Please tell more about the duck decoys.
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I'm sorry, who are we talking about? The guy that did the eddie gilstrap motors commercials?
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The duck decoys. Don had an airplane and told all of Salem he would be dropping decoys from his airplane with valuable coupons attached.
Apparently it took multiple passes over downtown to deploy all the decoys. They don't seem heavy when you hold one but dropped on a car roof from a few hundred feet builds momentum.
The 10 percent off at the clothing store was a great find inside a car front seat with the windshield gone.
Don was excited because everyone in town was beeping horns and waving and yelling. He thought this was the most prolific event WSLM had ever done...until he landed the airplane. Les Nessman"As God is my witness I thought turkeys could fly." WKRP
Don was not seen by radio people as anything but hokey. He is clearly noted as willing to try new things, even hokey things, to be different. Color Radar Weather was a really cool radio promotion.
Flannelmouth was a night disc jockey who seemingly walked in off the street and started playing requests and talking to people on the air. He wasn't like any other jock of the time or before or since. Very relatable in a Dukes Of Hazard, Deliverance way for cultural relevance. He was at home in the truck stop or the mayor's office. He used the phones extensively and was able to transition even during his monologue. And the phone calls and the way they were placed on air. The phone interface is a thing of delight to people on the air and radio people.
The WSLM interface was a 1950something Ma Bell phone (app 22lbs). Next to it was a 1940's vintage phone switch. (Black box with wires going in and coming out. Usually black military looking screwed into the console on the right side. Rocker switch for line 1, off, line 2. And there was protocol. Since everyone answered the phone the same way I have to believe this was a rite of passage for anyone that worked there. It goes like this: The phone rings on the air. You hear the 70 volts on the telephone pot on the air. You answer the phone on the air (the jock on air and the caller in the jock's ear). "Is this Mary Lou?" "Okay Mary Lou we're puttin you on the air, you're on the air now....clickhumclick" The jock says :"Hello Mary Lou, how can I help you?"
Clearly the station was and is one of a kind. This is the presentation that continuity and sameness are listener friendly. And I liked the weather bird the first time I heard it prior to the organ program at 10am and before the news at 11am in 1967. At 11am we switched to WJCD for Seymour news with Bob Shipee.
An article on flannelmouth
http://www.roundaboutmadison.com/Inside Pages/Archived Articles/2002/10_02Jack Fultz.html
His obit 2007
http://www.morgan-nay.com/obit.aspx?id=200 obit
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I'm sorry, who are we talking about? The guy that did the eddie gilstrap motors commercials?
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The duck decoys. Don had an airplane and told all of Salem he would be dropping decoys from his airplane with valuable coupons attached.
Apparently it took multiple passes over downtown to deploy all the decoys. They don't seem heavy when you hold one but dropped on a car roof from a few hundred feet builds momentum.
The 10 percent off at the clothing store was a great find inside a car front seat with the windshield gone.
Don was excited because everyone in town was beeping horns and waving and yelling. He thought this was the most prolific event WSLM had ever done...until he landed the airplane. Les Nessman"As God is my witness I thought turkeys could fly." WKRP
Don was not seen by radio people as anything but hokey. He is clearly noted as willing to try new things, even hokey things, to be different. Color Radar Weather was a really cool radio promotion.
Flannelmouth was a night disc jockey who seemingly walked in off the street and started playing requests and talking to people on the air. He wasn't like any other jock of the time or before or since. Very relatable in a Dukes Of Hazard, Deliverance way for cultural relevance. He was at home in the truck stop or the mayor's office. He used the phones extensively and was able to transition even during his monologue. And the phone calls and the way they were placed on air. The phone interface is a thing of delight to people on the air and radio people.
The WSLM interface was a 1950something Ma Bell phone (app 22lbs). Next to it was a 1940's vintage phone switch. (Black box with wires going in and coming out. Usually black military looking screwed into the console on the right side. Rocker switch for line 1, off, line 2. And there was protocol. Since everyone answered the phone the same way I have to believe this was a rite of passage for anyone that worked there. It goes like this: The phone rings on the air. You hear the 70 volts on the telephone pot on the air. You answer the phone on the air (the jock on air and the caller in the jock's ear). "Is this Mary Lou?" "Okay Mary Lou we're puttin you on the air, you're on the air now....clickhumclick" The jock says :"Hello Mary Lou, how can I help you?"
Clearly the station was and is one of a kind. This is the presentation that continuity and sameness are listener friendly. And I liked the weather bird the first time I heard it prior to the organ program at 10am and before the news at 11am in 1967. At 11am we switched to WJCD for Seymour news with Bob Shipee.
An article on flannelmouth
http://www.roundaboutmadison.com/Inside Pages/Archived Articles/2002/10_02Jack Fultz.html
His obit 2007
http://www.morgan-nay.com/obit.aspx?id=200 obit
