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WABC starts petition to save AM radio
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Thanks, I think he died a few years ago didn't he? What other characters of his did you like?
No, Garish is very much alive at 80 years old. Among the characters were Dan Buckles, newscaster, the Right Rev. Deuteronomy Skaggs of the little radio church of the white-winged Gospel truth, senseless surveys (conducted by assistant Kevin Wolfe), Gilbert Gnarley, who called PR departments of companies about their products, and Howlin' Blind Muddy Slim. blues musician. Here's an interview he did with veteran PD. GM ane consultant Pat Holiday from a few months ago.
OK, first, you cannot compare Morgan Wallen with Roger Miller or any number of similar artists(if that's possible)and second, you can't compare 1960's Top 40 with current CHR. For one thing, there were no demo breakdowns in those days, just the masses, stations were trying to reach. They played anything that was really popular regardless of genre, from Frank Sinatra to Johnny Cash to The Beatles. Back to Morgan Wallen, he strikes me as completely out of step with a pop audience! Even Cash's pop hits didn't seem as Country as Wallen.
Putting Burbank and Holiday in this thread puts it in "must see" territory. That's rarefied air.
Sounds like a ripoff of Don Imus's Right Reverend Dr. Billy Sol Hargas of the First Church of the Gooey Death and Discount House of Workship.
Everybody:
I don't care if it rains or freezes, long as I have my plastic Jesus, riding on the dashboard of my car.
I can go a hundred miles an hour, long as I have that almighty power, up their with my pair of fuzzy dice!
Say hallelujah! Say Amen!
Not really. Gary based the character off Sunday morning preachers at his first station in Louisiana. I doubt he had even heard Imus then.
Burbank and Imus were about the same age---and Burbank probably started a few years before Imus in the mid 60s, so I guess that's possible. However, by 1972 and a big spread in Life magazine while at WNBC, Imus was pretty well known by everybody in radio.
Burbank made characters about of people he knew or had met for the most part, including the southern rural radio preachers. (Even Earl Pitts was loosely based on his stepfather). Imus I believe based his character on Billy James Hargis.
It might be possible that Gary stumbled upon a copy of Imus’s first comedy album—consisting of material from when Imus was at WGAR/Cleveland—and Imus’s exploits were covered in trades like Billboard, but it’d be highly unlikely Gary ever heard Imus live at any point in the early 1970s. Imus started his show in rural California, then in Sacramento, before getting the WGAR gig in 1970.
(Yes, Imus was a host on NBC Radio’s Monitor in the early 70s but AFAIK it didn’t feature any extended scripted comedy bits, let alone if any station in Louisville carried Monitor by then.)
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More News, less talk!
Listeners in the Sacred Money Demo (the one you used to say you were "all the way out" of in your tag) generally are not interested in radio news, if indeed they're interested in news at all. News skews old even in markets where it's done using a lively, fact-based presentation.
No one did radio parody better than Phil hendrie
Recall hearing Hendrie on WSB Atlanta before went to LA and syndication.
His schtick got old quickly. I don’t like it or think it’s funny when the guy on the air plays his listeners for fools by believing his schtick even if they are fools. It’s not nice to make fun of people and that’s what he was doing. There’s no mistaking that all the voices were Hendrie. He didn’t even try to disguise his voice. The whole bit was dumb. No respect here.
It wasn't his regular listeners. It was people who happened to stumble across the program in amazement but you're right. It wasn't very nice.
😊 I’ll play devil’s advocate here for a moment. How is this shtick any different than what Imus did, or Jay Leno’s interviews of stupid people on the street, or even going all the way back, when Steve Allen used to do pretend interviews with people like Foster Brooks, who played a convincing drunk guy?
Most of the audience realizes it’s a parody, right? If not, they’ll figure it out pretty quickly.
When I was 12, Eliot Field at KFWB had a pretend sidekick named Tex, and even at 12, I figured out it was a parody.
AM radio is perfectly suited for all sorts of comic bits using voices.
Most of the audience realizes it’s a parody, right? If not, they’ll figure it out pretty quickly.
When I was 12, Eliot Field at KFWB had a pretend sidekick named Tex, and even at 12, I figured out it was a parody.
AM radio is perfectly suited for all sorts of comic bits using voices.
It's been tried and no.
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