Sunday, March 08, 2009

American Top 40 Redux

It's become a Sunday morning ritual with me, listening to old American Top 40 shows from the 70's on Sirius XM. Having grown up with the countdown, these will bring back a flood of memories, but more importantly they bring back a ton of one or two shot wonders. People that scaled the low reaches of the Top 40 and then disappeared. Some of these songs later showed up on various CD compilations of the 70's, others had me searching for them on Napster or Limewire. But I had better luck on the original Napster. Stuff like Al Wilson's 1976 "I've Got A Feeling" or Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds' also 1976 "Winners and Losers". Neither has been on CD but both have a permanent place in my musical memories.
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