Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Jul 17, 2012 7:49:31 GMT -5
Why did Casey Kasem call this song "Hazard the River?" I have never, ever seen it on anything this way. I had the single, it was "Hazard." He is the only person I've ever seen refer to it as such.
|
|
|
|
Post by dukelightning on Jul 17, 2012 11:38:19 GMT -5
You bring up a good point here. I too have heard a show in which Casey refers to the song that way. In looking up the lyrics, I noticed that while 'Hazard' was mentioned only once, the words 'the river' were mentioned six times. So it seems that either Casey made up a subtitle when none existed or maybe saw some publication that listed a subtitle (erroneously at that).
|
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Jul 17, 2012 11:55:54 GMT -5
You bring up a good point here. I too have heard a show in which Casey refers to the song that way. In looking up the lyrics, I noticed that while 'Hazard' was mentioned only once, the words 'the river' were mentioned six times. So it seems that either Casey made up a subtitle when none existed or maybe saw some publication that listed a subtitle (erroneously at that). I just heard a Casey's Countdown show from 1996 in which that was an extra and I heard him say it there again. I can't imagine Casey Kasem; or more appropriately the shows writers, would just make up a subtitle. But I guess it's possible. |
|
|
|
Post by OldSchoolAT40Fan on Jul 17, 2012 15:40:46 GMT -5
Maybe "Hazard (The River)" was the name of the single in which that particular title was worded that way when Casey Kasem played it on CT40. I don't know why Casey called it that, seeing that Shadoe Stevens called it simply "Hazard" on AT40, and Shadoe was going by the Billboard Top 40 Radio Monitor chart when that song charted, while Casey Kasem went by Radio & Records magazine. Depends on what source - Billboard or Radio & Records - they listed the song as on the charts that both countdown hosts depended on.
And btw, Hazard, what Richard Marx was referring to, was assumed to be a town in Nebraska. Maybe the song refers to the river near the town and what tragic event happened near that river.
|
|
