Kemal Amin Casey Kasem April 27 1932 June 15 2014 was an American disc jockey radio personality and voice actor who created and hosted several radio countdown programs notably American Top 40 He was the first actor to voice Norville Shaggy Rogers in the ScoobyDoo franchise 1969 to 1997 and 2002 to 2009 Kasem began hosting the original American Top 40 on the weekend of July 4 1970 and remained there until 1988 He would then spend nine years hosting another countdown titled Caseys Top 40 beginning in January 1989 and ending in February 1998 before returning to revive American Top 40 in 1998 Along the way spinoffs of the original countdown were conceived for country music and adult contemporary audiences and Kasem hosted two countdowns for the latter format beginning in 1992 and continuing until 2009 He also founded the American Video Awards in 1983 and continued to coproduce and host it until its final show in 1987 Kasem also provided many commercial voiceovers performed many voices for childrens television such as Sesame Street and the Transformers cartoon series was the voice of NBC and helped with the annual Jerry Lewis telethon Description above from the Wikipedia article Casey Kasem licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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