The votes have been tallied. The weekend seems close enough. Welcome to my 1st annual Top 500 #OldiesCountdown. I guess I'll do it all on this thread. And slowly. So feel free to check back here throughout the weekend. And enjoy.

We'll knock of some big chunks before we get to the higher regions. To start, here are numbers 500 to 461.

To keep that momentum going, I present to you numbers 461 to 430:

Well, that took a lot out of me. Now seems like a good time for our first commercial break.

How about we finish off the first hundred with numbers 429 to 400. Then we'll likely slow things down a bit. Because your host has to run some errands.

399 Baby I Need Your Loving
308 Same Old song
397 Every little thing she does
396 The waiting
395 Tom Sawyer
394 Everlasting love
393 Sunny afternoon
392 Everybody’s talking
391 Money
390 Me and Mrs Jones
389 Mr. Brightside
388 How Soon is Now?
387 1999
388 Sexual Healing

Any questions at this point? Observations? As you can likely already see, there is a heavy 60s and 70s slant. I had a lot of trouble convincing people that a 40 year-old song could be an oldie. lol

385 The Tracks of My Tears
384 Father and Son
383 Strawberry Fields Forever
382 Radar Love
381 Don’t Stop Me Now
380 Jolene
379 The River
378 Eleanor Rigby
377 Immigrant Song..
376 Stop in the Name of Love
375 Jackie Blue.
374 Take Me Home Tonight.
373 Jack and Diane

A listener asked, "Dear Casey, how many votes did these songs receive?" While I'm not actually Casey Kasem, I can say you are currently enjoying songs that received FOUR votes from your friends. The winning song received OVER THIRTY mentions.

More songs with 4 votes (and 1 banned from my wedding)
372 My Sharona
371 We Got the Beat
370 The Chain
369 Celebration.
368 Peggy Sue.
367 Lay Lady Lay.
366 Turn Turn Turn
365 Mercy Mercy Me.
364 Drift Away.
363 Beyond the sea
362 Walking on Sunshine.
361 Cinammon Girl.

Time for our well-earned second commercial break:

360 Peace Train.
359 Where the Streets Have No Name
358 Breakdown
357 Sweet Thing
356Don’t Think Twice
355 Sundown
354 Daniel
353 My Way
352 Long Cool Woman
351 Under My Thumb.
350 Starman
349 So Far Away
348 Reflections.
347 Refugee.
346 Magic Carpet Ride.
345 Old Man

My apologies to anyone who expected Kiki Dee or the Ozark Mountain Daredevils at number one.

344 Sailing
343 Abraham Martin and John
342 Isn’t She Lovely
341 Fat Bottomed Girls
340 Get Together
339 Killing in the Name Of
338 Midnight Special
337 These Arms of Mine
336 Folsom Prison Blues
335 Life During Wartime
334 A Hard Day’s Night.
333 Heart of Glass
332Ray of Light

Looks like interest is fading some. I'll take us to 300. Then we can resume again in the evening. And give some others a chance to catch up.

292 Roam 291Surrender. 290 I Saw Her Standing There. 289 1999. 288 Every Breath You Take. 287 Walk on By. 286 Downtown. 285 Our House. 284 25 or 6 to 4. 283 Shoop Shoop Song. 282 Jailhouse Rock. 281 Forever Young. 280 Under the Boardwalk. 279 Scenes from an Italian Restaurant.

278 Tainted Love. 277 Hello It’s Me. 276 She’s Gone. 275 Wedding Bell Blues. 274 Creep. 273 I Got You Babe.

This concludes the songs that received 4 votes. Let's pick it up again in a few hours. Mahalo.

But i'll leave with a chestnut from the last batch of songs. Enjoy.

My son's still getting dressed, so a few more.

272 Just Like Heaven 271 The Joker 270 Bennie and the Jets. 269 Only the Good Die Young 268 Rock the Casbah. 267 Ring of Fire. 266 Walk on the Wild Side. 265 Bad (U2). 264 In the Still of the Night. 263 Do it Again.

262 Can’t Help Falling in Love 261 Up on theRoof. 260 Always on My Mind 259 Wichita Lineman 258 Old Time Rock and Roll 257 Because the Night 256 My Boyfriends’ Back 255 It’s My Party 254Another Brick in the Wall 253 Pour Some Sugar on Me 252Black Magic Woman 251Sweet Baby James

Numbers 250 to 238:

Ain’t Too Proud to Beg. How Deep is Your Love. Walk away Renee. Bang a Gong. Somewhere Over the Rainbow. Train in Vain. Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain. Reeling in the Years Lyin’ Eyes. I’ll Take You There. Annie’s Song. A Song for You. Whipping Post.

The Firecracker 500 #OldiesCountdown resumes.

237 Tears of a Clown
236 A whiter shade of pale
235 Don’t fear the reaper
234 Tusk
233 Georgia on my mind
232 Zombie
231 Ramble On
230 Hallelujah
229 Higher Love
228 Don’t You Want Me
227 Big Yellow Taxi
226 Space Oddity