{"id":21703,"date":"2014-06-16T08:26:59","date_gmt":"2014-06-16T12:26:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=21703"},"modified":"2014-06-16T11:20:56","modified_gmt":"2014-06-16T15:20:56","slug":"honestly-beside-his-work-at-the-voice-of-shaggy-did-casey-kasem-add-anything-positive-to-your-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/honestly-beside-his-work-at-the-voice-of-shaggy-did-casey-kasem-add-anything-positive-to-your-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Honestly, Beside His Work at the Voice of Shaggy, Did Casey Kasem Add Anything Positive to Your Life?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/seCkv_aqSF8\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Before we get started here, the audio from this video is NOT SAFE FOR WORK, unless you work as a fishmonger or a truck driver. Also, it&#8217;s not meant as a commentary on the man&#8217;s work. I wish these bloopers had been aired rather than what was thought acceptable for his regular Top 40 countdown broadcasts. Had that been the case, my &#8220;appreciation&#8221; of <strong>Casey Kasem<\/strong> would have been more glowing.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #37404e;\">Yesterday,\u00a0my son said to me, &#8220;Did you hear that the voice of Shaggy died today?&#8221; <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #37404e;\">Funny, I never thought of Casey Kasem by that role first, but it might be his most worthwhile piece of work.\u00a0<\/span>Even as a little kid I found his Top 40 countdown show to be the nadir of music business hack activities. It was a drag when regular broadcasting on my favorite AM station was interrupted by that guy and his info-babble. His show was the human supermarket CNN scroll of rock, long before there were monitors in public places running a constant stream of obvious and useless information.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t mean to detract from Casey Kasem&#8217;s achievements as a human being, because he was likely a fantastic person to those who loved him, but I question whether his loss was in any way a significant loss to rock &#8216;n roll. Honestly, beside his work as the voice of Shaggy on <em>Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!<\/em>, did Casey Kasem add anything positive to your life? As a music lover was Kasem anything more than a corny guy you tolerated until regular programming resumed?<\/p>\n<div id=\"polls-376\" class=\"wp-polls\">\n\t<form id=\"polls_form_376\" class=\"wp-polls-form\" action=\"\/blogs\/index.php\" method=\"post\">\n\t\t<p style=\"display: none;\"><input type=\"hidden\" id=\"poll_376_nonce\" name=\"wp-polls-nonce\" value=\"0a7e94256e\" \/><\/p>\n\t\t<p style=\"display: none;\"><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"poll_id\" value=\"376\" \/><\/p>\n\t\t<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>What do you feel is Casey Kasem's most important body of work?<\/strong><\/p><div id=\"polls-376-ans\" class=\"wp-polls-ans\"><ul class=\"wp-polls-ul\">\n\t\t<li><input type=\"radio\" id=\"poll-answer-1461\" name=\"poll_376\" value=\"1461\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-1461\">His work as the voice of Shaggy.<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"radio\" id=\"poll-answer-1460\" name=\"poll_376\" value=\"1460\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-1460\">His syndicated American Top 40 countdown show.<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"radio\" id=\"poll-answer-1462\" name=\"poll_376\" value=\"1462\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-1462\">His snappy use of 4-letter words in American Top 40 outtakes.<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<\/ul><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><input type=\"button\" name=\"vote\" value=\"   Vote   \" class=\"Buttons\" onclick=\"poll_vote(376);\" \/><\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"#ViewPollResults\" onclick=\"poll_result(376); return false;\" title=\"View Results Of This Poll\">View Results<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n\t<\/form>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"polls-376-loading\" class=\"wp-polls-loading\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-polls\/images\/loading.gif\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Loading ...\" title=\"Loading ...\" class=\"wp-polls-image\" \/>&nbsp;Loading ...<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before we get started here, the audio from this video is NOT SAFE FOR WORK, unless you work as a fishmonger or a truck driver. Also, it&#8217;s not meant as a commentary on the man&#8217;s work. I wish these bloopers had been aired rather than what was thought acceptable for his regular Top 40 countdown <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/honestly-beside-his-work-at-the-voice-of-shaggy-did-casey-kasem-add-anything-positive-to-your-life\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[170,208],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21703"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}