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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 needed to be ...