JIM ROSE REMEMBERS RADIO Issue #636
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March 20, 2009 [Friday]
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MIKE HAMMER ENTERS HOSPITAL
One of our favorite TV detectives is Mike Hammer. The actor that many remember in the 1980s television series is Stacy Keach. But there are those of us who do fondly recall Darren McGavin as Mike Hammer in the first of the Mickey Spillane TV detective series with 78 episodes over two seasons from 1958-60. The 67 year-old veteran actor Stacy Keach stars as the late U.S. President Richard Nixon in the touring stage production of Frost/Nixon at the Ahmanson in Los Angeles, CA. Keach suffers a mild stroke before he enters a hospital in Los Angeles on Tuesday, March 17, 2009. Dick Guttman, his spokesman, issues a statement: Actor Stacy Keach has been diagnosed as having experienced a very mild stroke with no impairment whatsoever of his motor or speech abilities. The producers of 'Frost/Nixon' look forward to his speedy recovery and to his return to the show as soon as he is able. Our prayers are with Stacy Keach that he completely heals.
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GO TEJANO DAY TOPS THEM ALL
At the 2009 Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo it's more popular than Miley Cyrus (Hannah Montana). The March 15, 2009 Go Tejano Day with Ramon Ayala and Alacrances Musical fills the stadium and breaks the all-time paid attendance record at the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo with 74,147 fans. That figure beats Miley Cyrus’ show by 688 fans when the teen idol sets the previous record in 2008 with 73,459 in attendance. The 2009 Go Tejano Day's previous record is 2008 with 71,165 fans who cheer on Duelo and Los Horoscopos de Durange. Officials at the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo declare Ramon Ayala as the entertainer who holds the first- and third-highest Go Tejano Day paid Rodeo attendance. Ayala last performs at the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo in 2006 with Jay Perez.
TRIVIA QUESTION: Recently, the price of CDs drops tremendously but what is the world's most expensive 45 rpm record? The answer appears below.
MOVERS AND SHAKERS
•WYOK FM (Kicks 104.1) Cumulus Country in Atmore, AL flips to Variety Hits (Jack FM 104.1). WYOK's new Web site is
http://Jack104Online.com/. Atmore is halfway between Mobile, AL and Pensacola, FL. It shoots a signal to both markets. •JEFF MCHUGH is the new OM/PD of Cox AC WSB FM (B98.5 FM Variety Soft Rock) Atlanta, GA and Classic Hits WSRV FM (The River 97.1) Atlanta-Gainesville, GA. •CFTR-680 Rogers Radio News Toronto VP/GM John Hinnen receives Canada's news/talk/sports station of the year award for the 8th time in nine years from Canadian Music Week.ENTERTAINMENT AND NEWS MILESTONES
•1950 JOHNNY DORAN Irish Folk fiddle and concertina player dies in a hospital in January. •1969 LESTER FLATT & EARL SCRUGGS officially split as a Bluegrass duo on March 11th after 25 years together. •1976 FLORENCE BALLARD one of the original Supremes dies of a heart attack at 32 on February 22nd. •1981 ELVIS PRESLEY's single Guitar Man hits #1 on Billboard's Country chart on March 14th 4 years after his death. It's a re-mix by Felton Jarvis of The King's 1968 record with Jerry Reed on the guitar. •2006 CARRIE UNDERWOOD's video Don't Forget To Remember Me debuts on CMT on March 16th.
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JOHN HAMLETT (Tempe, AZ) Subject: Do You Remember? Hi Jim, I happened upon your column quite by accident when searching for information on a performer who used to sing on KCNA (Tucson) in the early/mid 1950's. Her name was Nitta Lynn and her sponsor was Eddy Trabue Motors. I still have an autographed photo she sent me on my 8th birthday (which would have been 1952 or so). I can't find her listed in any of the music catalogs so assume she didn't record. Just wondering if you or any of your knowledgeable readers might remember her. Regards, John Hamlett
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.RICK TILLERY (Houston-Pasadena, TX) Not far from Houston...heard from Arch Yancey Lately????? guess he still lives in Alvin...not seen him in 'bout A Year. Also any hope that Paul Berlin will ever get air time? last I hear he was in sales at KSEV... Richard Tillery, Pasadena,Tx.
GARY DELAUNE (San Antonio, TX) Hey Jim; Just received word that KENS-TV laid off 10 more people today amid the Belo extraction. Three photogs, two producers, two in promotion, three in sales and the maintenance man. I guess if the power goes off, they'll ask an automoton to fix it. No air talent but then I don't know how many are still left to go on the air. The week end morning show hosts have to come in early, do their gig and then stay until about 4 pm on the assignments desk. I know Bob Crowley is having a bad time as the world of communications as we once knew it wouldn't fit into Chris Dodd's desk drawer. The Express News released 75 newsroom people last month with this Friday their last day. It includes David Flores, asst. sports editor and excellent columnist Ken Rodriguez. What a life. GD
PAUL WILLIAMS (Houston, TX) Jim, Would you find out if Don Couser ever worked at KDOK in Tyler? I was on the air there from 1958-1960 on the PM/Drive shift with the Coke Hi-Fi Club. I think I remember his little "Duck Friend"….what was the duck's name? Bill Young was on mid-day back then and Rusty Reynolds fit in somewhere. Either my memory if failing or I have Mad-Cow disease. By the way, I had the same prostate procedure you had last year…very painful…but, I am OK….cancer free! Take care my friend, Paul Williams ("The Wild Child") Senior Account Executive, Univision Radio
GEORGE LESTER (Palestine-Elkhart, TX) In 1957 I arrived in Natchez, Mississippi to meet the general manager of WNAT at the hotel where the radio station offices were. He asked me to follow him to the lobby. The announce booth was in a kiosk enclosed on all sides with soundproof glass. All the broadcast equipment appeared to be in mint condition. "This is going to be a fun place to work", I thought. Then I noticed that no one was at the controls. The real broadcast facility was across town. As I entered I saw that everything was well worn and desperately in need of repair. I asked the man on duty allow me to sit at the control board for awhile. When I tried to use certain knobs they didn’t work. The announcer explained that you had to jiggle them to make contact. There were toothpicks and matches wedged into spaces around some of the switches. As the new PD I knew something had to be done quickly. I asked the boss' secretary to get me permission to move the unused equipment downtown to the active studio. After a reasonable time I didn’t get an answer so I called again. The secretary screamed that the boss had more important things to do than cater to my petty request. It turned out not to be "a fun place to work".
TRIVIA ANSWER: The world's most valuable 45 rpm record reports in at about $180,000. This priceless piece of vinyl is the first pressing of Buddy Holly's That'll Be The Day by The Quarry Men that they record in 1958. Sir Paul McCartney is the current owner.
JIMMY RABBITT (Grand Junction, CO) "Back On The Beach" with Jimmy Rabbitt Saturday March 21st (3PM-6PM PST - 6PM-9PM EST - 11PM-2AM GMT) on 101.5 KOCI FM Newport Beach, California streaming on http://KOCIRadio.com. (http://JJradio.com/) / (http://KAFMradio.org/) / (http://KOCIRadio.com)
DAVID PERKINS (Fort Worth, TX) Jimbo (and Tejas), I'm seeing more and more political commentary in your wonderful sheet and I just wish you would stay with us old geezers as we reminisce about "our time" on the air and the friends we made. Unlike most of you, I was on the air only during my wasted youth, for a little less than a decade and a half, and for the past quarter century have either been retired or preaching to a lost audience or, for 21 of those years, programmed computers for a living. I couldn't run a digital board if my life depended on it and today's radio is as different from ours as ours was to radio during the 30s and 40s. But for all that, it's still a mike, a mouth and some music! If it's politics you want, I've got plenty of that but mostly I just write letters to the editor of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. And although I think Rush Limbaugh is an entertainer who some people began to take seriously, he has every right to have his "mike" too. Right-wing talk radio is dangerous, and really a corruption of good jocking, a waste of good airtime better filled with Waylon and Willie and Loretty. But it's even more dangerous to say those talk jocks don't have the right to have their say and the people who listen to them don't have their right to a voice that in their daily lives most of them never had. So, some of you rant on. As for me, I'll just sit here on my porch in my rocking chair and remember country music on WBAP and KPRC and all the other great musical radio stations (like KILT and KLIF) from the past. Wait! Do I see the dead body of Lady Liberty floating down the river? Dang, that reminds me of a song I once played. David Perkins, The Ecumenical Church for the Followers of Christ, The Jesus Christ Said Ministries (www.JesusChristSaid.com)
GROUCHO MARX (October 2, 1890-August 19, 1977) Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.
Jim Rose and Tejas
Houston, Texas - En Dieu nous croyons
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