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And The Stiffs Just Keep On Comin'

DB, I've visited a few sites over the years and don't remember running across it, then again I wasn't looking specifically for that aircheck, but more in general for classic KB stuff. The fact that it didn't wind up on David Fill's site is probably not a good sign. I'll keep looking, but if you do "remember those names" please leave a post.

Rock Radio Scrapbook has a lot of KB audio from those years but I don't remember seeing it there either.

Here's one you can answer for me: Was Gayle McCormick's "It's A Cryin' Shame" just a regional record? I thought for sure that was a Top 10 record but don't see it in my trusty Joel Whitburn book.

And now, one of the stiffest stiffs ever: "You Were My Friend" by Chi Coltrane. Spring 1973. ("Thunder And Lightning" got to #17.)
 
I can't say I remember either of those songs. I would assume Gayle McCormick played only regionally if it didn't make the top 100 as outlined with Whitburn. And the only Chi Coltrane I remember is Thunder and Lightning.
 
The only reason I remember "You Were My Friend" is that was my first radio job in tiny Brattleboro, VT, and the PD raved about that song, thought it would be a smash. And he ended up being the only one. Well, him and Chi Coltrane's people at Columbia Records...

Here's a great Chicago ballad that went nowhere: "Song For You". (Came out before they jumped the shark)
 
For what it's worth, Bob Dearborn lives in Ontario these days not far from Hamilton where he was born. He has relatives and friends in Buffalo and comes here often. His first American radio job was going to be at 'KB but they sent him to their sister station in Providence instead. He finally got on the air in Buffalo in the early 1980's when WBUF carried his Nighttime America show from RKO in New York.
 
Thanks for the info on Bob Dearborn, however I already have his interpretation.

The reason I liked DB's better was that he went line-by-line rather than verse-by-verse the way Dearborn did. I think Dearborn provided more general insight, very good insight, but Debaser's was richer in detail. I didn't know until DB brought it up that his was based on Bob Lewis' and not Dearborn. I went to 440:Satisfaction and looked Bob-A-Loo up but only learned he was at WNEW-FM that winter. I'll keep digging. Some archivist must have this.

I admit...when I'm on Saturdays 3-7, there's always a point where I recall, even if only for a split-second, DB's "Saturday Night In The Lonely Hearts Club", where that interpretation debuted. It always seemed like there was something special going on. I don't recall it ever being throwaway radio.

And the relevance of all this is????? When I leave at 7PM, instead of another live jock, I hand it off to Dana the Studio Fly who babysits the Audio Vault. Jockless 'til Sunday afternoon. No memories...no personality...no emotional connection. And yet I know we're one of the fortunate ones...we actually still have four live shifts on the weekend.

Now here's a stiff from A Flock Of Seagulls, 1984: "The More You Live, The More You Love".
 
Ah...my favourite Flock of Seagulls song! And hardly a stiff at CFNY where I was lucky enough to work from 1985-92. Talk about personality radio!
 
I first listened to WKBW nightime on my transistor radio in 1959/60 from Central PA (Sunbury, 50 mi north of
Harrisburg) to Dick Biondi, then Tom Shannon, Joey Reynolds, Bob Diamond, Rod Roddy, Bud Ballou(sp), Jackson Armstrong, Sandy Beach among others. Cannot remember them playing any stiffs but an occasional
regional hit like "Kites are Fun" and "Rats in My Room" by Joey & Danny Nevereth which I liked but never got
a copy of until I wrote Joey at WOR after his book about "Let your smile be your umbrella" mentioned him
nailing his shoes to the KBW GM's door upon his departure in 1965 ;D and a note stating "Now fill these shoes"
 
JimMcGrath said:
Debaser said:
Ah...my favourite Flock of Seagulls song! And hardly a stiff at CFNY where I was lucky enough to work from 1985-92. Talk about personality radio!
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Lucky guy
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Agreed. I'd heard 1-2 installments of the SOWNY show and heard you speak about CFNY as you were going back thru your career.

Many of the stiffs I'd heard/played came from my years at OK-100 Cortland/Ithaca, NY when it was owned by Burbach. Many music decisions were made "from the home office" in Erie, I'm sure being exposed to Canadian content from across the lake influenced some of the music decisions. F'r example we played every Loverboy song ever put out as a single, including "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now", from the '84 Summer Olympics, and almost concurrently "Destruction" from the movie Metropolis.
 
Agreed. There were a lot of Canadian Content songs we played at KB (Keith Hampshire, Charity Brown)..which helped me not one whit when I got to cfny, because of course they didn't play anything mainstream :)

And I consider myself to be one of the luckiest guys (who used to be) in the biz...having worked for KB with Jeff Kaye and cfny with David Marsden. In fact, that could be one huge reason why I don't do radio anymore.

We now return you to your regularly scheduled thread...
 
Debaser said:
Agreed. There were a lot of Canadian Content songs we played at KB (Keith Hampshire, Charity Brown)..which helped me not one whit when I got to cfny, because of course they didn't play anything mainstream :)

And I consider myself to be one of the luckiest guys (who used to be) in the biz...having worked for KB with Jeff Kaye and cfny with David Marsden. In fact, that could be one huge reason why I don't do radio anymore.

We now return you to your regularly scheduled thread...
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I was working at a college station at the time and used CFNY as a benchmark. David Marsden ( I think) came down one time and gave a little talk on radio and had dinner with us at the yearly gathering/thank you dinner for staff. I went to the studios once outside TO and thought the setup was great. Engineer in the center and studios in the round sort of. Since it was a long time ago I hope I am getting my facts straight here. Anyway since they actually did segues it was always interesting radio.
 
Didn't know The Searchers did a version of Four Strong Winds(written by Ian Tyson). Ian and Sylvia, Neil Young, Johnny Cash and so many, many others have recorded this Canadian classic over the years.

Did anyone yet mention anything by Noel Harrison(son of Rex, briefly co-star of The Girl from Uncle)? There was "Gone for the Day" and I believe his closest thing to a hit - his cover of Leonard Cohen's Suzanne. He had a few other assorted stiffs that I think I saw on YouTube(feeling too lazy to look them up right now).
 
cee said:
Didn't know The Searchers did a version of Four Strong Winds(written by Ian Tyson). Ian and Sylvia, Neil Young, Johnny Cash and so many, many others have recorded this Canadian classic over the years.

Did anyone yet mention anything by Noel Harrison(son of Rex, briefly co-star of The Girl from Uncle)? There was "Gone for the Day" and I believe his closest thing to a hit - his cover of Leonard Cohen's Suzanne. He had a few other assorted stiffs that I think I saw on YouTube(feeling too lazy to look them up right now).
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocBpQcv9PwY&feature=related

Probably impossible to find, and the technical quality isn't so good, but it's a beautiful song any way you slice it.
 
Wow...no activity in a week. If I placed Bonnie Tyler's "Here She Comes" earlier in the thread, my apologies. I should have written all mine down. It's nice to see there was some value in all those stiffs I played 27 years ago at OK-100/Cortland-Ithaca....a Burbach Broadcasting close of K104/Erie.

Coming soon...a link to the History of Rock and Roll Outline alluded to several weeks...and posts ago.
 
127 pages? Holy kielbasa! Did somebody post Benny Mardones "Into the Night?" If so, this post will be just like the song, released twice in 1980 and 1989. Just came to mind because I heard it a few days ago and the lyrics creeped me out worse than hearing Aunt Helen sing Donna Summer's "Hot Stuff." Brrrragghhhh. Must take shower.
 


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