Any clues to whereabouts of Bob Hamilton and/or Buzz Bennett?

[kudzooter]

I'll start this here on the Arkansas board since we got the idea while I was hanging out in Jonesboro today with Dennis Rogers...also, because one of the MIA is from Hog Heaven. Bob Hamilton left the ministry of a small church in the Fayetteville area in the early 1960s, did air work for awhile, then put together one of the earliest jock-oriented mailouts, "Bob Hamilton's BREAK." It grew into something pretty important in its day. Along the way, Bob and research- and tactics-guru par excellence Buzz Bennett hooked up. For several years in the 70s, their linked names were associated with a lot of excellent innovations or improvements for top-hits formats. But in recent questions about them to other guys from that era, nobody seems to have any idea. If you do, please share. Thanks.

 

[MemphisMitch]

Now are you talking Bob Hamilton of Bob Hamilton and Friends Radio Report? I worked for and then bought that magazine back in the 70's when he moved it to Memphis. A couple of years later I worked with buzz at WNOE-FM in New Orleans. He was working with the AM station along with Gary Phillips, E. Alvin Davis and Kevin Methany. Don't know where they are now but I can make a few phone calls.

 

[kudzooter]

Mitch Mc-freakin'-Cracken! Where ya been when we 70s/80s NOLa radio degenerates convened at Cap's World Famos Po-boys? (And where ya'at now?)

Yeah, that's the Bob Hamilton I'm wondering about, not to be confused with the same name, but coming from (I believe) Pa to L-A and PDing either KRTH or K100. (Yes, alphabet soup is my life; how'd ya guess?)

Someone on the La board said 'our' Bob is in Carmel, doing the "Radio Star" online thing. Haven't had time to check that out in depth, but a quick look-see didn't show any Buzz clues.

 

[radioboss]

I talked with Bob Hamilton about four years ago when he was looking at buying one of my radio stations in Pennsylvania.

At that time, he was PDing a radio station in Miami, FL.

Was looking long and hard for his own place to call home and make daily bank deposits.

 

[RandyHansen]

I'll start this here on the Arkansas board since we got the idea while I was hanging out in Jonesboro today with Dennis Rogers...also, because one of the MIA is from Hog Heaven. Bob Hamilton left the ministry of a small church in the Fayetteville area in the early 1960s, did air work for awhile, then put together one of the earliest jock-oriented mailouts, "Bob Hamilton's BREAK." It grew into something pretty important in its day. Along the way, Bob and research- and tactics-guru par excellence Buzz Bennett hooked up. For several years in the 70s, their linked names were associated with a lot of excellent innovations or improvements for top-hits formats. But in recent questions about them to other guys from that era, nobody seems to have any idea. If you do, please share. Thanks.

In the 80's I had several business's with Buzz in LA and then he got a gig in Dallas for awhile then came back to LA. I lost touch in early 90's. Haven't heard a word since and I moved to Northern California and been there ever since. His mother lived in Florida that my last direction to look and I talked to Bob Hamilton a couple times in Carmel but he hasn't heard a peep either.

Hope somebody finds his bottle with a message on a beach somewhere as he must be stuck on an island..........