With the recent death of one of the world’s revered music personalities, we once again go in mourning. Rock and Roll, while young in nature, is filled with aging originals. One of them was Casey Kasem.
Casey Kasem started his national notoriety with American Top 40 back in 1970. From then until 2009, Casey Kasem was a voice that let us know about our music fixations, and where they placed in a charting position.
Unfortunately, I never watched much of Casey Kasem, as his counting of the Top 40 never realy meshed with my style of listening. But I always knew that he was important to many, many others. I would have been a fool to not know the icon he had become. I don’t think I ever heard him utter his famous phrase, “Keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for the stars”.
Still, Casey Kasem is an essential part of Rock and Roll, much like Wolfman Jack, Allen Freed, and Dick Clark were, and still are. I could not post nothing about his passing.
And so, like all great things, as they come to their inevitable ends, we are here to stand at the side f the road as Casey Kasem passes by. So long, sir! And:
Keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for the stars. However, it appears to me, Mr Kasem, you have caught a passing star.
Casey Kasem
1932-2014
RIP
I remember listening to him when I was in elementary school. By the time I hit Jr high my tastes in music diverged as well.
Oddly, I just happened to be in the truck a couple of months ago and heard a rerun of one of his old shows on Sirius/XM before he was in the news recently. Maybe it was the 70’s station. Another icon gone. Time stand still.