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Post by Dale Latimer on Aug 1, 2010 19:55:00 GMT -5
Guy Aoki relates how he grew up enjoying, and later being hired in the 80s by, AT40...he was in the studio on the day a certain dead dog would rankle Casey; he would later join Casey and Don B. in activism: rafu.com/news/2010/07/itns_casey-kasem/ |
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Post by mstgator on Aug 2, 2010 18:25:46 GMT -5
Cool article!
(Although he identified the wrong Pointer Sisters song with the Snuggles incident...)
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Post by Mike on Dec 11, 2010 21:43:00 GMT -5
This weekend's 12/10/83 show features the Tony Burrows trivia (it's after #26 "Time Will Reveal").  |
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Post by baylink on Jun 4, 2012 21:38:20 GMT -5
I tend to concur with a commenter on the Aoki piece, myself: I'm disinclined to believe him when he says Casey "didn't know anything about the music"...
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Post by albe on Jul 14, 2012 8:12:42 GMT -5
In case you just want to read some highlights from Aoki's piece.
Shock #1: Casey Kasem makes mistakes! Constantly! I didn’t realize he kept re-reading lines until he got them perfect and left it to the engineers to edit out all the bad takes. Shock #2: They didn’t do the show live. As Casey introduced each song, the engineers played him the beginning of the record going into the vocal. And as he back announced it, they’d play him the fade out so he’d know how to match the tempo. Later, they took Casey’s voice track into the studio and mixed in the full records to create “American Top 40.” Shock #3: Casey Kasem didn’t know what he was talking about! Everything was fed to him by the writers!
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Post by caseyfan100 on Jul 14, 2012 9:11:09 GMT -5
In case you just want to read some highlights from Aoki's piece. Shock #1: Casey Kasem makes mistakes! Constantly! I didn’t realize he kept re-reading lines until he got them perfect and left it to the engineers to edit out all the bad takes. Shock #2: They didn’t do the show live. As Casey introduced each song, the engineers played him the beginning of the record going into the vocal. And as he back announced it, they’d play him the fade out so he’d know how to match the tempo. Later, they took Casey’s voice track into the studio and mixed in the full records to create “American Top 40.” Shock #3: Casey Kasem didn’t know what he was talking about! Everything was fed to him by the writers! . Regarding shock #3,if you heard a mistake about something Casey said,it was mainly the writers and/or researchers that messed it up. Did Casey know Ron Burgandy? |
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Post by Ponderous Man on Jul 17, 2012 7:17:50 GMT -5
Did Casey know Ron Burgandy? I'm Casey Kasem. BLEEP you, San Diego! ;D |
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Post by Jeffster on Aug 17, 2012 10:30:14 GMT -5
I like that article too, and the strange countdown coincidences continue for me. The first American Top 40 I ever heard was the first week that Rob Durkee was listed as an official staff member, and now I learn that Guy Aoki took over writing Countdown America in January 1989. You see, the first countdown show I ever listened to was Countdown America, and I first started listening to it....in January 1989! |
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Post by mkarns on Aug 18, 2012 16:32:31 GMT -5
I tend to concur with a commenter on the Aoki piece, myself: I'm disinclined to believe him when he says Casey "didn't know anything about the music"... I think that was an exaggeration. While I've read conflicting accounts of just how much contemporary pop music Casey listened to and followed in the 1980s and after, he surely must have known at least some of the things in the AT40/CT40 scripts just from life and the media in general even if he didn't make a concerted effort to follow pop radio, MTV, music magazines, etc. But that is somewhat immaterial anyhow. As Westwood One founder Norm Pattiz said, "Whether Casey heard the music or didn't hear the music, there's still only one Casey Kasem capable of talking about the music." |
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Post by snarfdude on Sept 1, 2012 6:55:27 GMT -5
It really doesn't matter if Casey knew about the music. Any radio personality is part actor. You read the script and your style of delivery and how you present it is what matters. I'm sorry that people have that perspection. I'm not surprised at all.
Casey voice tracking the show is also not surprising. It's a standard technique for any recorded syndicated show. It's also a now standard technique for local radio stations and automation software. According to rob durkee's book, Dick Clark introduced Kasem to the technique. It saved the marathon recording sessions that initially happened.
the advantage of doing radio production for years is knowing how something is put together. You can track a show and not hear the music you are playing very easily, but it makes sense for kasem to hear the intro and outros of the songs to match his tone accordingly.
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