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Post by rayshae3 on Sept 13, 2013 1:20:53 GMT -5
This rather long, and close biographical account about Casey was written way back in May 1990 (23 years ago when he was 58); but it’s like everyday you’d learn a new thing about Casey; e.g. he wanted to be a Major league baseball player at one point, or when Casey asked Jesse Jackson to marry him and Jean. On the professional side: taping “America’s Top 10” and CT40 both on the same day in a so-called “taping blitz”. Long and revealing article from NY Times Sunday magazine with intimate input from Casey himself: www.nytimes.com/1990/05/06/magazine/casey-at-the-mike.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 13, 2013 5:56:43 GMT -5
Ironic, I think he told this same story about Janet Jackson when "That's the Way Love Goes" was #1. I just heard it recently. And I can just see him saying "this doesn't mean a d**n thing!" Actually I could see him saying it a bit more colorful.
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Post by rayshae3 on Sept 13, 2013 6:38:50 GMT -5
6th and 7th paragraph from the bottom of the article, when Casey played “Miss You Much”.
Also paragraph #8 about huskiness in his voice, The one that starts with: ''Garbage,'' Kasem says, speculating …”
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Post by dukelightning on Sept 13, 2013 8:36:12 GMT -5
Great article. Thanks for sharing! I wonder when Casey first achieved his goal of only working one day a week. Certainly not in the early years of AT40 as long as it took to record the show sometimes. Interesting that they wanted Janet Jackson to fall of the chart all the time due to lack of stories about her. Because in his CT40 days and beyond, they always had Casey tell a story before the #1 song and she had a ton of weeks at #1 from 1989 on.
At the time of this article, the demise of AT40 with Shadoe was not apparent yet with Casey indicating that they would not cancel each other out. So maybe the change in charts at the end of 1991 was indeed the beginning of that demise.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 13, 2013 9:46:39 GMT -5
I never understood the story thing before every #1. If a song is spending weeks upon weeks there or just to keep people guessing until the end, why not do the #1s on the other charts most weeks like they seemed to do with AT40. They did this once and it was in an odd way on AT40 in 2003.
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Post by johnnywest on Sept 14, 2013 17:06:02 GMT -5
I never understood the story thing before every #1. If a song is spending weeks upon weeks there or just to keep people guessing until the end, why not do the #1s on the other charts most weeks like they seemed to do with AT40. They did this once and it was in an odd way on AT40 in 2003. They did this several times on AT20 and AT10. By the early 2000s, songs were spending an ungodly number of weeks at the top ("Smooth," "Wherever You Will Go," "Drift Away," "A New Day Has Come") and after 10 weeks or so, it wasn't uncommon for Casey to tell a big story at #2 and introduce the tops of the other charts at #1. |
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