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Eddie Harrell

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JimA

I salute Eddie! A great guy and always fun to be around :)
Proud of all his great work in Eastern Carolina and elsewhere. Especially how he's gown into this the great RF_GUY :)
ALWAYS a true gentleman. Always goes beyond the call. A truly great man! Engineering plus! Eddie has always been a cut above :)
Thanks for knowing you!
 
I guess I'll go blind with Jim.Everything Jim said about Eddie is true.Eddie is a gentlemen always.. even the day he called Dell Combs an old biddie.I fell in the floor.
Eddie was busting his butt and Dell wouldn't back off.I could see it coming and sure enough.I had to go to Walmart and buy some new Scooby Doo underwear.That was a day I'll always remember.Thanks for the friendship Eddie
Inner Banks is lucky to have you.The most fun I had was with you and Gina at lunch when I would imitate her dad.Gene would go @##$%%^^### Allen
how did you break the tape eraser"??? I say "Mr Gray please don't fire me,..
I've only got one good leg" and what other one legged guy are you gonna find to work for $3.35 an hour".Gene would walk away mumbling #$%%%^&... Allen.
Those were the good old days for sure.. Oh the joys of 1983-84...

Allen
 
EDDIE is the MAN! The processing on all IBX stations is first rate, just like Eddie!
 
Coz,
I know you've got some good L. Gene Gray stories.You know he was a good guy to work for for the most part.John Moore and I were swapping stories a couple
of weeks ago at 107.9.He was telling me some funny stuff.I remember Gene trying to teach me how to program that damn automation that came from WRAL.I hated that thing.You had to know Chinese Nuclear Secrets to figure that thing out.
He would call me and say Allen the AM has been playing the same jingle for the last 10 minutes.The FM line is busy..Go to the station and tell Tony Trenda to get off the damn phone and pay attention to the automation or he's fired.Of course I just attempted(poorly) to fix it while Trenda couldn't say Al Jarreau if you held a gun to his head.Damn.. those were fun times...

Allen
 
WoW ! I do not know what I did to get such praise, But, THANKS!!!! I have tried to treat people with respect as much as I can. (with some people it is much harder than others) I have learned a great deal from all of the people I work with, and after 36 years in the biz, I still have a lot to learn. When I started, Automation was just getting going good. Jim A was one of the best programmers I have ever worked with. He could make that old system at WGTM walk the dog. I still do not know how he got the system so tight with those TEAC reel machines taking 1 1/2 seconds to start. From Mechanical automation to Hard drive based systems it is all the same, Garbage in, Garbage out. I was chief at the Cumulus stations in Wilmington, Before the Buildout. (I was in Myrtle Beach at the time of the buildout). My love is still with High power FM and AM systems, 36 amps on the base of a tower is cool, You can light Neon lights in your hand! People call you and say thier toasters are singing to them in the morning when they are fixing breakfast. RF is my love, and my hope is to get to a situation that I can do what I love. Allenv is one of my best friends, has always been there, and has the best musical knowlege of anyone, He is the kind of guy when you are eating lunch with him, he will listen to the music on the Muzak system and before the hook is over, tell you the title, group, record label, and what kind of cars the band members drive! In all honesty, Thank you all for the years of friendship and knowlege that you all have shared with me. ED
 
Eddie,
I'm glad you are doing well, and congradulations on become the Chief
Engineer for "Inner Banks Media", with the stations Henry Hinton & Don Curtis
have acquired, you have a lot of ground to cover, but i'm sure this company
is treating you right, and i was glad to know you when you spent time at
Cumulus Wilmington, i'm glad there are some good engineers still around.
 
Wow! (hey... I'm in Eastern NC. I guess that should be WOOW!) I worked with Eddie at WKIX/WYYD in the Mid 80's. Good guy, and good engineer too. Gald to hear he's doing well!

Smitty

Moose
 
MaxGM said:
Wow! (hey... I'm in Eastern NC. I guess that should be WOOW!) I worked with Eddie at WKIX/WYYD in the Mid 80's. Good guy, and good engineer too. Gald to hear he's doing well!

Smitty

Moose
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I have a cassette recording of WYYD back in the 80s when it was the "elevator music" format in stereo if anyone wants a copy I'd be glad to make a copy for ya! :)
 
Uhhhh No thanks ;). I worked there after the switch to AC. For a brief time it was "WYYD - Wide Smile 96 FM". Man... I HATED saying that.... almost as much as I hated saying "I'm wearing a WYYYYDDD Smile". Got on board down the hall at Kix as quick as I could!
 
MaxGM said:
Wow! (hey... I'm in Eastern NC. I guess that should be WOOW!) I worked with Eddie at WKIX/WYYD in the Mid 80's. Good guy, and good engineer too. Gald to hear he's doing well!

Smitty

Moose
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Smitty? Geez, Moose. So you're known as Smitty AND Cleve Humpwell? Doesn't anyone call you Mike anymore? Which name (Moose, Smitty or Cleve Humpwell) do you use at Skull & Bones meetings?
 
Hey, Eddie - glad to hear you are alive and well in ENC. When I first say the thread, I thought you had died, or something. All the old KIX/YYD folks need to get together.

Moose is right, that "Wide Smile" thing was the absolute worst. Seems I remember the consultant who came up with that whole image used to work for Colgate! Thank God that wasn't on my watch!

Double J, I would like to hear the old WYYD aircheck. I worked there from Summer of 1980, through the change to AC up until 1989.
 
XTalker said:
Hey, Eddie - glad to hear you are alive and well in ENC. When I first say the thread, I thought you had died, or something. All the old KIX/YYD folks need to get together.

Moose is right, that "Wide Smile" thing was the absolute worst. Seems I remember the consultant who came up with that whole image used to work for Colgate! Thank God that wasn't on my watch!

Double J, I would like to hear the old WYYD aircheck. I worked there from Summer of 1980, through the change to AC up until 1989.
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I'd be glad to send the copy to you. I also have a recording of them from 1976 it's in mono but I think rather decent I could include as well. Just PM me or email me and we can work it out. It wouldn't take long as the two tapes are only 60s so I could have them done in a day or so. I also think I have one of them after the AC change, but I'll have to look and if memory serves it's only a 30 minute recording.
 
I remember very well listening to WYLT at a dorm in ECU.It was one of the few times I got lucky.Maybe it was "All I Know" by Garfunkel or maybe it was
The Waffle House and $50 bucks I gave her.I loved W-Lite.I listened in Farmville
quite a bit.Boring to some...maybe... but I love that music.Ain't nothing wrong with pretty music that has emotion and melody.I hear little of either on the radio today....

Allen
 
allenv said:
I remember very well listening to WYLT at a dorm in ECU.It was one of the few times I got lucky.Maybe it was "All I Know" by Garfunkel or maybe it was
The Waffle House and $50 bucks I gave her.I loved W-Lite.I listened in Farmville
quite a bit.Boring to some...maybe... but I love that music.Ain't nothing wrong with pretty music that has emotion and melody.I hear little of either on the radio today....

Allen
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Yeah W-Lite was pretty good I thought too. Even listening to the "Muzak" version of WYYD was nice too. Unfortunately neither format survives and it's a shame too. But there's 90.1 WZRU that sort of fits that format nicely. If memory serves me WNCT 107.9 had the "Muzak" format the longest, well into the early 90s I believe. Unfortunately I have no recordings of them when they were nor shortly thereafter when they went to AC before they went oldies.
 
W-Lite was one of the early victims of the corporate take over of radio. It was a pretty good AC station - decent ratings against WRAL and G-105 - and great revenue. When Metroplex purchased the station (along with WKIX) things were fine for a while, but the GM wanted to save money and along came Transtar's Format 41 on the FM and Oldies Channel on the AM. We made it work, but it wasn't as good as the original version of the station.
 
I remember they used to play WYYD light and easy music at a pizza parlor in Fayetteville.
We would sit there for hours playing the sit-down Pac-Man and, listening to the easy favorites playing while we ate the buffet (as long as it was open).
 
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