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May 04, 2009 [Monday]
Issue #655

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MARY LYNN KNOCHELMAN (Cincinnati, OH) Subject: WLW Radio Reduces Sports Staff. Jim...Please go to www.cincinnati.com to get the story itself. I at the moment can't send it to you because my computer is disabled as far as being able to get on the internet. Hopefully it will be repaired in a few days. I can't even read your Jim Rose Remembers Radio Newsletters, but don't stop sending them to me. I'll enjoy reading them once my computer is back to 100% working. Anyway you might already be aware that Clear Channel laid off 250 employees nationwide yesterday. Here in Cincinnati it included employees of WCKY and WLW , including WLW Sports Talk Host Paul Daugherty! Paul's not unemployed though. He never gave up his job as a Cincinnati Enquirer newspaper columnist, while doing the dual job of Sports Talk host for two years, replacing Andy Furman, who now does PR work for Jake Sweeney Chevrolet in Cincinnati, Ohio. Please read the article yourself to get the names of the other radio employees axed! Thanks, Mary Lynn Knochelman

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LEON BECK (Houston-Friendswood, TX) Hi Jim, Just wanted you to know that the legendary Gene Thomas, who is currently recording a new CD in Houston with A.V. Mittelstedt, will be at my Fifth Annual Texas Hot Country Magazine Musicians' Reunion on July 26 at the Lone Star Club in Pasadena. Also scheduled to appear: Roy Head, Brian Collins, Larry Butler, Kelly Schoppa, Randy Cornor, Bud & Bud The Hooper Twins, Walt Jr., Buck Sloan, Yogi Baird, Cecil Shaw and many others. Former KIKK DJ and musician, Jim Black, who still plays concerts with Bobby Bare and Gene Watson, is scheduled to play at the reunion. There is no cover charge. This year's reunion is dedicated in the memory of Jeff Chance, who passed away in December. Thanks, Leon Beck

BARRY KILGORE (Houston-Conroe, TX) Jim---Many thanks to Jay Pennington for turning me on to KRTU in San Antonio. Freaking awesome jazz!! Check it out on the net. (www.krtu.org) Barry Kilgore

BLAKE LINDSAY (D/FW-Addison, TX) I hope you are doing great Jim. I sure appreciate and look forward to reading each of your columns. I learn lots about things I am interested in, and it is fun when you include people's take on a variety of topics also. Your Friend, Blazin' Blake Lindsay (www.blazinblake.com)

JOHN HALE (Austin-Cedar Park, TX) Jim, I love jazz, classic and smooth. I listened to it when everybody else was into the teen idols. I don't see classic jazz and smooth jazz being an either/or choice. It's okay to like Miles Davis and Chris Botti, Wes Montgomery and Chuck Loeb. What I don't like is smooth jazz radio. The programmers have mostly missed the boat by tightly formatting it, and using a restrictive playlist that excludes classic jazz. Change is inevitable. Rockabilly eventually turned into new wave, soul into quiet storm. Smooth jazz evolved out of Dave Brubeck and John Coltrane, and presented properly, is anything but elevator music. Smooth jazz programmers have also not properly promoted the format. It will never be a majority music, but can reach an affluent niche audience, which should attract some heavyweight advertisers. Smooth jazz radio would be smart to mix smooth and classic jazz, and leave Marvin Gaye and the Temptations to jammin' radio. Smooth jazz does NOT have to be draggy, its announcers don't have to sound bored, and the jingles should be jingles, not instrumental pads. I agree that smooth jazz isn't your daddy's jazz, but I'd hate not having it, and classic jazz, to listen to. Yours Truly, John Hale

DAN MCCURDY (Sherman, TX) You're right about Chuck Dunaway...nice guy...probably the greatest 'Top 40 voice' I've ever heard...but he used to scare me when I would pop into the control room for a visit during his PM drivetime gig...we'd be talking about something, then as a break came up, he would glance at me, just to make sure that I was paying attention...then he would start spouting a vile stream of obscenities and vulgar invectives, 5-10 seconds before throwing the mic switch open, stopping the foul stream in a nano-second when throwing the switch on and brightly saying, "Hey, there gang, you've got the Chuck baby Round Mound of Sound program right here on the Mighty 1190, KLIF, bumper-to-bumper between now and about 6...gladda have ya on board..." Then he would go to a spot or hit a record and in another nano-second flip off the mic and continue his hot stream of Carlin-like cussin' for a few seconds, as if he'd never stopped (ala Stan Freburg)...and turn around to gleefully see my eyes as big as pie plates, hyperventilating at the disaster he just skated around like a Kristi Yamaguchi ice-show. I may be complimenting myself too much here, but I certainly got the feeling that Chuck did his intricate ballet-of-'no-no'-words just to blow the mind of the newest kid on the block, who just happened to be me. His ploy worked. And he freaked me out every time. Dan McCurdy - Charlie Brown/Dan Patrick, KLIF, KBOX-Dallas; WMEX-Boston; 2004 Texas Radio Hall of Fame Inductee.

TRIVIA ANSWER: Ray Stevens turns down Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head because he doesn't like it. And the rest is history.

BOB GRANT [Robert Hanger] (Houston-Jersey Village, TX) I have toured President James Madison's home at Montpelier (Station), VA. Many years ago that home was owned by Marion DuPont, who was once married to actor Randolph Scott (1898-1987). Scott was born in that county (Orange Co. VA) & graduates from the private Woodberry Forest School nearby. He is buried in hometown of his parents, where he was raised, Charlotte, NC. (Elmwood Cemetery) Scott made his final film at age 64 in 1962, "Ride the High Country." Thought: "There was a woman that had so many children she ran out of names....to call her husband." Minnie Pearl (1912-1996) Have a great week. BOB & Sonny Lee

J.M. BARRIE (May 9, 1860-June 19, 1937) God gave us memories that we might have roses in December.

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

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