"Every week we countdown the biggest hits in the USA, from Pretty Prairie, Kansas, to the neighboring cities of Beauty and Lovely, Kentucky, and at number 23 this week, here are The Tubes with "She's A Beauty."


American Top 40 with Casey Kasem aired on radio from July 4, 1970 until August 6, 1988. This recording is a rebroadcast from internet radio.

In this countdown:

Casey tells how one night, Bob Seger and Bruce Springsteen were cruising around LA playing demos from their upcoming albums using the car's tape deck. They decided to stop in a parking lot at which point the music must have been too loud for one freshly awakened neighbor, who ran them off never knowing who they were. Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band have the 36th most popular song in the nation this week with "Roll Me Away."

Casey says this is the third week in a row to have a record-setting 24 foreign acts in the countdown.

One recording artist in the countdown is one of only three acts ever to have hit number one with a song written or co-written by a Beatle (not including the Beatles themselves). Casey tells who.

Another artist in this countdown got a surprise when security decided to let one of her fans backstage. He showed them his fifth-grade class photo, from when this lead-singer was his grade school teacher.

A listener asks, "Who is the oldest person ever to hit the top 40?" Casey says the man whose spoken-word record set the record in '74 was 73 when it did, and he was still living at the time of this broadcast!

Casey says in the history of the Billboard chart, only five albums have ever been able to produce 4 top 10 hits, and only one artist can say two of those albums belong to him. The song that gave him those bragging rights is in this countdown. Casey tells which one.

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Happy listening!

LW#1: Every Breath You Take - The Police
40:    Lawyers In Love - Jackson Browne
39:    The Salt In My Tears - Martin Briley
38:    The Border - America        
37:    Always Something There To Remind Me - Naked Eyes     
36:    Roll Me Away - Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band     
35:    I'll Tumble 4 Ya - Culture Club    
34:    Affair Of The Heart - Rick Springfield
33:    Beat It - Michael Jackson
32:    Stop In The Name Of Love - The Hollies
31:    China Girl - David Bowie
30:    Rock 'N' Roll Is King - ELO
29:    Rock Of Ages - Def Leppard    
28:    Saved By Zero - The Fixx
27:    Take Me To Heart - Quarterflash
26:    Wishing - A Flock Of Seagulls
25:    It's A Mistake - Men At Work
24:    (Keep Feeling) Fascination - The Human League
LDD: Shame On The Moon - Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band
23:    She's A Beauty - The Tubes
22:    Family Man - Daryl Hall & John Oates
21:    Hot Girls In Love - Loverboy
20:    Cuts Like A Knife - Bryan Adams
19:    Maniac - Michael Sembello
18:    Don't Let It End - Styx
17:    All This Love - DeBarge
16:    Baby Jane - Rod Stewart
15:    Sweet Dreams - Eurythmics
14:    She Works Hard For The Money - Donna Summer
13:    1999 - Prince
12:    I'm Still Standing - Elton John
11:    Stand Back - Stevie Nicks
10:    Time - Culture Club
9:    Is There Something I Should Know - Duran Duran
8:    Our House - Madness
LDD: Hello Again - Neil Diamond
7:    Too Shy - Kajagoogoo
6:    Come Dancing - The Kinks
5:    Wanna Be Startin' Something - Michael Jackson
4:    Never Gonna Let You Go - Sergio Mendes
3:    Flashdance….What A Feeling - Irene Cara
2:    Electric Avenue - Eddie Grant
1:    Every Breath You Take - The Police