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New Book About 1050 WHN

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TheBigA

I just saw this story posted at www.countryaircheck.com

Legendary Country station WHN-AM/New York will come to life again on Feb. 25, 40 years to-the-day after its 1973 launch and coinciding with the publication of former PD Ed Salamon's book WHN: When New York City Went Country. Staffers from the station's 15-year run will reunite at Manhattan's Hill Country Live club by presenting a panel of stories and memories. Moderated by Salamon, former WHN staffers participating include Hill Country Live Dir. Jessie Scott, Alan Colmes and Lee Arnold. A Feb. 26 on-air reunion will follow on Fairleigh Dickinson University's WFDU from 9am-3:45pm.

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Lee Arnold once explained on the air that the stations call letters came from Willie Nelson's initials. That's not exactly true, although Willie's middle name IS Hugh.
 
How much interest can there be for a book like this from other than the radio geeks of the world and how many of them can there be??
 
TheBigA said:
Lee Arnold once explained on the air that the stations call letters came from Willie Nelson's initials. That's not exactly true, although Willie's middle name IS Hugh.
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Right, not exactly true. The FCC assigned the WHN calls in 1922. I remember my parents listening to WHN in the 60's, when they played a mix of standards from the 40's and 50's and "beautiful music" instrumentals.
 
OC3 said:
How much interest can there be for a book like this from other than the radio geeks of the world and how many of them can there be??
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Ssshhh! My publisher might hear.
I'm trying to convince him there could even be a movie in it: "Park Avenue radio station goes country: hilarity ensues". :)
 
TheBigA said:
... Moderated by Salamon, former WHN staffers participating include Hill Country Live Dir. Jessie Scott, Alan Colmes and Lee Arnold...
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Alan Colmes probably gets more visibility in New York City with these reunions of defunct radio station staffers than with his Fox News Radio show (does it still air on WWRL?).
 
OC3 said:
How much interest can there be for a book like this from other than the radio geeks of the world and how many of them can there be??
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JUDGING FROM RADIODISCUSIONS.COM...A HELLUVA LOT !
 
If it is a book about radio, I'll read it.

Thanks, Ed.

Jeff in Sa-ra-so-ta!
 
I remember hearing it growing up and, yes, Lee Arnold was a stand out personality.

Hmm, the seventies ... and music on AM! Those were the good ol' days!
 
Can this book be pre-ordered on Amazon? WHN was one of my favorite stations. I agree, this will appeal to us radio geeks, but it might have some mass appeal,as well.

I remember Jack Spector playing "The Race Is On" by George Jones when WHN switched to country that late February morning in 1973.

I remember Herb Oscar Anderson doing mornings on WHN right before the switch. He would have been a perfect country morning man.
 
TheBigA said:
Lee Arnold once explained on the air that the stations call letters came from Willie Nelson's initials. That's not exactly true, although Willie's middle name IS Hugh.
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WHN started in 1922. Willie Nelson was born in 1933. Maybe his parents had some foresight and named him after the radio station, knowing full-well that a New York station would play Texas-born Willie's music by the time he turned 40. ;D
 
KeithE4 said:
TheBigA said:
Lee Arnold once explained on the air that the stations call letters came from Willie Nelson's initials. That's not exactly true, although Willie's middle name IS Hugh.
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WHN started in 1922. Willie Nelson was born in 1933. Maybe his parents had some foresight and named him after the radio station, knowing full-well that a New York station would play Texas-born Willie's music by the time he turned 40. ;D
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Yeah, that's what happened.

:D

Jeff in Sa-ra-so-ta!
 
WHN's Jesse Scott, the first female DJ in Thee Apple went on to program XM's X-Country untill the channel became a casualty of the merger with Sirius.
 
Over on the 'rival' NYRMB through the years, Ed Salamon periodically has posted with his amiable swerves on the WHN days of Country whenever such topics surfaced.

Gosh, Ed ..... I hope the book has some edgier and snarkier stuff than your relaxed and Pied Piper posts have had, lol.

Ed's carefree, practical, confident, gracious and dead-on recounts of the WHN years in terms of ratings, music and sponsorships sort of remind me of those from another fellow, more recently. Are they related?

Is Ed Salamon Tony Santiago with a Stetson or is Tony Santiago Ed Salamon refitted in Bee Gees glitter, :D

Gotta have more music off the well-beaten path on FM. Gotta buy this book, too.
 
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