Both would be EXCELLENT choices.
Both would be EXCELLENT choices.
wknd92 said:
Both would be EXCELLENT choices.
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!!!!!!!!-BREAKING NEWS-!!!!!!! Big Ange! John Manzi dead
- Thread starter Kenny Atkinson
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The Brother
I miss that guy A LOT...a REAL lot.
As I told his widow at the wake, "I am a different person because I knew him."
"EVERYBODY'S telling me that" she smiled.
Runrigger said:Let's not forget Brother Bill Goodman who we lost not long ago.
I miss that guy A LOT...a REAL lot.
As I told his widow at the wake, "I am a different person because I knew him."
"EVERYBODY'S telling me that" she smiled.
Just one more name to add to the posthumous list....Steve White.
Love him or hate him....It's impossible to deny the impact he had on talk radio in this market.
Rhode Island and Bristol County MA had never heard anything like him....and likely never will again.
Love him or hate him....It's impossible to deny the impact he had on talk radio in this market.
Rhode Island and Bristol County MA had never heard anything like him....and likely never will again.
I'm a little surprised that AJ's death didn't light this thread up.
The guy was a God in Providence and anywhere else in the NE he held court.
Many thanks to Jimmy Gray for keeping everyone informed.
The guy was a God in Providence and anywhere else in the NE he held court.
Many thanks to Jimmy Gray for keeping everyone informed.
Its very simple Big Ange has the voice, and much more..God Bless
Dighton Rockhead youre so right about the Captain
Dighton Rockhead youre so right about the Captain
I worked with Steve Wight @ WALE in 2002. I don't understand the fascination with him. Maybe it's because of my age & not remembering when he wasn't on a loser station.RhodeJourney said:Its very simple Big Ange has the voice, and much more..God Bless
Dighton Rockhead youre so right about the Captain
Again, something tells me N1WVQ had some bad luck w/ WALEN1WVQ said:I worked with Steve Wight @ WALE in 2002. I don't understand the fascination with him. Maybe it's because of my age & not remembering when he wasn't on a loser station.RhodeJourney said:Its very simple Big Ange has the voice, and much more..God Bless
Dighton Rockhead youre so right about the Captain
It was a bad station but I did have fun! I have some stories & wouldn't trade that time for anything! I studied for my extra while covering for a kid on Wednesday nights. It was so hot in there during the summer of '02 and the A.C. broke. So one of the board-ops went to Steve Wight's house to pick up an air conditioner. He brought it back & it was in the doorway with a blanket tacked to the ceiling & sitting on a bucket to catch the runoff. In the studio it was cool but as soon as you went into the hallway, ugh!
Also for a few weeks I had to do Saturday sign-on which I would do at sunrise & not 06:00. As soon as I walked in to the building I would get hit with the pungent odor of mold & whatever they were cooking in the massage parlor on the 1st floor. Usually it was garlicy & oniony.
My 1st airshift there I irritated this one board-op who had the Monday morning shift (I was Sunday 14-Midnight) so much that he proceeded to say that I was "going to get a beaten" (sic). What was my transgression? I had pulled his first hour including carts & left them on top of the log like I was trained.
There were Heinekin (sp.?) bottles everywhere including the cabinets in the studio. The studio smelled, the programming was the worst, the audio was bad & my paychecks bounced several times. There was a neo-nazi show that ran on tape on Saturday afternoons that would get chucked across the room after airplay. Shows which were recorded on DAT would often hiccup on-air. It was deemed by more than a few people, the worst radio station in America. It found the lowest common denominator & then scraped for lower. Yet, it was fun. In a bizarre sort of way, it was fun. I could do an hour on Sunday night which I played pre-Beatles oldies as "The Dirty Dozen" (1951-1963). I wouldn't trade those memories for anything. So Tony, enjoy your show. It's a different station now but it's still fun.
Also for a few weeks I had to do Saturday sign-on which I would do at sunrise & not 06:00. As soon as I walked in to the building I would get hit with the pungent odor of mold & whatever they were cooking in the massage parlor on the 1st floor. Usually it was garlicy & oniony.
My 1st airshift there I irritated this one board-op who had the Monday morning shift (I was Sunday 14-Midnight) so much that he proceeded to say that I was "going to get a beaten" (sic). What was my transgression? I had pulled his first hour including carts & left them on top of the log like I was trained.
There were Heinekin (sp.?) bottles everywhere including the cabinets in the studio. The studio smelled, the programming was the worst, the audio was bad & my paychecks bounced several times. There was a neo-nazi show that ran on tape on Saturday afternoons that would get chucked across the room after airplay. Shows which were recorded on DAT would often hiccup on-air. It was deemed by more than a few people, the worst radio station in America. It found the lowest common denominator & then scraped for lower. Yet, it was fun. In a bizarre sort of way, it was fun. I could do an hour on Sunday night which I played pre-Beatles oldies as "The Dirty Dozen" (1951-1963). I wouldn't trade those memories for anything. So Tony, enjoy your show. It's a different station now but it's still fun.
N1WVQ said:I worked with Steve Wight @ WALE in 2002. I don't understand the fascination with him. Maybe it's because of my age & not remembering when he wasn't on a loser station.
That's Exactly Right ! ! !
Those of us old enough to remember the Steve White who literally "took the state by storm" on WHJJ in the early 1980's heard a very different Steve White from the one you worked with at WALE, by which time he was broken-down, and only a shadow of what he had once been.
When Steve arrived at WHJJ, he brought with him a new, more combative, funnier style of talk radio than anyone around here had ever heard.....a big departure from the likes of Jack Comley and Sherm Strickhauser to be sure. In retrospect....It's entirely possible he may have been "borrowing" some of the best elements from Howard Stern, and adapting them for use here, but, who cares?....what a fun time that was!
The post-WHJJ years were not kind ones for Steve....and unfortunately....it showed.
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freightliner
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Sad about "Big Ange"...Jimmy Gray mentioned a '68-'69 stint at WNBH in New Bedford just prior to 'PRO. I remember Ange returning to 'NBH for a short time (might have been '76 ?) Paul Levesque hired him when he was GM. My dad managed Hall Radio's sister station in Norwich CT. Remember meeting him on County Street. Like many, I remember listening to him on 'PRO which was a hard catch at night in CT. My grandparents lived in Jewett City and you could hear him there if you twisted the radio around just right.
Anyone recall the details of the one-night stint at 'KB ? A Cap Cities "talent search" or something ? I remember hearing Ange on the night he was featured. Who got the gig ?
Also, in '80 or '81, Ange did a couple of shows on Stonington's WFAN (102.3) when it first signed on. (Also making a "guest appearance" was the late Paul Sidney of WLNG..) Fun stuff...
Ange was one-of-a-kind...
Anyone recall the details of the one-night stint at 'KB ? A Cap Cities "talent search" or something ? I remember hearing Ange on the night he was featured. Who got the gig ?
Also, in '80 or '81, Ange did a couple of shows on Stonington's WFAN (102.3) when it first signed on. (Also making a "guest appearance" was the late Paul Sidney of WLNG..) Fun stuff...
Ange was one-of-a-kind...
Dighton Rockhead said:When Steve arrived at WHJJ, he brought with him a new, more combative, funnier style of talk radio than anyone around here had ever heard.....a big departure from the likes of Jack Comley and Sherm Strickhauser to be sure. In retrospect....It's entirely possible he may have been "borrowing" some of the best elements from Howard Stern, and adapting them for use here, but, who cares?....what a fun time that was!
The post-WHJJ years were not kind ones for Steve....and unfortunately....it showed.
I recall Steve calling Howard a jerk! I always found that mildly amusing since Steve White got on the air and often acted like a jerk himself. He would call any lady over 60 an old bag. He would throw around all sorts of racist remarks. He frequently called people stupid jews. I don't think there is a station in Providence that would even let a host get away with that now. But for some reason management tolerated it when Steve did it. He was definitely a rarity around here. This is what made him so popular. But after his high point at WHJJ, his career went downhill. Every station that hired him was worse than the last. By the time he got to WALE he had truly hit rock bottom.
Anyone recall the details of the one-night stint at 'KB ? A Cap Cities "talent search" or something ? I remember hearing Ange on the night he was featured. Who got the gig ?
I didn't know Ange did an on-air audition on 'KB, but I'm not surprised he didn't get the gig.
He was rough around the edges technically at 'PRO. He'd pot-up and down, wow in records, start them at the wrong speed, etc. 'KB wouldn't tolerate that, nor would any other big market station.
Moreover, Ange was not a guy you might love right away. He was an acquired to taste for many.
But no one could get close to his peeps like Ange. His "Little Ladies of The Night" loved him and guys thought he was cool. Even his mistakes were entertaining.
You could have put him on in New York, Chicago, Philly, Pittsburgh, Cleveland and maybe another station in Buffalo. WKBW at night needed a more mass-appeal guy, but hey, he might have been a great all-night guy on KB.
I didn't know Ange did an on-air audition on 'KB, but I'm not surprised he didn't get the gig.
He was rough around the edges technically at 'PRO. He'd pot-up and down, wow in records, start them at the wrong speed, etc. 'KB wouldn't tolerate that, nor would any other big market station.
Moreover, Ange was not a guy you might love right away. He was an acquired to taste for many.
But no one could get close to his peeps like Ange. His "Little Ladies of The Night" loved him and guys thought he was cool. Even his mistakes were entertaining.
You could have put him on in New York, Chicago, Philly, Pittsburgh, Cleveland and maybe another station in Buffalo. WKBW at night needed a more mass-appeal guy, but hey, he might have been a great all-night guy on KB.
RE "Anyone recall the details of the one-night stint at 'KB ? "
That's what it was, a stunt, in which 'KB had a half-dozen guys do a night each on-air.
I forget who-they-ended-up hiring.
This would've been '70 or '71.
Sidebar on WKBW-being-WPRO's-Capital Cities Communications sister station:
Radio's best-ever jingles back-in-the-day came from a now-defunct Dallas company named PAMS.
Usually, PAMS would do a custom package for WABC or some other big station, then syndicate it.
In 1976, their Series 41 was customized for WPRO...then syndicated nationally.
It replaced some very classy WFIL jingles we played for several years. And the WFIL jingles replaced some WKBW jingles WPRO had used previously. Because "WKBW" had more syllables than "WPRO," the singers sang the "O" as a down note, and held it. "WPROOOOOOOOOOOOOOO."
In the WFIL package that replaced that logo, the "O" was lavishly layered voices singing an up note. One year, at the big Bristol RI 4th of July parade, PD Jay Clark noticed something. Even though the slick WFIL jingles we were then airing ended with an up note, folks in the parade crowd sang-out "WPRO" to us as our float passed by, mimicking the previous WKBW package, which ended with a down note.
Jay, himself a musician, observed that "unless you're a professional singer, you can't sing that up note;" and he made a point of returning to the old WKBW logo when PAMS wrote the Series 41 music.
Fast-forward to 1981: My last full-time on-air job was afternoon drive on 'KB, for a year, before I came back to Providence to PD WSNE. And when I was on in Buffalo, both stations shared ANOTHER jingle package.
The weekend jingle was my fave.
In Providence, it sang: "WHATEVER YOU'RE DOIN,' WHEREVER YOU GO. SPEND THE WEEKNDS WITH YOUR FRIENDS AT PRO. WPRO"
In Buffalo, the same cut sang: "THE WEEKEND'S HERE AND IT'S GREAT TO BE HAVIN' FUN WITH YOUR FRIENDS AT KB. WKBW."
Misty watercolor MEMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMORIES...
Small world story: Good morning from Texas, where the station owner I'm working for here used to sell PAMS jingles.
HC
www.HollandCooke.com
freightliner said:A Cap Cities "talent search" or something ?
That's what it was, a stunt, in which 'KB had a half-dozen guys do a night each on-air.
I forget who-they-ended-up hiring.
This would've been '70 or '71.
Sidebar on WKBW-being-WPRO's-Capital Cities Communications sister station:
Radio's best-ever jingles back-in-the-day came from a now-defunct Dallas company named PAMS.
Usually, PAMS would do a custom package for WABC or some other big station, then syndicate it.
In 1976, their Series 41 was customized for WPRO...then syndicated nationally.
It replaced some very classy WFIL jingles we played for several years. And the WFIL jingles replaced some WKBW jingles WPRO had used previously. Because "WKBW" had more syllables than "WPRO," the singers sang the "O" as a down note, and held it. "WPROOOOOOOOOOOOOOO."
In the WFIL package that replaced that logo, the "O" was lavishly layered voices singing an up note. One year, at the big Bristol RI 4th of July parade, PD Jay Clark noticed something. Even though the slick WFIL jingles we were then airing ended with an up note, folks in the parade crowd sang-out "WPRO" to us as our float passed by, mimicking the previous WKBW package, which ended with a down note.
Jay, himself a musician, observed that "unless you're a professional singer, you can't sing that up note;" and he made a point of returning to the old WKBW logo when PAMS wrote the Series 41 music.
Fast-forward to 1981: My last full-time on-air job was afternoon drive on 'KB, for a year, before I came back to Providence to PD WSNE. And when I was on in Buffalo, both stations shared ANOTHER jingle package.
The weekend jingle was my fave.
In Providence, it sang: "WHATEVER YOU'RE DOIN,' WHEREVER YOU GO. SPEND THE WEEKNDS WITH YOUR FRIENDS AT PRO. WPRO"
In Buffalo, the same cut sang: "THE WEEKEND'S HERE AND IT'S GREAT TO BE HAVIN' FUN WITH YOUR FRIENDS AT KB. WKBW."
Misty watercolor MEMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMORIES...
Small world story: Good morning from Texas, where the station owner I'm working for here used to sell PAMS jingles.
HC
www.HollandCooke.com
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