Casey Kasem's familiar voice eases the pain somewhat and for whatever reason, if I'm home during an AT40, I can get a lot of work done.
Today, it's been outside. It's take back my deck day, from the leaves and crap that's covered it for 9 months including plastic wrap and tarps leftover from when we had all our crap outside in plastic bins and tents through most of last summer and fall while we put our living room back together.
Well, now that we've successfully managed a winter indoors, it's time to get to the point where I can be comfortable actually *staying* outside with my grill.
So out it all goes. I've hung the tarps over the deck sides and banister in order to scrub them with SOS pads to get the plant crap and mud off. One down, one drying now.
All to the soothing yet energetic and informative voice from my past, today when I was 6 years old in April of 1977. The disco is there, but a little more balanced with the Rock scene (or soothing songs like "Torn Between Two Lovers" if you remember that old #1), as the Bee Gees hadn't managed to do much better than Tragedy at the time.
Speaking of Rock, how about Kansas's Carry On Wayward Son, which is just outside the top 10. That's followed by Atlanta Rhythm Section's So Into You, which was one of my dad's fav songs at the time. I bought him the album on cd 30 years later. Still a great, underrated song.
There's also a handful of songs from artists we more associate with 80s successes like Denise Williams (later, Let's Hear it for the Boy from Footloose), a song from "Rufus" sung by Chaka Kahn, and right now Natalie Cole (whose cover of her dad's Unforgetable would change the role of the producer for years to come).
Little would we know in April that a little under-funded low-budget film (that everyone in Hollywood knew would flop and flop hard) would show up in one month and permanently change our lives forever...
(btw, the "new" #1? ABBA's first U.S. #1, Dancing Queen)
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