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ANARCHY ERUPTS ON MOTOWN TV A reign of terror pours forth outside a Detroit, MI courthouse on Saturday afternoon, January 21, 2012 when a woman darts out waving a WXYZ TV ABC CH 7 tripod as a weapon. After cops charge a 35-year-old man on murder charges, the families of the victim and the defendant meet eyeball-to-eyeball outside the courthouse. Things heat up rapidly between the two groups. A female ally of the defendant grabs a WXYZ TV tripod from the sidewalk. She slams the tripod to the ground and rips off one of its legs and waves it around like a jousting Knight of the Round Table. The inflamed woman heaves the tripod over her head as she circles the group. According to WXYZ TV the enraged woman screams: Stand back cameraman, because I’m going to kill these [expletive]! The arm of the law seizes the woman, rips away her lance missile and all's quiet on the western front.
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PHILLY RADIO HOST PUNCHES CAB DRIVER Philly.com reports that 31 year old Tom Byrne Philadelphia, PA area evening talk co-host on Sports WPEN FM (The Fanatic 97.5) Burlington, NJ leaves a cab without paying the $5 cab fee. Cabbie says that when he follows Byrne to collect the $5 fee the talk host grabbed his glasses, punched him in the face. According to WPEN FM, Tom is off the air for the time being. Byrne's day in court is on February 3, 2012. Greater Media's reaction: Tom deeply regrets his behavior on Sunday night. He extends his sincere apology to the cab driver and make amends if possible. Tom will be taking a leave of absence and we support him in those efforts. Tom’s broadcasting career begins as the voice of the Scranton Royals play-by-play of his college’s basketball team. After graduation, he returns to the Philly area on WBCB-1490 Levittown. Tom has a daily Phonebet TV show and writes for The Sports Network. In April 2008, he goes full-time on ESPN WPEN-950 as the morning drive update anchor and weekend host. Next, he moves to nights as host of his own show.
COUNTRY LEGEND PERFORMS LAST TOUR The news that doctors diagnose one of our favorite singers, Country music legend Glen Campbell, with Alzheimer's disease shocks all of us. In June 2011, physicians pinpoint the 75-year-old Campbell with Alzheimer's. Before it seizes his memory, Glen decides to go on his final tour. As part of Glen's Goodbye Tour, on February 26, 2012 he performs a benefit concert at Thalia Mara Hall in downtown Jackson, MS with the proceeds going to assist the University of Mississippi Medical Center Alzheimer's disease research institute. Medical books tell us that Alzheimer's is a degenerative brain disease and type of dementia marked by memory loss, personality changes and diminished reasoning ability. There is no known cure or even an effective treatment for Alzheimer's. Our prayers are with Glen Campbell as he battles this mind sapping affliction.
TRIVIA QUESTION: When does CBS TV variety program Tony Orlando and Dawn debut? The answer appears below.
MOVERS AND SHAKERS
•KXAN-TV LIN NBC CH2 reports South by Southwest Festival books downtown Austin, TX hotels solid for SXSW-2012. •NEW YORK GIANTS' overtime victory over San Francisco 49ers is 3rd-most watched conference championship game in 30 years. •UNITED STATIONS RADIO NETWORKS ends four-year-old Lou Dobbs Show in February 2012 by mutual agreement. Dobbs can now devote more time to his top-rated Fox Business Network TV program. •JOE PATERNO 6 decades Penn State winningest coach in major college football history dies of lung cancer at 85 on Sunday, January 22, 2012.
ENTERTAINMENT AND NEWS MILESTONES
•1956 NEW YORK GIANTS NFL switches its games from Polo Grounds to Yankee Stadium on January 27th. •1963 KEECH RAINWATER drummer with Lonestar born on January 24th in Plano, TX. •1972 MAHALIA JACKSON Gospel singer (He's Got the Whole World in His Hands-1958) dies of heart failure at 60 on January 27th. •1988 RANDY TRAVIS wins four plaques at the 15th annual American Music Awards on January 25th. •1994 EDDIE CALHOUN Jazz bassist dies at 72 of cancer in his home on Paradise Lake, MS. •2007 RODNEY ATKINS' single Watching You lands at #1 in Billboard Country on January 27th.
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JEFF THOMPSON (Greensboro-Winston-Salem, NC) Subject: Elvis's Birth and Death [arrival in Memphis, TN]. A few hours later, there I was, standing out in the rain with thousands of Elvis fans who had heard the news and just made a turn heading to Graceland Tennessee. The next 3 days were truly intense, reporting on Elvis's funeral, his body being placed in a vault not far from his mother's grave at the cemetery and a hit and run accident that night of his death in front of the mansion. By the way, I visited her grave, and Elvis did NOT die on the anniversary of her death as many report. Mrs. Presley passed on the 14th of August, not the 16th. By the way, however, his first recording success, "Heartbreak Hotel", hit # 1 on the charts in January, same month as his birth. Jeff Thompson, formerly of KXYZ (1320) Houston, & KASE (FM 100.7) Austin: builder of KMSC [Manned Spacecraft Center] (FM 102.1) [now KMJQ FM] Clear Lake and Anchorman/Reporter at NBC Network News, WINS (1010), and WOR-TV in New York City.
FRANK HALEY (Albuquerque, NM) Subject: Ken Dowe. Well, they (Granny Emma & Ken Dowe) do live in Dallas (Highland Park) but they have a home in Santa Fe (NM) and one in Tyler (TX) on a lake some where. Have not seen that one, but we have been to the Dallas and Santa Fe digs. Ken is all retired now and traveling the world with his sweet wife Dottie. The ice cream was chocolate with sprinkles on it... See you. Frank
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BOB FORD (Houston-Galveston, TX) Subject: Howdy! Hi Jim...I stumble across your site every now and then...and wasn't aware that one could subscribe. I'd like to do that now! If this email is all it takes, great! If not, please let me know what I need to do to have your fine work...in my inbox. Thanks much, Bob; Bob Ford Productions, Inc. (www.bobfordproductions.com)
JOHN HALE (Austin-Cedar Park, TX) Subject: Jim Rose Remembers Radio (#1067) January 23, 2011 [Monday] Jim, Just lately, the news seems to be full with the passing of people I hugely respected. Etta James was, simply, the finest female singer I ever heard. I liked Dinah Washington, and Aretha was great too, but Etta James was in a class by herself. Johnny Otis is best known for Willie & the Hand Jive, but he was a great developer of r&b talent as well. Little Esther Phillips was just one of his finds. Richard Mock was one of the great newsmen and news anchors I ever heard. I listened to him on KLIF (1190) and KNUS-FM, and he served as a role model for me for nearly twenty two years of on-air news work. I guess if you hang around long enough, you have to start running out of people you respect...but it's sure making it harder to watch and read the news these days.
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JAY WEST (Houston, TX) Subject: Alan Shapiro. Caught the message to me from Alan Shapiro. Since he did not leave an email address...I would love to keep in touch with him. Sooooo, if he is reading your column today, please contact me at: jayweststudio@gmail.com. Thanks Jim, and thanks Alan. JAY WEST
JOAN PATE-DAY (Cedar Creek Lake, TX) Subject: good morning. Laughed at Mike's (Shannon) "dressed to look professional." I thought it was because silly girls were always chasing you guys and you wanted to look good for them. Mike seems to be a caring person. He will go a long way in his field. Sorry to hear of Dick Mock's passing.
TRIVIA ANSWER: On July 3, 1974 CBS TV premiers its new variety program Tony Orlando and Dawn. The summer replacement for the Sonny & Cher Show runs through December 28, 1976. Pop music group Tony Orlando and Dawn is very popular in the 1970s. Their first big hit is Candida (#3-1970). In 1971, Knock Three Times not only hits #1 for 3 weeks but it also is the top song of 1971 with sales of over six million copies. In 1973, their most memorable hit is Tie a Yellow Ribbon 'Round the Old Oak Tree. Tony Orlando and Dawn (Telma Hopkins and Joyce Vincent Wilson) become international sensations. Tony Orlando guests on Jerry's Labor Day Telethon for 25 years, nine of which as the New York host. Tony wins three American Music Awards and a People's Choice Award. In 1990 Orlando scores a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for outstanding achievements to the entertainment industry.
TONY WILLIAMS (Dallas-Richardson, TX) Jim, Hi. Years ago, my family also went to California but went through the desert in a non-A/C car -- about 1957 I believe. My dad said my face turned beet red. He swore when we returned to Oklahoma, he was going to get a car with air conditioning. Within a week, he had traded for a new Buick LeSabre (think that was the model) with huge fins on the back like a rocket and A/C vents in the back along the back windshield. Strange. Yes, my dad let me drive a little around town. Today, you'd probably get arrested. When I was 10, I got in my grandfather's old 1947 Plymouth and managed to put it in reverse. It rolled down the driveway into the middle of the street.
JESUS CHRIST [John 16:33b, NIV] In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.
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CHESS RECORDS FIRST SOUL SINGER SUCCUMBS Etta James song At Last places the R&B, Rock and Jazz legend into music grandeur. Etta James is born Jamesetta Hawkins on January 25, 1938. In the early 1950s, bandleader Johnny Otis discovers her singing on San Francisco street corners with a couple of girlfriends. In 1987, James tells The Associated Press: At the time, Hank Ballard and the Midnighters had a hit with 'Work with Me, Annie', and we decided to do an answer. Their reply to Ballard's song is Roll with Me, Henry. When Johnny Otis hears the song, he tells 15-year-old James to get her mother's permission to go with him to Los Angeles to make a recording. Etta forges her mother's name on a note that claims she is 18. James remembers: At that time, you weren't allowed to say 'roll' because it was considered vulgar...when Georgia Gibbs did her version, she renamed it 'Dance With Me, Henry' and it went to #1. In 1959, she signs with Chicago's legendary Chess label and cranks out the hits. Chess founder, Leonard Chess, calls James their first female soul singer. She goes on tours with star entertainers Bobby Vinton, Little Richard, Fats Domino, Gene Vincent, Jerry Lee Lewis and the Everly Brothers. In the late 1950s and 1960s James records a string of hits that includes her Evergreen Classic, At Last. Etta James dies of leukemia at 73 on Friday, January 20, 2012 in a Riverside, CA hospital. She turns 74 on Wednesday.
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RHYTHM AND BLUES GODFATHER BIDS FAREWELL Johnny Otis brings black music to white audiences. Johnny's biggest hit is Willie and the Hand Jive (#9 summer 1958) but for decades he promotes black music to white audiences as a bandleader and radio host on Pacifica Public Radio stations KPFK FM (90.7) Los Angeles and KPFA FM (94.1) Berkeley, CA. Johnny Otis is white. He is born John Veliotes December 8, 1921 in Vallejo, CA to Greek immigrants. He grows up in a black section of Berkeley, where he claims to identify far more with black decorum than his own. As a teen, he changes his name to Johnny Otis because he believes that it sounds more black. In 1945, his first big hit is Harlem Nocturne. In 1950, 10 of his songs land on Billboard's R&B chart. Otis recognizes and promotes talent. He discovers such legendary R&B vocalists as Etta James, Hank Ballard, Big Mama Thornton and the Robins (who evolve into the Coasters). Johnny produces Big Mama's original version of Hound Dog which Elvis Presley turns into solid Gold. Johnny Otis dies at 90 on Tuesday, January 17, 2012 in his home in the Los Angeles, CA suburb of Altadena. His survivors include his wife, Phyllis [whom he marries in 1941]; daughters Janet and Laura plus several grandchildren.
TRIVIA QUESTION: When does the original NFL Today premiere on CBS TV with Brent Musburger? The answer appears below.
MOVERS AND SHAKERS
•HAPPY BIRTHDAY! Jo Bussell [CBS Radio] finally makes it to legal age on Monday, January 16th. Dick Glancey [former KLIF-1190 newscaster] on Monday, January 23rd. Kendall Dunaway [radio legend Chuck Dunaway's lovely bride] on Wednesday, January 25th. Jim Pruett [former Hudson & Harrigan KILT-610; Stevens & Pruett KULF-790, KLOL FM (101.1) Houston, TX] on Wednesday, January 25th. Salute! •RICHARD THRELKELD award-winning CBS TV and ABC TV News correspondent dies at 74 on Friday morning, January 13, 2012 when his car plows into a propane tanker on New York's Long Island.
ENTERTAINMENT AND NEWS MILESTONES
•1955 KORK TV (now KVBC) NBC CH 3 in Las Vegas, NV 1st broadcast is on January 23rd. •1969 ELVIS PRESLEY records Suspicious Minds on January 23rd at the American Studios in Memphis, TN. •1978 NFL PRO BOWL: NFC beats AFC 14-13 on January 23rd. •1987 REBA MCENTIRE's Whoever's In New England is her first Gold album on January 23rd. •1993 THOMAS A. DORSEY Jazz pianist after the death of his wife and child in 1930 writes Take My Hand, Precious Lord dies at 93 on January 23rd in Chicago, IL. •2008 TAYLOR SWIFT's single Picture to Burn releases to radio on Big Machine records on January 23rd.
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FRANK HALEY (Albuquerque, NM) I just heard from Paul Menard that Richard (Dick) Mock died Dec. 1, 2011. Had you heard that??? Here’s what I got from Paul Menard: 'In case you didn't know Richard passed away in December (I believe) from lung complications due to a heavy bacteria being spread by the tornado that killed some people. As a matter of fact when I first found him in a Springfield (MO) hospital he was in his hospital room with 2 members of the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention-WW2-era Malaria Control division of the Dept. of Health) out of Atlanta. Richard was inducted into the Texas Hall of Fame last year and he was overjoyed. Paul Menard' (www.joplinglobe.com) That's all I know... Frank
CONNELL MILLER (Bella Vista, AR) Subject: Sad day in the music world...My musical comrades...Man, it's a sad day in the music world, as we've lost both Etta James and Johnny Otis. Yahoo News had a great story on Otis, which I've copied into Word. You can click on the attachment and read it. He sure did a lot more in the biz than just "Willie and the Hand Jive." Can't remember that one great hit of Etta's that Ronnie Hawkins used to do in the early '60s, with Robbie playing that soulful blues guitar (before his flamboyant - and less "bluesy" - playing in The Band). She was one of the best! Great, Jim, I'll be looking for it! By the way - that "Robbie" I mentioned playing with Ronnie Hawkins was Robbie Robertson. Thanks...you and Lacy have a great weekend as well! Connell
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ALAN SHAPIRO (Houston-Lake Conroe, TX) Subject: Jay West. Hi Jay, this is Alan Shapiro, hope you're doing well. I just wanted to let you know that I speak to Danny O every month or so and he's doing great in Nashville. I spent 3 years there in the '90 as GM of Giant Records. I finally moved out of CA this Christmas and am living on Lake Conroe...let's keep in touch=
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MIKE MARSHALL (Houston, TX) Subject: Reading for the Blind. Jim, I would like to thank Ira Lipson for mentioning the work being done by current and former broadcasters as a service to blind and visually handicapped listeners. I have been volunteering at Sight Into Sound Radio in Houston for a little over three years. Over two hundred fifty volunteers read newspapers, magazines and books to the blind community. The signal is transmitted over PBS Houston's digital channel 8.4 and is available on special receivers supplied at no charge to the listener. I read the Houston Chronicle every Thursday morning and host a show called Senior Notes with music and news for seniors. It's fun and very rewarding. (Almost every day someone has brought in candy or doughnuts). Anyone in the Houston area that is interested should contact www.sightintosound.org. I'm sorry I didn't start years ago. Mike Marshall
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MIKE SHANNON (Dallas-Mesquite, TX) Subject: WFAA promo. Hi Jim! Thanks for the newspaper scan that Mike Marshall sent you...sorry for being so late in responding to it. You guys were quite a clean-cut group! Handsome and dapper, but that look was indeed short-lived in the late 60s. Someone told me once that the reason for dressing up for a job was that, if you looked professional, you'd act and feel professional. Doesn't say much about today's dress codes...ha. Thanks again, and hope all is well! Mike (www.knus99.com/)
TRIVIA ANSWER: During the 1964 season, Frank Gifford hosts a 15-minute regional sports program NFL Report which later that season retitles to The NFL Today. In 1967, The NFL Today expands to 30 minutes. In 1971, when Frank Gifford leaves CBS to call play-by-play on ABC's Monday Night Football Jack Whitaker and Pat Summerall take over The NFL Today hosting duties. In 1973, The NFL Today originates from CBS TV's New York studios with reports from stadiums around the country. In 1974, CBS abandons its pre-recorded NFL Today show and its quickie wrap-up show, Pro Football Report, for the live show The NFL on CBS. On September 15, 1974, the revamped NFL Today debuts a new three-segment format with hosts Jack Whitaker and Lee Leonard. CBS renames its stadium studios and its pre-game CBS Control set the CBS Sports Center. CBS TV eliminates its third member position at CBS Control often held by Dick Stockton. On September 21, 1975 CBS TV pioneers the NFL pre-game studio show, The NFL Today, with Brent Musburger, Phyllis George, Irv Cross and Jimmy The Greek Snyder. The NFL Today sets the Gold standard for all network and cable studio shows by winning 13 Emmys.
DAVID FAULKNER (Dallas, TX) Subject: Belated Happy New Year! Jim & Lacy, Best Wishes for a Happy 2012! I shouldn't be late with these. The way time flies, it'll be 2013 before we know it. :) Peace, David Faulkner
ROBERT W. PAUL (October 3, 1869 – March 28, 1943) I'm a little bit older, a little bit wiser, a little bit rounder, but still none the wiser.
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TEXAS TV NEWS ANCHOR PERISHES Merrell Gregory, one of the first female TV news anchors in El Paso, TX dies of cancer at 66 in Asheville, NC on Friday, January 13, 2012. In the 1970s, as a native El Pasoan, Merrell anchors local news on KELP TV CH13 (now KVIA TV CH7). She also is a reporter at the El Paso Times and the El Paso Herald-Post, public relations director for Providence Memorial Hospital and the YWCA of El Paso. Her niece Merrell Foote, an Austin communications director, remembers: She's always been an inspiration for me and the entire family. I was named for her, and that's always been an honor. Merrell's last positions are as public relations director at Mission Hospital in Asheville, where she also is a reporter, columnist and city editor in the local newspaper. Gregory serves on the North Carolina Governor's Highway Safety Commission. According to her family, Gregory is an Army brat. Her dad is retired Colonel Alvin E. Fort of El Paso. In 1967, Merrell receives her bachelor's degree in English from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. Merrell Gregory's survivors include her husband, Hugh Hamilton Gregory Jr.; daughters, Jess Gregory and June Gregory; son Jimmy Gregory; father; sister, Rolfe Godshalk and eight grandchildren. Her mother, June Fort, precedes her in death.
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TOP ALL-TIME TV ANCHOR TEAM FishbowlNY readers All-Time New York Anchor Team poll Top 5 countdown: #5 Rolland Smith and Jim Jensen (1975 to 1987) 4% of the vote; #4 Smith and Michele Marsh (1979 to 1987) 7%; #3 Jim Watkins and Kaity Tong (1998 to 2010) 9%; #2 Roger Grimsby and Bill Beutel (1970 to 1986) 26% and at #1 Chuck Scarborough and Sue Simmons (1980 to present) 33%. Scarborough tells FishbowlNY: It’s been an extraordinary privilege sharing an anchor desk with Sue Simmons for over three decades serving our viewers in the metropolitan area. Being chosen as their all-time favorite anchor team is both humbling and heartwarming. Chuck and Sue are on the air longer than any other anchor team in New York City history.
LETTERMAN CANS BRILL Political correctness seems to dominate our lives today. Eddie Brill who is a comedian talent booking agent for The Late Show with David Letterman loses his job after he makes comments in a New York Times profile that some consider sexist: ...there are a lot less female comics who are authentic. I see a lot of female comics who to please an audience will act like men. Those harmless words open up tsunami avalanche amongst soothsayers. In a 4 am post to new comedy publication Mirth's message board, Eddie tries to smooth out the criticisms of his comments. He says that his remarks are taken out of context when he describes established comedian Amy Schumer as a comedian's girlfriend because she previously dates fellow comedian Anthony Jeselnik. Jason Zinoman, the New York Times writer who profiles his post, says that the remarks are not taken out of context. Schmumer fires back: Eddie, is that my identity? 'That comedian’s girlfriend'? I would examine the possibility that you need more updating than you think. Brill explains: It is time for me to accept the consequences of my printed words...and to learn from this.
TRIVIA QUESTION: When does CBS TV News Correspondent Eric Sevareid retire? The answer appears below.
MOVERS AND SHAKERS
•MARTHA STRWART at age 70 in tears after the Hallmark Channel axes her The Martha Stewart Show due to high production costs and dismal ratings. The diva tells friends that she wants to win back young female viewers who turn off her show in droves by losing at least 25 pounds and shaving years off her looks even if it costs a million bucks to look like a million. •BETTY WHITE America's favorite Golden Girl TV hostess with the mostest turns 90 on Tuesday, January 17, 2012. •MUHAMMAD ALI (aka Cassius Clay) floats like a butterfly and stings like a bee as he rumbles in the jungle to 70 years old on Tuesday, January 17, 2012.
ENTERTAINMENT AND NEWS MILESTONES
•1958 KUED TV PBS CH 7 in Salt Lake City, UT begins broadcasting on January 20th. •1968 MERLE HAGGARD's single Sing Me Back Home lands at #1 in Billboard Country on January 20th. •1971 GILBERT M. [Broncho Billy] ANDERSON first Western movie star (The Great Train Robbery 1903) dies at 90 on January 20th. •1989 THE OAK RIDGE BOYS perform at the George W. Bush Presidential Inauguration on January 20th. •1996 BUSTER BENTON Chicago Blues singer/guitarist dies at 63 of diabetes on January 20th. •2001 SARA EVANS' single Born to Fly skyrockets to #1 in Billboard Country on January 20th.
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JIM TRAVIS [Jo] (Hot Springs, AR) Subject: Bill Bailey. Saddened to hear of the passing of Bill Bailey. I did not know him, but when I was at WINN radio in Louisville I met him once at an event. He was the Big Man in Town. I asked, "How long did it take for you to become the number one DJ in town?" He smiled and said. "About ten minutes." He was joking, but very probably right. He was a...good jock.
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JAY WEST (Houston, TX) Subject: Susan Anderson. Hello Jim, In your most recent newsletter you had published some info from Susan Anderson/KRLY-FM. Since I don't know how to reach her, I am hoping you can forward this to her. I was wondering if she remembered one of KRLY's early staff members by the name of Danny O'Brian ?? I think he was PD there for a while. I hired Danny when I was PD at a radio station in McAllen, Texas (Rio Grande Valley) KRIO...before he ended up here in Houston. Do you know that Danny is now the #2 man in the George Strait Management Organization. Danny is in charge of all of George's live concerts...and he answers only to George's personal manager Irv Woolsey. He and his wife are in charge of the huge George Strait Fan Club in Nashville, Tennessee also. If you don't know of Danny, then the above info is meaningless, I guess. I spent my final radio years as a DJ on KILT-am from Dec. '71-Sept. '76. If you were around then, you might recall a show I had called "Girls' Talk" daily from 10am-noon (weekdays). It followed Hudson & Harrigan daily.
JIM ROSE: From 1974-75 radio consultant Bill Young places me as host of Girl's Talk daily from 9am-noon M-F on Top 40 KFJZ-1270 in Dallas-Ft. Worth, TX.
JIM GOUGH [Mr. Texas-actor-voice actor] (Austin-Liberty Hill, TX) Subject: Jim Rose Remembers Radio (#1065) January 16, 2011 [Monday] I was glad to see Susan Anderson's email about KRLY in Houston. The little station was in the same building on Westheimer that my office was in for several years. It also housed TV channel 26, which was managed by Leroy Gloger at one time. Bob Anderson was a good friend and my small ad firm did many design projects for him as well as representing his station in the media. One of the staff members (and owners) of KRLY, Rob Waddell was a close friend of mine and we corresponded until his sudden death from a heart attack a few years ago. Rob and I signed on a small station in Corpus, KOUL, which has done very well over the years. Those were the days. Good to hear about you Susan. Jim Gough (http://jimgough.net/)
DR. BRUCE NELSON [GM/AM Drive DJ KFTX FM 97.5 Retired 12/31/2010] (Corpus Christi, TX) Subject: Jim Rose Remembers Radio (#1065) January 16, 2011 [Monday] I opened this and for a minute thought it was our Houston Bill Bailey...betcha I wasn't the only one...DrB (www.kftx.com)
TRIVIA ANSWER: Eric Sevareid is a journalist at the New York Herald Tribune's office in Paris, France when his writing catches the eye of news legend Edward R. Murrow. During the outbreak of war in Europe in 1939, Murrow recruits Eric as a CBS News correspondent. Sevareid writes dozens of magazine articles, a syndicated newspaper column plus half a dozen books that include In One Ear (1952) and Small Sounds in the Night (1956). In 1977, at CBS' mandatory retirement age of 65, he retires after 46 years in broadcasting. In retirement, Sevareid writes, reads and fishes at his home in Washington and weekend cabin in the Virginia Blue Ridge Mountains. Eric Sevareid, one of America's most respected reporters and commentators, dies of stomach cancer at 79 on July 10, 1992.
BOB GRANT [Robert Hanger] (San Angelo, TX) Subject: Issue #1065, 1/16 JRRR. Jim: (FYI) Your closing quote by Ruth Brown does not show a death date. My files show R & B/Blues/Jazz singer, Ruth Brown, died of surgery complications @ 78, Nov. 17, 2006 in Henderson, NV. Known as "Miss Rhythm" & "The girl with a tear in her voice," was born Ruth Weston In Portsmouth, VA 1/12/28. She retained name of her first husband of 1945, Jimmie Brown, a trumpeter (Died 12/18/2006). She became a top-selling R & B artist for Atlantic Records in the 50's & also charted pop records, "Lucky Lips' and "(Mama) He Treats Your Daughter Mean," etc. She appeared in several movies, acted in TV roles, plus Broadway & L.A. musicals, including 1988's musical, "Black & Blue." She was inducted into the Rock N' Roll Hall of Fame in 1993 & the Blues Foundation Hall of Fame. BOB.
GEORGE CARLIN (May 12, 1937 - June 22, 2008) Who decides when the applause should die down? It seems like it's a group decision; everyone begins to say to themselves at the same time, "Well, okay, that's enough of that".
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RADIO DJ BILL BAILEY DIES Former radio DJ Bill Bailey who is the Duke of Louisville on his Louisville, KY morning show in the 1960s and 1970s dies at 81 in Norton Brownboro Hospital on Saturday, January 14, 2012. His birth name is William Boahn. Reed Yadom, WHAS-TV meteorologist remembers: Bailey's popular show aired on both WAKY-AM and WKLO-AM and combined music and water cooler talk. Before he retires from radio in 1994, Bailey is a DJ on WVLK-590 in Lexington, KY. He is born in 1930 in New Bern, NC. According to family, Bill is an accomplished artist who loved to draw and paint. Since his stroke in 2003, he resides at Friendship Manor in Pewee Valley. Faith Chapman, his daughter, says: As a resident...he did morning announcements over the public address system and had frequent visits from fans. Leslie Butterfield, Friendship Manor administrator, recalls that Bailey routinely hung out near the nurses’ station so he could talk to everyone who walked by. Everybody did love him. He was a very social person. I’ll miss not seeing him out in the hallway, and that’s the way it’ll be for a lot of people here. His service is at 6 pm Tuesday, January 17, 2012 at Pearson-Ratterman Brothers Funeral Home, 12900 Shelbyville Road. Bill Bailey's survivors include a brother, son, three daughters, nine grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
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KING PARTNERS WITH MEXICAN BILLIONAIRE The Wrap learns that Larry King will launch a 'huge' online initiative backed by Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim. Two individuals close to King confirm that the venture is underway, though details remain sketchy. The new venture will be online, which is a very interesting departure for the former CNN host. Larry King spends most of his career in on-air broadcasting. In December 2010 after 25 years, King departs the CNN cable news network. Bert Fields, King’s lawyer, says: I can confirm that there have been discussions in which I participated. Details are vague because the deal is not yet complete plus they do not want to violate clients’ confidence. Forbes ranks telecom magnate Carlos Slim, whose media holdings include a sizeable stake in the New York Times, with a net worth of $74 billion as the richest man in the world.
SHEEN LOSES $2 MILLION On Sunday night, January 8, 2012 Charlie Sheen surrounded by reporters takes questions at a Fox party for the Television Critics Association winter press tour. As he prepares his return to television after his firing from Two and a Half Men and media meltdown Charlie tells what it's like to lose millions of dollars in the past year: I went from making $2 million a week to making $1,700 a week on Roman's film, and I was never happier. Good time Charlie says: It got unwieldy the other night when my tweet master put my phone number on the Internet. Wow. I got 498 texts in 31 minutes. And I got 220 phone calls. There's one text...somewhere in like Delaware...that was really mean and I called the guy. Yeah, I did. It was really mean. He said he hoped I died of cancer.
TRIVIA QUESTION: When does Charles Manson's Helter Skelter air on TV? The answer appears below.
MOVERS AND SHAKERS
•CLEAR CHANNEL RADIO is now Clear Channel Media and Entertainment says Bob Pittman, Clear Channel CEO. •TERRY RUGGLES replaced on WCAU TV NBC CH10 Philadelphia, PA weekday morning news with weekend morning anchor Stacey Stauffer. Starting Monday, January 16, 2012 new morning team: Stauffer, Lori Wilson, Bill Henley and Jillian Mele. Ruggles continues as a CH10 reporter. •CBS NEWS kingpins gather at Jazz in Lincoln Center's Rose Hall on Thursday, January 12, 2012 to eulogize longtime 60 Minutes contributor/newsman the late Andy Rooney who dies at 92 on November 4, 2011.
ENTERTAINMENT AND NEWS MILESTONES
•1953 KXLY TV ABC/CBS CH 4 in Spokane, WA begins broadcasting on January 16th. •1969 ELVIS PRESLEY records Mac Davis' Don't Cry Daddy on January 15th at the American Studios in Memphis, TN. •1972 SUPER BOWL VI in New Orleans Superbowl Dallas Cowboys 24, Miami Dolphins 3. MVP is Dallas Cowboys QB Roger Staubach. •1980 JAMES YOUNG guitarist with The Eli Young Band born on January 16th in Dallas, TX. •1994 HARRY NILSSON singer/songwriter (Without You #1 for 4 weeks-1969) dies on January 16th at 52. •2004 TOBY KEITH's Unleashed is his first Quadruple-Platinum album on January 16th.
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CONNELL MILLER (Bella Vista, AR) Subject: Teegarden & Van Winkle... Saw this on YouTube - These are two old friends of ours, David Teegarden on drums and Skip Knape (Van Winkle) on the B-3 Hammond. We used to have some hellacious jam sessions with them both at our big old rent house while we were in school in the early '60s. David was our drummer in the Joe Huff Band for a while. Later, he played with Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band for years. Skip has been a big-time studio musician for years. (www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAWG1mJEFi0&sns=fb) I'm also attaching a photo I took of our sax man, Brian Tyree, and Teegarden, that I took at the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame induction ceremony in November, 2010. David's back in Tulsa and has a very successful recording studio, Natura Digital Sound. Connell
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SUSAN ANDERSON (Dallas-Lancaster, TX) Subject: KRLY Radio-Houston. Jim- My family was talking about the KRLY over Christmas. We always wonder where some of our employees ended up. While I was looking up someone, I came across you site. I have not had a chance to review it, but I certainly need to catch up on it. My father was the General Manager and owner, and my brother and I both worked there. Oh, the stories we could tell! My father has passed away, but our family still talks frequently about those early days of FM Radio in Houston. I am happy to answer any questions that you may have. Thanks for all you do. Susan Anderson
HENRY ROBERTSON (Austin, TX) Subject: Rubye Bru. Jim- Rubye Bru from KVET-KASE was my Mother. I would love to read what you wrote about her, but I don’t know where in your archives to look. I recently had lunch with Bama Brown from KASE, and talked with Ron Rogers (KVET-KASE longtime GM) last year after the newspaper said he had made a hole in one playing at Austin Country Club. Please let me know how I can read about Mom, and please put me on your email list. Thank you and God Bless. Henry Robertson; Account Executive; Austin District; CORT A Berkshire Hathaway Company
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DAVID FAULKNER (Dallas, TX) Subject: Death of Rick Nelson Issue 1061. Jim, I remember that. A crowd awaited his arrival in Dallas. He was to play at a KLUV New Years party. The late Ken "Hubcap" Carter was to emcee the event. News of Rick Nelson's being late for the event & then of his plane crashing was on TV as I was getting ready to drive in to KTNS where I was the overnight crew. :) & in the AM, producer for Morning Drive host Harold Baker. It would be our lead story. Best, David Faulkner
IRA [Eye] LIPSON [Dallas, TX] Subject: Radio for the Blind. Hi...For the past couple of years I’ve been volunteering at North Texas Radio For The Blind, reading the news and hosting shows along with many other former broadcasting pros. It has been fun and rewarding. I’ll bet many of your readers would like to put their skills to good use for a worthy cause. There are radio for the blind stations across Texas, and I encourage folks to contact their local station and find out how they can put a couple of extra hours to good use. Most stations broadcast on sub-carriers and their sight-impaired listeners get special radios to pick up the programming. (www.Lipsonworks.com)
TRIVIA ANSWER: Charles Manson's brutal scenes of murder in the two-part movie, Helter Skelter, broadcasts on CBS TV on April 1st and 2nd, 1976. It is one of the highest-rated two-part movies in TV network history.
JOAN PATE-DAY (Cedar Creek Lake, TX) Subject: 5:00 P.M. Thought you might enjoy seeing my fox. This is one of the five who come up each day. They love wieners. They never come at the same time. Last night a bob cat beat them to one of the treats. Wild animals seem to know us, no fear at all. When Bill plays his banjo the coyotes come up to the house and howl loudly. When he stops they stop. A grey wolf keeps his distance. as do I. This is one of the foxes out of five. They love wieners.
RUTH BROWN [R&B singer, songwriter and actress] (January 30, 1928 - November 17, 2006) A fox is a wolf who sends flowers.
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DARTH VADER'S SABER FALLS In 1922, Robert James Gilbert Anderson is born in Hampshire, southern England. During five decades as a sword master, fight director and stunt performer, Bob Anderson works with motion picture legends from Errol Flynn to Antonio Banderas. In 2 of the 3 original Star Wars films, The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, Bob dons Darth Vader's black helmet to fight light saber battles. Former weightlifter David Prowse plays six foot six Darth Vader, but Anderson steps in during key fight scenes. Bob's former assistant, Leon Hill, proclaims: David Prowse wasn't very good with a sword and Bob couldn't get him to do the moves. Fortunately Bob could just don the costume and do it himself. Mark Hamill, who plays Luke Skywalker, reveals in a 1983 interview with Starlog magazine: Bob Anderson was the man who actually did Vader's fighting. It was always supposed to be a secret, but I finally told (director) George (Lucas) I didn't think it was fair any more. Bob worked so bloody hard that he deserves some recognition. It's ridiculous to preserve the myth that it's all done by one man. Other roles include the Lord of the Rings trilogy, The Mask of Zorro and sword-fighting stunts in Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl. Olympic fencer and movie sword-fight master, Bob Anderson, dies at 89 early New Year's Day 2012 in an English hospital in West Sussex, England.
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RADICAL GROUP BANS BUCHANAN FROM MSNBC A liberal group apparently succeeds in its efforts to persuade MSNBC to drop conservative commentator Pat Buchanan from its shows. The Daily Caller reports: Color of Change announces that the cable network has confirmed that Buchanan has been suspended indefinitely. Since October 2011, the group pushes the envelope for Buchanan's ouster. Phil Griffin, MSNBC President, confirms that Buchanan is suspended indefinitely. Rashad Robinson, Executive Director, said in a statement: ColorOfChange.org welcomes MSNBC's decision to indefinitely suspend Pat Buchanan. The group launches several campaigns against conservatives that include advertising boycotts against Glenn Beck.
FRIDAY THE 13TH IS HERE Many times radio and TV stations and businesses feature Friday the 13th as a special day for big sales and sometimes special events. We do not have Friday the 13th very often. Superstitions about Friday the 13th are that it's a day of good or bad luck. The fear of Friday the 13th has a name, paraskavedekatriaphobia, that comes from the Greek words Paraskeví which means Friday, dekatreís stands for thirteen and phobía symbolizes fear. This is a form of triskaidekaphobia which is a simple phobia (fear) of the number thirteen also known as friggatriskaidekaphobia. Sounds like a bunch of big words on a teleprompter that the president might use to tantalize his cult followers. Most of us believe that Friday the 13th is just a day for us to look forward to an enjoyable weekend. Lacy and I hope that you have a safe, successful and wonderful Friday the 13th.
TRIVIA QUESTION: On June 29, 1974 Johnny Bristol's #8 tune Hang on in There Baby lands on Billboard. During my time as 9am-noon DJ on Top 40 KFJZ-1270 in 1974 in Ft. Worth, TX we spin that soon to be Oldie but Goodie. What #1 Diana Ross & the Supremes smash does he produce? The answer appears below.
MOVERS AND SHAKERS
•MARC MORGAN former GM of Cox Media WAGO FM/WCKG FM Chicago, IL [1984-1992] retires after 28 years on April 30, 2012 as Cox Media Chief Revenue Officer. •STEVE & JOHNNIE SHOW [King & Putman] former midnight-5am overnight radio hosts who exit WGN-720 on Friday. December 5, 2011 after nearly 27 years emcee a major music event at McAninch Arts Center at College of DuPage at 8:00pm on Friday, January 13, 2012. •BILL TRUMBELL 36 year veteran on WMAL-630 Washington, DC dies at 77 on Tuesday, January 10, 2012 of respiratory complications. In 1996 Bill Trumball retires from radio.
ENTERTAINMENT AND NEWS MILESTONES
•1953 KOLD TV CBS CH13 in Tucson, AZ begins broadcasting on January 13th. •1962 TRACE ADKINS deep-voice 6'-6" Academy of Country Music Top New Male Grand Ole Opry singer born on January 12th in Springhill, LA. •1979 YMCA files libel suit against Village People's YMCA Disco song on January 13th. •1981 Urban Cowboy movie tunes score four Country Grammy nominations on January 13th. •1993 SUPER BOWL XXVII in Pasadena, CA - Dallas Cowboys beat Buffalo Bills 52-17 on January 13th. •2006 BIG & RICH's album Comin' To Your City certifies Gold and Platinum on January 13th.
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JEFF THOMPSON (Greensboro-Winston-Salem, NC) Subject: Elvis's Birth and Death. January 8th and August 16th always ring strongly in my mind, dates of Elvis Presley's birth and death. That's because, the day he passed away, I broke the bulletin on NBC Radio Network News that afternoon. First, told America about his sudden death, then I did a report to the BBC. Then I prepared a tribute, which for most famous people are already written...just missing date, age and cause of death. But Elvis' passing was a total surprise to everyone! So with the help of my NBC Colleague, Norm M. Nite's book, "Rock On", I was able to quickly cobble together a fitting obituary tribute. After airing that report, as I walked out of the studio, I was met by my producer with an airline ticket in his hand, saying "Jeff, you're going to Memphis". Jeff Thompson, formerly of KXYZ (1320) Houston, & KASE (FM 100.7) Austin: builder of KMSC [Manned Spacecraft Center] (FM 102.1) [now KMJQ FM] Clear Lake and Anchorman/Reporter at NBC Network News, WINS (1010), and WOR-TV in New York City.
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JOANIE GREEN-GALLO (Tulsa, OK) My stories? I have a few. Are you serious? And don't forget about Bobby Langham. Bless his heart, he's such a sweetie and kept wonderful Houston radio staff history. I have his address if you ever need to ask him something...he even tracked me down! I was surprised.
BOBBY LANGHAM sends us a snail mail letter every once in awhile. First meet Bobby in 1978 on a KNUZ-1230 remote broadcast at a local shopping center. Bobby keeps up with all of us Houston, TX radio people. No matter what Bayou City radio frequency carries my voice, Bobby Langham rings the request line.
MIKE CANNON (Houston-Spring, TX) Jim, After a run of 17 years I have departed The (Houston) Astros to devote my fulltime efforts to my Telephone Message On-Hold Company which has just gotten too busy to do on a part-time basis anymore. I finally have a boss that I like and who agrees with me on every idea I have! Yes, I do like me. Please change my email address so I don't miss any issues of your fine publication. Thanks and Happy New Year to you and the Pooch. Best, Mike Cannon - Studio Productions (www.messageonholdnow.com)
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BOB GRANT [Robert Hanger] (San Angelo, TX) Subject: Obits. Jim: Fred Milano, second tenor in Belmonts group of Dion & Belmonts fame, died on Jan. 1, 2012 lung cancer @ 72. Belmonts named to Vocal Group Hall of Fame in 2000. Robert Lee Dickey, who performed with his cousin, James as James & Bobby Purify died @ 72, 12/29/2011. The Florida duo had biggest hit, "I'm Your Puppet" in 1966. Ron Mosley, baritone with "Ruby & Romantics," has also died @ 72. Known best for #1 hit, "Our Day Will Come," in 1963, they were also inducted into Vocal Group Hall of Fame. Namesake Ruby is now only surviving member of the group. Bob & Sonny Lee.
TONY WILLIAMS (Dallas-Richardson, TX) Subject: Murrow. Jim, Hi. You are probably familiar with this site -- The Museum of Broadcast Communications. A lot of classic shows, especially news events, as well as radio. http://archives.museum.tv/login?from=archives
TRIVIA ANSWER: John William Bristol is born on February 3, 1939 in Morganton, NC. Johnny teams with former lead singer of the Moonglows, Harvey Fuqua, as Motown producers until 1973. He marries Motown founder Berry Gordy's niece Iris Gordy. Johnny Bristol produces and writes songs for Motown's biggest entertainers: Smokey Robinson, The Four Tops, Junior Walker, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, Diana Ross and Michael Jackson. In 1969, Johnny produces Diana Ross & the Supremes magnificent hit Someday We'll Be Together. In January 1970 the rousing melody gongs #1 on America's charts. On March 21, 2004 Johnny Bristol dies of natural causes at 65 in his home in Brighton Township, MI.
JOHN HALE (Austin-Cedar Park, TX) Subject: Jim Rose Remembers Radio (#1061) January 02, 2011 [Monday] Hey Jim, John Hale here...my new permanent email address is john.hale46@yahoo.com. If it's not too much trouble, could you make that the address to send the newsletter? I rarely go to my other addresses, since I've terminated my DJ business. Thanks, and how were the holidays for the two of you? Yours Truly, John Hale
THOMAS JEFFERSON (April 13, 1743-July 4, 1826) When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe.
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TV HOST FOUND DEAD Scottsdale, AZ police report that long time popular Valley radio personality, Bill Heywood, and his wife are found shot to death in an apparent double suicide in a local hotel on Wednesday afternoon, January 5, 2012. Sergeant Mark Clark says that hotel staff find the couple along with a suicide note around 1 pm in one of the Homewood Suites rooms near Scottsdale and Mountain View roads. KTAR-620 discloses that longtime Phoenix radio personality Pat McMahon sees Heywood at a recent holiday party where he learns of Bill's wife Susan’s illness which is more serious than Heywood previously envisions. Reports in local media indicate that the couple experience financial difficulties as well. Court records reveal that in August 2009 the couple files for bankruptcy. About two years ago the couple lose their Biltmore-area home to foreclosure. Bill Heywood's broadcast career goes all the way back to the 1960s. For many years, Bill Heywood hosts the morning show on KTAR-620 and crosstown Talk KFYI-550. For three different years, industry publication Billboard names him as its #1 radio personality. After he discovers Heywood’s death, another Valley radio legend, Pat McMahon, tells KPNX TV CH12 News: He just was a guy who was born to do radio.
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BAYOU CITY RADIO MAKES WAVES Clear Channel in Houston, TX reorganizes its AM Talk radio lineups. Beginning Monday, January 9, 2012 Talk host Michael Berry appears exclusively on KTRH-740. Matt Patrick KTRH-740 morning co-host will also have a radio show on sister crosstown Talk KPRC-950. Berry keeps his 5-7:00 pm Talk show on KTRH-740 but drops his 2-5:00 pm show on KPRC-950. In place of his KPRC-950 program he hosts the 8-11:00 am slot on KTRH-740. Berry replaces Premiere Networks’ Glenn Beck who moves over to KPRC-950 from 10:00 am-12:00 noon. Matt Patrick KTRH Morning News co-host tacks on the 2-5:00 pm spot on KPRC-950. To make room for Glenn Beck on KPRC-950, Dave Garfield's show moves over to 12:00 noon to 2:00 pm which pushes Outlaw Dave to 8-10:00 pm. Who says that radio consolidation is not fun?
COUNTRY SINGER ON THE MEND Country singer Wade Hayes has a #1 tune for 2 weeks around Christmas 1994, Old Enough to Know Better, which we spin on KILT FM here in Houston, TX. Tony Wade Hayes is born on April 20, 1969 in Bethel Acres, OK. On December 8, 2011 Wade has stage IV colon cancer surgery at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, TN. The medical procedure goes well. Wade recuperates at home. In his website Wade thanks fans for their prayers: Thank you all very much for your prayers and well wishes. I really appreciate it. (www.wadehayes-woww.com/)
TRIVIA QUESTION: Nat King Cole's recording of Nature Boy is one of my favorites of his many great tunes. Who is the original Nature Boy? The answer appears below.
MOVERS AND SHAKERS
•WNNF FM Cumulus Cincinnati, OH 7 months after it ejects out of the pen to Hot AC (Journey 94.1) knee-jerks to (Great Country 94.1) with 10,000 songs in a row. First 3 wild bulls out of the chute are Brad Paisley This Is Country Music; Lady Antebellum We Owned the Night and Toby Keith Made in America. •CATHY GANDOLFO South Philly Goretti High School for Girls/Temple University grad begins in 1975 as Action News WPVI TV CH6 writer-reporter. In 2008, she inducts into the Philadelphia Broadcast Pioneers Hall of Fame. After more than 36 years at CH6 news, Cathy Gandolfo retires.
ENTERTAINMENT AND NEWS MILESTONES
•1951 LORETTA LYNN's youngest sister [Brenda Gayle Webb] with stage name Crystal Gayle (Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue #1 million seller for 4 weeks-1977) born on January 9th in Paintsville, KY. •1967 NEW ORLEANS, LA NFL franchise chooses its name The Saints on January 9th. •1978 JOHNNY PAYCHECK's single Take This Job and Shove It slams #1 in Billboard Country on January 7th. •1989 PAT SAJAK Show premieres on CBS TV on January 9th. •1990 WILLIE NELSON's album Stardust certifies Quadruple-Platinum on January 9th. •2007 APPLE COMPUTER unveils revolutionary iPhone on January 9th.
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BOB MILLER (Detroit-Plymouth, MI) Subject: Jim Rose Remembers Radio (#1062) January 06, 2011 [Friday] Hi Again Jim That earlier email I sent today probably missed you. So, I am going to re-cap from my university site. I've had the best time this week visiting with family in San Antonio. My 93 year old mom, brother and son (recently returned from Iraq) all crossed paths here. The weather is fabulous, the food singularly amazing and company have all coalesced for a wonderful experience. Bob Miller
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DR. BRUCE NELSON (Corpus Christi, TX) [GM/AM Drive DJ KFTX FM 97.5 Retired 12/31/2010] Subject: Jim Rose Remembers Radio (#1062) January 06, 2011 [Friday] Happy New year Jim, When I was doing the KNUZ Yesterday's Back Concerts. Bo Diddley was on our first show. He was a delight to work with and kept us in stitches all day long. Great talent an innovator that every rock star borrowed a little something from. Fond memories!!! Dr. Bruce p.s. pet the pooch for me! (www.kftx.com)
ED MILLER (Austin, TX) Jim, Yes. I was a proto-Beatnik in those years. The Rubyiat was a coffee shop on McKinney Ave that catered to young North Dallas wanna-be hipsters. We thought it avant garde and plenty risqué to even be in such a place back during the Eisenhower years. My time there was as a teenager, prior to getting into radio. The Cellar was a Foat Wuth institution. It began below ground on a downtown side street, and ultimately expanded upstairs into a much larger room on a main downtown street, and eventually into a Dallas location. At the original location, the waitresses wore just their underwear. The upstairs location was where the JFK Secret Service detail was whooping it up the night before their boss got blasted into history. I attended infrequently, as I was signing KPCN on the air at dawn and the action at the Cellar tended to occur pretty late at night. How about you? Did you make the scene? -Ed
THE RUBYIAT in the 1960s and on into the 1970s is a small hangout for beatnik wannabes on McKinney Avenue in Dallas, TX where local poets, folksingers and red-neck rockers like Michael Martin Murphey, Steve Fromholz, B.W. Stevenson, Ray Wylie Hubbard, Nashville, TN harmonica legend Mickey Rafael and others get their start. A fellow Kimball high school classmate talks me into going there late one Friday night after I get off work as a part time sacker at Wyatt's grocery store in Oak Cliff. The lights are down low, scene is cool, but the music is hot. The Rubyiat is a hip beatnik coffee house that has cool music.
PARRIS AFTON BONDS (Dallas-Allen, TX) Subject: Jim Rose Remembers Radio (#1060) December 30, 2011 [Friday] Jimmie, I swear I typed Jimmie in my last email but then erased it and typed Jimmy ~ and, of course, there is and always will be only one Jimmie Rose (I'll never get used to calling you Jim). Take care, dear one, Parris Afton Bonds; Namesake of Southwest Writers Workshop's Parris Award for outstanding contribution and service by a published author (www.parrisaftonbonds.com)
TRIVIA ANSWER: In 1948, Nat King Cole's Nature Boy hangs on to # 1 in Billboard for 8 weeks. Nature Boy is a major hit recording but hardly anyone knows who the original Nature Boy is. The song reflects the back-to-nature spirit of a songwriter and musician of the late 1940s who lives naturally and writes one of the most famous songs ever. Eden Ahbez is one of the first proto-hippies, proto-beatniks. He camps out under the famous Hollywood Sign in the Hollywood Hills in Hollywood, CA to enjoy fresh air and outdoor life. The Sixties hippie movement begins with songwriter and recording artist Eden Ahbez. He is born George Alexander Aberle on April 15, 1908 in Brooklyn, NY. In 1941, he moves to Los Angeles, CA and begins to play piano in a German immigrant health-food store and raw-food restaurant on Laurel Canyon Boulevard called The Eutropheon. When Los Angeles radio host and DJ Cowboy Jack Patton hears Ahbez’ song Nature Boy he persuades Eden to give the song to Nat King Cole. Nature Boy zooms to the top of the Pop chart. In 1995 Eden Ahbez tragically dies in an auto accident at 86. The words to Nature Boy deliver a strong message: The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.
CHARLES GEORGE [ex KCHU FM] (Dallas, TX) Subject: Bluesday. I always liked Arthur Crudup's song That's All Right Mama. Elvis did a good version having a hit with it, also Rod Stewart did it on his album Every Picture Tells A Story. I like the work of Texas Slim, he has albums for sale, but I don't hear him played much on the Radio. Though I noticed IHeart.com played a couple of tunes by him when I typed in his name. IHeart is by Clear Channel, interesting they have a big library of tunes they hardly ever play over the Radio. Also a country musician Erin Ender seems to have talent from Hempstead, Texas; home of the best water melons I have ever had; but she has not been getting much air play but her work would fit the sound of many stations playing Country Music.
HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSON (1805-1875) Where words fail, music speaks.
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY ELVIS PRESLEY! On January 8, 1935 Elvis Aron Presley is born in Tupelo, MS. He becomes the undisputed King of Rock and Roll. Elvis Presley's 45 rpm and LP records in my stash present many hours of enjoyment. Thanks to WFAA-570 and KVIL FM Dallas, TX Oldies expert friend from the 1960s, Bud Buschardt, for replacing three turntables that movers wreck with a wonderful Technics platter so that I can once again spin some Elvis the Pelvis tunes. An Elvis Presley fan posts on You Tube: Elvis Presley remains the greatest singer, entertainer, who ever lived. In addition to being the most successful recording artist, Gospel artist, all time Concert SELL OUT record holder for eight years straight, most successful musical act (ratings) ever to appear on TV, and was the ONLY actor whose every movie made a financial profit. Even these 34 years after his death he STILL outsells 99.9% of any other 'artist'. August 16, 1977 lives on in infamy because on that eventful day I'm on 1-10 on the way west to Houston, TX as a new DJ on KIKK FM. As I motor along on the 1-10 TX autobahn try to pull in Houston radio signals, believe that I hear that Elvis Presley has died. No! That cannot be true! But it is. At midnight on Elvis' birthday January 8, 2012 meet at the gates of Graceland in Memphis, TN to join fans from around the world to sing favorite Elvis Presley Gospel tunes and of course, Happy Birthday to Elvis!
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CHICAGO RINGS IN ELVIS FEST Dick Biondi, WLS FM Radio Hall of Fame member, rings in Elvis Fest in Chicago, IL once again to salute the King of Rock & Roll on Sunday, January 8, 2012 which is Elvis Presley's 77th birthday. Biondi is the emcee of the annual Elvis Fest event, plus he broadcasts live on WLS FM from 7:00pm-11:00pm at the 12th Annual Elvis Fest. Even though The King is gone for over 34 years (Elvis dies on August 16, 1977 at only 42), fans still celebrate Elvis' birthday every year. Elvis Fest night features Elvis Presley tribute artists from the Elvis Entertainers Network live on stage. You can also wear your Elvis costume to take part in the Elvis-look-alike contest. Winner receives a trip for two to Las Vegas, NV. There's a free buffet that includes Elvis Presley's favorite snack food, peanut butter and banana sandwiches. A large Elvis birthday cake for everyone to share. Dick Biondi fires up The King's birthday cake candles. Biondi leads the singing with Happy Birthday to Elvis Presley. This is the 12th annual Elvis Fest at the Original Mother's, 26 W. Division Street in Chicago. Doors open at 7:00pm for the party. No cover charge to attend, however, Mothers' suggests a $5 donation to their preferred charity the New Orleans Musicians Clinic.
TRIVIA QUESTION: What future nun gives Elvis Presley his first on-screen kiss? The answer appears below.
MOVERS AND SHAKERS
•HAPPY BIRTHDAY! Evelyn Pate-Allen late Dallas, TX news reporter Sam Pate's sister celebrates another new year on Saturday, January 7, 2011. •KTWI FM Clear Channel New Country (Twister 93.3) Omaha-Council Bluffs-Bennington, NE shifts to All-Christmas on December 16, 2011 as Jingle 93.3. On Monday morning, January 2nd KTWI FM it reverts back to Classic Country (The Wolf 93.3). From 2004 to 2008, it's KHUS FM Classic Country (US 93.3). •CJGV FM Smooth Jazz (Groove 99.1) Winnipeg, MB, Canada stunts December 2011 with Christmas Music then catapults to Hot AC (Fresh 99.1) at midnight Saturday, December 31, 2011. Fresh logo mirrors sister CFHK FM (Fresh 103.1) London, ON.
ENTERTAINMENT AND NEWS MILESTONES
•1958 JERRY LEE LEWIS' Great Balls Of Fire burns up the #1 spot in Billboard Country on January 6th. •1967 KHTV TV IND CH39 in Houston, TX begins broadcasting on January 6th. •1979 DON WILLIAMS' Tulsa Time hits #1 in Billboard Country on January 6th. •1988 BRENT COLLINS soap actor on TV's Another World dies of heart attack at 46 on January 6th. •1990 MARK MILLER lead singer of Sawyer Brown marries makeup artist Lisa Knight, who is the sister of former Brady Bunch star Christopher Knight, in Los Angeles, CA on January 6th. •2000 DON MARTIN Mad magazine cartoonist dies at 68 on January 6th.
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DAN MURPHY [Daniel] (Providence-Warwick, RI) Subject: Bo Diddley. My understanding of the diddley bow that inspired Bo Diddley's name is that it was a wire strung between two nails that was played with just about anything that could be used as a slide (bottles were often used). It was borne out of the poverty that most southern blacks lived with, and was the first instrument of many other noteworthy blues guitarists (B.B. King comes to mind). I've never seen Bo Diddley's real name listed as anything except Elias McDaniel, with E. most often used as his middle initial. Where I saw his name most often was as a songwriter, most often on his songs he recorded. This could all be attributed to something as simple as assuming a stepfather's name (if Bo D. had one), frequently done in the time he was born. DAN MURPHY
THE DIDDLEY BOW originates in Ghana, Africa. Low income southern blacks in America use a rectangular-shaped cigar box with two nails, a long piece of wood, a bungee cord and a soda pop bottle to fabricate diddley bow guitars. Bo Diddley plays the diddley bow with a metal slide like in a Dobro. He amplifies his rig to get all kinds of different loud sounds. He gets the idea for his square-shaped guitar from the diddley bow cigar box. His stage name Bo Diddley comes from his playing of the diddley bow guitar.
TONY WILLIAMS (Dallas-Richardson, TX) Subject: Cheetah. Gee, I had no idea Cheetah was still alive until a few days ago, or that a chimp could possibly live that long. Cheetah outlasted Johnny Weissmuller (one of many Tarzans) by 27 years and Johnny Weissmuller Jr., who also had a brief film career, by about five years. Clean living ... I guess.
ON AUGUST 16, 2011 we receive an email from an Elvis Presley admirer way up north but not as far as Alaska who reminds us that the King of Rock and Roll dies on that date in 1977.
CHRISTINA L. TSIARKEZOS (Wilmington, DE/Elkton, MD) Subject: Jim Rose Remembers Radio. Just noticed you didn't mention that Elvis died today 8/16 in 1977. P.S. I am in the state of Delaware -- pretty far from Texas.
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DAVID FAULKNER (Dallas, TX) Subject: Debi Diaz & All Staff @ 92.1 KTFW. Jim, Don't know any details, but, per Debi Diaz Facebook page, she & all at 92.1 KTFW (Ft. Worth) were let go today. Best, David Faulkner
TRIVIA ANSWER: Dolores Hart (Susan Jessup) plants Elvis Presley's (Deke Rivers) first on-screen kiss in the 1957 movie Loving You. In 1963, at 24, Dolores Hart walks away from Hollywood stardom to become a nun in rural Bethlehem, CN. Mother Dolores prays for a Christmas miracle to save the Abbey of Regina Laudis where she lives as a cloistered nun. The abbey which is a former brass factory that houses Mother Dolores Hart and about 40 other nuns in the little town of Bethlehem, CN needs $4 million dollars in renovations to meet fire and safety codes. Many of the older nuns can no longer navigate the narrow steps to the main building's third floor and must live in another building. Without adequate fire escapes, the monastery catches the eye of local inspectors. The self-supporting nuns launch a New Horizons fundraiser for the renovation project. Mother Dolores says This work may not be in my lifetime, but we're sure trying. The budget is about $2 million for fire code and accessibility compliance plus another $2 million for improvements to the housing and other facilities. You can send your Tax-deductible donations to New Horizons, Abbey of Regina Laudis, 73 Flanders Road, Bethlehem, CT, 06751. What a wonderful way to start the new year!
JOE FORD (Houston-Shenandoah, TX) Hi Jim, Just a quick note to wish you and Lacy a superb New Year! Keep your fingers crossed...this one HAS to be the best, otherwise...well, let's just leave it at that! Joe (http://joefordvoiceworks.com)
JIM GOUGH [Mr. Texas-actor-voice actor] (Austin-Liberty Hill, TX) Subject: Jim Rose Remembers Radio (#1059) December 26, 2011 [Monday] Well Jim I heard from my old friend Arch Yancey yesterday. He said he's finally retired from radio. He'd been listening to me narrating a Louis L'Amour story on Sirius Radio. Keep you feet dry! Jim Gough
ELVIS PRESLEY (January 8, 1935 - August 16, 1977) And now, the end is near; And so I face the final curtain. My friend, I’ll say it clear, I’ll state my case, of which I’m certain. I’ve lived a life that’s full. I’ve traveled each and ev’ry highway; And more, much more than this, I did it my way.
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CHEETAH IS DEAD! We fans of the early Tarzan motion pictures fondly remember his scene-stealing chimp sidekick Cheetah who is one of Hollywood's best-known animal actors. Cheetah is one of several chimpanzees to appear alongside former Olympic Gold medal swimmer Johnny Weissmuller as Tarzan. Maureen O'Sullivan is Jane. Johnny Sheffield appears as Boy in eight Tarzan films. Cheetah's film tenure in Tarzan is from 1932 to 1934. Cheetah lives at the Suncoast Primate Sanctuary in Palm Harbor, FL well past the average chimp lifespan of 35 years to an estimated 80. Cheetah suffers from kidney failure and passes away on Christmas Eve 2011. Rene Lynch of the Los Angeles Times sighs: Cheetah the Chimp lived an awfully charmed life including chauffeured car rides, piano playing and much love and affection. Cheetah loves people's laughter and was known for his ability to stand up straight and walk like his human co-stars. Debbie Cobb, Sanctuary outreach director, tells The Tampa Tribune that Cheetah ...liked finger-painting and playing football. He was very compassionate. He could tell if I was having a good day or a bad day. He was always trying to get me to laugh if he thought I was having a bad day. He was very in tune to human feelings.
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BBC RECEIVES TWO BLACK EYES British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) public service scribe receives two black eyes on its facade. The first knock out punch happens after BBC’s online Magazine chooses its annual BBC Sports Personality of the Year from an entirely male rolodex. A rumpus arises amongst British media's petticoat junction. But when BBC includes the face of female panda bear Tian Tian as part of its list of 12 female faces of the year it sets the Twitter line on fire. Female panda bear Tian Tian, also known as Sweetie, arrives at Edinburgh Zoo in December 2011 from China. John Prescott, former deputy prime minister, Tweets: So the BBC couldn't find a woman for Sports Personality of the Year, but they could find a panda for a female face of 2011. Stella Creasy, Labour MP, scoffs: No offence to Sweetie - sure a lovely panda and best in the class etc - but clue is in the title 'women' not 'female of the species' of the year.
TRIVIA QUESTION: Where does R&B singer/guitar player Bo Diddley come up with his stage name? The answer appears below.
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•CAROL MARIN WMAQ-TV CH5 Political Editor and Chicago Sun-Times political columnist recuperates from knee surgery. She hopes to be up and at 'em for the up coming Iowa caucuses. •RICH DAVIS Clear Channel Nashville Cluster Manager/Top 40 WRVW FM (107.5) Lebanon, TN PD returns as PD of KDWB FM (101.3) Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN. •WZRR FM Cumulus Classic Rock (Rock 99) Birmingham, AL flips to South Bronx Hip Hop-Rap 995TheVibe Today's hottest music including Bruno Mars, Rihanna, Maroon 5 and more!!! at midnight Saturday, December 31, 2011. Happy New Year!
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•1955 BOB CUMMINGS SHOW premieres on January 2nd on NBC TV (later on CBS). •1969 JOHNNY CASH single Daddy Sang Bass hits #1 in Billboard Country on January 4th. •1972 DALLAS COWBOYS defeat the San Francisco '49ers 14-3 in NFC championship game on January 2nd. •1985 RICK NELSON Pop/Country singer/TV star dies in a plane crash on December 31st near DeKalb, TX. •1990 ALAN HALE, JR. Skipper on Gilligan's Island dies of cancer at 71 on January 2nd. •2006 LEANN RIMES performs Something's Gotta Give at the rain-soaked Tournament of Roses parade in Pasadena, CA on January 2nd.
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FRANK HALEY (Albuquerque, NM) Jim, Happy New Year to you my friend and dear Lacy too. My two doggies Price and Baby are really excited about the new year. Well, I think they are, hard to tell. Take care... Frank and Alice
TOM ELLIS (Boston-East Sandwich-Newton, MA) Happy New Year to you and Lacy.
RED JONES (Carrollton, GA) Carrollton, Georgia since 1985. A great place. Wouldn't live anywhere else...well, hopefully Heaven, when I'm called home. Best to you and Lacy in the new year. Red Jones; Georgia Radio Hall Of Fame
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PARRIS AFTON BONDS (Dallas-Allen, TX) Subject: Jim Rose Remembers Radio (#1060) December 30, 2011 [Friday] Jimmy ~ Happy New Year; may it be your best yet! Parris Afton Bonds; Namesake of Southwest Writers Workshop's Parris Award for outstanding contribution and service by a published author (www.parrisaftonbonds.com)
CHUCK DUNAWAY (Houston, TX) Here's wishing you and yours the best of a New Year filled with good health, much happiness, and plenty of luck and success! Chuck and Kendall
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KEVIN CHARLES [MINATREA] (Houston, TX) Jim, I do remember KMOO 1510 from when I was growing up in Mineola. In fact my brother Ron got his first radio job there while he was a sophomore or junior in high school. He was half of the "Double O Duo" afternoon show geared toward the kids in town... (even though he way not old enough to legally operate the transmitter. They were in a building like you described, but I think they had a real tower, not just a fence... It was owned at the time by Sam Curry...he ran it along with his wife Joyce for many years... My brother went on to learn engineering there and at KEEE and KEFM (now KJCS) in Nacogdoches. He also did engineering at KEBE KOOI Jacksonville and KDOK Tyler before going to work for Motorola. I got my start at KJCS in Nac in 78 with a little encouragement from my brother. I stayed there for the next 8 years...then moved to KLTR 93.7 in Houston... Then I landed at KLDE and was there off and on full and part time until recently. Kevin - By the way my brother was at KMOO around 1970-72 I think. There is now an FM in Mineola using the same calls.
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JERRY HEILMAN (Nacogdoches, TX) Subject: job. Which station? (Country KJCS FM 103.3) 103 the bull in Nacogdoches/Lufkin. Yeah. Last time I was in radio it was cds and reel to reel. It will be a biiig change for me. Thanks.
BOB GRANT [Robert Hanger] (San Angelo, TX) Subject: Obits...both 12/24. Hello Jim: Sean Bonniwell, lead-singer, guitarist/song-writer of "Music Machine" dies @ 71 on 12/24/11. His biggest hit was "Talk, Talk" to #15, December 1966. The L.A. rock quintet also released several others. Bluegrass pioneer comedian/radio DJ, Jody Rainwater, has died @ 92 in a Richmond hospital. He was part of the Flatt & Scruggs Foggy Mtn. Boys 1949-1962. He then spent 22 years as a DJ, mostly at WSVS, Crewe, VA retiring in 1984. He is survived by Emma, his wife of 57 years & served with USMC in WW11. Bob & Sonny Lee
TRIVIA ANSWER: Bo Diddley is born Ellas Otha Bates on December 30, 1928 in McComb, MS. His adoptive name Ellas McDaniel is from his mother's cousin, Gussie McDaniel. Ellas gets his nickname Bo Diddley from a one string African guitar (the diddley bow) that he plays with a metal slide like in a dobro. He studies violin at his Baptist Church in Chicago and plays his trademark rectangular guitar in South Side clubs. In 1955, Bo records for Chess/Checker records. His first record Bo Diddley/I'm a Man lands at #1 on the R&B chart. As a Rock and Roll vocalist, guitarist, song writer and inventor his signature pounding beat guitar and jive talk influences many legendary recording artists such as Buddy Holly, Jimi Hendrix, The Rolling Stones, The Yardbirds and Eric Clapton. In 1987, Bo inducts into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He receives Lifetime Achievement Awards from the Rhythm and Blues Foundation plus a Grammy from the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. Bo Diddley dies at 79 in Archer, FL on June 2, 2008.
CHARLES GEORGE (Dallas, TX) Hi, If you were in town I would treat you to R. J. Cuisine Mexican Restaurant at the West End. I find it a great place to fellowship. Especially for some one who would enjoy talking to another about Radio, plus other subjects. As an amateur radio operator, I have found that it is better to let others talk, since what I need to know can be better learned. I have been practicing Morse code, it is obsolete but still is fun. I read the book Due To Circumstances Beyond Our Control, the same year I read the autobiography of Sammy Davis Jr., Chet Huntley, and the host of the Today Show who later did a news program on ABC. 73 Charles, KC5RAI
YOGI BERRA (May 12, 1925 - p) All the great jazz players alive today are dead except for the ones dying to be like the ones that are dead.
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TOP NEWS STORIES OF 2011 The year 2011 brings us many huge and surprising stories that either invigorate or frustrate us. What do you believe is the biggest news story of 2011? Which 2011 news story upsets you the most? Do you have a favorite radio personality or a best-liked radio station? According to several news sources these are some of their top news stories of 2011. Probably at the top of the list is the takedown of bearded mass murderer Osama Bin Laden from his hideaway in Pakistan. Certainly, the Japanese earthquake and its tsunami that causes a nuclear disaster are near the pinnacle. How about the killing of Libya's iron-fisted ruler, Moammar Khadafy, after his brutal 42-year reign? Rebels who want to destroy the despot capture him cowering inside a sewer pipe in his hometown of Sirte. Then, there's the tragic story of three-term Congresswoman from Arizona, Gabrielle Giffords, who a lone gunman shoots her point blank outside a Tucson supermarket. Six people die in the confrontation but thank God, Giffords survives a bullet wound to the head. Which 2011 news story upsets you the most? Please let us know what you believe is the biggest news story of 2011 at Rosekkj@earthlink.net.
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LA TV WEATHERMAN HAS HISSY FIT Veteran weatherman Henry DiCarlo of KTLA TV CW CH5 Los Angeles, CA has a hissy fit and storms off camera. Henry is upset because KTLA TV producers saddle the weather cowboy with a quick interview along with his weather prognostication. DiCarlo complains that interview cuts his weather forecast time short. He pants, When you send a weatherman out to do the weather but you’re also sending him out to do a story, you might want to give him a little extra time. Co-anchor Chris Schauble jeers, Maybe we'll give him a little cheese to go with that whine. The incident brings notoriety. DiCarlo posts in his Web page: 20 years in the business and it takes a meltdown on live TV to make today's AOL homepage! I should have done this years ago.
TRIVIA QUESTION: Why isn't Rollo the name of the most famous reindeer of them all? The answer appears below.
MOVERS AND SHAKERS
•HAPPY BIRTHDAY! To radio wise man Chuck Blore as he reaches another year of life on Sunday, January 1, 2012! Salute! •BETTY WHITE (89) kicks off Monday Night Football on ABC TV: www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ujpHXYaYEPQ. •COYOTE COLLINS (Curt Boykin) longtime WBEE FM (92.5) Rochester, NY PM Drive DJ/PD/MD; as Curt Monday former mornings on WKLX FM (98.9) Rochester, NY and WSIX FM (97.9) Nashville, TN dies at home in his favorite chair of a combination of stroke/seizure at 5:50pm on Friday, December 16, 2011.
ENTERTAINMENT AND NEWS MILESTONES
•1950 VIETNAM, Laos & Cambodia become Independent states in French Union on December 30th. •1969 MERLE HAGGARD's live Okie From Muskogee album releases on Capitol records on December 29th. •1979 RICHARD RODGERS composer (Carousel) dies at 77 on December 30th in Manhattan, NY. •1983 GEORGE JONES' first Platinum album I Am What I Am on December 29th. •1996 LEW AYRES movie actor (State Fair - 1933) dies at 88 on December 30th. •2001 NEAL MCCOY, Wayne Newton & Drew Carey perform for American troops at Afghanistan's Kandahar Airport in USO's Deliver America Tour on December 30th.
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RED JONES (Carrollton, GA) Subject: Beatles. Beatlesrama is an on-line radio station with Beatles music 24/7. They are interviewing me this morning [Monday, December 19, 2011] re/Beatles concert Atlanta 1965. if you get a chance to listen. Just Google www.beatlesarama.com/. 11 am hour Eastern time. Red; 2008 Georgia Radio Hall of Fame inductee
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MIKE SHANNON (Dallas-Mesquite, TX) Subject: "Crash" of Tyler and DFW radio perishes in Christmas Day house fire. FYI...Thanks to former DFW radio pro David Faulkner for pointing me to this. Crash (real name: Allen McGee/Harrison) was doing middays at KZPS "Lone Star 92.5" in DFW until 2007 when they blew out most of the staff. He was working at 96X in Tyler at the time of his death. He was living in nearby Kilgore. Link from KYTX-TV/Ch 19 via Tyler Morning Telegraph: www.tylerpaper.com/article/20111226/NEWS01/111229870 Remembrances are being posted on friend and former Clear Channel co-worker Cindy Scull's Facebook page. (www.knus99.com/)
DAVID FAULKNER (Dallas, TX) Subject: "Crash" (Ex KZPS) Dies in House Fire. Jim, Wanted to pass this on to you. http://boards.radio-info.com/smf/index.php?topic=203804.0 The link is to the Radio-Info posting by Mike Shannon. Best, David Faulkner
BOB GRANT [Robert Hanger] (San Angelo, TX) Subject: TX DJ. Jim Just noted TX Radio DJ, Allen McGee, died in home fire Xmas day, You can find at "News-Journal.com" in Longview. BOB
KEN DOWE (Dallas, TX) Subject: Jim Rose Remembers Radio (#1059) December 26, 2011 [M] MERRY CHRISTMAS, JIM! kd
NOREEN DICKSON (Houston-Cypress, TX) Subject: for you. MERRY CHRISTMAS TO YOU AND LACY!! Noreen PETS ARE US RESCUE
JERRY HEILMAN (Nacogdoches, TX) Subject: happy. Here's wishing everyone a Happy Ho Ho on this special day--CHRISTmas
ANDY WALDROP (Houston, TX) I hope you had a good Christmas...and that 2012 is a better year for you!!!
BEST AND WORST NEWS STORIES OF 2011 The year 2011 brings us many huge and surprising stories that either invigorate or frustrate us. What do you believe is the biggest news story of 2011? Which 2011 news story upsets you the most? Do you have a favorite radio personality or best-liked radio station? Please let us know at Rosekkj@earthlink.net.
TONY WILLIAMS (Dallas-Richardson, TX) Subject: Murrow. Jim, Hi. Yes, I was alive when "Person to Person" began, but I doubt I enjoyed it much -- I was only one. Born in 1952. One of the highest rated "Person to Person" shows was the interview with Marilyn Monroe. I have seen many of the tapes. UT has some of Mike Wallace's old interview show from the late 1950s which was on ABC. Today, it is sort of odd to see Wallace doing live commercials for Phillip Morse and smoking nearly non-stop on the show. The guest is often framed in extreme close-up.
LESLIE WAYNE HODGES (Marshall, TX) Subject: Barry Kaye KILT (610) Houston Air Check now in Mason, Texas Live Mornings. Jim, click and listen. This is Barry Kaye then on KILT. You have heard this air check be4. But it's like a milk chocolate cookie you gotta have more. Barry and I have worked together over the years in his band in Houston, staying at my place in Brady {in the center of Texas South east of San Angelo} during two hunting seasons, and before that Aggie 96 in College Station Texas. Barry is now on air in the Mason, Texas Control Room 6 A.M to 9 A.M. KHLB. What is listed on the search page. That may change as another Houston personality Barry Kilgore began doing afternoon drive on KHLB October 3rd. Barry Kaye prefers 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. I miss this kind of radio here from KILT The Big 610 in Houston This was AM radio man. Wonder why we do not have this type of personality radio today? Leslie Wayne Hodges
TRIVIA ANSWER: Do you know that out of all of Santa's reindeer, Rudolph with the red nose is first known as Rollo? It all begins way back in the 1930s when Montgomery Ward decides to have their Santa give away coloring books. M-W copywriter Robert L. May receives the assignment to write the book. His story is about a little reindeer by the name of Rollo who is made fun of and left out of group activities because of a physical abnormality. Along with Rollo, other names like Rodney, Reginald and Romeo are also under consideration. M-W executives do not like any of those as the reindeer's name. So, Robert May changes its name to Rudolph and gets a friend to draw funny sketches of the reindeer making merry at Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo. M-W execs dig it. During Christmas 1939, M-W hands out the first copies of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer coloring book. May's brother-in-law Johnny Marks pens a tune based on the story of the red-nosed reindeer. What really brings things together is in 1949 when Superstar Cowboy singer Gene Autry's Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer becomes a smash hit.
MIKE MARSHALL (Houston, TX) Subject: WFAA promo. Jim, I was going through some boxes of pictures and found this. It was in the Dallas Morning News on Tuesday, May 21, 1968. I remember everybody except John Darrell. Maybe he did weekends. I started there in March, 1967 doing Weekends and production Tuesday through Friday, then moved to 4-7 until I went on vacation that summer and Charlie (Van) replaced me with a guy who had just started, Lee Douglas? I went to all night and finally 7-12 until I moved to KPRC here Labor Day weekend of 1969. Always enjoy the newsletter. Have a great New Year. Mike Marshall
PORTER WAGONER (August 12, 1927 - October 28, 2007) I've enjoyed as much of this as I can stand.
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AUSSIE TV HOST TELLS ALL ABOUT GREEN ROOMS Australian TV presenter Richard Wilkins is born Richard Stephen Wilkins on June 19, 1954 in Auckland, New Zealand. At seven, he is classically trained as a violinist. He graduates from New Zealand's teacher's college with majors in English and Music. PolyGram signs Richard Wilde as he is then known to a worldwide contract. He becomes one of New Zealand's top Pop stars. In 1980, his band Wilde and Reckless heads to Australia to release singles plus a six track EP and tours with Grace Jones. He becomes Promotions and Marketing Manager of Sydney radio stations 2Day FM and 2UW (now Mix 106.5). In 1987, Richard is the first VJ on MTV Australia when it is a TV show not a channel. In 1992, he hosts Keynotes TV game show. In 2011, Richard Wilkins' New Holland Publishers book Black Ties, Red Carpets, Green Rooms is Australia's biggest selling book. In a recent statement Richard glows: I never expected all this. Writing the book was definitely the hardest thing I’ve ever done. I’m thrilled and relieved that people seem to be enjoying it. In 2012, Richard Wilkins celebrates 25 years on Australian TV. From 1994 to the present, he is the Nine Network Entertainment Editor and appears regularly on The Today Show. In 2012, his book Black Ties, Red Carpets, Green Rooms releases as a must read paperback.
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RECORDING ARTISTS MAKE MINIMUM WAGE In 2011, The Daily Swarm publishes a very revealing list of music industry statistics. For instance, do you know that in order for a solo artist in the USA to earn the minimum wage of $1,160 per month they must sell 12,399 tracks on iTunes? As a group, that figure divides by the number of members in the band. Recording artists make their biggest money from concerts. The Daily Swarm spills the beans: ...a 77% decline in debut album sales since 2003 and with that a 17% decline in employed musicians. Only 17% of the global online community downloads music legally. With the shutting of record stores in the USA, now 27.4% of all albums sold are digital. Only 16.5% of Internet users in the USA purchase digital music. People are three times more likely to stream music than download it. Solo artists need to sell 1,299 albums on iTunes or 1,161 CDs at retail per month to make a minimum wage. They would need to have 4,053,110 plays on Spotify; 1,546,667 plays on Last.fm or 849,817 plays on Rhapsody to earn that minimum wage. Anu Kirk, MOG executive, reveals at the Digital Music Forum West: This is a tough business to be in. It sucks that right now artists are getting paid so little money by subscription services, but it sucks that artists are getting paid so little money by everyone. Kirk says: Lady Gaga earns only $167 from more than 1 million plays of 'Poker Face' on Spotify.
TRIVIA QUESTION: Do you remember when Kojak has its debut on TV? The answer appears below.
MOVERS AND SHAKERS
•HAPPY BIRTHDAY! Andy Waldrop Houston, TX radio air personality fires up 39 candles on Monday, December 26, 2011. •WXRT FM CBS Radio (Chicago's Finest Rock 93.1) limited edition charity CD ONXRT: Live From The Archives - Volume 13 releases on December 6, 2011 exclusively at Chicago area Target stores to support Lincoln Park Community Shelter and Partners in Health completely sells out. •WFMT FM Classical (98.7) Chicago, IL celebrates 60th Anniversary on air on Tuesday, December 13, 2011 live from the Chicago Cultural Center's Preston Bradley Hall with show hosts Rich Warren and Bill McGlaughlin.
ENTERTAINMENT AND NEWS MILESTONES
•1954 THE SHADOW radio program airs for the last time on December 26th. •1967 THE OSBORNE BROTHERS' Classic Rocky Top releases on Decca records on December 25th. •1974 JACK BENNY favorite radio & TV comedian (The Jack Benny Show) dies at 80 on December 26th. •1982 DUANE ALLEN & THE OAK RIDGE BOYS' Christmas album certifies Gold on December 27th. •1993 RODNEY DANGERFIELD 72 year-old favorite comedian weds 41 year-old Joan Child on December 26th. •2001 WILLIE NELSON & LEE ANN WOMACK's video Mendocino County Line shoots in Austin, TX on December 26th.
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JAMES BEST [Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane - Dukes of Hazzard] (Hickory, NC) Subject: Happy Holidays from the Best Family! Greetings! We wanted to send you the Best Family Christmas card this year! Thank you for all your continued support and we hope you have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! James & Dorothy Best
JIM BELL [KUFH FM 88.7 Retired 1997-2010] (Lufkin, TX) Subject: Merry Christmas to All! From Jim Bell, now blissfully retired in God's Country -- East Texas. I just want everybody to know that I got my Christmas a few days early. Back on Thursday, the 22nd, my cancer doctor at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston told me he doesn't think I have prostate cancer. Furthermore, he said the small town urologist who told me I DO have it misread the biopsy results, and I need to stop going to him. I will stop, because MD Anderson is the gold standard in cancer diagnosis and treatment. The Houston doctor told me to come back a year from now for a follow-up, but he's confident that I have nothing worth losing sleep over. Do you have any idea how this took a load off me and made me feel a hundred pounds lighter? I know, I don't LOOK a hundred pounds lighter, but it feels like it. So God's blessings and the happiest of Christmases, Hanukahs and whatevers to all my old Houston and east Texas radio friends and colleagues, and may all your days be as good and uplifting as mine was last Thursday.
DAVID HOUSE (Fort Worth-North Richland Hills, TX) Hi, Jim, Thanks so much for replying. I came across your website this afternoon and thought perhaps you would know Bob Sullivan and how to contact him. Probably reporter's luck. I was in the newspaper business for many years (Dallas Morning News, Denver Post, St. Pete Times, etc.) and even though I grew up during the '50s around (Louisiana) Hayride people and various artists because of my mother's career, I never learned that business, so I'm exploring unfamiliar territory. Your site looked strong and credible. Best, David House; Freelance Writer (www.fortworthwriter.com) Member: SPJ, Native American Journalists Association, Online News Association
JERRY HEILMAN (Nacogdoches, TX) Subject: radio station jobs. KEBE/KOOI in Jacksonville (TX) 1966-1971; KLIS FM in Palestine in 1971; KSFA AM Nacogdoches 1972-76; KJCS FM Nacogdoches/Lufkin 1979-1986. Had the priv of working with some great folks including Larry Graham, Jerry Houston, Malcolm Landess, Jeff Dale, Dave Malone, and too many others to mention. Lots of changes (not all for the better).
DR. BRUCE NELSON [GM/AM Drive DJ KFTX FM 97.5 Retired 12/31/2010] (Corpus Christi, TX) Subject: Jim Rose Remembers Radio (#1058) December 23, 2011 [Friday] Merry Christmas to you and Lacy. Tell Joanie Green-Gallo I'd hire here if I hadn't retired last year. She always did a great job for me at KNUZ!!! DrB (www.kftx.com) Merry Christmas from the 2nd Amendment! (www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCBNOFmr4nw)
BILLY THORMAN (Ft. Worth, TX) Subject: Fleece Napping Dad. Hey Jim! Just wanted to wish you a Merry Christmas from the heart of my bottom. Thanks, for connect all our old radio pals. All the best! b
CHUCK DUNAWAY (Houston, TX) Subject: Merry Christmas
JAY WEAVER (D/FW-Hurst, TX) Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
JIM GOUGH (Austin-Liberty Hill, TX) Subject: Jim Rose Remembers Radio (#1057) December 19, 2011 [Monday] Thanks pardner...it’s always great here in the Hill Country. I had a nice narration to do for TxDot yesterday, so all's fine. Jim Gough http://jimgough.net/
TONY WILLIAMS (Dallas-Richardson, TX) Merry Christmas Jim and Lacy! Tony Lyndell Williams
BOB GRANT [Robert Hanger] (San Angelo, TX) Subject: Holidays. A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS TO JIM & LACY! From Bob, Barb & Sonny Lee.
TRIVIA ANSWER: Telly Savalas plays bald police detective Lieutenant Theo Kojak on CBS TV's exciting Kojak series. Dan Frazer is Captain Frank McNeil along with Kevin Dobson as Lt. Bobby Crocker. Kojak premieres on CBS TV on October 24, 1973 and runs through April 1978. During Kojak the reason that he sucks on a lollipop is to help him quit smoking. Telly is the son of Greek immigrants. He is born Aristotelis Savalas on January 21, 1922 in Garden City, Long Island, NY. During World War II, he serves as a soldier in Company C, 12th Medical Training Battalion, 4th Medical Training Regiment at Camp Pickett, VA. In the early 1950s, he hosts a popular radio program, Telly's Coffeehouse. Savalas studies psychology at Columbia University in NYC. Telly is an executive director and then senior director of ABC news special events. He becomes executive producer of Gillette Cavalcade of Sports where he gives Howard Cosell his first job. On January 22, 1994 Telly Savalas passes away at 72 of bladder cancer in Universal City, CA.
DAVID FAULKNER (Dallas, TX) Subject: Happy Holidays! Merry Christmas! Best of the Season to you & Lacy! David Faulkner
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