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The Electric Weenie...

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Anyone remember, or use, The Electric Weenie? Or for that matter, any other "joke" service? Just curious. I think seeing Electric Noodle here has made me think of The Electric Weenie and it brought back a ton of memories.
 
Anyone remember, or use, The Electric Weenie? Or for that matter, any other "joke" service? Just curious. I think seeing Electric Noodle here has made me think of The Electric Weenie and it brought back a ton of memories.
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I remember The Electric Weenie and also Dan O'Day's O'Liners and O'Bits. They do bring back memories, good and bad, from the days of personality radio. Major talent like Dr. Don Rose made good use of these services, but they had the talent to pull it off. Hearing jocks in smaller markets, with no sense of comedic timing, reading topical one liners("How 'bout that Billy Carter") and pretending they're Johnny Carson - that could be a little tough to handle. But those were the days when dj's had fun on the air, for better or for worse.
 
Hearing jocks in smaller markets, with no sense of comedic timing, reading topical one liners("How 'bout that Billy Carter") and pretending they're Johnny Carson - that could be a little tough to handle.
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You are so right! It was actually painful to hear some guys just drop a one-liner in an inappropriate setting and expect laughs. These things worked, but you had to set them up, you needed to not only keep them topical, but you needed to try and "localize" them.

I always thought The Weenie was the best of the bunch. Tom Adams wrote some pretty funny stuff. O'Day, OTOH, wrote more and offered more services to jocks, but I just didn't think his material was funny. O'Day is still around, has a website http://www.danoday.com/

You're also very right about another thing - those were indeed the days when radio was fun. That's not to criticize those who work in the biz today, not at all. Some very talented people work in this market, but I somehow get the sense that the fun-factor has been removed.
 
I am glad some of you remember the infamous Electric Weenie. My dad was Tom Adams and I remember him chuckling to himself as he proofread his material and prepared each issue to send out to various stations/DJs across the country. My brother and I often re-read the material to enjoy a good belly laugh and to recollect one of the greatest eras in radio.
 
Plus, there was the challenge of being topical, while you had to mail out the newsletter once a week. It was harder to be funny and fast in the pre-internet age.
 
Teacherg4 said:
I am glad some of you remember the infamous Electric Weenie. My dad was Tom Adams and I remember him chuckling to himself as he proofread his material and prepared each issue to send out to various stations/DJs across the country. My brother and I often re-read the material to enjoy a good belly laugh and to recollect one of the greatest eras in radio.
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Is your bro (or yourself) also named Tom, a DJ/Production guy who was at WOVV Ft.Pierce, FL in the Reagan Era?
 
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