American Top 40 ~from my glory days of 1978

Ah, those were the good old days One of the local Oldies radio stations has started playing reruns of Casey Kasem’s American Top 40.  They were playing one from June 17, 1978 and it was likely one that I listened to when it first aired all those years ago.  This was back when the Top 40 was an amazing mix of styles and artists, before music charts became so specialized that virtually anyone who releases a single will end up with a number one somewhere. I caught the top twenty or so songs of the broadcast, and I was surprised…

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