Got Hiney?

[tcsnrayp]

Does anyone have a couple of sample Hiney Wine scripts? Need them for a friend I am coaching as examples of a unique running bit.

 

[radiorob2.0]

You could take a trip to Rabbit Hash, KY or search for it on the google

http://www.hiney.com/

 

[kirkiefan]

You could take a trip to Rabbit Hash, KY or search for it on the google

http://www.hiney.com/

That's a rather lengthy drive down to the hollers as opposed to a short trek to New Carlisle mind you?

 

[ocala500]

Email me at [email protected] and I will send you some samples.

 

[nmoore6676]

Off the track a bit but didn't Paul Dixon have a Hiney bit that he flogged a lot like the giant Salami he gave out each show?

I saw a lot of Dixon influence in the original late late night Letterman show.

 

[qcityguy]

Does anyone have a couple of sample Hiney Wine scripts? Need them for a friend I am coaching as examples of a unique running bit.

"Unique?"

Hiney Wine was invented at Q102 a good ten years after WEBN's dozens of spots for Tree Frog Beer, and about 5 years after WEBN's lawsuit against someone else who had tried marketing actual bottles of Tree Frog Wine. Unique, my hiney.

 

[tcsnrayp]

Does anyone have a couple of sample Hiney Wine scripts? Need them for a friend I am coaching as examples of a unique running bit.

"Unique?"

Hiney Wine was invented at Q102 a good ten years after WEBN's dozens of spots for Tree Frog Beer, and about 5 years after WEBN's lawsuit against someone else who had tried marketing actual bottles of Tree Frog Wine. Unique, my hiney.

Since writing my original message months ago I have learned that the service is still being marketed. So, assuming they sell it to a few stations here and there after all these years I would call it uniquely unique. I didn't say "original."

 

[KFodor]

Does anyone have a couple of sample Hiney Wine scripts? Need them for a friend I am coaching as examples of a unique running bit.

"Unique?"

Hiney Wine was invented at Q102 a good ten years after WEBN's dozens of spots for Tree Frog Beer, and about 5 years after WEBN's lawsuit against someone else who had tried marketing actual bottles of Tree Frog Wine. Unique, my hiney.

Sorry, but you're wrong.

Hiney Wine is the brainchild of Terry Dorsey, who developed the bit while on the air in the Mid-1970's at WONE-AM in Dayton. I know this because I worked there then and watched Terry come in every day with a spiral bound notebook in which he had the original "Hiney Wine" spots written out in longhand. When he moved to WING, Hiney Wine (and the notebooks) went with him.

He would later go on to syndicate the bit and, last time I heard...had made a pretty good deal of money from it.

Terry, is today and has been a longtime country morning show host in Dallas.

 

[nmoore6676]

Jason is so right: check: http://www.reelradio.com/gifts/hineydees.html

It says that the Hiney Wine bit was on Rick Dees show while he was on WHBQ Memphis. I know that in the 70's I was in Columbus, moving to LA in 79. I wouldn't have heard the bits on either WING or WONE so maybe here in LA? After I got to California Dees was on KHJ, later KIIS. He could have carried the bits with him or I suppose I could have heard it elsewhere. I remember all the family names bits and all of the other stuff about the cans and that so I must have heard it someplace.

I do remember that Paul Dixon had a running joke about a family named Hiney and I recall Coleen Sharpe and Bonnie Lou giggling whenever he told his stories about them. Maybe that was the germ of the winery idea?

It would have been in the sixties when I would have seen Paul Baby.

 

[nmoore6676]

Another memory flash came through: The Dixon bit was Doctor Seymour Hiney. I think his wife was Rosie and I remember that his nurse was Carrie Potts. Still haven't connected where I first heard the Hiney Wine commercials though, but I do remember them from somewhere.

 

[1316wwood]

Glad to see someone remembered that Hiney Winery was Terry Dorsey's. What a funny guy. I remember listening to him on WING in Dayton.

Also - I am glad to see that someone saw the Paul Dixon influence in David Letterman. Truly funny and original. And to think Paul dixon was doing the stuff he was doing (much of which he could probably never get away with today) some 40 years ago.

Thanks for bringing up a couple of great broadcasters from my early days living in the Tri-State area.

 

[nmoore6676]

Glad to see someone remembered that Hiney Winery was Terry Dorsey's. What a funny guy. I remember listening to him on WING in Dayton.

Also - I am glad to see that someone saw the Paul Dixon influence in David Letterman. Truly funny and original. And to think Paul dixon was doing the stuff he was doing (much of which he could probably never get away with today) some 40 years ago.

Thanks for bringing up a couple of great broadcasters from my early days living in the Tri-State area.

I've read interviews where Letterman acknowledges the Dixon influence, he grew up in Indianapolis. He also attributes Ruth Lyons and Bob Braun as influences. Actually the area around Cincinnati, Dayton, and Columbus as well as Indianapolis contributed a lot to TV and radio if you look for and recognize it.

Still can not say where I first heard the Hiney Winery bits but I know for sure it wasn't Dayton because I had left there before Terry Dorsey began doing them. I believe it must have been on Rick Dees' show here in LA.

Probably the "Good Taste" censors would have shut down Paul Baby if her were around today but he could have jumped to satellite like Howard Stern. Dixon was just as funny or even funnier and he kept more of the double in entendre. Stern often got too explicit in making the joke and that got him in most of his troubles. I am also sure, to borrow a phrase from Bart Simspon that a lot of thought police would "have a cow" about Hiney too.

 

[1316wwood]

Dixon was a true genius and broadcaster. Way ahead of his time. Knee Ticklers. The T-Shirts. The Teenie Weenie Call. All true original and funny to this day.

 

[nmoore6676]

Another one who came out of the Southwest Ohio area, Jonathan Winters. His mother did a show on WIZE in Springfield and as it was co-owned with WING (and WCOL) got him on for a while at WING. I think he may have been a bit much and he was on WBNS-TV for a while before going to New York to be discovered by Jack Paar. And there was Rod Serling who was at WLW radio and maybe TV too I believe. Ohio gave a lot to early TV and a lot of it inspired many of the people of today. Almost all of those early pioneers started in radio and just kind of naturally slid right into TV.

The technology today may be better but the material doesn't seem as good to me. Imagine Paul Dixon or Bob Shreve, Willie Thall and all with some of the effects possible today. I'm having a drink and I raise my glass to Paul Dixon and all of those who were so creative. But alas no Schoenling here in Los Angeles.

 

[KFodor]

Glad to see someone remembered that Hiney Winery was Terry Dorsey's. What a funny guy. I remember listening to him on WING in Dayton.

Also - I am glad to see that someone saw the Paul Dixon influence in David Letterman. Truly funny and original. And to think Paul dixon was doing the stuff he was doing (much of which he could probably never get away with today) some 40 years ago.

Thanks for bringing up a couple of great broadcasters from my early days living in the Tri-State area.

Regarding Terry Dorsey and the birth of Hiney Wine - it's hard to forget when you were there at the time.

 

[knowbetter]

Glad to see someone remembered that Hiney Winery was Terry Dorsey's. What a funny guy. I remember listening to him on WING in Dayton.

Also - I am glad to see that someone saw the Paul Dixon influence in David Letterman. Truly funny and original. And to think Paul dixon was doing the stuff he was doing (much of which he could probably never get away with today) some 40 years ago.

Thanks for bringing up a couple of great broadcasters from my early days living in the Tri-State area.

Regarding Terry Dorsey and the birth of Hiney Wine - it's hard to forget when you were there at the time.

Jason...when did Terry drop Greg Mason, in favor of using his real name?? I am guessing he was still mason when you knew him?

 

[KFodor]

Glad to see someone remembered that Hiney Winery was Terry Dorsey's. What a funny guy. I remember listening to him on WING in Dayton.

Also - I am glad to see that someone saw the Paul Dixon influence in David Letterman. Truly funny and original. And to think Paul dixon was doing the stuff he was doing (much of which he could probably never get away with today) some 40 years ago.

Thanks for bringing up a couple of great broadcasters from my early days living in the Tri-State area.

Regarding Terry Dorsey and the birth of Hiney Wine - it's hard to forget when you were there at the time.

Jason...when did Terry drop Greg Mason, in favor of using his real name?? I am guessing he was still mason when you knew him?

To the best of my knowledge, Terry dropped the "Greg Mason" name when he departed WTUE and went over to the AM.
I vaguely remember hearing him in the earliest days of "T-105" (the earliest moniker for the AOR format) still using "Greg Mason"...but by the time he went to WONE, he was Terry Dorsey.

Interestingly, WTUE seems to be distancing itself from the initial months that they were T-105. (OK, if anyone who works there and knows reads this, I realize this may, or may not be intentional, and you would be welcome to chime in on this. I would appreciate a clarification so I can represent it properly on the Dayton Broadcasters Hall Of Fame website.) I say this because the station insists publically they went AOR in 1976, which is not true...the format flip happened in '75. However, it would be fair to say that the station's adoption of what, I believe was the Burkhart-Abrams "Superstars" approach may very well have occurred in 1976, (which is around the time that I joined the news department there) and that could be what they are counting.

The initial months of "T-105", as I recall was more of a "free-form" prog-rock FM. (Also on the air at the time on stations like WCOL-FM in Columbus.) The B.A. approach focused 'TUE more on playing the hit tracks...and from there, the rest was history. That they've been a powerhouse rocker since then is unquestioned.

And to my colleagues in the Oregon District: I do get a kick out of hearing you, occasionally playing the jingle ID. That one came from the very last WTUE Top 40 jingle package, (no doubt purchased under Terry Dorsey as Program Director) which, as I recall got them away from the "Solid Rock Series 1 and 2" jingles designed for WLS/Chicago and moved them to more "shotgun" style jingles which were becoming popular then.