Randy Newman wrote the song, and Eric Burdon & the Animals recorded the first version of it for their 1967 album, Eric Is Here. However, they didn’t release the song as a single. Decades after Three ...

As it turns out, James A. Bartlett, wrote of this show back on July 3, 2015, and again on July 4, 2024 — dates, by the way, commemorating the launch of American Top 40 on July 3, 1970 — on his ...

Casey Kasem kicked off that first countdown with this welcome: “Here we go with the top 40 hits of the nation this week on American Top 40 — the best-selling and most-played songs from the ...

Top 10 Things You Might Not Know About Casey Kasem; Kasem's "American Top 40" began on July 4, 1970, in Los Angeles. The No. 1 song on his list then was "Mama Told Me Not to Come," by Three Dog Night.

On July 4, 1970, the countdown started. Originally hosted by Casey Kasem, American Top 40 played "the best selling and most-played songs from the Atlantic to the Pacific, from Canada to Mexico ...

My sister Susan called recently to tell me of something she’d just heard: According to this story, Casey Kasem once did a “fake” American Top 40 countdown in the summer of 1974 because he ...