Goes. The it made famous discjay of radio, Casey Kasem, creator of the American one Top 40 announced last week, in sudden form, its retreat of the program franchise that helped to create 39 years ago. That stripe, of songs in English that had its boom from July of 1970, and in which its icónica voice gave account in weekly form and for 3 hours of the situation of the 40 most sounded songs. The successes of artists as Grand Funk Railroad or of the Bay City Rollers, they were known in Guatemala through the program, transmitted in Exclusive Radio, Metróstereo, Double SS and FM95.
Its departure marks the end of an epoch. Although the program already had shown a reverse when Kasem withdrew of temporary way in 1988 (substituted by Shadoe Stevens and Ryan Seacrest), the same one already suffers from some elements but equal fortresses.
To begin, in its against, the space had a cut old fashion, that is to say, out of date, and an interested adhesion to the list published in weekly form by the magazine Billboard. And to its favor, Kasem showed frankness, encouraged to the patriotism and the emissions in general were accessible, animated and comfortable. At least in recent years, its popularity was based on the nostalgia and in the diffusion of the values of the American of average class.
But also the American one Top 40 (a time Casey' s Top 40) served of showcase so that millions of people were informed of the most popular songs of the American Union. The program came be as common as to see M*TO*S*H* (520 stations in United States and in 50 countries around the world they transmitted it). Then, one must consider the extensive variety of musical kinds that diffused. And finally, the stripe was pioneer of the gossips of the fame, be upon counting a biographical piece or through conundrums.
For some, the longevity of the program itself due to the emotion that Kasem printed to the broadcasts. Besides, this vegetarian commentator and defender of the animals, was known by being a perfectionist (was put sulphurous when the things to the air did not turn out well in the study, as can be seen in YouTube).
What remains now, and in Guatemala is more than evident, a great music information volume and a very broad variety of kinds from where to choose (way internet) that carry to think two things: The music is democratized but the radio faints. "Zoinks! C' mon, scoob!", as would exclaim Kasem. Thanks Mister.
