K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
Then I politely suggest that you read through threads before posting yourself. That's what I do.
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Then I politely suggest that you read through threads before posting yourself. That's what I do.
There was no way I was hearing it on a countdown as a current hit, then.
I respond to what I see when I see it.
K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
Which is unfair to those who have already followed the thread in sequence. I personally find it a distraction when someone responds to a post from a few pages back, saying what had already been said by someone else. I doubt I am the only person who finds it annoying.
But some days I skip going to the site, and other days there have been so many posts I don't realize how much there will be to read.
K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
Sorry, Chimp, but that doesn't make it less unfair for those who find it distracting.
Practically everyone else here catches up on threads before they make a post, even if they have been away for several days. I had a hospital stay a little over a year ago that kept me off RD for a full week, and I still followed that practice when I returned, so as to not repeat things already said. I consider that my personal obligation to everyone here, and I urge you to adopt a similar philosophy.
Maybe we should have an F.AQ. Or not
"The Green Door" was recorded - but not written by - a DJ named Jim Lowe, who most notably was at WCBS, but also at WMAQ Chicago and WIRE Indianapolis before that. Lowe did write other songs, most notably "Gambler's Guitar", and performed them on TV.
The kicker...for me...while he was a student at the University of Missouri in Columbia in 1948, he hosted the nightly "Disc Derby" program on KFRU, which was the only radio station in Columbia at the time.
I have that mic flag, or another that was part of a set that included this on (in any event the appearance is identical).
(Excerpt is from a Columbia Missourian advertisement in 1948, which says, "Jim Lowe, KFRU's night owl is the jockey for the all-request Disc Derby, 11-11:55...a grade of NBC's Hollywood Radio School, Jim hails from Springfield, Missouri. He also holds down the 2-3:30 trick in the afternoon."
Trick?)
With the death of Lou Christie I am reminded that "Lightnin' Strikes" has lyrics that make it sound like the girl is saying "No, no, no" and the guy is saying, "Yes, yes, yes."
Helps to understand the context of the song. He's singing to his girlfriend, who he expects to be okay with it if he fools around. The "Stop" is meant to be her, telling him not to kiss other girls.
Jim Lowe wound up for years in Dallas at WRR 1310 doing mornings as 'Slow Jim Lowe'. I'm not sure, but I think it was Jim that introduced 'Library of Laffs' as it was spelled, a comedy segment at 45 past the hour every hour amid their MOR format. WRR was a consistent #3 in Dallas for many years.
Following WRR moving to a talk format, Jim did a Big Band program on KERA, the NPR affiliate in Dallas.
Following WRR moving to a talk format, Jim did a Big Band program on KERA, the NPR affiliate in Dallas.
In the commercial there are all these girls in t-shirts that spell out the words "Super Bubble" dancing while seated, whatever you call it I think it's supposed to be a slumber party where they are listening to all the bubble gum songs.
What in the world are you talking about?
This is why Lou's song is so memorable to me.
I wonder if we're thinking about the same person. I found the New York Times obit in 2016 for the "Green Door" Jim Lowe, which states that he first went to WCBS in the mid-1950s and then started in 1962 at WNEW hosting the overnight "Milkman's Matinee" and then "Jim Lowe's New York". The obit notes that he was also heard on NBC's "Monitor". The obit says that he left WNEW in 1969 but returned "a few years later" and stayed there until 1987. He then syndicated a program called "Jim Lowe and Friends" until 2004, recorded at various New York jazz venues.
Interesting quote from him (in the obit) in 2004: "We aren't abandoning Frank Sinatra and Ella Fitzgerald, but we also want to support newer artists and new recordings,” he said. “Crystal Gayle and Cyndi Lauper have done very nice recordings of classic songs. That’s how this music will be carried forward.”
It doesn't seem to fit the context, though, which is a description of a 90-minute weekday radio program in what was then a sedate Midwestern college town. In addition, the same person who was an owner and the GM in 1948 was still there when I was there 35-ish years later and, knowing him, if he detected something even mildly salacious on the air or in promotional material, I'm sure the perpetrator would face his very loud wrath.
The term "trick" may have shifted meanings over time, producing a jarring result when viewed with present-day eyes.
The promotional material for KFRU tried at times to strike a jocular tone, as in this example from 1947 shortly after "Disc Derby" began (and extended the station's sign-off time to midnight): "Speaking of mayhem, this new 'Disc Derby' business at 11 p.m. weekdays will slay you. Jim Lowe reports that everything on 'D. D.' under control, but suggests you keep the requests moving. They're his best way of knowing what the listeners want to hear."
"There's a chapel in the pines"....even in the early 60s, what woman would have bought that line of B.S.?
Was "Paradise by the Dashboard Light"