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April 01, 2009 [Wednesday]
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TOM ELLIS (Boston-Newton, MA) Hi, Jim, Since you are always so "up" on media news you probably know this already. If not, here's what I've heard about Hearst Broadcasting and New England Cable News. My sources say Hearst is looking to get rid of it's half-ownership of NECN, and is in intense negotiations with Comcast (NECN's other half-owner) to buy up Hearst's 50% share. As you know, Hearst is dumping out of all of the non-profitable properties it owns either outright or jointly, and is buying up shares in the profitable ones. Just thought I'd give you a heads up in case you hadn't heard. Tom Ellis

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.

DAN MCCURDY (Sherman, TX) How awfully sad, I remember Larry Glick back in 1965 as a really nice guy...he and I talked many an early morning about everything New England, before he handed the mic over to me to do the morning drive show; I kept my powder dry about Texas and how much I loved it and missed it; I knew I had a lot to learn from Larry, so I just soaked up his Love for his people and his town and his beloved New England. He would talk to his audience just as he talked to me and his fellow workers...very conversationally, very sincerely and frankly, very sweetly but highly informed...and that was his magical touch, as it is with any really top-notch on-air personality. I'm so saddened about the passing of Larry Glick...he was one-of-a-kind...truly a unique radio talk-host. Last I heard he was serving as a 'goodwill ambassador' for a restaurant in Boca Raton, Florida. One of the rare ones has faded from view, but his legacy will live on in the minds of the millions he touched on WMEX and WBZ in Boston over the years, from Canada to Florida to the Rocky Mountains. Larry Glick has accomplished what few in broadcasting ever do...he has created a lasting legacy, an immortality of sorts by his gentle nighttime sharing of the cares and burdens and lives of his legions of listeners. And the broadcasting torch burns less brightly because he is gone. Dan McCurdy - WMEX, Boston (1965); KLIF, KBOX, Dallas (1963-1967); inducted into the Texas Radio Hall of Fame 2004.

JERRY MILLER [Mueller] (Houston, TX) Hey, Jim...About the Charley and Harrigan show at KLIF...the original show was Ron (Ralph) Chapman and Tom Murphy! Murphy and Harrigan in 1960-61. KLIF had an opening and hired (can't recall his real name now) a DJ and named him Charlie Brown, he was the original, from a station in Davenport, Iowa. I broke him in on the board for a noon to 3 shift...then after Murphy's departure, he joined Ron on the morning show in late '61. Gordon fired me in January of 62 and I went back to KONO in S.A. and worked with Gary Allyn, Don Couser, Don Green, Howard Edwards and the rest! Jerry Miller (Mueller)

INADVENTLY this email is not in the previous JRRR that concerns the death of radio jingle legend Jim West.

BUD BUSCHARDT (Dallas, TX) Subject: Jim West passed away this morning. Jim, Jim West was a jazz musician, singer, radio station jingle writer, and commercial producer. He also narrated animated children's stories for Disney. From 1979 to 1981 he was responsible for marketing the radio format "Music of Your Life." The format ran on over 400 radio stations across the country. In 2000 he fulfilled a lifelong dream of recording solo album. That was followed up in 2004 with a sequel. Those albums, "Unfinished Business" and "Finished Business" were composed of classic love songs. Bud

DR. JEFF CUNNINGHAM (Austin-Kyle, TX) So sorry to hear about the passing of Jim West. He was a true gentleman. We used his services at KSEL in Lubbock when I was there and he knew his stuff, but he was not an "in your face" kind of guy. No million dollar contracts or silly research projects. Just good, common sense radio. The biz, I am sure, will miss Jim and all the people who are like him. I guess radio has changed, but people like Jim were always easy to work with and left you better than they found you. Tip of the hat to Jim West. Jeff Cunningham, DC Kyle, TX (www.zoesplaceclinic.com) (www.myspace.com/drjeffcunningham)

BOB GRANT [Robert Hanger] (Houston-Jersey Village, TX) Hey Jim: I have 4 file cabinets, each w/many drawers. I find myself adding info & tid-bits EVERYDAY somewhere in those many spaces, all from many sources, even JRRR. It's a never-ending process for me that I started many years ago. It all just became a habit, & probably is not of much interest to anyone but me. But it is a rather neat & interesting hobby. I have shelves more of files with autographs & pics of many I've met over the years & even thousands of 33, 45 & some 78 records. I have records signed by artists such as Tony Bennett & many reel-to-reel tapes I made interviewing people such as Bob Hope, Joni James, Les Paul/Mary Ford & a hundred other notables; pics I took up close of Pres. Ronald Reagan, Capt. Kangaroo & a few dozen more. It's been a fun-run, but again not much interest to anyone except me. I was on one DOT record, cut live at The Carolyn Club, Columbus, Ohio, 1954 (not singing, however) but I'll leave that story for another time. I do have the record to this day (78 RPM). We'll have to get together sometime & listen to it. You & Tejas have a great weekend. BOB & Sonny Lee

TRIVIA ANSWER: Tom Dawes who writes The Cyrkle's Red Rubber Ball also writes the famous Alka-Seltzer jingle that goes plop, plop, fizz, fizz.

CHARLES GEORGE (Dallas, TX) Hi, I have a QSL from KLOL it shows them as being the sister station of KTRH. Guess that shows how long it has been. Like I would like hearing KAUM and KLOL when visiting my grandparents in Waller. It was fun to compare their programming, one tended to do the same songs but use different versions at times. I went to school to Urban Park Elementary. I would walk to school only three blocks. I would walk by the house that Frank, my grade lived in, his brother was always nice to me John Ford Coley. The house they lived in is now owned by a Mexican Family. Practically everyone has moved that I once knew except those too old to want to. I was too young and I didn't skate anyway but I knew others who would go to the Twilight Ballroom to hear the Southwest F.O.B. I still remember a repair shop for radios, Crabtrees that was at Cedar Springs and Maple which now is history. Charles George

AMY TAN (February 19, 1952-p) Memory feeds imagination.

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

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