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Hey Don,

I beg to differ!! :)

One instance was when "The Streak" was new and being promoted. I was the Music Director at WTIX and while I was on the air one day a gal appeared at the studio window with a trenchcoat on...she opened it up with a big smile on her face, gyrated, and stuck her bo*bs on the studio window. That gal was *completely* naked and showed the playground and the nursery. I found out this was compliments of the label promotions guy, God bless him.

Then there was that night with the promotion men, the radio people, the "special guests", and the Court Jester with locked doors. You were born a little too late for the real fun! lol
 
Pics I found: Judy,Audrey, Lu, Nathan Ales, Blair, Chris Bryan, I think Ron Chapman, Buddy (@ 13Q first anniversary), Gina, a newspaper clipping of Terry Young, Mike McCann, a piece from a N.O. trivia game with a Walton and Johnson question, a newspaper clipping with Chris Luckett, Kent DeGeorge, Frank Asunto, Kevin Skelly and Pal Al (some mentioned I assume were in the band Force of Habit, a producer (I think) named Tim, some guy I can't remember his name and a dude I think was named Fast Eddie. I also found the index card announcing me being on the air on June 17 of 1984. Very cool. I also counted my concert tickets and I had 43. Thank you guys for all my memories.
 
I may have been at Q93 when you were. I got there right around Mardi Gras of '03 and was there a few months... I can't remember how many. Left there and went to WRNO. Could Fast Eddie have been Hurricane Eddie?
 
Hey y'all ---got some time today and checked out the post. I started at KNEZ in Lompoc, California (my dad was stationed there --- came here, worked at WJMR (the center aisle on your radio dial) --- when George Mayoral relieved me and started speaking a foriegn language, I knew this wasn't the greatest, then to NOE-AM and was doing prime time in 3 weeks. But I'm really here for the streaking rescussion. It was so very hot that everybody was talkin' about it. At the time I was at RNO doing afternoons from the Imperial House. I called most everyone (except Joe) because this was gonna take some planning. I got naked in the control room, hit up a long song, left the control room in "le buf" --- hit the production room and lounge, thru the reception area (well hello and welcome), thru the sales office into mthe bidness office and into Joe's office, thru the sales office, onto the balcony and back to the control room. I got an immediate call from Josepy, who said "Humble, what did you just do?" --- I said "well everybody's talking about it" and he said "I missed it, could you do it again??" No, I didn't --- but wasn't it all a lot of fun!!! Is gso still on the air --- who knew?
 
Cap, did you once appear on a TV talk show with Dick Bruce? I vaguely recall a new UHF station broadcasting (Maybe from the ITM Building?) both you and Dick sitting at a desk chatting and eating doughnuts. It was a regular program in the early days of whatever station it was. Might have been late 60s/early 70s.
 
Hello and yes I did. Dick Bruce did a daily show (from 11A-2P) where he would spin some country, occasionally lip-sync (do u know what that means? mouthing the songs as in Sherie on the Pela Show or Loyd Thaxton --- make sense?). Way too often, I would direct the show and I would be in a two-shot w/him (but he was the star and he did all the talking, coming to us from SHO Radio, country for the city in those days and pretty stupid, it was not NEW Country but regular "I was drunk, needed to unload but my truck stalled on the tracks and my black pregnant wife couldn't get her seatbelt undone and i"m too loaded to walk and here comes the train" --- most of the songs ended in death. And yes, we had donuts. One thing I noticed while eating on camera was --- we didn't look that good and Dick really shovelled them in, which made him look a little demonic. I knew he was coming, when his front man (a scurvy looking little man) would come in running "Here comes Dick Bruce" --- we did have to cater to the TV stars and he was THE DONUT KING. On the Dave Wagenvoord(?) Channel 26 --- the Wonderful World of Movies.
 
On the first question, who could not say 'TIX, but Cap and the gang at WNOE-FM on the air and hanging out with my dad at Acy's, also 'NOE-AM with Scotty Mac(now running 96.1 in Red Stick),WRNO with Sambo and Warren , and of course Saints games on WWL and WGSO 1280, and LSU on WWL, also Eric Tracy and Bob Ruby, 1280's Longman(isn't he in jail?) and Fishman. I can't forget Prep Football games on 'TIX with Ken Trahan(my current radio boss).

Also, while in the Marine Corps, K-Rock in L.A., Q-96 KQYN (the only thing to do in 29 Palms), and "The Rock and Roll Animal" WQXY in Jax, N.C. while at Camp LeJeune.

WGSO, yes we are still here, is first and only place i've been working in this biz. Only if radio could match what I make cleaning grease traps driving a vacuum truck...let me dream on!
 
Hey Cap,

Believe it or not, we had a TV in the TIX newsroom back then in 1969 or so, and we used to watch Dick Bruce and you on that daily show! Do you remember a good looking young blonde (maybe 20 or so with a penchant for leather outfits) who was on camera occasionally as Dick Bruce's "producer" or walk in and out on-air go-fer? A few of us used to call her from the TIX newsroom while the show was in progress, and let her know we were watching and how good she looked! She never minded our calls and always went back on camera smiling for us! :)

Dick Bruce...now there was a class act. A stinking pile of pig dung and the most disgusting person I ever worked with in my career. His mother got it right when she named him Dick.

Bob W.
 
WJBO in Baton Rouge. In the 1970s that was all my dad ever listened to on the Studebaker radio which of course was AM only. It is so ironic though because today I mainly listen to WJBO myself. So, like father like son I suppose. Anyway, around the time I graduated from high school in '77 there was a younger classmate of mine, Bob Perry, who was a DJ at WJBO. Bob had a classic radio voice but it was not obvious that he was a just a high school kid. Does anyone know what happened to Bob? I seem to remember his dad was a broadcaster as well.

I also remember listening to AM 91, WLCS, in the mid '70s and "Chucker" used to have this nightly sign off at midnight that was patterned off of a CB Radio song. They used to have a feature where listeners would call in and offer their opinion of "what does WLCS stand for?" One time a young prankster spewed some profanities and caught "Chucker" off guard. Chucker came back on the air and warned the caller that they would catch him and turn him over to the FCC. For the record I still have a WLCS bumper sticker!
;D ;D
 
Bob Perry was music director at Manship's WFMF when I was in BR in the late '70s/early 80's and later programmed Manship's KPRR Power102 in El Paso, TX in the late '80s and early '90s. From there he went to San Antonio around 1992, along with Anna De Haro who's now in Dallas. Anna and I did spots for Major Video in EP, and she was such a pro and a wonderful person. Bob had an incredible feel for what the young Hispanic clubbing demos liked to hear, and Power102 was an exciting Churban to listen to. Don't know what's become of him since.

Chucker (Dr. John Thayer) went back to Miami from WLCS, worked at some stations there, got his doctorate, and now teaches high school math and some online college courses, and owns a little non-profit radio station near Land O' Lakes, Florida. He holds the Guinness Book record for the continuous music jam. Working with him at WLCS was a pleasure and always a hoot. He's one of the brightest, most energetic people I've ever met. And that's before the Cuban espresso.

JJ
 
I last ran into Bob Perry a few years ago when I was engineering in San Antonio -- the staff at our hispanic-oriented cluster was quite wound up about the pending visit of a big-cheese consultant named "Mr. Perry" and I decided to see who this guy with the familar-sounding name was.

I'm sure they were quite amused to find Bob and I talking Louisiana food and swapping stories about our old stomping grounds at 444 Florida Blvd. Bob has done quite well for himself and works for big companies on both sides of the border, and I was pleased to find that behind the power-suit and fashionable laptop he is still very much a good guy.

And yes, hearing him speak you'd recognize him in a second. It was funny to hear that familiar voice speak Spanish to the staff -- in a gentlemanly manner, of course.
 
I remember a guy on 94.1 in Baton Rouge in the early nineties called "Chucker"...Chuck White maybe? He said he had worked at WLCS but was not THE Chucker...is this true?
 
Chuck White did indeed go by "Chucker," more or less unofficially, when he was at WIBR when they played oldies back in the '80's. He was well aware that the REAL Chucker was the 'LCS night jock of old.

White's main impact on the BR market was when he was PD at WJBO during the Ross and Wilson era (late 1970's). Randy Rice was OM of the Manship stations and PD of WFMF, which had the distinct advantage of being the only live, stereo rock station in Baton Rouge at the time. 'FMF's advent into the Top 40 realm meant doom for AM CHR mainstays like WLCS and WIBR.
 
First Stations

Ahhh...NOW I remember Chuck White, or at least the name, from his J-BO days. In the late '70s/early '80s FMF was indeed the only live (rock-oriented) Top 40 station, as WAFB-FM was automated oldies. The handwriting was on the wall, and all of us at WLCS knew it. Matter of fact, I nearly got canned for having the audacity to point the handwriting out.

So, at one point -- before I found out just how much my job was in jeopardy for expressing my opinions -- I asked Gene Nelson WHY we didn't just flip their live-assist Schulke Beautiful Music to WLCS and do Top 40 on the FM. His answer which I've kept under my hat until now was, "We can't afford it." I said, come on, between Larry the engineer, Freewheelin' Frank, and me, we can re-wire this thing in a weekend. "We can't afford it. We would, but we can't afford it. If it was just me and Lamar we probably would, but we're not the only investors." Airwaves had recently unloaded WWUN/Jackson in the wake of greatness on WJDX/WZZQ, and not so long prior had bought WQXY-FM. Despite limited spot loads on QXY, it was bringing in the majority of the revenue, and apparently other Members Of The Bored were not willing to interrupt that revenue stream.

Here was a hard lesson, and one that we now all know so well. But it was a first for me that early in my career: non-broadcasters are the ruination of radio.

And of course, due to a lovely non-compete and my lack of a spare $10,000 in the bank, bailing to another BR station would have been out of the question. Besides, I really, really liked Gene Nelson. I'd work for him again today if I could.

Now at 50, it makes me feel old to realize that since KNOE-AM is no more, and KNOE-TV has been sold to Hoak, and KNOE-FM ultimately either by deed or LMA to Wilkinson, there is not a single broadcast entity I've worked for that's in the hands of the original owners. At least in the case of the Wilkinsons, it's nice to know they are radio people.

Occasionally I wonder if I should have stayed with WNOE-FM thru the sale to Newmarket. But then I think of its transfer to Clear Channel and read what a fine job they've done as broadcasters, and I don't feel so bad.

JJ
 
JJ,

You are right on about the late Gene Nelson. He broke many a talent. I was a snot nosed college kid he hired to baby sit the reels at QXY, and he gave me a big break to do weekends on the mighty 91-WLLLLCS. Fun days! But Joe London offered me fulltime for nights at 'IBR. This was the fall of '76. But I gotta say the view out the penthouse overlooking the mighty Mississipp was better than the view of 3 towers in a cane field. Actually didn't get to 'FMF ('80) until after the 3 years at WNOE-AM (post WIBR) with C. C. Courtney and Marc Summers. Gawd radio was really fun back then....but life & times were much simpler...
 
lafayetteindependentradio said:
1) KVOL-AM Lafayette. And K94 and other AOR in the late 70s/early 80s.
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Didn't 94.5 KSMB [AOR] become a Lee Abrams consulted station in the late 70's?

Seems I remember when it became homogenized, and I heard he was the reason. (I wasn’t in radio then)

It was ok, but a bit too structured & predictable for my tastes, Nova 104 in Lake Charles was more to my liking at the time - truly a unique station.
 
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