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February 25, 2009 [Wednesday]
Issue #626

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LEN HART (Geneva, Switzerland) Jim, I am surprised that I remember so much of this stuff. In short, I've worked with some of the legendary names in radio ---Buell, Brink, Lundy, Ladd, Collier (whom I helped get into the biz), Shaun Holly. Over the years, I've also hung out with some interesting folk --Bob Crane (Hogan's Heroes), Eydie Williams (oohh la la), Grace Lee Whitney (Yeoman Rand, Star Trek), Russ Meyer (Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, Faster, Pussycat, Kill Kill, The Seven Minutes, Supervixens), Dean Martin, Kenny Rogers, Donna Mills, James Franciscus, Rob Reiner, Bernard Fox (Hogan's Heroes), Beverly Sills, Wayne Rogers (Trapper John), Cheech and Chong, Joe Camp, Jim Hampton (F-troop), Hope this is some help. Sincerely, Len (http://classicacts.blogspot.com/)

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JOAN PATE-DAY (Cedar Creek Lake, TX) Hello Jimbo and how are you feeling? Have a message for you. Sam says to tell his friends hello and thank them for their continued prayers and telephone calls. He says he is feeling fine. Takes over 20 pills a day and several shots during the week. While I was talking to him, he started yelling where I was and he had lost me, but Janet convinced him I was still on the line. He just got confused. I told him if he would go to a strip joint and watch some of the girls do their dance, it would get his blood to circulating. He got a laugh out of that and said he was afraid it's too late for that. His radio buddies will appreciate that, knowing Sam. He has a computer but can't remember how to turn it on. But he is still singing. He has not lost his memory of radio days. You take care and keep warm.

DAVID PERKINS (Fort Worth, TX) Hey Jimbo and Tejas. I was reading Mike Marshall's article about KPRC country music in Houston. Mike was one terrific DJ and a great guy to boot! But he didn't quite get the timing right about when I played country music on KPRC. By the time Mike came to KPRC, I had already been there well over a year having been hired by PD Sam Sitterlee in the spring of '68. Ron came maybe six months later, on my recommendation. KPRC never wanted to play real country. They wanted Dean Martin and "101 strings play country" etc. Lite country. But I forced the issue saying that if I couldn't play Hank Williams, Sr. and Buck Owens and Waylon and Willie, etc. then it's "hasta la vista, baby." They gave in and between the country music I played and Astros’s Baseball we had numero uno ratings in Houston. BTW, I also finished up my career on the number one rated Houston station in the late '70s, KYND-FM and that made four times I'd been on the number one stations in large markets in 13 years on the air (WBAP, DFW, and KTOW, Tulsa being the other two.) But back to KPRC. They did fire me in January 1970 while I was home sick with the flu. They'd had their fill of country music and I guess they were tired of being number one in Houston! I had little trouble getting a job, having been a contributor to Cash Box and Billboard magazines. I went to Birmingham, Alabama as my one and only time trying to be PD. It was a disaster. One story, I had been there about 7 months and some KKK people burned the barn belonging to a black family where they kept their hay for their cattle. I was doing the afternoon drive and got on the air to say "In Texas we don't burn people's hay for their cows." The next day I got a call from Governor George Wallace's right hand man to take me to dinner where he proceeded to tell me how dangerous it is to take on the KKK. About that time Don Day, PD at WBAP in Fort Worth -my home town and where they'd just gone country- hired me on. Was I glad to get out of Birmingham! David Perkins, The Ecumenical Church for the Followers of Christ, The Jesus Christ Said Ministries (www.JesusChristSaid.com)

BOB GRANT [Robert Hanger] (Houston-Jersey Village, TX) A RET friend in Carolinas is asking if you know a DJ, Bob McLain, formerly, top-40, KULF (790 AM) Houston? McLain is now PD @ WORD, Spartanburg, SC. Just asking on his behalf. BOB

DR. BRUCE NELSON (Corpus Christi, TX) I e-mailed Dade thru his web site and never heard back. But I have several top 40 surveys from the Delta Democrat Times. I worked at WDDT shortly after getting out of the Army and then moved on to WTUP in Tupelo. The Delta Democrat Times was a very liberal paper in favor of integration and the radio station being affiliated with the newspaper used to get a bomb threat every now an then from the Klan but we took it I stride and joked about it. I was the PD under the name of "Phil Harmonic" and the rest of the line-up was Varnell Lee Mid-days and Larry Dee 3pm to sign off (no night time power at the time) Jimmy Carr was on the sales staff at the time and John Gibson over saw radio and the newspaper. The station and newspaper were housed in the same building at the time and Hodding Carter who was to be part of Jimmy Carters' administration (I think) was just a kid who loved to hang out with us jocks...Dr Bruce

DADE MOORE (Houston-Aldine, TX) My old house in Aldine north Houston is my office. I am 30 miles to the north near what used to be called small Cleveland and Conroe area. Do you know from Humble over to Tomball Up to Conroe and back over to Cleveland now has about 500,000 people. Well we know where everyone south of 1960 moved to. I was on the radio last night at http://www.kvst.com still having fun. I will be on there shortly from 10/am to 6/pm tonight Sunday. Radio is still fun and good times. Later Jim. Dade (www.dade.cc) / (www.angelfireradio.com) /(www.rockandroll.fm)

TRIVIA ANSWER: Barry Manilow records his vocals and piano parts for Mandy in one take. The tune soars to #1 with over a half million in sales.

GEORGE LESTER (Palestine-Elkhart, TX) I did spots for the former owner of KTRM a man named Trum. He then had an ad agency and I did all the Dallas Williams Furniture Store spots for years plus a few other spots. He was a heck of a nice guy. George

ANTHONY QUAYLE (September 7, 1913-October 20, 1989) To understand a man, you must know his memories. The same is true of a nation.

Jim Rose and Tejas
Houston, Texas - En Dieu nous croyons

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