Was Oogie Pringle ever married to WABC newscaster Naomi Pringle as both worked in NYC at the same time.
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Oogie Pringle question
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I remember Oogie from his (relatively short) time on 66WNBC, late '70s IIRC. But the name Naomi Pringle doesn't ring any bells. When do you think she was there, and was she on the radio station or the Channel 7 "Eyewitness News"?
She was a newscaster on 77 WABC from 1974 to around 1977.
Oogie had a meteoric jump to WNBC in late 1974 from WRIE in Erie, PA. Before that, he worked at WJET Erie and a station in Butler PA before that. I think his next stop after WNBC was at WISN Milwaukee sometime in 1976.
I want to know if Al Knight got his mustache and goatee from a costume shop, or were they real?
Is this the one Dr. Demento used to do?
I don't know.
He would do a different version every time but it had lyrics such as
It hurt quite a bit.
Stick your head in a bucket of
Shaving cream, be nice and clean.
Shave every day and you'll always be keen.
That's the same song, yes.
If I’m not mistaken, I believe that was the late Bob Vernon, aka “Vernon with a V”.
Correct, the goatee etc. were fake. The gentleman pictured was not the voice of the pre-taped Al Knight show. The gentleman pictured was actually one of their salesmen, Vito Arrigo.
The voice of Al Knight was actually the voice of Dick Thompson, PD of then co-owned WHOT Youngstown. Dick was on air at WHOT and also did an Al Knight show on WHOT as well. Dick had actually worked at JET prior to moving to Youngstown.
This is strange. "Ogden (Oogie) Pringle" was a character in "A Date with Judy." It was a radio show (1941-1950), an MGM musical film (1948), a TV series (1951-1953) and a DC comic book (1947-1960). The cast of the film included Wallace Berry, Jane Powell, Elizabeth Taylor, Robert Stack, Carmen Miranda and Xavier Cugat. Oogie was Judy's boy friend. He was played by Scotty Beckett, who previously was in the "Our Gang" films and later in "Rocky Jones, Space Ranger."
The radio Oogie's Pringle's real name was Norman Pringle. When he came to 3WE in Cleveland as Op Mgr in the early 80s when the station flipped to country, they announced him as Norm Pringle to announce the flip.
It sounds like the character "Oogie Pringle" long predated the radio jock Norm Pringle, who saw (or a creative PD saw) an opportunity to start out with some name recognition from that earlier radio/TV/movie series, so he adopted (or was told to adopt) the "Oogie" nickname. From that point on he rode it until he got to Cleveland, where he decided (or was told) to grow up and use his real name. Do you disagree, @eriedj? You apparently knew him better than any of the rest of us.
I grew up listening here in Erie to Oogie. I only remember him on WRIE, where he worked at after WJET. I was only 8 or 9 when he was at JET so I never heard him there. I never got a chance to meet him while he was here, though I won a contest or two on WRIE and visited the station to pick up my prizes from the midday jock, the late Pat Rogers (Frisina.) Oogie did mornings at WRIE.
I ended up being in radio myself for nearly 25 years before I transitioned into a full-time wedding & event DJ, which I've now done for nearly 30 years.
I ended up being in radio myself for nearly 25 years before I transitioned into a full-time wedding & event DJ, which I've now done for nearly 30 years.
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