Casey Kasum's American Top 40

[amanuensis]

For the past couple of days, I have been listening to reruns of American Top 40 from the 1970s and 1980s. www.iheart.com/live/classic-american-top-40-6545/ It reminds me of how BROAD the definition of "pop" music was back then. Right now, a rerun from 1981 is on. I just heard AC/DC sing Back in Black followed IMMEDIATELY by Air Supply's Every Woman in the World. And now it is John Lennon's Starting Over. And now it is Firefall singing Staying With It, a song that I am not familiar with. I'm loving it.

Additional note: Casey just mentioned that of the top 40 pop songs of that week in 1981, 7 of the 40 were also on the Country chart that week, more than ever before. So 1981 appears to be the heyday of Country Crossover.

One of the 7 crossover songs that week in 1981 was Ghostriders in the Sky by a group called the Outlaws. Casey noted that the Outlaws was the 7th musical group to make the charts with a recording of it, going back to the 1940s with Burl Ives. Truly pop music was special back then. I hate what that genre has become.

March 7, 1981 was the week in question, by the way.