Episode 51: The Week Ending April 20th, 1974 Help Me I’m a Train

In the ‘70s it was easy to have an identity crisis. Would you have said I’m a train, a piano man, or a dancing machine? Perhaps you remember doing the jungle boogie with the dark lady after midnight at the oasis? She said, “Come and get your love”.  Oh my my, that night I truly got hooked on a feeling, although I felt guilty, because I confess she was an outside woman and so very young. I ultimately sought penance in the Lord’s Prayer. Alas, we could reminisce about things all day, but the show must go on. This week we boogie down to the Billboard Top 40 from the Week of April 20st, 1974. Will it be the best thing that ever happened to me? Probably not, but I’m willing to otherwise let it ride.
Link to a listing of the songs in this
week’s episode: https://top40weekly.com/1974-all-charts/#US_Top_40_Singles_Week_Ending_20th_April_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.
Rejected Episode Titles:
Midnight at the Oasis with the Dark Lady
Help Me I’m a Dancing Machine
Bennie and the Jets?  I’m a Train
The Loco-motion, I’m a Train
Keep On Singing The Lords Prayer
Outside Lady at the Oasis
Piano Man the Entertainer
Piano Man, Dark Lady, Star Baby