Big Al Brady Law

[FRR]

I understand that Al Brady Law was recently fired from his gig in St. Louis. If anyone learns where he lands, please post the information. I have some great tapes of him when he was on WUBE in Cincinnati in 68-69 when Drake was programming them.

 

[jcr]

I remember listening to Big Al Law on the way home from school in 1968/69. He was good, for that matter all of the WUBE jocks of that era were good-Gary Corry, Wayne Shane, Jay Stone, Bobby Wayne, and Mike Scott-who I remember named one hour of his show "Freak Out", where he would play music similar to that being heard on FM Underground stations at the time. You are very wise and fortunate to have made tapes of WUBE back ten, we all listened, but most of us did not think to record anything, and as the saying goes, you don't know what you've got until it's gone.

 

[FRR]

Thank you JCR. I had no idea at the time that we would long for those days later in life. I have songs on those tapes that NOBODY ever heard on a record. Vicki Carr's Like The Wind has never been released on an album or single, but I have it recorded in March 1968, in WUBE with Big Al. It took me 25 yrs to run down Kenny O'Dell's version of Springfield Plane, that they played but never said who sang it. Those Drake jingles are wonderful. The public interest annoucements are great to listen to now. I hope to donate them to some repository in a few years so they can be preserved. I read over and over from many different postings that there is no future in Oldies, and the market will not support a station that caters to us "over 50 crowd". I hope that our local station, WDJO in Cincinnati makes a go of it. It is the only thing in town worth listening to if you are living in the Queen City and over 45 yrs of age. I've never worked in the business, so I only have the perspective of a life long listener, but I would have loved to have been on the air. (But then, doesn't everyone?) One thing lots of folks fail to remember; here in the city, WUBE played a lot of tunes that WSAI, the real powerhouse, never played at all. As we all know, the problem was the poor signal and low power, especially to night.

 

[Ferreri]

Al Brady Law was our GM at FLA-FM in TAmpa back in the 80's. He put together a great staff. London & Engleman in the morning. Bill Garcia, Mike Addams, RJ Reynolds. I was lucky enough to do overnights. Some real heavy hitters! Phil Hall was the PD.

 

[MACK184]

I had heard that he had been working in Toledo for the CC cluster there. Al will probably never be able to shake off the mantle of "The Guy Who Single-Handedly Destroyed WABC". Whether he deserves that title or not, I don't know that he'll ever get away from it.

 

[FRR]

I never heard about how Al Law got the reputation of the guy who destoyed WABC. Please elaborate. Sounds like an interesting piece of radio history.

 

[MACK184]

I never heard about how Al Law got the reputation of the guy who destoyed WABC. Please elaborate. Sounds like an interesting piece of radio history.

Al was the guy who came to WABC as it was beginning to lose it's masterful grip on the NYC radio audience. Under his watch he fired a number of long time hosts including legendary morning man Harry Harrison. Over the years it has been debated whether or not it was his choice, or if it was pushed on him by upper level ABC management. Many people were very angry to see Harry and the others fired, and since it was during Al's watch he got the bad name for it. A number of people felt that those firings help to kill off Musicradio 77. Al likely got stuck with being in the wrong place at the wrong time.

 

[FRR]

Thanks Mac184. I guess being at the wrong place at the wrong time can certainly be detrimental.