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Sam The Freight Train Scott passes

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triadradionewsman

Dave Compton's latest post on Facebook:

So sorry to hear about my old friend Sam Scott in Wichita who passed away last night. Sam and I worked together at WPET & WRQK back in the 1970's, and was a dear friend. Pray for his wife Clariece and the family!
 
triadradionewsman said:
Dave Compton's latest post on Facebook:

So sorry to hear about my old friend Sam Scott in Wichita who passed away last night. Sam and I worked together at WPET & WRQK back in the 1970's, and was a dear friend. Pray for his wife Clariece and the family!
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Sam worked at 1320 WCOG in Greensboro as program Director in 1969 & 70. Moved across town to Gospel WPET 950 and was later on 98.7 WRQK when the company that owned WPET bought WMDE 98.7.
 
Oh yes...and the box with the three black knobs, on the top right of the board (with more carts stacked on top) was the Larry Allen Deluxe Cart Sequencer. Fired 'em in any order and would even start the reels and that QRK Turntable on the left.
 
;D I don't see anything but 2 POS Tapecasters? Where's the 5 stack ITC or at least another turntable.. Whadda they play music off of that Revox or Ampex...Wes..What's the story??
 
Wellllll, there was a time when some PDs wanted every song in "currents" on cart. Red dot, yellow dot, blue dot, you remember the drill. No record pops or skips on the top 20, baaaybee!!!!! ;D ;D :D ;D :eek:
 
I always loved the sound when you put a cart in the tapecaster then you'd pull the lever and lock it in and you'd hear....kachunk! Loved the huge knobs on the boards too. Fun stuff.
 
Sniffthamic said:
Wellllll, there was a time when some PDs wanted every song in "currents" on cart. Red dot, yellow dot, blue dot, you remember the drill. No record pops or skips on the top 20, baaaybee!!!!! ;D ;D :D ;D :eek:
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Yeah Man, I remember the drill but I never worked a station that had only 2 cart machines if they were playing music off carts!BIG APE
 
There were three cart machines...two on the left and one on the right. You can't see the one blocked by Sam's shoulder. The two stereo reels were music...both decks just higher end home type machines with solenoid starts so that you could use remote start and the one turntable so that Boo Baron could put Frampton on at 11:40 PM and leave the building. The Ampex 601 of which you can see the profile of at the far right was for recording those spots twice an hour from Mutual.
 
radiorealtor said:
The Ampex 601 of which you can see the profile of at the far right was for recording those spots twice an hour from Mutual.
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Mutual? What in the world was Mutual? And don't give me any BS about a radio network being owned by Amway and claiming to be the world's largest network. Or how you were required to intro each newscast with "setting the pace to follow" or some nonsense like that. And then there was the mirror ball Sam made for the Pelitek Disco at the Royal Villa. Those were the days and we didn't even realize it. Appreciate you sharing the photo Rick!
 
Bob Shannon said:
radiorealtor said:
The Ampex 601 of which you can see the profile of at the far right was for recording those spots twice an hour from Mutual.
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Or how you were required to intro each newscast with "setting the pace to follow" or some nonsense like that.
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The exact phrase just came to me, each Mutual newscast was introduced with "setting the pace for others to follow" which was then followed by whatever was the current legal id/ slogan at the time.
 
There was also the "alternate intro" once mumbled by Willie Edwards, "sitonthefaceformotherstofollow."
 
The 3 Tapecaster Cart Machines were for all the currents and spots. All the Gold was on Reel to Reel. Cheapest stereo board you could find. Consumer Reel to Reels and cheapest Tapecasters you could find (ITC? Not even close) Worst POS Equiped station I had ever seen. Even WSGH/WKZL or whatever you want to call them with their PA Board behind the WAAA Transmitter (circa 1973) prior to the station going stereo was probably better.
 
98.7 WRQK was a ROCKIN station that could be heard darn near every summer morning Down East - I'm talkin' Greenville, New Bern, Wilson, etc.

I was born with elevator music on FM, but became glued to WRQK, WQDR, Zam11/K94, WHSL, and finally WXQR and WRBK.

But that Greensboro rocker was ELECTRIC!! Thanks for the pic. Now I know where the magic came from...
 
fingar said:
radiorealtor said:
I took this photo of Sam in 1976 at WRQK - http://www.dollaraholler.com/freighttrain
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When was the RQK studio revamped with the production room put on the left and news on the right? That's what was there when I got there in late 1980. ( post-the first 800 foot tower fall and loss of the pool).
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I think it was sometime around 1978. I worked there until I graduated college in '78 and remember those two little studios being built on the roof just before I left.
 
ToddJenkins said:
Zam11/K94. .. and WRBK.

But that Greensboro rocker was ELECTRIC!! Thanks for the pic. Now I know where the magic came from...
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What were these two stations?

I can't believe that on a college campus in 1979 I never once heard WRQK and knew it. I remember thinking it was strange that area didn't have rock station like WROQ. But all the guys seemed to listen to either WKZL or Z-93.
 
V-Chimp - you must have gone to school in Winston-Salem and that's why everybody listened to Z93. Back in those days, there wasn't as much crossover listening between Greensboro and WS. Wes Jones and Willie Edwards were the morning personalities on WRQK.
 
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