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    I miss his show, even though I grew out of Top 40 (this was in the early Nineties, when pop music was BAAAAD!) I remember when he would read letters requesting a particular song, usually the story was very touching or meaningful. Too bad radio today is micro-managed and impersonal (F-U, Clear Channel!). Is "The Spirit of Radio" dead?

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    wait! are you saying his show is no more? I could SWEAR I hear it on occasion complete with touching letters. Isn't it on Sunday? Am I imagining things????


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    its still going,but Ryan Seacrest is the new host.

    Its not that he does a bad job,he just doesnt have the compassion in his voice when he reads the long distance request and dedications as Kasey did.

    Kasem has one of the golden dj voices,like the Wolfman or Garrison keeler.
    He is as responsible for the growth of modern music in this country as Dick Clark.
    Kasey will be remembered in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

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    Whatever; I'll just remember the ranty asshole on "The Letter U and the Numeral 2."

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    Oh Gawd Ryan Seacrest!!?? Thats awful!! I listen to it when I can catch it but not now.

    Caset would read the sad story...starts out all happy...ends in tradgey. Always got me teary eyed.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Susan Wayward
    Whatever; I'll just remember the ranty asshole on "The Letter U and the Numeral 2."

    Ha. I'm with ya there, Susan. Whenever I hear Casey Kasem I think one of 2 things. #1 being Negativland, and #2 being Shaggy from Scooby-Doo. (He did Shaggy's voice on the cartoon, in case anyone was unaware). The whole Negativland rants about the "dead fucking dog, jesus christ why do I have to read this shit?" pretty much killed the whole long-distance dedications thing for me.
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    "Okay, I want a goddamned concerted effort to come out of a record that isn't a fucking up- tempo record every time I do a goddamned DEATH DEDICATION! It's the LAST goddamned time! I want somebody to use his fuckin' BRAIN to not come out of a goddamned record that's up-tempo and I gotta talk about a fuckin' DOG dying!"

    hee hee.

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