What's interesting to me about any "top 40" playlists is the music at the top and bottom usually belonged there. A lot of hits went past the lower ranks immediately after release. Some that barely made the list did so because they weren't that good a song to begin with. Some very forgettable music hovered in the lower ratings and likely even got mention because of monetary promotion.

The life of Dick Clark is a good read to learn about the Payola scandal. How he wiggled out of that is very interesting. Meanwhile many didn't.

Hearing Casey Kasem melt down and go off the rails (it's an easy search) makes me laugh every time I hear it. It's equally as profane as the examples available from Buddy Rich or Bill O'Reilly, and equally as funny.

Remember when the slides were polished steel from all the kids sliding down?
They also burned you on a hot sunny day!

I remember when they were stainless steel. They may have gotten more polished. Certainly rivets on jeans didn't do any good, but the metal was hard.

The first ever Hardee’s restaurant in Greenville, North Carolina, 1960. The original menu featured 15-cent hamburgers, 10-cent fries, and 20-cent milkshakes, and the place quickly became a success for its unique charbroiled burgers.

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