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Post by mkarns on Jan 31, 2021 19:23:12 GMT -5
In the 1/30/82 show Casey was pretty audibly trying to stifle a laugh introducing "Pac-Man Fever", with clips of sounds from the video game. Casey noted that they had been heard four billion times in the last year, and nearly broke out laughing with "Let's make it four billion and one!"
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Post by adam31 on Apr 9, 2021 13:53:02 GMT -5
Casey teaching "rap" terms, like on this weeks 4/9/88 show never gets old or stops me from cracking up LOL.
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Post by OnWithTheCountdown on Apr 9, 2021 21:33:51 GMT -5
Casey teaching "rap" terms, like on this weeks 4/9/88 show never gets old or stops me from cracking up LOL. I think he did that in a fall 1987 show, too. Might have been 10/31. I don't remember exactly. But it's funny to hear him speak the terminology. 😂 |
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Post by OnWithTheCountdown on Jun 1, 2021 23:09:53 GMT -5
Not Casey, but Don Bowman - early in the 6/16/1973 AT40 show (before #34), I'll quote Don: This is Don Bowman, sitting in for the sickly Casey Kasem, who I guarantee you will be back next week. After hearing this, he may be back in the last hour!  |
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Post by djjoe1960 on Sept 1, 2021 16:01:18 GMT -5
Listening to AT40 from July 29, 1972 and Casey sited Elton John's real name as --Reg Swight (I suppose it was misspelled on the intro to Rocket Man that Casey read at #14 on the countdown). |
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Post by OnWithTheCountdown on Sept 4, 2021 22:44:59 GMT -5
On AT20 AC from 6/30/2001, Casey in introducing the #1 song that week, couldn't contain his laughter when talking about advice written back in the 1200s about manners (leading into, of course, Dido's hit "Thank You"). I caught myself laughing along with Casey...it really is contagious! 😂😂😂
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Post by OnWithTheCountdown on Sept 13, 2021 11:10:15 GMT -5
From another AT20 from 9/15/2001, this show that wasn't heard on many affiliates that weekend. Leading into the #1 song "Drops Of Jupiter", Casey told the story of Train guitarist Rob Hotchkiss while with The Apostles, leaving his day job and headed to a nightclub in Santa Monica. It was a super hot day, in smog, and on top of that, rush hour traffic. For a while, he gets stuck behind a car that's being driven 10 mph less than all the others. He thought, "I have to find a way to get around this clown." So when an opening appeared, Rob got in the left lane and drove past, annoyedly peering over to see who was driving so slow. Ironically, it was a guy wearing face paint, a big red nose, and fluffy yellow hair...a REAL clown. And Casey laughed afterward. 😂
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Post by Jessica on Oct 16, 2021 22:04:49 GMT -5
Casey laughs in the 1987 show explaining how the group Swing Out Sister came up with their name. They had 30 or 40 names before they finally agreed on Swing Out Sister.
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Post by BrettVW on Oct 17, 2021 8:41:17 GMT -5
Listening to the 1975 show this morning and Casey didn't laugh, but I did, when he dryly read the question letter from Ken, but couldn't tell us where he was from. Because they lost the envelope!
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Post by OnWithTheCountdown on Apr 28, 2022 9:18:02 GMT -5
Listening to the 9/12/1981 show guest-hosted by Gary Owens, and leading into "Start Me Up" at #19, he talks about the Stones and how they were, and I quote from the show, "defiant and rebellious, dressed grubby and acted raunchy", a more controversial behavior back when they first started out. And they never got the universal love that the Fab Four did, despite coming out around the same time. Gary said one English newspaper ran the Stones' picture with the caption, "Would you let your sister go out with one of them?" And the editor of the BBC's official publication wrote, "They're perverted, outrageous, violent, repulsive, ugly, tasteless, incoherent, a travesty. And that's what's good about them." End of quote. I think it was the way Gary said "end of quote" after quoting the BBC got me laughing. His storytelling was top notch.
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Post by dukelightning on Apr 28, 2022 13:10:16 GMT -5
By the way, Casey also told this story on the 5/29/71 show.
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Post by Matt Cameron on May 27, 2022 17:14:44 GMT -5
On the 1980 year-end countdown, Casey took a good-natured shot at Clive Davis, then the head of Arista Records. He noted that Air Supply had presented “All Out Of Love “ to Davis in completed form. Then, according to Casey, “Clive rewrote it - but it became a hit anyway.” 😂
That remains the only songwriting credit for Clive Davis on a Top 40 hit.
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Post by Michael1973 on Apr 8, 2023 16:47:39 GMT -5
He wasn't laughing, but Casey clearly enjoyed talking about how songs related to heat tended to chart well on the 4/12/80 show.
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Post by doofus67 on Apr 27, 2023 12:07:19 GMT -5
In honor of the 91st anniversary of Casey's birth, I'm re-posting this funny clip from the 9/3/93 Late Show with David Letterman (Friday of his first week on CBS). It's the Top Ten Favorite Numbers from One to Ten: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyeuwJw9x0k |
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Post by doofus67 on Apr 27, 2023 12:17:51 GMT -5
On the 1980 year-end countdown, Casey took a good-natured shot at Clive Davis, then the head of Arista Records. He noted that Air Supply had presented “All Out Of Love “ to Davis in completed form. Then, according to Casey, “Clive rewrote it - but it became a hit anyway.” 😂 That remains the only songwriting credit for Clive Davis on a Top 40 hit. Casey and Clive were both born in April, 1932 -- Casey on the 27th and Clive on the 4th. |
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