Looking for Q-100/WQQQ information.

[Bill790]

I think the person you're thinking of is Ed Fiedler, who went to Lehigh, worked with me at WEEX, did some time at 1320 WKAP while I went to WAEB, and is now, I do believe a successful computer consultant and Al Gore impersonator here in the Lehigh Valley.

When did Ed Fiedler work at WEEX? and at WKAP? I remember him from Lehigh.
Thanks.
Bill Hall

 

[Bob Farrow]

Ed and I worked at WEEX starting about 1971-72 or so. He moved to WKAP in the '74 range, I'd say... but memories are a little fuzzy. I worked at WAEB from 77-79... then came back to WEEX from 79-80 and then left the business.

 

[Bill790]

Thanks, Bob. I knew Ed from our days at the Lehigh campus station.
BTW, I was a part-timer at WAEB in 1974-75.

 

[gwjr67]

Hey Bill790,
Are you by chance Bill G??r??l (the rest left off for privacy). If so, I may have an aircheck of you from Christmas Day in 1976.

 

[Bill790]

Nope, my name is Bill Hall. Thanks for the aircheck offer, anyway. I left 'AEB at the end of 1975. I worked various weekend shifts while I was there, and did overnights for most of the summer of '75 while Don Brooks (the regular overnight jock) filled in for whoever was on vacation.

BTW, one of the unofficial duties of the overnight jock was to place a wake-up call to Werley, EARLY in the morning! It was a favor we were happy to do for him.

[sorry for being off topic, as this is a WQQQ thread!]

 

[TODDMAYOR]

i will give werley one credit... he had ok pipes...never a great fan and maybe he wasn't one of mine either...but when he did the school lunch menus on dubya a-e-b impersonating julia child the french chef and called himslef julia grown up...that was a hoot! see it's schticks like that that listeners turned jocks remember. way to go gene...you deserve kudos for that!!!!


ps: anyone remember the old daytime tower lights at night when it would flash with individual letter w-a-e-b then waeb waeb waeb. then back to individual letters. what a c

 

[gwjr67]

Thanks for the comments on pop. I believe the character was "Julia Throwup" but I was a just a kid so I could be mistaken. Anyone remember the HS football predictor "Banana Nose Banora"? That was some risque stuff for the 70's. Oh, and about the tower lights. I remember them well. It was the easiest way to find 700 Fenwick Street, which was just barely more than an alley with some nice stone exterior houses. And Rust would go nuts if one of those tower lights burned out. It was rare to see it out for more than a day. Lastly, and probably better served for another thread, remember how hard it was after business hours to get into the "fortress" that was WAEB in 70's? There was no buzzer to ring the jock on the air. You had to walk around to the side of the building, find a pebble, and toss it up to hit the window of the control room window.
And what happened to Don Brooks? Last I heard he went to Albany, NY and I lost track of him.

 

[drpickle]

Those were the glory days. You could tune intO WAEB and hear Blue Swede- Hooked On A Feeling. Then come home for lunch from the elementary school and hear The Night Chicago Died by Paper Lace. Now in 07 the children of today are besieged by right wing blowhards like Rush and Beck!

 

[Bob Farrow]

You know... Don Brooks, Jeff "Somethingorother", and I shared an apartment when he worked for WAEB. He did indeed leave to go to WPTR in Albany (another Rust Station), but I don't know what happened to him since then.

I remember both Joe Maclaine and Gene Werley doing Banana Nose.... Gene was Maclaine's straight man, then Jeff Frank played it straight for Gene. You're right... the material was risque for then, and I doubt that anyone other than Banana Nose could have pulled it off.

I worked the early news shift with Gene for a couple years, Jim Hertzler and Phil Gregory were my bosses. I'd bring 2 lg coffees from the donut shop on the Boulevard...and Gene would bring me 2 more when he came in at 6:05.

Speaking of waking up the morning man, when I was at WEEX, we actually made an entry onto the log to remind the overnight jock to wake up (Tom Kelly/Mick Hagerty/etc.)

Those WERE the days!

 

[Bill790]

You know... Don Brooks, Jeff "Somethingorother", and I shared an apartment when he worked for WAEB. He did indeed leave to go to WPTR in Albany (another Rust Station), but I don't know what happened to him since then.

I'm pretty sure that Don went from 'AEB to WMID before going to WPTR. I remember going to A/C and dropping in on him there. (See post http://www.radio-info.com/smf/index.php/topic,66398.0.html.)

I remember both Joe Maclaine and Gene Werley doing Banana Nose.... Gene was Maclaine's straight man, then Jeff Frank played it straight for Gene. You're right... the material was risque for then, and I doubt that anyone other than Banana Nose could have pulled it off.

Those were great bits.

I worked the early news shift with Gene for a couple years, Jim Hertzler and Phil Gregory were my bosses. I'd bring 2 lg coffees from the donut shop on the Boulevard...and Gene would bring me 2 more when he came in at 6:05.

Speaking of waking up the morning man, when I was at WEEX, we actually made an entry onto the log to remind the overnight jock to wake up (Tom Kelly/Mick Hagerty/etc.)

Those WERE the days!

Phil Gregory is now at WBBR/New York.