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Post by lasvegaskid on Oct 22, 2022 8:14:28 GMT -5
A couple sub Caseys really noticeable during 1977 thru Sept 1978; the Rushed Casey. I'm guessing the clock was so tight every second Casey saved would be a song they didn't have to massacre. The need for this ended 10/7/78 when the 4th hour was added and he became the Relaxed Casey
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Post by dth1971 on Oct 22, 2022 8:20:42 GMT -5
A couple sub Caseys really noticeable during 1977 thru Sept 1978; the Rushed Casey. I'm guessing the clock was so tight every second Casey saved would be a song they didn't have to massacre. The need for this ended 10/7/78 when the 4th hour was added and he became the Relaxed Casey I guess there should have been the return of the Relaxed Casey after the week with the Snuggles LDD in September 1985. By the way, the sub Casey's from 1977-1978 were Bruce Phillip Miller, Mark Elliott, and Larry Morgan - OOPS! I meant Larry McKay! Although the biggest sub Casey host has to go to Charlie Van Dyke who guest hosted for Casey for 30 AT40 shows in the 1980's! |
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Post by OnWithTheCountdown on Oct 22, 2022 20:51:44 GMT -5
A couple sub Caseys really noticeable during 1977 thru Sept 1978; the Rushed Casey. I'm guessing the clock was so tight every second Casey saved would be a song they didn't have to massacre. The need for this ended 10/7/78 when the 4th hour was added and he became the Relaxed Casey I guess there should have been the return of the Relaxed Casey after the week with the Snuggles LDD in September 1985. By the way, the sub Casey's from 1977-1978 were Bruce Phillip Miller, Mark Elliott, and Larry Morgan - OOPS! I meant Larry McKay! Although the biggest sub Casey host has to go to Charlie Van Dyke who guest hosted for Casey for 30 AT40 shows in the 1980's! Close, CVD guest-hosted 31 shows for Casey. |
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Post by mkarns on Dec 10, 2022 14:05:42 GMT -5
Sirius XM's show this weekend is from December 11, 1971, which is around the height (?) of "Quiet Casey". In fact if you look at the cue sheet for that week posted at the Charis site, there are handwritten notes criticizing Casey's delivery as too soft ("Not enough excitement in voice. Shows have gradually become more "lay-back".)
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Post by chrislc on Dec 10, 2022 15:29:21 GMT -5
Sirius XM's show this weekend is from December 11, 1971, which is around the height (?) of "Quiet Casey". In fact if you look at the cue sheet for that week posted at the Charis site, there are handwritten notes criticizing Casey's delivery as too soft ("Not enough excitement in voice. Shows have gradually become more "lay-back".) I think Casey was taking Les Crane very seriously, and was trying to avoid being vexatious to the spirits of the listeners. He did mention that he had the poem hanging on his wall at home. Casey was just anticipating how mellow the Top Ten would be within a few months. By March it was ridiculous, with the Osmonds providing the only energy. So everyone (except the Osmonds and their river) was on the Crane Train. The Suicidal Survey. Cant LIVE......we're hurting each other...David Gates and his dad...Cher and her boy that loved her not...etc... yikes |
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Post by mga707 on Dec 10, 2022 16:43:25 GMT -5
I think Casey was taking Les Crane very seriously, and was trying to avoid being vexatious to the spirits of the listeners. He did mention that he had the poem hanging on his wall at home. The only song of the 40 that I just couldn't sit through (well, drive through--was on the road at the time). And to think I actually bought (and still have) the Warner Bros. 45 back in '71. Would much rather hear National Lamthingy's "Deteriorata" parody. |
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Post by mkarns on Dec 10, 2022 17:25:55 GMT -5
Sirius XM's show this weekend is from December 11, 1971, which is around the height (?) of "Quiet Casey". In fact if you look at the cue sheet for that week posted at the Charis site, there are handwritten notes criticizing Casey's delivery as too soft ("Not enough excitement in voice. Shows have gradually become more "lay-back".) I think Casey was taking Les Crane very seriously, and was trying to avoid being vexatious to the spirits of the listeners. He did mention that he had the poem hanging on his wall at home. Casey was just anticipating how mellow the Top Ten would be within a few months. By March it was ridiculous, with the Osmonds providing the only energy. So everyone (except the Osmonds and their river) was on the Crane Train. The Suicidal Survey. Cant LIVE......we're hurting each other...David Gates and his dad...Cher and her boy that loved her not...etc... yikes And Nilsson couldn’t live if living is without you…and Don McLean’s three men he admired most (the Father, Son, and the Holy Ghost) caught the last train for the coast as the music died. It was cool to see Neil Young score a big hit, but even he was complaining about getting old (50 years later he’s still active) while searching for a heart of gold. At least there were positive messages from Al Green about staying together if the times were good, bad, happy, or sad, and Paul Simon about the mother and child reunion coming soon. And then there were the Chackachas with some aural, um, pleasure… |
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Post by mga707 on Dec 10, 2022 17:47:38 GMT -5
By March it was ridiculous, with the Osmonds providing the only energy. So everyone (except the Osmonds and their river) was on the Crane Train. The Suicidal Survey. Cant LIVE......we're hurting each other...David Gates and his dad...Cher and her boy that loved her not...etc... yikes Yes. Who slipped what into Donny, Wayne, Alan, Jay, and Merrill's non-caffeinated beverages of choice in early '72? After "Lazy River" they upped the rockin' out ante even more with "Hold Her Tight" and then culminated with that song that even Ozzy likes, "Crazy Horses". By the time of spring '73's "Goin' Home" they were starting to come down from their 'high', but they didn't totally slip into mellowland until "Let Her In" that fall. And that latter-day (pun intended) 'Osmond era' culminated with 1974's "Love Me For a Reason", a Backstreet Boy-sounding song recorded before the actual BSBs were gleams in their respective parents' eyes. |
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Post by mkarns on Dec 10, 2022 17:59:33 GMT -5
By March it was ridiculous, with the Osmonds providing the only energy. So everyone (except the Osmonds and their river) was on the Crane Train. The Suicidal Survey. Cant LIVE......we're hurting each other...David Gates and his dad...Cher and her boy that loved her not...etc... yikes Yes. Who slipped what into Donny, Wayne, Alan, Jay, and Merrill's non-caffeinated beverages of choice in early '72? After "Lazy River" they upped the rockin' out ante even more with "Hold Her Tight" and then culminated with that song that even Ozzy likes, "Crazy Horses". By the time of spring '73's "Goin' Home" they were starting to come down from their 'high', but they didn't totally slip into mellowland until "Let Her In" that fall. And that latter-day (pun intended) 'Osmond era' culminated with 1974's "Love Me For a Reason", a Backstreet Boy-sounding song recorded before the actual BBs were gleams in their respective parents' eyes. Actually BSB’s Howie Dorough and Kevin Richardson were alive by that point (Sept/Oct 1974), and Brian Littrell was on the way. “Love Me For a Reason” was written by Johnny Bristol, who had his own hit at the same time with “Hang On In There Baby” which I don’t think the Osmonds would ever have sung. As for Lazy River and other frenetic rockers, I guess someone put a lot of sugar in their Sanka. |
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Post by chrislc on Dec 11, 2022 18:49:08 GMT -5
By March it was ridiculous, with the Osmonds providing the only energy. So everyone (except the Osmonds and their river) was on the Crane Train. The Suicidal Survey. Cant LIVE......we're hurting each other...David Gates and his dad...Cher and her boy that loved her not...etc... yikes Yes. Who slipped what into Donny, Wayne, Alan, Jay, and Merrill's non-caffeinated beverages of choice in early '72? After "Lazy River" they upped the rockin' out ante even more with "Hold Her Tight" and then culminated with that song that even Ozzy likes, "Crazy Horses". By the time of spring '73's "Goin' Home" they were starting to come down from their 'high', but they didn't totally slip into mellowland until "Let Her In" that fall. And that latter-day (pun intended) 'Osmond era' culminated with 1974's "Love Me For a Reason", a Backstreet Boy-sounding song recorded before the actual BSBs were gleams in their respective parents' eyes. Love Me For A Reason was very good. Maybe ABC can play that on a loop for an hour to replace the cancelled Backstreet Boys special. |
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Post by lasvegaskid on Feb 21, 2023 22:02:33 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 last week was Thriller. 5-6 years earlier Casey would have said...MJ is already at #7 in only his 2nd week on the Hot 100; looks like he is headed for another #1. |
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Post by lasvegaskid on Aug 12, 2023 12:43:23 GMT -5
Is the Cool Casey on these early 1970 shows the best?? You kinda had a nice mix of the Turbo Casey and the Commentary Casey.
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