On Mon, 12 May 2008 17:22:25 -0500, "ABC_123" <ABC@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>Radioguy <radioguy@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in news:4828b27b$0$5131
>$4c368faf@[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." :)
Howard Stern and Don Imus aren't annoying???
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