On with the countdown: Happy 50th birthday to the ‘American Top 40’ program
101. The first show aired on seven radio stations. At its peak, the show was heard on more than 1,000 radio stations in 50 countries. At the start, the show was recorded in mono and distributed on vinyl disks. It upgraded to stereo in February 1973. It started as a tight, three-hour show. As hit records got longer, it expanded to four hours in October 1978.continuously through Aug. 6, 1988, after which he was replaced by Shadoe Stevens.
which reached No. 26 on the Hot 100 with relatively little pop radio play, is often cited as the type of record that vexedThe show ended a continuous, 24-year run, with Stevens still in the host’s chair, on Jan. 28, 1995. So why did the show become an institution? Casey was a master at telling the stories behind the hits. Like Arthur Godfrey and Clark before him, Casey excelled at the art of communicating one-to-one with his listener.was such an important part of my teenhood in the '70s.
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