cartoon "Scooby-Doo," which premiered in 1969. (He also was the voice of Robin on "Super Friends.")

That voice became ubiquitous. He was NBC's promotional announcer in the late '70s and early '80s, and heard on dozens of commercials.

But "American Top 40" remains his legacy.

"Kasem started the show in 1970, a curious time to start a show about Top 40 mainstream pop, because the format had just been pronounced dead and progressive album-oriented radio was on the rise," wrote Susan Orlean in a 1990 New York Times Magazine profile. "He infused the show with corny reverence for conventional American values exactly when cynicism had become the more fashionable posture."

Kasem attributed his success to that everyday voice.

"It's not a clear-toned announcer's voice," he told the Times. "It's more like the voicelok-sabha-elections

Updated: May 24, 2019 19:19 IST

The Congress in Haryana touched nadir on Thursday with the result for 10 Lok Sabha seats bringing a complete rout for the grand old party. Barring three-time MP Deepender Hooda, who lost by a slender margin to BJP’s Arvind Sharma from his traditional Rohtak parliamentary constituency, the rest of the nine Congress candidates lost by huge margins in the range of 1.60-6.50 lakh.

The Congress party though can take solace in the fact that its vote share this time increased by about 5% — from 22.99 % in 2014 to about 28%. It’s still way below the 40% plus the party enjoyed when it won 9 seats in 2004 and 2009.

The biggest setback for the party was the loss of former chief minister Bhupinder