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.

* Casey Kasem (" The Headless Hessian ," September 23, 1975 )

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.

However, Casey was scheduled to be the fifth batter of the inning, and the first two batters ( Cooney and Barrows ) did not reach base.

Casey is so sure of his abilities that he does not swing at the first two pitches, both strikes.

As programming chief, Robert W. Pittman recruited and managed a team for the launch that included Tom Freston ( who succeeded Pittman as CEO of MTV networks ), Fred Seibert, John Sykes, Carolyn Baker ( original head of talent and acquisition ), Marshall Cohen ( original head of research ), Gail Sparrow ( of talent and acquisition ), Sue Steinberg ( executive producer ), Julian Goldberg, Steve Lawrence, Geoff Bolton studio producers and MTV News writers / AP Liz Nealon, Nancy LaPook and Robin Zorn, Steve Casey ( creator of the name " MTV " and its first program director ), Marcy Brahman, Ronald E. " Buzz " Brindle, and Robert Morton.

On December 6, 2010, Gonzalez was traded to the Boston Red Sox for a package of right-handed pitcher Casey Kelly, first baseman Anthony Rizzo, outfielder Reymond Fuentes, and a player to be named later, later determined to be Eric Patterson.

In January 1940, Menzies dispatched potential leadership rival Richard Casey to Washington as Australia's first " Minister to the United States ".

Future Yankee manager Casey Stengel hit the first post-season homerun in stadium history while playing with the opposing New York Giants.

The first burial, that of four year old Michael Casey from Francis Street in Dublin, took place on the following day in a section of the cemetery known as Curran's Square.

According to the transportation curator at the Henry Ford Museum, Robert Casey, the Jeep Cherokee ( XJ ) was the first true sport utility vehicle in the modern understanding of the term.

In seasons six and seven, the female member of the team was cosmetologist and mistress-of-disguise Lisa Casey ( Lynda Day George ), whose first name was only established in the 1988 – 89 revival.

Casey Coot first appeared in " Last Sled to Dawson ", first published in June, 1988.

In Don Rosa's Duck family tree he is included as a member of the Coot Kin and more specifically as son of Casey Coot and his wife Gretchen Grebe, which makes him a nephew of Elvira Coot, a brother of Fanny Coot, a first cousin of Quackmore Duck, a first cousin once removed of Donald Duck and an uncle of Gus Goose.

Detective Casey is Chief O ' Hara's head detective, first appearing in the Mickey Mouse daily comic in the 1938 sequence The Plumber's Helper.

In 1878, American railroad legend Casey Jones got his first job with the railroad here, working as a telegrapher for the Mobile and Ohio Railroad.

* Sean Casey ( born 1974 ), Major League Baseball first baseman for the Boston Red Sox.

Finally, on April 12, 1847 the first Wayne Township organization meeting was held at the Henry Casey House on the Paterson-Hamburg Turnpike.

The first Mayor of Mohawk was James V. Casey, was elected in 1960.

* Sean Casey, former Major League Baseball first baseman, current baseball analyst for MLB Network

In his first bodybuilding contest, he met the winner, Casey Viator.

In passing, Helms notes the similarity between Bill Casey and General William J. Donovan, the first and only leader of the OSS ( June 1942-September 1945 ).

In 1927, Casey received his first civil works assignment, as assistant District Engineer at the Pittsburgh District.

Casey had intended to come ashore on the first day of the landing at Lingayen Gulf in January 1945 but was delayed a day because the destroyer he was travelling on had to escort a crippled transport.

Christie starred in two other films released in 1965, first appearing as Daisy Battles in Young Cassidy, a biopic of Irish playwright Seán O ' Casey, co-directed by Jack Cardiff and ( uncredited ) John Ford.

The Silver Tassie, first performed in 2000, is based on the play by Seán O ' Casey.