Episode 52: Our One Year Anniversary Spectacular, The Top 50 Songs of the 1970s

Tonight’s the night for our one year anniversary show. It’s a family affair as we welcome and are reunited with our special guests Nathan Beaudry and John Mottola from The Deep Purple Podcast. My sweet lord, as green as the way we were when we first began, I can see clearly now how we’ve been stayin’ alive for 52 episodes.  We won’t be going as far back as December 1963, but we will be looking at the Billboard top 50 Songs from the 1970s, as broadcast on the AT40 Episode from January 5, 1980. Although there are quite a few foreign acts in this countdown, for the most part it is a big slice of American pie. We’ll be talking about a few bad girls we knew, like Maggie May from Britain who was three times a lady, and my Sharona, who was a true blue
American woman. There may be a few silly love songs, and perhaps a stinker, but one bad apple don’t spoil the whole bunch.
Link to a listing of the songs in this
week’s episode: https://jkmusicyearendcharts.wordpress.com/decade-end-charts/american-top-40-top-50-songs-of-the-1970s/
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.
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Some points of interest we talked about in this episode:
Buh Wheat Sings: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0epZ9tjYdA&list=PLT3kVMZ4pEFg-2QvlBFOFEoxtk-t-_VEs
“My Bologna” by Weird Al Yankovic : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hxLaFJf9Jk
Sharona Alperin (The Woman who inspired “My Sharona”: https://www.mysharona.com/
“Smoke on the Water” Flaming Lips cover: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BunbFcgzUFo
“Smoke on the Water” Pat Boone cover: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fChDn66naeU
The Saga Begins (Lyrical Adaption of "American
Pie") Weird Al Yankovic  : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncBVU02buZM
“American Pie” The Brady Bunch cover: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9qLr040WIk