Wow Carl Owen, what a great guy he was. He built the am/fm studio boards from kits. I'll never forget those days; Ray Martin doing spots right out of the newspaper circulars. No script, just roll tape and read a laundry list of iteams until the spot was done. Sometimes you could hear the newspaper rattle in the spot. Ray Martin waht a character he was. Carl Owen and Bill Wotring agreed to let me do an "rock" album hour at night, before final program of the day, "Bible women speak today". I found a sponsor and things were good until I segued out of Johnny Winters "Highway 61" Live into the opening of Bible womens' little piano open and Johnny screaming ..Yeah..Yeah...now thats rock and roll man... I thought Carl was going to have a baby. Apparently I was so engrossed in the moment I didn't see the hotline ringing and he flew down to the studio to give me the business.
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Is it true that Walt Golden changed his name to H. Abraham Carstairs and is now a correspondent for the Daily Show? Hmmm.....
HarrytheK1 said:
No, I think he became Samantha Bee. I'm basing this purely on physical resemblance.
During my brief incarceration at WHTG in the mid-70s, it was an AM Daytimer simulcasting its mono FM. It was in the absentee owner's home, where his daughter (the station manager) lived. On one side of the air studio was a window with a curtain on the other side of the glass. If that curtain were pulled aside, you would see into the kitchen. WOW: the Big time!
I was there for a couple months just to have a place to dub audition tapes and photocopy resumes. Someone told me when I started, "You know, Dave Herman used to work here." I said, "Of course he did. You didn't think he'd STAY did ya?" (Mr. Diplomacy, that's me.)
Schuyler said:
Did you also use the kitchen as a place to make yourself dinner?
bigjay said:
At WHWH, we didn't have an Elton or Olivia. Our john was called Morris.
Harry...
After climbing those LONG steps, it was just to the left after you made a right. Why do I remember stuff like this? Because I was there for 7 years total in a 10-year span...'76-'86. I remember it as being called The Napoleon" after the same namesake YOU gave it. (LOL)
The sink was older than Herb Hobler in that little room/closet. The Passport...er...PST FM studio overlooking the cemetary where a president of the US is buried wasn't much bigger when I first got there.
Say...Whatever happened to "Willie" the ghost? Is HE still stuck in the closet?
Harry...email me.
BE BIG!
Jay
After climbing those LONG steps, it was just to the left after you made a right. Why do I remember stuff like this? Because I was there for 7 years total in a 10-year span...'76-'86. I remember it as being called The Napoleon" after the same namesake YOU gave it. (LOL)
The sink was older than Herb Hobler in that little room/closet. The Passport...er...PST FM studio overlooking the cemetary where a president of the US is buried wasn't much bigger when I first got there.
Say...Whatever happened to "Willie" the ghost? Is HE still stuck in the closet?
Harry...email me.
BE BIG!
Jay
bigjay said:
Are you serious? I did not know that! That is wild and crazy stuff! Seriously, I can't believe I never heard that before. So now I need to know who that President was. Is it A) Herbert Hoover B) Theodore Roosevelt C) Woodrow Wilson D) Millard Fillmore? I say C) Woodrow Wilson and yes, Regis, that's my final answer.
Not a match, the prize goes back...
Hoover is in West Branch, Iowa.
Teddy is in Oyster Bay, NY
Wilson is in Washington, DC
Filmore is in Buffalo, NY
Try Grover Cleveland in Princeton, NJ http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=205
Hoover is in West Branch, Iowa.
Teddy is in Oyster Bay, NY
Wilson is in Washington, DC
Filmore is in Buffalo, NY
Try Grover Cleveland in Princeton, NJ http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=205
amfmsw said:
It's quite ironic that your tag line in that post was "Any day above ground is a great day!"
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OK, I just read the whole thread when I should be writing a paper for university...
Harry, I recently moved and in sorting all my stuff I found a photo of you looking exuberant and jolly that I took at WHWH where I used to work under the moniker of Diana Snow. My first day I did an hour on your show so you could break me in gently and I cued up the first record backwards. After that I did rather better.
Then I worked at WCFR in Vermont (Hi Bill Salati! I have photos of you too somewhere, at a CFR broom hockey match), then in Worcester at a station I can't remember the calls of (must have not been memorable or else my brain is going), then at WEBE108 in Connecticut (as Diana Spencer) and then I left radio, worked in telecommunications, then moved to Germany in 1987 where I became the reigning Rubber Stamp Goddess, then to England where I live now, a happy glass designer and university student (Speech and Language Therapy, it all makes sense, you know it does).
Whenever I've stumbled onto that photo of you I've wondered what you were up to. Nice to find you here.
You can find me on my own website, www.magpieandbadger.co.uk or on Facebook where I can waste tons of time that should be spent studying.
All the best!
Diana Arseneau
Harry, I recently moved and in sorting all my stuff I found a photo of you looking exuberant and jolly that I took at WHWH where I used to work under the moniker of Diana Snow. My first day I did an hour on your show so you could break me in gently and I cued up the first record backwards. After that I did rather better.
Then I worked at WCFR in Vermont (Hi Bill Salati! I have photos of you too somewhere, at a CFR broom hockey match), then in Worcester at a station I can't remember the calls of (must have not been memorable or else my brain is going), then at WEBE108 in Connecticut (as Diana Spencer) and then I left radio, worked in telecommunications, then moved to Germany in 1987 where I became the reigning Rubber Stamp Goddess, then to England where I live now, a happy glass designer and university student (Speech and Language Therapy, it all makes sense, you know it does).
Whenever I've stumbled onto that photo of you I've wondered what you were up to. Nice to find you here.
You can find me on my own website, www.magpieandbadger.co.uk or on Facebook where I can waste tons of time that should be spent studying.
All the best!
Diana Arseneau
Artfulbadger said:
Diana, it's so good to hear from you. I often have thought of you too and wondered what you were up to since 'H'. Could you post or e-mail that photo of me? Then I could show people proof that at one time in my life I was actually exuberant and jolly.
Artfulbadger said:
Wow! Even though it was almost 30 years ago, I do remember your cueing up the first record backwards. However, I have absolutely no recollection of your ever doing rather better after that
Artfulbadger said:
I worked in telecommunications too. Who did you work for and what did you do? After that, you moved to Germany and England, huh? Was that by choice or did you have to leave the country
BTW, I checked out your website and it was really interesting! You also look exactly the same as you did the last time I saw you. Ironically, so do I...except for the amount and color of my hair...and size of my middle...and a slightly double chin...well, maybe more like a chin-and-a-half...and a couple of other things too disgusting to mention here.
Anyway, it's great hearing from you. Keep in touch!
Wow Carl Owen, what a great guy he was.
Very nice gentlemen. But would have been better if he had just stuck with engineering. I recall hearing a story how Carl had a habit of "breaking records" he didn't like. In the summer of 76, the station went through a number of copies of "Play That Funky Music". At night, the station was either Top 40 or AOR, depending who was on the air.
Owner Bill Wotring would not let the station play "Don't Let The Sun Go DOWN ON ME" by Elton John because what he theorized what the song was about.
The hotline ringing when somewhere "dared" play a vocal during the "Dining" Show. Just 101 strings and instrumentals were permitted.
THose Zaberers commercials 4 times an hour.
Very bizarre station. Block programming at its best.
Very nice gentlemen. But would have been better if he had just stuck with engineering. I recall hearing a story how Carl had a habit of "breaking records" he didn't like. In the summer of 76, the station went through a number of copies of "Play That Funky Music". At night, the station was either Top 40 or AOR, depending who was on the air.
Owner Bill Wotring would not let the station play "Don't Let The Sun Go DOWN ON ME" by Elton John because what he theorized what the song was about.
The hotline ringing when somewhere "dared" play a vocal during the "Dining" Show. Just 101 strings and instrumentals were permitted.
THose Zaberers commercials 4 times an hour.
Very bizarre station. Block programming at its best.
How could I be Mr. KY? I'm not from Kentucky. BTW, horrible jokes like that are the reason I've been out of radio for years.Schuyler said:
Hey...Hal (the Murray-Go-'Round) was a nice guy...a lost soul, but a nice guy. Jeez...he introduced the freakin' Beatles in Pittsburgh when he was on KQV. Ironic that JOEY REYNOLDS would be the PD of KQV a decade later. That didn't last, so I'm glad I turned DOWN the invite to join him. So what did he do? He hired another guy to be "Jay the Jock."
Back to Hal...Did he EVER learn how to run that idiotic Gates board at WHLW with those awful pushbuttons? Nope. Rest his soul.
Oh...Harry, you WERE exhuberant at BOTH stations with "H's" in the call letters.
But, ya know, even the snakes in the basement at 11-7 were afraid of you.
Me and Andrea still want to have lunch again some time...we had a blast in Center City that day. It's nice to keep in touch with old colleagues. So you know, I'll be on CBS-FM again Sunjay, Valentine's Jay and Monjay, President's Jay--both from 3-7pm. www.wcbsfm.com...I'm having a blast and they let me be ME!!! Rare these jays.
Give me a shout on my Comcast email....you too Schuyler...
BE BIG!
Jay
Back to Hal...Did he EVER learn how to run that idiotic Gates board at WHLW with those awful pushbuttons? Nope. Rest his soul.
Oh...Harry, you WERE exhuberant at BOTH stations with "H's" in the call letters.
But, ya know, even the snakes in the basement at 11-7 were afraid of you.
Me and Andrea still want to have lunch again some time...we had a blast in Center City that day. It's nice to keep in touch with old colleagues. So you know, I'll be on CBS-FM again Sunjay, Valentine's Jay and Monjay, President's Jay--both from 3-7pm. www.wcbsfm.com...I'm having a blast and they let me be ME!!! Rare these jays.
Give me a shout on my Comcast email....you too Schuyler...
BE BIG!
Jay
bigjay said:
He most definitely was. I can't imagine anybody ever having a bad word to say about him. He was very funny too with his Borsch Belt type of humor. (Of course, these days, does anybody even know what Borsch Belt humor is?) He was also very dedicated to his craft - a DJ who did a lot of packin' and unpackin'..town to town...up and down the dial. I just hope he was as happy as he made others.
bigjay said:
Yeah, but at least the snakes in the basement weren't as bad as some of the snakes who worked at those stations. But seriously, I wanna tell ya, wasn't snakes in the basement the lousy follow-up to Rats in my Room?
bigjay said:
So did I. It was great seeing you guys. I'd love to do lunch again too, so just give me a couple of days notice before the next time you're coming to town. That should give me enough time to come up with an excuse as to why I can't meet you. (rim shot) You know something? That may have been an old Hal Murray joke. Anyway, I'm so glad you guys have got your health back. Now just work at staying that way. Also, congrats on the WCBS-FM gig. Can you get me an autographed picture of Harry Harrison...or, at least, Max Kinkel?
Always great reading these posts and going back a few years. 11-7(WHLW) WAS an INCREDIBLE place to walk into in 1974.
As a high school kid, I was overwhelmed. Thanks to Jay Sorensen, I was able to hang around the station and eventually got a
job in 75 running the board for the Sunday gospel show and Kasey Casem, AT40. Now being a collector(see "Hoarders" on TV), I have
been able to save the following from the 11-7 class of 74-76....an aircheck of my first time on-air as Charlie Robert's guest, local
oldies "expert"-Bob Sorrentino-embarrassing!, Hal Murray's presskit and resume(Sorry Tom McNally, there IS another
copy out there!), a used hamburger wrapper and several autographed 45s from George Benson-WIBG or WFIL days?, a picture
of me with Peggy the talking time-telling pig's love child,(no ex-wife jokes please and if there are any..I will start them), an original
1975 Valentines Day card from Harry Kalish to himself, the original 3 lp set of the first AT40 weekly show I ran, a "World Famous"
aircheck interviewing a Lakewood contestent in a beauty contest, the first doo-wop records we played on the shore's FIRST EVER
"doo-wop" show in 1976, a "mingles" record from Joey Reynolds, a yellow round 11-7 bumper sticker (now what small market station
would do THAT in 1975?), a key to the personal office of Mike Cantoni, a picture of a confident new music director behind his desk
looking and feeling on top of the entire world(you would too at 17), and finally an unopened package of condoms and no, I don't want
to talk about it. Perhaps if I had spent less time collecting memorabilia and more time..... aw, forget it. I only wish I had
stashed away some youth for future use. Memories.....light the corners of my mind...
As a high school kid, I was overwhelmed. Thanks to Jay Sorensen, I was able to hang around the station and eventually got a
job in 75 running the board for the Sunday gospel show and Kasey Casem, AT40. Now being a collector(see "Hoarders" on TV), I have
been able to save the following from the 11-7 class of 74-76....an aircheck of my first time on-air as Charlie Robert's guest, local
oldies "expert"-Bob Sorrentino-embarrassing!, Hal Murray's presskit and resume(Sorry Tom McNally, there IS another
copy out there!), a used hamburger wrapper and several autographed 45s from George Benson-WIBG or WFIL days?, a picture
of me with Peggy the talking time-telling pig's love child,(no ex-wife jokes please and if there are any..I will start them), an original
1975 Valentines Day card from Harry Kalish to himself, the original 3 lp set of the first AT40 weekly show I ran, a "World Famous"
aircheck interviewing a Lakewood contestent in a beauty contest, the first doo-wop records we played on the shore's FIRST EVER
"doo-wop" show in 1976, a "mingles" record from Joey Reynolds, a yellow round 11-7 bumper sticker (now what small market station
would do THAT in 1975?), a key to the personal office of Mike Cantoni, a picture of a confident new music director behind his desk
looking and feeling on top of the entire world(you would too at 17), and finally an unopened package of condoms and no, I don't want
to talk about it. Perhaps if I had spent less time collecting memorabilia and more time..... aw, forget it. I only wish I had
stashed away some youth for future use. Memories.....light the corners of my mind...
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