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Casey Kasem To Receive NARM Presidential Award

 

Host Of The Weekly American Top 40 Will Also Emcee The NARM Awards Banquet

     

      Noted radio personality and pop culture icon Casey Kasem will receive the National Association of Recording Merchandisers’ Presidential Award for Sustained Executive Achievement during NARM’s Awards Banquet at the 43rd Annual Convention in Orlando, Florida. Kasem will also emcee the Awards Banquet, announcing and presenting the Merchandiser and Supplier Of The Year Awards. The event will be the evening of March 14.

      “Casey Kasem’s voice is synonymous with hit music,” notes NARM President Pamela Horovitz. “His many years of counting down the hits on radio and TV have helped NARM members sell millions of records, one of many accomplishments for which we are privileged to honor him.”

      Kasem’s is the friendly voice of the biggest weekly countdown show: American Top 40 With Casey Kasem, which is currently on the Premiere Radio Networks. As a college student, he first landed national radio show roles in The Lone Ranger and Sergeant Preston Of The Yukon. His work as a disc jockey eventually branched into television and film work, and he was immediately sought for promos and cartoon shows, and eventually gave voice to characters in Scooby Doo, Super Friends, Mister Magoo, Transformers, and Sesame Street.

      Away from work, Kasem has co-hosted Jerry Lewis’s annual Labor Day Telethon. He has done television spots and specials aimed at combating alcohol abuse, drunk driving and hunger, as well as a major National Cancer Institute campaign against smoking. Kasem has helped unite Arabs, Jews and others to discuss conflict resolution, and for his work received the 1989 Martin Luther King Drum Major Award from the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the NAACP’s 1990 Image Award and the Ellis Island Medal of Honor Award.

      NARM serves the music and other prerecorded entertainment software industry as the pre-eminent forum for insight and dialogue for its more than 1,100 member retailers, wholesalers, distributors, entertainment software suppliers, and suppliers of related products and services.