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Post by lasvegaskid on May 30, 2017 21:45:21 GMT -5
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May 28, 2017 at 9:13pm via mobile QuotelikePost Options Post by OnWithTheCountdown on May 28, 2017 at 9:13pm
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May 28, 2017 at 7:14pm BrettVW said:
Listening to 1980 on WQSR, and I have decided Casey must have had a months long cold in the spring/summer of 1980. Am I the only one that hears this in all of these early 1980 shows?
I've noticed it in the April 1980 shows, not so much in May. He sounded very nasal-y
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I pasted from another thread. I am gonna add this as a sub-Casey. The nasally Casey must have started suffering cold/ allergies around the 3/22 show where Casey just sounded miserable only making it through because he knew he was on vacation the next week, and seemed to linger thru the end of July/ beginning of August before he was completely recovered.
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Post by lasvegaskid on Oct 31, 2017 13:35:23 GMT -5
Another sub-Casey would be the Personal Casey in which he gave his personal comments on songs, like 'check out the lyric on this one' or 'ooo I like this'. This sub Casey started early in the run and seemed to peak around 74-75. By the late 70s and 80s this sub-Casey would virtually disappear.
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Post by mkarns on Nov 1, 2017 0:28:20 GMT -5
Another sub-Casey would be the Personal Casey in which he gave his personal comments on songs, like 'check out the lyric on this one' or 'ooo I like this'. This sub Casey started early in the run and seemed to peak around 74-75. By the late 70s and 80s this sub-Casey would virtually disappear. Probably helped by the fact that production evolved to the point where Casey just had to read his lines and the records were added later, so he became less familiar with the music since he really didn't have to listen to any of it to do the countdown (though he reportedly at least listened to the beginnings and endings of the songs to adjust his delivery.) In 1977 Billboard ran a series of interviews with Casey that lasted several weeks, in which he stated that he listened much more to news and talk radio than current music radio. Still, he no doubt heard a lot of the songs just in life in general, and even in the 80s and after occasionally commented on the songs, always in a positive way while on air. |
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Post by lasvegaskid on Feb 3, 2019 21:19:51 GMT -5
There probably isn't a better contrast in the Smooth/Turbo Casey's than this weekend's 1975/1980 shows.
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Post by dbjacoby on Mar 8, 2020 9:07:45 GMT -5
I remember seeing this thread but didn’t pay it much mind. However, his excitement in 1970.. “HERES BST AND LUCRETIA MCEVIL!! “ clearly gives way to quiet Casey. Just listening to 3/4/72 this week, there is absolutely no other way to describe him. Listening to 74 on Sirius now he’s much more upbeat. Almost every person in my life thinks I’m absolutely nuts ! Who pays attention to such nonsense
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Post by mga707 on Mar 8, 2020 11:38:44 GMT -5
I remember seeing this thread but didn’t pay it much mind. However, his excitement in 1970.. “HERES BST AND LUCRETIA MCEVIL!! “ clearly gives way to quiet Casey. Just listening to 3/4/72 this week, there is absolutely no other way to describe him. Listening to 74 on Sirius now he’s much more upbeat. Almost every person in my life thinks I’m absolutely nuts ! Who pays attention to such nonsense You're so right--the '72 show has 'mellow Casey' at his mellowest. |
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Post by chrislc on Mar 8, 2020 13:37:24 GMT -5
I remember seeing this thread but didn’t pay it much mind. However, his excitement in 1970.. “HERES BST AND LUCRETIA MCEVIL!! “ clearly gives way to quiet Casey. Just listening to 3/4/72 this week, there is absolutely no other way to describe him. Listening to 74 on Sirius now he’s much more upbeat. Almost every person in my life thinks I’m absolutely nuts ! Who pays attention to such nonsense You're so right--the '72 show has 'mellow Casey' at his mellowest. With that Top 10, any Casey other than Mellow Casey would have sounded insane. I don't know if the Top 40 has ever been mellower than it was in early 1972. It was brutal.  |
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Post by mga707 on Mar 8, 2020 14:16:25 GMT -5
You're so right--the '72 show has 'mellow Casey' at his mellowest. With that Top 10, any Casey other than Mellow Casey would have sounded insane. I don't know if the Top 40 has ever been mellower than it was in early 1972. It was brutal. True--the 'rockingest' record in the top 10 was by...The Osmonds!  |
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Post by slf on Mar 8, 2020 18:08:38 GMT -5
With that Top 10, any Casey other than Mellow Casey would have sounded insane. I don't know if the Top 40 has ever been mellower than it was in early 1972. It was brutal. True--the 'rockingest' record in the top 10 was by...The Osmonds! And, ironically, it had LAZY in the title. But, to be fair, T. Rex rocked out almost as hard as the Osmonds. And Carole King and Robert John gave us mid-tempo songs, so it wasn't all mellow ballads in the Top 10. And, IMHO, most of those ballads were anything but brutal. ("Precious And Few" is probably my favorite song of that year, and that's saying something.) |
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Post by mkarns on Mar 8, 2020 18:12:39 GMT -5
You're so right--the '72 show has 'mellow Casey' at his mellowest. With that Top 10, any Casey other than Mellow Casey would have sounded insane. I don't know if the Top 40 has ever been mellower than it was in early 1972. It was brutal. Maybe some times in the early 1980s--see this week's March 1981 show? That was during what was described earlier in this thread as Casey's "robotic" phase--just a straightforward reading of the script, without much embellishment. But in it Casey at least sounds like he's trying to project; for a time in 1971-72 he almost sounded like he was trying to keep it as soft or low key as he could while still being comprehensible. The "Professional Casey" phase of the mid-1980s followed it, characterized by a demand for perfection that may in fact have gone too far at times, evidenced in the "Dead Dog Dedication" incident from that era. |
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Post by papathree on Mar 8, 2020 20:21:33 GMT -5
With that Top 10, any Casey other than Mellow Casey would have sounded insane. I don't know if the Top 40 has ever been mellower than it was in early 1972. It was brutal. Maybe some times in the early 1980s--see this week's March 1981 show? That was during what was described earlier in this thread as Casey's "robotic" phase--just a straightforward reading of the script, without much embellishment. But in it Casey at least sounds like he's trying to project; for a time in 1971-72 he almost sounded like he was trying to keep it as soft or low key as he could while still being comprehensible. The "Professional Casey" phase of the mid-1980s followed it, characterized by a demand for perfection that may in fact have gone too far at times, evidenced in the "Dead Dog Dedication" incident from that era. Regarding your last sentence, I've always wondered whether Casey simply "read whatever was put in front of him to read" or did he reflect on the stuff he was given to read. I wonder because sometimes he would assert some 'fact' or bit of trivia about an act or about a song, but then a few weeks later he'd have to read a 'correction' (sometimes attributed to an alert listener, sometimes not) where he had to explain that whatever was said previously was in error . . . and then he offered the correction. On other occasions he'd intro a song but the staff would play the wrong side of the record (or a completely different record). Sometimes (but not always) in a later show he'd acknowledge the error. You mentioned the infamous "dead dog dedication" incident and when I listened to the clip of his reaction to the producer and staff "setting him up" for that outburst I wonder whether he ever "lost it" in a similar fashion for occasions where someone handed him something completely incorrect to read. His reaction to the dead dog episode makes me wonder if he ever reacted similarly after he was forced to air a correction in a later show. His reaction to the dead dog dedication certainly implies he cared a lot about the way the show was presented (flow, content, etc.), so I find it hard to understand why he had to make what seemed like a lot of corrections to inaccurate statements (which I suppose were misrepresented in his script). Were such mistakes essentially tolerated over time? I'm asking this here because overall during his initial 18-year run Casey seemed to be first and foremost "easy-going" in his delivery and he stressed the positive about everything. His "dead dog" reaction seemed to be out of character and a significant deviation from his usual on-air persona. |
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Post by BrettVW on Mar 8, 2020 20:40:03 GMT -5
My guess is Casey read what was put in front of him and trusted the writing staff that it was accurate. As for his reaction when they had to do corrections, that I’m not sure of. It’s somewhat well known that there were likely other “Dead Dog Tape” instances in the studio over the years and decades, that just happens to be the one that got out.
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Post by mkarns on Mar 9, 2020 12:53:28 GMT -5
My guess is Casey read what was put in front of him and trusted the writing staff that it was accurate. As for his reaction when they had to do corrections, that I’m not sure of. It’s somewhat well known that there were likely other “Dead Dog Tape” instances in the studio over the years and decades, that just happens to be the one that got out. Yes, but there were times when it's hard to believe that Casey couldn't have corrected errors. In the 3/2/74 show (played last weekend by Sirius XM) Casey said that "Boogie Down" was Eddie Kendricks' first big solo hit--just a few months after Eddie hit #1 with "Keep On Truckin'". Maybe he just misspoke, but still... And there are at least a few other "Dead Dog" type outbursts that somehow leaked. Like the time, also in the mid-80s, when U2 first made the countdown and Casey for whatever reason blew up at what he probably regarded as the overly detailed explanation, in the process getting their home country wrong ("these guys are from England and who gives a s**t!") |
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Post by lasvegaskid on Apr 24, 2020 13:09:45 GMT -5
OnWithTheCountdown Senior Member **** OnWithTheCountdown Avatar Posts: 704Male May 28, 2017 at 9:13pm via mobile QuotelikePost Options Post by OnWithTheCountdown on May 28, 2017 at 9:13pm BrettVW Avatar May 28, 2017 at 7:14pm BrettVW said: Listening to 1980 on WQSR, and I have decided Casey must have had a months long cold in the spring/summer of 1980. Am I the only one that hears this in all of these early 1980 shows? I've noticed it in the April 1980 shows, not so much in May. He sounded very nasal-y ------------------------ I pasted from another thread. I am gonna add this as a sub-Casey. The nasally Casey must have started suffering cold/ allergies around the 3/22 show where Casey just sounded miserable only making it through because he knew he was on vacation the next week, and seemed to linger thru the end of July/ beginning of August before he was completely recovered. This week's 1980 show you have an interesting combo of the turbo Casey and the nasally sub-Casey. |
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Post by JMW on Apr 24, 2020 23:01:37 GMT -5
OnWithTheCountdown Senior Member **** OnWithTheCountdown Avatar Posts: 704Male May 28, 2017 at 9:13pm via mobile QuotelikePost Options Post by OnWithTheCountdown on May 28, 2017 at 9:13pm BrettVW Avatar May 28, 2017 at 7:14pm BrettVW said: Listening to 1980 on WQSR, and I have decided Casey must have had a months long cold in the spring/summer of 1980. Am I the only one that hears this in all of these early 1980 shows? I've noticed it in the April 1980 shows, not so much in May. He sounded very nasal-y ------------------------ I pasted from another thread. I am gonna add this as a sub-Casey. The nasally Casey must have started suffering cold/ allergies around the 3/22 show where Casey just sounded miserable only making it through because he knew he was on vacation the next week, and seemed to linger thru the end of July/ beginning of August before he was completely recovered. This week's 1980 show you have an interesting combo of the turbo Casey and the nasally sub-Casey. Sounds like maybe it was recorded on two different days? |
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