CASEY KASEM'S AMERICAN TOP 40 - 5/11/74
LW#3: BENNIE AND THE JETS - ELTON JOHN
LW#2: T.S.O.P. - M.F.S.B.
LW#1: THE LOCO-MOTION - GRAND FUNK
40: STANDING AT THE END OF THE LINE - LOBO

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COUNTRY: IS IT WRONG (FOR LOVING YOU) - SONNY JAMES
SOUL: DANCING MACHINE - THE JACKSON FIVE
DANCE: N/A
ADULT CONTEMPORARY: T.S.O.P. (THE SOUND OF PHILADELPHIA) - M.F.S.B. (FEATURING THE THREE DEGREES)
ALBUM: THE STING - SOUNDTRACK

'Avengers' Box Office: $200 Million Opening Weekend Breaks Records

By DAVID GERMAIN 05/06/12 12:36 PM ET
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/06/avengers-box-office_n_1489728.html

LOS ANGELES — Hulk, smash.

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CASEY KASEM'S AMERICAN TOP 40 – 5/6/72
LW#3:    I GOTCHA – JOE TEX
LW#2:    ROCKIN’ ROBIN – MICHAEL JACKSON
LW#1:    THE FIRST TIME EVER I SAW YOUR FACE – ROBERTA FLACK
40:    THE DIARY - BREAD
39:    EVERY DAY OF MY LIFE – BOBBY VINTON

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COUNTRY: CHANTILLY LACE - JERRY LEE LEWIS
SOUL: I’LL TAKE YOU THERE – THE STAPLE SINGERS
DANCE: N/A
ADULT CONTEMPORARY: THE FIRST TIME EVER I SAW YOUR FACE – ROBERTA FLACK
ALBUM: FIRST TAKE - ROBERTA FLACK

CASEY KASEM’S AMERICAN TOP 40 –3/25/72
40: DO YOUR THING - ISAAC HAYES (debut)

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The host this week is Dick Clark.

COUNTRY: MY HANG-UP IS YOU - FREDDIE HART
SOUL: IN THE RAIN - THE DRAMATICS
DANCE: N/A
ADULT CONTEMPORARY: ROCK AND ROLL LULLABY - B.J. THOMAS
ALBUM: AMERICA - AMERICA

CASEY KASEM’S AMERICAN TOP 40 - 4/19/75
40: SHAKEY GROUND - TEMPTATIONS (debut)
39: LOVE WON'T LET ME WAIT - MAJOR HARRIS (debut)

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COUNTRY: ALWAYS WANTING YOU - MERLE HAGGARD
SOUL: L-O-V-E (LOVE) - AL GREEN
DANCE: BAD LUCK - HAROLD MELVIN & THE BLUENOTES
ADULT CONTEMPORARY: HE DON'T LOVE YOU (LIKE I LOVE YOU) - TONY ORLANDO & DAWN
ALBUM: PHYSICAL GRAFFITI - LED ZEPPELIN

CASEY KASEM'S AMERICAN TOP 40 - 4/3/71 (Using the 4/10/71 Chart)
LW#3: FOR ALL WE KNOW - CARPENTERS
LW#2: ME AND BOBBY McGHEE - JANIS JOPLIN
LW#1: JUST MY IMAGINATION (RUNNIN' AWAY WITH ME) - TEMPTATIONS
40: POWER TO THE PEOPLE - JOHN LENNON
39: CHICK-A-BOOM - DADDY DEWDROP

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COUNTRY: EMPTY ARMS - SONNY JAMES
SOUL: WHAT'S GOIN' ON - MARVIN GAYE
DANCE: N/A
ADULT CONTEMPORARY: THEME FROM "LOVE STORY" - ANDY WILLIAMS
ALBUM: PEARL - JANIS JOPLIN

CASEY KASEM'S AMERICAN TOP 40 – 4/8/78
(last week was a special show so 3/25 was last show with a current countdown)
3/25 #3:3: EMOTION - SAMANTHA SANG
3/25 #2: STAYIN' ALIVE - BEE GEES
3/25 #1: NIGHT FEVER - BEE GEES
40:    BABY HOLD ON – EDDIE MONEY
39:    JUST THE WAY YOU ARE – BILLY JOEL

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COUNTRY: SOMEONE LOVES YOU HONEY - CHARLEY PRIDE
SOUL: THE CLOSER I GET TO YOU – ROBERTA FLACK & DONNY HATHAWAY
DANCE: VOYAGE (ALL CUTS) - VOYAGE
ADULT CONTEMPORARY: WE’LL NEVER HAVE TO SAY GOODBYE – ENGLAND DAN & JOHN FORD COLEY
ALBUM: SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER - BEE GEES/SOUNDTRACK

Dick Allen, who played in the majors from 1963 through 1977, explained during a 1972 spring training interview why he rarely took batting practice: "Your body is like a bar of soap. It gradually wears down from repeated use." Allen went on to win the AL MVP award that season as a member of the White Sox.

Birthdays:
Turk Farrell b. 1934
John Havlicek b. 1940
Jim "Catfish" Hunter b. 1946
Gary Carter b. 1954
Ricky Bell b. 1955

4/71977:
The Blue Jays play their first regular-season game in franchise history and defeat the White Sox, 9-5, amid wintry conditions at Exhibition Stadium in Toronto. Before the game, a Zamboni is used to clear snow off of the playing surface, and flurries fall throughout the game. The Sox leave an incredible 19 men on base. Doug Ault leads the Toronto attack with two home runs in his first two plate appearances.

Birthdays:
Bobby Doerr b. 1918
Gail Cogdill b. 1937
Tony Dorsett b. 1954
Ricky Watters b. 1969
Ronde and Tiki Barber b. 1975


America has a long history of distilling spirits illegally. Journalist Max Watman starts his story in the 1790s, when home distillers protested a new whiskey tax and George Washington mustered troops to put down a liquor-fueled rebellion. The book even charts NASCAR’s roots in the getaway drivers who avoided tax men while running white lightning, which, of course, Watman then learns to distill—just for research, of course! Informative and highly entertaining.

CHASING THE WHITE DOG: AN AMATEUR OUTLAW’S ADVENTURES IN MOONSHINE, by Max Watman (Simon & Schuster, 2010)

4/6/2010:
The University of Connecticut women's basketball team runs its winning streak to 78 games with a 53-47 win over Stanford in the NCAA championship game at the Alamodome in San Antonio. Connecticut trails 20-12 at halftime. The 12 points is a school record low for a half. But UConn breaks loose in the second half and leads 47-31 with 2:40 remaining before Stanford narrows the gap. Maya Moore leads the Huskies in the championship tilt with 23 points and 11 rebounds. It is Connecticut's second straight 39-0 season. Midway through the 2009-10 season, Geno Auriemma's squad broke the previous record winning streak in women's college basketball, which was 60 games and also held by Connecticut from 2001 through 2003.

Birthdays:
Ernie Lombardi b. 1908
Spider Lockhart b. 1943
Bert Blyleven b. 1957
Sterling Sharpe b. 1965
Bret Boone b. 1969


A massive and sweeping history of the Christian church by a professor of church history at Oxford University. Clocking in at over 1,000 pages and illustrated with color plates, it has time and space to explore philosophical questions regarding Christianity and finer points of Biblical scholarship, and does not ignore the politics that helped drive Christianity’s growth. It is an approach that The New York Times calls “sprawling, sensible and illuminating.”

CHRISTIANITY: THE FIRST THREE THOUSAND YEARS, by Diarmaid McCullough (Viking, 2010)