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Post by donmccullen on Aug 7, 2004 21:36:15 GMT -5
Just wonder if anyone had thoughts about Casey and his years with Westwood One.
I just want to know how people felt about Casey doing a carbon copy of AT40. Did you even feel that you where listening to AT40 anyway? I was reading about the member of DC Talk hereing their song on AT40 in 1996. Reality Check it was Casey's Top 40.
It seems that his WW1 shows were just like his AT40 shows and that the Shadoe Stevens era AT40 has been forgotton. Remember the stories about Casey handing AT40 to Ryan Seacrest no mechion of the Shadoe.
What I liked was that WW1 limited the show to four breaks an hour and though the sweep at the top of the contuing hours was a great move which would carry over into AT40/20/10 shows at least when Casey was still doing AT40.
Sure those music trails were great, but look at American Country Countdown they still have a top of hour break but music bed either fads out or you hear the ACC jingle and the music ends before going into commerical which is national. They still have those 2nd-4th hour intros stills like the old AT40.
I would love to hear your thought on Casey and his years at WW1
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Post by Jeffster on Aug 8, 2004 10:04:06 GMT -5
Personally, I think Casey's best shows were during the Westwood One years. Of course, part of that might be because that's where I first heard him. (I first heard Casey do a countdown in summer 1989.) I liked a lot of the jingles, and the overall sound of the shows, including the way Casey's voice sounded. Also, Mark Elliott was in my opinion, the best regular guest host that Casey has had. He always sounded so smooth and comfortable.
I liked the original format of Casey's Countdown, and I wish they had continued to count down the top 25. My only complaint about CC and Casey's Hot 20 was the kind of confusing way they would play former #1's. I think if you're going to play former #1's, don't say "this was #1 on the POP chart x # of yrs ago this week.." if its an AC show. And on the hot AC show they would say "#1 5 yrs ago this week.." and play the pop #1, but if they played the AC #1 would say "#1 5 yrs ago this week on the adult contemporary chart", so all those naming of charts is kind of confusing, and the average listener wouldn't know the difference anyway, so why say the chart names like that?
I also liked it better when they would play different dedication letters on the three shows, when they started doing all the same letters, and especially when they would change the song requested on some of the shows, that was annoying, but by then it was Premiere, not WW1.
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Post by Hervard on Sept 23, 2004 13:15:25 GMT -5
I liked the original format of Casey's Countdown, and I wish they had continued to count down the top 25. Me too, but apparently, around mid-August, 1994, when the list was trimmed, the AC format started playing fewer and fewer songs. Since many songs below number 25 were songs that many AC stations (especially large market) never played, the Westwood One staff decided that the stations may drop the show unless they only counted down the Top 20. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 14, 2005 18:07:14 GMT -5
Personally, I think Casey's best shows were during the Westwood One years. Of course, part of that might be because that's where I first heard him. (I first heard Casey do a countdown in summer 1989.) I liked a lot of the jingles, and the overall sound of the shows, including the way Casey's voice sounded. Also, Mark Elliott was in my opinion, the best regular guest host that Casey has had. He always sounded so smooth and comfortable. The only thing I didnt like about CT40 for its first few years is the inordinate amount of commercial breaks per show. I believe it was like 6 an hour. Most segments contained 1 or 2 songs, only the top of the hour sweep contained 3. Mark was great as a guest host, to quote Cinderella...don't know what ya got til its gone. His next guest host was horrible. From nearly putting me to sleep again at 6am when the show came on, to proclaiming himself like a dunce cap "I'm Casey Kasem" he was awful! |
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Post by Scott Lakefield on Jan 14, 2005 21:50:52 GMT -5
Mark was great as a guest host, to quote Cinderella...don't know what ya got til its gone. His next guest host was horrible. From nearly putting me to sleep again at 6am when the show came on, to proclaiming himself like a dunce cap "I'm Casey Kasem" he was awful! Exactly. I used to not like Mark, but I think it was just because Casey was taking a LOT of vacation time in the early days of CT40. In 1989, there was a period where he'd be off every other week. I wanted rid of Mark...til I heard David Perry for the first time. Yawn. Now, I really appreciate Mark listening to the old CT40 shows. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 23, 2005 16:55:33 GMT -5
I'll never forget his first week hosting, I think it was July 17 or 24, 1993. I immediately yearned for Mark Elliott's return. Nothing improved over the following nearly 5 years.
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Post by Scott Lakefield on Jan 24, 2005 23:39:52 GMT -5
It's funny, though. He did have some decent moments...or maybe I'm just more forgiving as I get a little older. (I refuse to call myself "older!"  I've heard a few David Perry shows as I work on dubbing a bunch of old CT40 shows I have on cassette to CD, and they're not half bad. True, he's no Casey and not even close...nor is a Mark Elliot or Charlie VanDyke. But maybe he's not as bad as I remember. Or maybe I'm just being more forgiving as I...well, you know. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 25, 2005 6:46:09 GMT -5
you are more forgiving, plus you are in reminiscing mode. How would you feel if he were guest hosting now? Same way I would, crawl back into tbed and when you wake up listen to last weeks show and convince yourself it is this weeks.
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Post by Jeffster on Jan 26, 2005 9:29:21 GMT -5
Haha, Paul you crack me up. David wasn't THAT bad. Yeah, he did have a serious lack of enthusiasm, and was definitely a step down from Mark Elliott as a guest host, but he was still ok to listen to in my opinion. The problem to me was more the robotic script they came up with, that as David says in Rob's book, they wouldn't ever let him deviate from. So he was kind of forced to do it that way, as he couldn't get into it the way he wanted to.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 26, 2005 11:17:35 GMT -5
Yeah, he did have a serious lack of enthusiasm, Understatement of the year 2005 thus far...... and was definitely a step down from Mark Elliott as a guest host, we now have a tie for understatement of the year thus far.....it was more like the final plunge on Splash Mountain The problem to me was more the robotic script they came up with, that as David says in Rob's book, they wouldn't ever let him deviate from. So he was kind of forced to do it that way, as he couldn't get into it the way he wanted to. Ed McMann was an improvement and the script was just as robotic, I would be terrified to know what brand of "excitement" Perry would have brought to the show if he was allowed to deviate from it. |
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Post by Hervard on Jan 26, 2005 11:33:03 GMT -5
Actually, IMO, David Perry was better than Mark Elliott, who subhosted for Casey during the first few years of CT40. Elliott's voice was very low and monotonous.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 26, 2005 14:31:59 GMT -5
Elliot was exciting, and I didnt hear the monotone voice, he sounds the same to me then as he does in the Disney video ads. Perry sounded like he was working the midnight shift on an elevator music station.
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Post by Radioman on Jan 26, 2005 18:19:39 GMT -5
Elliott has his own qualitys. That's why he's still around as the voice of Disney. The only one of two WW1 guesthosts who can match the show for Casey. But of course not as close as CVD on the classic AT40's.
David Perry was not that bad. He was just a little "over-used", but perfect for the AC outlets, since he was an AC PD himself.
There are still 2 steps below Perry as a guest host:
One is Ed McMann, the other is well known as the host of the programme that calls itself today as "AT40".
Both of them are completely untalented, selfish, and trying to sound like Casey, but with a "modern" touch.
This will never work ! Never !
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Post by Deleted on Jan 27, 2005 13:31:41 GMT -5
overused? Once was enough overuse for me.
It sounds like you just dont like AT40 now because Casey Kasem is no longer hosting the show. Which is fine, you are entitled to that opinion, but I dont understand how you can view Ed McMann or Ryan Seacrest selfish.Ed McMann read a script almost identical to one Casey Kasem would read every week, Ryan Seacrest's more modern day personality has injected new life into a show that was stagant. As has been discussed in Rob Durkee's book, people tune in to hear songs but they also tune in to hear the host, I would dare say most of the new listeners tune in to hear Seacrest about as much as the music itself.
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Post by BrettVW on Jan 27, 2005 14:15:44 GMT -5
As I have said, I don't really listen to AT40 with Ryan Seacrest, yet I would wake up every Saturday at 6am to hear the old AT40 with Casey from start to finish. If Casey came back to the show, I would start doing that again in a heartbeat.
Unfortunately, I am about one in a million, as CHR/Pop radio no longer could support the kind of show that Casey does. Fortunately, AC and Hot AC can. The show is more popular than ever now, and that is due to Ryan.
As for Ed McMann, he's a substitute host. Substitute hosts are not Casey Kasem. I would much rather have Ed or David Perry read a script written for Casey Kasem and sound a bit dry doing it than try to do their own style and have it not fit in with the show.
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