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Tommy Shannon Jingle

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Bill Myers

I'm listening to the 'KB 25yr reunion for Dan Neavereth from 11/86.
Tommy Shannon is recalling how his jingle came about and
how it was written, etc, etc.

When I worked at 'GR I remember Tom telling me about that jingle and how it came to be and he said that jingle was recorded in the on-air
studio that WGR was in at 464 Franklin street.

My memory is a little foggy now remembering what he said as far as where it was recorded.

I'm not sure if Tom posts on this board or if someone would know -
just wanted to clarify - was the jingle really recorded in the same on-air studio that WGR 550 was in at 464 Franklin? I just find that interesting and I can't remember how he said it. Could someone verify this?

Also on that reunion tape from '86, it was interesting to hear that one of the jocks just bought a brand new computer - An Apple 2E. How far we've come.
 
You're close, BM. The jingle was recorded in the same building that years later was home to WGR (GR-55)and (WGR-FM, Super Q, Q-FM-97, 97 Rock, WGR-FM, WRLT, 97 Rock.) Tommy Shannon and Joey Reynolds were partners in a music production-recording studio, IIRC with a couple other guys and they owned the building at 464 Franklin Street.

Tom Schuh might have more clarity on this issue as he programmed Oldies 104 through the glory years from 1989-2000. I remember hearing Tommy Shannon talk about the arrangements and other incidentals, but as we all know, nobody can weave a yarn like Tommy.

You'd really have to know the 425 Franklin Street building. The back section was constructed with two foot thick interior walls made of brick and mortar; there were actual film vaults for film storage. The QFM97 / 97 Rock section at 59 Virginia Place was the distribution point for one of the major film chains.

There were "blow stacks" atop each of the vaults. Film is higly flamable and volitile. The doors to the vaults were steel clad. There was a screening room with a raised projection room and lower viewing room near the middle of the building. The viewing room at one time housed the automation for WGR-FM's Solid Gold format, circa '69-'72.

In the early days of QFM97, morning guy John Rivers literally knocked himself out one day bounding down the three steps of the projection room which had been converted to John McGahn's PD office. It later became the traffic office. BTW, it was all of 6 x 8 with a 7 foot ceiling. It induced claustrophia.

Taft renovated the building at least three times. First when WGR & WGR-FM moved into the building from Barton Street; next while I worked there as QFM97 became 97 Rock and again when a major renovation occured around '82 when new production and air studios were built for AM & FM, a new sales area was constructed and a new newsroom constructed for WGR. This was the construction project from hell! Asbestos was floating around and the rear roof was torn off of the 97 Rock section of the building in winter as the ten foot blow stacks were destroyed and a sweet skylight was restored. Standing propane tanks were placed in the lobby to supply space heaters. There must have been at least a dozen local and federal ordinances violated. But what did we care. We were rock n roll animals. (For the record, I took notes on the project, just in case I developed mesothelioma.)

Jack-hammers routinely interrupted commercial production, newscasts and on-air work. The work crews had no concept of being in a radio station. You'd be on the air or in the middle of recording a commercial and you'd hear steel conduit being thrown down on the concrete floor and some guy yelling, "Hey Tony, I got that %$#@ pipe you ordered!" The equipment had to be covered with plastic when not being used because the plaster dust and God only knows what were everywhere.

The HVAC didn't work most of the summer, we worked in shorts and t-shirts and often got as dirty as the construction crews from Kirst Construction. Mark Henning, (aka Sketcho X. Juarez) guitarist extraordinair and 97 Rock night guy at the time smashed phones out of frustration and nearly threw down with two of the construction monkeys. This was rather amusing because Sketcho was all of 5'6" and the construction guys were... uh, well, construction guys. Still, Henning was a badger when he was pissed off... and he frequently was.

Every day was an event, if not a fiasco of sorts. One of the things that kept us all going was (1) we were young, and (2) we lived for the new equipment: McCurdy boards, new mics, audio processing, mic processing, studios with carpeting on the wall (and not shag carpeting, either) new cart machines, tape decks and turntables; and sound proof studios with independent walls and air conditioning. After a while, it all fell into place, but not without problems that took another three months to be worked out.

Around 1990, Rich Products and Charlie Banta underwrote another renovation project, mostly electronic, with new 8 track boards and a 1 inch Otari reel to reel in 97 Rock prod but it also included construction to house the re-vamped WGR news room. As I recall, Kirst wasn't invited to bid. A few years later, 97 Rock got another new control room with a new board, tape and cart decks.

Doesn't all that sound rather prehistoric? Cart decks, tape decks, turntables?

Around 2000, there was a digital upgrade as the stations went to Scott Studios and Cool Edit Pro in production and on air. All that was blown up around 2002 when the stations vacated the splendor of Allentown [/sarcasm] and moved to 50 James E. Casey Drive.

Ironic that 464 Franklin would later become home to 97 Rock, 103.3 The Edge and Oldies 104 WHTT with Tommy Shannon doing PM drive.

Rewind to November 86, KB was programmed by engineering genius Tom Atkins, WHTT was Classic Hits (I was PD), 107.7 The Bear posted a great Summer book with John Piccillo as PD; John Hager was PD at WPHD; Kiss and Magic 102 were dueling to the death with CHR, and WBUF was a runaway train doing AC with a great line-up that included Stan Roberts and Fred Klestine among others, programmed by Jay Myers.

Here's the kicker. EACH station was owned by a different company. Yeah, them was the days, boys 'n girls. And very likely, they're never coming back. To quote the Grateful Dead, "What a long, strange trip it's been."

BTW, to this day, if you walk by 464 Franklin Street, there's a discreet sign on the door that reads, "This is NOT a radio station, no prizes can be picked up here." Old habits die hard.
 
Hi Jim,

Thanks for your historical recount of 464 Franklin. I enjoyed the read.
Yeah, I was there in '87 - McCurdy boards RE20 EV mics , ITC cart decks. I remember the basement - they had a red dresser down there with black and white photographs and other memorablia from the 40's and 50's and 60's. Yeah, the basement was pretty solid. Didn't really snoop around much down there.
I google'd Map the 464 Franklin St. site and there's no indication that there was a radio station there to begin with. Although I don't think the station call letters were mounted on the building. There was a tall sign erected in the front yard with WGR on the top and also signage on the windows and doors. I remember when they had Buffalo's Alive on GR55 plastered on their windows - right after 'KB dumped their music format and went talk. 'GR capitalized on their fact that they were still live at 55. But now, the building is just a non descript site. What's in that building now? Oh, you said 'HTT, etc. But I thought 'HTT was in the hotel downtown. I forget which one. Sheraton?
Thanks again for your write up. Didn't 97Rock have plastic bags serving as a ceiling in the control room? I think KISS 98.5 was like that too when they were housed in the old 'HLD building on Grand Island.
 
Bill Myers said:
Hi Jim,

Thanks for your historical recount of 464 Franklin. I enjoyed the read.
Yeah, I was there in '87 - McCurdy boards RE20 EV mics , ITC cart decks. I remember the basement - they had a red dresser down there with black and white photographs and other memorablia from the 40's and 50's and 60's. Yeah, the basement was pretty solid. Didn't really snoop around much down there.
I google'd Map the 464 Franklin St. site and there's no indication that there was a radio station there to begin with. Although I don't think the station call letters were mounted on the building. There was a tall sign erected in the front yard with WGR on the top and also signage on the windows and doors. I remember when they had Buffalo's Alive on GR55 plastered on their windows - right after 'KB dumped their music format and went talk. 'GR capitalized on their fact that they were still live at 55. But now, the building is just a non descript site. What's in that building now? Oh, you said 'HTT, etc. But I thought 'HTT was in the hotel downtown. I forget which one. Sheraton?
Thanks again for your write up. Didn't 97Rock have plastic bags serving as a ceiling in the control room? I think KISS 98.5 was like that too when they were housed in the old 'HLD building on Grand Island.
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WWOL begat WNYS which begat WHTT, which was in the Hilton Hotel on the waterfront. The Hilton is now the Adams Mark. When Mercury Radio (Charles W. Banta) bought WHTT/Oldies 104 from Pyramid > Evergreen, WHTT moved into 464 Franklin Street along with WEDG and 97 Rock. The building at 464 Franklin now discreetly houses a professional management company.

There's another renovation I forgot! When WGR moved from 464 Franklin to 695 Delaware (another wacky radio story unto itself, best left for another time), WEDG moved into the studio that served as the WGR control room (before that, it was PD Larry Anderson's office.)

When Oldies 104 moved into 464 Franklin Street, the former WGR newsroom (which was for a short time an engineering room) was divided in two, one half becoming a production studio, the other half becoming the WHTT control room. Space was tight.

I was at 97 Rock from '78 through its flip to AC in 1985, (again from 90-95 and another recent stop) but don't recall ceiling bags in the control room other than some sound-deadening in bags above the drop ceiling, but only a few. The 97 Rock air studio was quite accomodating after the first renovation.

The basement of 464 Franklin Street was the domain of Bruce Czarnecki, the maintenance man who owned more Taft stock than any GM who worked in the building. That basement was a treasure trove. Jerry Reo hand picked music for WGR in his basement office. There was a supply room that was stocked with all kinds of swag, from Buffalo Braves memorabilia to Art Laboe Oldies albums.

Speaking of Bruce Czarnecki, every Christmas, Taft gave employees real stock certificates pro-rated for years of service. If you were there one year, you might have received three shares; if you were a five year man, you might have received 15. Bruce Czarnecki was a shrewd guy. He may have been a custodian, but he made more than a lot of employees. Dude drove a company car, a red Chevy station wagon with big WGR logos! His personal car was a Caddy. Seriously.

Anyway, every Christmas Bruce would walk through the building after the employees received their stock certificates and offer people cash dollars for their stock, but not at full value. If Taft stock was trading at $10 a share, he'd say "I'll give you 5 bucks a share." You wouldn't believe how many jocks, secretaries and sales people took him up on that offer. (But not me.) He made a killing every year, buying Taft stock at a 50% discount, from employees who were clueless, didn't care, or just needed some quick cash for Christmas presents.

Few people know about Bruce Czarnecki, but the guy was legendary. He stripped copper from wire and cable that was discarded by engineering and sold it for cash, he saved pop cans and bottles for re-cycling, re-cycled paper. He was also the quartermaster of the building. You wanted a new legal pad? He made you show him the back cardboard of the used pad. Wanted a box of cart labels? "Show me the empty boxes from the labels I gave you last week." The guy was a terror if you were on the wrong side of him, but he was your best friend if you were on his good side.

True story. When Taft sent John Soller from Cincinnati to Buffalo to be GM, Czarnecki, in one opf his first conversations with the new GM told him, "Welcome to Buffalo. Don't screw up my stations!" Soller was indignant that a maintenance guy would say something like that to him. On a call to Cincinnati a few days later Soller asked, "Who the hell is this maintenance guy up here, he's a piece of work." Cincinnati told Soller "that 'maintenance guy is one of the company's largest individual shareholders, you better be good to him!"

Bruce was one of those guys who "cleaned up real good." He may have looked like a working stiff from 9-5, but if he was invited to a station event (and often was) like a Christmas party or promotional event, the dude looked like a million and he had a great sense of humor. He and Frank Benny used to zing each other; if Bruce was around today, he'd be part of a morning show. My friend Charley Seitz, who did morning drive news with Jim Santella on QFM97, nicknamed Czarnecki "The Commodore" after Bruce turned up at a station event sporting a sleek navy blue double breasted blazer, khaki pants, white shirt and a rich looking ascott! The guy was a genuine character. He had his priorities straight and lived a good life. And he was as much a part of WGR-WGRQ as any jock, sales guy or manager.
 
Jerry Reo hand picked music for WGR in his basement office.
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JP, you throw out another "lost, but not forgotten" name in your Savage style novel!! Any feedback about Jerry's doings these days? I worked with him briefly in the Mix 92.9/WBUF days, but know nothing as of late!! Another nicest guy, real professional..... ;D
That's all
 
Wow, what a thread. An outstanding Memorial Day gift. Thanks for starting the thread, Bill! And Mr. Pastrick - THANK YOU for that wonderfully-written account of 464 Franklin. It brought back a LOT of good memories.
 
Don't know what's become of Jerry Reo but I do remember his gig on the former WVOR (100.5) in the mid 90s. He also voiced some liners that were used on WHTK (1280). In fact, some of those liners were used until about eight months ago when HTK changed their brand from "Hot Talk" to "Sportsradio". Two of his classic liners were: KICK ASS SPORTS ON THE RADIO and FM IS FOR MUSIC.
 
Wow, this is one of those threads that make me glad I come here to read. Thanks all!

We often remember that station on the other end of the dial but I have to say that on my visits to Buffalo in the '70's GR55 was the station I enjoyed most. Great jocks, news department and music.

Didn't WGR get the Billboard station of the year award a couple of times?
 
Thanks for the post Jim. What a great read.:) I couldn't get through the post fast enough to read it. Very interesting. I bet if you wrote a book I'd never be able to put it down until I read the thing cover to cover in one sitting.:)

That's right about the hotel hosting 'HTT. It was the Hilton. I've been outta Buffalo so long I couldn't remember. That is so interesting how the stations change around so much from one place to another.

'HTT in the GR55 newsroom - Wow. I bet it was cramped. Sounds like the old days when an air studio was the size of a closet - where you get 3 people in there and it's major crowded.

Do you remember the jingle closet at 'GR? Tapes and tapes of old jingle packages, commercials for TV 2 back when it was just WGR TV 2. Old comedy tapes. I think it was in the 'office' area - across the room from where Mike Rozman use to have his office. Remember when Shane was PD for a time? Do you remember Debbie Swan? She was the receptionist there back in '80 to '81. She dated Eric Warren the weather guy from TV 2. I was shocked about 10 years later as I watched EXTRA or 20/20 or one of the news magazine shows to learn that Eric had changed career paths - He liked to play with fire IIRC and he wore a bright orange jumpsuit courtesy of the state.

Thanks again for the read Jim. If you have anymore recollections - I'd love to read 'em.

One more side note: I worked in the 97Rock studio when it was WRLT - Lite FM. I hated the fact that the door was in the back of the room and behind you. You'd be standing at the board with monitor turned up and all of a sudden somebody would be standing right behind you that you didn't know was there and would scare the crap out of ya. At least in the GR55 room the door was in front and a little to the left where you could see who's walkin' in.
 
While we're in the neighborhood what about 425 Franklin Street? There has got to be a story there.

Some time in the '70's I made the trip to Franklin Street and got a quick tour of both 464 and 425 Franklin St. I remember WYSL at 425 was in a house and one or both of the studios were upstairs?

Another question from the curious. Why did Taft separate TV and radio? Had they planned to sell (or trade) Channel 2? Anyone have some stories about 184 Barton Street? From the articles I have read 184 Barton was the first home for Channel 17 before NBC bought (built?) 2077 Elmwood Av.
 
Giving my keyboard a workout in this thread and pleased to do so. Thanks for the good words.

First, Jerry Reo. He was very visible a few weeks ago at the Buffalo Broadcast Pioneers Spring night out. We talked a little about the days when Jerry worked at WGR, but devoted more time talking about his days as morning guy at WECK, a job he really enjoyed and did well. Jerry is a class act!

WGR @ 464 Franklin Street: The commercial closet across from the early WGR production room (later the glass "fish bowl" conference room) served as the storage area for commercial masters and other station material such as stationary, promotional slicks and video tapes of commercials. Sorry to say, it wasn't maintained as well as it might have been.

That closet also was the access way to the small storage loft that gave access to the HVAC ducts and an area where unused equipment was discarded, including mic stands, speaker mounts, old coax, de-commissioned DA's and various other junque that could be cannibalized if and when needed. There was an iron ladder from the ground floor to the loft. The ladder continued to a hatchway that opened to the roof of the building, where the STLs and two way antennas were positioned.

WYSL-WGKT-WWWS / WPHD-WUFX @ 425 Franklin Street: In the early 70s, a large townhouse was renovated to house McLendon's WYSL/WPHD. It was a showplace when Larry Levite first moved the stations there from the Statler Hotel. The building had a certain Allentown panache. The basement was the music director's lair (what was it with music directors being relegated to the basement?!), lavatories, storage and a jocks lounge. The first floor was primarily sales and administrative offices, most of which were small, cramped and not at all symmetrical. The second floor contained the AM & FM studios, lavatories and a few offices.

By today's standards, that layout would appear ramshackle, but in the 70s, it was cool, much as you might have thought your first apartment in college was cool, but today you'd ask yourself how and why you ever lived in the dump.

The railing on the staircase from the first to second floor of 425 Franklin Street was carved wood, perhaps dark mahogany. On the second floor, there was a landing with an elegant black leather couch. Larry Norton tells a story about the time he snagged the handcuffs from a young Craig Matthews was snoozing on the couch. As LArry tells it, Craig worked part-time as a security guard. Norton handcuffed Craig to the couch while he caught 20 winks and walked away. The couch was in full view of the WYSL-WPHD newsroom and was a good place for news people to drop their tapedecks and pull themselves together before they hit the street.

The second floor landing brought you face to face with the 1400 WYSL studio. Open the studio door and you'd walk into the back of equipment racks and follow a narrow passage way around to the big ol' Gates Diplomat control board. Twelve (IIRC) rotary pots, six left, six right. Big Simpson Vu meters at eye level. Two rows of patch buttons in the center of the board.

WYSL was a stand-up operation, not badly well laid-out, but with one exception: The jock's back faced windows that opened to Franklin Street. If you worked nights or all night, the drapes were best kept closed, unless you wanted to keep watch of or do your show to visually entertain the characters who graced the streets of Allentown at that hour; hookers, winos, addicts, hustlers, pimps and the occasional cop who busted the hookers, winos, addicts, hustlers and pimps. A person could stand on the sidewalk across the street from 425 and have a straight shot at the jock. Which is why the drapes were almost always closed. Except for Shane, ever the exhibitionist showman.

Next stop down the second floor hallway, the WYSL-WPHD newsroom, about 15 x 15, once home to George Redpath, Jim McLauglin, Ray Marks, Kevin Gordon, LB Lyon, Sheila Murphy and so many other talented newspeople. It was a fair sized room that was strategically located between the WYSL control room and the cozy (some would say "cramped") WPHD control room, which measured about 6 x 12, not much more than a closet. As we all know, some great radio came out of that closet in the progressive days.

The lobby and first floor entrance to WYSL-WPHD @ 425 Franklin had the ugliest wallpaper known to man, straight or gay. I cannot imagine the interior designer who unloaded that bill of goods on the station. The word "gauche" might apply, but seems insufficient in describing its orange and black vertical lines with with silver stars and circles.

In the McLendon era, a portrait of a stately Gordon McLendon hung to the left of the front entrance, as you entered the cramped lobby.

True story. Most employees knew the Old Scottman's picture hung in the lobby but paid little attention to it. One night, I walked through the front door and for whatever reason, looked at the painting and noticed there was a caked booger placed perfectly under ol' Gordon's nose. Don't know how long it was there, didn't care. I walked up the stairs to the AM studio lauging heartily and told no one about it, fearing I'd take the rap for desecrating the portrait. It could have been there for days, weeks or years, placed by one of the "creative" WPHD jocks like Randy Hauck, David Kahn or Jeff Lubick. Who knows, maybe Lee Poole, aka Rufus Coyote planted it there... or a certain multi-talented jock with the initials Don Berns. I'm just sayin'.

Howard Communications bought the stations around late 1974-early 1975 and gutted the WYSL-WPHD joint news room (heh, "joint") and gutted WPHD. The newsroom became the WYSL-FM/Y-103 control room. When Howard reclaimed the WPHD call letters, it again served as the WPHD control room that was home to the Faa King antics of Taylor & Moor, John Piccillo, Jim Scott, Brian J. Walker, Grabowski, Larry Norton and other notables.

Time and abuse took a toll on 425 Franklin Street. I spent a brief time working there in '72 and again in '74 and got re-acquainted with the joint when Rich Communications first LMA'd 103.3 WUFX & 1400 WGKT from Metroplex around 1993. The place was quite literally a dump with mites in the carpeting that nibbled at your ankles. Birds, squirrels and bats ran amok and flew through the 3rd floor windows and holes in the roof.

Production would be done at 464 Franklin and a dub on a 5" reel walked a half block down the street to 425 Franklin and vice versa; Iron Mike Benson (now 97.7 Hits FM) or Tony Magoo would do a Miiiiiiiints commercial and walk it up to 464 Franklin. Computers? Digital? MP3s? What MP3s? This was analogue!

After Mercury purchased the stations, WUFX became The Edge and as noted in a previous post, the studios moved to 464 Franklin Street, leaving 425 as a storage building for a while. The building eventually was sold to an engineering or architectural firm that gutted it and restored it to its righful place as an office-townhouse.
 
First, Jerry Reo. He was very visible a few weeks ago at the Buffalo Broadcast Pioneers Spring night out. We talked a little about the days when Jerry worked at WGR, but devoted more time talking about his days as morning guy at WECK, a job he really enjoyed and did well. Jerry is a class act!
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Thanks JP for the update... glad to hear he's still around!!
 
heydaybegone said:
First, Jerry Reo. He was very visible a few weeks ago at the Buffalo Broadcast Pioneers Spring night out. We talked a little about the days when Jerry worked at WGR, but devoted more time talking about his days as morning guy at WECK, a job he really enjoyed and did well. Jerry is a class act!
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Thanks JP for the update... glad to hear he's still around!!
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I never met Jerry Reo, we talked on the phone twice, but I'll never forget him. I sent him an aircheck when he was PD at WGR and followed it up with a very enthusiastic phone call. Jerry was very nice and even called back about a week or so later to tell me they filled the position from within. It's rare in radio for someone to take the time to call you and say you didn't get the gig. So I would have to agree that Jerry Reo is a classy guy!

Thanks for the 411 on 425. We had a worse situation than that here in Charlotte the old "Big WAYS" studios/Offices were out at the transmitter and suffered so much neglect there were mushrooms growing up through the carpet and mold slime all over the place. The only thing left were the transmitters and an engineer told me he got his work done and got out as quickly as possible, a very toxic situation. Current owner CBS decided to tear down the building it was that bad. So a little Charlotte Top 40 history is gone.
 
Mike Sheridan said:
Anyone have some stories about 184 Barton Street? From the articles I have read 184 Barton was the first home for Channel 17 before NBC bought (built?) 2077 Elmwood Av.
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Sherwin Grossman and Gary Cohen teamed up to get a CP for Channel 17 in December 1952 with studios at 184 Barton Street. That was part of a race with WBES-TV 59 to become Buffalo's 2nd TV station. WBES built studios in and plopped their tower on top of the Lafayette Hotel. Technical snafus delayed them and WBUF-17 won that race and was first to sign on, and WBES only lasted three months before folding. Grossman later sold channel 17 to NBC when he attempted to be licenced to operate WKBW-TV--a battle he lost to Clinton Churchill. NBC invested over $2 million in building a new broadcast center at 2077 Elmwood.

This is a great thread, I enjoy reading of the history of old broadcast centers and the staff--and stations--which have paraded through their doors. In addition to 184 Barton, how about the Lafayette? How many FMs have used that location?

In searching for information on channel 17, I came across this article in the September 13, 1956 issue of the Binghampton Press:

Acrobatic Cops Rescue Woman from TV Tower​
Buffalo-Two daring young policemen climbed a 740-foot television tower early today to rescue a Tonawanda woman.

The shoeless woman, Mrs. Joyce Speechley, 20, was about halfway up the tower of WBUF-TV when Patrolmen Rocco Navarro and Gerald Booker arrived on the scene in North Buffalo. As they started upward toward Mrs. Speechley, she continued to climb until she reached a point about 50 feet from the top of the tower.

Clinging to their precarious perch, Navarro and Booker coaxed Mrs. Speechley to return to the ground, smoking a cigaret with the woman before the descent.

Mrs. Speechley explained she "just wanted to climb the tower." She was taken to Meyer Memorial Hospital for observation and treatment.

-found on the Fulton History website www.fultonhistory.com a great source for old Western New York newspaper articles. Another find: 184 Barton in the 1920s was the home of AM&A's Dyers and Cleaners.
 
Correction. Thanks to "BJC" who sets the record straight about Tommy Shannon's recording studio partner in the early days at 464 Franklin Street. It was Phil Todaro, the legendary Hernando on WXRA Kenmore of Hernando's Hideaway fame. Joey Reynolds was a kid at the time according to BJC ...probably spinning tunes at the Babcock Street Boys Club. I watched NBC's "50 Great Comedy One Liners" on Tuesday night and couldn't help think that Billy Crystal owes Hernando some props. Crystal did his famous Fernando's Hideaway "You look marhhh-vel-lussss..." routine. And all he did was change the "H" to an "F." ;)
 
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