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Post by mkarns on Apr 15, 2018 20:45:07 GMT -5
Casey laughed on 4/11/87 when telling the story of REO Speedwagon trying to get an album cover photo by telling the audience to take something off. They had shoes in mind, but many fans removed other articles of clothing.
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Post by OnWithTheCountdown on Apr 19, 2018 23:22:23 GMT -5
In the Casey's Top 40 show dated 4/20/1991, leading into Nelson's "More Than Ever" at #17, Casey tells the story of the twins playing at a punk rock club in west Los Angeles on a Wednesday night to an audience of one. He laughed a couple of times throughout. Guessing this took place sometime in the late 1980s before they hit it big in 1990.
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Post by Jessica on Apr 28, 2018 17:52:19 GMT -5
I apologize if this has been posted before but in the 1988 show Casey laughs just before he plays “Devil Inside” by INXS, he was taking about “devils and angels” an obvious reference to the INXS song and “Angel” by Aerosmith. I love Casey’s laugh, it was very cute.
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Post by OnWithTheCountdown on Apr 29, 2018 22:48:09 GMT -5
^ I'm gonna have to check that out - I have the 4/30/1988 show in my queue. Gonna be playing catch-up big time this week, after a majorly busy weekend.
In the third hour of Casey's Top 40 from 4/24/1993, Casey dug into the "CT40 Scrapbook", and listed a few crazy musical inventions from the past, which, in turn, elicited some laughs.
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Post by OnWithTheCountdown on May 25, 2018 20:13:04 GMT -5
On the 5/23/92 edition of CT40, Casey tells a real out-of-nowhere "shaggy dog" story that very loosely ties in with "Life Is A Highway." He laughs quite enthusiastically towards the end. Funny, I was about to post about this, as I'm listening to that show now, but decided to double-check the thread. Good thing I did. That was one of Casey's finest storytelling moments that I can remember. "Life Is A Highway" would debut that week. No, wait - "Life is a fountain?!" I happened to hear the AT40 show from 5/20/1978 earlier this week in which Casey is quoted in introducing Sweet's then-hit: "Love Is Like...Oxygen?" Good stuff.  |
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Post by mkarns on May 26, 2018 8:33:32 GMT -5
I could hear Casey chuckling at the end of a story about "slipped disco" (disco dancers throwing out their backs) in the 5/26/79 show. This incidentally was heard during the first hour, so not everyone here will hear it; if you do it does include some presumably good advice about how not to injure yourself through overenthusiastic dancing.
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Post by mkarns on Jun 2, 2018 11:34:09 GMT -5
Casey started laughing in the 6/1/74 show while responding to a teenage boy's complaint that his parents wouldn't let him listen to Blue Swede's "Hooked On a Feeling" because the "ooga-chagga" chant that opens it was allegedly obscene. Said Casey, with laughter, "It's about as obscene as Hickory-Dickory-Dock* or Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo". *I actually have heard obscene versions of that, but they are presumably not what Casey was referring to.  |
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Post by OnWithTheCountdown on Jun 3, 2018 1:27:30 GMT -5
Casey started laughing in the 6/1/74 show while responding to a teenage boy's complaint that his parents wouldn't let him listen to Blue Swede's "Hooked On a Feeling" because the "ooga-chagga" chant that opens it was allegedly obscene. Said Casey, with laughter, "It's about as obscene as Hickory-Dickory-Dock* or Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo". *I actually have heard obscene versions of that, but they are presumably not what Casey was referring to. I posted about that a while back - however, I had no idea which show it was extracted out of (listening to the #1s special from the 1970s, put together by Ken Martin). Pretty funny - thanks! |
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Post by at40petebattistini on Jun 27, 2018 5:20:44 GMT -5
Originally an LOL moment, but... At the start of Hour #3 during the July 3, 1971 program, Casey teased a question concerning a sibling rivalry between two sisters who were having an argument about The Osmonds and brother Donny. With the hour starting at #14 with "Double Lovin'", followed by Donny's "Sweet & Innocent" at #13, the back-to-back hits allowed Casey to stretch out the tease until after the #13 song. That's when he finally disclosed which sister won the argument. And that originally ended the program segment. Unfortunately, with Premiere editing together this segment along with the next one -- removing the split logo jingles -- the effectiveness of Casey's mic drop response is diminished.  |
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Post by mkarns on Jul 14, 2018 9:28:10 GMT -5
I heard Casey softly laughing in the July 14, 1979 show when he spoke of Henrietta, Oklahoma, as the town "where doing the Hustle will land you behind bars" referring to an ordinance banning dancing in town, which some citizens decided to rebel against. (Maybe a inspiration for or preview of "Footloose"?)
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Post by mkarns on Sept 22, 2018 22:09:28 GMT -5
Casey audibly laughed in the September 19, 1987 show when he told a story about Dan Hill overcoming his teenage shyness and asking girls for dates by writing songs for them, which Dan said worked about 40% of the time. Said Casey through laughter, "You might try this yourself if you're sure about your songs and your singing". (I could relate to what Dan was going through, but while maybe I could have written songs that would have worked my singing would probably have been a deal-killer, and that would be even more so today.)
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Post by slf on Sept 23, 2018 20:27:14 GMT -5
On this week's 70's show from 9/27/75, Casey was discussing Elvis Presley's amazing achievement of having at least one Top 10 hit for 52 straight weeks (from March of 1956 to March of 1957), a record. During his discussion he made the comment that Elvis's record had as much chance of being broken "as Archie Bunker being elected president of the NAACP". (Archie, the king of malapropisms, once referred to that organization as the NCAAPP.) |
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Post by doofus67 on Sept 26, 2018 10:38:51 GMT -5
Forgive me if this has been posted elsewhere. I'd heard about it, but never could find a link for it. This is considered by many to be one of David Letterman's all-time greatest Top Ten Lists, and possibly one of the best moments ever in the history of his shows. It originally aired 25 years ago this month, on 9/3/93. I present The Top Ten Favorite Numbers from One to Ten: youtu.be/qMQj7YZ9eOUEnjoy! |
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Post by Jessica on Nov 19, 2018 0:08:26 GMT -5
In the 11/15/1986 show Casey laughs when Aretha Frankiln shouts “alright” at the end of “Jumpin’ Jack Flash”.
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Post by mkarns on Dec 18, 2018 12:44:36 GMT -5
Casey audibly laughed several times in the December 11, 1976 show when telling a story about the Captain & Tennille performing at a White House state dinner which drew criticism from one of Queen Elizabeth's entourage, Lady Keith, who said "any song that talks about lovemaking between animals simply isn't appropriate entertainment for a visiting head of state". This of course led into "Muskrat Love".
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