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Post by quatermass on Jan 21, 2010 11:07:06 GMT -5
September 20, 1975 on KCPX 1320 in Salt Lake City, Utah!! I lived in a very small town in Montana and the signal came in mostly at night, but stayed on until at least noon and the faded completely until the following night. Ahh the good old days.
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Post by somelikeitwhen on Jan 21, 2010 17:57:10 GMT -5
The first time I heard any of the show was in August of 2000, and I caught partial parts of the show until my first whole show on November 11, 2000. I stopped listening regularly in early 2001 for some reason, started again in October 2001 and kept listening until around summer 2002 when it was moved to early Saturday mornings and replaced on 9-1:00 AM by Rick Dees. Sometime after in about 2003 it moved to another pop station and stayed there until Ryan took over.
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Post by Dale Latimer on Jan 31, 2010 12:17:18 GMT -5
Weirdly, the 70s show Premiere is syndicating this weekend (1/30-31/2010), January 31st 1976, might have been the first time I heard Casey! The story about Barry Manilow puking before his first performance in support of Bette Midler (who he arranged/conducted for/produced) sounds reeeeally familiar. I kind-of stumbled upon AT40 on WKAP Allentown*, a station I didn't steadily listen to (they were evolving away from straight pop to more rock/R&B) but was familiar with some of its DJs. I don't remember telling this here, but Super 'KAP gave away its AT40 disks to a randomly-picked entry from those who correctly picked the #1 song...I entered their contest many times, and won three sets! I believe they dropped AT40 when D'Shadoe took over. This was literally weeks after I started buying Billboard, which I'd do for about three or four years until it got too pricey. *KAP's frequency now belongs to a two-station tandem that carries ESPN Radio programming, as well as Lehigh University sports events and the Allentown minor-league baseball team. The former studio (a Best Buy store now sits on the land) is not far from WAEB, a ClearChannel-owned and Premiere-affiliated station. |
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Post by ontheair on Feb 1, 2010 2:12:54 GMT -5
There was a station in Kennewick in 1981 that did the same thing, only they made winning the shows a little tougher: you had to predict what the top 10 were. Whoever got the most right, won the shows. I won three of them, and twice predicted the top 10 on the nose. Unfortunately, I no longer have those shows. (I remember on one of the cue sheets, the board op wrote by the title "In Your Letter" by REO Speedwagon the charming little line, "you wrote you sold out.")
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Post by lasvegaskid on Feb 1, 2010 10:34:49 GMT -5
Checker Auto Parts in Farmington, NM circa late 70s/early 80s.
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Post by Ponderous Man on Feb 2, 2010 7:43:18 GMT -5
Weirdly, the 70s show Premiere is syndicating this weekend (1/30-31/2010), January 31st 1976, might have been the first time I heard Casey! The story about Barry Manilow puking before his first performance in support of Bette Midler (who he arranged/conducted for/produced) sounds reeeeally familiar. I kind-of stumbled upon AT40 on WKAP Allentown*, a station I didn't steadily listen to (they were evolving away from straight pop to more rock/R&B) but was familiar with some of its DJs. I don't remember telling this here, but Super 'KAP gave away its AT40 disks to a randomly-picked entry from those who correctly picked the #1 song...I entered their contest many times, and won three sets! I believe they dropped AT40 when D'Shadoe took over. This was literally weeks after I started buying Billboard, which I'd do for about three or four years until it got too pricey. *KAP's frequency now belongs to a two-station tandem that carries ESPN Radio programming, as well as Lehigh University sports events and the Allentown minor-league baseball team. The former studio (a Best Buy store now sits on the land) is not far from WAEB, a ClearChannel-owned and Premiere-affiliated station. Similia, on last weekend's AT40 '80s show, Casey mentioned "Laser 104" in Allentown. Do you happen to know anything about that station? |
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Post by jdelachjr2002 on Feb 2, 2010 8:26:28 GMT -5
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Post by canat40fan on Feb 18, 2010 21:15:24 GMT -5
The first time I heard AT40, was during October 1975 while scanning the FM dial on a sunday night and coming across the familiar voice of Shaggy :-) Thats the night I learned Casey's name and that he did work other than cartoon voices.
The station was WYSL-FM from Buffalo, New York and the number one song that week was Bad Blood by Neil Sedaka.
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Post by Big Red Machine on May 2, 2010 18:28:11 GMT -5
The first time I heard about the countdown with Casey Kasem was not AT40. It was actually the show, "America's Top 10" back in 1980 when I was 4 years old. My sister used to watch it and I got hooked big time. Check this episode out from 9/28/80 thanks to BurtisCurtis, wherever you are. www.youtube.com/watch?v=70zVK60CeOc&feature=digestThis is especially for any Grateful Dead fans out there. And check out Casey's reaction after "All Out of Love" The videos are cut due to copyright issues. Again, thanks Burtis Curtis for posting these shows. A bunch more are out there!! |
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Post by torcan on Jul 2, 2010 18:10:32 GMT -5
I heard the show for the first time in March 1981, the week that Steve Winwood's "While You See a Chance" debuted in the top 40.
I didn't even know of the show's existance before that date or I would have tried to listen earlier!
I was a faithful listener every week after that date (except for the odd week here and there where I couldn't listen).
I started watching the TV version "America's top 10" in the summer of 1980.
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