Good point!

What I love about “float on” is that it’s this overt branding exercise, yet incredibly, it worked! The song was massive. And then, having been successfully introduced to all the members of the floaters, the public decided they had no further interest in them.

Good one!

What’s the correct response?

For sure; 1975 saw 13 weeks in a row with a new number one every week.

And BTW, Casey was wrong when he said that 1974’s record for the most #1’s (eventually reaching 35 #1s) would hold for a long time to come. It was matched the very next year. #at40

Gloria Gaynor and BT Express?

I remember it, but only from hearing it for several weeks on #AT40. It peaked all the way up at #20, but I don’t recall it ever being played on radio in NYC outside of Casey’s countdown.

When Tom Moulton listed “both versions” of the Tymes’ You Little Trustmaker, he was referring to his own remix of the song, one of the first disco remixes. #at40

Although it was funny to hear Casey Kasem make the case that Bobby Russell‘s Saturday Morning Confusion falls into the “singer songwriter” category, like Carole King or Kris Kristofferson.

Also a short distance to Emotional Rescue 4 years later.

Of course, “the real Buddy Holly story” song doesn’t actually tell us anything about Buddy Holly….
But Sonny Curtis did write “ I fought the law” and for that he is owed our eternal gratitude. RIP

I like that song.

And it’s six, if you count Convoy, which was a number one country song in 1975 and hit number one pop the first week of 1976. #at40