To celebrate Casey Kasem's birthdate,,,,

[adam31]

What decades of American Top 40, do you/or have listen/listened to?

[at40fansince1984]

70's - Jan 2004
Seacrest can get Deez Nutz along with the Otto Toon & Mumble Crap "songs".

[Mike]

I've listened to...

70s: A few random episodes, including at least part of the debut and all of: 9/4/71, the Dick Clark 3/25/72, 8/27/77, 3/25/78, and several of the early 4-hour shows (specifically 12/22/79, which I have).

Probably a majority of the entire 80s by now, heh.

90s: At first it was just a few Shadoe shows, then all of 1998 (just from the return on), since then it's been plenty more of Shadoe and some 1999 (thanks to here, of course).

00s: I...might have? Checked out the first few or so Seacrest shows when he started, but didn't stick around long. Over the years I'd check out his run again for short periods of time, but it's been several years since I last did so. On the Casey side, outside of a single show (9/30/00), it wouldn't be until a few years ago when I'd hear anything else from before Seacrest started.

10s: I do remember I checked out the 40th anniversary (7/3/10) when that happened, and when Casey passed it was smack in the middle of a period when I was following the current AT40 a little more closely - from August 2013 until somewhere in 2015. But I haven't been back to it since falling off again.

[saltyhylian]

First AT40 I listened to was in 2005 (w/Seacrest on the helm) and it was the Hot AC version. First listened to the regular version in 2010, when my local affiliate flipped over to CHR.

Never listened to the Kasem shows until 2017 when the cut-down versions of his Second Era shows (1998-2003) were on YouTube and gotta say my first impression was what a huge difference it was compared to the modern AT40. More simpler, less about the entertainment world and more about the tracks.

[adam31]

May 18, 2021 16:07:25 GMT -5 saltyhylian said:

First AT40 I listened to was in 2005 (w/Seacrest on the helm) and it was the Hot AC version. First listened to the regular version in 2010, when my local affiliate flipped over to CHR.

Never listened to the Kasem shows until 2017 when the cut-down versions of his Second Era shows (1998-2003) were on YouTube and gotta say my first impression was what a huge difference it was compared to the modern AT40. More simpler, less about the entertainment world and more about the tracks.

You have a unique perspective, someone who didn't "grow up" with Casey like a lot of us. I've heard a lot of listeners in foreign countries knew Shadoe better than Casey, but you are the first who I've come across who started with Ryan.

[Mike]

I didn't, technically, "grow up with" Casey, either - the first countdown I heard was the Rick Dees Weekly Top 40, which WIOG were carrying, likely still as a holdover from when Shadoe's AT40 was pulled from the States and replaced with Rick for distribution. I later discovered that WTCF was, in fact, the AT40 affiliate when Casey re-started it in 1998, but by the time I first heard a Weekly Top 40, WTCF had blown up their original CHR presentation and replaced it with a Rhythmic approach styled as "Pirate Radio". CK 105 (WWCK) in Flint was also apparently an affiliate - but, again, I didn't find that out until much later. And it wouldn't be until somewhere like 2003-04 that I'd notice that I could pick them up on the dial anyway.

I remember seeing Casey well before, on Jerry Lewis MDA Telethons growing up, and I've had a video of Here Comes Peter Cottontail since I was a kid - though the full significance of "oh, HE voiced Peter in that!" also didn't dawn on me until much later.

Casey countdowns, however - those didn't happen for me until 2008, upon finding the American Top 40: The 80s series.

[adam31]

May 19, 2021 7:02:42 GMT -5 Mike said:

I didn't, technically, "grow up with" Casey, either - the first countdown I heard was the Rick Dees Weekly Top 40, which WIOG were carrying, likely still as a holdover from when Shadoe's AT40 was pulled from the States and replaced with Rick for distribution. I later discovered that WTCF was, in fact, the AT40 affiliate when Casey re-started it in 1998, but by the time I first heard a Weekly Top 40, WTCF had blown up their original CHR presentation and replaced it with a Rhythmic approach styled as "Pirate Radio". CK 105 (WWCK) in Flint was also apparently an affiliate - but, again, I didn't find that out until much later. And it wouldn't be until somewhere like 2003-04 that I'd notice that I could pick them up on the dial anyway.

I remember seeing Casey well before, on Jerry Lewis MDA Telethons growing up, and I've had a video of Here Comes Peter Cottontail since I was a kid - though the full significance of "oh, HE voiced Peter in that!" also didn't dawn on me until much later.

Casey countdowns, however - those didn't happen for me until 2008, upon finding the American Top 40: The 80s series.

Funny you mention "Peter Cottontail" and didn't know who the voice was at the time. Although I am old enough to have grown up with Casey (first listening to AT40 when I was in Germany) on Armed Forces Radio in the 70s! The first time I ever "heard" Casey and didn't know it, was when he was the voice of Robin on the "Superfriends", and around the same time as Shaggy on "Scooby Doo". The first time I ever SAW him was on the MDA Telethon.