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#AT40 I do not count novelty hits like "The Americans." I would rather hear all Terry Jacks, all Paper Lace, all Bo Donaldson, than suffer through "Playground in My Mind." I instantly turn it off if it comes up on XM.

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#AT40 I'm telling you, the evidence for "the early 70s were terrible" is compelling and vast

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#AT40 I see I arrived for what should be, without debate, the easy nominee for the Worst Song of the 70s, and perhaps of all time.

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#AT40 By 1975, death rock was giving way to "70s sex in cars" rock, and two years later, a movie about vans...well, the less said of that film, the better

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#AT40 Yes, you're not Lisa, WE GET IT ALREADY

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#AT40 May 1975, finishing up 8th grade and the drudgery of high school was just over the horizon. But I did have this album. (And yes, we were all scandalized.)

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#AT40 And there it is, the Giant Hunk of 70s Cheese that stunk up the charts for weeks

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#AT40 Dark Lady, laughed and danced and lit the candles one by one CLAP CLAP

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#AT40 I had no idea what this song was, but as kids we laughed and sang with it like Albert Brooks singing along with Francois Cabrel in "Broadcast News" I mean, how the hell was this a thing

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#AT40 Another of the many singles I had this year in 1974

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Okay, as much as I enjoy explaining the concept of Reagan and linear time to you all, I have stuff to do. (Unfortunately #AT40 is 1971, and I don't do anything before 1973.)

#AT40 A man playing something this lame does not have the right to unbutton his shirt that far also, kill me

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#AT40 Look, the late 70s were showing signs of a musical rennaissance - but then, there was this. One of the worst songs not just of the decade, but of all freakin' time

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#AT40 I thinking more like Circus Peanuts

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#AT40 [Mike Myers Scottish accent] IT'S CRAP

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You know those hard Werther's caramels? They just melt in your mouth, sweet and buttery, but not gooey or overwhelming? One you enjoy all the way, never biting it, to get every last drop of flavor? And then, you're good, no need to gorge? Anne Murray's voice is a hard Werther's caramel. #AT40

#AT40 Spring 1979, the end both of high school and disco were imminent, both to my great relief

#AT40 And you people think *I* have bad music takes

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#AT40 Hated this song 52 years ago, hate it now. Thank you for your attention to this matter. PS: Love Roberta Flack. Just not this time.

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#AT40 I kinda liked this in grade school - and then it was used to great effect in "Being There"

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#AT40 Same! I love that little bit of business. Also "oh, that's beautiful"

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#AT40 Hopefully, this will not become America's national anthem

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#AT40 Feh. I was 12 and we had to sing this dreck in music class. The 6th grade girls loved it. The boys wanted to die.

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#AT40 I had to get past songs like this to discover the amazingness that really is the Moody Blues. When I was kid, this just sounded like generic rock noise. (And "Nights in White Satin" was the slow-dance song.) And then...boom.

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#AT40 Years I thought it was "free old Lady Marmalade"

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#AT40 Now I remember why I wasn't listening to the radio in 1975 and just replaying Rubber Sould and Sgt. Pepper over and over

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#AT40 This is one of the worst songs from the 70s, but my local station for April Fools Day added more and more animals to it until at the end you can barely hear her over tigers roaring and elephants bellowing, so it did contribute something funny

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#AT40 I almost bought this album, but after hearing this enough times, I thought that a little AWB goes a long way

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#AT40 I had this as a single, and amazingly, it still holds up. (I know there's some story about why Corbetta got separate billing, but I can't remember it.) This and "Overnight Sensation" are artifacts of a bygone era in how pop music got played on the radio.

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#AT40 Late to the countdown, but this list from halfway through 8th grade (for me) is mostly a mystery. I think by now I was just listening to Beatle albums non-stop.

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#70ies Soul, Rock, Pop, Funk, Disco
#AT40
#CaseyKasem

Wie immer an jeden Sonntag 10-13 Uhr (und 20-23 Uhr) laufen die originalen American Top 40 (AT40; https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Top_40 , wochengenau immer aus wechselnden Jahren 1970-1979)
mit Moderator Casey Kasem https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casey_Kasem

Heute besonders:
heute läuft die erste Sendung vom Juli 1970

Auf #RadioGold aus #Berlin
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Stream
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#70ies Soul, Rock, Pop, Funk, Disco
#AT40
#CaseyKasem

Wie immer an jeden Sonntag 10-13 Uhr (und 20-23 Uhr) laufen die originalen American Top 40 (AT40; https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Top_40 , wochengenau immer aus wechselnden Jahren 1970-1979)
mit Moderator Casey Kasem https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casey_Kasem

Auf #RadioGold aus #Berlin
https://www.radiogold.de/

Stream
https://radiogold-live.cast.addradio.de/radiogold/live/mp3/high/stream.mp3

*** A Personal History of Music Appreciation ***

1970s: FM radio (AM in the car), American Top 40 (Casey Kasem!)

1980s: radio and 120 Minutes plus LPs and CDs

1990s: used CDs and dirt cheap LPs and 45s

2000s:P2P, torrenting, MP3 blogs, SomaFM; LPs and CDs persist!

2010s: Kids, streaming

2020s: FM radio (KALX, KDFC, KCSM), American Top 40 (Ryan Seacrest (no exclamation point))

https://www.kalx.berkeley.edu/media/live-streaming/

#Music #Radio #KALX #AmericanTop40 #AT40

#SoulFunkRockPop
#70s #70ies

#jedenSonntag
#AmericanTop40 #AT40
#AFN

#CaseyKasem
auf #RadioGold

@Labonitamascota

Heute läuft die Sendung vom 05.01.1974

#19740105date

jeden Sonntag 10-13 Uhr und Wiederholung 20-23 Uhr
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#Stream #mp3
https://radiogold-live.cast.addradio.de/radiogold/live/mp3/high/stream.mp3

In #Berlin auch via #DAB zu empfangen.

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