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Did you know..Bob Rivers was half of Bob & Zip at WAAF?

raccoonradio

raccoonradio

Several "Twisted" tunes involving Christmas ("Didn't I get This Last Year", "I am Santa Claus",
"The Twelve Pains of Christmas") were done by Bob Rivers, who has been doing morning drive
radio in Seattle (he may be in syndication, not sure). But did you know that he was half of
Bob and Zip at WAAF?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Rivers

>>Bob Rivers spent almost 6 years at WAAF-FM in Boston (sic), as part of their successful Bob and Zip morning show with fellow on air personality Peter "Zip" Zipfel. During his tenure with WAAF, Rivers started producing parody and novelty songs, both for the station and for the KATZ/Newcity "American Comedy Network

http://www.bobrivers.com/

Bob Rivers/KZOK Seattle

Twelve Pains of Christmas
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yasSkqJBytk

"The fifth thing at Christmas that's such a pain to me/ Five months of bills" etc
Often was played on Demento
 
raccoonradio said:
>>Bob Rivers spent almost 6 years at WAAF-FM in Boston (sic), as part of their successful Bob and Zip morning show with fellow on air personality Peter "Zip" Zipfel. During his tenure with WAAF, Rivers started producing parody and novelty songs, both for the station and for the KATZ/Newcity "American Comedy Network
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He also produced a video for one of his novelty songs "Just A Big Ego", a parody of David Lee Roth's "Just A Gigolo". I remember seeing it on the old V-66.
 
I just mentioned this on another thread a week or two ago but I listened to Bob and Zip during my commutes to college back in the mid 80s. I didn't normally listen to WAAF (wasn't much of a hard rock kind of guy) but I usually listened to them. And sometimes Chuck Nowlin's Bar and Grill on Friday afternoons.

The rest of the time, I probably listened to WROR or WVBF or maybe PRO-FM.

Bob left WAAF sometime around 1988 (according to wikipedia, it was 88, I thought it was more around 87) and I think Greg Hill temporarily took over with Zip in the mornings. Zip was never the same, though, and rarely had much to say after that. One morning, while heading to school, Greg was talking and I noticed Zip hadn't said anything in a long time and I wondered if he was even there. Greg actually interrupted my thought and said something along the lines of "Yo, Zip, say something man, I can't do this alone." Zip eventually left.

Drew Lane eventually came in for a new morning show with Karen Grace and I think Zip ended up coming back for a little while later on. And, just a few years ago, Zip came back to Worcester airwaves for a little while on what is now known as 100FM The Pike (WWFX).

Greg Hill eventually took over mornings.
 
And I did too.
From AAF he went to IYY in Baltimore. Had an awesome in-home studio in the Baltimore 'burbs where he worked on his comedy service along with more Twisted Christmas. "Harked The Hairlipped Angels Sing," was a favorite. His first Twisted Christmas CD came out in '87 on Critique Records (then in Reading, MA) and another was on Atlantic in '93.
 
raccoonradio said:
"The fifth thing at Christmas that's such a pain to me/ Five months of bills..."
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Not Scott Norwood's "wide right" bills... ;D
 
I did later on when I did a search on him, and oh yeah, I've Got A Big Ego was a classic including the video.
 
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