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Post by BrettVW on Jan 5, 2015 18:25:41 GMT -5
Very minor nit-pick, but I humbly request that someone with the power to do so PLEASE correct the thread title. Once again, this is your old grammar teacher speaking: An apostrophe (') does NOT mean "Look out, here comes an 'S'!" When I see "The Five Casey's", I say "The five Casey's WHAT?  Fixed |
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Post by mga707 on Jan 5, 2015 19:33:58 GMT -5
Very minor nit-pick, but I humbly request that someone with the power to do so PLEASE correct the thread title. Once again, this is your old grammar teacher speaking: An apostrophe (') does NOT mean "Look out, here comes an 'S'!" When I see "The Five Casey's", I say "The five Casey's WHAT? Fixed Thank you from the grammar police!  |
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Post by vto66 on Jan 5, 2015 22:03:03 GMT -5
This might go under what I'd call "Crazy Casey," along with his infamous "Baby Face" outro from January 31, 1976. What was the "Baby Face" outro? At the end of the song, Casey said the "Ya got the cutest little baby face" line from the song in a rather odd-sounding voice that sounded to me like a cross between Al Jolson and W. C. Fields. I was a bit startled when I first heard it, as I thought it was a little out of character for Casey (sounded more like something Rick Dees or Shadoe Stevens would have done.) and I thought maybe one of the XM people was playing a trick on us by adding a little something of his own. Then, I heard a copy of the original show, and it had that same, crazy voice at the end of "Baby Face." |
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Post by lasvegaskid on Mar 14, 2015 11:31:26 GMT -5
A sub Casey could have been the "loose lips" Casey. This is where he said "stay tuned for a new #1" or "this week we have hot debuts by ABC, This and That, and XYZ". This ran through around 1978 and is in sharp contrast to the "locked lips" sub Casey of the 80s where kept you on the edge of your seat w/ "we'll have to wait to the end of the countdown to find out if so and so can hold on at #1".
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Post by pb on Mar 27, 2015 9:47:32 GMT -5
What was the "Baby Face" outro? At the end of the song, Casey said the "Ya got the cutest little baby face" line from the song in a rather odd-sounding voice that sounded to me like a cross between Al Jolson and W. C. Fields. I was a bit startled when I first heard it, as I thought it was a little out of character for Casey (sounded more like something Rick Dees or Shadoe Stevens would have done.) and I thought maybe one of the XM people was playing a trick on us by adding a little something of his own. Then, I heard a copy of the original show, and it had that same, crazy voice at the end of "Baby Face." There is a bit of "Crazy Casey" in his outro to the chart debut of Cher's "Dark Lady" 2/2/74. |
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Post by doofus67 on Sept 5, 2015 13:11:42 GMT -5
Here's an article I found. The writer has just listened to two AT40 countdowns, one from the '70s and one from the '80s. He clearly has differing opinions about Casey's approach to the two shows, and is surprisingly candid: jabartlett.wordpress.com/2015/09/04/master-classes/
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Post by mkarns on Sept 5, 2015 15:32:58 GMT -5
A sub Casey could have been the "loose lips" Casey. This is where he said "stay tuned for a new #1" or "this week we have hot debuts by ABC, This and That, and XYZ". This ran through around 1978 and is in sharp contrast to the "locked lips" sub Casey of the 80s where kept you on the edge of your seat w/ "we'll have to wait to the end of the countdown to find out if so and so can hold on at #1". Actually, ABC had their hits in the 1980s.  |
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Post by dukelightning on Sept 6, 2015 9:25:18 GMT -5
Here's an article I found. The writer has just listened to two AT40 countdowns, one from the '70s and one from the '80s. He clearly has differing opinions about Casey's approach to the two shows, and is surprisingly candid: jabartlett.wordpress.com/2015/09/04/master-classes/
The writer criticizes Casey's delivery in 1984. But in saying that it is due to the 4 hour length of the show as compared to the 3 hours of 1972, I think he is providing Casey an escape clause for that delivery. The 4 hour shows had to be like that. If a Casey delivery needed to be criticized, I would go with the next decade. His CT40 shows after the first few years featured a delivery style that was harder to take because it was too formulaic. |
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Post by dukelightning on Nov 13, 2015 15:41:07 GMT -5
Just heard a phrase in the 11/14/98 AT20HAC that took me back to the 70s Casey that he used less and less as we got into the 80s. Back then he would say after describing an artist or song, 'you know I'm talking about so and so or such'. With an emphasis on the 'you know'. So when he was describing an artist that had the #1 pop song 2 years ago and had 3 #1 hits from an album that sold 28 million copies around the world and said 'You know I'm talking about Alanis Morrisette and Jagged Little Pill', it was kind of a blast from the past.
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Post by lasvegaskid on Apr 1, 2016 13:31:12 GMT -5
Another sub-Casey that I've noticed during the late Commentary Casey period was an Abrupt Casey. Seemed like he tried to squeeze in as much info as possible using as few words as needed. This was much more like the mid 70s Casey than the Casey during the period in between where he would build toward a crescendo.
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Post by JMW on May 22, 2016 15:14:53 GMT -5
In the intro for Der Kommissar in this week's 1983 show, Casey's quoting the line in the chorus ("Don't turn around, uh oh") sounded quite a bit like something he would do more often during the Commentary Casey period.
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Post by lasvegaskid on Jan 26, 2017 12:48:39 GMT -5
Another mid-late 70s sub-Casey incorporated one of their hits into the name of the act like...'Here is Billy "Just The Way You Are" Joel,' 'Bill "Aint No Sunshine" Withers', or 'Glen "Wichita Lineman" Campbell'. I don't remember him doing this much, if at all in the 80s.
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Post by adam31 on Feb 27, 2017 8:20:18 GMT -5
Good point about the robotic Casey not making such predictions. Example: on the 5/30/81 show, he just said "In 1963 Kyu Sakamoto took that song to #1. This week A Taste of Honey moves from 8 to 4 with 'Sukiyaki'". I was expecting him to then say either after that or within that quoted statement that it was headed to #1. But he said no such thing. Back in the mid to late 70s, you can bet your last dollar a move like that would elicit such a statement. (Although I wonder if those predictions were more for entertainment purposes than anything else). Another example this week was Thriller. 5-6 years earlier Casey would have said...MJ is already at #5 in only his third week on the Hot 100; looks like he is headed for another #1. I'm glad he stopped these "predictions", after all, he was burned quite a few times, and would have been again with both those examples. |
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Post by matt on Feb 27, 2017 12:23:55 GMT -5
Another example this week was Thriller. 5-6 years earlier Casey would have said...MJ is already at #5 in only his third week on the Hot 100; looks like he is headed for another #1. I'm glad he stopped these "predictions", after all, he was burned quite a few times, and would have been again with both those examples. Yeah, he seemed to do that a lot during the mid-late 70's. One of the more infamous misses occurred during the June 25, 1977 show, when he said that the Eagles looked like they had another one headed for number one with "Life In the Fast Lane". That was the week the song jumped to #11, and that's where it peaked--didn't even make the top 10. |
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Post by mkarns on Feb 27, 2017 14:28:37 GMT -5
Another mid-late 70s sub-Casey incorporated one of their hits into the name of the act like...'Here is Billy "Just The Way You Are" Joel,' 'Bill "Aint No Sunshine" Withers', or 'Glen "Wichita Lineman" Campbell'. I don't remember him doing this much, if at all in the 80s. I just listened to the 2/26/77 show in which he referred to "Leo 'Long Tall Glasses' Sayer", after playing "You Make Me Feel Like Dancing" (a bigger hit that now has a better claim to being Leo's signature tune.) Another thing Casey did at times was incorporate an artist's hometown or other quality into their name. One could almost think Al Green's first name is Memphis considering his many references to "Memphis Al". |
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