," Four Tops No. 31, "Save the Country," the 5th Dimension No. 30, "Ohio," Crosby, Stills Nash & Young No. 29, "Everything Is Beautiful," Ray Stevens No. 28, "Check Out Your Mind," the Impressions No. 27, "Question," the Moody Blues No. 26, "Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours," Stevie Wonder No. 25, "Sugar, Sugar," Wilson Pickett No. 24, "Teach Your Children," Crosby, Stills Nash & Young No. 23, "Which Way You Goin' Billy?," the Poppy Family No. 22, "Love on a Two-Way Street," the Moments No. 21, "Mississippi Queen," Mountain No. 20, "Make It With You," Bread No. 19, "Are You Ready?," Pacific Gas and Electric No. 18, "Love Land," Charles Wright and the Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band No. 17, "Tighter, Tighter," Alive & Kicking No. 16, "My Baby Loves Lovin'," White Plains No. 15, "A Song of Joy (Himno A La Alegria)," Miguel Rios No. 14, "United We Stand," the Brotherhood of Man No. 13, "Get Ready," Rare Earth No. 12, "O-o-h Child," the 5 Stairsteps No. 11, "Gimme Dat Ding," the Pipkins No. 10, "Hitchin' a Ride," Vanity Fare No. 9, "The Wonder of You," Elvis Presley No. 8, "The Long and Winding Road," the Beatles No. 7, "(They Long to Be) Close to You," Carpenters No. 6, "Lay Down (Candles in the Rain)," Melanie with the Edwin Hawkins Singers No. 5, "Band of Gold," Freda Payne No. 4, "Ride Captain Ride," Blues Image No. 3, "Ball of Confusion (That's What the World Is Today)," the Temptations No. 2, "The Love You Save," Jackson 5 No. 1, "Mama Told Me (Not to Come)," Three Dog Night https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/chart-beat/957503/american-top-40-flashback-july-4-1970 Wow....thanks for that man...Ray Stevens, Elvis, the Beatles, The Poppy family, Crabby Appleton, Carpenters, Impressions, 3 Dog....lol...that is a trip in time. Now I am going to have to you tube video half that list. That will keep me busy for a while this morning.
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