PAST 10s: A Top 10 Time Machine - Music of the 70s, 80s and More

Sweet Loggins' Mullet! The shirts are off, the beach volleyball is on and the Ocean is Billy. In this podcast Milt and Dave summon the ghosts of 1986 and discover cartoon Peter Gabriel, a wisecracking robot and a day when Phil Collins definitely had some hair. Rock back in time with us and please like and share the show! I FEEL THE NEED ...

Welcome to TOP TENS! In the inaugural episode, Milt and Dave take the time machine back to July 17, 1976.Topics covered: 1:48 - Family Feud debuted with Richard Dawson 1:59 - USA Bicentennial 2:05 - National League won the All Star Game 7-1/George Foster was MVP 2:15 - DNC - Jimmy Carter nominated 2:28 - Loggins & Messina split 2:42: Olympics begin in Montreal 3:30: “Rock N Roll Music” by the Beach Boys/peaked at #5, spent 17 weeks in top 100 3:46: Chuck Berry 3:51: Song reached #8 on charts in 1957 3:56: Beatles made it well known in 1964/not released as a single in the US 4:19: First top 10 hit in over 10 years, last hit was “Good Vibrations”. 4:25: It was their last hit until Kokomo in 1988. 4:37: The Beach Boys were eventually inducted into the R&R Hall of Fame. 5:01: ‘Happy Days’ TV show 5:24: “Cheap Tricks” 5:29: Song “Loui Loui” 5:47: “Come and Go With Me” (formally by the The Del-Vikings) - didn’t make top 10 6:26: Chuck Berry’s version of “Rock N Roll Music”. 6:49: Beatles movie “Back Beat”. (1994 movie) 7:49: Number 9 hit introduced: “Silly Love Songs”/Wings/5 weeks at number 1 7:59: Robert Palmer 8:13: “AM radio” 8:40: ended up the number 1 song for all of 1976/biggest solo hit of McCartney’s career 8:46: One of 6 #1 songs that McCartney had under Wings 8:55: written by Paul and wife Linda 9:00: was a response to John Lennon’s criticism that Paul wrote “banal and sentimental music” 9:11: The cast of Glee redid the song - it charted at #45 9:51: “Band On The Run” 10:39: Cal Ripken and Fred McGriff/which belongs in the Hall of Fame? 11:53: Beatles - “Got To Get You Into My Life”/originally an album cut from Revolver in 1966 12:13: Beatles released a compilation album in ’76 called “Rock and Roll Music” 12:30: This is the Beatles last top 10 hit until “Free As A Bird” on 1995’s Anthology 12:48: McCartney said that “Got To Get You Into My Life” was about smoking weed 13:03: John Lennon said in a Playboy interview that this was one of Paul’s best songs 13:10: Earth, Wind and Fire would take it back into the top 10 in 1978 13:24: Blood, Sweat and Tears released a version of the song in 1975 and it went to #62 15:33: Song 7 introduced - The Captain and Tennille - “Shop Around” 16:06: The song was originally a smash hit by “The Miracles” (Smokey Robinson) 16:13: Reached number 2 on the hot 100 in 1960 16:15: Named one of the 500 songs that shaped Rock & Roll by the R&R Hall of Fame 16:23: The song appeared on their second album - it reached number 4 in July 16:40: The Captain died of renal failure - Daryl Dragon former keyboardist for the Beach Boys 17:10: Mike Love gave him the nickname “Captain Keyboard”/Toni Tennille toured with them 17:20: They had a variety show on ABC in 1976-77/married for 39 years 17:48: John Davidson had a variety show/Brady Bunch and Mary Tyler Moore also 18:53: MTM sang “With A Little Luck” - Wings song 19:11: Her singing/comedic partners were David Letterman and Michael Keaton 20:18: Toni Tennille sang back up vocals on Pink Floyd’s “The Wall” 22:09: Song #6 introduced - “Love Is Alive” by Gary Wright - also had “Dream Weaver” 22:52: “Love Is Alive” spent 7 weeks on the Hot 100, 9th biggest song of ’76 23:02: “Dream Weaver” was on a K-Tel album, not as big a hit as “Love Is Alive” 23:19: “Dream Weaver” was revived in “Wayne’s World” 23:34: Dave: “I always confuse Gary Wright with “new wave” Gary Newman” (of the Cars) 23:46: This was Gary Wright’s last Top 10 hit, he hit #16 in ’81 with “Really Want To Know You” 24:01: Wright played keyboard on George Harrison’s “All Things Must Pass” 24:05: He also recorded some plays with Ringo Starr, he has a very strong Beatles connection 24:15: His bio is entitled” “Dream Weaver, Music, Meditation and My Friendship w. George H.” 25:36: Number 5 song introduced: “Moonlight, Feels Right” by Starbuck 26:41: Dave states there were other songs in the 70’s with “moonlight” themes (Van Morrison) 26:55: This was the “first and biggest” charting single by Starbuck 27:04: Acknowledgement given to the now famous Starbuck(s) coffee chain 27:07: This name was also used by Battlestar Galactica’s character (actor Dirk Benedict) 27:14: The song peaked at number 3 and was the 34th biggest song of the year 27:21: The song was featured in the film “Stuck On You” with Matt Damon & Greg Kinnear 27:31: It was the first American rock hit that features the Marimba (instrument) (during solo) 28:21: The number 4 song is presented: “More, More, More, Part 1” (Andrea True Connection) 29:20: This (disco song) is about sex - Andrea True made 50 adult films in the 70’s/80’s 29:47: The song was recorded when the artist was “stuck in Jamaica” doing a commercial 29:57: She financed the recording and it became her only Top 10 hit 30:05: She had another top 40 hit: “New York You Got Me Dancing” [#27 in 1977] 30:23: The song would become a disco “standard”. 30:46: Dave acknowledges that it was “forbidden” to admit you liked disco during this era 30:52: “D