New Hanover County Airport Authority: I certainly hope this blatantly illegal (Hatch Act) video is NOT being forced upon the passengers at Wilmington, NC's ILM airport. @newhanoverdems.bsky.social

Congressman David Rouzer, despite your weekly blurt of Republican lies, your constituents in Wilmington, NC, hold YOU and EVERY REPUBLICAN 100% RESPONSIBLE for #TrumpsGovernmentShutdown. GET BACK TO WORK. @ncdemocrats.bsky.social

THIS is what a statesman looks like (vs. the repulsive presence that is "Vice President" Vance.) Kudos to George Stephanopoulos for making sure @govpritzker.illinois.gov got airtime to set the records STRAIGHT. Keep at it, ABC This Week.

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Dumping on KC & The Sunshine band is just too easy. So I won't do it this time. (Except, wait... I guess that was a passive aggressive dump. Just can't help myself...!) #AT40

Of the Roger Moore Bonds, this was his best. Wish I could say the same for Marvin Hamlisch's score for the movie. He came through for Carly Simon's theme song, but the rest is... well, he just didn't know what to do, and it just sounds cheesy. COME BACK, JOHN BARRY! #AT40

Just in case there are a few who don't remember, that's Stephen Bishop playing "I Gave My Love A Cherry" on the steps at the "Animal House" toga party - moments before Bluto smashes the guitar to pieces! (Bluto: "... Sorry.") #AT40 (P.S. That's Stephen's "Animal House" song over the end credits.)

(Hearing more of these little audio jumps and drop-outs on this week's #AT40. Casey's tech crew must have felt "Eh, Casey's on vacation. If the show ends up long, we'll just crunch it.")

Peter Frampton to the world, fall '77: "Look, I got pretty tired of all the sniggers about the title track on my last album. I'm gonna put out "Signed, Sealed, Delivered" as a single. Everyone OK with that???" #AT40

As a huge fan of ABC-TV's "The Odd Couple," I could never let go of the thought "Hey - that's little Leonard Unger singing!" Leif Garrett's "Surfin' USA" on #AT40 fall '77.

Of course, Ted Nugent long ago revealed himself as a horrible human being. But... what just happened on this #AT40 re-broadcast? I mean, yeah, that guitar riff is the best part of "Cat Scratch Fever," but, really? That's all we hear? Odd edit sounding like something went wrong on orig. show.

Bee Gees to the world, fall 1977: "Hey, if you think you're tired of us now, just wait a couple months... !!" #AT40 ("P.S. - We have a brother... !)

So, Brick followed "Dazz" with "Dusic." If it ain't broke... 🙄 #AT40

Like many of our generation, I'd felt B.J. Thomas came out of nowhere with "Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head." But, no - he'd been at it for years, and there's lots of good stuff to be heard. Check it out. #AT40

(Eternal thanks to Elton, Bernie, Gus & the band for "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road." The perfect palate cleanser after Andy Gibb. See y'all Saturday. #AT40)

A movie soundtrack which had as many as 4 songs in the #AT40 at the same time? I've got this! Wait... no? 😉

OK. We're 28 songs into this March '78 monument to "Meh," and I've had... nothing to say. (Given the lack of participation from the gang, I don't think I'm the only one.) Thanks goodness I had my record collection at college. On my turntable that spring... #AT40

I... LOVE... GOVERNOR PRITZKER! Keep fighting, Chicago! Keep fighting, Illinois! #Pritzker2028

Keep fighting, Chicago. #TrumpWarOnAmerica #TrumpGestapo

Embarrassed yet, #MAGA? (Of course you aren't.)

#ConvictedFelonDonaldTrump's war on America. Disgusting. Keep fighting back, America. #TrumpWarOnAmerica #TrumpGestapo

Keep fighting back, America. #TrumpWarOnAmerica #TrumpGestapo

For those interested in the supremely cool fall of 1966, switch over to Dave Hoeffel's countdown on the 60's channel. (Happening NOW!) #AT40

OH, HELL YES!!! A WORTHY NUMBER 1! Grand Funk's "We're An American Band." Played the HELL out of this (gold vinyl!) single that summer & fall of '73! #AT40

I'm glad the anti-Helen Reddy #AT40 members have either gotten it out of their system or reassessed. Years ago, on "that other site," people would just POUNCE on Helen. Never got that. "Delta Dawn" fall '73.

Well... I suppose someone had to stink up this otherwise fantastic fall '73 chart we're enjoying. And, like clockwork, here's Tony Orlando & Dawn. (Sigh.) #AT40

"Goats Head Soup" regularly competes for my absolute favorite Stones album. I rank the Mick Taylor years as best. In addition to "Angie," the album rocks with "Heartbreaker (Do-Do-Do-Do-Do)," "Silver Train" and "Star Star" (I think most of know the real name of that last one!) #AT40

At that early October '73 show, Elton & band played the at-the-time unknown "Funeral For A Friend/Love Lies Bleeding." After, he THANKED US, acknowledging it's "hard to listen to new music." Can you imagine??? #AT40

Elton's "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" album would be released THE NEXT DAY after this #AT40 broadcast. And, 5 days later, your's truly would be seeing Elton & his band for the first time at Pittsburgh's Civic Arena. Elton The Showman, young & confidant, working the stage like crazy! (And that BAND..!)

As opposed to some #AT40 weeks when I'm looking at my watch and sighing "Isn't this over yet?", now, for this fall '73 show, I'm hearing the individual chart numbers and thinking "NO! We're up to the 'teens' already?? Why can't this show last like those interminable '79 shows?? 😄

C'mon, now! "Free Ride" followed by "China Grove???" 1973 ROCKED! - even on #AT40 once in a while!! (But wait, there's more... !)

Edgar Winter has said that he's NEVER been able to find a guitarist who could nail that guitar riff sound like Dan Hartman did on the original "Free Ride." Sounds simple enough, but it's the finesse that's hard to duplicate. #AT40

The Edgar Winter Group's MVP, Dan Hartman. He wrote it! He sang it! "Free Ride" Oct. '73 on #AT40

(It was a slim window, so, for those before or after those of us who were in Jr. High or High School '72 - '74, Cheech and Chong were HUGE. Everybody listened to their records and roared with laughter over their "outrageous" bits.) #AT40

That's George Harrison on guitar on Cheech & Chong's "Basketball Jones!" #AT40 (George loved comedy, and thank goodness: he's the reason Monty Python's "Life of Brian" was able to be produced.)

Repeat, but it still astounds me: George Martin had to CONVINCE Bond producer Cubby Broccoli to allow Paul McCartney to sing "Live & Let Die." (Martin sealed the deal when he delicately made it clear - "Um, no Paul... no theme song!" #AT40

I've never, ever, seen The Eagles w. Joe Walsh. Do they still let him bring out the big guns & show 'em all how it's done with his killer "Rocky Mountain Way?" (I know they used to... ) #AT40

See, this is why I savor the lower rungs of the #AT40 chart. Didn't previously compute that Looking Glass managed another top 40 appearance with "Jimmy Loves Mary Anne" (which I probably only vaguely recognize from previous Casey shows.) ABSOLUTELY NO MEMORY of this one back in the day!

I do love Bob Dylan's original "Knockin' On Heaven's Door," but, around 1986, was absolutely blown away by some upstart hair band (opening for Alice Cooper,) as THEY belted out "Knockin'." It was young & hungry Guns & Roses. They really were something at the time. #AT40

I had (have) the "Loco Motion" single. It rocked. End of post 😉 #AT40

Not a diss to the many fans who adore "Benny and The Jets," but I always skipped over this one. There were SO MANY great songs on "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road," "Benny" just kinda plodded along. (And, the title track was the very next song on the album. An easy choice!) #AT40

I would rather listen to Ray Stevens' "The Streak" than many other chart toppers on #AT40. (Corny? Silly? Yes. It's called a sense of humor 😉) Spoiler alert: "The Streak" would get to #1.

OK, maybe my earlier zeal for this May '74 #AT40 was based more on what was in the RECORD STORES that spring. Great music abounded, but, so little of it getting airplay. A loss for those not in the know (but I bet lots of us had these albums!)

Really, though, who bought Marvin Hamlisch's "The Entertainer" as a 45? Music teachers? Big movie, of course, and understand people wanted to hear the song. But, who was buying the SINGLE? Baffling. #AT40

At least I finally heard someone on the Beatles channel echo what fans have been saying for years. We could have forgone the scraping-the-barrel "Anthology 4" coming next month in favor of the LONG OVERDUE deluxe box-set reissue of the most joyous post-Beatles Beatles album ever, "Ringo." #AT40

AT The Oasis (typing too fast, lest BlueSky fall apart again tonight.) #AT40

Always a twinge of PTSD when I hear Maria Muldaur's "Midnight On The Oasis." A year later in 1975, the female lead singer of our otherwise (trying to be) hard rocking band insisted on doing this one. We relented, and gritted our teeth every time. #AT40

Paul McCartney & Wings' "Band On The Run" just snuck into record stores at the very end of 1973. I remember being surprised and thrilled - "What? We already got "Red Rose Speedway" and the "Live & Let Die" theme this year! There's a new one???!" #AT40

(Second time I've sent this. Anyone else having extreme difficulties with BlueSky interactivity tonight?) #AT40

Am I the only one experiencing difficulties with the Bluesky site tonight? Slow posts, or they don't register at all, #AT40 page doesn't refresh... anyone else? (Presuming anyone sees this post... )