From the cutting room floor! (was Re: Casey Kasem swears up a storm!)
Apparently, this was stuff that was taken from the cutting (editing) room floor. Generally, in 1970 and continuing throughout the show's run, Casey would "voice track" ahead of time (something that AT40 would take credit in mastering the art of) the entire "American Top 40" voicers with the intros and outros in one studio session. The editors would then insert the intros and outros later. Back then, editing was a matter of cutting and slicing the actual voice track master tape. (CoolEdit and digital workstations were over 20 years into the future). It was a matter of using a razor and a grease-pencil. (High tech, eh?) Stuff that was deemed NOT useable, would simply be cut with a razor and left on the cutting room floor. Some bozo from Casey's staff picked up the "discarded tape" and kept the outtakes for their own use. The result...... Casey really went into tirades if something was not right and these outtakes were left for posterity. In spite of the general impression that Casey was hard to work with (case in point: this tape), most people I know who have worked with Casey feel otherwise. He is a perfectionist, that is true, but most of his contemporaries find him to be a very down-to-earth guy. But he is human and we all can do some "silly" things from time to time. This is one of them. This Casey Kasem moment has been "out there" for years. I have had a tape copy of this blooper in my archives since '89.
73,
Peter Q. George (K1XRB)
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> > Wow! You know, I never really cared for Casey
> > Kasem.......until now, that is! LOL
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> > CASEY KASEM, YOU'RE MY IDOL!!!
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> Holy crap! Did that really happen on the air!?
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