Wanting to hear a bit about Frank Sinatra, I looked for the YouTube Clip of the original 1980 American Top 40 from July 5th that I'd just listened to with the SiriusXM DJs. A great many of these countdowns are available, unfortunately without the songs due to copywrite -- it's Casey's commentary only. But the 5 July 1980 original countdown wasn't available as Casey hosted a special countdown of older records that had set various chart milestones.
The interesting upshot of that was that on July 5th, Alice Cooper's song at #40, "(We're All) Clones" only was in the 40 that one week, so he had a dubious honor of hitting the top 40 without being on American Top 40.
Listening to the survey just after a week earlier, Casey mentioned a chart record for most top 40 hits from soundtracks...8! Urban Cowboy had 3, plus American Gigolo, Xanadu, and others. Casey also mentioned how Genesis had been around a long time to only have two top 40 hits...little did he know the onslaught to come.
It was also odd then for Kenny Rogers & Kim Carnes to be on the chart with a duet while each of them also had a solo top 40.
I'm now also convinced that alongside some of my favorite songs of the decade, those songs by Mickey Gilley, Rodney Crowell, and Neil Sedaka are all likely in my BOTTOM ten for the decade.
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