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Post by BrettVW on Apr 4, 2021 22:32:49 GMT -5
A friend sent me this. I haven't found anything more official than this as of now
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Post by doofus67 on Apr 4, 2021 22:43:02 GMT -5
Sad to hear indeed. Mark's radio work really stood out. He brought energy and a little bit of drama to the Weekly Top 30. I loved that show. In Wisconsin, it came on every Saturday afternoon at 5:00. Their chart was the first one I kept track of. I'm not sure if anyone has recordings of those shows, but it sure would be sweet to hear them.
Mark, have a nice reunion up there with Casey and Wolfman Jack and Gary Owens and all the Southern California guys. We'll miss you.
According to Wikipedia, another highly successful voiceover artist, Joe Cipriano, was the one who broke the news.
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Post by djjoe1960 on Apr 5, 2021 2:31:10 GMT -5
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Post by OldSchoolAT40Fan on Apr 5, 2021 7:24:46 GMT -5
Didn't Mark Elliott fill in for Casey Kasem on "Casey's Top 40" or the early years of the current "American Top 40"? That name sounds familiar.
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Post by Mike on Apr 5, 2021 7:43:05 GMT -5
Didn't Mark Elliott fill in for Casey Kasem on "Casey's Top 40" or the early years of the current "American Top 40"? That name sounds familiar. On Casey's Top 40, he was the original designated guest host up until mid-1993. On American Top 40, he guest hosted these shows: 10/8/77, 12/3/77, 5/13/78, 7/8/78, 1/6/79, 7/17/82, and 10/2/82.
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Post by adam31 on Apr 5, 2021 18:41:00 GMT -5
Always enjoyed when Mark would sub for Casey on AT40 and CT40. He did more than a great job and had the legitimacy with the booming radio voice that made his hostings a big event. Greatly admired his work. RIP.
EDIT: I feel Mark should at least get the treatment of Gary Owens by Premiere offering a show when he passed. They could do one for both 70s and 80s.
EDIT 2: Charlie Van Dyke (another legendary AT40 sub host) commented on Mark, according to People:
Fellow voiceover artist Charlie Van Dyke confirmed Elliott's death to The Hollywood Reporter on Monday night. According to Van Dyke, Elliott died on April 3 in a Los Angeles hospital after suffering two heart attacks. He was also battling lung cancer.
"He was one of a kind … and kind is a great word to describe him," Van Dyke told THR.
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Post by Dale Latimer on Apr 7, 2021 21:31:42 GMT -5
Always enjoyed when Mark would sub for Casey on AT40 and CT40. He did more than a great job and had the legitimacy with the booming radio voice that made his hostings a big event. Greatly admired his work. RIP. ... I feel Mark should at least get the treatment of Gary Owens by Premiere offering a show when he passed. They could do one for both 70s and 80s. That's going to be a tough call. None of the shows are from this time of the year, and he's not as well recognized as Charlie, never mind Gary. dL
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Post by at40petebattistini on Apr 8, 2021 2:48:59 GMT -5
While a Mark Elliott-hosted AT40 might surface, don't be disappointed or surprised if that doesn't happen. Indeed, he was an accomplished voiceover artist and deejay, however, his household name recognition is extremely limited. More accurately, it doesn't exist at all outside of southern California.
A similar argument for Mark Elliott could've been made for one-time AT40 host Jerry Bishop, a well-renown southern California broadcaster who passed away in April 2020. His voice (not his name) was heard by 10 million people five times a week on daytime television for more than 20 years. His appearance as a Casey Kasem fill-in took place in February 1976, yet no effort was made to memorialize or replay his AT40 show anytime in the past year.
The topic of re-airing guest-hosted shows is subjective. And likely to be addressed again. Personally, I'd like to see all of these programs integrated into regular 70s and 80s rotation. (And that includes the mismatched Don Bowman program from June 1973.) I've long believed that replaying these shelved countdowns *after* the individual dies is wrong. Let's recognize radio/media personalities like Bob Eubanks, Gordon Elliott, Larry McKay, Charlie Van Dyke, Wink Martindale, Al Mitchell, Keri Tombazian, Chuck Britton, etc. while they are still around to enjoy, what may be, one last national acknowledgment. At the very least, these shows can be provided as an optional program choice for affiliates. ... Just one person's opinion, a trivial-but-not-practical entity in the world of corporate radio.
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Post by djjoe1960 on Apr 8, 2021 6:42:44 GMT -5
I agree with you Pete--however, in Mark Elliot's case most people would probably recognize his voice from the Disney video commercials (and a short intro stating that could be used to introduce the countdown).
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Post by Mike on Apr 8, 2021 8:11:17 GMT -5
I tend to agree that his voice has a level of recognition that is such that it might supersede any lack of name recognition.
Someone had the suggestion of possibly making shows available for Memorial Day weekend - that could work? It'd be several weeks off from here, but that weekend gets bonus choices made available already. For the 70s, there's several specials that have not yet been done - off the top of my head, how many of those are still realistically do-able? I know it's been said that some aren't viable due to mostly containing pre-70s music. And for the 80s, literally everything that doesn't involve a guest host, has been done already.
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Post by mkarns on Apr 8, 2021 19:48:02 GMT -5
I tend to agree that his voice has a level of recognition that is such that it might supersede any lack of name recognition. Someone had the suggestion of possibly making shows available for Memorial Day weekend - that could work? It'd be several weeks off from here, but that weekend gets bonus choices made available already. For the 70s, there's several specials that have not yet been done - off the top of my head, how many of those are still realistically do-able? I know it's been said that some aren't viable due to mostly containing pre-70s music. And for the 80s, literally everything that doesn't involve a guest host, has been done already. Frankly I think the only special never played by Premiere that might be viable is the 1978 AT40 Goes to the Movies, as it has both 1960s and 70s songs, many of which are still widely known and replayed, and of course the 70s ones show up in AT40's that Premiere does play. Book of Records (1980) is constantly brought up here but suffers not only from the age of many of the songs (though many of those that predate the AT40 era are still very widely played and/or known) but the issue of what decade to play it in; technically it's an 80s countdown but there's no music from that decade in it. Maybe it could be aimed at 70s affiliates with the first hour optional, but I tend to think that Premiere would have tried that already. Otherwise most unplayed specials contain music that mostly predates the 1970s and/or 80s, which likely keeps them out of Premiere's rotation (with the obvious exception of the Christmas shows.)
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Post by mrjukebox on Apr 8, 2021 20:11:32 GMT -5
I think that when Bob Eubanks & Wink Martindale pass,Premiere will see fit to air the countdowns where they filled in for Casey-Wink guest hosted in October 1975 & Bob sat in for Casey in January 1982 & April 1983-These guys are certainly familiar to fans of classic game shows.
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Post by Mike on Apr 12, 2021 23:26:04 GMT -5
Something I found earlier today (well, technically "yesterday" by now). In 1997, Mark and four other voiceover men took part in what was basically an introductory sketch for the 26th annual The Hollywood Reporter Key Art Awards. For countdown fans, this is a double bonus as one of the other four is John Leader. The other three? Don LaFontaine, Nick Tate, and Al Chalk. See for yourself:
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Post by OldSchoolAT40Fan on Apr 16, 2021 15:16:51 GMT -5
So it turns out that Elliott had lung cancer, and it was a heart attack that killed him. I bet it it weren't for the heart attack, he probably would have survived for a few months to two years longer.
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Post by doofus67 on Apr 18, 2021 19:03:57 GMT -5
Thank you so much, djjoe1960, for the audio of the first episode of WT30. I played it in my car on my delivery route today, and it sounded amazing! Not only was I driving out to LA, but when the Van Halen song came on, I was actually in their hometown of Pasadena.
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