Did Anybody Ever Grow Up With the American Top 40?

[Passepartout]

Never listened to the one with Ryan Seacrest and that really don't get me started on him. Loved it with the great, late Casey Kasem. The original is always going to be the original. Kind of had a crush on him LOL as crazy as it sounds.

 

[big dog cowboy]

I listened every week growing up. Casey had an awesome voice for radio. After I grew out of the bubblegum years I stopped listening so much.

And I would NEVER ever listen to Seacrest. Nails on a chalkboard!!!

 

[Hardline]

I rarely watched because I listen to very little mainstream music.
Casey Kasem had a very hot blonde wife.

 

[mrmojo]

Yes Casey.....lived for the countdown when I was growing up

 

[CouchCoach]

If you want a roll in the floor, find the outtakes when Kasem loses it and they kept the tape rolling. It”s the “my dog died” overload that causes him to lose it.

 

[Passepartout]

Yeah as really Casey you can't blame him in a sense. As he really makes dedications like that seriously. And to put an upbeat song like that well that is another thing.

 

[Fritsch_the_cat]

This guy is a big fan of Casey Kasem and claims his channel is a tribute to him. I don't really see it but still, it's a pretty good channel and he does great background stories on songs/bands. He also revisits top ten songs from various years.

https://www.youtube.com/c/ProfessorofRock

 

[triplets_93]

I NEVER paid attention to the Top 40.

My music life started with The Beatles in1964. And yes, they were played a lot on the radio. But why even bother with that, when you could play Beatles albums full of songs, instead of waiting for the radio to play them. Meaning that, when The Beatles came out in 1964... that's ALL I wanted to listen to, day and night.

As a teen, all I was interested in was album rock, and I had not desire to know what the latest song was at the top of the teeny-bop charts.

Admittedly, in the 1980's, I listened to what would have been on the Top 40, but that was by way of MTV, with New Wave music, and that was not based on anything the radio was or was not playing at the time.

 

[Passepartout]

I NEVER paid attention to the Top 40.

My music life started with The Beatles in1964. And yes, they were played a lot on the radio. But why even bother with that, when you could play Beatles albums full of songs, instead of waiting for the radio to play them. Meaning that, when The Beatles came out in 1964... that's ALL I wanted to listen to, day and night.

As a teen, all I was interested in was album rock, and I had not desire to know what the latest song was at the top of the teeny-bop charts.

Admittedly, in the 1980's, I listened to what would have been on the Top 40, but that was by way of MTV, with New Wave music, and that was not based on anything the radio was or was not playing at the time.

One Beatles Fan To Another!

 

[cowboyec]

heck yeah.
i remember he did an Elvis themed tribute show...in the early 80s.
he played Elvis' version of softly as i leave you...billed as a lost song...even tho it wasn't.
it was released as a single after he died...and received a grammy nomination.
loved america's top 40.
he had a great voice.

 

[RodeoJake]

Back in the 70s, my baby sister loved listening to the top 40 countdown and watching American Bandstand. I can't say I ever liked either one.

 

[Passepartout]

Yeah as really those countdowns were way before the Ipods, Youtube, even CD's, just to name a few. Casey really was ahead of his time like that of Dick Clark in "American Bandstand!"

 

[cityochamps]

 

[cityochamps]

Had nothing but AM for a while when I was a kid, wolfman jack got popular in the late 60's, then underground or "progressive" radio FM stations from some of the colleges and bigger cities popped up in 1970 ish.