American Top 40 With Casey Kasem Debuted 50 Years Ago Today — This Was Its Countdown

[married21]

.? What about El Cajon CA? My hometown.

[Dilbert San Diego]

Brings back memories. I used to listen to Casey and the top 40 countdown.

I had an email correspondence at one time with someone who wrote a book about Casey and the top 40. And he asked me about the radio stations I heard American Top 40 on. I had moved around the country, and was able to recall:

WPGC AM/FM in Washington, DC
WCAO in Baltimore
WCUM in Cumberland, Maryland
WKLP in Keyser, West Virginia
WBBM-FM in Chicago
WLS in Chicago
KFMB in San Diego

I think he was trying to compile a listing of all stations which had ever carried the Top 40 countdown.

[V K Lee]

LOL! Men and their gadgets. DH still possesses
his first transistor radio to this day.
Along with several others offered by EBay.

“Do you like good music
That sweet soul music
Just as long as it’s swingin’
Oh yeah, oh yeah”
SWEET SOUL MUSIC - Arthur Conley

Early 1970’s in my mid 20’s, music tastes changing to some
degree.

Casey, RIP
Thanks for the memories.

[DeplorableGirl]

So that’s the excuse you’re gonna go with?! Sheesh.
Of course kidding; enjoying a little wine today! :)

[Revel]

He was the Master at what he did. You can find entire shows of the countdowns played on youtube.

[lapsus calami]

 

 

If you recall he would share all sorts of anecdotes, stories, trivia about the bands and individual performers during the course of the show. There was staff scouring media for anything they could use as filler. Imagine what a job that was before the age of the internet and search engines.

 

 

[FalloutShelterGirl]

Yep! I listened religiously on the beloved little radio my folks got me for Christmas, single ear bud in my ear so i didn’t disturb mom. She didn’t like that rock ‘n’ roll music that was going to corrupt me. Ah...the 70s.

[dfwgator]

His show was the way I “downloaded” music in 1983, lol.

LOL, that and the "Dr. Demento Show"

[WASCWatch]

I watched a Netflix documentary on David Foster. He was also an asshole, self-admitted at that.

Never realized just how many great musicians for whom he produced.

[Verginius Rufus]

I was living in San Diego in July 1970 but don’t remember ever hearing of KDEO. The two stations I listened to were KGB and KCBQ.

[ripnbang]

Found this Top 40 list on You Tube. Listened to the entire show. It was great, a blast from the past. Thanks for posting.

[minnesota_bound]

Listen to the old Dick Clark countdown show on weekends.

Dick Clark Rock Roll & Remember - Saturday 8am-Noon
http://www.superhits935.com/pages/index.cfm?id=493

[stonehouse01]

“...F the Beatles...”

I second that. “Imagine” is the atheist anthem that sums up the communist “revolution” our nation is suffering under in real time.

[nicollo]

Thanks for posting this! My wife and I both had the Pocket Radio! She remembers more static than music coming from it, but I remembering thinking how cool it was.

[nicollo]

Brotherhood Of Man – “United We Stand”

We could use a re-boot of this one, for sure!

Look for the same over the next couple of years, as 1970 was peak hippie and protest and the nation desperately wanted to take a breath and just be normal -- and longed for some type of revival. This was the time of Godspell and Jesus Christ Superstar.

Btw, my favorite on that list at the time was Three Dog Night. Loved that band! My wife made me play "Get Ready" three times, while I listed to "Mama Told me" and "Spill the Wine" over and over.

[dfwgator]

For me, we lived in Monterey and listened on KMBY, it was the greatest place in the world for a kid to be at the time.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Loved Three Dog Night. Remember the band, ‘Lobo’? Some good songs there, too. :)

[Alas Babylon!]

I always thought he treated Scooby like dirt. Making him go ahead before him in some creepy haunted mansion. He was a coward! And a cheap skate, hardly ever passing out Scooby snacks.

[Alas Babylon!]

Imagine was not by the Beatles. John Lennon did that on his own. And he also was an asshole who let his yellow paramour break up the band.

[Dr. Sivana]

And a cheap skate, hardly ever passing out Scooby snacks.

I never watched that cartoon, though I am familiar with the characters. If Scooby got all the Scooby snacks he wanted, he'd be a fat great dane. You don't want that. He never looked underfed.