The show became a national obsession but in 1970, it was considered a risky idea.
Gary Friedman/Getty ImagesCasey Kasem was the original host American Top 40, which premiered 50 years ago this week.On July 4, 1970, the countdown started. Originally hosted by Casey Kasem, American Top 40 played"the best selling and most-played songs from the Atlantic to the Pacific, from Canada to Mexico," as he stated on the first program broadcast 50 years ago as of tomorrow.
"You remember, at the end of the '60s, Top 40 was not the most popular format," Casey Kasem told NPR in 1982."And here we were coming along with a show called American Top 40, and people said, 'You must be nuts!'" By the early 1980s, the show was heard on more than 500 stations across America and on the Armed Forces Radio Network around the world. The show succeeded not just because it was a list of popular songs, but because of the humanity that Casey Kasem brought between the songs.
"The thing about Kasem was that he had such a warm vibe and he was such a good storyteller that he could read the most mawkish letter and make it very powerfully relatable," Molanphy says."You find yourself getting choked up listening to these little stories."
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