The "where did you hear Casey Kasem thread" got me thinking about countdowns. When I was a teenager in the 90s, I had the good luck to hear all three major CHR countdowns. Although I thought Casey was the best host, I preferred listening to "American Top 40" with Shadoe Stevens due to its much better production. I didn't much like the Rick Dees countdown; I hated the way he simply didn't announce some hits. For example, when Snoop Dogg's "Gin and Juice" was on the charts he not only didn't play the song but mocked Snoop. What were you faves and not so faves?
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Favorite/least favorite countdown
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Bob Kingsley was the Casey Kasem of country music, did a great job on American Country Countdown for nearly 30 years with a presentation very similar to Casey's: plenty of tidbits about the artists and the songwriters.
On SiriusXM, Lou Simon does a retro countdown from a different year every week on '60s on 6. He modifies the actual charts to avoid lawsuits, changing the positions of several songs slightly, but the No. 1 song is almost always the actual Billboard No. 1 for that week. His presentation also has shadings of AT40, but unlike Kasem, Simon will tell you occasionally which songs he loved and bought the 45 of as a kid.
On SiriusXM, Lou Simon does a retro countdown from a different year every week on '60s on 6. He modifies the actual charts to avoid lawsuits, changing the positions of several songs slightly, but the No. 1 song is almost always the actual Billboard No. 1 for that week. His presentation also has shadings of AT40, but unlike Kasem, Simon will tell you occasionally which songs he loved and bought the 45 of as a kid.
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Not particularly funny now, but Dees had a studio audience shout out "NOTHING!!" rather than play "All or Nothing" by Milli Vanilli in the year-end countdown of 1990. This was about a month after the lip-synching scandal broke.
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