Long regarded as an expert of Casey Kasems American Top 40 radio program, Pete Battistini provides highlights and summaries of nearly 500 AT40 programs from the 1970s, along with a highly-detailed list of all subscribing AT40 radio stations. Peppered with various anecdotes and perspectives, he opens up his archives and offers more than 100 AT40 illustrations - memos, documents, advertisements, photographs, script cards, radio surveys and much more - to give a Caseys coast-to-coast inside look at the Americas favorite hit parade. Finally, he provides his own confessions describing how AT40 became a weekly habit. For anyone who spent time listening to Casey Kasems countdown every weekend, heres an opportunity to relive the music and stories of the 1970s.