1981 American Top 40 Casey Kasem Radio Program 811-2 4 Vinyl Record January 10

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CASEY KASEM’S AMERICAN TOP 40 – 1/10/81 (FLASHBACK)1980#3: DO THAT TO ME ONE MORE TIME – THE CAPTAIN AND TENNILLE

1980#2: ANOTHER BRICK IN THE WALL – PINK FLOYD

1980#1: CALL ME - BLONDIE

40:    HEARTBREAK HOTEL – THE JACKSONS

39:    HE CAN’T LOVE YOU – THE MICHAEL STANLEY BAND

38:    KILLIN’ TIME – FRED KNOBLOCK AND SUSAN ANTON        

37:    COLD LOVE – DONNA SUMMER     

36:    NEVER BE THE SAME – CHRISTOPHER CROSS     

35:    SEVEN BRIDGES ROAD – THE EAGLES    

34:    KEEP ON LOVING YOU – REO SPEEDWAGON

33:    WHIP IT - DEVO

32:    I BELIEVE IN YOU – DON WILLIAMS

ARCHIVES: SURF CITY – JAN & DEAN

31:    SAME OLD LANG SYNE – DAN FOGELBERG

30:    THE WINNER TAKES IT ALL - ABBA

29:    YOU’VE LOST THAT LOVIN’ FEELING – DARYL HALL & JOHN OATES    

28:    WOMAN IN LOVE – BARBRA STREISAND

27:    TOGETHER – TIERRA

26:    9 TO 5 – DOLLY PARTON

25:    MISS SUN – BOZ SCAGGS

24:    ONE STEP CLOSER – THE DOOBIE BROTHERS

LDD: STILL – THE COMMODORES

23:    EVERYBODY’S GOT TO LEARN SOMETIME – THE KORGIS

ARCHIVES: SO MUCH IN LOVE - THE TIMES

22:    GIVING IT UP FOR YOUR LOVE – DELBERT McCLINTON

21:    SUDDENLY – OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN & CLIFF RICHARD

20:    ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST - QUEEN

19:    TIME IS TIME – ANDY GIBB

18:    MASTER BLASTER – STEVIE WONDER

17:    HEY NINETEEN – STEELY DAN

16:    CELEBRATION – KOOL & THE GANG

15:    I LOVE A RAINY NIGHT – EDDIE RABBITT

ARCHIVES: FINGERTIPS PART II – STEVIE WONDER

14:    I MADE IT THROUGH THE RAIN – BARRY MANILOW

13:    IT’S MY TURN – DIANA ROSS

12:    HIT ME WITH YOUR BEST SHOT – PAT BENETAR

11:    DE DO DO DO DE DA DA DA DA – THE POLICE

10:    MORE THAN I CAN SAY – LEO SAYER

9/LDD:    LADY – KENNY ROGERS

8:    TELL IT LIKE IT IS - HEART

7:    PASSION – ROD STEWART

6:    EVERY WOMAN IN THE WORLD – AIR SUPPLY

5:    HUNGRY HEART – BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

4:    THE TIDE IS HIGH - BLONDIE

3:    GUILTY – BARBRA STREISAND & BARRY GIBB

2:    LOVE ON THE ROCKS – NEIL DIAMOND

1:    STARTING OVER – JOHN LENNON

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American DJ Kemal Amin 'Casey' Kasem (1932–2014) was the long-running host (from 1970–88 and 1998–2004) of the syndicated weekly American Top 40 radio program, which as the name suggests, played the Top 40 pop songs in the US each week.

Kasem conceived the idea in 1970 and by the later part of that decade, it was played on close to 1,000 stations across the US. As of writing (in 2023), the show continues to be produced.

American Top 40 was also a fixture on commercial radio stations all over the world.

The programs arrived at radio stations as four LPs in a box. The first disc had a 1Khz line-up tone so the radio station technical operators could set the output level; the rest were carefully labelled and numbered so they could be played in the correct sequence. There was a track break approximately every 10 minutes so the local broadcaster could stop the disc and insert local advertisem