New Rockford Transcript - Official Newspaper of Eddy County since 1883

I grew up listening to Casey Kasem’s Weekly Top 40 music countdown. It was a different era where musical success wasn’t measured by downloads and clicks. Even to this day I can’t say I really understood how his Top 40 was compiled, but I was hip to the long-distance dedications.

Listeners (maybe thousands?) would write the show and Kasem would read one on-air and the dedication was gran...