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Post by johnnywest on Jun 26, 2014 20:30:48 GMT -5
If the tribute show was any indication of his favorites, there was also "Home" by Michael Buble and "Always Something There To Remind Me" by Naked Eyes.
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Post by mkarns on Aug 16, 2014 19:51:09 GMT -5
On August 16, 1975, Casey said that Janis Ian's "At Seventeen" "has my vote for one of the most sensitive lyrics of the year". He certainly sounded upbeat as he said that leading into a downbeat song, so he really must have liked it.
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Post by pb on Aug 16, 2014 20:29:08 GMT -5
On this week's 1974 show Casey says..."ah, don't you just love this song (Jazzman) by Carole King." In 10/12/74 Casey recites words from "Jazzman" both before and after playing it. He would often do one or the other in those days, but not usually both. |
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Post by mkarns on Oct 5, 2014 15:03:36 GMT -5
Casey seemed impressed with Diana Ross' "Ain't No Mountain High Enough". After playing it as #1 on the 10/3/70 show he said "My oh my, what a performance!" (Incidentally, it's even better in the full six minute album version.)
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Post by mkarns on Oct 25, 2014 9:58:30 GMT -5
Casey probably liked England Dan & John Ford Coley's "I'd Really Love To See You Tonight" On October 16, 1976 he said of it, "That's one of those songs you go around humming to yourself all day long".
On October 30, 1971, he said Lighthouse's "One Fine Morning" has "a great driving sound".
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Post by mkarns on Dec 20, 2014 11:54:06 GMT -5
Casey called Jake Holmes' "So Close" a "beautiful ballad" on 12/19/70. Ironically, he wouldn't have gotten to play the song on the countdown at all but for a chart transcription error by the AT40 staff, so he may have been disappointed to have learned of that mistake, and more so that the song never actually made the top 40 (it peaked at #49.)
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Post by lasvegaskid on Dec 20, 2014 12:08:05 GMT -5
On this week's 1976 show Casey said "Al Green has gone disco and I like it".
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Post by mkarns on Jan 10, 2015 12:34:15 GMT -5
Casey seemed to like "Love Jones" by Brighter Side of Darkness, as he prefaced it with "Ahhhh...what a record this is!" in its debut week (January 6, 1973.)
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Post by mkarns on Jan 24, 2015 10:30:36 GMT -5
Introducing Billy Joel's "The Entertainer" in January 1975, Casey called it "one of those story songs I like so much". That may have extended to "Piano Man", as well as a number of other narrative songs of the period, such as "American Pie" and "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" (which after its 1976 chart run was replayed as an extra several times, accompanied with the story of the freighter's sinking.)
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Post by trekkielo on Jan 24, 2015 10:43:31 GMT -5
Introducing Billy Joel's "The Entertainer" in January 1975, Casey called it "one of those story songs I like so much". That may have extended to "Piano Man", as well as a number of other narrative songs of the period, such as "American Pie" and "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" (which after its 1976 chart run was replayed as an extra several times, accompanied with the story of the freighter's sinking.) Casey Kasem also pointed out that he liked this particular line in its lyrics... I am the entertainer and I've had to pay my price The things I did not know at first I learned by doing twice  |
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Post by 80sat40fan on Jan 25, 2015 12:42:02 GMT -5
Also on the 1/25/75 show, he mentioned at the end of "Angie Baby" that it was a great song. Even better... he called Maria Muldaur's "I'm A Woman", "pretty good"  . She was probably hoping to hear that her song was better than pretty good. |
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Post by slf on Mar 22, 2015 6:18:33 GMT -5
On this week's March 22, 1975 countdown, Casey stated that Elvis's "My Boy" was one of his favorites by the King. And he took a liking to Helen Reddy's "Emotion", as well.
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Post by mkarns on Mar 25, 2015 20:01:52 GMT -5
Last week SXM played March 17, 1973, in which Casey praised the O'Jays' "Love Train" ("My oh my, what a lyric") and Roberta Flack's "Killing Me Softly With His Song" ("dynamite lyrics, dynamite performance".) He was probably pleased to see them both own the #1 slot for that whole month.
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Post by adam31 on Mar 26, 2015 13:27:38 GMT -5
Not a song Casey liked, but an artist. He seemed to have an affinity for Boy George. Many times when Culture Club was played, instead of mentioning just the group, he mentioned Boy George by name also when it wasn't needed.  |
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Post by pointpark04 on Apr 2, 2015 11:54:57 GMT -5
On the 4/2/77 show, when introducing "Evergreen" by Barbra Streisand, Casey said he "loved" that song after he had heard it a dozen times or so on the radio, after it didn't strike him as anything special when he first heard it.
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. She was probably hoping to hear that her song was better than pretty good. 
