Don…it was the beginning of’ ’94 went Muniz pulled Mitchell off of Lite 105 & moved him to Kool, to do 10am-noon. I remember telling my fiancée within a month, he’d be doing mornings & I’d be moved or let go. It was only 27 days later I was in middays but I got to sleep in. We both got the wood & know who was behind it. Working with you, Darlene & Ben plus Walker & Cherie was the last time radio was really fun for me. Once Muniz sold the stations, the weasels & remote whores came out of the woodwork, in it for themselves. And when the “know-it-alls” got control, it was a running joke.
I knew they had no clue when I got called down for playing Frankie Ford, Sea Cruise, which we were playing just days earlier. Quoting, “he didn’t test well”. All of his songs & most of the other New Orleans music were pulled. We started playing “All These Things” by Joe Stampley because that was “the hit” in north Louisiana. It didn’t matter that Art Neville was from here and it was played here in 1966. The station was stripped of its identity. Those two did it in for me. They’re blessed research, focus groups & music tests have all the answers but no guts, no soul or onions. After being preached to about some research, I asked to see it, only to be told, “It was for management only”. Nothing but bells & whistles with smoking mirrors but some things had its merits.
You can write what you want on this board about Mitchell. I’m not here to judge, everything will come out in the wash. Those of us, who know & have worked with him, know how he is. I wish him the best of luck.
Banks...Costello? You been sucking on to many cigars? But then he'd agree with your statement.
I knew they had no clue when I got called down for playing Frankie Ford, Sea Cruise, which we were playing just days earlier. Quoting, “he didn’t test well”. All of his songs & most of the other New Orleans music were pulled. We started playing “All These Things” by Joe Stampley because that was “the hit” in north Louisiana. It didn’t matter that Art Neville was from here and it was played here in 1966. The station was stripped of its identity. Those two did it in for me. They’re blessed research, focus groups & music tests have all the answers but no guts, no soul or onions. After being preached to about some research, I asked to see it, only to be told, “It was for management only”. Nothing but bells & whistles with smoking mirrors but some things had its merits.
You can write what you want on this board about Mitchell. I’m not here to judge, everything will come out in the wash. Those of us, who know & have worked with him, know how he is. I wish him the best of luck.
nedryerson said:
Banks...Costello? You been sucking on to many cigars? But then he'd agree with your statement.