February 3 - Radio Top 40

Episode watched: The gang finds money at the mall

Sometime at the beginning of my first class today the line "one is the loneliest number" came up in passing and one of my students and I continued on to sing Three Dog Night's "One is the Loneliest Number." The awesome part about this was that the song was performed in 1969, which is well beyond my years, but even further beyond hers.  I didn't know that high school students appreciated oldies; but is there anything better in music than a golden oldie? I used to wake up every morning to KOOL105;   I told her that our singing reminded me of when Casey Kasem was one the show hosting a radio segment. The real great thing is that song was on the Billboard Top 40 at some point, which means that Kasem himself would have introduced and commented on that song.  Kasem's voice and impact on radio is timeless and I can still remember his voice filling the movie theaters before previews came on introducing the next hit on the list. I thought he was just some local radio guy.

Lesson learned: People with "Golden" radio voices must be a hit in rehab. (i.e. Ted Williams) No pun intended on the word "hit".

*That's three radio references in a row.