1971 WSAI Music Question

[michael hagerty]

let's see, back in 1971, the WSAI air talent was Jim Scott, Bob Goode, Roy Cooper, Bud Stagg, Larry Clark, Bobby Rivers, and Ted McAllister and Doug Silver doing weekends. Bobby Rivers mysteriously disappeared from WSAI, to later be replaced by Scott Kenyon

Does anybody know what happened to Bobby Rivers...or what his real name was? There's an aircheck of him on Reelradio.com at WPOP just prior to his departure for WSAI. A WPOP tribute site says he was also at KTKT, Tucson after WSAI, but the Bobby Rivers who was at KTKT appears to have been a different guy (now deceased).

Any help would be appreciated.

---Michael Hagerty, Phoenix

Guys:
Never mind. Mystery solved. The deceased Bobby Rivers worked at KTKT as Steve Rivers...and his PD was the WSAI Bobby Rivers. He went to KTLK, Denver from WSAI, then on to KTKT until the early-mid 80s. He's still in Tucson, but in real estate.

---Michael Hagerty

 

[FRR]

C'mon Vegas, who were you in 1971?

 

[VeteranWorkerBee]

Why can't we find out who VEGAS is??? Hmmm....? 8)

 

[rwss]

In the mid 1990's, I independently produced prep sports games on AM 1050 WTSJ (now WCVX). Their studios were in an old house in Covington, near Willie's. The equipment was old, and they were still using the old cart machines.
The owner of the station would buy up old carts from stations going to computers, and they were stored in the basement. In one box were a ton from the 1360 WSAI days. Jingles, commercials...even the young female voice that said "The Jim Scott Show".
Slowly, one by one, these things were bulk erased and recorded over. It was sad to see this history fade away. I hid some of the gems with plans to record them. There were also carts from 55KRC- Bengal game opens and promo's, stuff with Rich King, David Lee, Jerry Thomas, etc.

When I finally had the time to record them...they were gone! Shipped to another one of their stations out of town. History lost.

 

[johnnyking]

Steve Kirk's dog's name was Rover.

 

[media1170]

My vote is that Chuck Collier is Vegas.

 

[Radio Dav]

NoWayNoCC
Why did Q-102 fail to play so many songs in the '80s that not only hit the top 10 (maybe even #1) nationally but were certainly in the top 10 in record sales locally?

cklw800
About Q-102, they were an exciting station in the 70s and 80s. They played Klymaxx and other locally based groups. But they were real mainstream Top 40. A lot of other R&B didn't get through there. Only the hottest tracks made it. In the 80s I could count maybe 5 R&B tracks on their list. But they were hot. And at least Midnight Star and a couple of other R&B groups would get on early making them sound unique and more crossover than they really were. It was a great station!


At that time, think Q 102 was owned by Taft Broadcasting, heard Randy may programmed it at that time, thought it sounded better than WZPL in the mid 80's, Q 102 was 1 of my favorite stations until a little after 101.9 WQFE signed on that hurt Q 102's signal.

It's kinda sad how those broadcasters split WKRC AM, WKRC TV, and WKRQ apart.

Now days you might be lucky to hear a FM station past 50 miles with translator after another because of the of non com monster of radio with no local personality and music.

 

[NoWayNoCC]

NoWayNoCC
Why did Q-102 fail to play so many songs in the '80s that not only hit the top 10 (maybe even #1) nationally but were certainly in the top 10 in record sales locally?

I think it was because Q-102 insisted on waiting until songs also became popular in other cities.

I'm almost certain "(How To Be A) Millionaire" by ABC had to be in the top 10 or 15 in record sales locally, yet Q-102 never touched it (until possibly the '90s when they did an '80s retro feature).

 

[Pscc8082]

C'mon Vegas, who were you in 1971?

Just another guy claiming to be someone. There are a million people claiming to be a Navy "seal" and 2 million people claiming to have been at Beverly Hills the night it burnt! Both are IMPOSSIBLE!

 

[gr8oldies]

Also a few thousand who were in the band "Head East".

 

[Pscc8082]

There were 2,400 to 2,800 people in the Beverly Hills Supper Club when it burnt in 1977 which was well above its capacity. Now everyone old enough to remember the fire was either in the building or a rescuer at the fire. It was 32 years ago which means anyone 40 or older at the time of the fire are dead or near death. How many people were 40 or below at the fire? Probably 20%? This wasn't a place young people hung out! They had an older successful clientel. That means only about 500 people are still alive that were at the fire! Everyone wants to be someone even if they have to make it up!