I’ve got to be real this week and ask some tough questions . I was made for dancing, and when I put on my dancing shoes, do ya think I’m sexy? Can you shake your groove thing, shake it like le freak that you are? Heaven knows, if you had the mind of the gambler, you might take a bet on the best song in the Billboard Top 40 from the Week of February 10th, 1979. Don’t hold back, you can do it!
Link to a listing of the songs in this week’s episode: https://top40weekly.com/1979-all-charts/#US_Top_40_Singles_For_The_Week_Ending_10th_February_1979
Data Sources: Billboard Magazine, where the charts came from and on what the countdown was based.
Websites: allmusic.com, songfacts.com Wikipedia.com (because Mark’s lazy)
Books: “Ranking the 70’s” by Dann Isbell, and Bill Carroll
“American Top 40 With Casey Kasem (The 1970’s) by Pete Battistini.
Rejected Episode Titles:
What Le Freak Believes
I Will Survive the Fire
Fire, Baby I’m Burnin’, What a Tragedy
Baby I’m Burnin’, Take Me to the River
When You’re the Gambler, Every 1’s a Winner
Don’t Cry Out Loud at the Y.M.C.A
Lotta Love or Too Much Heaven
Things we talked about in the episode:
ABBA the Movie trailer. Australian tour 1977:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-HGQR9afws
Warriors, Come Out to Play – “The Warriors” Movie CLIP (1979):https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRM2YcGpmxg
Bob & Ray, Jane, Laraine & Gilda - "Do Ya Think I'm Sexy?" (1979): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqbW-L_xt18
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