Radio

Kasem is better known by title when a music historiographer & disc jockey, virtually all notably as unsuspecting hosts of the hebdomadally American Top 40 radio program from either 1970 to 1988, & once more from March 1998 until January 10 2004, when Ryan Seacrest succeeded him. He hosted the spin-byproduct tv show known as ''America's Top 10 for a time in the 1980s. He was a persons of the short-transient U.s. version of 100% in 1999. For a cycle in the late 1970s & early Eighties, Kasem was the staff announcer for the NBC television network. Further recently, he has appeared in infomercials about CD music compilations. Kasem was inducted into a Radio Hall of Fame in 1992.

Casey Kasem developed his rock-trivia persona from either his operate as a disc jockey in the early 1960s at KEWB in Oakland, California.

Outtakes

The ill-famed perfectionist around the studio, recordings of the foiled Kasem in the long profane rant in the period of a rehearsal for Our contries Top 40'' appeared in Negativland's single "U2". Inside it, Kasem is heard introducing the U2 single by reading the list & instruments of the entire personnel of the band from either the script. Kasem interrupts & says: An additional ill-famed Kasem outtake from either 1985 (as well utilized by Negativland in their U2 only) involves Casey reading a "Long Distance Dedication" from either the human to his gone pooch "Snuggles." Casey objects to the dedication as a consequence an higher tempo song & explodes: A tape widely circulated among Kasem's fans & using your internet browser, in which it acquired a unofficial title of "The Dead Dog Tape" or even a "Snuggles Tape." Though typically mis-understood, Kasem is actually objecting to a tempo shift between a former song & a dedication, non the dedication itself.

Television
Kasem occurs as large voice-all over actor, virtually all notably a voice of Shaggy in Hanna-Barbera's Scooby-Doo cartoons from 1969 until 1991. He has work for numbers of more alive series, like a voice of Robin in the original Batman animated series (1968) and a late SuperFriends series, the drummer Groove from The Cattanooga Cats (1969), Alexander Cabot III from Josie and the Pussycats (1970, 1972), and television specials like Rankin-Bass' Here Comes Peter Cottontail.

In the 1980s he was a regular voice-actor on The Transformers, before quitting a indicate around its third year when a dispute on the portrayal of Arab characters. He too walked out inside his role once Shaggy within 1995, when he was asked to voice Shaggy in the Burger King commercial message. Kasem – a vegetarian – felt that that was out or keeping for the character, whom he wished likewise to exist as the vegetarian. He returned to the character within 2002, after Hanna-Barbera agreed to portray Shaggy as a nonindulgent vegetarian, however a fact a Shaggy has been seen by unnumberable viewers gorging himself within any food in sight, including plenty of meat, since 1969.