[quote name=\'zachhoran\' date=\'Dec 9 2003, 10:05 AM\'] [quote name=\'SRIV94\' date=\'Dec 9 2003, 10:56 AM\']
But seriously, I had thought Kasem had left much earlier, to be replaced by Shadoe "Joooooohhhn Davidson!" Stevens (while Kasem wound up doing another countdown show--"Casey's Top 40")--and I wasn't even aware that he had returned (not to mention that AT40 was even still on the air). So, to invoke a lamented GSN original--when did that happen?
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Casey, who is in his 60s I suppose, probably realizes how sucky most of the music of the Hot 100 charts is, and decided that the Adult Contemporary chart is more tolerable(even if some crappy stuff winds up on that chart too) to host a format for at his age. [/quote]
Even so, my recollection of Kasem leaving AT40 initially was that it was 1989. Granted, my musical tastes gravitate towards oldies/classic rock rather than the new stuff--so I haven't listened to a top-40 radio countdown in ages (I think the last time I heard Casey on the radio was somewhere around 1995, and I don't believe it was AT40 I was listening to).
So the question still stands.
As an aside, if anyone hasn't heard the Casey Kasem blooper reel--for lack of a better term (". . .every time I do a g***amn death dedication. . ."), it's an absolute classic.
Doug -- soon to celebrate 200 posts (and the hits just keep on coming)