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Post by Matt Cameron on Apr 14, 2005 17:16:13 GMT -5
Congrats on your Senior Member status. Did they give you the secret handshake yet?
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Post by Jeffster on Apr 14, 2005 19:34:47 GMT -5
uhhh..I feel like I'm back in school..I'm always bad at these things...ummm..I'm Jeff, I'm 28, I'm a single dad, my son is almost 6...uhhh..I just got a haircut...what else do you wanna know? Oh..some on this site have called me Shadoe Stevens' biggest fan..I have most of his shows now, and a ton of other stuff that I didn't even set out to collect and ended up with anyway..first countdown show I ever heard was Countdown America with Dick Clark in early 1989..first heard AT40 the first week of May or so 1989, had heard Dees a few weeks earlier, he was alright, but Shadoe was much better. I knew Casey's voice from cartoons, but I first heard him on a countdown in the summer of 89 doing CT40. My favorite current countdown is American Country Countdown, the other two current countdows I listen to are Weekend 22 (Christian pop) and Weekend Top 25 (Christian AC.) I will occasionally listen in to one of Casey's shows, but I don't really like the current incarnations too much, so I'd rather listen to old Casey shows when the music was better and he seemed much more energetic. I flashback each weekend, currently for classic AT40 I am on 1971, for Shadoe 1991, and CT40 1989. I work at Subway as an assistant manager, but I just applied for a different position in the company, at the franchise main office. Anything else?
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Post by BrettVW on Apr 14, 2005 20:04:54 GMT -5
Very good Jeff.....now, what was your favorite part about summer vacation You are not the first to tell me that you no longer listen to Casey's current shows. Yet- I feel Casey's shows sound better now than ever. I was just listening to a show from 2003 (AT40) and was saying to myself how I thought the final jingle package for Casey's American Top 40 was the best jingle package any of the shows have ever had. Funny how we all have such different tastes for what essentially is the same thing.
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Post by Scott Lakefield on Apr 15, 2005 14:19:36 GMT -5
wow....I just became a senior member....does that mean I now get paid for my board insights? No, but you do get a 10% discount on Wednesdays in many fine stores.
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Post by Shadoe Fan on Apr 15, 2005 21:31:35 GMT -5
As many of you know, I go by "Ev", which is just a nickname given to me in college. I won't divulge my real name, sorry. I guess you can say I'm Shadoe's Second biggest fan. Shadoe's reign covered my mid teens to early twenties, which is one reason why I like those shows. I'm trying to get all of his shows and do a summary of each one. (That will probably take a long time!) I work for the Federal Government, which means that the President is my chief superior.
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Post by shadster on Aug 5, 2006 17:18:48 GMT -5
I'll bump this thread back up to page one As I said in the 'my 1st #1' thread, I only occasionally heard Casey in either the early 70s or 80s but didnt really get interested in radio until basically 1984, an man was I fascinated. I aspired for a career in radio but like so many dreams, they remain as just dreams. My name is Dale, I live the burbs of DC, born an raised. I'm 35 now, married but no kids.....yet. I came up w/ the nickname "TheShadow" somewhere back in the 80s, as I imagined myself in radio an thought thats an awesome nickname. In college, the nick became my 'on air persona' at the college radio station. I majored in Communications and even finished the degree, but now I'm a lil off track from that, but not too far, as I'm now in 'telecommunications'. An A/V tech. When I was in college, I latched onto the internet in 1994 and 'TheShadow' became my internet nickname also. Folks would shorten it to shad, an then eventually, since I used to have many different accounts, I would have multiple 'shad's idling on the channel, so ppl started calling me shads; each 1 w/ a variation nickname from the original. 'shadster' being one variation. I still listen to Casey's AT20 sometimes, AT10 is lil too conservative for me. I like the CHR format but not to the point it is today being saturated w/ rap. I've always been of the opinion, rap has its own chart, rock has its chart, the pop chart should only be seeing the 'very best' of the other charts, instead we are getting even the crappy rap songs on the top40. 20 out of the top40 songs are rap? That # is too high. If thats the case, it should be renamed CHR-urban. Theres a CHR station in dc and I swear i can turn that station on 10 times, and 8 of those times they're playing rap. I guess that means I'm partial to the Star-94 format from Atlanta.
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Post by bdpop on Aug 5, 2006 21:39:40 GMT -5
My name is Brian. I started listening to Casey back in 1974. I live in the Orlando, FL area. I used to conveniently be friends with the guy who ran AT40 at the local station here. I sometimes used to go to the station after work on Sunday and he would give me the show that he just aired. I built up quite a collection. Unfortunately, I no longer have those shows. I stupidly got rid of them years ago. I am currently unemployed, looking for a job and going to college full time.
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Post by jedijake on Aug 6, 2006 22:22:40 GMT -5
My name is Rick. I am 37, married, living in the northern suburbs of Houston. I am originally from NY, MA, and PA. I graduated from Massapequa HS in 1987 and from SUNY Geneseo in 1992. I teach Biology and Anatomy at the high school level. I began listening to AT40 in 1982. I also kept track of my own favorites every week as well-a strange hobby that would last for years and years.
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Post by kentd on Aug 7, 2006 21:12:21 GMT -5
My name is Kent. Music was a big for me around 1975-1977, I was at that age where I was really discovering music. Saturday mornings BELONGED to Casey Kasim and AT 40 in our town. If you traveled to the beach, you could hear it there, you just had to wait until Sunday afternoon. By Feb 1978, a month shy of my 15th birthday I got a job a small country radio station and was able to switch to the Top 40 am station later in the year. There I was able to engineer AT 40 and do an airshift. I moved onto a larger FM station by my senior year in high school and figured out radio was way too insecure of a business for me. I started working in a small funeral home and within a year of high school graduation opted for mortuary school. (I was doing midnight to 6am before leaving radio.) In 1984, I returned to radio on a part time basis at the same FM station while finishing my schooling and preparing for board exams. Fast forward to 1998 when I was able to purchase my own funeral home in a small town. The business owns me. Ironically, a local small town AM station tapped me and another long retired jock to do a Sunday night oldies show from 8pm-11pm. We alternate weeks and get to pick everything we play. The only thing I recognize in the studio after leaving radio 22 years ago is a chair and the microphone. I don't care much for this computer stuff. Have a wonderful wife, two wild cats, and am a lucky, lucky guy.
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Post by jedijake on Aug 7, 2006 21:21:12 GMT -5
It's nice to see that such ordinary people with spouses, families, etc can be so into countdowns, even after so many years. I don't feel so strange about being nostalgic now.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 7, 2006 21:26:18 GMT -5
I am Paul....which everyone knows. I am 27, married, one newborn. Originally from Jacksonville and as most regular chatters know, I couldnt stand it there! So, I am now where I belong in the Orlando area in school studying to be a preacher....no, I am not kidding. I first found out about Casey from his old TV show, Americas Top 10 which aired Saturday at noon on WJXT(liberaljag will be familiar with the station). Ok, now for my update....I am not in school to be a preacher anymore. My newborn is now 16 months old, and I am where I don't belong.....Crapsonville, Fl again!!!! I am currently back at my old C-ville employer and am working on getting my CDL Class B license so I can get a better job/career going. And then next summer....MOVE PERMANENTLY!!!!!!!!!
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Post by at40petebattistini on Aug 12, 2020 5:33:00 GMT -5
Bumping this thread... a refreshing perspective of AT40 fans in a world of anonymity.
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