JIM ROSE REMEMBERS RADIO Issue #611
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January 21, 2009 [Wednesday]
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FAMED TUNESMITH PASSES
Songwriter Clint Ballard Jr. dies at 77 on December 23, 2008 at his home in Denton, TX. Clint suffers a stroke in 2006. Ballard serves as a radio operator in the U.S. Army then turns his efforts to a career in music. He discovers and manages Pop duo The Kalin Twins and wins them a recording contract with Decca records which produces their big hit When that scores #5 on Billboard in 1958. Probably Clint's most well-known hits that he writes are Manchester group Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders' The Game of Love which rushes to #1 on Billboard in 1965. He also writes Linda Ronstadt's You're No Good that goes to #1 on Billboard in 1975. This is one of my favorite tunes. It features a fine guitar solo by Andrew Gold. Dee Dee Warwick, Betty Everett and The Swinging Blue Jeans also record the tune. If we remember back a little further, more Clint Ballard Jr. songs pop up: Jimmy Jones' Good Timin' #3-1960 and Frankie Avalon's Gingerbread #9-1958. Clint Ballard Jr. who later enters the real estate industry leaves no immediate survivors.
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CLEAR CHANNEL CUTS 7%
In July 2008 two private equity funds, Thomas H. Lee Partners and Bain Capital, take over Clear Channel Communications and go private. Recent breaking news indicates that CC plans a major round of cutbacks to begin on the same day the new U.S. President swears into office on Tuesday, January 20, 2009. The Wall Street Journal reports that CC plans to lay off roughly 7% of its U.S. staff which is almost 1,500 employees. The majority are in its sales department. The new owners want to trim the budget by almost $400 million. At press time we know of these radio folks who leave the CC buildings: Gabe Hobbs SVP/programming of News/Talk/Sports; R Dub! PD of Rhythmic AC KHHT FM (Hot 92 Jamz) Los Angeles, CA; Dave Chachi Denes PD of Hot AC KBIG FM (104.3 MYfm) L.A.; John Matthews PD of Classic Hits KLOU FM (Oldies 103.3 Clue) St. Louis, MO; Boomer PD of Top 40 WRVQ FM (Q94) Richmond, VA; Chaz Kelly PD/morning co-host of Top 40 WKCI FM (KC101) New Haven, CT; Louis Kaplan OM Ft. Myers-Punta Gorda, FL cluster; Brian Waters OM Columbus, GA cluster and Rick O'Dell midday DJ/former PD of Smooth Jazz WNUA FM (95.5) Chicago, IL. Others, too. Also that Smooth Jazz KKSF FM (103.7) San Francisco, CA flips formats.
TRIVIA QUESTION: What is the last 8 Track tape that hits the market? The answer appears below.
MOVERS AND SHAKERS
•TOM TRADUP VP of Salem Radio Network News/Talk programming at KSKY FM-AM Dallas, TX replaces Mike Gallagher on The KSKY Morning Show starting Monday, January 19, 2009. Mike begins a 3-hour SRN syndicated national show. •LAURIE CANTILLO is the new PD of Citadel Talk WABC-770 NYC as of February 2, 2009. Laurie is former PD of Oprah Winfrey's Harpo (Oprah backwards) Radio Oprah and Friends XM Satellite Radio channel in Chicago, IL. Also former PD of Clear Channel Talk KFYI-550 Phoenix, AX. •PHIL BOYCE exits WABC-770 NYC in Fall 2008 as President of Talk Radio Network Syndications.
ENTERTAINMENT AND NEWS MILESTONES
•1956 ÉTIENNE DAHO French Rock singer-songwriter-record producer born in Oran, Algeria on January 14th. •1963 FLATT & SCRUGGS' The Ballad Of Jed Clampett goes to #1 on Billboard's Country chart on January 19th and remains at the top for 3 weeks.
•1978 RICKY WILSON lead singer with English band Kaiser Chiefs born Charles Richard Wilson on January 17th. •1985 REBA MCENTIRE's single How Blue rises to #1 on Billboard's Country chart on January 19th. •1991 BUCK RAM manager-songwriter of The Platters dies at 73 on January 1st. •2005 TOBY KEITH records Honkytonk U in Nashville, TN on January 19th.EMAILS YES WE HAVE EMAIL
MARCOS RODRIGUEZ (Aspen, CO)
howdy! here we are on the same website! http://74.125.95.104/search?q=cache:YFnHrikZ-csJ:www.kxol1360.com/airstaff.htm+kxol+employee+list&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=7&gl=us&client=firefox-a Marcos Rodriguez (www.aspenglenwood.com)WHERE DO YOU READ JRRR? Tell us how far away from Houston, TX that you read JRRR. Send your full name, city, state and country of residence to rosekkkj@earthlink.net.
JAY PENNINGTON (San Antonio-Boerne, TX) Hi Jim, As you probably recall, Nick St. John of KEXL San Antonio fame sadly passed away last summer. Over the last year and half I've been putting together a website dedicated to San Antonio's 70's station KEXL with sound bytes, images, and stories. www.penningtontechnicalarts.com/KEXL Nick had been emailing me during the first half of last year telling me more about the KEXL days which I then added to the site. The site keeps growing. What I wanted to tell you about today is that a couple months after Nick passed away I was given a bag of reel tapes that Nick had hung onto for years - some are 40 years old. Only recently I found a friend who had a reel-to-reel player I could borrow that didn't need a new belt or some kind of repair. It's been a very amazing journey through these reel tapes. I've been playing them into my PC - digitizing them for safe keeping and for adding to my KEXL site. I was hoping for a bag full of KEXL tapes but actually more interesting is that they are really kind of a resume of Nick's. Air Check tapes from the different radio stations he worked at going back as far as 1964. Midland, Waco, Houston, San Antonio...in San Antonio there is a tape for KEXL, a tape for KITY, a tape for KONO... Nick's presentation is a bit different at each station - fitting the personality of the station. For KONO he has a two reel set recording his whole session from August 20, 1968. There is a 5 minute news program in the middle of that Aug 20, 1968 session done by Paul Venema - Paul talking about Presidential Candidate Richard Nixon taking a break from campaigning today to visit the ailing Eisenhower...a clip of McGovern talking about ending Viet Nam.... very interesting and historic. My plan is to digitize all the reels then put all of Nick's reels onto CDs for his family members plus put the gem parts into my KEXL site.
NICK ST. JOHN AND KEXL FM
Real radio legends here in Texas are Nick St. John and KEXL FM in San Antonio, TX. In 2008, Nick and I reunite through JRRR and exchange email. Sadly, Nick passes away on or about Monday, June 23, 2008. Great news about the KEXL FM Web site that features Nick, his pictures and airchecks. Know Nick from our days at Elkins in Dallas in 1964 plus in the late 1960s and early 1970s when Nick is PM Drive DJ on KONO-860 in San Antonio, TX and I'm PD/MD/PM Drive DJ on KBUC FM-AM. One time in 1970 when Nick leaves KONO, he calls me about an opening on KBUC. He comes by for a visit but all I have to offer is Sunday/Monday midnight-6am. David A. Doerr from Biloxi, MS attends Nick's memorial in 2008. He tells me about his collection of KEXL FM tapes and how he makes contact with Jay Pennington and others through my Web column-newsletter that makes the KEXL Web site all possible. But somehow no mention of the connection to JRRR ever occurs. JRRR brings many radio folks together all over the world and very happy to do it. We mention all about Jay's fine KEXL Web site in 2008. We need to do what we can to keep real radio alive even if it's only through our Web sites. In my collection are my airchecks from WFAA-820 (1967-68) Dallas, TX and other radio stations but they are on reel-to-reel tapes. Have many cassettes tapes of my time on Top 40 KULF-790 (1978-80), Album Rock KILT FM (1980-81) and Country KILT FM (1991-96). The 1996 Consolidation law destroys radio as we once know it. Through us radio veterans, real radio is alive and well in JRRR.
JIM LAWRENCE (Dallas, TX) Subject: Greetings from Dallas. I'll be happy to get a copy (book) to you. Hope you enjoy it. All my Dallas-Fort Worth work was on the news side (In San Angelo it was as a jock or combination dj/news). At KRLD from 1973-74 between my first stint at WRR-AM (there were two) and KXOL. Many thanks. Jim Lawrence
ANDY WALDROP (Houston, TX) Jim, I believe the song that Charles George was referencing in the 1/19/09 JRRR was Charley Pride's "Roll On Mississippi." Andy
CHARLES GEORGE (Dallas, TX) I will have to look for it. I always liked his song about going to San Antonio. I like it when a local makes good. Funny seeing KRLD-FM on 105.3 when it use to be on 92.5, but then those calls were also KAFM. I hated when multiple ownership was allowed of more than one AM/FM combination. Some styles of music have vanished almost completely. Like when KERA Channel 13 runs a Peter, Paul, and Mary concert during pledge drives then no more folk music. Besides KERA-FM now is almost all talk but with the same stuff as on commercial radio. But then I am just a listener...
TRIVIA ANSWER: There is some debate but most collectors agree the November 1988 release of Fleetwood Mac's Greatest Hits is the last commercial issue of an 8 Track tape by a major label.
STEVEN WRIGHT (December 6, 1955-p) Whenever I think of the past, it brings back so many memories.
Jim Rose and Tejas
Houston, Texas - En Dieu nous croyons
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