Long regarded as an expert of Casey Kasem's 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 "Casey's coast-to-coast" inside look at the America's favorite hit parade. Finally, he provides his own 'confessions' describing how AT40 became a weekly habit. For anyone who spent time listening to Casey Kasem's countdown every weekend, here's an opportunity to relive the music and stories of the 1970s.