Don't be a rockteaser.

4 is 5 normal time? ; >

Ah shit I didn't see this!

Are you ready to DJ? Come to IRC or something when you are. I'm not going to stop broadcasting in case you're asleep again. =P

cherchez la femme! : >

No, actually THIS time someone flipped a breaker they shouldn't have.

We're on the air, and amber's getting his Cherchez on so it's all good to go. Thanks for filling in Eideteker :-)

we need a band like KC nowadays--just simple fun dance pop.

it's skipping again--is it your connection? mine?

Sounds good from my end of things, amber.

ahh


players only love you when they're playing...

Did it stop skipping? I had my winamp vizualizer on ;-)

yup : > (But i'm listening thru my laptop and the wireless connection's not as strong, so it could have been me--the other years skipped for me too sometimes...)

If I'm reading off the same source you're using for your playlist, those first two songs were what Casy would call "Top 40 Extras", with the Jacksons starting the real countdown... am I correct?

(ah, '77 when you could segue from Barry Manilow to Manfred Mann... "looks like we made it, wrapped up like a deuce...")

You are correct, sir :-)

Why did '77 seem like the year with the coolest band names (most of them one-or-two-hit wonders)?
Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band
Sanford Townsend Band (#67, not played in this set)
Marshall Tucker Band (#57)
Brothers Johnson (#54)
Atlanta Rhythm Section
Manfred Mann's Earth Band
(...and coming up on the countdown)
Climax Blues Band
Rose Royce
Pablo Cruise
and the now totally forgotten: Hot

Then '78 had Player, A Taste of Honey, Raydio, Kansas, Heatwave, Foxy, Odyssey and Eruption... Quite a letdown, IMO.

Vanity, wendell. Nowadays you've got to have your name attached to your song because, well, you're gonna get less than 15 minutes of fame before the recording industry eats you and your unborn children, so you might as well have your name attached to whatever you can. Songs, perfumes, maxi-pads ... you get the idea.

a letdown? 78 is when music really got going--push, push, in the bush....donna summer...ELO...freak out...boogie oogie oogie...copacabana...love is in the air...native new yorker...my life

look at all these great songs!

was he Starsky or Hutch? Hutch, right?

But, wolfie, some of the cool names belonged to the artists: Sanford Townsend, Manfred Mann, Bros. Johnson (no, I'm not going to claim Pablo Cruise, Rose Royce and Marshall Tucker were real people...)

Other cool band names from '77...
Supertramp had its first hit ("Give a Little Bit" #78)
And how could I have missed the Floaters with their hit "Float On"?

As for your theory, I blame Van Halen ;-)

and Hot Child in the City! : >

I'm going to email you some 78 requests, wolfie

77 did have a lot of "get stoned to" music tho--unfortunately i wasn't even smoking reg cigs yet.

amber, I was only talking about GROUP NAMES...

C'mon, Samantha Sang?!?

If you're gonna play 'extras', I would've thrown in a couple of these for '77 (listed in order of increasing cheesiness)...
Smoke From A Distant Fire, Sanford Townsend Band
Heard It In A Love Song, Marshall Tucker Band
Give A Little Bit, Supertramp
Year Of The Cat, Al Stewart
Lido Shuffle, Boz Scaggs
Lonely Boy, Andrew Gold
Strawberry Letter 23, Brothers Johnson
The Rubberband Man, Spinners
Muskrat Love, Captain and Tennille
(You Picked a Fine Time to Leave Me) Lucille, Kenny Rogers
Knowing Me, Knowing You, Abba (#1 everywhere but the U.S. where it was #97)

Lonely Boy and Knowing Me Knowing You (uh--haaaa) is good...

wolfie's working off a weird list...i don't think it's official.

I *swear* these songs all received MASSIVE airplay during the year in question...I mean I sang each and every one of the top forty songs at one point or another on the school bus during the school year. It's close enough for goverment work if you ask me. So there! :-P

we all did, but your list has weird ones that i never sang

ugh...got bumped off irc again...nevermind

i can't believe they were allowed to say bitch

"bitch" was bleeped, iirc.

And I'll make my '78 requests public... bubbling under the Top 40...

41. Short People, Randy Newman (but he LOVES L.A.)
48. Slip Slidin' Away, Paul Simon (just because it was my traveling music when I moved BACK to L.A.)
50. Thunder Island, Jay Ferguson (the ultimate pop-rock hook: yadadada yadada yadadada dah dah)
72. Because The Night, Patti Smith (the original)
73. Every Kinda People, Robert Palmer (just to give Mr. P. a little love)
87. Life's Been Good, Joe Walsh (said it all.)
96. Ebony Eyes, Bob Welch (best. fleetwood. mac. spinoff. ever.)
97. The Name Of The Game, Abba (yes, I have Abba issues)
100. Deacon Blues, Steely Dan (best song on Aja album, IMO)

I'm not blaming wolfie, I blame Billboard magazine for its ca-ca chartmaking methodology... ("You Light Up My Life" was near the top of '78, though it was making my radio life miserable for te last 3 months of '77)

If you guys want "top 40 extras" I'd prefer you e-mail them to me, and I'll pick 3-4 ... I'll never remember to check the threads once the set's done. Thanks :-)

i guess it must have been...

rocky! ugh!

i LOVE Every kinda people! : >

i emailed wolfie these:
Hot Child in the City
With a Little Luck
Dance, Dance, Dance
Le Freak
Boogie Oogie Oogie
Native New Yorker
Love is in the Air

Re: Rich Girl... a few intrepid radio production guys would paste an extra "rich" from somewhere else in the song to cover up the "bitch". If done well, it was undetectable; if not, it sounded worse than a bleep.

That had previously done with Neil Sedaka's "Bad Blood" ("The bitch is in her smile" or some such in the refrain).

all over.... : >

AND NOW ASKING THE GREATEST MUSICAL QUESTION OF ALL TIME...


(amber, based on my supersecret chart source, you didn't have to request all but the last two... they're well up in the 40... except Le Freak, which is on the '79 list...)

And yes, I enjoy knowing what's coming up on the wolfdaddy Top 40, but I also go to the moviespoilers.com site before I go out to the movies

And coming up in the next half-hour, we'll visit everybody's favorite alcoholic locality, have an Abba-dabba-doo and meet the finest angel who ever DIDN'T play baseball in Anaheim...

no wonder I couldn't make it in radio

hello, how are you?... : >

I *heart* Wendell LOL

(knowing wolfie's lists, i couldn't be sure, wendell)

Where is that shaker of salt?!

watch 60 minutes wolfie--the older brother effect???

Not snarking, amber, but I *really* don't have a TV to do those kinds of things ;-)

60 Minutes even doesn't reach us on the Left Coast for three hours (but the CBSNews website has spoilers.)

"There's this empty place inside of me that only he can fill..."
Translation: You're great, but he's bigger.

I HATE THIS SONG.

I scanned the spoilers, amber and I'll tell you this:

I'm on of sis kids, all adopted out into different homes and into WILDLY different environments.

Out of six kids, there's one gay man (me, the youngest of the bunch), one lesbian (oldest of the bunch) and two bisexual men (the two brothers next older than me)

Now excuse me, I've got to be an Undercover Devil.

Love me love me love me!

And as The Pater-lupus Top 40 accellerates toward its ineviatble screeching stop at #1, we'll be getting higher and higher in more ways than one, get into Thelma's DON'T DO list, dream with Kenny and meet our SECOND angel in the Top 10...

: >

don't leave me this way....

/dances around, wishes there was someone to bump with

pretty please, something a little, uhm, harder ? after all, you're the one (along with amber & shane) who lured me here with promises of hearing my fave tunes :-)

barracuda - heart
life in the fast lane - the eagles
living thing - elo
crackerbox palace - george harrison

1977 kinda sucked compared to 76 & 78...

And as The Father of All Wolves' Top 40 expires from lack of air at the dizzying peak of the Top FOUR, we'll get green and see stars with Babs, get downright Emotional, hear the Gee without the Bees, and make an overnight appointment with NUMBER ONE!!!

this song (angel in your arms?) i don't know any of the words too--i can't believe it was top 40.

looking/listening back it's no darn wonder in '77 i pierced everything i could get a sewing needle thru', shaved my head, and grew out a nice mohawk - i didn't wanna be sedated in this manner :-D

Okay-to reiterate:

the next set up will be the (possibly dubious) Top 40 songs of 1978. Please e-mail me (don't do it in-thread) a couple of songs that did NOT make the top 40 for that year and I'll pick 5 at random and play them as "Top 40 Extras".

(and hi katygyrl!!!! HUGS!)

tom'w night?

*hugs wolfdaddy, gooses amber*

I don't know amber, gotta see what's what. I'll post a thread when I know for sure. 'kay?

42 tracks in playlist, average track length: 3:44
Playlist length: 2 hours 36 minutes 54 seconds

1. Dr Buzzards Original Savannah - Cherchez La Femme (5:45) (TOP 40 EXTRA #1)
2. KC & The Sunshine Band - Keep it Comin' Love (3:51) (TOP 40 EXTRA #2)
3. Jacksons - Enjoy Yourself (3:26)
4. Fleetwood Mac - Dreams (4:17)
5. Atlanta Rhythm Section - So Into You (4:18)
6. Barry Manilow - Looks Like We Made It (3:34)
7. Manfred Mann - Blinded By The Light (3:50)
8. Natalie Cole - I've Got Love on My Mind (4:19)
9. Jennifer Warnes - Right Time Of The Night (2:51)
10. Commodores - Easy (4:21)
11. Climax Blues Band - Couldn't Get It Right (3:15)
12. Foreigner - Feels Like The First Time (3:49)
13. Stephen Bishop - On And On (3:02)
14. David Soul - Don't Give Up On Us (3:37)
15. Steve Miller Band - Fly Like An Eagle (3:00)
16. Marilyn McCoo & Billy Davis, Jr - You Dont Have To Be A Star (3:57)
17. Rose Royce - Car Wash (3:15)
18. Sylvers - Hot Line (3:01)
19. Leo Sayer - When I Need You (4:10)
20. Hall & Oates - Rich Girl (2:26)
21. Glen Campbell - Southern Nights (2:58)
22. Bill Conti - Theme From Rocky (Gonna Fly Now) (2:46)
23. Marvin Gaye - Got To Give It Up, Pt 1 (4:07)
24. Eagles - Hotel California (6:31)
25. Stevie Wonder - Sir Duke (3:51)
26. Peter McCann - Do You Wanna Make Love (3:32)
27. Pablo Cruise - Whatcha Gonna Do (4:16)
28. ELO - Telephone Line (4:40)
29. Jimmy Buffett - Margaritaville (4:12)
30. Leo Sayer - You Make Me Feel Like Dancing (2:52)
31. ABBA - Dancing Queen (3:51)
32. Kc & The Sunshine Band - I'm Your Boogie Man (4:03)
33. Mary Macgregor - Torn Between Two Lovers (3:44)
34. Alan O'Day - Undercover Angel (3:24)
35. Rita Coolidge - (Your Love Has Lifted Me) Higher (3:32)
36. Thelma Houston - Dont Leave Me This Way (3:38)
37. Kenny Nolan - I Like Dreamin' (3:28)
38. Hot - Angel in Your Arms (2:56)
39. Barbra Streisand - Theme From A Star Is Born (3:08)
40. Emotions - Best Of My Love (3:41)
41. Andy Gibb - I Just Want To Be Your Everything (3:46)
42. Rod Stewart - Tonight's The Night (3:54)

*compliments katgyrl's short n sassy dorothy hamill do and platforms*

; >

no, no, no, my pre-'77 hairdo was a copy of kiki dee's not dot hamill's :-D