Every once in a while you should take time out and acknowledge how life’s been good. So this week we will be reminiscing about those summer nights listening to the Billboard Top 40 from the week ending August 19, 1978. In addition to some recent concert reviews and stuff like that, the music in this episode promises to be like two tickets to paradise.
Link to a listing of the songs in this week’s episode: https://top40weekly.com/1978-all-charts/#US_Top_40_Singles_Week_Ending_19th_August_1978
The Boneless Podcasting Network: https://goboneless.lovable.app/?fbclid=IwY2xjawNK9G9leHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFCOFFUdWQ2Q3c1WDk5SGZnAR6CXGGEhN4i3JS0ICCT2NZw4_cc2wCO8o4wooPiBGlZhUGIR1y8bG1fQHt7tQ_aem_jFAp4YBBW1S0DD-s1iLXLw
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.
Rejected Episode Titles:
Whenever I Call You Fool
Summer Hollywood Nights
Three Times a Macho Man
Magnet and Steel and Stuff Like That
Hot Blooded Child in the City
Two Tickets to Baker Street
Grease of Babylon
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