Leave "God" to the Religious Stations

[scottwmro]

What's wrong with mentioning "God" or "Jesus" during a secular program? One of my all time favorite 60's songs was "Sprit in the Sky". I forget the artist name now since my station hasn't played Classic Hits (or to some of you Oldies) in 3 years. Maybe one of you would jump in and tell me who did that song. That song was a great "hippie" song, or that's what I called it. I love that song!

Now, I want prayer back in schools like it was in fall of 1969 for me in when I started the 1st grade, but I guess that will never happen. As I get older, I sit and wonder, what is happening to our world. Radio plays a big influence on folks, some of its bad, and some of its good. My station is all gospel on Sundays, and since I have to run the board, it doesn't allow me to go to church, so my station is my church.

 

[bub]

What's wrong with mentioning "God" or "Jesus" during a secular program? One of my all time favorite 60's songs was "Sprit in the Sky". I forget the artist name now since my station hasn't played Classic Hits (or to some of you Oldies) in 3 years. Maybe one of you would jump in and tell me who did that song. That song was a great "hippie" song, or that's what I called it. I love that song!

Norman Greenbaum recorded "Spirit in the Sky." He even has his own website.

http://www.spiritinthesky.com/

And how are yoooooooouuuuuuuuu, Scott?

 

[Ladytalk]

Scott, there is absolutely nothing wrong with mentioning God, Jesus, Allah, Buddha, Vishnu or any other deity on the radio. In my post I say that my problem is when a host uses his or her religion as virtually the entire basis for a secular entertainment program. I love my faith; I just don’t want NON-STOP religion on a secular station. Just my preference, nothing to do with “In God We Trust” on our currency or any other religious aspect of our lives.

I also enjoyed (and owned) “Spirit in the Sky” back in the 60’s. Norman Greenbaum had been member of Dr. West's Medicine Show & Junk Band, an LP I also owned when it was new, featuring “The Eggplant That Ate Chicago.” I played both on WMGM in Atlantic City in early 70’s.

 

[scottwmro]

What's wrong with mentioning "God" or "Jesus" during a secular program? One of my all time favorite 60's songs was "Sprit in the Sky". I forget the artist name now since my station hasn't played Classic Hits (or to some of you Oldies) in 3 years. Maybe one of you would jump in and tell me who did that song. That song was a great "hippie" song, or that's what I called it. I love that song!

Norman Greenbaum recorded "Spirit in the Sky." He even has his own website.

http://www.spiritinthesky.com/

And how are yoooooooouuuuuuuuu, Scott?

I'm doing much better these days. My doctor has me on different medication and it's working better and my mind is much more clear. Thanks for asking, and thanks for the artist name to that song. I think he had just one hit, but it was a good one!

 

[bub]

I'm doing much better these days. My doctor has me on different medication and it's working better and my mind is much more clear. Thanks for asking, and thanks for the artist name to that song. I think he had just one hit, but it was a good one!

Excellent! If the medication is working better, you might want to share some of it with the other posters. It might be good for them, too.

 

[scottwmro]

I'm doing much better these days. My doctor has me on different medication and it's working better and my mind is much more clear. Thanks for asking, and thanks for the artist name to that song. I think he had just one hit, but it was a good one!

Excellent! If the medication is working better, you might want to share some of it with the other posters. It might be good for them, too.

10-4!

 

[Tibbs4]

Well, Scott ~ I am glad you are back. You sound more like Scott should. I dunno, I guess the days of Arbor Mist
have passed us by, but it'll be more lively now through the holidays (can I say Christmas?) (Just playing Ladytalk)
with you here.

Just be glad Romer has all but fled this board-ome. We'd all end up back on some bad meds.

 

[scottwmro]

Well, Scott ~ I am glad you are back. You sound more like Scott should. I dunno, I guess the days of Arbor Mist
have passed us by, but it'll be more lively now through the holidays (can I say Christmas?) (Just playing Ladytalk)
with you here.

Just be glad Romer has all but fled this board-ome. We'd all end up back on some bad meds.

Well, can't drink any wine anymore, as it effects the blood pressure medication I have to take. I'll have a small glass of wine with my mother and my wife at Christmas, but that's it. That's family tradition, with the Christmas Meal in our family.
Taking time off for me has help, and perform better running my station. My doctor had me on some other medication that messed with my mind, thinking of things that were not true, and one person that works for me, telling me things that were not true, during that time. It's all in the past, the past can't be changed, and I living for now and the future, and oh, no more Arbor Mist. There is none in my house.

We all live and learn. I hope Chris Romer is doing fine. Thanks for the shout Tibbs!

 

[scottwmro]

Scott, there is absolutely nothing wrong with mentioning God, Jesus, Allah, Buddha, Vishnu or any other deity on the radio. In my post I say that my problem is when a host uses his or her religion as virtually the entire basis for a secular entertainment program. I love my faith; I just don’t want NON-STOP religion on a secular station. Just my preference, nothing to do with “In God We Trust” on our currency or any other religious aspect of our lives.

I also enjoyed (and owned) “Spirit in the Sky” back in the 60’s. Norman Greenbaum had been member of Dr. West's Medicine Show & Junk Band, an LP I also owned when it was new, featuring “The Eggplant That Ate Chicago.” I played both on WMGM in Atlantic City in early 70’s.

Hey, you worked at WMGM in Atlantic City the early 70's! Got a question for you. Was 1490 WLDB-AM still around during that time, or did the lady that owned it had already sold it and it became WUSS-AM, with an Urban/Soul format? There is an interesting website I found about the early days of WLDB-AM when it was licensed to Atlantic City. WLDB-AM did block programming in the 50's and 60's, from what I understand.

 

[Ladytalk]

Absloutely, Scott. That was my first job in radio. I lasted about about 2 minutes at WLDB in Atlantic City in 1970. I was hired because I had a big library of 60's rock and folk albums. They wanted to go "progressive" during the afternoon. The owner, Dorothy Bremmer warned me not to play any "druggie music." The first day, my first song was "Outside of a Small Circle of Friends," a Phil Ochs song about apathy. It has a line that goes, "Smoking marijuana is more fun than drinking beer, but a friend of ours got busted and they gave him 30 years..."

Dorothy burst into the studio and fired me for playing a "drug song." No explaining to her that it was a song about apathy. Getting fired in the middle of your first song might be a record, I never checked. The station was in a trailer in Atlantic City.

Luckily, the Atlantic City Press got wind of what happened and wrote an article about the "Shortest Job in Radio." John Struckel at WFPG read it and contacted me. He put me in touch with Eddie Newman at WRNJ (now WAYV), who hired me to do an all night jazz/talk show. John was a great man who died trying to put WFPG back on the air after a hurricane.

I was in college, so the hours worked out great. I stayed there for 2 years (Eddie was nuts) and went to WMGM where I stayed for another two years until I entered grad school.

 

[scottwmro]

Absloutely, Scott. That was my first job in radio. I lasted about about 2 minutes at WLDB in Atlantic City in 1970. I was hired because I had a big library of 60's rock and folk albums. They wanted to go "progressive" during the afternoon. The owner, Dorothy Bremmer warned me not to play any "druggie music." The first day, my first song was "Outside of a Small Circle of Friends," a Phil Ochs song about apathy. It has a line that goes, "Smoking marijuana is more fun than drinking beer, but a friend of ours got busted and they gave him 30 years..."

Dorothy burst into the studio and fired me for playing a "drug song." No explaining to her that it was a song about apathy. Getting fired in the middle of your first song might be a record, I never checked. The station was in a trailer in Atlantic City.

Luckily, the Atlantic City Press got wind of what happened and wrote an article about the "Shortest Job in Radio." John Struckel at WFPG read it and contacted me. He put me in touch with Eddie Newman at WRNJ (now WAYV), who hired me to do an all night jazz/talk show. John was a great man who died trying to put WFPG back on the air after a hurricane.

I was in college, so the hours worked out great. I stayed there for 2 years (Eddie was nuts) and went to WMGM where I stayed for another two years until I entered grad school.

I am laughing at this, "Dorothy Bremmer wanted to go progressive rock" on little 1,000 watt 1490, WLDB-AM in the middle of the day! This is funny! This must have been after her husband, Leroy had passed away. Gee, I bet she didn't she know anything about the big names like Hendrix, The James Gang, etc. I cannot believe she was still doing block programming into the 70's. I know it occurred in smaller markets, but in Atlantic City, weird!

I bet when you played that song on WLDB, ole Leroy was turning over in his grave! If I recall from my reading about the station, Leroy died somewhere in the late 60's, leaving Dorothy with the station. I saw a picture of Dorothy that dates back to 1955, and she looked old then. What did she know about Progressive Rock of the late 60's/early 70's? The other funny thing is you only lasted not 10 minutes on WLDB, that is funny!