Casey Kasem AT40 Memories

[justgladtobehere]

Sound off with your local radio station as a kid: Mine WPGC in Washington.

WFNX, an alternative station with poor reception. It shut down about 15 years ago when the owner's weekly alternative paper failed.

 

[dixiehack]

Casey Kasem's American Top 40 is played on an oldies station here every Sunday. I don't know what time it starts, but it's on when we leave for church about 8:15, and it's on when we leave church at noon. So that's multiple episodes every Sunday.

Is it one of these?

 

[qtlaw]

Sound off with your local radio station as a kid: Mine WPGC in Washington.

Per Maumann, KFRC in S.F. was king, I woke up to it ever day.

 

[Shelbyville Manhattan]

One day in 2021, I was shoveling snow while listening to this channel. And it just happened to be the September 14, 1985 episode -- the one with the dog dedication. "Dare Me" by the Pointer Sisters led into it. Hearing this out of the blue was "like discovering plutonium by accident," in the parlance of George Costanza.

(Sees bat signal ... spits out popcorn ...)

You guys can have Casey 24/7. iHeart free app has a Classic American Top 40 channel where his 70s and 80s countdowns play on a continuous loop.

Hear! Casey do Long Distance Dedications!
Hear! Casey go full cheese to recite lyrics after the song is over! (More a 70s thing, but he did it in the 80s once in a while too.)
Hear! Casey tell stories about bands more than likely made up by their management team or record label!
Hear! Casey explain hip-hop terms! (Late-period Casey, but a gold mine when you hear it.)

Now? On with the countdown ...

 

[BitterYoungMatador2]

For top 40 it was 94.1 B-94 (I think the call letters were WBZZ).
For rock it was, and still is, 102.5 WDVE.

 

[hondo]

Later in life (20s) I was listening to DC 101, pre Greaseman.

 

[swingline]

KSHE 95 Real Rock Radio

Later, KFMZ before it abruptly left the air.

Later still, KBXR when it was AAA before being bought by one of the two conglomerates.

 

[justgladtobehere]

There are some good public radio stations for alternative music or Americana.

 

[swingline]

The Whip (WWHP) in countryside Illinois streams and is over the air. You can contact them to request Guy Clark's Texas Cookin' and they'll play it for you.