In Honor of Shadoe Stevens’ Radio Hall of Fame Induction, A Flashback to When He Took Over as ‘American Top 40’ Host
, the show’s second host spoke withvia e-mail, offering insight into his storied career in multiple media, revealing the challenges and rewards of steering the world’s most prominent radio countdown.
The single most challenging aspect of replacing Casey was dealing with the rampant anxiety and paranoia of the producers and executives of ABC Radio. The show was written for Casey and I simply couldn’t wrap my mouth around those words. Everything sounded phony and contrived. The first four-hour show took 18 hours to record.
I even went on a safari in Mala Mala, where I almost died. I contracted salmonella poisoning from bad calamari in Cape Town and, by the time we were in the middle of the jungle, it took hold. I initially thought it was just regular food poisoning and would clear up. Several days later, my whole body began shaking and they flew me out to Johannesburg where I was so dehydrated that, according to doctors, I was about 30 minutes from death. I remained in the hospital recuperating for nearly a week.
The network was on the air with “nationwide coverage” on terrestrial radio in 30 countries. It was one of the most successful radio networks in the world in the first decade of Internet Radio, on the air worldwide in seven languages: English, Spanish, French, German, Russian, Japanese and Chinese Mandarin.was born. The idea was simple: “top of the pop, top of the rock, top of the hip-hop, at the top of the world” … a weekly review of the most popular music in the world.
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