Moment of Silence: Casey Kasem

[ysabetwordsmith]

Casey Kasem has passed away.  I knew him as the voice of Shaggy in Scooby-Doo,  Robin in Super Friends,  and Mark in Battle of the Planets.  For a lot of us, he was an iconic voice of childhood and will be deeply missed.

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Sigh. I am now middle aged

[dialecticdreamer]

The authors of books I loved in childhood have (I think ALL) died, the voices of cartoon characters I can /still/ identify by at most two words spoken... Sheesh.

I tell ya, I'm going to hold onto the bad news until hubby's ready to go to work tomorrow---he is a bigger cartoon fan than I ever was!

[lilly_c]

I cried a little when I first saw the news of his passing, Scooby Doo is still one of my favourite cartoons. Another part of my childhood has gone, what with Eric Hill, who wrote the Spot The Dog books also passing away recently as well.

[chanter1944]

I knew him first and foremost as the voice of kindly musical authority on many, many a Sunday night, and quite a few Saturdays as well - there were three or four countdowns on the air at different times, and in my part of the Midwest, we got them all. I was absolutely addicted to the top 40 charts from ten years of age to twelve or so. I couldn't even begin to count how many hours I spent on the swings in the backyard, Walkman on my head and countdown in my ears, or in the blue recliner in the living room with the stereo tuned to a signal that slooooowly faded in to perfect, or upstairs, sitting bolt upright on my bed in the dark, absorbed in the show. I have bits of musical trivia forever in my brain thanks to him, not to mention the details of the sort of fantasy world only a ten-year-old could dream up, populated by musical artists and fairy folk, full of ridiculous buildings and vehicles and of course, a dozen shameless self-inserts. Casey was always the good witch figure in that world, to David Perry's (occasional countdown stand-in, to less than stellar effect) evil usurper who must be vanquished. ... I was a strange little kid. :)