Posted on 06/15/2014 9:36:34 AM PDT by Morgana
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Casey Kasem, the internationally famous radio broadcaster with the cheerful manner and gentle voice who became the king of the top 40 countdown with a syndicated show that ran for decades, died Sunday. He was 82.
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That's what I was just wondering. I wonder what the judge got out of all this besides the political posturing.
RIP Casey. You know what would be grand? If they had a recording that played him saying “Keep your feet on the ground, and keep reaching for the stars.” whenever someone approached.
RIP. I hope his passing was as peaceful as such things can be.
Went to the corner store this morning and Casey was on the oldies FM station in San Antonio. The number one song on this date in 1981 was “Bette Davis’ Eyes.”
Hmm, I was quite sympathetic towards the daughter but now looks like the wife wasn’t trying to make him die quicker.
I began working in radio at a small station in my hometown back in the mid-1970s. The station had the distinction of being among the first dozen or so stations that signed on for the launch of American Top 40 and American Country Countdown a few years earlier.
Spent many a Saturday afternoon running the countdown before playing records on my own show. In the days before satellite delivery, the show was recorded on LP records (remember those? and shipped out by the postal service. You never threw away the previous week’s countdown, in the event the new show didn’t arrive in the mail. On rare occasions, I remember having to provide a brief intro explaining that we were playing an “encore” edition of a previous countdown.
Pretty tight operation in those days, too. Casey and his producer, Don Bustany, were in the studio within a day of Billboard releasing their charts, and they’d press the LPs and ship over the next couple of days.
I left the station in 1979, and the programs were still on LPs at that time, if I’m not mistaken. Not sure when they made the switch to satellite delivery. Kasem, Bustany and their business partner, Tom Rounds, sold out to ABC within 4-5 years of launching AT40 and became very wealthy men.
Worst song, ever. I mean it.
I began working in radio at a small station in my hometown back in the mid-1970s. The station had the distinction of being among the first dozen or so stations that signed on for the launch of American Top 40 and American Country Countdown a few years earlier.
Spent many a Saturday afternoon running the countdown before playing records on my own show. In the days before satellite delivery, the show was recorded on LP records (remember those? and shipped out by the postal service. You never threw away the previous week’s countdown, in the event the new show didn’t arrive in the mail. On rare occasions, I remember having to provide a brief intro explaining that we were playing an “encore” edition of a previous countdown.
Pretty tight operation in those days, too. Casey and his producer, Don Bustany, were in the studio within a day of Billboard releasing their charts, and they’d press the LPs and ship over the next couple of days.
I left the station in 1979, and the programs were still on LPs at that time, if I’m not mistaken. Not sure when they made the switch to satellite delivery. Kasem, Bustany and their business partner, Tom Rounds, sold out to ABC within 4-5 years of launching AT40 and became very wealthy men.
It’s those goddam up-tempo numbers. Is Don on the phone?
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