Radioguy <radioguy@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> Vox
>
> If under water, could have been Submarine Race Watching?
>
> Depending on where you grew up Murray wouldn't be well known. He is
> basically thought of as a New York jock, although did a weekend ****ft
on
> the old Monitor Show on NBC Radio.
>
> People in LA would remember Robert W. Morgan, Dick Whittinghill, Roger
> Christian or The Real Don Steele. In Chicago, Wally Philips, John
> Records Landecker, Dick Biondi or Larry Lujack. Dallas had Russ "The
> Weird beard" Knight. Philly had Hy Lite, Dr Don Rose and Jim
Nettleton.
> Boston had Dave Maynard, Dick Summer, Arnie Ginsberg and Carl
DeSuze.
> In Cleveland, Pete "Mad Daddy" Meyers. Dick Purtan in Detroit also
comes
> to mind. I am sure many boomers reading this will have memories of
> their favorites. Remember too the powerhouse stations, WABC, WBZ,
WKBW,
> KJR, KHJ, WLS, CKLW, WFIL, WIBG, WHK, WIOD, WQAM, WQXI, KFOG and
> Mexico's XERB were but a few of the call letters that would be fondly
> remembered by the crusin' set.
>
> Very few DJs actually had national recognition, such as Alan Freed,
Dick
> Clark, Casey Kasem, Wolfman Jack, Jackson Armstrong, Johnny Holiday
and
> Joey Reynolds, unless they were syndicated or made it to Network TV.
> Gary Owens was known nationally via Laugh-In but was also a huge
success
> in LA, at KMPC and others stations. Game show hosts/announcers like
Wink
> Martindale. Jim Lange, Steve Allen, Shadoe Stevens, Johnny Olsen, Bob
> Eubanks Rod Roddy, B. Mitchell Reed, and comic Djs Hudson & Landry
were
> all basically West Coast DJs.
>
> One of my favorites was Bob Crane. He was from my hometown. He was a
> drummer in a high school band. He was at WICC in Bridge****t, working
> his way up the radio food chain, went to LA on KNX and sky rocketed
from
> there with Hogan's Heroes.
>
> A kind of OT response, but fun anyway.
DJ's? I know Howard Stern and Don Imus...after that they are all "the
annoying people who talk when they should be playing music." :)
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