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Boston radio shows you miss

mgpt6 said:
3) Shop Talk WBUR-FM 1970s with the late Peter Mitchell damm Jane Cristo for cancelling it in 1980.
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Wow...that brought back memories. I listened to the show every week. Sorry to hear Peter Mitchell is no longer with us...he had a serious weight problem so I'm not surprised. He used to set up recording devices for various musical groups in greater Boston, and hated it when people manhandled the microphones he had so carefully placed. The joke he told was: "the only way to stop them was to put a sign on the mics..."WARNING: 47,000 OHMS!" The co-host was a psychiatrist named Richard Goldwater, and I believe he was interviewed on WBUR recently on some subject in the news. I almost sent Robin Young an e-mail stating that Richard was a former WBUR star. Dr. Goldwater was an avid classical-music lover and adored the composer Gustave Mahler. I'm not sure I'd want to go to a psychiatrist who was such a Mahler energumen. No problem though; psychologically I'm in perfect health. Right? I mean, there's no doubt, is there?
 
WMBR's The Flame Sessions ... so damn hilarious. I think I have two of the shows on tape - the last one and the existential nothingness show. I would love to get some of those old shows and listen to them again.

Jerry Williams, obviously. R.I.P. We still miss you, Jerry.

Tom Leykis, when he was on WRKO from Noon to 3 p.m. against Rush and was a liberal and hilarious [obviously, this was before he tried to shove his wife into the fireplace].
 
>1) WCAS 740AM 1973-1979. Best music format ,then and now....
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Wasn't "JibGuy" associated with that station as well. I seem to remember him then. What say you, Bob?

Speaking of the format; how about WADN/1120? Now it's business talk (snooze) and they can't even fill their whole day without CNN audio. Ya; the community is so much better served!

>Surprised no one has mentioned Larry Glick
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Me, too. A genuinely nice guy on talk radio. Does anyone even remember what that was like?
 
Arnie "Woo-Woo" Ginsberg and his Night Train Show on WMEX.
 
>>Tom Leykis, when he was on WRKO from Noon to 3 p.m

Was Leykis on then, or was he on 10 a- 2 p? I think they had a morning show (Clapprood and Whitley maybe)
till 10 am, then Leykis, and Jerry W 2 till 6 pm. Leykis' show was rerun at 10 pm or after the Sox game
("Submit to the talkmaster! After the game on WRKO")
When WEEI sportsradio moved to 850, the 850 afternoon lineup, Rush and Howie, moved to WRKO.
At that point I believe it became morning show till 10, Jerry 10-noon, Rush, then Howie.
 
Anthony Schinella said:
WMBR's The Flame Sessions ... so damn hilarious. I think I have two of the shows on tape - the last one and the existential nothingness show. I would love to get some of those old shows and listen to them again.
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A couple of MIT students did that show in the mid-80's when they were undergrads. One of them, Jon Bernhardt, stayed with the station, and has been hosting the Friday morning edition of the alt-rock show "Breakfast Of Champions" for something like twenty years now.
 
No, JIBGUY was never at WCAS-740. (I was at WVOR-FM in Rochester NY during that time). And for the more commonly-asked question: I was never at WJIB-FM either.
 
Eli Polonsky said:
Anthony Schinella said:
WMBR's The Flame Sessions ... so damn hilarious. I think I have two of the shows on tape - the last one and the existential nothingness show. I would love to get some of those old shows and listen to them again.
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A couple of MIT students did that show in the mid-80's when they were undergrads. One of them, Jon Bernhardt, stayed with the station, and has been hosting the Friday morning edition of the alt-rock show "Breakfast Of Champions" for something like twenty years now.
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Speaking of hilarious, back in the 70's the Late Risers Club had a regular local gossip segment with Candy and Crystal (two of the principal girls of the USA!). IIRC, one of them was Kathi Logue. Don't remember who the other was.
 
"Anyone remember the trivia program that was on before Sports Huddle on WEEI back in the early 70's?
way before Trivial Pursuit came along."

Joe Albiani and Dennis Golden hosted the show, ably anchored by "Talkmaster" Howard Nelson. IIRC, it ran on Sunday afternoons (followed by CBS's Capitol Cloakroom"!). Howard Nelson passed away suddenly during this show's run (circa 1970 or so).

Who else has fond memories of WEEI as a CBS O/O? At 4450 Prudential Center (before that, the Edison building, Tremont St. near Boylston on the Common). And of their Talk line, DEvonshire 8-6700?

Some of my earliest memories of the station are the "What to Wear Weather", and Paul Benzaquin speaking of the passing of Nat King Cole (same day or day after he died).

Also, CBS TOH news with the "See the USA in Your Chevrolet" musical lead-in.

And "Net Alert" breaking news bulletin break-ins (especially during the "Incredible Year" of 1968), "Sports Central USA", "The Morning Report", "Arthur Godfrey Time", "Lowell Thomas and the News", "World News Roundup", "First Line Report" and other features lost to time in my mind.
 
I'd definitely cast votes for VAN CHRISTO RADIO THEATRE along with Ken Meyer's "Radio Classics" on both WBZ and WEEI!

The Stan Freberg definition of what is radio keeps playing through my head as I write this. On the FREBERG UNDERGROUND Lp, Donna Freberg Jr. (his daughter) tells him that radio is nothing more than music and news and news and disc jockeys!

Maybe Mr. Freberg should revise the definition by adding: ALSO AN OCCASIONALLY TERRIBLE TALK SHOW HOST?

argytunes
 
Dennis Golden did some trivia as Prof. Fustus von Goodwin, IIRC, at various stations...
College of Trivial Knowledge. I think he gave "attaboys" to correct answers...and if
someone couldn't get the correct answer he'd say, "well, all right, but keep listening and someone
may get it right and when they do you'll say ohhhhh yeahhh..."
 
>Who else has fond memories of WEEI as a CBS O/O? At 4450 Prudential Center
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How about 'EEI-FM? The first soft-rocker in this town. "The Eagles without the turkeys". Also one of the earlier fem voices was on that station, Hillary Stevens. Nothin' special - just liked her sound.
 
FPB said:
>Who else has fond memories of WEEI as a CBS O/O? At 4450 Prudential Center
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How about 'EEI-FM? The first soft-rocker in this town. "The Eagles without the turkeys". Also one of the earlier fem voices was on that station, Hillary Stevens. Nothin' special - just liked her sound.
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Didn't the FM side simulcast the AM side at some time of day? Maybe overnites, circa '68 or so?

Agreed on Ms. Stevens. Maxanne on 'BCN had the Bedroom Voice, many years later (at least to me!:)
 
Jerry Williams - Of course

PB Paul Benzaquin or as Jess Cain called him "Paul Benzadrene"

Jess Cain - Remember his great song parodies and tales of Hingham.

The Ol' Sport Himself - Norm Nathan - a great dancer with a crooked smile and straight teeth - who more than Norma and the lovely Maryln Gurelnick could love.

Anne Williams - Nightscapes on the old WJIB-FM. Sexiest voice on radio.

Bob Katzen. He can read the Manhattan phone book and I am on the floor laughing. Someone bring him back.
Radio studio Bands - Remember Bill Greene and The Park Squares on the real WHDH Radio 850.
Jim Westover- When the real WEEI- 590 did talk.

Fred B. Cole - And the Fred B. Cole road show on WHDH which he did in a mobile studio from A&P parking lots.
Bruds. Definitely. R.I.P.

Gene Burns - The meridian hasn't been the same since he left for San Francisco.

Margery Clapprood - Like her politics or not she makes you both laugh (not at her) and listen. Like her passion for politics.

Janet Jhegalian - She proves you can take a stand and still be a lady.

Ron Della Chiesa - What was WGBH thinking when they dropped his music America. Had Ron's name been Ronald Delano Chesbrooke, IV, one wonders if his show would still be running. Dell Chiesa is so...so... ethnic it might drive away the afternoon ladies who used to lunch at the Ritz and the BSO from leaving their inherited fortunes to Blue Blood Radio.

Enough for now...................
 
Does anyone else here remember Vinnie Peruzzi's "60's Hall of Fame" that was on Kiss back in the 1980's? Every Sunday night, Vinnie would spin a variety of 60's (and early 70's) classics - with an emphasis on R&B oldies. However, he mixed it well and even played my request for Steppenwolf's "Magic Carpet Ride" one night.

Great stuff - back when that kind of music was not played very often!

I always enjoyed Vinnie's shows, the guy had such a knack for complimenting his considerable talents with really great music. RIP Vinnie....
 
I know I am wasting my time as we all do posting on these boards, because the corportate radio moguls that own everything today, do not really care what the listneres want anyway.

But Nighscapes with Anne Williams was the best and most real radio show on the airwaves and on the internet when she was kicked off the air and forced to go to internet radio. Sadly, she can't even do that anymore.

What a sad comment it is on our society today when certain "shock jocks" are being paid 20 million dollars a year to degrade women and minorities on the air & someone like Anne Williams is out of work and has been for years!!!

We need to bring this wonderful woman back to the airwaves somewhere soon! Any ideas people?
 
Mentioned already, but Joe Martelle's "Saturday Night Live At The Oldies" on 98 & a half WROR. Airchexx.com has two examples of the show...man...one of the best sounding request shows out there. And the great WROR jingles from the 70's & 80's.

OH! Charlie Van Dyke on 68 RKO with his supporting cast of traffic & weather guys that never missed a beat with his jokes and jabs.
 
The classical music program, "Morning pro musica," with Robert J. Lurtsema...Jack Diamond's Oldies Show on WUNR...Bob Kennedy's "Contact" on WBZ. Re: an earlier post about the original Sports Huddle, didn't it start out on 'BZ?
 
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