Back when I was but a lad driving home from school in Atlanta I use to hear the 5 O'Clock Whistle every Friday on 96 Rock. Anyone that heard it remembers it. The guy going its FRIIIIIDAY! Anyway now I am stationed on a remote island in the Indian Ocean called Diego Garcia and I would love to add this to our Friday show here. Does anyone know where I can get this online to add to our line up here?
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Five O'Clock Whistle 96 Rock
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I can't tell how many times over the years that folks have contacted me about "The Whistle". Here's some historical perspective. It was Bill Wise, then PD, who asked me to put together something to play on Fridays to launch the weekend. So I gathered up some appropriate songs, threw in some drop-ins, and that was it. The original whistle ran for many years, but I after I left 96, Bill Pugh, then PD, expanded it to include Murray Saul. Over the years it grew and grew from the original length of about 3 minutes to about 8 minutes. I thought I had a dubbed a copy before I left but I haven't been able to find it. No one had a copy, not even Kaedy. But the Rock's intrepid production director for many years, Rich Van Slyke, did have one, and gave it to me because so many have asked for it and somehow they get directed to me.
So here ya go. Go to www.stevemitchellvoiceworks.com/96rockwhistle, (and this is important) right-click and download it. If you just left-click on it, it will probably start to play and if many people do this it will kill my bandwidth limit.
This version is a little of the original with Murray Saul..
So here ya go. Go to www.stevemitchellvoiceworks.com/96rockwhistle, (and this is important) right-click and download it. If you just left-click on it, it will probably start to play and if many people do this it will kill my bandwidth limit.
This version is a little of the original with Murray Saul..
IIRC there were two shorter versions before this one....the first one I really remember has the "Tell that slave driver to shove that sweatshop right up his..." line and then cuts immediately to a different voice saying "DICK!...YOU'RE FIRED!" Imagine the running gag from the Austin Powers movies and you get the idea. The second one was basically a shorter version of the one used most recently, which just added on to the second one.
As I have mentioned before, this is the ONLY place I ever heard "This Beat Goes On/Switchin' To Glide" by the Kings before it became a regular cut on 99X's House/Duplex of Retro Pleasure about a decade later.
Then there was Z93's remake of the Whistle after Kaedy Kiely moved to Z93...I always thought the production values of that version weren't as tight. Did Murray Saul do the VO on that one too? The VO didn't sound as good IMO. Since this was downloadable from the old Z93 website, you might be able to download it from an old Z93 website on archive.org's Wayback Machine.
I wonder if River would be up to doing one for Kaedy...
As I have mentioned before, this is the ONLY place I ever heard "This Beat Goes On/Switchin' To Glide" by the Kings before it became a regular cut on 99X's House/Duplex of Retro Pleasure about a decade later.
Then there was Z93's remake of the Whistle after Kaedy Kiely moved to Z93...I always thought the production values of that version weren't as tight. Did Murray Saul do the VO on that one too? The VO didn't sound as good IMO. Since this was downloadable from the old Z93 website, you might be able to download it from an old Z93 website on archive.org's Wayback Machine.
I wonder if River would be up to doing one for Kaedy...
Thanks for posting the whistle Steve.....got my copy downloaded and on the desktop at work. I will dutifully play it every Friday at 5........
Remember .....back in those days Tom C. used to buy a few cases of beer on Friday afternoons. By the time "The Whistle" came up we were pretty red eyed........
Some manage with sticks......some manage with carrots. Tom managed with beer. He was much loved.......
Remember .....back in those days Tom C. used to buy a few cases of beer on Friday afternoons. By the time "The Whistle" came up we were pretty red eyed........
Some manage with sticks......some manage with carrots. Tom managed with beer. He was much loved.......
Wow...thats a classic. Thanks for the memories ;D
Now, would you happen to know about a small snippet that was played on 96 Rock that went something to the effect " I'm missss - a - bull....right ?" I can only remember that one line. Rude may have used it...not sure. I would love to find that whole thing as it was funny.
Thanks again for the whistle.
Now, would you happen to know about a small snippet that was played on 96 Rock that went something to the effect " I'm missss - a - bull....right ?" I can only remember that one line. Rude may have used it...not sure. I would love to find that whole thing as it was funny.
Thanks again for the whistle.
Steve... good to see you back on the boards here and hope all is going well with you since the crap at Eagle went down.
This whole 5 o'clock whistle thing reminds me of another station that Taylor Engineer is all too familiar with. I used to pull the afternoon shift at what USED to be Magic 96.7 in Newnan (now Magic 98.1). Every Friday we, too, had the 5:00 whistle that would lead into the Friday 50's at Five, sponsored by a local 50's style drive-thru restaurant. It was always a nice change from the usual and we got a LOT of positive feedback from listeners who really enjoyed starting off their weekend with classic 50's R&R.
This whole 5 o'clock whistle thing reminds me of another station that Taylor Engineer is all too familiar with. I used to pull the afternoon shift at what USED to be Magic 96.7 in Newnan (now Magic 98.1). Every Friday we, too, had the 5:00 whistle that would lead into the Friday 50's at Five, sponsored by a local 50's style drive-thru restaurant. It was always a nice change from the usual and we got a LOT of positive feedback from listeners who really enjoyed starting off their weekend with classic 50's R&R.
when I was working at KKLV in Honolulu our PD, Eric Holland, came busting in one day saying he had gotten his hands on this great Friday whistle for us...he then put in the cart and played it for us. He was so damn excited he was almost bursting as he played it. He was asking us what we thought. I told him it was great..and I always enjoyed hearing it back in Atlanta back when I was a kid. The look on Eric's face was downright bewilderment.
Thanks a bunch for the assist.
Thanks a bunch for the assist.
I was lucky enough to spend some time at 96 Rock in the '87-'88 era, and it was a great place to work! Management 'got it' and Atlanta loved it. Fun, fun, fun!
X-14 said:
Who were those guys that owned that drive in ? Wasn't it in Fayetteville? And didn't one of the guys do something on the air at WMKJ - a business report.......maybe the hog report??
taylorengineer said:
LOL.... I don't recall the guy's name, but he was something like an accountant by trade, but the drive-in that he and - I think - his brother (?) owned was called GTO's. Actually it was a pretty cool place with good food and ambience. Yes, in Fayetteville on Ga. 85. Because of his sponsorship of the Friday Fifties at Five he got to call in once per show and ramble on, on the air. I had to pull the reins in on him constantly.
Correct me if Im wrong, but didn't 95.5 The BEAT do a "5 o'clock Whistle" when they first signed on???
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