I used to listen to the countdown every week, back in the day.
I hope the ugly family battles in his family will cease.
Guys like Casey and Dick Clark were Americana for several generations. The passing of an era that sadly will never return.
It’s almost fitting that Casey take his final bow on Father’s Day. I spent many years listening to him on the radio. He was the ultimate professional. His widow has made herself an enemy of the family. Her next battle will be in the courtroom during the reading of the will or wills. She seems like a very unhappy person, or, this may just be her brand of grieving. No one could really state her motives but Mrs. Kasem herself.
Brings back memories.. Hullaballoo. Even.... Soul Train was better than most of the junk on tv now..
For a real hoot, check out Youtube for some Tom Jones songs from way back...Tom Jones, Englebert Humperdink, and Billy Preston doing, The Games That People Play.
I only found out today that he was the voice of Shaggy from the Scooby-Doo TV show. I had no idea.
First order of business for Mr Kasem - apologize to Snuggles for the insensitive lead-in.
I grew up with Scooby Doo and Justice League and Christmas specials and I’ll miss him
RIP Casey Kasem, I spent many cheerful radio hours with you.
RIP Casey. My first boss. I treasure the memories of that very cool first job and of your voice throughout my childhood.
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.
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.