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Jim Davies Memories...

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Since its almost Christmas, how about the big gut, the red bulbous nose, the ability to fly cover from angry Lynett Brothers..(wait maybe I'm thinkin of rudolph..) And the Webster bits referring to the great Lumpy!!!! Jim Davies rules!
Bup...Bup...Buppp, don't try to do that young man...
As the Great Cinderella once sang, Ya don't know what ya got, till its gone...

And remember... If the Lip Shitz, what exactly does the ass do????

Now I'll sniff some more glue.. thank you

love,
harpy


"A Man with a great vision.... Too bad he has one eye..."
 
When The Seville was still open two very bad intoxicated men wandered up to the fifth floor wielding knives! In the blink of an eye ,Jim Davey took them
both out at the knee and disarmed them and tied them up with some wires that were sticking out of the wall. He then told the gals in the office to call the cops and went in his office and closed the door.
<P ID="edit"><FONT class="small">Edited by Sgt_Okey_Homa on 12/19/05 09:40 AM.</FONT></P>
 
I worked there for two years and I don't think Jim ever knew who I was. I heard him ask someone if I was related to Webster.
 
> I worked there for two years and I don't think Jim ever knew
> who I was. I heard him ask someone if I was related to
> Webster.
>


I wasn't there, but the story was legend at the WARM Building in Avoca. Every year, the staff would kick in and get Jim something for Christmas. The gift was presented at the company Christmas party. One year, the gift was a chain saw. Jim held it up and said "Now, I can cut costs." The remark did not go over well.
 
> I worked there for two years and I don't think Jim ever knew
> who I was. I heard him ask someone if I was related to
> Webster.
>

What yer not?
 
> I wasn't there, but the story was legend at the WARM
> Building in Avoca. Every year, the staff would kick in and
> get Jim something for Christmas. The gift was presented at
> the company Christmas party. One year, the gift was a chain
> saw. Jim held it up and said "Now, I can cut costs." The
> remark did not go over well.
>
HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLE-ON-THAR
Are you thinking of Jim Davey or Jim Loftus----Jim Davey was GM of Rock107 forever. I don't recall Lumpy ever working at WARM, but I could be wrong.
 
Lumpy was the GM at WARM for many years before working for Shamrock.
 
> Lumpy was the GM at WARM for many years before working for
> Shamrock.
>
All kiddding aside, I have known and worked with Jim for over 10 years. I my mind he never gets the credit for the impact he has had on radio in Northeast Pa. He was at warm in its hay day. He put rock 107 on the map and in on way or another touched the lives of many of todays leaders in our industry on a local level. Jim was one of the best radio guys in the business. It pains me to see all the warm video on 44 and Jim never gets a mention, but thats how he works quietly in the background making just one more sale. Jim is one on the good people in a business filled with nutty ego driven kooks.
Have a merry
 
> > Lumpy was the GM at WARM for many years before working for
>
> > Shamrock.
> >
> All kiddding aside, I have known and worked with Jim for
> over 10 years. I my mind he never gets the credit for the
> impact he has had on radio in Northeast Pa. He was at warm
> in its hay day. He put rock 107 on the map and in on way or
> another touched the lives of many of todays leaders in our
> industry on a local level. Jim was one of the best radio
> guys in the business. It pains me to see all the warm video
> on 44 and Jim never gets a mention, but thats how he works
> quietly in the background making just one more sale. Jim is
> one on the good people in a business filled with nutty ego
> driven kooks.
> Have a merry
>

I will never forget the morning Jim said "I'm not interested in getting new listeners. I just want to keep what I have." That was the day I made up my mind to leave.
 
> > > Lumpy was the GM at WARM for many years before working
> for
> >
> > > Shamrock.
> > >
> > All kiddding aside, I have known and worked with Jim for
> > over 10 years. I my mind he never gets the credit for the
> > impact he has had on radio in Northeast Pa. He was at warm
>
> > in its hay day. He put rock 107 on the map and in on way
> or
> > another touched the lives of many of todays leaders in our
>
> > industry on a local level. Jim was one of the best radio
> > guys in the business. It pains me to see all the warm
> video
> > on 44 and Jim never gets a mention, but thats how he works
>
> > quietly in the background making just one more sale. Jim
> is
> > one on the good people in a business filled with nutty ego
>
> > driven kooks.
> > Have a merry
> >
>
> I will never forget the morning Jim said "I'm not interested
> in getting new listeners. I just want to keep what I have."
> That was the day I made up my mind to leave.
>


Wise men , cows, shephards. oh yea can't we all be nice for a few days ....
 
> All kiddding aside, I have known and worked with Jim for
> over 10 years. I my mind he never gets the credit for the
> impact he has had on radio in Northeast Pa. He was at warm
> in its hay day.

WARM's heyday was in the 60's

>He put rock 107 on the map

No! Wrong! It was "on the map" LONG before Lumpy arrived there...at least since it went live back in 79 or 80 or whenever. I don't even think they know for sure when that was.

Look, not to speak ill of him, he is a nice guy but the fact of the matter is, if there was a graduate course being offered at the university called "Advance Studies in Covering Your Ass", he'd be the leading contender to teach it.
 
First, it's Jim DAVEY, not DAVIES.

While he may have been a nice guy, he was a salesman. I don't think he really cared about radio. It was a business, like selling shoes or selling widgets, or selling anything else.

He was at WARM during a pivotal time in its history, and that was the beginning of the slide. The market was changing, and he had no idea on how to take the station to the next level. Susquehanna was no help. There was an endless stream of program directors and each had a completely different philosophy from his predecessor.




> > All kiddding aside, I have known and worked with Jim for
> > over 10 years. I my mind he never gets the credit for the
> > impact he has had on radio in Northeast Pa. He was at warm
>
> > in its hay day.
>
> WARM's heyday was in the 60's
>
> >He put rock 107 on the map
>
> No! Wrong! It was "on the map" LONG before Lumpy arrived
> there...at least since it went live back in 79 or 80 or
> whenever. I don't even think they know for sure when that
> was.
>
> Look, not to speak ill of him, he is a nice guy but the fact
> of the matter is, if there was a graduate course being
> offered at the university called "Advance Studies in
> Covering Your Ass", he'd be the leading contender to teach
> it.
>
 
I don't think the guy deserves to be picked apart here.
Keeping your nose out of programming and promotion and sticking to sales
is a lost art for GM's. More should try it.
 
> > > Lumpy was the GM at WARM for many years before working
> for Shamrock.


The character Lumpy is many things to many people. Most
people imagine Jim Davey as "Lumpy" because they were hired
by him or at the station when he was GM. The "Lumpy" in my
imagination was Tom Harpster because he was the guy at 107
when I was there. Others hired when Jim Loftus was GM, like
me, imagined Margie belting either Harpster or Loftus upside
the head. The cool part about the bit is the images the
verbage puts in your head. If radio is theatre of the mind,
then Jonesy's bit has stood the test of time and revolving
Lumpys. Margie, however, will always be to me................
a Geena Davis lookalike with a powerful left hook.

Yonkstur
 
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