Dear Casey Kasem’s Top 40 Radio Show That Aired Sunday Mornings in the Boston Area,
Hey, it’s been awhile. How’ve you been? I heard a rerun of you the other day. That was strange. Because it was always so important to hear what the top songs were from that week – it was so topical, so now – and a rerun is nice, like a time capsule, but just so different from what I remember your essence to be.
Remember when Becky and I used to borrow my mom’s car keys at the church coffee hour to go out to the car and listen to the end of the countdown?
What I was thinking about when I heard that rerun was how badly we wanted to know what the top song was that week. It most likely wasn’t going to be a surprise. It was usually a song that had been steadily climbing the charts or even the same #1 as the week before – but we had to know. It was imperative. It was necessary to our lives.
And every Sunday, you were there.
-e.