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Bill Zuka (Debuting This Week) @billzuka.bsky.social · Jan 17

I have written my first essay in decades covering Badfinger & record collecting. It’s up on the wonderful site @ihavethatonvinyl.com recently launched. Please check it out. Thanks!

ihavethatonvinyl.com/essays/the-s...

The Special Love I Have for You: Discovering Badfinger’s Straight Up

Would you lend a highly sought-after album to someone whose last name you didn’t know, had no clue where they lived, and might possibly never see again? That is how I was introduced to my all-time fav...

ihavethatonvinyl.com

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Bill Zuka (Debuting This Week) @billzuka.bsky.social · 4h

Possibly the second most popular duo named Neil & Buzz

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Bill Zuka (Debuting This Week) @billzuka.bsky.social · 5h

This was taken the next season as the crowd left Busch Stadium after a Cardinals game. I’m fascinated no one is wearing a team cap (a few are wearing visors that at first look like caps)

Bill Zuka (Debuting This Week) @billzuka.bsky.social · 7h

My copy from 1973, which a friend’s little brother cracked in 5 pieces. My older brother glued it back together for my and it played without skipping!

Bill Zuka (Debuting This Week) @billzuka.bsky.social · 19h

I loved this! 1995 was one of my favorite years for music & discovering BF5 was a highlight

Bill Zuka (Debuting This Week) @billzuka.bsky.social · 19h

I knew someone with a collection of thousands of titles who believed Waiting For Columbus was the best sounding live recording of all time. Congrats on this treasure trove!

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Bill Zuka (Debuting This Week) @billzuka.bsky.social · 23h

Released just 3 months apart

Bill Zuka (Debuting This Week) @billzuka.bsky.social · 23h

This guy used to sell radio shows, but his site is no more:

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Bill Zuka (Debuting This Week) @billzuka.bsky.social · 1d

Not pulling out my albums today, but I do have 14 singles from this #AT40 countdown

Bill Zuka (Debuting This Week) @billzuka.bsky.social · 1d

Mark: The first #AT40 hit Debbie Boone hit

Bill Zuka (Debuting This Week) @billzuka.bsky.social · 1d

For folks who didn’t get enough from Mike Curb giving us the Osmonds & Sammy Davis Jr’s The Candy Man #AT40

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Bill Zuka (Debuting This Week) @billzuka.bsky.social · 1d

The first time I ever saw what Casey Kasem looked like was when my friend Mike called me and said Casey was on Charlie’s Angles. He was playing an announcer covering a golf tournament in the 1978 episode “Winning Is For Losers” #AT40

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Bill Zuka (Debuting This Week) @billzuka.bsky.social · 1d

Here’s the top 40/100 songs played circa New Year’s Day 1978 on the #AT40 year end countdown of 1977. I don’t know how this compares to Billboard’s year end list

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Bill Zuka (Debuting This Week) @billzuka.bsky.social · 1d

All very true!

Bill Zuka (Debuting This Week) @billzuka.bsky.social · 1d

Johnny Rivers founded the 60s label Soul City, that had #1 hits by The 5th Dimension. He sold the label to Bell in 1970 but kept the logo for his future releases #AT40

Bill Zuka (Debuting This Week) @billzuka.bsky.social · 1d

Got to repeat this:
David Bowie: “One day in Berlin, Eno came running in and said, ‘I have heard the sound of the future’ … he puts on ‘I Feel Love’ by Donna Summer … He said, ‘This is it, look no further. This single is going to change the sound of club music for the next fifteen years.” #AT40

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Bill Zuka (Debuting This Week) @billzuka.bsky.social · 1d

I’ve posted about our family road trip to California in Aug 1977. One memory is hearing Strawberry Letter 23 before it even hit the top 20 & my 16 year old sister told us why it had that title even though lyrics refer to “Strawberry Letter 22”. She had the strongest impact on my love for music #AT40

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Bill Zuka (Debuting This Week) @billzuka.bsky.social · 1d

Haha!! I love it!!

Bill Zuka (Debuting This Week) @billzuka.bsky.social · 1d

I know he had more #AT40 hits, but It’s Ecstasy was the last new Barry White I remember hearing on the radio

Bill Zuka (Debuting This Week) @billzuka.bsky.social · 1d

Guessing Paul Nicholas thought he’d hit the jackpot when he was cast in the Sgt. Pepper’s film with Peter Frampton & the Bee Gees #AT40

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Bill Zuka (Debuting This Week) @billzuka.bsky.social · 1d

That’s it!

Bill Zuka (Debuting This Week) @billzuka.bsky.social · 1d

That a deep reference I have not thought about for like 40 years!

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Bill Zuka (Debuting This Week) @billzuka.bsky.social · 1d

My dad rarely commented on any of my music, but in 1988 when I was playing GB’s The Greatest Love Of All, dad said “The girl who sings this did a better job” #AT40

Bill Zuka (Debuting This Week) @billzuka.bsky.social · 1d

#AT40 B-52’s fans:

I'm Cindy I'm a Pisces
And I like chihuahuas
& Chinese noodles

My name’s Ricky & I'm a Pisces
I love computers
& hot tamales

I'm Kate & I’m a Taurus
I love tomatoes
& black-capped chickadees

My name is Keith and I'm a
Scorpio from Athens
I like to find the essence from within

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Bill Zuka (Debuting This Week) @billzuka.bsky.social · 1d

Ahh, I missed that. Makes sense. Thanks!

Bill Zuka (Debuting This Week) @billzuka.bsky.social · 1d

Alan Clarke sang lead on Breakdown from I Robot. Zombies lead singer Collin Blunstone sang lead on Old & Wise from Eye In The Sky