CASEY KASEM'S AMERICAN TOP 40 – 11/22/80LW#3: THE WANDERER – DONNA SUMMER

LW#2: WOMAN IN LOVE – BARBRA STREISAND

LW#1: LADY – KENNY ROGERS

40:    ONE TRICK PONY - PAUL SIMON

39:    SUDDENLY - OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN AND CLIFF RICHARD

38:    IF YOU SHOULD SAIL - NIELSON/PEARSON            

37:    TURNING JAPANESE - THE VAPORS

36:    SEQUEL - HARRY CHAPIN

35:    CELEBRATION - KOOL & THE GANG

34:    ON THE ROAD AGAIN - WILLIE NELSON

33:    I BELIEVE IN YOU - DON WILLIAMS

ARCHIVES: TELSTAR – THE TORNADOES

32:    THIS TIME - JOHN COUGAR

31:    IT'S MY TURN - DIANA ROSS

30:    DE DO DO DO, DE DA DA DA DA - THE POLICE

29:    DEEP INSIDE MY HEART - RANDY MEISNER

28:    THEME FROM "THE DUKES OF HAZZARD" - WAYLON JENNINGS

27:    I'M SO HAPPY THAT LOVE HAS FOUND YOU - JIMMY HALL        

26:    EVERYBODY'S GOT TO LEARN SOMETIME - THE KORGIS

LDD: I HONESTLY LOVE YOU – OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN

25:    UPSIDE DOWN - DIANA ROSS

24:    EVERY WOMAN IN THE WORLD - AIR SUPPLY

23:    DREAMER - SUPERTRAMP

22:    WITHOUT YOUR LOVE - ROGER DALTREY

ARCHIVES: GO AWAY LITTLE GIRL – STEVE LAWRENCE

21:    LET ME BE YOUR ANGEL - STACY LATTISAW

20:    GUILTY - BARBRA STREISAND & BARRY GIBB

19:    OUT HERE ON MY OWN - IRENE CARA

18:    HUNGRY HEART - BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

17:    HE'S SO SHY - THE POINTER SISTERS

16:    NEVER BE THE SAME - CHRISTOPHER CROSS

15:    HIT ME WITH YOUR BEST SHOT - PAT BENETAR

14:    WHIP IT - DEVO

13:    YOU'VE LOST THAT LOVIN' FEELING - DARYL HALL & JOHN OATES

12:    LOVELY ONE - THE JACKSONS

11:    LOVE ON THE ROCKS - NEIL DIAMOND

ARCHIVES: WALK RIGHT IN - THE ROOFTOP SINGERS

10:    DREAMING - CLIFF RICHARD

9:    STARTING OVER - JOHN LENNON

8:    MORE THAN I CAN SAY - LEO SAYER

7:    MASTER BLASTER - STEVIE WONDER

6:    NEVER KNEW LOVE LIKE THIS BEFORE - STEPHANIE MILLS

LDD: DO IT OR DIE – THE ATLANTA RHYTHM SECTION

5:    I'M COMING OUT - DIANA ROSS

4:    ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST - QUEEN

3:    THE WANDERER - DONNA SUMMER

2:    WOMAN IN LOVE - BARBRA STREISAND

1:    LADY - KENNY ROGERS

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American DJ Kemal Amin 'Casey' Kasem (1932–2014) was the long-running host (from 1970–88 and 1998–2004) of the syndicated weekly American Top 40 radio program, which as the name suggests, played the Top 40 pop songs in the US each week.

Kasem conceived the idea in 1970 and by the later part of that decade, it was played on close to 1,000 stations across the US. As of writing (in 2023), the show continues to be produced.

American Top 40 was also a fixture on commercial radio stations all over the world.

The programs arrived at radio stations as four LPs in a box. The first disc had a 1Khz line-up tone so the radio station technical operators could set the output level; the rest were carefully labelled and numbered so they could be played in the correct sequence. There was a track break approximately every 10 minutes so the local broadcaster could stop the disc and insert local advertisem