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Danny Bonaduce retiring from KZOK

michael hagerty said:
Wolf didn't move to North Carolina until 1989.

He did WNBC from 1973-74 live, and moved back to L.A. after. He may have been a New Yorker, but his wife and kids hated it.

After WNBC, his shows were largely syndicated, apart from his couple of years at KRLA (1984-86) and XETRA (1986-87). There'd be occasional live gigs to support or launch his syndicated show on a station (I believe he did a week live at XEROK in El Paso in 1980, and then the syndicated show ran after that week).

He did most, if not all of the KRLA shows from their studio (the crossovers with The Real Don Steele were epic).

On his last XETRA show, he was live in their studio in San Diego, but mentioned that he'd been doing most of those shows from his home studio in L.A. (whether live or tape, he didn't say).
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I just recently heard an aircheck of Don Page's "Inside Radio", a discussion program about radio (Don was the L.A. Times radio critic) that aired on KLAC in 1972.

This particular episode was shortly after Wolfman moved from XEPRS to KDAY. He mentions in it that he's having to actually go to the KDAY studios to do the show, because it's live---and says that for the four years previous (so, 1968 on) he had taped his XERB/XEPRS shows not at their studios, but at the studio in his home in Beverly Hills.
 
michael hagerty said:
I just recently heard an aircheck of Don Page's "Inside Radio", a discussion program about radio (Don was the L.A. Times radio critic) that aired on KLAC in 1972.

This particular episode was shortly after Wolfman moved from XEPRS to KDAY. He mentions in it that he's having to actually go to the KDAY studios to do the show, because it's live---and says that for the four years previous (so, 1968 on) he had taped his XERB/XEPRS shows not at their studios, but at the studio in his home in Beverly Hills.
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Not to feed the nostalgic rabbit hole, but remember back to the days of American Graffiti, where Bob (The Wolfman) was depicted in the movie playing his phone bits from cart. I confirmed back in the day that's an accurate representation of what he did, and for most was a common way to take callers on the air.

When you think about it; Bob was doing off-site voice-tracking long before the concept became a thing. Sometimes the callers would have been recorded a week or more prior, then Bob would add in reverb, bed music, and edit the timing many times off-site and record the bits to cart. He told me once that he would frequently put an entire week of shows on cart, where a board-op could just follow a list of playing which cart on the intro of the song of ahead of a break.
 
michael hagerty said:
I mean, I don't know whether I agree or not---all I remember from that show is Susan Dey.
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I only remember that even as a kid, the show was completely cringeworthy. Even the most clueless about music could tell that only one person was singing the songs. Even back then, I could tell that none of them even played instruments on the show.
I think the Banana Splits had more musical prowess than the Partridge Family.
 
Kelly A said:
I only remember that even as a kid, the show was completely cringeworthy. Even the most clueless about music could tell that only one person was singing the songs. Even back then, I could tell that none of them even played instruments on the show.
I think the Banana Splits had more musical prowess than the Partridge Family.
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Before I ever heard them sing, someone wrote into TV Guide and complained they didn't really sing, so I apparently knew.''

I was wondering who those other people were with Lucille Ball and her kids. But that's when I saw the cover on TV. Since we subscribed, I eventually saw that cover close up, but between that and the complaint, I just had to see more.
 
Kelly A said:
I only remember that even as a kid, the show was completely cringeworthy. Even the most clueless about music could tell that only one person was singing the songs. Even back then, I could tell that none of them even played instruments on the show.
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They played music on that show?

(yes, it's another Susan Dey joke)

Kelly A said:
I think the Banana Splits had more musical prowess than the Partridge Family.
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It was probably a tie. The Banana Splits were actually Al Kooper, Barry White and Gene Pitney. The Partridge Family was the Wrecking Crew with the Ron Hicklin Singers doing background vocals and David Cassidy singing lead over the pre-recorded tracks.
 
vchimpanzee said:
Before I ever heard them sing, someone wrote into TV Guide and complained they didn't really sing, so I apparently knew.''

I was wondering who those other people were with Lucille Ball and her kids. But that's when I saw the cover on TV. Since we subscribed, I eventually saw that cover close up, but between that and the complaint, I just had to see more.
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I'm sorry---how did Lucille Ball get into this conversation?
 
Kelly A said:
I think the Banana Splits had more musical prowess than the Partridge Family.
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You're right. They did. What The Velvet Underground and Nico was to Alternative, We're the Banana Splits was to Bubblegum Pop. Both albums only sold a few thousand copies each, but each person that bought one started a band.

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