TV HOST FOUND DEAD Scottsdale, AZ police report that long time popular Valley radio personality, Bill Heywood, and his wife are found shot to death in an apparent double suicide in a local hotel on Wednesday afternoon, January 5, 2012. Sergeant Mark Clark says that hotel staff find the couple along with a suicide note around 1 pm in one of the Homewood Suites rooms near Scottsdale and Mountain View roads. KTAR-620 discloses that longtime Phoenix radio personality Pat McMahon sees Heywood at a recent holiday party where he learns of Bill's wife Susan’s illness which is more serious than Heywood previously envisions. Reports in local media indicate that the couple experience financial difficulties as well. Court records reveal that in August 2009 the couple files for bankruptcy. About two years ago the couple lose their Biltmore-area home to foreclosure. Bill Heywood's broadcast career goes all the way back to the 1960s. For many years, Bill Heywood hosts the morning show on KTAR-620 and crosstown Talk KFYI-550. For three different years, industry publication Billboard names him as its #1 radio personality. After he discovers Heywood’s death, another Valley radio legend, Pat McMahon, tells KPNX TV CH12 News: He just was a guy who was born to do radio.

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BAYOU CITY RADIO MAKES WAVES Clear Channel in Houston, TX reorganizes its AM Talk radio lineups. Beginning Monday, January 9, 2012 Talk host Michael Berry appears exclusively on KTRH-740. Matt Patrick KTRH-740 morning co-host will also have a radio show on sister crosstown Talk KPRC-950. Berry keeps his 5-7:00 pm Talk show on KTRH-740 but drops his 2-5:00 pm show on KPRC-950. In place of his KPRC-950 program he hosts the 8-11:00 am slot on KTRH-740. Berry replaces Premiere Networks’ Glenn Beck who moves over to KPRC-950 from 10:00 am-12:00 noon. Matt Patrick KTRH Morning News co-host tacks on the 2-5:00 pm spot on KPRC-950. To make room for Glenn Beck on KPRC-950, Dave Garfield's show moves over to 12:00 noon to 2:00 pm which pushes Outlaw Dave to 8-10:00 pm. Who says that radio consolidation is not fun?

COUNTRY SINGER ON THE MEND Country singer Wade Hayes has a #1 tune for 2 weeks around Christmas 1994, Old Enough to Know Better, which we spin on KILT FM here in Houston, TX. Tony Wade Hayes is born on April 20, 1969 in Bethel Acres, OK. On December 8, 2011 Wade has stage IV colon cancer surgery at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, TN. The medical procedure goes well. Wade recuperates at home. In his website Wade thanks fans for their prayers: Thank you all very much for your prayers and well wishes. I really appreciate it. (www.wadehayes-woww.com/)

TRIVIA QUESTION: Nat King Cole's recording of Nature Boy is one of my favorites of his many great tunes. Who is the original Nature Boy? The answer appears below.

MOVERS AND SHAKERS

•WNNF FM Cumulus Cincinnati, OH 7 months after it ejects out of the pen to Hot AC (Journey 94.1) knee-jerks to (Great Country 94.1) with 10,000 songs in a row. First 3 wild bulls out of the chute are Brad Paisley This Is Country Music; Lady Antebellum We Owned the Night and Toby Keith Made in America. •CATHY GANDOLFO South Philly Goretti High School for Girls/Temple University grad begins in 1975 as Action News WPVI TV CH6 writer-reporter. In 2008, she inducts into the Philadelphia Broadcast Pioneers Hall of Fame. After more than 36 years at CH6 news, Cathy Gandolfo retires.

ENTERTAINMENT AND NEWS MILESTONES

•1951 LORETTA LYNN's youngest sister [Brenda Gayle Webb] with stage name Crystal Gayle (Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue #1 million seller for 4 weeks-1977) born on January 9th in Paintsville, KY. •1967 NEW ORLEANS, LA NFL franchise chooses its name The Saints on January 9th. •1978 JOHNNY PAYCHECK's single Take This Job and Shove It slams #1 in Billboard Country on January 7th. •1989 PAT SAJAK Show premieres on CBS TV on January 9th. •1990 WILLIE NELSON's album Stardust certifies Quadruple-Platinum on January 9th. •2007 APPLE COMPUTER unveils revolutionary iPhone on January 9th.

EMAILS YES WE HAVE EMAIL

BOB MILLER (Detroit-Plymouth, MI) Subject: Jim Rose Remembers Radio (#1062) January 06, 2011 [Friday] Hi Again Jim That earlier email I sent today probably missed you. So, I am going to re-cap from my university site. I've had the best time this week visiting with family in San Antonio. My 93 year old mom, brother and son (recently returned from Iraq) all crossed paths here. The weather is fabulous, the food singularly amazing and company have all coalesced for a wonderful experience. Bob Miller

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DR. BRUCE NELSON (Corpus Christi, TX) [GM/AM Drive DJ KFTX FM 97.5 Retired 12/31/2010] Subject: Jim Rose Remembers Radio (#1062) January 06, 2011 [Friday] Happy New year Jim, When I was doing the KNUZ Yesterday's Back Concerts. Bo Diddley was on our first show. He was a delight to work with and kept us in stitches all day long. Great talent an innovator that every rock star borrowed a little something from. Fond memories!!! Dr. Bruce p.s. pet the pooch for me! (www.kftx.com)

ED MILLER (Austin, TX) Jim, Yes. I was a proto-Beatnik in those years. The Rubyiat was a coffee shop on McKinney Ave that catered to young North Dallas wanna-be hipsters. We thought it avant garde and plenty risqué to even be in such a place back during the Eisenhower years. My time there was as a teenager, prior to getting into radio. The Cellar was a Foat Wuth institution. It began below ground on a downtown side street, and ultimately expanded upstairs into a much larger room on a main downtown street, and eventually into a Dallas location. At the original location, the waitresses wore just their underwear. The upstairs location was where the JFK Secret Service detail was whooping it up the night before their boss got blasted into history. I attended infrequently, as I was signing KPCN on the air at dawn and the action at the Cellar tended to occur pretty late at night. How about you? Did you make the scene? -Ed

THE RUBYIAT in the 1960s and on into the 1970s is a small hangout for beatnik wannabes on McKinney Avenue in Dallas, TX where local poets, folksingers and red-neck rockers like Michael Martin Murphey, Steve Fromholz, B.W. Stevenson, Ray Wylie Hubbard, Nashville, TN harmonica legend Mickey Rafael and others get their start. A fellow Kimball high school classmate talks me into going there late one Friday night after I get off work as a part time sacker at Wyatt's grocery store in Oak Cliff. The lights are down low, scene is cool, but the music is hot. The Rubyiat is a hip beatnik coffee house that has cool music.

PARRIS AFTON BONDS (Dallas-Allen, TX) Subject: Jim Rose Remembers Radio (#1060) December 30, 2011 [Friday] Jimmie, I swear I typed Jimmie in my last email but then erased it and typed Jimmy ~ and, of course, there is and always will be only one Jimmie Rose (I'll never get used to calling you Jim). Take care, dear one, Parris Afton Bonds; Namesake of Southwest Writers Workshop's Parris Award for outstanding contribution and service by a published author (www.parrisaftonbonds.com)

TRIVIA ANSWER: In 1948, Nat King Cole's Nature Boy hangs on to # 1 in Billboard for 8 weeks. Nature Boy is a major hit recording but hardly anyone knows who the original Nature Boy is. The song reflects the back-to-nature spirit of a songwriter and musician of the late 1940s who lives naturally and writes one of the most famous songs ever. Eden Ahbez is one of the first proto-hippies, proto-beatniks. He camps out under the famous Hollywood Sign in the Hollywood Hills in Hollywood, CA to enjoy fresh air and outdoor life. The Sixties hippie movement begins with songwriter and recording artist Eden Ahbez. He is born George Alexander Aberle on April 15, 1908 in Brooklyn, NY. In 1941, he moves to Los Angeles, CA and begins to play piano in a German immigrant health-food store and raw-food restaurant on Laurel Canyon Boulevard called The Eutropheon. When Los Angeles radio host and DJ Cowboy Jack Patton hears Ahbez’ song Nature Boy he persuades Eden to give the song to Nat King Cole. Nature Boy zooms to the top of the Pop chart. In 1995 Eden Ahbez tragically dies in an auto accident at 86. The words to Nature Boy deliver a strong message: The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.

CHARLES GEORGE [ex KCHU FM] (Dallas, TX) Subject: Bluesday. I always liked Arthur Crudup's song That's All Right Mama. Elvis did a good version having a hit with it, also Rod Stewart did it on his album Every Picture Tells A Story. I like the work of Texas Slim, he has albums for sale, but I don't hear him played much on the Radio. Though I noticed IHeart.com played a couple of tunes by him when I typed in his name. IHeart is by Clear Channel, interesting they have a big library of tunes they hardly ever play over the Radio. Also a country musician Erin Ender seems to have talent from  Hempstead, Texas; home of the best water melons I have ever had; but she has not been getting much air play but her work would fit the sound of many stations playing Country Music.

HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSON (1805-1875) Where words fail, music speaks.

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