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When Kasem started his show, the appeal of Top 40 was being sliced and diced into targeted formats.

Welcome back to another week of some Top 40 music! This time, we Return all the way back to 35 years ago this week. Christmas season had just started, and I was 12 years old. I was past the age of …

On my recent vacation, I drove to my family's summer cottage, and along the way, I was scanning through the radio stations and was startled...

Casey Kasem's American Top 40 was a legendary weekly American radio program. The program was syndicated nationally and until 1989, and sent to radio stations in a box set of 4 vinyl transcription discs (records that contained the program and national commercials, with cue sheets for the disc jockeys on where to insert the local ad spots.) Very few stations played this program directly off the records on the air, most stations taped them on reel to reel tape and added the local ads, station…

Mr. Kasem, the longtime host of “American Top 40,” was known for his homey sentiment and an optimism that ran headlong into the prevailing spirit of rebellion in 1970s music culture.

For close to four decades a certain radio host was known to generations as the voice of pop music countdowns. As well as being a staple...

Radio personality Casey Kasem died on Sunday morning. His children, Mike, Kerri and Julie Kasem, announced their father's death on social media.

Casey Kasem....the best time to catch your favorite songs to record them was on the Weekly Top 40

The body of Casey Kasem, radio host and the cartoon voice of Shaggy, is missing. The family legal squabbles have raged on even following Kasem’s death at the age of 82 on Father’s Day, June 15. The American Top 40 announcer’s second wife, Jean, contends she should have the final say over her deceased husband’s […]