JIM ROSE REMEMBERS RADIO Issue #542
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August 13, 2008 [Wednesday]
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CLASSIC COWBOY DRIFTS AWAY
The last original member of Hank Williams' Drifting Cowboys band dies at 81 on Monday morning, August 11, 2008 of an apparant heart attack. As a youngster who grows up in Dallas, TX in the Fabulous Fifties when Elvis begins to Rock, the sound of a steel guitar does not ring my chimes. But the first time that I ever hear Don Helms' steel guitar on Hank Williams' tunes it knocks my socks off. Helms has his very own special touch with a steel guitar that no one ever matches even unto this day. We hear Don Helms' steel on more than 100 of Hank, Sr.'s recordings that include the ultimate Classics: Your Cheatin’ Heart, Cold, Cold Heart, I Can’t Help (It If I’m Still In Love With You) and many other timeless tunes. Don's steel causes Hank's recordings to reach out and grab us and makes us fans for life. In 1953 Hank Williams passes away but Helms' steel never leaves the playing field. We hear his guitar on big hits by Patsy Cline (Walkin’ After Midnight #2-1957), Stonewall Jackson (Waterloo #1-1959), Lefty Frizzell (Long, Black Veil (#6-1959). The list goes on and on. Don's steel guitar also joins the bands of Loretta Lynn, Ernest Tubb, Ray Price, Jim Reeves and Webb Pierce. Don writes tunes that Brenda Lee, Hank Williams Jr. and more put to wax. In 1984, Don Helms inducts into the Steel Guitar Hall of Fame. Don continues his fine art in Nashville, TN until his untimely death. Our hearts, minds and prayers go out to the family of Don Helms, his numerous friends and whole heaps of fans.
TRIVIA QUESTION: What hit song contains the words I can't get no satisfaction and my tractor don't get no traction? The answer appears below.
BEATLES CAR IMPOUNDED
After he parks his vehicle in the wrong place at Joliet Area Historical Museum on Saturday, February 8, 2008, authorities come very close to impounding Sir Paul McCartney's Classic 1989 Ford Bronco. The 66-year-old former Beatle and his girlfriend Nancy Shevell are on a U.S. road trip across America's famed Route 66. That scenic cruise is one of my goals in life but nowadays just a half-mile trip west on Memorial to the grocery store is as far as I go and that's akin to a destruction derby. Tony Contos, a museum assistant, remembers, They parked in the wrong bay and were nearly towed away. Paul was engrossed, Nancy seemed in a bit of a hurry. Sir Paul and his lady friend put a slight shock into the museum staff when they stop in en route from Nancy's home in the Hamptons, NY. Pamela Blesen at the museum says I froze. It was like seeing Bigfoot. A bystander adds They seemed totally in love. The lovebirds reportedly only let a few friends in on their secret trip. But now the whole world knows. Sir Paul's four-year-old daughter Beatrice expects to join in on their magical mystery tour later on down the road. JRRR strongly advises Sir Beatle to keep his pre-nup papers ready for action this time around.
NIELSEN AND VARIETY ON THE BLOCK
Sharon Waxman, Former NY Times reporter, writes that Adweek, Brandweek, Mediaweek, and Editor & Publisher, along with dozens of other titles at Nielsen Business Media, are for sale. Sharon says that two solid sources indicate that the Nielsen Company quietly puts its Business Media division, which also includes The Hollywood Reporter, Billboard, and Backstage, on the block. The Hollywood Reporter value slips from a $20 million EBITDA to $9 million. Sharon's sources say that it may drop as low as $6 million in 2009. The Hollywood Reporter already eliminates about one third of its positions. Its website, which launches a major redesign in April 2008, shows no changes. Rival trade publication Variety, part of Reed Business Information, also is up for sale.
MOVERS AND SHAKERS
•ROLLING STONE sales fall from 189,000 in 1999 to 132,000 in 2007. Its large format for over 30 years drops to standard size with its October 30, 2008 issue that hits newstands on October 17th. •CRAIG EDWARDS PD/Talk show host leaves the Salem Newstalk KRLA-870 Los Angeles-Glendale, CA building due to cutbacks. •CHRIS PENA joins NBC WMAQ-TV CH5 Chicago, IL as Assistant News Director on September 8, 2008. Chris formerly produces the Late News on NBC's WTVJ-TV CH6 Miami-Ft. Lauderdale, FL for two years. Pena also is a graduate of the University of Houston in TX.
ENTERTAINMENT AND NEWS MILESTONES
•1959 DARRELL SCOTT Alternative-country singer-songwriter born on August 5th in London, KY. Writes Travis Tritt's It's A Great Day To Be Alive & Sara Evans' Born To Fly. •1964 THE ANIMALS' House Of The Rising Sun is first #1 Rock'n'Roll record that's over 4 minutes long. •1971 NITTY GRITTY DIRT BAND records 3-record LP Will The Circle Be Unbroken at Woodland Sound on August 6th in Nashville, TN. •1998 BRYAN WHITE proposes to actress Erika Page of One Life To Live on August 8th while on tour in NJ. •2001 WORLD SERIES Arizona Diamondbacks beat NY Yankees 4 games to 3 November 4th.
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DEAN DANIELS (Dallas, TX) Hi Jim, Another legend in the shaping of Nashville's music history passed away last week. Elmer Alley was the creator of "Fanfair," "Opryland" and the person in charge of the launch and programming of TNN, The Nashville Network prior to the sale of that network to Gaylord Enterprises in late 1983. Here's the press release making the rounds on the internet: "Elmer Alley, creator of Fan Fair, Opryland, dies at 87 - Wednesday, June 11, 2008 – Elmer Alley, 87, a creator of Fan Fair and Opryland, died Monday. Alley also had a career in radio, television, the record industry and cable television. Accomplishments spanning over 40 years included recording audio engineer (Hank Williams, Beryl Ives and others), songwriter, comic on the Waking Crew on radio, program director for WSM TV, producer/director of syndicated country music shows, puppeteer, a voice on radio and television commercials, co-creator of Opryland, creator of Fan Fair, launched the Nashville Network and executive producer/writer for Hee Haw for two years. He served in the Army Air Corp during World War II as a communications specialist in India." According to Ralph Emery on his own website, Elmer was the person who recognized Ralph's radio talents and gave him a shot at television. Elmer Alley was a gifted visionary and by all accounts a very good person who will be missed. (
www.cmtcountry.com)CHARLES GEORGE (Dallas, TX) Hi, I always liked Isaac Hayes on the song Never Can say Goodbye. I also was looking at a Sam & Dave Lp where he had written songs. I see Bernie Mac has left us. I enjoyed his TV show. And to think he was only 50. I sneaked past on 8/8 and now am 55. Since I enjoy folk songs, I like listening to WKSU on the Internet. The host is very good with his comments. Makes me then want to play my recordings by Leadbelly and others who were here in Dallas. Because my birthday came at such a hot time, my parents would take me some place nice and with who ever was my best friend at the time. We use to go to the Smorgasborg, Little Bit Of Sweden. Other times we went to The Blue Front. On Saturdays, I would sometimes go to the library and read the magazines, my father then would take me to the Brass Rail, they had the best strawberry shortcake... The waiter always seemed to recognize us. Other times my dad would take me to Titches and we would have lunch in their basement. Also he would take me to Cokesbury and if I found a book I wanted he would buy it for me. My parents encouraged me to read, though I never got to where I read as much as either of them, they gobbled down novels, etc. Charles George
MARK CARRILLO (San Antonio, TX) Saw your trivia question (Issue #526) about Randy Bachman. Although most people say BACH-MAN it’s really BACK-MAN. I guess all the jocks playing the mounds of sounds had everyone saying it that way. Also, I stumbled onto a show that Randy Bachman does every Saturday afternoon on the CBC channel on Sirius. It’s good and he plays licks along with giving little tidbits about songs. Yesterday i heard Randy talk about a Ricken-BACK-er guitar and i'd always heard Rickenbacher. It's spelled RICKENBACKER, so, have i been saying it wrong? Yeah, imagine that, I’m listening to celestial radio instead of terrestrial radio. That’s because Satellite didn’t kill my radio career. BUT I’M NOT BITTER!!! give Tejas a kiss for me. Mark
BOB ALLEN [Darrough] (Charlotte, NC) Don't ask me how I stumbled onto this web page, but I did. (http://home.earthlink.net/~rosekkkj/id132.html) I am mentioned along with Johnny Goyen in one paragraph. I worked at KBNO and KRLY radio with Johnny Goyen, and Ron Foster, and Danny O'brien, and others back in the early 70s. I went by the name Bob Allen and worked 7pm-12 midnight on KRLY. We were the pioneers, along with KRBE, of Houston FM pop radio. Let me know if you are in touch with any of the other "oldie" DJs from back in the good old days of Houston Radio. Thanks. Bob Darrough
TRIVIA ANSWER: The song lyrics I can't get no consolation, I don't get no paid vacation I can't get no satisfaction and my tractor don't get no traction Just doin' the best I can are from Patty Loveless' tune On Down the Line which lands at #5 in summer 1990.
ED MILLER (Austin, TX) Good to hear from you, too, Jim. Yeah, we didn't really know what we had out there in the cotton patch at KPCN, enjoying ourselves, being happy, and living life. Nothing left like that now. I met Loretta (Lynn) at KPCN one day when I was still pulling 12-3 on the board. She was barefooted, driving from station to station in her blue-green '55 Ford, and she walked in the control room door while I had her record spinning on the air. Saw a former broadcast equipment salesman the other night that sold me some cart machines when I was Operations Manager of KPCN 45 years ago. He got further into radio, and ended up owning 30 small market stations. He had gotten rid of all but eight by the first of the year, and just sold four of the remaining ones for $58 million earlier this year. Things that might have been. Take good care of yourself. Ed
PETER DE VRIES (February 27, 1910-September 28, 1993) Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.
Jim Rose and Tejas
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