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Post by mrjukebox on Jul 13, 2009 16:55:02 GMT -5
Today's edition of the NY Daily News has a rather brief but interesting article by David Hinckley on Casey's last weekend as host of "AT10" & "AT20"-It has several quotes by our own Rob Durkee-Go to www.nydailynews.com-It'll be in the TV/Radio section. |
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Post by mkarns on Jul 14, 2009 10:33:11 GMT -5
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Post by Scott Lakefield on Jul 14, 2009 16:08:39 GMT -5
Great piece! Nice to see the "down" of Casey's stepping away from the countdown microphone at least give the "up" of Rob's book being mentioned in a top NYC newspaper!
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Post by at40petebattistini on Jul 14, 2009 17:10:54 GMT -5
Great piece! Nice to see the "down" of Casey's stepping away from the countdown microphone at least give the "up" of Rob's book being mentioned in a top NYC newspaper! Agreed, Scott. Rob's proven to be a great AT40 interview authority. And David Hinckley's a great media writer. |
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Post by jdelachjr2002 on Jul 15, 2009 22:33:09 GMT -5
Interesting to note in David Hinckley's article: "The one thing (Casey) Kasem couldn't do, however, was make himself 30 again." When AT40 began in 1970, Casey was 38.
Rob's opinion on Ryan Seacrest is true. I like Ryan, I watch "American Idol" and I wish I could have half of his jobs. However, I don't listen to much of today's music and Ryan I think is more into Hollywood pop culture like some of us are. Casey was simply all about music (On the 1/23/1982 show he did list the Top 5 movies of the week but that was probably about it). Casey Kasem is the founding father of the syndicated countdown show and while such shows still exist, there will never be another Casey Kasem.
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Post by mrjukebox on Jul 16, 2009 11:55:31 GMT -5
I'm 51 years old & I can't relate to the top forty music that's out there today-Thank goodness we have the classic "AT40" countdowns to listen to each weekend.
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Post by at40petebattistini on Jul 16, 2009 14:01:06 GMT -5
I'm 51 years old & I can't relate to the top forty music that's out there today-Thank goodness we have the classic "AT40" countdowns to listen to each weekend. Dang, mrjukebox, u b old! I celebrated birthday #35 earlier this year. What? You don't believe me? Let's just say I failed at life for a number of years and I've had to go back and repeat them. :-) |
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Post by Mike Schwartz on Jul 17, 2009 5:28:17 GMT -5
I'm 51 years old & I can't relate to the top forty music that's out there today-Thank goodness we have the classic "AT40" countdowns to listen to each weekend. I guess it depends on one's definition of Top 40 music today-and there is far from a unanimous opinion on it. Many maintain that today's top 40 is more of a niche format and not mass appeal. Classic Top 40 from the 60s to the 80s was a mass appeal format. IMHO, classic top 40 morphed into today's Hot AC by the early-mid 90s (see Rob Durkee's Countdown of the Century for more info). Nickelback, Rob Thomas, Pink, Katy Pery, Beyonce, Rhianna-all stables of the Hot AC format are clearly America's mass appeal music. |
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Post by jaxxalude on Jul 17, 2009 6:18:20 GMT -5
I'm 51 years old & I can't relate to the top forty music that's out there today-Thank goodness we have the classic "AT40" countdowns to listen to each weekend. I guess it depends on one's definition of Top 40 music today-and there is far from a unanimous opinion on it. Many maintain that today's top 40 is more of a niche format and not mass appeal. Classic Top 40 from the 60s to the 80s was a mass appeal format. IMHO, classic top 40 morphed into today's Hot AC by the early-mid 90s (see Rob Durkee's Countdown of the Century for more info). Nickelback, Rob Thomas, Pink, Katy Pery, Beyonce, Rhianna-all stables of the Hot AC format are clearly America's mass appeal music. Especially since the early 90's, every radio format has become somewhat niche, what with the continuing fragmentation into specific pockets. That is the main reason why the airplay component of the Hot 100 has encompassed pretty much all contemporary music formats in its tally since the December 5, 1998 shakeup. For example, we can say that Country and Mainstream Top 40 are the formats with the greatest number of monitored stations in the overall panel. And yet no one can say that any of them are dominant over any other format. Another thing: a fair number of pop music and chart historians defend that Top 40 radio also became somewhat niche in the early-to-mid 70's. At the time, a lot of non-traditional Top 40 music (psychedelia, hard rock, progressive rock, funk, etc.) was growing in popularity among young people, and these acts tended to concentrate more on albums than singles, which was Top 40 radio's specialty. This was the perfect scenario for the emergence of the Album Rock format, which took away a lot of Top 40 radio's younger audience during that period. |
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Post by Mike Schwartz on Jul 17, 2009 8:32:26 GMT -5
Especially since the early 90's, every radio format has become somewhat niche, what with the continuing fragmentation into specific pockets. That is the main reason why the airplay component of the Hot 100 has encompassed pretty much all contemporary music formats in its tally since the December 5, 1998 shakeup. For example, we can say that Country and Mainstream Top 40 are the formats with the greatest number of monitored stations in the overall panel. And yet no one can say that any of them are dominant over any other format. Another thing: a fair number of pop music and chart historians defend that Top 40 radio also became somewhat niche in the early-to-mid 70's. At the time, a lot of non-traditional Top 40 music (psychedelia, hard rock, progressive rock, funk, etc.) was growing in popularity among young people, and these acts tended to concentrate more on albums than singles, which was Top 40 radio's specialty. This was the perfect scenario for the emergence of the Album Rock format, which took away a lot of Top 40 radio's younger audience during that period. Still, the core of Top 40 historically was what is termed mass appeal, not niche appeal music. I don't know how old you are or when you first started to explore contemporary music, but if you are like most people, it was a real awakening. My dad loved classical and jazz and detested Rock and Roll (ie Top 40 ) music. However, wherever we went-stores, gas stations, parks-the sound heard reflected my tastes and not his. To me, that was vindication. If you pay close attention to what is playing in most stores when you are out shopping this weekend, or filling the tank or whatever-you will hear more Miley Cyrus, Jason Mraz, Daughtry and Nickelback then most any other type of music. Note that I didn't say exclusively, just MOST. |
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