The countdown show, ranking the top songs of the previous week, has been a staple of weekend radio programming since 1970 ; current hosts of countdown shows in various formats include Rick Dees, Ryan Seacrest, Jeff Foxworthy, Kix Brooks, Bob Kingsley, Crook & Chase, Randy Jackson, Walt Love, Al Gross, Dick Bartley, and ( via reruns ) Casey Kasem.

* 1975 Roy Orbison private phone interview with Ronnie Allen ( researcher for Casey Kasem )

** Longtime radio music countdown show American Top 40 debuts on 5 U. S. stations with Casey Kasem as host.

** Casey Kasem, American disc jockey and voice actor ( America's Top Forty )

* Casey Kasem

This may have started because many prominent broadcast personalities – such as Walter Cronkite, Harry Reasoner, Johnny Carson, David Letterman, Rush Limbaugh, Tom Brokaw, John Madden, and Casey Kasem – came from this region and so created this perception.

* Casey Kasem

* May 4 – America's Top 10, the television version of radio's American Top 40 and hosted by Casey Kasem, debuts this week in syndication.

* Battistini, Pete ( 2005 ) American Top 40 with Casey Kasem -- The 1970s Authorhouse. com, January 31, 2005 ISBN 1-4184-1070-5

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* Rod Roddy ( originally Casey Kasem )

Roger Grimsby, Larry King, Joe Franklin, and Casey Kasem make cameo appearances in the film.

* 1970-American Top 40, hosted by radio personality Casey Kasem, becomes the first successful nationally syndicated radio program featuring a weekly countdown.

* America's Top 10, a television program hosted by Casey Kasem among others

A 2009 syndication package of the show, however, aired as part of " Outta Sight Retro Nights ", a flashback TV block aired Sunday nights on the national WGN America cable TV service with promos voiced by Casey Kasem, appears to have all of the original music intact, according to published references about the original release.

* Pete Battistini, " American Top 40 with Casey Kasem The 1970s ", Authorhouse. com, January 31, 2005.

He has interviewed singers Crystal Gayle, Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard, Eric Burdon and Gordon Lightfoot, comedian George Carlin, writer Dean Koontz, hard science fiction writer Greg Bear, X-Files Writer / Creator Chris Carter, TV talk host Regis Philbin, Star Trek actor Leonard Nimoy, actor Dan Aykroyd, former Luftwaffe pilot Bruno Stolle, actress Jane Seymour, actress Ellen Muth, actor and TV host Robert Stack, human rights lawyer John Loftus, legendary disc jockey Casey Kasem and frequent guests physicist Michio Kaku and SETI astronomers Seth Shostak and H. Paul Shuch.

He replaced Casey Kasem who quit the series after the pilot due to the adult themes the show promoted.

A well-known disc jockey, Casey Kasem, said, " They were the best band I ever hired ".

After Kari Wührer left the show, the category was renamed Casey's Big Poll, with Ten Eyck imitating radio personality Casey Kasem, accompanied by a burly man in drag as " my lovely wife Jeannie ," but with the rules otherwise the same.

These recordings received only minimal sales although the second Blue Velvets single was added to Oakland's KEWB top 40 playlist by famed disc jockey Casey Kasem, who was employed at the station.

These recordings received only minimal sales although the second Blue Velvets single was added to Oakland's KEWB top 40 playlist by disc jockey Casey Kasem, who was employed at the station.

Other highlights in the late 1980s include the purchase of three radio stations, the trade paper Radio & Records, and the hiring of Casey Kasem from ABC.

American Top 40 ( commonly abbreviated to AT40 ) is an internationally syndicated, independent radio program created by Casey Kasem, Don Bustany, Tom Rounds and Ron Jacobs.

Formed by Harry Wayne Casey (" KC ") and Richard Finch, Miami's KC and the Sunshine Band had a string of disco-definitive top-five hits between 1975 and 1977, including " Get Down Tonight ", " That's the Way ( I Like It )", "( Shake, Shake, Shake ) Shake Your Booty ", " I'm Your Boogie Man " and " Keep It Comin ' Love ".

Thayer ’ s last piece, dated June 24, 1888, was a ballad entitled " Casey " (" Casey at the Bat ").

(" Summer Nights " was from the original play written by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey.

After his major league career began, he acquired the nickname " Casey ", which originally came from the initials of his hometown (" K. C ."), which evolved into " Casey ", influenced by the wide popularity of the poem Casey at the Bat.

In later seasons, George and Gracie would often reappear after the end of the episode, eventually before a curtain decorated with the names and locations of the various theaters they headlined in their vaudeville days, performing one of their patented " double routines ," often discussing one of Gracie's fictional relatives (" Death Valley Allen ", the prospector ; " Florence Allen ", the nurse ; " Casey Allen ", the railroad man, and so on ).

* Bernie Casey as U. N. Jefferson, President of the national Lambda-Lambda-Lambda (" Tri-Lamb ") fraternity

Episodes of shows as diverse as The Twilight Zone (" The Mighty Casey ", 1960 ), Mannix (" To Catch a Rabbit ", 1969 ) and The Munsters were also filmed there.

* Casey Bortnick-lifestyle correspondent (" Healthy Living ")

* Ben Casey (" You Wanna Know What Really Goes on in a Hospital?

Other Dj's during this time were: Program Director Lyn Casey, Michael Young (" Party Party Party "), Don Davis, Dave Duran, Beckey Shock, Dennis O ' Brian, Beth Daniels, & Will Worster.

When Michael Bishop was replaced by Casey Orr, that relationship changed as well-instead, Beefcake became extremely arrogant (" Beef is an arrogant bastard with absolutely no regard for feelings of others.

Francis (" Frank ") Casey ( died 1994 ) was an Australian engineer and foundation President of the Public Transport Users Association ( PTUA ; formerly known as the Train Travellers Association ).

:" That ain't my style ," said Casey.

The opening title music with the car on the road had been used in a 1961 episode of the TV series " Ben Casey " entitled " I Remember a Lemon Tree ," that piece of music accompanying each time that George C. Scott's character, a doctor who is secretly a drug addict, is injecting himself with morphine.

As a boy, he lived near Cayce, Kentucky, where he acquired the nickname of " Cayce ," which he chose to spell as " Casey.

The sound of it was variously described as " a sort of whippoorwill call ," or " like the war cry of a Viking .” People living along the Illinois Central right-of-way between Jackson, Tennessee, and Water Valley, Mississippi, would turn over in their beds late at night upon hearing it and say “ There goes Casey Jones ” as he roared by.

He was also known as " Slick ," a nickname given to him, Billy Martin and Mickey Mantle by manager Casey Stengel, who called them Whiskey Slicks.

" Casey, who had a PhD and managed presidential election campaigns, used the slogan as a way of assuring voters they could trust her to be " just like them ," denoting herself as " everyneighbor.

#*" Casey ’ s Empire ," ( ss ) F & SF Nov. 1981

" It dawned on us that Irish music was a bigger influence on all of us than we'd realized ," said Ken Casey.

*" Shadowland ," a song by Casey Stratton

" The U. S. military plans to continue paying Iraqi newspapers to publish articles favorable to the United States after an inquiry found no fault with the controversial practice ," Army General George Casey said March 3, 2006.

In 1980 the Republicans launched an extensive advertising campaign to clarify that " Casey isn't Casey ," and the Democratic state treasurer was defeated for re-election, losing to Budd Dwyer.

In 1989, Casey pushed through the legislature the " Pennsylvania Abortion Control Act ," which placed limitations on abortion, including the notification of parents of minors, a twenty-four-hour waiting period, and a ban on partial-birth procedures except in cases of risk to the life of the mother.

In Chicago, Casey wrote features, chronicled the gang wars of the era, and compiled " slice of life " stories which were published in the paper under column titles " Vest Pocket Anthology ," " Such Interesting People ," and " More Interesting People.

Its first single was " Come Back Song ," which Rucker wrote with Chris Stapleton and Casey Beathard.

At the same time, Casey was conservative in relation to some cultural issues due to his Catholic faith background ; he pushed through the " Pennsylvania Abortion Control Act ," which placed limitations on abortion, including the notification of parents of minors, a twenty-four-hour waiting period, and a ban on partial-birth procedures except in cases of risk to the mother's life.

They also appeared as themselves on the television sitcom The Munsters in the episode " Far Out Munster ," wherein the band performed " Come On and Ringo " and a version of The Beatles ' " I Want to Hold Your Hand ", in addition to performing an instrumental in the background in a Ben Casey episode " Three ' Lil Lambs ".

The Aristocats features Harris as alley cat Abraham de Lacey Giuseppe Casey Thomas O ' Malley, who joins in the film's showstopper, " Ev ' rybody Wants to Be a Cat ," with Scatman Crothers.

Kelly also became a vaudeville performer during his playing career, first performing in Boston where he would recite the now-famous baseball poem " Casey at the Bat ," sometimes butchering it.

Later, after reciting " Casey at the Bat ," he said, according to the Sun, " I'm right at home with Casey.