Legendary Radio Personality Casey Kasem Dead at Age 82

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<p><a href=“http://www.cnn.com/2014/06/15/showbiz/casey-kasem-obit/”>Casey Kasem, legendary radio personality, dies at 82 - CNN;

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<p>Boy, was he a part of my youth.</p>

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<p>Forty years ago today (if it was a Sunday) I’d be in my room listening to him on the radio, counting down to Number One. </p>

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<p>May be a blessing - he has had a hellish last few weeks of his life thanks to his crazy (appears) wife.</p>

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<p>The battles between his kids and his current wife were awful, and sadly were tabloid fodder for many months. RIP Casey.</p>

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<p>That’s where I was nearly every Sunday night from about 1970 to 1975, listening to KJR AM and Casey Kasem.</p>

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<p>He was a part of most of our collective adolescence.</p>

<p>Lewy Body Dementia is not kind and often misdiagnosed. But the fact that he recently had bedsores too just means he had poor care. Thats unacceptable.</p>

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<p>I can still hear his voice…and then the local sign-on “KJR Seattle, channel 95”.<br>
So sad that his last months were so difficult. Wish his family read our Parenting our parents thread…maybe it would have helped!</p>

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<p>I always seemed to be doing a long distance drive on Sundays…and his countdown got me through MANY of those drives!</p>

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<p>I listened to him when I was younger, I remember his voice. but I can’t picture him right now. When I do, Dick Clark comes to mind.</p>

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<p>I bet Wayne State University gets big increase in applicants next year.</p>

<p>Odd that Helen Thomas, another alumi, died almost 11 months earlier.</p>

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<p>Why is it odd that 2 people, one in their 80s and one in their 90s who passed away almost a year apart, happened to have both attended the same mid sized university? There are actually a lot of well known folks who attended Wayne State.</p>

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<p><a href=“Category:Wayne State University alumni - Wikipedia”>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wayne_State_University_alumni&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>My newspaper’s article is very interesting. Even though I’ve heard his name and have seen several pictures of him over the years, I never realized he was Arab-American. </p>

<p><a href=“Casey Kasem, DJ who became king of the Top 40 countdown, dies at 82 | The Blade”>http://www.toledoblade.com/TV-Radio/2014/06/15/U-S-radio-DJ-Casey-Kasem-dead-at-82-family-says-in-statement.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Yes, in the 1980s he began to speak out about politics and Arab-Americans, but never in an angry voice. People forget he was one of the first prominent celebrities to endorse Jesse Jackson Sr.'s presidential campaign. Yep, Jackson hoodwinked him, too.</p>

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<p>Lets not forget he did the voice of Shaggy from Scooby-Doo (1969 to 1997, and again from 2002 until 2009). That’s how my kids will remember him. :)</p>

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<p>I stopped caring about Top 40 when I got to high school, but in middle school that was where I hung out. Awesome radio voice. It was YEARS before I realized he was also the voice of Shaggy – at which point my brain said, “Well, duh!”</p>

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<p>Well I didn’t know he was the voice of Shaggy, I will tell my kids, Scooby Do is one of their favorite pet(well you know the soft one).</p>

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<p>How often has that happened in the last year?</p>

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<p>If you have Sirius, on the 70’s channel, they play the original American Top 40 broadcasts every weekend. They play the “current week” from a random year in the 70’s. It’s really fun to listen to…“Here’s an up and coming new artist, with his first hit…his name is Billy Joel [or Elton John or Aerosmith or whoever]…”</p>