Talk:Casey Kasem/Archive 1

OnStar?
I can't find any reference in a cursory googling for Casey Kasem being the voice of OnStar that wasn't just a copy-paste from this article. Does anyone have any citations or any corroboration for this? It seems to have been added on August 5 by 66.16.214.220. If not, I'll go ahead and add a [citation needed].

I also removed the "needs photo" notification from here, cause it has one.

--The Human Spellchecker (talk) 17:45, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

1990s Sirius?
How could Howard Stern popularize Kasem's "snuggles" outtake on Sirius radio in the 90s if he didn't have a show on Sirius till 2004/2005. I think you're crediting Stern with more work done by Negativland. At least, I first heard the outtakes through a Negativland work.--141.158.237.56 19:59, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

Druze or Maronite?
There's no mention of his religion in the article, but he's listed in both the Category:Druze and Category:Maronites, two faith groups I doubt see much overlap. Which is it? Tks. -- SigPig \SEND - OVER 15:52, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Looks like he's a descendant of Lebanese Druzes.

http://www.lebdruze.com/modules.php?name=News&file=print&sid=50


 * I think the article sho0uld mention this somewhere. Wachholder0 18:33, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

^ This seems to have been edited out;    209.94.217.95 03:58, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

I don thnk his religion is tht really important.... Do ya??? Kalivd 11:39, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

Yes, knowing his religious affiliation is important, as is spelling and proofreading. 76.127.22.202 (talk) 02:16, 16 September 2008 (UTC)KatellaGate

Radio actor
He was also involved in a old time radio show like The Lone Ranger. Can we get some info on that? MMetro (talk) 21:19, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

Awkward and Incorrectly Placed?
"Prior to 1970, Kasem was a dog catcher in Rochester, NY; there he originally gained fame musically due to his extremely large eight track tape collection. Kasem achieved notoriety on local news stations for using this vast tape collection to entertain the dogs that he had captured. The rest is history." The above quote reads rather awkwardly, especially the flowery end. Does that fact even need to be in the first graph? It seems a bit too detailed to be in the front, and the beginning's already a bit long here. K1da42 (talk) 18:30, 13 August 2008 (UTC)
 * As far as I can tell, this material was a hoax anyway. Kasem had been a DJ since the mid-1950s and had years of experience in radio before becoming the original host of American Top 40. He didn't go straight from dogcatcher to nationally syndicated radio host. But it appears that a couple of legitimate newspapers may have picked up this information from Wikipedia after it was added to the article. I can't find any newspapers that referenced Kasem being a dogcatcher from before that material was added to this article. So I removed the dogcatcher information, but if true verification of that shows up, it can be added back to the article. As a general rule, though, if you find material that is at the wrong place in an article, be bold and move it to a better location. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 03:12, 19 September 2008 (UTC)

PBS
A few years ago there was a PBS show about Andrew Jackson's presidency, and Kasem was the narrator. Does anyone know which documentary that was? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.52.217.194 (talk) 03:23, 25 September 2008 (UTC)

Loves to express trivia about a musician/song on his program
I think some mention should be made of Casey Kasem stating trivia facts about songs/musical artists on his radio program. He also likes to give out facts about an unnamed musician before a commerical break, and Not state the name about the person until after returning from the break. When Dick Clark gave a speech at the ceremony where Casey got his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame; Mr. Clark gave a few minute speech talking about Kasem's achievements (without metioning his name) and concluded by stating; "And I will tell you what his name is right after this brief commerical break!" That brought a lot of knowing laughter from the crowd, including Casey.204.80.61.110 (talk) 18:35, 28 April 2010 (UTC)Bennett Turk

Veganism Affecting Shaggy's Voice
I can't find anything to support the statement that Kasem's veganism affected Shaggy's voice. Does anyone have a citation for this?

Billy West claims on the second part of this radio program from 2007 that Casey was offended by Shaggy's consumption of meat in the series and became difficult. As a result Billy West replaced him in some of the cartoons or movies.

http://www.purehumbug.com/shows/2007/100-187/157_Get_This_121007_Billy_West.mp3 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 220.237.65.83 (talk) 13:23, 13 April 2011 (UTC)

References?
It says that Casey Kasem was born in 1932 and that, "Kasem was born in Detroit, Michigan to Lebanese Druze parents who emigrated from Palestine to Lebanon during the Israeli siege on Palestine." But 1) the references cited say only that he was born in Detroit, and that his parents were Palestinians who'd moved to Lebanon; there is no reference as to why they'd moved there. 2) There was no country of Israel in 1932 or earlier; that region was the British Mandate of Palestine. A country that did not exist could not conduct a siege. Perhaps he is quoted in an article as saying that, but there is no citation. Maybe someone could find such a quote? KB28 (talk) 05:26, 8 November 2010 (UTC)

Introduction, etc.
Yeah, I would just like to say that it's too bad that Casey Kasem isn't a household name in the U.K. like he is in the U.S. and the rest of the world. He's basically the North American equivalent of Alan "Fluff" Freeman, and one of the greatest storytellers around. Shemp99 (talk) 18:18, 4 December 2010 (UTC) Shemp99

Kemal or Kamal?
Is it definitively known what his original name was? The references cited by the article seem to be divided between these two spellings. Kiore (talk) 07:16, 21 December 2010 (UTC)