I'm a little late on this, but.....This was the first commercial radio station for which I worked. I was hired here in the summer of 1981. Unfortunately, I was am immature jackass with a bad attitude and a drinking problem when I worked here. Still, my memories of this station and the people who worked here are quite fond. At the time, Bob Woody did mornings, 6-9; 9-12 was Jack Griswold; 12-3 was Scottie Young; 3-7 Banana Joe Montione; 7-Midnight, Don Tandler; Midnight- 6 David McAndrews. Paul Francis McNamara did PM news. Weekends were Tim Manley, Brain Scott (Frankie Galderi), a great looking girl whose name I can’t remember, and me. Mike Moran was CE; in fact, he got me the job. Originally, I did 6-midnight Sunday night, which included my board-oping Casey Cook on sports for two hours. When he got few calls, he put me on to talk with and argue with him over baseball. Then, Monitone was coaxed back to WILK. Dave got moved to afternoon drive, and I got overnights. Then, Tandler went to WILK with Montione and, if I remember right, Frankie got 7-midnight. Jack became PD. Mac was a riot off air, and a great guy, but on air, he was all business. I remember once, Mike, someone else and I were harassing Mac while he was doing the news live. Between stories he said, “I’d like to remind everyone, we are in a ratings period,” in that attention-commanding voice of his, and went on to the next story. The three of us knocked it off pronto! A decade or so later when I switched to news, Mac’s style was among my primary influences. Jack Griswold was one of radio’s great gentlemen, and I thought he was an excellent PD. Of all the people for whom I’ve worked in radio over the years, Jack is at or very near the top of those for whom I have the most respect. And while he never said so, I know it was from him I anonymously received an AA pamphlet. The late Fred “Scottie Young” Dieter was a great jock and a great guy. So was Dave. Tandler was an excellent jock, though frankly he and I never really hit it off that well. I must agree with the other postings about Woody – great jock, but very difficult to work for. His weekly staff meetings pretty much consisted of he and Renee ripping everyone on the staff for something we did wrong -- except Jack; Woody would never cross him. It was a great staff and they were all terrific to work with and they all treated me very well, which must have been tough. I did a lot of things back then I’m ashamed of to this date, but it’s called growing up – it just took me longer than most guys. The old Keyser Ave. studios still had a lot of neat stuff from the WSCR days. I found a bell from the Bicentennial I used to ring whenever I played an oldie I liked; I called it a Tarone Bell Ringer. There was lots of old WSCR memoribilia floating around, and I've often wondered what happened to it. In the basement lived about 1,000 rabbits, which would scatter whenever you turned the light on. There was also a pile of old Frantic Freddie (Mylander) and the Reflections albums leftover from his stint there in about 1967. Jack told me to take one if I wanted it. While Freddy wasn’t much of a singer, he was surrounded by good musicians – many of them popped up at Sigma Sound later. All in all, I’m very glad to have worked at 13-Q and grateful for all I learned there.
> I think it would be nice for every one who worked at WBQW
> 1320 and WSCR 1320 to post about the time when the worked
> their and if you can also recall any thing about the owners
> also.
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