My favorite Dave Mason song--the just-missed #AT40 follow-up to "We Just Disagree." He played it when I saw him live about a decade ago. #RIP www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJ1x...

You know it's a different time when the Mobil stations are advertising a choice of free dessert toppings with every fill-up. #AT40

Some audio that #AT40 friends might enjoy. Top 40 KEWI Topeka from November '71, going well beyond the "dirty 30." archive.org/details/kewi...

If it hadn't been for the Ike & Tina Turner version of "Proud Mary," this is the (also great) R&B hit that every music supervisor would be reaching for today. #AT40 www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSIG...

"No Love At All" had already been a Country hit for Lynn Anderson a year earlier, and, hard to believe but her version cooks. #AT40 www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3BZ...

"What Is Life" is one of those great moments where a substantial lyric is part of a great sounding "radio record." #AT40

"Love's Lines, Angles, and Rhymes" is rare example of a song I don't remember as a current being as high as No. 19 on #AT40.

"We Can Work It Out" used to be my favorite Beatles song and no remake could live up to it. Now, my allegiance has switched sides (literally) to "Day Tripper" and the Stevie Wonder version sounds great on #AT40.

"Don't Speak" to "Just Dance" #MomentsOfMusicSchedulingGrace

"Solitary Man" was left over from Neil Diamond's Bang Records day. It was even more out-of-time when it became a hit than "Suspicions." #AT40

It says a lot for "Suspicion" that it stood up two years later, when it finally came out, during the British Invasion. I heard this plenty as a teenager, a decade later, because of my Oldies radio phase. Didn't like it then. Respect it now. #AT40

"Everybody's Got the Right to Love" is an all-time favorite. I play it far more often than 1-2x a year on #AT40. From 1970-72, the Supremes were a better singles act than Diana Ross, although I love both. The most amazing part, though? It was penned by the guy who wrote "Once You Understand!"

I'm guessing that the #AT40 gang has a lot of '70s songs that somehow became a favorite with kids or grandkids without their prompting. One of mine is "Rocky Mountain High," which my daughter used to play repeatedly as a teenager.

"Hello Hooray" is the only Alice Cooper song that counts as Canadian content, and as such one that outlasted some of the bigger hits on Canadian radio. #AT40

I didn't know Diana Ross had charted a song from "Lady Sings the Blues" until I studied the charts many years later. Did anybody hear "Good Morning Heartache" on the radio when it was "new"? #AT40

This week on my Top 40 playlist Big Hits Energy... new Wu-Tang (sort of). #AT40 open.spotify.com/playlist/0Hg...

Eddie Kendricks has a great catalog of R&B hits beyond "Keep On Truckin'" and "Boogie Down." Glad we get to hear "Happy" and "He's a Friend" on #AT40

I misheard the chorus of "Superstar" as "you said you'd be coming back/this way you can save me." Sorta works? #AT40

In the 45-years that I've loved "Do You Know What I Mean," I think tonight's #AT40 factoid about his personal zoo is the first thing I've ever known about Lee Michaels besides his chart history.

“Did anyone have on their bingo card that we would have artist separation challenges with artists named Jelly Roll and Shaboozey?” KYGO Denver program director Brian Michel at #CRS2026

Queen, "Somebody to Love" to Triumph, "Somebody's Out There." A segue likely to happen only in Canada. #MomentsOfMusicSchedulingGrace

I've always liked Kacey Musgraves, but I don't think she's ever been on my #BigHitsEnergy top 40 playlist before. More surprises for #AT40 friends and others trying to keep current on recent music. open.spotify.com/playlist/0Hg...

Advance testing of songs never turned out to be *that* predictive. But now, if "Times Of Your Life" was written now, the label brass would tell Paul Anka to keep teasing it on TikTok. Then there'd be a challenge involving Instamatics. #AT40

I continue to believe that in the second verse, we find out that Paul Simon is singing to his old girlfriend, who is telling him to just stop brooding and leave already. #AT40

"Baby Face" sounds like the original should have been from 1928, not 1948. (Must have been intended as a the Bruno Mars-type throwback of its era.) #AT40

"Have You Ever Seen The Rain" into "The Tide Is High." Because sometimes radio station music scheduling software gives me #MomentsOfMusicSchedulingGrace

I am in a Starbucks playing Harry Styles, “Aperture,” and it sounds great and completely accessible.

I'm listening to a Friday night party show on a Classic Hits radio station somewhere and they're playing "Dust in the Wind." (To be fair, it was a request.) #AT40

I'm pretty sure I heard "Heartless" on the radio for a few days in summer '77, before Mushroom Records was forced to pull it for nine months as a result of a legal dispute with the band and their new CBS label, Portrait. #AT40

There are songs I liked as currents that I don't even enjoy hearing once a year on #AT40 now. I liked the novelty of uptempo, disco Seals & Crofts in 1978. Sounding pretty flat now. #AT40

I once saw an "American Idol" contestant do a surprisingly good version of "Stay"--for anybody who is not Chaka Khan. Simon Cowell didn't like her choice and it was clear that he didn't know the song. #AT40

Before we kick off #AT40 tonight, here's an article I published today about "oh wow" songs--the one that surprised me this week (from the '10s, not the '70s, because I hear those with you all the time), and some of the songs that surprised readers recently. radioinsight.com/blogs/342147...

Saturdays belong to the '70s and #AT40. Sunday night belongs to #BigHitsEnergy, my playlist of new uptempo hit music especially for peers wanting to keep up with new music. open.spotify.com/playlist/0Hg...

"Sweet Mary" by Wadsworth Mansion seems like a trifle of the times, but that is some hyperkinetic guitar playing and drumming. #AT40

I am always curious for your interpretation of "If I Were Your Woman." Is the narrator an unrequited friend, always my interpretation, or the mistress (a friend's contention)? I always cite "you beg her to love you, but me you don't ask." His answer, "because he doesn't have to." #AT40

Diana Ross recorded, but didn't release, "Stoney End." Now Streisand's version is a notch ahead of her current single, on the way to being a bigger hit. (You don't hear either song much now outside #AT40).

We churned through our teen idols pretty quickly in the '70s, but this might be peak week with all three of the majors represented here (along with another teen act who transcended that pretty quickly). #AT40

I've heard that love means never having to say you're sorry. But I do think we're owed an apology for three versions of the theme from "Love Story" this week. #AT40

I was listening mostly to R&B WOL Washington in 1971. The first version of "My Sweet Lord" I heard was by Billy Preston (on Apple). #AT40

Unless they call an audible by lunchtime to sub in a Neil Sedaka episode (75 or 76), today’s #AT40 will be 1971.

If #AT40 wants a February/March episode with Neil Sedaka, it will be either 1975 ("Laughter in the Rain") or 1976 ("Breaking Up is Hard to Do"). Given his general accessibility, I wonder if SiriusXM has a countdown intro from him.

The DJ heard at the end of the single version of "The Payback" is R&B legend Hank Spann, who I was lucky enough to work with decades later. When you hear it on Adult R&B radio now, it's the album version, but they're both great. #AT40

If "I'm tired of fooling around" and "I didn't mean to say those things" is the wedding proposal, what will forever be like for Al Green? #AT40

Anybody notice that "One Hell of a Woman" opens with the Stones/Satisfaction riff? Maybe Mick Jagger didn't know or care (or so many people had used it by then). But surprised Allen Klein would've let it go. #AT40

Seems kind of unfair to talk about the Drifters to set up the DeFranco Family. #AT40

We've had so much fun with "Wildfire" in the #AT40 thread recently. Now, Michael Martin Murphey has brought it back, with help from a current Country hitmaker, to sadden a whole new generation. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufMm...

This is very deep radio geekery: I am scheduling music for a Country station while listening to a Classic Rock station playing "Losing My Religion." Carrie Underwood's "Just A Dream" comes up on my screen, just as REM is singing "that was just a dream." #MomentsOfMusicSchedulingGrace

I just heard an oldies station tease a "forgotten 45." Usually, that turns out to be something not so unusual. But today, it was "The Circle Is Small" by Gordon Lightfoot, so I have to give it to them. #AT40

Okay, since the "Harry Hippie" thread, I've been on a voyage of discovery. I hadn't heard about Harry Womack. I had always thought it was Bobby Womack looking at those damn kids and marveling at why anybody would *choose* that life. #AT40

Speaking of the Carpenters, it was around this time that the long-forgotten movie "That's The Way of the World" was out, starring Harvey Keitel as an A&R rep who wants to sign Earth, Wind & Fire, but whose boss wants him to sign a corny brother-and-sister act. #AT40 www.youtube.com/watch?v=svtp...