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Post by JessieLou on Apr 3, 2015 9:13:06 GMT -5
On the 11/30/74 show, he sounded very enthusiastic about "Cat's In The Cradle" by Harry Chapin.
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Post by JessieLou on Apr 3, 2015 17:36:17 GMT -5
On the July 19, 1975 show, he said that "Midnight Blue" by Melissa Manchester was a beautiful ballad.
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Post by mkarns on Apr 14, 2015 11:53:36 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. The following week he said it had become a classic; arguably it was a bit early to say that about a song that was still in the top 10. |
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Post by JessieLou on Apr 15, 2015 8:41:09 GMT -5
He also seemed very enthusiastic about the Doobie Brothers and "What A Fool Believes" on the 1979 year end show.
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Post by pointpark04 on Apr 15, 2015 10:59:37 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. The following week he said it had become a classic; arguably it was a bit early to say that about a song that was still in the top 10. Well, it is, but unfortunately, America has thrown away Barbra Streisand. I never hear her on any station, even the "classic" stations here in Pittsburgh. |
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Post by dukelightning on Jun 1, 2015 20:24:42 GMT -5
Hope I'm not repeating anything. I don't feel like going through the 7 pages of this thread to find out. But Casey just said on the 6/2/73 show that he liked Skylark's "Wildflower". The man has good taste!
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Post by pb on Jun 6, 2015 18:17:38 GMT -5
The two that it seems to me that he was fond of in that first program were "I Just can't Help Believing" by B.J. Thomas (which he called "sensational") and the Moments' "Love on a Two-Way Street," which called a "good song." Listening to the 7/25/70 episode and he praises "I Just Can't Help Believing" again saying it's a combination of a good song and the right singer. |
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Post by mkarns on Jun 6, 2015 20:23:09 GMT -5
The two that it seems to me that he was fond of in that first program were "I Just can't Help Believing" by B.J. Thomas (which he called "sensational") and the Moments' "Love on a Two-Way Street," which called a "good song." Listening to the 7/25/70 episode and he praises "I Just Can't Help Believing" again saying it's a combination of a good song and the right singer. Those and "Tighter, Tighter" by Alive & Kicking, which he said in another summer 1970 show was probably his favourite song in the countdown IIRC. |
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Post by ivanzero on Jun 7, 2015 10:02:24 GMT -5
Judging from Casey's outro to "That's the Way I've Always Heard It Should Be" on today's show (6/05/71), he dug Carly Simon from her very first appearance on the 40.
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Post by pb on Jun 7, 2015 10:37:53 GMT -5
Judging from Casey's outro to "That's the Way I've Always Heard It Should Be" on today's show (6/05/71), he dug Carly Simon from her very first appearance on the 40. Yes, that is a good example from the early 70's "thoughtful Casey" era when he would often tell the audience to pay attention to the words. In one early 74 show he points out the words of "Tell Me A Lie" by Sami Jo. |
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Post by doofus67 on Jun 9, 2015 14:56:53 GMT -5
I remember back in 2010, during a 1976 show on Premiere, that Casey called Dorothy Moore's classic soul ballad, "Misty Blue," his favorite song in the countdown. Thanks to you folks on this board, I now know that it was the July 10 show. I also remember that the song was in the top ten at the time. Further digging reveals that it was #7 and dropping from its peak of #3.
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Post by mkarns on Jun 21, 2015 19:46:33 GMT -5
Casey definitely liked the lyrics of Maria Muldaur's "Midnight At the Oasis". On 6/22/74 he read several of them before playing the song, and after the song he praised it.
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Post by trekkielo on Jun 28, 2015 13:57:58 GMT -5
On the July 19, 1975 show, he said that "Midnight Blue" by Melissa Manchester was a beautiful ballad.
Casey Kasem also said "her song's a pretty one called Midnight Blue" when it debuted on June 14th, 1975, at #40.
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Post by mkarns on Jul 12, 2015 22:49:00 GMT -5
He seemed to like Bread a lot. He made an extra comment most times they were on the chart and later had a story in 1975 about how it was weird David Gates had struggled to have hits as a solo artist. In the second-ever AT40 in July 1970 he praised "Make It With You", their first hit. In that same show he said the horns in "Love Land" by Charles Wright and the Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band "knocked [him] out." |
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Post by rgmike on Jul 15, 2015 14:40:46 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.) That's especially funny since that record is on a lot of "worst singles ever" lists.  He also had nice things to say (on 2 different shows) about "Stay Awhile" by the Bells, which is easily on my all-time Hits From Hell list -- it has not one but 2 of the worst vocals on a Top Ten single in history, IMHO. |
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He also had nice things to say (on 2 different shows) about "Stay Awhile" by the Bells, which is easily on my all-time Hits From Hell list -- it has not one but 2 of the worst vocals on a Top Ten single in history, IMHO.