Laura M. Young wrote:
> On 5/12/08 2:11 PM,"Radioguy" <radioguy@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> In Phoenix we had KRUX and KRIZ. Sometimes late at night we could pick
up
> KOMA from Oklahoma City.
>> 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.
>
> I never knew Bob Crane had been a DJ before he showed up on Hogan's
Heroes.
> The most memorable thing about him to most of us in Phoenix was that he
was
> murdered here. Then all the sleazy stuff came out. That was so hard to
> believe because you don't expect people who play funny characters to be
so
> dirty. There was a movie about his life not long ago. I can't remember
now
> if anyone was ever convicted or not.
>
His buddy Carpenter was acquitted on a lack of convincing evidence. Both
the murder and the motive remain officially unsolved. Carpenter
maintained his innocence until his death on September 4, 1998.
Phoenix has KOOL for oldies now, the station is available vis the
Internet. Lee "Baby" Sims and Machine Gun Kelly I think were out there
at one time.
The movie was called Auto Focus. Pretty bad from the reviews. I didn't
waste my money.
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