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DOORS ARCHITECT TOPPLES Jim Morrison and Ray Manzarek first meet at a UCLA film school. In June 1965, they form Rock group The Doors in Los Angeles, CA with Jim Morrison (lead singer/songwriter), Ray Manzarek (keyboards), Robbie Kreiger (guitar) and John Densmore (drums). The Doors premiere chart tune Light My Fire flames up Billboard's #1 spot for three weeks. The group has a breathtaking impact on Rock 'n' Roll. But Morrison's controversial onstage locomotions raise cops' eyebrows with several arrests which cause cancelations. On July 3, 1971 Jim Morrison dies of heart failure in Paris, France at only 27. On Monday, May 20, 2013 Doors keyboardist and founding member Ray Manzarek passes at 74 in Rosenheim, Germany surrounded by his family.

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SONG WRITER ENTERS ROCK & ROLL HEAVEN In 1975, one the most favorite tunes to spin on Top 40 KXOL-1360 in Ft. Worth, TX is the Righteous Brothers' Rock and Roll Heaven. Alan O’Day who writes Helen Reddy’s #1 tune Angie Baby which in 1974 I spin on Top 40 KFJZ-1270 plus his own  #1 smash in 1977 Undercover Angel also pens Rock and Roll Heaven. In 1973, Alan records his first solo album Caress Me Pretty Music but in 1977 it is Undercover Angel that gives him his first worldwide solo hit under his own name. O’Day experiences another major hit Skinny Girls which rings #11 in Australia. Alan writes over 100 songs for Jim Henson’s TV show Muppet Babies. Alan O’Day dies from brain cancer at 72 in his Westwood, CA home on Friday, May 17, 2013.

ESPN TOSSES 100S OF EMPLOYEES TO THE WIND That's right! Git up and boogie! On Tuesday, May 21, 2013 ESPN shocks hundreds of its associates with discharge papers. How nice of them: Some of those being laid off have been told they can stay until the end of the week if they want. An incognito staff member who gets the axe is with ESPN for almost a decade considers the move completely out of the blue. I was told it was 10 percent across the board, which would be roughly 400. ESPN issues a statement: We are implementing changes across the company to enhance our continued growth while smartly managing costs. While difficult, we are confident that it will make us more competitive, innovative and productive.

TRUTH IN REPORTING The recent massive cyclone that blasts its way through a tiny Oklahoma town of 56,000 south of Oklahoma City shocks and dismays us all. The twister's whirlwind rips Moore's small community apart, annihilates its elementary school and explodes homes into fragments of shattered wood. On May 20, 2013 reports flood our airwaves with amazing totals like 91 dead, 20 of them children. Soon, authorities greatly reduce the number of confirmed deaths to at least 51 dead, 9 of them children. Finally, the death toll recedes to 24, with 7 of them school kids. Before that, all newscasts shout that 51 die along with 20 young people. Death totals in any storm should be closely examined before unrealistic numbers air on radio and TV.

TRIVIA QUESTION: Does Jim Morrison really enjoy lighting the fire? The answer appears below.

MOVERS AND SHAKERS

•RADIO INK's Streamline Publishing purchases www.radio-info.com and christens it www.Radiodiscussions.com. Longtime JRRR subscriber T.J. Callahan is new VP/GM of Radio Ink. In early 2013 Streamline's Radio Ink acquires Radio & Television Business Report. •ROB JENNINGS whose broadcast career spans six decades retires after 36 Years as Action News Anchor on WPVI TV ABC CH6 Philadelphia, PA. •AMBER MILLER PD/PM Drive host on Modern Rock WEQX FM (102.7) Manchester, VT departs after 6 years. •DON KAIN reporter for more than 25 years on WFSB TV CBS CH3 Hartford, CT retires on June 7, 2013.

ENTERTAINMENT AND NEWS MILESTONES

•1956 HELEN TERRY British back up singer with lead singer Boy George's Culture Club born on May 25th. •1961 DANA WILLIAMS bass player with CMA Vocal Group Diamond Rio born on May 22nd in Dayton, OH. •1974 DEAN MARTIN SHOW last airs on NBC TV on May 24th. •1988 KATHY MATTEA's single Eighteen Wheels And A Dozen Roses grabs #1 in Billboard Country on May 21st. •1991 GENE CLARK Folk-Rock singer-writer with The Byrds (Mr. Tambourine Man) dies at 49 on May 24th in his Sherman Oaks, CA home. •2003 RANDY TRAVIS' single Three Wooden Crosses wins #1 in Billboard Country on May 24th.

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JEFF THOMPSON [former NBC News, 30 Rockefeller Plaza] (Greensboro/Winston-Salem, NC) Subject: Jim Rose Remembers Radio (#1200) May 20, 2013 [Monday] Hi Jim: Interesting May 17th Trivia story about the origins of the N BC Network chimes...which according to your report was "mechanized" way back in 1932 by Richard H. Ranger. However, when I joined NBC Network Radio News...in 1970, I was amazed to find that it was NOT mechanized...but, in fact, we anchormen had to begin each newscast at the top of the hour by personally and physically playing a real, but small 3 note xylophone that sent the sound of the chimes into the same microphone that I was about to speak into, reporting the world news to the nation. A few years later into my tenure at "30 Rock"...the chimes were, indeed, "mechanized", in that the audio engineer played a recorder version of them each time my newscast began. More like electronic sounding tones. But the theme still persists.- Jeff Thompson - NBC News, WOR-TV, WINS, in NYC, KMSC & KXYZ Radio, KVVV-TV in Houston, etc.

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DR. BRUCE NELSON [KFTX FM 97.5 GM/AM Drive DJ Retired on 12/31/2010] (Corpus Christi, TX) Subject: Jim Rose Remembers Radio (#1200) May 20, 2013 [Monday] Greetings from Branson Jim. We saw and spent some time with Mickey Gilley on my birthday and friendship aside this (is) a Branson show must!!! Total class production and Gilley singing better then ever. He has risin above brain surgery several year back and paralysis from a fall few years ago to stage a remarkable comeback at 77. good shows include "Oh What a Truly inspiring and NOT to be missed in Branson. Other show include the Four Season Tribute "Oh What a night" and "Joseph" WOW!! Be well Dr. Bruce (www.kftx.com)

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JAY WEAVER [KCUL-1540/KBUY-1540/KPCN-730] (DFW-Hurst, TX) Subject: Your Nomination To The Texas Radio Hall Of Fame. Jim, congratulations on being nominated to the Texas Radio Hall Of Fame. You got my vote!  You deserve a place in the Hall for all you do!  I would have voted for you twice, but of course, it's against the rules! Jay Weaver

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MIKE SHANNON [ex WBAP-820/WFAA-TV] (Dallas-Mesquite, TX) Subject: Next DFW Radio/TV Lunch Bunch set for Sat June 8. And we'll be back at Humperdink's again, 2208 W. Northwest Hwy between Loop 12/Walton Walker and 35E/Stemmons Fwy in NW Dallas,) coming up Saturday, June 8, from 12 noon 'til 3PM (or so...feel free to drop in/drop out, come and go, etc.) Same protocol...casual, each person pays for their own, etc. We'll meet in the 'atrium' room at Humperdink's (usual room) and maybe even spread out onto the patio if the weather behaves. RSVP not necessary. Any questions, just holler. See you there! Mike (www.KNUS99.com)

TRIVIA ANSWER: Poet, Rock singer James Douglas Morrison is born on December 8, 1943 in Melbourne, FL of both Scottish and Irish ancestors. He is the son of a U.S. Naval Officer who fights in World War II, Admiral Sir George Stephen Morrison, and Clara Clarke. Morrison doesn't like the strict attitudes that his parents impose on him. So, early in life he develops a rebellious spirit. In summer 1967, The Doors' Light My Fire tops Billboard's Hot 100 for three weeks. But reportedly Jim Morrison often says that he never likes the song and resents having to sing it. Ironically, Light My Fire is the last song that he ever sings with the Doors during their final public performance on December 12, 1970 at The Warehouse in New Orleans, LA when Jim exits the band.

JIM GOUGH ['Mr. Texas'-movie actor-voice actor] (Austin-Liberty Hill, TX) When I was in Detroit in 68, I had to stay in my hotel room. At least I got to record at the famous Artie Fields Productions! A few years ago Gail and I got to visit Roy's (Rogers) museum in Apple Valley, CA. Jim Gough

JIM MORRISON (December 8, 1943 - July 3, 1971) Come on baby, light my fire. Come on baby, light my fire. Try to set the night on fire.

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'HI-DE-HI' IS NO MORE Actor Paul Shane who makes his name playing Ted Bovis in BBC's long-running TV sitcom Hi-de-Hi! dies at 72 after a short illness surrounded by close family at a hospice in Rotherham, South Yorkshire on Thursday, May 16, 2013. Paul later appears in You Rang, M'Lord, along with other members of the former Hi-de-Hi! cast. Paul Shane, born in Rotherham in 1940, begins his working life as a miner but an accident turns him to the entertainment industry. He sings and entertains in pubs and clubs across South Yorkshire until TV offers enter the picture in the early 1970s. In 1980, his big break arrives with the BBC hit Hi-de-Hi! written by Jimmy Perry and David Croft. The series, which airs until 1988, wins large audiences and a Bafta for Best Comedy Series in 1984.

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TV REPORTER MAY LOSE JOB FOR REPORTING TRUTH CBS TV reporter Sharyl Attkisson who is just about the only member of the MSM who dares to investigate Benghazi-gate and now reports come in that she might lose her job over it plus the fact that CBS News president is the brother of a top Obama Administration official allegedly does not help her situation. The Daily Caller reports: The brother of a top Obama administration official is also the president of CBS News, and the network may be days away from dropping one of its top investigative reporters for covering the administration’s scandals too aggressively. CBS News executives reportedly express frustration with their own reporter, Sharyl Attkisson. Do we live in America or in a third world country?

COUNTRY RADIO DIES IN CANADA Australian Rock music journalist and media executive, Paul Cashmere, reports that Aussie born singer/songwriter Greg Quill dies at 66 in Canada from complications from pneumonia after suffering health issues for a number of years. Guitarist Sam See, who plays with Quill in Southern Cross, sighs: Very sad to hear of the passing of Greg Quill. A significant hole has been left. Greg is best known for the hit song Gypsy Queen which is a major hit in Australia in 1972. In the late 1960s, Greg begins his career in Sydney. In June 1970 he puts together his first Country Radio line-up and bases his band’s sound on The Byrds, Bob Dylan and The Band. In late 1970s, Quill exits Australia and relocates to Canada as senior arts columnist for the Toronto Star.

AWARD WINNING WINDY CITY TV ANCHOR GETS THE BOOT On Friday afternoon, May 17, 2013 WBBM TV CBS CH2 jettisons news anchor Susan Carlson who is with WBBM TV for the last 10.5 years from traffic reporter, to feature reporter, to news anchor. Observers believe that extremely low ratings of CBS CH2 early morning newscasts, of which Carlson co-anchors, take a significant role in her release. Chicago native, Susan Carlson graduates Magna Cum Laude from Loyola University in 1991 with a Bachelor's degree in Broadcast Journalism and English, and graduating from Roosevelt University in 2009 with a Master's degree in Journalism. Susan wins 5 local Emmy Awards, Edward R. Murrow Award plus a Chicagoland Achievement in Radio Award.

TRIVIA QUESTION: When does a 17 minute sound check actually appear on a record album? The answer appears below.

MOVERS AND SHAKERS

•MONROE HOPPER Gospel music star founding member of North Carolina Gospel group The Hopper Brothers [later, The Hoppers] dies at 86 on Friday, May 17, 2013 in Madison, NC. •NFL OWNERS award Houston, TX the 2017 Super Bowl. •WALTON & JOHNSON scramble for a comeback in Houston, TX radio on Clear Channel Talk KPRC-950 on Tuesday, April 30, 2013 that replaces the popular syndicated Conservative Talk host Joe [Pags] Pagliarulo out of WOAI-1200 in San Antonio, TX. The Houston Chronicle reports that KPRC-950 jettisons W&J 5 months ago in December 2012.

ENTERTAINMENT AND NEWS MILESTONES

•1955 STEVE GEORGE keyboardist for 1980s Rock band Mr. Mister born on May 20th. •1965 ROGER MILLER's single King Of The Road hits Gold on May 19th. •1972 WALTER WINCHELL radio columnist later narrates popular TV series The Untouchables dies of prostate cancer at 75 on May 20th. •1980 ALABAMA's 1st album to hit charts My Home's In Alabama releases on RCA records on May 20th. •1995 CBS NEWS fires co-anchor Connie Chung on May 20th. •2005 THE OAK RIDGE BOYS along with lead singer Duane Allen perform the National Anthem at Shea Stadium on May 20th as New York Mets lose to the NY Yankees 5-2.

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JACK PARNELL [ex WHBQ-560] (Memphis, TN) Subject: Where is radio headed? Hello again, Jim: Thanks so much for your fantastic writings...heavy truths that almost nobody in the biz has the sense to realize today. I really wish we could be around when it gets better, but I don't think we will be...I certainly don't expect to be 105! Thanks also for adding me to your list and sending the good stuff. Jack Parnell

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JERRY HEILMAN [KJCS FM 103.3] (Nacogdoches, TX) Subject: hackers. Enjoyed your read on hackers getting control of websites at WTOP and WFED. Will Congress ever address this problem by making it illegal to download any content on a computer without the owner's express consent? Probably not. As radio stations and other businesses put more of their reliance on the web, I can just see a future hacker getting into the program log and entering some nasty content that would then run on the air. Microsoft is the world's worst at putting c*** onto your computer. I hope you and Lacy are doing well. YOU'VE GOT MY VOTE (trhof)!! Way past time you got the honor you so richly deserve. Jerry Heilman (KEBE, KOOI, KLIS, KSFA, KJSC, 103thebull), Nacogdoches, TX

JAY WEST [former KILT-610/KRI0-910] (Houston, TX) Subject: Hi Jim. Thanx for the mention in your column this week. For future reference ...Please note that I have never worked at KLIF/Dallas. My radio tenure was KRIO, McAllen Texas, KILT-am. Houston. Total of 20 years for both. Thank you again for your reference and your kindness. Jay West

JIM GOUGH ['Mr. Texas'-movie actor-voice actor] (Austin-Liberty Hill, TX) Subject: Jim Rose Remembers Radio (#1199) May 17, 2013 [Friday] I was so sorry to hear about my friend Jay West's health problems. Our prayers are with him. Jim Gough

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GARY DELAUNE [ex KLIF-1190, KENS TV] (San Antonio, TX) Subject: Joe Long. I knew Joe well. He had a great family and I had just started at KENS-TV when he died and Paul (Long) I think it was, called to see if I could come to the funeral so I flew to Dallas. Truly a tremendous talent...at KLIF. Roy Nichols and I left...to go to KRLD-TV as Jim Underwood and Bill Cevera convinced Barker to hire us. Five other employees left the same day Roy and I quit. Gordon (McLendon) wrote me a letter of apology about hiring Jay Randolph as station manager. Bill Morgan had announced I was to be the new voice of the Cowboys and SMU basketball...But as they say, the rest is history. GD (www.garydnews.com)

JOE LONG From 1971-72 during my time as a newscaster/mobile news reporter on KBOX-1480 in Dallas, TX I have nothing but immense praise for Joe Long. He is the crown jewel of TX radio. Many say he has the voice of God. Joe treats me extremely well. One item that sticks with me forever is he says when we botch a word, do not stop to correct it. Just keep on going as if nothing has happened and most people will never notice. Joe says if we stop to make a correction, then everyone will know. So, just keep on going. Brilliant! In 1972, it is my duty to be the first in the world to announce in a newscast that the legendary Joe Long dies.

DUSTY BLACK [TX Radio 1972-2006 in Austin/Dallas/Houston] (Austin, TX) Jim, When I started in 1972 Dick Moore was the news director. When month did you leave KBOX (1480). I know it was in 1972? I have followed your career for all of these years. True Golden Days. Dusty Black

TRIVIA ANSWER: While they wait for producer Jim Hilton to arrive, Hard Rock band Iron Butterfly runs through In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida as a sound check for engineer Don Casale and he rolls the tape to capture the rift. When he plays the tape back, everyone agrees that the band cannot improve on the sound. So, that seventeen minute sound check actually appears on Iron Butterfly's Multi-Platinum album In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida.

MIKE BRAUN [ex KWTX-1230 Waco, TX] (Ft. Worth, TX) Jim, The KWTX-AM transmitter and tower are in their original location near Primrose Drive between South 16th and South 18th streets (off LaSalle Avenue) in Waco. The KWTX-TV and KWTX-FM transmitters and tower are located in Moody (south of Waco). Best wishes, Mike Braun, KWTX-AM/FM, 1975-1979

PHIL DONAHUE [Former TV talk show host] The radio of my youth...is now a quaint memory replaced by computer hard drives.

Jim Rose and Lacy
Houston, Texas - Laus Deo

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May 17, 2013 [Friday]
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JUSTICE DEPARTMENT BUGS AP PHONE RECORDS Recently, the Justice Department secretly obtains Associated Press reporters and editor’s telephone records that a cooperative's top news executive calls a "massive and unprecedented intrusion" into how news organizations gather news. This is straight from a James Bond movie script. In April and May 2012, the feds seize records of more than 20 separate telephone lines which are assigned to AP and its journalists. AP President and Chief Executive Officer Gary Pruitt says the government sought and obtained information far beyond anything that could be justified by any specific investigation. He demands the return of the phone records plus destruction of all copies.

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CYBER-MONSTER HACKS DC RADIO Recently, Hubbard all-news WTOP FM (103.5) Washington, DC blocks visitors from logging into its popular website due to what it describes as a cyber attack. This Internet monster, also strikes sister station Federal News Radio WFED-1500 website which attacks visitors’ computers with spyware. WTOP's website posts a story which says it is just one of many media and other websites the cyber attack compromises. Hackers take advantage of a security flaw in IE that redirects traffic to a fake site that then installs malware on a user’s computer. Kim Komando, Weststar Talk Radio Network host, reports that as of now, Microsoft doesn’t have a fix for the security flaw in IE 8. The Digital Goddess suggests an upgrade to IE 9 or 10, or switch web browsers.

NASHVILLE SPACE IS TIGHT Nashville musicians desire more bright yellow marked loading zone spaces in The Country Music Capital of the World. Robert Cabrera of the Nashville Business Journal reports that Music City musicians are in a battle with the city's Metro over loading zone spaces for them to unload their equipment for performances at downtown Nashville’s honky-tonks because the zones are always occupied. WTVF TV CBS Channel 5 News reports that Tune Town musicians push for more spaces at a public meeting with the city’s traffic and parking committee on Monday, May 13, 2013. With Nashville being the home of the historic Ryman Auditorium, some folks refer to it as the Carnegie Hall of the South.

LITTLE RICHARD IS BEING MOVED Rock and R&B Superstar Little Richard is not physically relocating but Macon Mayor Robert Reichert confirms on WMAZ TV on Friday, May 11, 2013 that Little Richard's boyhood home in Macon, GA will move to another location because of a highway construction project. Richard Wayne Penniman is born on December 5, 1932 in Macon's Pleasant Hill community which the new Interstate 75 later divides. The 80 year old singer of Tutti Frutti's boyhood home faces possible demolition to make room for a planned expansion of the interchange. Quick on the scene, City officials will relocate Little Richard's bambino dwelling to a lot near the Pleasant Hill community garden to be used as a neighborhood resource center. Well, a whop bop-a-lu a whop bam boo!

TRIVIA QUESTION: What is the origin of the famous three-note NBC chimes? The answer appears below.

MOVERS AND SHAKERS

•DR. JOYCE BROTHERS psychologist who is a pioneer of the TV advice show dies at 85 on Monday, May 13, 2013 in NYC. Dr. Brothers' celebrity takes off as a contestant on TV quiz show The $64,000 Question when she becomes the only woman to ever win the show's top prize. •JOHN WITTE GM of KFOX TV Fox CH14 El Paso, TX tells El Paso Times that he retires after 11 years just months before his first grandchild arrives and before Sinclair acquires KFOX TV. •HEIDI HARRIS former KRLA-870 Los Angeles morning co-host returns to Las Vegas on KBET-790 Talk That Rocks. •JUDITH DURHAM one of my all time favorite singers suffers Cerebral Hemorrhage midway through The Seekers Golden Jubilee Tour in Melbourne, Australia.

ENTERTAINMENT AND NEWS MILESTONES

•1956 BOB SAGET host of America's Funniest Home Video born on May 17th. •1967 GLEN CAMPBELL records John Hartford's Gentle On My Mind on May 17th arranged by Leon Russell at the Capitol Recording Studio in Hollywood, CA. •1975 10CC releases I'm Not in Love on May 17th. •1980 ALABAMA's Tennessee River releases on RCA records on May 16th. •1992 LAWRENCE WELK conductor/accordionist (Lawrence Welk Show) dies at 89 on May 17th. •2006 WALK THE LINE soundtrack album goes Platinum on May 17th featuring Johnny Cash's Ring Of Fire and Jackson performed by Reese Witherspoon, Joaquin Phoenix, Shooter Jennings & Waylon Payne. •DICK MORRIS formerly with Fox News lays down incorrect political Talk on WPHT-1210 Philadelphia, PA weekdays from 2-6p.

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DAVE BRUCE [Attorney at law] (West Dennis, MA) Subject: Radio newsletter. Thanks, Jim, yes, indeed, I think I did change email addresses without notifying you. Thanks for putting me back on the list. Much appreciated. Dave Bruce; Attorney at Law; West Dennis, MA

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JEFF MACK [KULF/KILT FM/KENR/WNOE/WYYN/KNUZ] (Cleveland, TX) Here's one for the record books. Johnny Shannon, who I think is currently at KTSA, worked at KVLB along with me and Royce Guinn in 1965. KVLB was his first job out of Elkins licensing school. Royce and I were still in High School at the time. Johnny was a talented jock from the get go. It wasn't long before he was at KILT working part time/fill in, then full time. I was 17 at the time and totally consumed with radio. I listened to the BC band at night to great stations like WLS, WNOE and others learning from what I heard to find what suited my personality best. Of coarse it was high energy and fast delivery in those days. Every break had to have time, temp call letters, your name, music titles and artist. You jingled out of all stop sets and sweeps. When I finished a 4 to 6 hour show I was physically wore out. I know you can relate. Keep up the great work my friend, Jeff "Mack" McClain

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JAY WEST [KILT-610/KODA FM/KRIO-910] (Houston, TX) yo jim. this is to update you on my progress in recovery. i am now at home resting and having home health-care, i have a physical therapist visit twice weekly...and an occupational therapist visit twice weekly. i am beginning hyperbolic treatments starting next monday for a couple of weeks to heal quicker from foot amputation, thanks for caring, and hope to be walking again soon. God speed!!!! -- JAY WEST

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MARY STODDARD [Sam-KVIL FM] (Dallas/Frisco, TX) Subject: New BIO & TRHoF Nomination. Hi Jim: Hope you are well. Congratulations on the new format for your Newsletter. Nice! Thought you might be interested to see I've been Nominated for the 11th straight year for the TRHoF (I know, we've talked about this before!) After doing some heavy fact-checking, I can say I'm the 1st FCC Licensed Female in the State (lic. date: Jan. 28, 1965) I've never campaigned to get in before, but decided I really want this for my kids to see while they and I are still here to see it! Probably an exercise in futility, but here's my BIO that runs next to my name on the List of many, most of whom haven't the credentials, credits or seniority to be on it! Best to you, Jim. -- Mary Sam Stoddard

TRIVIA ANSWER: The famous three-note NBC chimes progress over several years. The three note sequence G-E-C may have been heard first on WSB-750 in Atlanta, GA. During the network broadcast of a Georgia Tech football game, an NBC technician in NYC hears the WSB version of the notes and asks permission to use them on NBC's national network. In 1931, NBC begins to use the three note chime. In 1932, Richard H. Ranger of the Rangertone company mechanizes the NBC chimes. This is the first audio trademark that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office accepts. NBC-TV still uses the G-E-C chime. MSNBC cable TV network uses a variant with two preceding notes. NBC's radio branch no longer exists.

JOHN STEEL [engineer at KUHF FM/KUHA FM (U of H)/KONO-860/KLDE FM/KNUZ-1230] (Houston, TX) Subject: Nominations. Jim, I just sent in a nomination for you for the Texas Radio Hall of fame yesterday. I just looked and you are already listed as nominated so it looks like others have nominated you also. I know that Les Hodges nominated you, so could be that his nomination got there. I got nominated again also, I am not sure who nominated me. John Steel

WOLFMAN JACK [commenting about Top 40 radio] It stays with you, and it makes life feel so good!

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SPACE CITY TV PRODUCER MURDERED TV Spy reports that former KRIV TV CH26 producer, Kathryn Greer Feagin, is found dead by her grandmother in her West Houston, TX apartment on Wednesday, May 8, 2013. According to Houston ABC O&O KTRK TV CH13 There was no sign of forced entry at her apartment, where her grandmother found her Wednesday after she had not heard from Feagin for several days. Houston cops investigates Kathryn's death as a murder. Before Feagain joins KRIV TV in 2009, WDSU TV in New Orleans is her employer. After Kathryn exits the Fox O&O in 2011, she teaches occasional classes at Sculpt Fitness in the Bayou City. A colleague tells KTRK TV: She had a real bubbly personality, just always happy.

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JOURNALISM'S HOUSE IS ON FIRE CBS Evening News anchor Scott Pelley admits a recent rash of mistakes shows journalism's house is on fire. On Friday, May 10, 2013 during a journalism award ceremony, Scott scolds his industry: ...in a world in which everyone is a publisher no one is an editor. Pelley mentions how several news organizations prematurely reported an arrest in the Boston Marathon bombing case. Scott castigates fellow journalists as he urges them to worry less about the "vanity" of being first on a story and more about being right. This has been a bad few months for journalism. We're getting the big stories wrong over and over again. The CBS Evening News anchor's criticism comes as he receives a Fred Friendly journalism award from Quinnipiac University.

TYLER COPS FACE MAN ON TOP OF TV TOWER Around 4:30 Wednesday afternoon, May 8, 2013 a KYTX TV CH19 employee witnesses a man who cops later identify as Claude Allen Lacy close to 50 feet up its TV tower. By the time lawman arrive on the scene, KYTX TV reports that the perpetrator eases down to around 25 feet then he slowly inches back up the ladder. KYTX TV leads with the story on its 6:00 pm news. During the last 20 minutes of the newscast, reporter Field Sutton describes the activity at the tower which stands tall behind the KYTX TV studios. The standoff between county Mounties and the tower climber comes to a screeching halt just before 7:00 pm when he finally caves in and ends his high wire act on the spire. All's well that ends well in Tyler, TX.

BEN & SKIN TOGETHER AGAIN Radio Ink reports that Sports Talk KRLD FM (The Fan 105.3) in Dallas, TX hires Ben and Skin to host afternoons from 2-6pm. Previously for the past three years, Ben Rogers and Jeff [Skin] Wade broadcast from 9 am to noon on ESPN KESN FM in Big D. Before that Ben and Skin spread the word during KTCK-1310 The Ticket’s Mavs postgame radio show as well as Saturday mornings. Ben and Skin first appear on-air as a team in halftime segments on KSTR TV CH49’s Dallas Mavericks TV broadcasts. Gavin Spittle, VP News/Talk/Sports CBS Radio/Dallas is enthusiastic: We are really excited to bring the energy and excitement of the Ben and Skin Show to our listeners. “They are a perfect fit for our lineup and are well known in the DFW area,

TRIVIA QUESTION: Which four Beatles songs top Cashbox Magazine's record chart for sixteen straight weeks in 1964? The answer appears below.

MOVERS AND SHAKERS

•HAPPY BIRTHDAY! Dr. Bruce Nelson former GM/AM Drive DJ on KFTX FM [97.5] who retires on December 31, 2010 only ages one year on Wednesday, May 15, 2013. Jim Travis previous DJ on KBUC FM/KVET-1310/KXOL-1360 blows out 39 candles or more on Friday, May 17th. BOB GRANT East Coast radio icon has his day on Saturday, May 18th. •INGA BARKS joins Talk radio KNZR-1560 Bakersfield, CA from 3-5pm plus nightly 6-9pm on KMJ-580 Fresno. •KEVIN MILLER Morning drive talk host on Peak Broadcasting KIDO-630 in Boise, ID named Best Radio Host by KTVB TV as part of its 7’s Best awards.

ENTERTAINMENT AND NEWS MILESTONES

•1959 MILTON BERLE's Kraft Music Hall last airs on May 13th on NBC-TV. •1965 LARI WHITE soulful Country singer (Now I Know #5-1994) who has a role in Tom Hanks movie Cast Away born on May 13th in Dunedin, FL. •1970 THE BEATLES movie Let it Be premieres on May 13th. •1986 HANK WILLIAMS JR.'s Greatest Hits, Volume 2 album certifies Gold on May 13th. •1999 MEG GREENFIELD journalist for 20 years at Washington Post, 25 years as Newsweek editorial columnist plus Washington, D.C. insider dies of cancer at 68 on May 13th. •2003 JOE NICHOLS debut album Man With A Memory strikes Gold on May 13th.

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JACK PARNELL [ex WHBQ-560 DJ] (Memphis, TN) I think we could all write a book about our earliest jobs in radio. Shirley, my wife, has been trying to get me to write a book, mainly about the days after we moved to Memphis, and all the people we met. BTW, She and I will celebrate our 57th anniversary in August. WHBQ was a hot radio station all over the country...people would come in and listen to us just to see what made us so popular. I'm sure you knew that Dewey Phillips, who was on from 9 to midnight, was the first person in the world to play an Elvis (Presley) record "That's Alright Mama"...July 8, 1954. When he left in 1958, I took his air shift...9p to 1a.

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TONY BRIDGE [2010 Texas Radio Hall of Fame inductee] (Fort Worth-Benbrook, TX) Subject: Bill Moore Obit Moore Obit. When Mike Braun reported the death of Bill Moore, it brought back many memories of a great friend. Bill and two of his crew would visit my three stations (KLUE Longview, KMHT Marshall, and KBCL Shreveport) several times a year. Bill would call and ask me if the station could handle another 25 or 35 thousand dollars that month. Of course we could. They would arrive in their big black Lincoln, quickly hit their phones already installed, and in two days the sales were done, and not a local account touched. It was all their “pocket accounts” from all over the state. Never any bad accounts, always a joy to see Bill and the guys. True hard working professionals working their selected stations state wide. Bill my friend we will certainly miss you; you were one of a kind. And where you are now, I bet Saint Peter can use another 25 or 35 thousand this month. Tony Bridge, Fort Worth.

TRIVIA ANSWER: In 1964, four different Beatles songs top Cashbox Magazine's record chart for sixteen straight weeks. From January 25th until May 16th the Fab Four leads the best sellers list with I Want To Hold Your Hand for 8 weeks, She Loves You for 2 weeks, Twist And Shout for 1 week and Can't Buy Me Love for 5 weeks. Louie Armstrong's Hello Dolly interrupts their streak for one week before Love Me Do puts The Beatles back on top for one more week.

MIKE BRAUN [ex KWTX-1230 Waco, TX] (Ft. Worth, TX) Subject: KWTX anniversary and Buddy Bostick birthday. Jim, Twenty-eight-year-old M.N. “Buddy” Bostick was the station manager who helped build KWTX radio. "Buddy" Bostick will celebrate his 95th birthday on May 18. Mr. Bostick would later become president and general manager of KWTX Broadcasting Company. In addition to KWTX-TV and KWTX-FM, the ownership group would put KBTX-TV, Bryan-College Station (Channel 3) on the air in 1957, along with the purchase of KXII-TV, Ardmore, Oklahoma (Channel 12). The company acquired KNAL radio, Victoria, Texas, in 1959 and KLFY-TV, Lafayette, Louisiana, in 1965. Best wishes, Mike Braun, KWTX-AM/FM, 1975-1979

 CHUMBE SALINAS (Benavides, TX) Congratulations on you TRHF nomination!! You'll have my vote!

DAN MCCURDY [a while back Charlie & Harrigan-KLIF-1190] (Sherman, TX) Subject: Jim Rose Remembers Radio (#1197) May 10, 2013 [Friday] Hey, Jimbo...long time away from the 'puter...but I'm still a big fan of JRRR! I'll sure second the sentiment that your inclusion of pertinent lyrics, "George Jones (September 12, 1931 - April 26, 2013) They placed a wreath upon his door. And soon they'll carry him away. He stopped loving her today “was a master-stroke, not unexpected for a pro radio-head like yourself. As a woo-hoo rock n' rollin' ex-DJ with a deep love for classical music...truthfully, much of traditional C&W is also close to my heart. And none EVER captured the true essence of Country's penchant for story-telling better than Ol' Possum. Dang, I just hate it that we lost this lynch-pin to that wonderful genre...a genius of style and vocal acrobatics unmatched in the annals of Country Soul. Honestly, Ole George was my fave Country artist...he always seemed to pick just the perfect song that touched folks the deepest and spun their stories with a nonpareil honesty unmatched by any C&W artist in my recollection. Miss him? Heck yeah...we'll have to "Hold on...hold on...hold on to each other" for a loooong time before we see the likes of his vocal brilliance again. - Bestooya (and Lacy, too)... Dan McCurdy, Sherman, TX -- KLIF, KBOX-Dallas, WMEX-Boston, 2004 Inductee in the Texas Radio Hall of Fame

GEORGE ELIOT [Mary Ann Evans] (1819-1880) There is no feeling, perhaps, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.

Jim Rose and Lacy
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BURIAL PLOT FOUND FOR BOSTON BOMBER Radio Ink reports that Chaz of Chaz and AJ in the Morning Talk show on CMG Rock WPLR FM (99.1) in Hartford/New Haven/Milford, CT offers to personally purchase a burial plot (up to $1,000.00) for Boston Bombing Suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev just as long as it's not in his home state of Connecticut or in Massachusetts where the bombing occurs. Chaz says: We've been through enough in this state; I can speak for most Connecticut residents when I say we REALLY don't want him here. We've had some historically horrible things happen recently, we don't want Connecticut to be known as a final resting place of a terrorist. Chaz further states: This is where I draw the line. Not in my backyard.

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FUGEES SINGER GOES TO PRISON As a teenager in the 1990s, Lauryn Hill begins as a singer with the Fugees. In 1998, she releases her multiplatinum solo album The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill. In 2012, the Grammy-winning 37-year-old singer pleads guilty to failing to pay taxes on more than $1.8 million earned from 2005 to 2007. Also on the agenda are unpaid state and federal taxes in 2008 and 2009 that brings her total earnings to about $2.3 million. On Monday, May 6, 2013 as NJ U.S. Magistrate Madeline Cox Arleo orders singer Lauryn Hill to serve three months in prison. Hill compares her experience in the music industry to the slavery her ancestors endure. She pleads to the judge: I am a child of former slaves who had a system imposed on them. I had an economic system imposed on me.

ARBITRON RELEASES "RADIO TODAY 2013" STUDY All Access publishes Arbitron's Radio Today 2013 study. Among its highlights: Country and New Country, already #1 format in the report last year, grows again to remain in first place to reach another record audience share. The format benefits most from an influx of 18-24 listeners and is even #2 among teens nationally. News/Talk/Information and Talk/Personality remains #1 in PPM markets and #2 in the rest of the U.S. The 2,121 rated AM, FM, HD Radio and streamed spoken word formats rank prominently in highly educated, high income listeners. Read more at: www.allaccess.com/net-news/archive/story/118183/arbitron-s-radio-today-2013-study-looks-at-the-str#ixzz2Sj2qgdAE.

KULF'S PENTHOUSE SUITE LIES IN RUIN People change, things come and go but it's mighty difficult to imagine the present state of the elegant 14 floor castle that once houses Top 40 KULF-790 in its penthouse suite during my time as a DJ there from 1978-80 and in the 1950s King of the Wildcatters Glenn McCarthy's plush Cork Club with Frank Sinatra. James Dean clones oil tycoon McCarthy in the movie Giant. Central Square Plaza previously known as Central Bank building and earlier Century building at 2100 Travis in Houston, TX's Midtown District with its marble elevators stands vacant for 15 years. It's as if people just walk away from their desks and never return. Hallelujah! Local real estate investor Keeley Megarity purchases and will gut and restore the historic shrine.

TRIVIA QUESTION: What opinion does Frank Sinatra have of his Grammy winning tune Strangers in the Night? The answer appears below.

MOVERS AND SHAKERS

•MARIO MACHADO KCBS-TV Los Angeles, CA news anchor in 1960s & 1970s actor who appears in Rocky III, Scarface & Robocop dies at 78 of pneumonia in an L.A. convalescent facility. •WGY-810 Clear Channel News/Talk & Hot AC WRVE FM (The River 99.5) Albany-Schenectady, NY raises over $626,000 for Albany Medical Center Children's Hospital during their annual Cares for Kids Radiothon. •KVMX FM Lotus Classic Hits (MAX 92.1) Bakersfield, CA flips to KIX Country 92.1 FM.•GEORGE WALKER West Virginia Public Radio host for All Things Considered for nearly 12 years dies in his home over the weekend at 60.

ENTERTAINMENT AND NEWS MILESTONES

•1953 KCBD TV NBC CH11 in Lubbock, TX begins broadcasting on May 10th. •1962 JOHNNY CASH along with George Jones, Tompall & The Glaser Brothers and The Carter Family play prestigious Carnegie Hall in NYC on May 10th. •1974 STEELY DAN releases their single Rikki Don't Lose that Number (#4 summer 1974) on May 11th. •1984 LEE GREENWOOD's single God Bless The U.S.A. releases on MCA records on May 10th. •1992 SYLVIA SIMS Cabaret singer (I Could Have Danced All Night #20-1956) dies of a heart attack at 74 on May 10th. •2007 SUGARLAND's video Everyday America debuts on CMT TV on May 10th.

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JACK PARNELL [former DJ on WHBQ-560] (Memphis, TN) Jim: You're so right about Wink (Martindale); he was honored with a special award last year by the TN Radio Hall of Fame, and I was honored to introduce him and present his award. He knew he'd won and asked me to present him. We had a great time reliving some of those days of yore in radio. I notice you're in Houston; I'm sure you weren't there when my very close friend Jay Cook was PDing a station there, on his way to becoming President of Gannett Radio. What a great, talented, and extremely nice guy he was. We always stayed in close touch...he called me about 2 days before he died, knowing it wouldn't be long. JP

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MIKE BRAUN [ex KWTX FM/AM] (Ft. Worth, TX) Subject: Obit: William "Bill" Emerson Moore; ex-KCUL, Fort Worth and other Texas stations. Jim, We've lost another pioneer broadcaster: William "Bill" Emerson Moore. I saw his obituary in the "Fort Worth Star-Telegram" on May 5. Here's a link to his obit and photo: www.legacy.com/obituaries/dfw/obituary.aspx?n=william-emerson-moore-bill&pid=164615834&fhid=4250#fbLoggedOut Mr. Moore was an announcer at KCUL in Fort Worth and several other Texas radio stations. He founded The Moore Company, Inc., a radio promotional firm, in the 1950s. He sold radio time for many stations and never had a contract ... a handshake was always good enough for him. I wonder at what other Texas radio stations Mr. Moore worked? Mike Braun, KWTX-AM/FM, Waco, 1975-1979

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DAVID FAULKNER [KTNS-1600 Plano/KFJZ-870 Ft. Worth] (Dallas, TX) Subject: KTNS-1600 news... Jim, Good to hear from you. That is correct. 1600AM/Plano, TX had the KTNS calls from summer of 85 to Jan of 87. It carried the ABC Talkradio format with ABC News at the top of each hour. I worked there all but a few weeks of that. In Jan 87 the station sold and went dark for several months while it relocated to Dallas. It would return to the air with a new format that I called Spanish Disco. I have no idea of its actual name. :) I knew the Oakhurst, CA station got the KTNS calls. Didn't know it was an AC format. Thought it was News/Talk. AC is more interesting. AM has too many talkers. Best to you and Lacy, David

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BRYAN HOUSTON (Tyler, TX) Subject: Subscription to newsletter. Saw it on Bill Young's Facebook page, I believe. If it's good enough for Bill, it's good enough for me. And my high school head football coach was born and raised in Minden (Louisiana). Bryan Houston; Clear Marketing Concepts (www.clearmarketingconcepts.com)

TRIVIA ANSWER: In 1966, Pop singer Frank Sinatra tops both the US and UK charts with his single Strangers In The Night. He later scores a Grammy for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance plus Record of the Year. The song is from the James Garner movie A Man Could Get Killed. In summer 1966, Strangers In The Night lands at #1 with sales of over a half million copies. Despite these successes, Sinatra despises the song and calls it a piece of **** and the worst ******* song I ever heard.

JAY WEAVER [KCUL-1540/KBUY-1540/KPCN-730] (DFW-Hurst, TX) Subject: Your Quote. GEORGE JONES (September 12, 1931 - April 26, 2013) They placed a wreath upon his door And soon they'll carry him away He stopped loving her today. Wow, Jim! Brilliant! I would have never thought this line could be the epitaph for George Jones' life, but you nailed it! Jay Weaver

GEORGE JONES (September 12, 1931 - April 26, 2013) Who's gonna fill their shoes? Who's gonna stand that tall? Who's gonna play the Opry And the Wabash Cannonball? Who's gonna give their heart and soul To get to me and you? Lord I wonder, who's gonna fill their shoes?

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MOUSKETEER SHEDS HER EARS During the Fabulous Fifties we kids anxiously tune in our black and white TV sets every afternoon to watch The Mickey Mouse Club kids' variety show that features stories, songs and dance routines. It airs on ABC TV from 1955 to 1959. The very first episode introduces us to the Merry Mouseketeers. One of the Mousketeers who captures us boys' hearts is the cute-as-a-button, dark-haired 13 year old Annette Funicello. In the 1960s, Annette teams with another teen idol Frankie Avalon for a string of fun-in-the-sun Beach Blanket movies. But in 1992 we are saddened when the love of our life Annette reveals to us that she has multiple sclerosis. On Monday, April 8, 2013 the girl next door, Annette Funicello, dies at 70 from MS at Mercy Southwest Hospital.

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AL JAZEERA COMES TO AMERICA On Wednesday, January 2, 2013 former American VP Al Gore sells his struggling left-leaning Current TV channel to Qatari-based Arab TV news Al Jazeera for $500 million. In summer 2013, Al Jazeera America opens new significant Chicago Bureau cable/satellite news channel. The current smaller Al Jazeera English news bureau in the Windy City opens toward the end of 2011 with correspondent John Hendren. It expands to at least three more news staffers, including on-air reporters. Chicagoland Radio and Media reports that Chi-Town's larger bureau is the first of 12 planned full news bureaus throughout the country for Al Jazeera America, all of which will be (in) operation well before the launch of the new network.

TURN OUT THE LITE AT KVIL In the early 1960′s; KVIL FM is one of the architects of the Adult Contemporary format. In December 2005, KVIL FM adopts 103.7 Lite FM as its new moniker. Earlier in 2013 after Tony Zazza and Julie Fisk replace Gene and Julie Gates in mornings on KVIL FM, the Highland Park-Dallas, TX radio station eases out of its 103.7 Lite-FM signature in favor of just its call letters KVIL FM. Jonathan Doll handles middays and Leigh Ann bunks down in her afternoon fortress. With its shift from Lite FM, KVIL FM's music inches toward a brighter and recurrent format. While KVIL FM now calls itself The Best Variety Of The 90′s, 2K, and Today it ejects older tunes to sister Variety Hits KJKK FM (Jack FM 100.3) and KLUV FM Classic Hits (98.7).

ROCK STAR REVEALS 'DANGEROUS RIDE' Around this same time of the year in 1967 many of us Rock fans sing along with the Turtles' #1 smash hit tune Happy Together. It sells over a half million copies. In 1999 BMI lists the Turtles' Happy Together as one of the top 50 songs of the 20th century, with over five million radio plays. Turtles' lead singer Howard Kaylan along with fellow Turtle Mark Volman as Flo and Eddie appear on over 100 albums by artists like Bruce Springsteen, Frank Zappa, John Lennon, the Ramones and Alice Cooper. Kaylan has a lot of stories to tell about the Rock lifestyle of sex, drugs and other excesses. In fact his new book Shell Shocked: My Life With the Turtles, Flo & Eddie and Frank Zappa is now available on Backbeat Books.

TRIVIA QUESTION: Who plays Marshal Matt Dillon in radio's original version of Gunsmoke? The answer appears below.

MOVERS AND SHAKERS

•HAPPY BIRTHDAY! Jim Prewitt [Catfish] DJ on CBS Country KNCI FM (105.1) in Sacramento, CA celebrates on Wednesday, May 8th. Bob Hamilton edges up the age chart on Wednesday, May 8th. Henry LaRocca who is a high school senior in 1976 when I'm MD/noon-3pm DJ on KTRM-990 in Beaumont, TX now is a father of a teen as he grows one year older on Thursday, May 9th. •CLAIRE C. SCHWIEKER aka Miss Claire on the Romper Room children's TV show from 1953 to 1994 dies at 81 on Sunday, April 28, 2013 in McLean, VA. •KLIF FM Cumulus CHR (I93) Haltom City, TX applies to FCC to increase signal coverage in D/FW.

ENTERTAINMENT AND NEWS MILESTONES

•1956 WRCB TV NBC CH3 in Chattanooga, TN begins broadcasting on May 6th. •1962 TY HERNDON winner of TNN/Music City News 1996 Male Star of Tomorrow award born on May 2nd in Butler, AL. •1977 BEATLES AT HOLLYWOOD BOWL album releases in the U.K. on May 6th. •1985 ALABAMA wins three top trophies on May 6th in the 20th annual Academy Of Country Music awards on NBC TV from the Goodtime Theater at Knott's Berry Farm in Buena Park, CA. •1997 BEE GEES induct into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on May 6th. •2011 TAYLOR SWIFT's video Mean World premieres on CMT TV on May 6th.

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SAM LEE (Beverly Hills, CA) Subject: TRHF Nomination. Hi Brothers, I'm nominating Bruce Hughes & Jim Rose. Do you have anyone whose name I should put on the ballot? Get back to ASAP, so I can send it off. Thanks, Sam; The Zeitgeist Corporation; Beverly Hills, CA (www.ZeitgestCorp.org) / (www.NewsBeatUSA.com)

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JAY WEAVER [KLBK-1340/KBUY-1540/KPCN-730] (DFW-Hurst, TX) Subject:  George Jones: Jim, I believe it was 1969 while I was at KBUY in Fort Worth that Bill and Corky Kuykendall, owners of Panther Hall Ballroom in Fort Worth, TX, took another chance and booked George Jones for a Saturday evening show. They had booked George in the past and got lucky a few times when he showed. Come Saturday night, George appears to show up to do the 30 minute Cowtown Jamboree show on KFJZ Channel 11, but his bus is parked in the rough, rocky back parking lot and George never leaves the bus. The show had to go on with the house band. Surely George will make his 8:00 "curtain call", but George never shows up. The bus stays parked all evening into the night behind the six sided ballroom. The whole place was full of anticipation, but it faded away as the evening went on. That night was the first time I ever heard the phrase "No Show Jones". It was a heart breaker! Forty years later, we bought front row seats to see George Jones at the beautiful Bass Hall in Fort Worth and, finally, I got to see George. He showed up and he was fantastic! This time he was a heart taker! Keep up the fantastic work, Jim and a "pat" on the head to Lacy!

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DAVID FAULKNER (Dallas, TX) [KTNS-1600 Plano/KFJZ-870 Ft. Worth] (Dallas, TX) Subject: George Jones. Jim, Hope all is well with you and Lacy. Thinking of George Jones today. This came to mind: One evening in the early 90's, I was with a group of friends eating at a steak house in the Ft. Worth Stockyards. So was George Jones. He was in concert somewhere nearby that night. It was one of the ladies in our group's birthday. She was a huge fan of his. One of the guys in our group shared this with Mr. Jones. He came over to our table, said "Happy Birthday" to her and kissed her on the cheek. She was still on cloud nine the next afternoon. Said she hadn't washed her face yet! :) Peace, David Faulkner

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TRIVIA ANSWER: In the late 1940s, CBS chairman William S. Paley, who is a fan of The Adventures of Philip Marlowe detective radio mystery serial which by 1949 has the largest audience in radio, asks his programming chief, Hubell Robinson, to develop a robust Western series for radio. Creators Norman MacDonnell and John Meston come up with the western series Gunsmoke. Radio's Gunsmoke cast includes: William Conrad (Marshal Matt Dillon), Georgia Ellis (Kitty Russell), Howard McNear (Doc Adams) and Parley Baer (Chester Wesley Proudfoot). The 30 minute radio Western serial's 432 episodes air from April 26, 1952 to June 18, 1961. From 1955-75, Gunsmoke is a long running TV series with James Arness (Matt Dillon), Dennis Weaver (Chester Goode). Amanda Blake (Kitty Russell), Milburn Stone (Doc Adams) and Ken Curtis (Festus Haggen).

MIKE BRAUN [ex KWTX-1230 Waco, TX] (Ft. Worth, TX) Subject: KWTX anniversary and Buddy Bostick birthday. Jim, I have two milestones to report: KWTX anniversary and "Buddy" Bostick birthday. May 1 is the 67th anniversary of KWTX (1230 AM) Waco. KWTX was founded by Corsicana lawyer Beauford Jester and a group of Waco businessmen. Jester would be elected Texas governor in 1946 and again in 1948. He died in 1949; the only Texas governor to die while in office. In addition to Jester, the other owners of KWTX were: W.W. Callan, Dewitt T. Hicks, Hilton E. Howell, Robert E. Levy, Wilford W. Naman, Ross Sams and Davis Stribling. "Buddy" Bostick will celebrate his 95th birthday on May 18. Best wishes, Mike Braun, KWTX-AM/FM, 1975-1979

GEORGE JONES (September 12, 1931 - April 26, 2013) They placed a wreath upon his door And soon they'll carry him away He stopped loving her today.

Jim Rose and Lacy
Houston, Texas - Laus Deo

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O'SHEA FLEES TO THE CHANNEL ISLANDS Lawrence Amaturo recently buys five radio stations from Maverick Media in Santa Rosa, CA under its new name of Sonoma. Radio Ink reports that Michael O'Shea resigns his position as VP/GM of Saga's Cascade Radio Group in Bellingham Washington to become the Market Manager for the newly formed Sonoma Media Partners. Mike elaborates: I’ll be joining long-time friend and associate Lawrence Amaturo, the architect of this transaction, and former owner of the stations in Santa Rosa. O'Shea is with Saga since 2008. In 1972, during my time as a newscaster in Ted Agnew's wonderful group at KLIF-1190, Michael O'Shea is its dashing Program Director. At the time, good buddy John Butler with his deep voice is a DJ there, also.

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LIMBAUGH BACK ON TV? Do you remember when Conservative Talk icon Rush Limbaugh shines bright on both radio and TV? From 1992 through 1996, Roger Ailes produces Limbaugh's syndicated half-hour TV show. Since Rush is 16, he has a series of DJ positions. In 1984, his talk show begins on KFBK-1530 in Sacramento, CA. In 1988, he goes national from the studios of WABC-770 in New York City. In 2012, Talkers Magazine lists Limbaugh as the most-listened-to talk show host with a weekly audience of 15 million. Latest rumor is that Rush Limbaugh might buy national TV time to reach people who do not hear his radio show. Limbaugh says one obstacle might be an aversion by the networks, which are left-leaning politically, to grant him airtime because of their disdain for him. 

DOG AND BETH GO ON THE HUNT! For many years one of my favorite TV programs is Dog the Bounty Hunter on cable channel A&E. Duane and Beth Chapman and family are America's foremost bounty hunters. We fellow radio and TV broadcasters know full well that our industry is replete with politics. Variety reports that A&E declines to order additional installments of their #1 series because of production differences. It runs for 8 seasons. The final new episodes of Dog the Bounty Hunter begin airing on June 2, 2013 on A&E. CMT TV is on the fast track to beef up their cable channel so they become Dog the Bounty Hunter's new home with a new title, Dog and Beth: On The Hunt, plus more elaborate production techniques. Catch Dog and Beth: On The Hunt at 8/7 CT on Sunday nights.

REMEMBER WHEN? In search of electronic antiques, TWICE reporter Joseph Palenchar pays a visit to high-ceiling turn-of-the-century homes, old barns, and dark, decrepit cinder-block buildings that must have once been home to thriving commercial enterprises. What does he find? Motorola, Admiral, and Atwater Kent tabletop radios along with floorstanding Victrolas and stacks of 78 rpm records, wall-mounted hand-crank phones, a Pioneer tape deck, a VHS HQ VCR, a 1977 Sanyo 8-track player/recorder next to a stack of dusty 8-track tapes, a DOS PC and six-transistor portable AM radio. This leads us to wonder how many of our marvelous new electronic toys will soon appear in antique stores like our first iPhones, first-generation iPads, 32MB MP3 players and Plasma TVs?

TRIVIA QUESTION: What is the inspiration for the title of Procol Harum's 1967 tune A Whiter Shade Of Pale? The answer appears below.

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•HAPPY BIRTHDAY! Bugs Bunny the second fictional character to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame turns 75 on Tuesday, April 30, 2113. •JIM JOHNSON WLS-890 Chicago. IL 45 year vet grows up listening to Larry Lujak, Steve Dahl, and John [Records] Landecker. He becomes a reporter and anchor who covers plane crashes to gangsters to corrupt politicians on WLS-890. At 69, Jim decides to retire. •MICHAEL BAY’s 4th big-budget Transformers film contains plenty of car chases, robots and explosions to shoot in the Austin, TX area in June 2013 in the small towns of Lockhart, Taylor, Elgin and Pflugerville.

ENTERTAINMENT AND NEWS MILESTONES

•1952 KITTY WELLS during 1st Decca Records session on May 3rd lays down It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels at the Castle Studio in Nashville, TN. •1966 WDHO TV (now WNWO) ABC CH24 in Toledo, OH begins broadcasting on May 3rd. •1971 JOHN HOPKINS bass player in CMA Vocal Group of the year in 1988 and 1989 The Zac Brown Band born on May 3rd in Gainesville, GA. •1986 AIR LANKA Flight 512 crashes on May 3rd killing 22. •1993 CHARLEY PRIDE Country music legend joins the Grand Ole Opry on May 1st. •2007 WALLY SCHIRRA NASA astronaut dies of a heart attack at 84 on May 3rd in La Jolla, CA.

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MICHAEL O’SHEA [Former Pres/GM Cascade Radio Group-New Pres/MM of Sonoma Media] (Santa Rosa, CA) Hi Jim...Yep, its been a busy April for me...as I'm leaving Bellingham, WA (and Saga) for a terrific opportunity as President and Market Manger of Lawrence's Amaturo's newly purchased five station group in Santa Rosa, California. Lawrence engineered a terrific buy back of the stations he owned 15 years ago, and has invited me to be his operator. I'm looking forward with working with the excellent staff that the seller, Maverick Media, has put together. The moving truck is here now loading...and I'll be in Santa Rosa meeting the team there on Wednesday with Lawrence. Great market...wonderful new LOCAL ownership...and we're for sure doing LOCAL radio. Thanks, Jim...Sincerely, Michael O'Shea

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JAY WEST [KLIF-1190/KILT-610] (Houston, TX) Subject: first day back to civilization. hello...on a dreary thunderstormy day here. it is Saturday April 27. first time on computer. I can't tell you how blessed I am to have so many dear friends. I am typing with my left hand only, so pardon my mistakes. I only wish I could contact each of you individually, but don't have the stamina. had surgery on left foot about two weeks ago after a billion medical tests. synopsis...left foot amputated partially, only have half of left foot now. procedure was successful after seeing my surgeon yesterday. not able to put any weight bearing on foot yet,thus very, very difficult to maneuver. this, with a severely sprained right arm from fall has made life for me difficult. your prayers were heard, as I faced a possible amputation on left leg up to knee, but was not necessary. I am recouping at home, with home health care. god bless you all for your responses and well wishes. I'm drained from typing so I'll sign off now, but will be in touch soon. oh, surgeon says I may start walking with special brace in about two weeks. for now it's wheelchair city. God bless, and I love each of you. JAY WEST

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JIM GOUGH ['Mr. Texas'-movie actor-voice actor] (Austin-Liberty Hill, TX) Subject: Jim Rose Remembers Radio (#1194) April 29, 2013 [Monday] It was sad to hear of the parting of George Jones, one of the last REAL country singers! I was in Nashville in the 80's to do commercials for Blazer Financial Services of Miami. I had to take a guitar and sing for a bunch of salesmen from Blazer. Late in the evening one of them said, "Jim you know all the country stars, let's go to Printers' Alley and catch George Jones". I'd never been there but the desk clerk gave me directions. We found George's club and some lesser known singer was on the stage. The Blazer guys were getting drunker by the minute and finally George came in. I went over to him and asked him to sing before the loud bunch of drunks tore the joint down. Old George said, "Well I guess I could do that for another Texan"! George was one of a kind and will be missed by all of us 'Hill-billies". Jim Gough

TRIVIA ANSWER: British Rock band Procol Harum releases their debut song, A Whiter Shade of Pale, on May 12, 1967. The single leaps to #1 in the UK Singles Chart on June 8, 1967 and remains there for six weeks. With very little promotion, the tune reaches #5 in the U.S. A Whiter Shade Of Pale being one of the anthems of the 1967 Summer of Love, is one of less than 30 singles to sell over 10 million copies worldwide. Over 900 other artists record Procol Harum's 1967 hit A Whiter Shade Of Pale. Co-writer Keith Reid confesses to website www.songfacts.com that he comes up with the song's title after he overhears someone at a party who says to a woman, You've turned a whiter shade of pale.

ROBERT TINDLE [Radio Engineering Professional] (Tyler-Lufkin, TX) Subject: David Anderson 40th Anniversary in Radio! Thank You! Jim! Thank You so much! I have been in Radio 38 1/2 now! Next year we will celebrating your Golden Anniversary! Be sure to let us know when it happens, that is News!! I have been doing consulting work and hopefully will announce a surprising new major market FM Radio Station Very Soon! Keep Tuned! Thanks and take care! Robert Tindle

JIMMY KIMMEL [late night TV host] (November 13, 1967 - p) I want you all to know that if the North Koreans launch a nuclear missile tomorrow, I'm really glad we had this time together.

Jim Rose and Lacy
Houston, Texas - Laus Deo

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COUNTRY MUSIC FANS ARE HEART BROKEN Country Music Hall of Fame member George Jones, who is a master of sad Country ballads, dies at 81 on Friday, April 26, 2013 after an illness that places him in the hospital since April 18. Three favorite #1 George Jones tunes that still send chills up and down our spines are: She Thinks I Still Care (1962), He Stopped Loving Her Today (1980) and I Always Get Lucky with You (1983). For songwriters, getting a song cut by George Jones was the ultimate validation. Troy Tomlinson, CEO of Sony/ATV Music Publishing Nashville, TN reflects: For decades, virtually every writer who came into this town wanted to hear George Jones sing their song. Country Superstar George Jones' first #1 tune is White Lightning’ (1958).

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GARY ALLEN IS OUT OF THE WOODS Newsradio WOOD-1300 in Grand Rapids is West MI's news, weather and traffic station since September 16, 1924. WOOD-1300 is the oldest radio station in West Michigan and one of the oldest in the world. It signs on September 16, 1924 as WEBK until January 13, 1926 when it flips to WOOD-1300. WOOD FM (106.9) simulcasts WOOD-1300. In 1996, Clear Channel purchases the radio station. Program Director Phil Tower's all-news morning program, West Michigan's Morning News stars Gary Allen, Steve Kelly & John Bry. Gary Allen, who is with WOOD-1300 for the past 32 years, with 24 of them in morning drive, announces that he will retire at the end of June 2013.

AOL SHUTTERS MUSIC DIVISION In 1985, Jim Kimsey founds Quantum Computer Services as an online services company. In 1991, Quantum becomes America Online, or AOL, as a multinational mass media corporation with its base in NYC. In January 2000, AOL and Time Warner merge as AOL Time Warner. In October 2007, AOL relocates one of its other headquarters from Loudoun County, VA to NYC but continues to operate its Virginia offices. This move causes a near 40% layoff at AOL. In February 2013, AOL reports first growth in quarterly revenue in 8 years with fourth quarter revenue of $599.5 million. On Thursday, April 26, 2013 AOL shuts down its Music division and lays off its staff. AOL tweets that the entire music editorial division which owns The Huffington Post, also closes.

BOSTON TERRORIST BOMBINGS SHAKE AMERICA Pop Superstar Neil Diamond takes the city that adopts his hit tune Sweet Caroline to heart will donate all of the royalties from the song to Boston's One Fund to help support the victims of the recent bombings. The Boston Red Sox plays Diamond’s hit Sweet Caroline at every game for over ten years. Last week, the team adds the song to the between innings music at a number of ballparks around the country in support of the city. On Saturday, April 27, 2013 Neil surprises the Red Sox and fans when he shows up unannounced to sing Sweet Caroline live during the seventh inning stretch. This sends the song back onto the charts. Sales leap 597% to almost 19,000 downloads at #33 on the Pop Digital Songs chart.

TRIVIA QUESTION: Where does Ronnie Van Zant come up with the name Lynyrd Skynyrd for his Southern Rock band? The answer appears below.

MOVERS AND SHAKERS

•HAPPY BIRTHDAY! Lee Abrams head honcho at THINK TeleVisual Network in Chicago, IL sets ablaze more candles than he can count on Monday, April 29, 2013. •DENVER BRONCOS air on KOA-850 since 1969 continues NFL's move to FM radio signs 4-year extension through 2017 to draw in younger fans with games simulcast on Clear Channel KRFX FM (The Fox 103.5). •KJFK-1230 Lib-Talk Reno, NV that debuts in 2005 with Air America personality Al Franken pulls plug on 8-year progressive Talk format because ...we simply cannot afford to absorb the loss any longer.

ENTERTAINMENT AND NEWS MILESTONES

•1956 WWBT TV NBC CH12 in Richmond, VA begins broadcasting on April 29th. •1968 MERLE HAGGARD's single The Legend of Bonnie and Clyde rises to #1 in Billboard Country on April 27th. •1970 50,000 U.S. and South Vietnamese troops invade Cambodia on April 29th. •1989 CLINT BLACK's debut album, Killin' Time releases on RCA records on April 29th. •1997 KEITH FERGUSON Blues bass guitarist with The Fabulous Thunderbirds dies at 50 on April 29th. •2011 TOBY KEITH lunges behind a bunker on April 29th when 4 mortars explode just before he appears on stage to sing for American soldiers in the Far East.

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DAVE MICHAELS [WSAI-1360/KONO-860/KBUC FM] (Dayton-Huber Heights, OH) Subject: Jim Rose Radio. Jim: way back in 1986 Memphis in May Festival I was middays at WMC 790 and was asked to go get George Jones out of his touring Bus and walk him up the back steps of the stage and than Introduce him to the crowd. Knocked on door and this guy in the band said come on in - I did, George said come on over and have a drink, and I did. We had Jack on the rocks (no Coke) and than I walked him to the stage - he sang all his hits perfectly. He was feeling no pain! Dave Michaels WMC, KBUC, KONO

GEORGE JONES INTERVIEW In 1969 when I'm PD/MD/PM Drive DJ on KBUC FM-AM in San Antonio, TX George Jones and his new wife Tammy Wynette are in town to appear at the San Antonio Rodeo. George and Tammy enter the KBUC remote broadcast studio for their live on the air interview. George rushes up to my mic as if the music should stop to allow him to talk on the radio. Mention that that I have many commercials. Let's get them out of the way so we can have plenty of time to chat. George eases over to a back chair and sits down. Tammy Wynette remains at my side. Finally, I say that in 60 seconds our radio interview will begin. He ignores me. It's down to 30 seconds. He doesn't budge. We are 10 seconds away. He doesn't bat an eye. Like a charging lioness, Tammy rushes over to George, grabs him and shoves him over to my side just in time for our radio interview to begin. George Jones is smooth as silk. What a blessing! Tammy saves the day.

DAVID FAULKNER [KTNS-1600 Plano/KFJZ-870 Ft. Worth] (Dallas, TX) Subject: George Jones (Note Two). Jim, Here's a link to a good article about George Jones: www.wsmv.com/story/22087106/country-legend-george-jones-dead-at-81 Peace, David Faulkner

LIZ PATRANELLA [Liz Houston - KTSA-550, KBAT-680] (Austin, TX) Subject: SSARB Meeting Report. Dear Radio Friends, For those of you who were unable to join us last Friday at Grady’s, you missed a very special get-together. We had a large turnout (32) which included several guests, first-timers and new faces...all of whom we are glad to welcome to the group! The highlight of the luncheon was the impromptu memorial for Don Couser. Don’s attorney, and former S.A. broadcaster, Michael Black, joined us, talked about Couser, and showed us some old photos and a dance poster of Don’s. Then I told a story about Don and asked others to share theirs. I also brought copies of Don’s bio that he and I wrote for his induction into the Texas Radio Hall of Fame and the story he wrote about how George the Duck came to be. More news on SSARB plans and activities coming soon. Liz

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ROBERT TINDLE [Radio Engineering Professional] (Tyler-Lufkin, TX) Subject: David Anderson 40th Anniversary in Radio! Hello Jim! I would like to say Happy 40th Anniversary in Radio this week to my good friend David Anderson who was my first Program Directors at the radio station that we both started at, KLUF 1420 AM in Lufkin, Texas! David went to Beaumont with Al Caldwell and then to Austin at several stations there the last 30 plus years! He recently reunited with Bob Cole and Jim Ray and is once again morning sidekick and newsman for Retro KOKE-FM in Austin, Texas! Thanks, Robert Tindle

TRIVIA ANSWER: Southern Rock band head Ronnie Van Zant dreams up the name Lynyrd Skynyrd from Leonard Skinner, his P.E. teacher who rides shotgun on Robert E Lee high school's policy against boys with long hair. In the course of time, the band develops a mutual bond with Leonard and asks him to introduce them on stage at a concert in Jacksonville, FL. On October 20, 1977, Lynyrd Skynyrd's chartered Convair CV-300 runs out of fuel and crashes in a forest in Gillsburg, MS. Ronnie Van Zant, Steve Gaines, Cassie Gaines, assistant road manager Dean Kilpatrick, pilot Walter McCreary and co-pilot William Gray die on impact. On September 20, 2010 Leonard Skinner, who inspires Southern Rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd, dies of Alzheimer's at 77 at St. Catherine Manor in Riverside, FL.

JOHN HALE (McKinney, TX) Subject: Jim Rose Remembers Radio (#1191) April 19, 2013 [Friday] Jim, I got the chance this week to do something that's probably old hat to you. I took the A-train down from Denton to Dealey Plaza to see for the first time the Sixth Floor museum at the old School Book Depository, the grassy knoll and the infamous picket fence, and to take the trolley tour of the sites related to the JFK assassination. It took me fifty years to actually visit the sites, but I could still feel the history, and the sadness over the President's killing, despite the passage of all of those years. I remain convinced that the facts behind the assassination aren't known, despite the Warren Report, and I still think it's very important that someday they become known. I also think that visiting the site is something everyone should get the chance to do. John Hale; McKinney, Texas

ECCLESIASTES 1:9 (New International Version) What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.

Jim Rose and Lacy
Houston, Texas - Laus Deo

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THERE GOES THE SUN The first performer at the three-day 1969 Woodstock Festival, folk singer and guitarist Richie Havens, dies of heart attack at 72 on Monday, April 22, 2013. Originally, Havens is to go on fifth but is bumped up because of travel delays. Michael Lang, Woodstock Festival producer, says in his book The Road to Woodstock that he chooses Havens because of his calm but powerful demeanor. Richie's performance lasts for over an hour because the next acts have not yet arrived. In an interview with NPR, Havens sighs: So I'd go back and sing three more. This happened six times. So I sung every song I knew. Richie's website mentions that he has kidney surgery in 2010 but he never fully recovers. Richie Havens' biggest hit record is Here Comes the Sun (#16-1971).

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TRIPLE NEWS EVENTS WREAK HAVOC ON DALLAS, TX RADIO The Boston, MA terrorist bombings last week combine with an arrest in the murder case of a District Attorney and his wife in nearby Kaufman County, TX plus the deadly explosion at a fertilizer plant in West, TX are major breaking news stories that deploy an almost military-like arsenal of news and human resources for top news radio outlets WBAP-820 and KLIF-570. Tyler Cox PD/OM of NewsTalk WBAP-820 Ft. Worth & News & Information KLIF-570 Dallas tells NTS MediaOnline: We began platooning our reporters with overlapping shifts so our coverage never lapsed. We balanced our coverage on both WBAP and KLIF.

CLASSIC ROCK RETURNS TO JERSEY SHORE On July 4, 1976 Top 40 WJRZ FM (100.1) debuts in Manahawkin, NJ. WJRZ FM keeps its CHR/Hot AC format until it flips to Classic Hits in 1992, but soon WJRZ switches back to CHR. In December 1998, WJRZ flips to Country as Jersey Shore Country. Its Country format has a mixed reaction and fails to attract enough listeners to survive. In June 2000, WJRZ FM catapults to Oldies as Oldies 100. In 2002, its ownership changes to Greater Media. WJRZ FM eases out of Oldies 100 to re-brand as WJRZ FM The Greatest Hits Of the 60's & 70's. In early 2008, its logo switches to Jersey's Greatest Hits. On Monday, April 22, 2013 to complete its radio merry-go-round, WJRZ FM returns to Classic Hits.

MYSTERIOUS LIGHTS SPOTTED OVER TAMPA, FL While out walking his dog, WFLA TV CH8 Meteorologist Brooks Garner takes pictures of unexplained lights flying in what appears to be formation over the skies of Tampa. Garner tells TVSpy: What was it? I can’t say for sure. I speculate it was of a very ‘terrestrial’ origin - probably Chinese floating lanterns - but I was too far away to be sure.  Can his observation of those sinister sightings be the reason that the wide-eyed meteorologist flees WFLA TV in Tampa, FL for Houston, TX affiliate KHOU TV CBS CH11 in May 2013? Space City offers many bizarre big top spectaculars for Brooks to behold. Just ask our buddy former long time KTRK TV CH13 weather guy Ed Brandon because he is an eye witness to Houston's history in the making.

TRIVIA QUESTION: Why does The Beatles 9th record album contain just a plain white jacket? The answer appears below.

MOVERS AND GROOVERS

•HAPPY BIRTHDAY! T.J. Callahan KILT FM traffic voice of the 1990s fires up more than two dozen candles on Thursday, April 25, 2013. •KKYX-680 Classic Country San Antonio new simulcast on 150 watt KKYX FM (104.9) Mendoza, TX to cover northern & central parts of Alamo City causes Clear Channel to strike back with a simulcast of Classic Country KRPT FM (KBUC 92.5) Devine on 93.3 in McQueeny. •WINS-1010 reporter Glenn Schuck plus NBC News producer Bob Windrem induct into student-run WSOU FM (89.5) Hall of Fame at Seton Hall University in South Orange, NJ. •SAMUEL FOSTER 35-year-old promotions person at Cox WZZK, WBPT and WZNN Birmingham, AL loses control of his Mazda Tribute, strikes another vehicle, leaves the road and flips. He dies at UAB Hospital.

ENTERTAINMENT AND NEWS MILESTONES

•1956 EDWARD ARNOLD actor who appears in over 150 films (Mr. Smith Goes to Washington 1939) lifelong conservative Republican and staunch anti-Communist plus MC of 1938 radio program, The Chase and Sanborn Hour, dies of cerebral hemorrhage at 66 on April 26th. •1968 TIM WOMACK singer/guitarist with Sons Of The Desert (debut album produces hit single Whatever Comes First #10-1997) born on April 23rd in Brownwood, TX. •1977 STUDIO 54 famous New York disco opens on April 26th. •1980 DOTTIE WEST's single A Lesson In Leavin' rings #1 in Billboard Country on April 26th. •1997 JOEY FAYE Fruit of the Loom grapes vaudeville comic dies at 87 on April 26th. •2005 MICHAEL BRITT Lonestar guitarist and wife, Rene, produce daughter, Hillary Quinn Britt, on April 25th.

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WINK MARTINDALE [TV game show Hall of Fame/7 year host of Tic-Tac-Dough/2006 star on Hollywood Walk of Fame/former morning DJ on WHBQ-560 Memphis, TN] (Los Angeles, CA) Jim: Many thanks for the kind words. And YES. charter.net is still my e-mail address. I'm simply using the one I gave on the show for listeners to the program in case they want to comment. My best to you and Lacy. You column is always so interesting and up-to-date. Don't know how you find the time to do it...so well. Best blessings, Wink

JACK PARNELL [former DJ on WHBQ-560] (Memphis, TN) Subject: Where I got JRRR. Jim: I got JRRR from my good friend Wink Martindale...and I love it! Jack Parnell

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LYNN WOOLLEY [KRLD-KTEM-KNOW-KUT] (Waco-Temple, TX) Subject: Don Couser. Jim, When I was growing up, I haunted the two downtown record shops in Temple: The Disc Shop and "The House of Sound" owned by two deejays, Gaylon Christie and Bill Harrell. Radio stations from all over Texas would send stacks of their surveys to the stores. I always picked them up and I kept many of them. I have one in near-mint condition from the week of Sept. 7, 1963 featuring "San Antonio's Seven Good Guys." The number 1 song at KONO was "Blue Velvet" by Bobby VInton. The Seven Good Guys were: Howard Edwards - AM drive, B. Marc Sommers - Late morning, Jerry Miller - noon- 3pm, Don Couser - 3pm-6pm, Don Green - early evening, Mike Scott - 9pm-midnight, Al Newman, Jr. all nights. If you have a copy of my book "The Last Great days of Radio" the survey is reproduced on  page 14. I never met Don Couser, but have always known of him because of this survey. My condolences to his family. Lynn (www.BeLogical.com)

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JIM GOUGH ['Mr. Texas'-movie actor-voice actor] (Austin-Liberty Hill, TX) Subject: Jim Rose Remembers Radio (#1192) April 22, 2013 [Monday] Jim...I remember well that the album "The Texas Playboys for the Last Time" was released in 1973. Wills had suffered a couple of bad strokes and had to be wheeled into the session in a wheelchair. He could hardly do his famous 'ah-ha". He passed away shortly thereafter. Not many of the original Playboys are still with us. Herb Remington still plays but the great Johnny Gimble is in pretty bad shape. Jim Gough

TRIVIA ANSWER: When The Beatles discover that fellow UK band Family has an LP on the market with a similar title, Music in a Doll's House, they scrap the title of their ninth album, A Doll's House. After a few design problems, The Beatles' double disc issues inside just a plain white jacket with the words The Beatles. Fans begin to call it The White Album. Paul McCart­ney remem­bers: That was the ten­sion album. We were all in the midst of that psy­che­delic thing, or just com­ing out of it. In any case, it was weird. There was a lot of fric­tion dur­ing that album. We were just about to break up, and that was tense in itself. Cult leader Charles Man­son uses the term Hel­ter Skel­ter from the LP’s song of the same name to per­suade mem­bers of his fam­ily to in his mind jus­ti­fy the mass mur­der of 26-year-old movie actress Sharon Tate and her entourage on August 9, 1969 in her husband movie director Roman Polanski’s rented home on Cielo Drive in Benedict Canyon, CA. The Beatles White Album is also their first recording fol­low­ing the death of their man­ager Brian Epstein on August 27, 1967. The two-pocket vinyl record goes on to become The Beatles best sell­ing album ever with over 20 mil­lion in sales.

GEORGE SCHANK [KSBJ FM engineer] (Houston-Conroe, TX) Subject: Beaumont radio. I’d like to invite Henry LaRocca to contact me. Robert X Brown was my first GM/PD at KNRO in Conroe. I ran into him, working middays at KAYC; when I interviewed for an engineering job there. George Schank

GORDON JUMP [Arthur 'Big Guy' Carlson - 'WKRP In Cincinnati' 1978-82 - Thanksgiving] As God as my witness, I thought turkeys could fly.

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Houston, Texas - Laus Deo

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April 22, 2013 [Monday]
Issue #1192

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REMARKABLE ROCK RECORD PRODUCER LEAVES THE BUILDING Visionary record producer and engineer Andy Johns who masterminds some of our favorite all time records by Rock artists The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Aerosmith, The Who, Steve Miller Band, Free, Rod Stewart, Jethro Tull, Humble Pie, Ozzy Osbourne and Van Halen passes away at 61 on Sunday, April 7, 2013 in Los Angeles, CA. Producer/engineer Andy Johns comes from a family of sound engineers. His older brother is Glyn Johns (The Who, Eagles, Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin) and his nephew is Ethan Johns (Ryan Adams, Kings of Leon, Kaiser Chiefs, Rufus Wainwright). Recent Andy Johns efforts include Steve Miller Band's Let Your Hair Down in 2011 plus Hard Rock Band Chickenfoot's album in 2009.

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FORMER HOUSTON, TX TV NEWS ANCHOR RELOCATES Remember Dan O'Rourke who for 16 years is a news reporter and anchor on KPRC TV NBC CH2 here in Houston, TX? Dan ranks right up there with other KPRC TV anchors like the late Ron Stone, Bill Balleza, Jan Carson, Linda Lorelle, Bob Nicholas, weatherman Doug Johnson and sports anchors Ron Franklin and Craig Roberts. For four times the Associated Press names Dan O'Rourke Best TV Reporter in Texas major markets. In 2011, O'Rourke exits KPRC TV for a stint on KTSM TV NBC CH9 in El Paso, TX. On Thursday, April 18, 2013 TVSpy reports that Dan says goodbye to his El Paso TV fans: I love El Paso and I wish you all the very best in your lives. God bless you and your families, now and always.

IS THE TODAY SHOW A HOSTILE PLACE TO WORK? In 2011, Ann Curry joins The Today Show as co-host. For a year Ann co-anchors the floundering morning TV show beside Matt Lauer, until her ouster on June 28, 2012. JRRR uncovers a rash of behind the scenes harsh behavior. A staff member confesses: In the past, [former ‘Today’ host Katie] Couric would sometimes tease her about her clothes. One staff member recalls that a lot of time in the control room was spent making fun of Ann’s outfit choices or just generally messing with her. Perhaps, being pushed out of Today's lion's den is probably the best thing that can happen to Curry. The New York Times publishes a piece by Matt Lauer’s arch nemesis, Brian Stelter, titled Top of the Morning: Inside the Cutthroat World of Morning TV.

ROCK GROUP BADFINGER'S LATE FOUNDER RECEIVES AWARD Wales Rock quartet Badfinger begins as The Iveys with Pete Ham (guitar), Tom Evans (bass), Joey Molland (guitar) and Mike Gibbins (drums). All members of Badfinger share vocal duties except Gibbins. The group's first hit is Come and Get It in February 1970 that reaches #7. In 1971/72 Day After Day is their biggest hit at #4 with a half million in sales. The group combats two tremendous tragedies first when Pete Ham commits suicide at 27 on April 23, 1975. After Ham dies, Badfinger disbands. In 1979, Molland and Evans reunite. On November 23, 1983 Evans takes his life at 36. The English Heritage honors the late Pete Ham who founds Wales Rock quartet Badfinger with one of Britain’s Blue Plaques.

TRIVIA QUESTION: What singers does Elvis Presley have in his juke box? The answer appears below.

MOVERS AND SHAKERS

•HAPPY BIRTHDAY! Ernie Phillips former Dallas, TX recording artist promoter is one year older on Monday, April 22, 2013. •BARRY [BJ] JAMES veteran Chicago, IL radio executive longtime Program Director of WILV FM (100.3) announces his retirement to step down in May 2013. •GEORGE PLASTER WPRT FM (The Game 102.5) Nashville, TN sports radio host 1st to emcee public event at inaugural half-billion-dollar Music City Center Sports Festival on May 31st and June 1, 2013. •CLEAR CHANNEL SAN FRANCISCO loses 5 of its sales posse to Cumulus: Jaysson Reno, Chris Lange, Matt Hanlon, Tom Rains and Trevor Chase.

ENTERTAINMENT AND NEWS MILESTONES

•1950 PETER FRAMPTON British guitarist and vocalist with Humble Pie (solo album Frampton Comes Alive! sells more than 6 million copies) born on April 22nd in Kent, England. •1967 HEATH WRIGHT lead singer of Ricochet (Daddy's Money #1 for 2 weeks - 1996) born on April 22nd in Vian, OK. •1974 BARBARA WALTERS shifts to news co-anchor of NBC's Today Show on April 22nd. •1989 CLINT BLACK debuts on the Grand Ole Opry on April 22nd. •1991 JOHNNY CARSON announces his The Tonight Show retirement on April 22nd. •2000 GEORGE STRAIT's single The Best Day snags #1 in Billboard Country on April 22nd.

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CONNELL MILLER (Branson, MO) Subject: My wire recorder... Hi Jim, Joan Pate-Day probably has a few younger folks scratching their heads when she mentioned wire recorders. I still have my Webcor wire recorder my dad gave me in the early 1950s. The last time I used it was at a classmate’s birthday party in 1957 when I recorded his band. The “Marksmen” was a pretty good three-piece group from our Dallas school, with two of its members going on to great careers in rock and roll – Steve Miller - guitar and vocals - was the birthday boy, with Boz Scaggs playing bass. To work, my wire recorder would need refurbishing, but I’ve often wondered if that spool of wire that’s on it still has the Marksmen rocking out on that afternoon at Steve’s house! Take care Jim, and give Lacy a pat on the head for me... Connell

DAVE MICHAELS (Dayton-Huber Heights, OH) Subject: FYI (Jim in Houston). You mentioned "Jonathon Winters" ...did you know he is from Dayton, Ohio (related to the Winters' Bank people)? Not many people do! I know you are a stickler for the details! Cousin Billy; KQRO, KBUC, KONO, WONE, WTUE, WHIO

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JOHN HALE (McKinney, TX) Subject: Jim Rose Remembers Radio (#1191) April 19, 2013 [Friday] Jim, You may have already gotten this email from Liz Patranella...if not, veteran San Antonio radio personality Don Couser has passed away. Our beloved friend, Don Couser, passed away last night. I spoke with his friend, Carl Wigglesworth, who said that Don passed at 1:00 a.m. today. He had not been well for the past 6 months and died from complications of dementia. At Don's request, he will be cremated and his ashes distributed in the mountains of Colorado by his children. There will be no public memorial ceremony. Please remember Don and his children in your prayers. John Hale; McKinney, Texas

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HENRY LAROCCA [ex KTRM/KAYC/KLVI] (Beaumont, TX) Good morning Jim, Good to see you are with us...and yes the old KTRM studios near Parkdale mall in Beaumont are long gone...funny thing every time I'm at the intersection. My radio tunes its self to 990 and starts picking up old broadcast shows of Baxter, The Big Bopper, Buddy Johnson, Robert x Brown...then there is lots of R F and hums...sure glad I was given the chance to work radio with you and all the rest of those legends. I miss all my radio friends. Sent from Yahoo! Mail on Android

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DUKE GILLELAND [Bob Wills Western Swing chat board] (Belton, TX) Subject: New KTON In Temple... Jim, In '70 we moved to Temple and I listened to WBAP & KTON night and day. 1973 was my senior year. Gaylon Christie and KTON put together a charter bus to San Antone for the Bob Wills birthday party at the Municipal Auditorium on March 6th. A bunch of us went. I always tell folks that was what I consider my "senior trip"! I always appreciated Gaylon for putting that trip together in '73. Duke

TRIVIA ANSWER: Elvis Presley's juke box located in a pavilion near his Graceland swimming pool contains records by Jerry Lee Lewis, Sammy Davis Jr., Tom Jones and many others. But none of Elvis Presley's own songs are ever included in his own personal juke box collection.

DUSTY BLACK [Clear Channel GM KPEZ FM/KASE FM/KHFI FM/KFMK FM] (Austin, TX) Subject: Dusty Black. Jim, I hope you are doing great. I sure would like to get on your mailing list. I worked in Texas Radio from 1972-2006, in Dallas, Houston and Austin. My contact information is below. Best regards, Dusty Black; Austin, Texas

PAUL HARVEY (September 4, 1918 – February 28, 2009) Now you know the rest of the story...Good day.

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Houston, Texas - Laus Deo

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