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The 1960s listening to WBBF brings back great memories to this day!!! How many stations today have the excitement, local involvement and news departments of 95 WBBF of the sixties-seventies? Names like Jack Palvino, Jerry Fogle, Nick Nickson, Leon Marguarite (the man with great big feet!), Larry White, Joe Deane, Art Gibson, Matt Rinaldi, Jerry Carr, Ron DeFrance, Jerry Sherwin, Scott Murray, Ferdinand J. Smith III, Lanny Frattare, the Queen Bee, Jim Rivers, Burt Michaels, Brother Love, Pete McKay to name a few. Who remembers Alex Lamutis, Bob Bohrer, Ed Little, Dick DeMeco(also WBFB announcer), Forrest Lewis in the news room? Don Ariano, Herb Petrie, Frank Shied, Mike Denesha, Nick Marasco and others as engineers.

Who can imagine a radio station with such a large staff today? Thanks for all the great hours of listening. It was great seeing you at live remotes that featured a trailer with working turntables...the appearances at Red Wings games at Silver Stadium with the Great Kahuna or at Amerk games at the War Memorial. Thanks for encouraging me to get into radio. It's been 41 great years in the biz. It's all because I knew you were having fun doing what you enjoyed. Lanny Frattare got me into BBF in 1971 for the best 14 months of my life. Midtown Tower was never a more exciting place to be, especially on the 8th floor.

Bring back the radio of yesteryear!!!

Dave Mance
 
Dave, you're kindling a lot of memories from the point of view of both a listener and a guy in the business. I'm sure I speak for a lot of people in saying I fondly remember them all. Listening to all these folks (as well as to Buffalo radio greats like Danny Neaverth, Sandy Beach, George Hamberger, Jim McLaughlin, Jeff Kaye, John Zach, Jim Fagan, Lou Douglas, Jack Ogilvie and Henry Brach) got more than one of us interested and involved in broadcasting.

The best part, of course, was getting to work with a lot of them later on. Forrest Lewis at WAXC and Jim McLaughlin at WKBW and WBEN were two of the best and most creative news directors in the business, and I got to work with and learn from both of them. Dave, the people you mention in your post were and are giants, and we got the privilege of having them as part of our lives. Let's pass it on...call me an optimist, but if enough folks know about just how good radio can be, they'll demand it--and they'll want to keep it going...
 
E-Mance-A-Nator said:
Names like Jack Palvino, Jerry Fogle, Nick Nickson, Leon Marguarite (the man with great big feet!), Larry White, Joe Deane, Art Gibson, Matt Rinaldi, Jerry Carr, Ron DeFrance, Jerry Sherwin, Scott Murray, Ferdinand J. Smith III, Lanny Frattare, the Queen Bee, Jim Rivers, Burt Michaels, Brother Love, Pete McKay to name a few. Who remembers Alex Lamutis, Bob Bohrer, Ed Little, Dick DeMeco(also WBFB announcer), Forrest Lewis in the news room? Don Ariano, Herb Petrie, Frank Shied, Mike Denesha, Nick Marasco and others as engineers.
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How about TOM GEORGE. Always sounding like he was having a great time on the air. Fun, professional guy to listen to.
 
Although we've not met Dave, this Buffalo guy remembers listening to you regularly when you did all nights on WBBF, as I drove north on Rt 19 on my trek to do mornings in Brockport. You always brought your 'A' game and were good company.
 
Who can forget the grease man, larry black, larry white, Dave mason, ray Quinn , robert craig savage, bob scott, springer Jones , steve bleecker , chris bailey.
 
"Rich Funke, Ray Levato"

Still visible every weeknight on a TV near you. :)

"Springer Jones"...

That's a sad story. High school classmate of mine (as Steve Reeder, his real name) and later a colleague at WAXC in 1978...really talented guy, who passed away much too young 16 years ago. RIP, Steve...
 
Hi All - I'm jumping ahead a few years to the early 80's here. I remember up to about 1883 or 1984 there was 92-WMJQ.

What I loved about the radio back then was that they actually played music in the morning...we didn't have to listen to same old "shoot the shit" crap that goes on from 6-11 EVERY day.

Unfortunately, I can't remember who the jocks were back in the day. Can anyone provide any history?

Thanks :)
 
Correct me if my memory is wrong:

Leon Margurite (sp?), the "biggest man in nightime radio", would say that he was spinning the hits for "Mom, Dad, Sister Sue, Brother Lou and Junior, too".
 
"I remember up to about 1983 or 1984 there was 92-WMJQ"

Are we talking about the album rock edition of WMJQ or the later top 40 version which kept the callsign for legal ID but was known as Q92?

IIRC the album rock WMJQ had current Warm-101 morning man Tony Infantino, then using the airname Tony Matthews, as morning guy (he moved over from CMF if my memory's any good). The top 40 Q92 first had the late Don Michael Girard as morning man, and later on "Dr." John Potter did a Scott Shannon-style morning zoo show. Girard passed away a few years ago while holding down mornings at news/talk blowtorch WHO-AM in Des Moines...John Potter, a Rochester native, went from Q92 to Las Vegas and Power 97. Don't know where he is now.

Then came the country...
 
Bob1370 said:
"I remember up to about 1983 or 1984 there was 92-WMJQ"

Are we talking about the album rock edition of WMJQ or the later top 40 version which kept the callsign for legal ID but was known as Q92?

IIRC the album rock WMJQ had current Warm-101 morning man Tony Infantino, then using the airname Tony Matthews, as morning guy (he moved over from CMF if my memory's any good). The top 40 Q92 first had the late Don Michael Girard as morning man, and later on "Dr." John Potter did a Scott Shannon-style morning zoo show. Girard passed away a few years ago while holding down mornings at news/talk blowtorch WHO-AM in Des Moines...John Potter, a Rochester native, went from Q92 to Las Vegas and Power 97. Don't know where he is now.

Then came the country...
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Yep.....that rings a bell. I am talking about the WMJQ all rock phase of it. It was great...they always played the newest stuff in the mornings.......I remember as a kid recording some of these shows with the old "TDK" tapes and actually listened to one the other day after I cleanedout some old boxes. They played the first "Stray Cats" hit they had... "Rock this Town"......can't believe that was almost 30 years ago.
 
It was Leon Margarite. When 92.5 flipped to country, wags claimed the various callsigns stood for We've Been Everything Else, and We Might Just Quit.
 
When 92.5 flipped to country, wags claimed the various callsigns stood for We've Been Everything Else,

I always thought that came from Dave Roberts and Mike O'Brien at WVOR.
 
JohnW said:
Correct me if my memory is wrong:

Leon Margurite (sp?), the "biggest man in nightime radio", would say that he was spinning the hits for "Mom, Dad, Sister Sue, Brother Lou and Junior, too".
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Wasn't it "Big Jeffrey and Little Annette, too" instead of "Brother Lou and Junior, too"? I heard that Leon passed away years ago and was driving a school bus for a living back then.
 
Bob1370 said:
Are we talking about the album rock edition of WMJQ or the later top 40 version which kept the callsign for legal ID but was known as Q92?
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I remember John Sebastian was consulting during their Album Rock period and they used the positioner "the home of kick ass rock and roll". Pretty bold language at the time and as I recall it didn't last too long.
 
yugoidar said:
Bob1370 said:
Are we talking about the album rock edition of WMJQ or the later top 40 version which kept the callsign for legal ID but was known as Q92?
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I remember John Sebastian was consulting during their Album Rock period and they used the positioner "the home of kick ass rock and roll". Pretty bold language at the time and as I recall it didn't last too long.
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Yeah, they were Lee Abrams (as Magic 92) from '78 to the end of '80 or early 81. Under Sebastian (until early 83) they were 92-MJQ and used first the slogan "Kickass Rock and Roll" then switched to "I'm a Rocker." The PD at the time was Tom Hunter (later of MTV), who also did afternoons. The morning man was Kevin Malvey (lots of music, little talk). The other jocks that I remember included Kevin Belcastro (later in Buffalo), Janet From Another Planet (not sure if it's THE J.F.A.P.) and Vern Roberts (who later did traffic reports at WHAM).
 
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