american top 40 Archives - Vinyl From The Vault https://vinylfromthevault.com/tag/american-top-40/ Fri, 29 Oct 2021 00:48:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 198238920 Joan Jett and the Blackhearts “I Love Rock-n-Roll” https://vinylfromthevault.com/joan-jett-and-the-blackhearts-i-love-rock-n-roll-3/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=joan-jett-and-the-blackhearts-i-love-rock-n-roll-3 Mon, 05 Jan 2015 17:30:45 +0000 http://box2101.temp.domains/~vinylfro/?p=4523 Joan Jett and the Blackhearts "I Love Rock-n-Roll" 1982. This was the first record I ever bought with my own money. I was 11 years old, in 6th grade and NUTS for the hit single, which was #1 on the charts for 7 weeks, from March to May.  I remember the #2 song was The Go-Go’s [...]

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]]> Joan Jett and the Blackhearts “I Love Rock-n-Roll” 1982. This was the first record I ever bought with my own money. I was 11 years old, in 6th grade and NUTS for the hit single, which was #1 on the charts for 7 weeks, from March to May.  I remember the #2 song was The Go-Go’s “We Got the Beat” for three of those weeks.  I’d sit glued to the radio, listening to Casey Kasem’s American Top 40, waiting for those 2 glorious back-to-back songs.  When I was able to save up enough allowance money to buy the record, I played the crap out of it and the album cover pictured above shows the wear and tear over the years. (Yes, this is the same album I bought back in ‘82).

“I Love Rock-n-Roll” was my favorite single on the album, but “Crimson and Clover,” the last song on side 1, was freakin’ amazing.  I loved (and still do) its echoey and anthemic verse and then frenetic instrumental hook.  Side 2 never saw as much playing action as Side 1, but “Bits and Pieces” is a great rocker with a Bo Diddley beat.  The only song that irritates me is “Little Drummer Boy” since I’ve never cared for that Christmas Carol, but if I have to listen to it, Joan’s version is probably better than anything else out there.

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