70's Weekly Countdown with Mark and Pete

Stay with me a minute here, I can’t help myself, but I always seem to take a roundabout way to get there. So even though I would like to hang out down by the lazy river, I gotcha, our hours together are precious and few. So let’s stay together, bang a gong, and get it on.  Today, it is with great anticipation that we look for some footstompin’ music in the Billboard Top 40 from the Week of March 4, 1973.  If we could get the nickel a song deal, that would be $2.00, adjusted for inflation that would be $14.31 today. We could finally get a piece of the American pie.

Link to a listing of the songs in this week’s episode: https://top40weekly.com/1972-all-charts/#US_Top_40_Singles_Week_Ending_4th_March_1972

Data Sources: Billboard Magazine, where the charts came from and on what the countdown was based.

Websites: allmusic.com, songfacts.com Wikipedia.com (because Mark’s lazy)

Books: “Ranking the 70’s” by Dann Isbell, and Bill Carroll

“American Top 40 With Casey Kasem (The 1970’s) by Pete Battistini.

Rejected Episode Titles:

Bang a Gong Down by the Lazy River

The Lion Sleeps Tonight Down By the Lazy River

Black Dog Puppy Love

Precious and Few is Everything I Own

Anticipation of that Footstompin’ Music

Riding a Horse With No Name on the Roundabout

Things we talked about in the episode:

SNL Swill Mineral Water Commercial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-S3G1c31y0

Do you remember the way we were in 1974? On nice days we enjoyed seasons in the sun, listening to the mockingbird love song, or perhaps catching spiders and snakes for the next show and tell. We were too young yet to join those guys smoking in the boys’ room. Those guys were probably hooked on a feeling of the last kiss they had with that special dark lady, that feeling which is so strong when you’re sixteen.  In this episode we rock on and boogie down to the Billboard Top 40 from the Week of March 2, 1974. Thank god the energy crisis '74 didn’t reach the dance floor.

Link to a listing of the songs in this week’s episode: https://top40weekly.com/1974-all-charts/#US_Top_40_Singles_Week_Ending_2nd_March_1974

Data Sources: Billboard Magazine, where the charts came from and on what the countdown was based.

Websites: allmusic.com, songfacts.com Wikipedia.com (because Mark’s lazy)

Books: “Ranking the 70’s” by Dann Isbell, and Bill Carroll

“American Top 40 With Casey Kasem (The 1970’s) by Pete Battistini.

Things we talked about in the episode:

Danny Bonaduce’s Album: https://www.discogs.com/release/7334739-Danny-Bonaduce-Danny-Bonaduce

Pearl Jam - Last Kiss: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNDWJ_KDkAc

James Jamerson, one of the most influential bass players in modern music history : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Jamerson

I’ve got to be real this week and ask some tough questions. I was made for dancing, and when I put on my dancing shoes, do ya think I’m sexy? Can you shake your groove thing; shake it like le freak that you are? Heaven knows, if you had the mind of the gambler, you might take a bet on the best song in the Billboard Top 40 from the Week of February 10th, 1979. Don’t hold back, you can do it!

Link to a listing of the songs in this week’s episode: https://top40weekly.com/1979-all-charts/#US_Top_40_Singles_For_The_Week_Ending_10th_February_1979

Data Sources: Billboard Magazine, where the charts came from and on what the countdown was based.

Websites: allmusic.com, songfacts.com Wikipedia.com (because Mark’s lazy)

Books: “Ranking the 70’s” by Dann Isbell, and Bill Carroll

“American Top 40 With Casey Kasem (The 1970’s) by Pete Battistini.

Rejected Episode Titles:

What Le Freak Believes

I Will Survive the Fire

Fire, Baby I’m Burnin’, What a Tragedy

Baby I’m Burnin’, Take Me to the River

When You’re the Gambler, Every 1’s a Winner

Don’t Cry Out Loud at the Y.M.C.A

Lotta Love or Too Much Heaven

Things we talked about in the episode:

ABBA the Movie trailer.  Australian tour 1977: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-HGQR9afws

Warriors, Come Out to Play – “The Warriors” Movie CLIP (1979): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRM2YcGpmxg

Bob & Ray, Jane, Laraine & Gilda - "Do Ya Think I'm Sexy?" (1979): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqbW-L_xt18

Toto Georgie Porgy featuring Sheryl Lynn : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CQpvc8quQ8

Did your ego get so inflated during the 70’s that people would tell you after the last song on the radio that you’re so vain, you probably think that song was about you? Of course some guys would just make a funny face and say “well my name is Danny and that was in fact Danny’s song”. I didn’t have time for any of that, I had ants in my pants, and me and Mrs. Jones had a love jones for some jambalaya. Don’t expect me to be your friend; because I’m trouble man, and when it comes to dueling banjos, I am super fly.  This week we go reelin’ and a rockin’ through the Billboard Top 40 from the Week of February 10th, 1973. It’s true that Momma don’t dance, but we are immune to both the rockin’ pneumonia and the boogie woogie flu.

Link to a listing of the songs in this week’s episode: https://top40weekly.com/1973-all-charts/#US_Top_40_Singles_Week_Ending_10th_February_1973

Data Sources: Billboard Magazine, where the charts came from and on what the countdown was based.

Websites: allmusic.com, songfacts.com Wikipedia.com (because Mark’s lazy)

Books: “Ranking the 70’s” by Dann Isbell, and Bill Carroll

“American Top 40 With Casey Kasem (The 1970’s) by Pete Battistini.

Rejected Episode Titles:

Me and Mrs. Love Jones

Your Mama Don’t Dance in the Moonlight

You’re So Vain, Don’t Expect Me to be Your Friend

I Got a Superfly in My Pants

Could it be I’m Falling from a Rocky Mountain High?

Crocodile Rockin’ Pneumonia-Boogie Woogie Flu

Things we talked about in the episode:

The Real Brady Bros Podcast: The Subject was Noses: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-subject-was-noses/id1603671235?i=1000552537028

Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show literally on the cover of Rolling Stone: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Hook_%26_the_Medicine_Show#/media/File:131hook32973.jpg

Superfly Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYZUWzv_FaY

Love Train, The O’Jays live at Daryl’s House: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSlO_g6-ZXM&list=RDFSlO_g6-ZXM&start_radio=1

Roy Clark and Buck Trent Dueling Banjos Hee Haw: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47NPOkNqANQ

Deliverance • Dueling Banjos • Arthur Smith, Eric Weissberg & Steve MandellKid From Deliverance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myhnAZFR1po

Trouble Man (1972) – Trailer “You jive him, he’ll wash you away”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWD_aNspyfo

If you could read my mind this week you’d say, we got to get you a woman. I am going through some lonely days. It’s impossible, but I swear I hear you knocking black magic woman, and I think I love you. You had better knock three times though, because that one man band next door is so loud, if I am in the rose garden, I might not hear you. This week we get up, get into it, and get involved in the Billboard Top 40 from the week of January 18, 1975. One bad apple don’t spoil this whole bunch of songs.

Link to a listing of the songs in this week’s episode: https://top40weekly.com/1971-all-charts/#US_Top_40_Singles_Week_Ending_30th_January_1971

Data Sources: Billboard Magazine, where the charts came from and on what the countdown was based.

Websites: allmusic.com, songfacts.com Wikipedia.com (because Mark’s lazy)

Books: “Ranking the 70’s” by Dann Isbell, and Bill Carroll

“American Top 40 With Casey Kasem (The 1970’s) by Pete Battistini.

Rejected Episode Titles:

I Think I Love You Mr. Bojangles

We Gotta Get You a Black Magic Woman

Born to Wander, the Immigrant Song

One Bad Apple in Your Rose Garden

Tears of a One Man Band

Some links to things we discussed in this episode:

Raid on Entebbe Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwau_xLt-Zo

Amin . . . Big Daddy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tM5zPaMD36k

Conservation of Energy? "Perry Como: Still Alive" SCTV S4 E10 1981: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqwHMiJdIqU

Adam Sandler Operaman on Eddie Vedder: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aU4n0JVaLqw

Dead Milkmen - Watching Scotty Die: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gjw5KPITaOw

Elizabeth Park: https://www.ctvisit.com/listings/elizabeth-park-rose-gardens

I may not write the songs, but occasionally I do like to sing a song. I am certainly sure of one thing, I love music! That’s why I was willing to spend a Saturday night reviewing the Billboard Top 40 from the week of January 10, 1976. Let’s do it again and rock and roll all night.

Link to a listing of the songs in this week’s episode: https://top40weekly.com/1976-all-charts/#US_Top_40_Singles_Week_Ending_10th_January_1976

Data Sources: Billboard Magazine, where the charts came from and on what the countdown was based.

Websites: allmusic.com, songfacts.com Wikipedia.com (because Mark’s lazy)

Books: “Ranking the 70’s” by Dann Isbell, and Bill Carroll

“American Top 40 With Casey Kasem (The 1970’s) by Pete Battistini.

Rejected Episode Titles:

Breaking Up the Convoy is Hard to Do

Fly Robin Fly Sky High

Love to Love Your Love Machine

Slow Ride on the Love Rollercoaster

Sky High Over My Head

Some links to things we discussed in this episode:

Love Machine Lyrics: https://genius.com/The-miracles-love-machine-lyrics

Steve Gadd discography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Gadd_discography

Live From Daryl's House -  The O’Jays "I Love Music":https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIROc9l_0IU

Love Rollercoaster- Beavis and Butthead: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIeP4_f-ZkQ

I Sing The Songs (I Write The Songs): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWSiM3y09yU

Please don’t let me be misunderstood, but isn’t it time to admit that when it comes to reviewing the AT40, we are the champions. I mean the very fact that you’re reading this means here you come again. Now I know what you’re saying, “you can’t turn me off in the middle of turning me on”. Well before you go slip slidin’ away to the point of no return, I’m saying baby come back to swing town. I mean, the way I feel tonight, I am confident to review the Billboard Top 40 from the week of January 7, 1978 my way.

Link to a listing of the songs in this week’s episode: https://top40weekly.com/1978-all-charts/#US_Top_40_Singles_Week_Ending_7th_January_1978

Data Sources: Billboard Magazine, where the charts came from and on what the countdown was based.

Websites: allmusic.com, songfacts.com Wikipedia.com (because Mark’s lazy)

Books: “Ranking the 70’s” by Dann Isbell, and Bill Carroll

“American Top 40 With Casey Kasem (The 1970’s) by Pete Battistini.

Rejected Episode Titles:

How Deep is Your Blue Bayou, Too Deep for Short People?

You Light Up My Serpentine Fire

Don’t it Make My Brown Eyes Turn to Stone.

You Light Up My Life, and You Can’t Turn Me Off

Some links to things we discussed in this episode:

Miracle at the Meadowlands, Still Traumatized by this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfOiY5MhqHA

Almost a Tragedy: The Collapse of the Hartford Civic Center Roof: https://connecticuthistory.org/almost-a-tragedy-the-collapse-of-the-hartford-civic-center/#:~:text=On%20January%2017%2C%201978%2C%20a,onto%2010%2C000%20empty%20stadium%20seats.

Thom Bell Obituary: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/dec/29/thom-bell-obituary

Merry Christmas baby! It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas, especially since I saw mommy kissing the little Saint Nick as they were rocking around the Christmas tree, or where they doing the Merry Christmas Polka?  I forget which song they were dancing to, was it Silver Bells, or Jingle Bell Rock? I know I am really hoping for a white Christmas, so we can all go for a sleigh ride. There really is no place like home for the holidays, that’s why I’ll be home for Christmas. If something prevents that, it will be a blue Christmas for sure and all the pretty paper in the world won’t cover that up. One thing I am sure of; all I want for Christmas is an episode featuring the Watermark Productions compilation of the top 40 Christmas songs of all time from 1971 via Santa and the satellite radio.

Link to a listing of the songs in this week’s episode: https://leemichaelwithers.tripod.com/at40_xmas1.htm

Data Sources: Billboard Magazine, where the charts came from and on what the countdown was based.

Websites: allmusic.com, songfacts.com Wikipedia.com (because Mark’s lazy)

Books: “Ranking the 70’s” by Dann Isbell, and Bill Carroll

“American Top 40 With Casey Kasem (The 1970’s)" by Pete Battistini.

Some links to things we discussed in this episode:

The Little Drummer Boy | 1968 | HD | 1080p | Full Movie | Christmas Movies for Kids : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMIW7HR2LOo

Norelco Santa: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y888mx7hMZ0

Deep Purple Podcast Episode #192 (Pet and I guested) - The Deep Purple Christmas Special (2022)(YouTube): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sY8aQOgB5N8

Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-192-the-deep-purple-christmas-special-2022/id1461491935?i=1000590585701

Stitcher : https://listen.stitcher.com/yvap/?af_dp=stitcher://episode/209955406&af_web_dp=https://www.stitcher.com/episode/209955406&deep_link_value=stitcher://episode/209955406

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0RCXrLQGNoxNoumXGdPktK

Deep Purple Podcast Website: https://deeppurplepodcast.com/

We did a wild thing this week. Like something your '70s rock and roll beach baby brother might do after partaking in some of that wildwood weed. Call it my mistake, but I’m leaving it all up to you to decide whether it was good or bad. Don’t’ you worry bout’ a thing though, because as we relied on the lord’s prayer to guide us, we think the episode is worthy of a mighty love.  Since we only did 25 songs, this week we sped like a jet through the bottom of the Billboard Top 100 songs of 1974. It’s so close to Christmas, you can almost hear those tubular sleigh bells now.

Data Sources: Billboard Magazine, where the charts came from and on what the countdown was based.

Websites: allmusic.com, songfacts.com Wikipedia.com (because Mark’s lazy)

Books: “Ranking the 70’s” by Dann Isbell, and Bill Carroll

“American Top 40 With Casey Kasem (The 1970’s) by Pete Battistini.

Some links to things we discussed in this episode:

Popular Electronics Cover with the Altair 8800 Computer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altair_8800#/media/File:Popular_Electronics_Cover_Jan_1975.jpg

Esperanto Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esperanto

Sister Janet Mead Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janet_Mead

Goldschläger Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldschl%C3%A4ger

1949 version: Perry Como - The Lord’s Prayer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlwMe7ER3gI

How was your love life back in 1979? Were you with someone who made you say “do that to me one more time”, or was it more like “no, enough is enough, don’t do me like that”?  Maybe you had two bad relationships in a row and it felt like you were experiencing déjà vu’. Tired of all these head games you took the long way home as you planned your escape.  With your new found freedom, you hoped to be third time lucky as you went out cruisin' the local dance club on ladies night. This is it, the Billboard Top 40 from the week of December 15st, 1979. As the decade ended, it was time for a cool change.

Link to a listing of the songs in this week’s episode: https://top40weekly.com/1979-all-charts/#US_Top_40_Singles_For_The_Week_Ending_15th_December_1979

Data Sources: Billboard Magazine, where the charts came from and on what the countdown was based.

Websites: allmusic.com, songfacts.com Wikipedia.com (because Mark’s lazy)

Books: “Ranking the 70’s” by Dann Isbell, and Bill Carroll

“American Top 40 With Casey Kasem (The 1970’s) by Pete Battistini.

Rejected Titles:

Please Don’t Go and Do That To Me One More Time

The Coward of the County Better Take The Long Way Home

Don’t Tusk Me Like That

Head Games, Déjà Vu, or a Cool Change

Dim All the Lights so I can Escape

Some links to things we discussed in this episode:

The Global Warming Christmas Special – SNL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaK8FR3mmnA

The Incredible 2-Headed Transplant Trailer (Starring Casey Kasem):https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067245/

Stereo before there was stereo: 1950s Cook Binaural records: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlagwjphwXA

Clip Hardy Boys "Mystery of the Hollywood Phantom (Casey Kasem as Columbo) : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDfe8Rf1_ew

No More Tears (Enough is Enough: Cover Photo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_More_Tears_%28Enough_Is_Enough%29#/media/File:Enoughisenough.JPG