… that’s the title song from the movie soundtrack Grease, Earth Wind and Fire with Serpentine Fire and first, Exile, with Kiss You All Over …
This is interesting because it so appropriately demonstrates the beginning of the end of personality and production-driven Top-40. Who would have believed powerhouse CKLW would ever end up backselling “blocks” of music, without any ID between the hits?!
Was this any way to do Top 40? No Jingles! No Production, not even a Big Voice Production “Imager”! Ack! In all fairness to Charlie O’ Brien, he is trying to sound comfortable and has a very pleasant voice. But I never would have believed this is what CKLW was doing in 1978. You must hear to believe…
..and know what this hath wrought. (Some of the commercial jings are nice to hear again…)