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Join Your 70's Radio Friends on PBS and RFP!

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elizabethboyle

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Our radio friends Wonderful Russ, Marty Manning and Bob Boze Bell will be featured on KAET's Arizona Memories of the 70's, premiering next month on PBS. Pat McMahon will again narrate.

This special, third in the critically acclaimed series, spotlights the Valley's incredibly creative radio and music environment of the 1970's, and will also feature memories of the brightest lights in the Valley's 70's music scene, including The Tubes, Alice Cooper, Jerry Riopelle and Hans Olson.

Radio Free Phoenix is honored to be broadcasting live from the private premier this week!
 
Difficult to imagine that one of the biggest local advertising accounts used to be a radio guy. Wonderful Russ= Russell Shaw, real estate magnate. Was he in radio sales, ever? What stations did he work on? He's got an amazing set of pipes.
 
Just don't talk bad about his cult...er religion.

He is a leading Scientologist in PHX, and has led campaigns to censor people on the internet that try to discuss the dealings of the cult.

Other than that, a great guy.
 
Wonderful Russ was creator and writer of Love Workshop, a 1976 KDKB show best described by fan Derek Bostrom, drummer for the Meat Puppets, on his blog, "Bostworld":
http://derrickbostrom.com/bostrom/2006/05/01/its-time-for-love-workshop/
My favorite Love Workshop segment was "Snacks" where the Circle K is closed, so they eat the baby- typical Wonderful Russ, and in pre Howard Stern 1976, perhaps too shocking for sleepy little downtown Mesa.

Russ went on to be featured on the KSLX Jones, Boze and Jeanne morning show, most notably, as a male lesbian, and star of the Nibler and Yackler parody spots.

Russ now shares his humor on the Radio Free Phoenix airwaves, as one of the imaging voices. Listen for Love Workshop on RFP, soon !
 
Way cool link, Liz.....I didn't know about Love Workshop... but I'm familiar with Vern's work with National Lampoon... Didn't know such high quality ham sprang from Phoenix...! Please let us know when these shows will be run on RFP....
 
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