CASEY KASEM'S AMERICAN TOP 40 'The 70's' | Monday Nights 6pm

Before web downloads, before streaming and before the internet itself, if you wanted the coolest music you checked it out with Casey Kasem and the American Top 40.  Starting in 1970 and still on the air today, The American Top 40 started the trend of hit music and the great stories of the artists.  Every Monday night from 6 we remember the 70's with Casey, as we replay countdowns from a weekend of the 70's.

Don't miss Casey Kasem and The American Top 40 - The 70's. 6pm Monday nights.

This Monday night  from 6pm hop into the Time Tunnel with Casey and go back to 1971.

What Events Happened in 1971

• China is admitted to the United Nations UN

• Ibrox disaster in Scotland when 66 die in stairway crush at Rangers v Celtic football match

• Border battles between India and Pakistan erupt into full-scale war when India invades East Pakistan ( Now Bangladesh ) in support of the independence movement

• Decimalisation in United Kingdom and Ireland both switch to decimal currency.

• IRA Bomb Post Office Tower in London

• are granted the right to vote in Switzerland

• Mount Etna erupts

• Tsunami 85 m high rises over Ryukyu Islands in Japan

• Harris public opinion poll claims that 60% of Americans are against the war in Vietnam

• Greenpeace formally comes into existence.

• Australia and New Zealand Announce Pull Out Of Troops from Vietnam

• Major General Idi Amin takes control of Uganda soon to become one of the worst and most notorious dictators of modern times .
• Charles Manson and three of his followers receive the death penalty

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This Monday night from 6pm on Casey’s American Top 40 Countdown, we go back, way back.

1977

5 January – Australia's only aircraft suicide attack carried out by a disgruntled former employee of Connellan Airways takes place. The Connellan air disaster claims the life of 6 people including the pilot.

18 January – Australia experiences its worst railway disaster at Granville, near Sydney, in which 83 people died.

15 May – A new political party, the Australian Democrats is launched by former Liberal MP Don Chipp at Melbourne Town Hall.
A plebiscite to decide Australia's national song is won by "Advance Australia Fair".

15 July – Anti-drugs campaigner Donald Mackay disappears near Griffith, New South Wales. He is presumed to have been murdered.
4 September – The Queensland government bans street marches and demonstrations.

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So what were you doing on May11 ,1974 ?

I’ll give a few seconds to think about that.

Well ? How did you go? No luck?

They songs can take take you back in time. So do these songs remind you of anything

I first heard this song by Terry Jacks when I was having breakfast in the kitchen.

It came on the radio and I loved it straight away.

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An an Aussie Nun made the American charts in

1974. Her name was Sister Janet Mead.

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And Jim Stafford’s, My Girl Bill

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Other hits to happen in May 1974

Keep On Singing – Helen Reddy
Sunshine On My Shoulders – John Denver.

We venture to the 1972, May 6 and what a day it was I was 14 , young ,spunky and innocent, But enough of me .

Remember these guys,

The Fifth Dimension

 Nilsson,

Dr Hook and the Medicine Show.

BUT WAIT!!!! There’s more

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