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>> >>My Top 3 favourite AT40 gest hosts are: >>> >>At # 2, Keri Tombazian, not only because she was the >>first female ever to subhost but mostly because of her >>excellent delivery. I still listen to her 4/16/88 show >>quite often. Great storyteller! Would someone please >>inform us about her whereabouts? Is she still doing >>live radio? > >Keri Tombazian did co-hosting duties with Kris Eric >Stevens on "Entertainment Coast To Coast" a 1 hour >radio version of entertainment tonight for CBS radio >radio, a couple years after doing her AT40 gig (mid >1980's) ironically, it featured a top 5 "count up" >every week. the show I believe only lasted a couple >years, but I was very impressed with her delivery. the >show was satellited, but I have 1 show delivered on >reel tape from summer 1985. I also have a demo record >that CBS radio radio sent out to stations. as where >she is today....ya got me....off to google I guess.... > > >> >>At # 1, the great Charlie Van Dyke, with his deep, >>direct voice and personal style. Like Casey himself, >>he never at all sounded like reading a script. >>To me, the most obscure sentence of Rob's magnificient >>book is the one that goes "sources close to the show >>felt he (CVD) couldn't carry the show on a >>week-in-and-week-out basis", when talking abot the >>selection for the new host in 1988. >>I also wonder why he only deserved a short paragraph >>in the whole book & why his name doesn't appear in the >>acknowledgments list. Did he refuse to be interviewed >>for the book or something? > >charlie van dyke is one of my favorite liner jocks out >there with a very natural bottom end punch in his >delivery.I remember always asking the PD of the >station I was getting AT40's from in the 80's for the >charlie shows if I could get them, and I usually >could. charlie also did numerous other shows, Opus 80 >for one, and a series produced by telemedia radio in >canada in the 80's, around the same time he subbed for >AT40 called "legendary performers" I have one of >those, featuring paul mccartney. > >well.....time to comment on my favs, admittingly, >charlie is the one i've heard the most, so I'll pick >him as my fav. Charlie also subbed for gary owens in >the last month of abc watermark's "soundtrack of the >60s", as it went out of production in june of 1984 >(mentioned in rob's book as to why...ABC only really >wanted ACC and AT40 of watermark's shows...the rest >they cancelled!) Gary went to creative radio shows to >start a substitute program called "gary owens >supertracks" which was more gary's trademark silliness >then soundtrack was. > >I haven't heard gary's subbing on AT40, or a lot of >the other subs, though I would think mark "voice of >disney" elliott would be good as well....he co-hosted >"Dick Clark's Rock Roll and Remember" in the mid 80's >and really sounded good on that, plus his subbing on >CT40, during the show's first year. > >dave roberts i'm not particularly fond of. I have the >4/11/86 show he subs on, and it seems hard for him to >even come remotely close to feeling comfortable with >the format. >he's too much "radio jock" and not enough >"personality" > > >>When it comes to talk about the worst subhosts ever, >>my vote goes for Hall and Oates. I appreciate their >>music very much, and I know there were some >>misunderstandings during the tracking session but >>shoudn't any AT40 gesthost be, at least, able to read >>loud and clear in front of, and close to, a >microphone? > > >loud and clear isn't necessarily what it's all about. >clear yes, loud, not really....you want a strong, >intimate delivery, something that says to the listener >that it's just you and the host, and something that >casey has mastered. it's very powerful. it's very >natural in his own delivery, and his strength. not >many people can master it. and when you expect that >from a guest host, it's often something they can't >come close to. charlie is probably the closest. >admittingly, I think charlie was better then shadoe, >but if you are going hip, shadoe was better.

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