Post by Rob Durkee on Apr 24, 2012 13:53:49 GMT -5
Dick Clark, who sadly passed away on April 18, 2012, will be honored on many of the USA’s radio stations this weekend for one of his many achievements.
The historic March 25, 1972 edition of “American Top 40,” when Dick Clark substitute hosted for Casey Kasem, has been offered as a possible show to air this week to the stations which carry the past 1970’s “American Top 40” programs. About 200 USA radio stations, mostly AC’s and Classic Hits stations, carry the past Casey shows each weekend. If a station that traditionally airs past Casey 1980’s requests the 3/25/72 show, it’s believed that they’ll also be given permission to air it.
Stations have the option of substituting the Dick Clark-hosted show for the 1970’s shows that was originally planned (April 28, 1979) or they can carry both if they like. Likewise, if a station runs the 70’s show twice on the weekend, it can run both shows or pick which show they want to air in both time slots.
Fans of AT40 are advised to listen to their AT40 past show affiliates for announcements about this show and/or check the station’s web site.
Dick Clark forever changed weekend radio countdown syndication with this show. Before he stepped into the booth for Casey Kasem, who was out of town visiting Muscle Shoals, Alabama, he (Dick Clark) was told that he’d have to introduce the records in the tracking session and then hear all of the records. That’s the way it was done at the time…to real time. The jingles, records and show theme would all be recorded at once. If there was a mistake, they’d have to start all over again…and listen to all the records in that show’s segment again. The AT40 show was young and the staff wanted it to sound like a three-hour airshift for Casey. They just didn’t know of any other way to record it.
But Dick Clark did. He essentially told the AT40 staff that the better way to record the show would be to have Casey’s voice tracks recorded and edited in. The songs’ beginnings and endings would be heard by Casey in his headphones so he could use the proper voice inflections.
AT40’s staff followed Dick Clark’s advice. The show was still a money-loser in 1972. But everyone involved with the show believed in it and their belief was paid off by the summer of 1973. AT40 started showing a profit by then...thanks in part to an historic bit of advice by Dick Clark.
The historic March 25, 1972 edition of “American Top 40,” when Dick Clark substitute hosted for Casey Kasem, has been offered as a possible show to air this week to the stations which carry the past 1970’s “American Top 40” programs. About 200 USA radio stations, mostly AC’s and Classic Hits stations, carry the past Casey shows each weekend. If a station that traditionally airs past Casey 1980’s requests the 3/25/72 show, it’s believed that they’ll also be given permission to air it.
Stations have the option of substituting the Dick Clark-hosted show for the 1970’s shows that was originally planned (April 28, 1979) or they can carry both if they like. Likewise, if a station runs the 70’s show twice on the weekend, it can run both shows or pick which show they want to air in both time slots.
Fans of AT40 are advised to listen to their AT40 past show affiliates for announcements about this show and/or check the station’s web site.
Dick Clark forever changed weekend radio countdown syndication with this show. Before he stepped into the booth for Casey Kasem, who was out of town visiting Muscle Shoals, Alabama, he (Dick Clark) was told that he’d have to introduce the records in the tracking session and then hear all of the records. That’s the way it was done at the time…to real time. The jingles, records and show theme would all be recorded at once. If there was a mistake, they’d have to start all over again…and listen to all the records in that show’s segment again. The AT40 show was young and the staff wanted it to sound like a three-hour airshift for Casey. They just didn’t know of any other way to record it.
But Dick Clark did. He essentially told the AT40 staff that the better way to record the show would be to have Casey’s voice tracks recorded and edited in. The songs’ beginnings and endings would be heard by Casey in his headphones so he could use the proper voice inflections.
AT40’s staff followed Dick Clark’s advice. The show was still a money-loser in 1972. But everyone involved with the show believed in it and their belief was paid off by the summer of 1973. AT40 started showing a profit by then...thanks in part to an historic bit of advice by Dick Clark.
