American Top 40 Theme Music

From the Casey Kasem days.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• AT40
• american
• top
• 40
• forty
• casey
• kasem
• theme
• song
• music
• jingle
• bumper
• 1970
• 70's

[Holfti]

Very sorry, I don't have that one. Good luck finding it. :)

[budinbuzz]

Anyone interested with vintage AT40 chart shows?

Contact me.

[USMCLoneWolf1]

Thanks for posting this tune that was on before I ever started listening to AT40.

I can see how the show evolved and grew more popular with time.

Big Time AT40 fan every Sunday morning at 9AM from 1977 to to the autumn of 1983 when I joined the USMC.

[USMCLoneWolf1]

@FurtherReview

I have a few of the shows on CD that play the version you are speaking of with Casey voicing over the first 10 seconds with the rest of the approximately 90 seconds clear & it is clearly different than the one posted here..

One show I have is from 1976 & the other is from 1978.

The one I have from 1978 plays that intermission song longer.

[USMCLoneWolf1]

@FurtherReview

The version you are speaking of was used as the closing theme in the first 2 hours of AT40 when the Shuckatoom theme was introduced at the very end of the program in October 1975...they kept the version you are speaking of until October 1978 when AT40 was expanded to 4 hours & they incorporated a disco sounding closing out the first 3 hours of the program while keeping the Shuckatoom as the opening of every hour & final closing of the fourth hour.

[FurtherReview]

Definitely a vintage Top 40 theme from the '70s. However, I don't believe this particular version was used from 1970 to '75 -- I recall the show using a variation on this same tune around 1973 or '74.

It's hard to describe in words, but although it was still played on a synthesizer, the version I remember didn't have the "wah-wah" sound -- it simply covered the notes in a smoother, less playful fashion.

[2fastdog]

WOW! Does that take me back.Thank you very much.I've been trying to find the ORIGINAL theme for many,many years now.Last time I heard it was at the rock and roll hall of fame ten years or so ago.From the age of 10 through my teens,every sat.night from 9 to midnight.Please,does anyone know where I can get an mp3 download of the original? Thanks so much

[medepful]

TM Productions' Jim Kirk wrote the original moog synthesizer theme, in 1970.

[NewShimmer]

Could someone please tell us who composed this theme, and any interesting info on its recording? Since this was the first theme starting in 1970, it would likely have been done on a big modular Moog synthesizer one note at a time. All-Moog music was a populer niche back then thanks to the pioneering work of Wendy Carlos.