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A quick note to Dan Ingram

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Yesterday would've been Dan Ingram's 45th Anniversary in New York Radio if it weren't for the involvement of certain corporate bigwigs. I, for one, certainly miss hearing Ingram on the air on a regular basis, but I guess I'll have to settle for the occasional Call-in on WABC every now and then. We miss hearing you, Kemosabe! Don't be a stranger. ;)

J.K.---
 
Nik, I don't know you, and don't really care, but geez man! I hope you're not in hysterics because you agree with the post implying that Dan Ingram stayed on the air too long. Please correct me if I've misunderstood your post.
 
NO, Dan Ingram is certainly a legend and entitled to all the props that a legend deserves and THEN some........that said,.......it was a funny and clever post so I laughed, why would you take issue with that and not with the one who made the post in the first place?.

Try not to take this board so seriously. By the way I dont know who you are either should that matter?.
 
I don't care how long he "overstayed". Dan was the quickest wit ever to get behind a microphone, and that he did it all unrehearsed, day after day, for as long as he did only underscores his genius. If his best work had only lasted a year or two, he'd still be a genius. Dan kept it coming for 30 years at least. For that alone, he deserves an outlet if he wants one. And I'd listen, just as I did in his later days on CBS-FM. Dan earned it.

Geez, how long did Joe Franklin "overstay" with all THAT talent????
 
Ingram was one of the best in his time. Unfortunately, his time passed a while ago and in his last couple of years on CBS-FM, he was a sad shell of his old self.

His voice had degenerated into a growl that was hard to understand and he was doing "unrehearsed" lines that he'd been doing for 40 years. Those double entendre lines were cute in WABC's Top 40 days, but they're pretty pale when shows like Stern's are on the air. And who wants to hear a 70-year-old man saying things that are "almost dirty?"
 
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Dude, the Joe Franklin reference is even funnier!. The thing about Joe is tthat he NEVER changed from his "prime" to the time that as you say he had stayed too long at the party, he was Joe Franklin the whole time. When I was a punk kid in college I remember watching that show thinking how did this guy GET on tv in the first place?, but I stilll watched all the time. HEll even Ed Sullivan was a horrible performer, he was the quintessential radio guy who never should have been put on TV but look at him! he's generally considered a "legend"

Props to Joe, with that comb over. "hello my friends. IM pimpin my friends"

I hope you saw the Aristocrats, Sarah Silverman is priceless "Joe Franklin, raped me"

;D
 
I think the only people with less talent than Joe had were a vast majority of the guests! But you gotta love him.

Boss: yeah, I know. I watched him work one day while visiting Bob Shannon. Your comments are all valid. That said...I'd still listen given the chance, if only for the hope that a flash of that old brilliance would appear.
 
Few people are as sharp at age 70 or 80 as they were at age 20 or 30. Health issues can enter in too. but ---on another board someone said Dan was not as talented as the guys on WNEW-am1130. I take issue with that! if Dan had chosen standards radio instead of top40 radio he likely could have been on WNEW. if fact ---I think Dan played standards and jazz on WABC-FM for a few years.
 
also---- I doubt anyone on WNEW-am or any NYC station had a voiceover career to match Big Dan!
 
someone told me WNEW-am1130 once offered Dan a job but it did not work out. anyone know about that?
 
Boss Radio said:
Those double entendre lines were cute in WABC's Top 40 days, but they're pretty pale when shows like Stern's are on the air. And who wants to hear a 70-year-old man saying things that are "almost dirty?"
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I guess it all depends on what you like but anyone can take a show to the gutter. IMO Stern couldn't carry Dan's toothbrush. The great ones are just easy to listen to and Dan is one of the GREAT ONES!!!!
 
I think Dan could do a good job now hosting standards on either Sirius or XM. He knows and likes the music. and---XM and Sirius likely could afford him. But I don't know how Dan's health is currently. Hope he's OK.
 
Funny, someone should mention Ingram and WNEW. I was in a suite at the Waldorf-Astoria during a Billboard convention years ago, when the then Program Director of Gene Autry's KMPC in Los Angeles (much like WNEW at the time) was suggesting to Ingram that he would be unable to handle afternoon drive on his station with all of the news, traffic reports and other features that his station was running.

Dan just laughed and told him "I'd squeeze it all in, if I had to edit the records and traffic reports myself!"

And, I'm sure Big Dan would have. I share your thoughts regarding his health.
 
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