One of the TV/movie tropes on a website I like is called Early Installment Weirdness where an episode early in the run of (especially) a long-running series, just seems out of place as the characters still develop and the writers work out some things.
Applied to American Top 40, the earliest shows definitely are American Top 40 with a remarkable similarity to the shows of the 80's, but some of the features that disappeared over time:
- radio station DJs doing their own name check, rather than Casey
- predicting next weeks' #1
- playing a track off that week's #1 album
and perhaps most oddly as I heard this week, Casey encouraging young people to register to vote (!!)
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