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Tx. Radio Hall of Fame

Definitely Rick Candea if he's not already in. I can't believe that. Best PD I ever worked for. Likewise Bob Presley, Tim and Bob and Biff Collie, who worked at KNUZ, KLEE and KPRC and is in the CROF.

Another jock from the early days of KILT would be Joel A. Spivak; there's a thread about him on the Where are they board. There are others from that era but it will take me some time to think of them.

I think there are some pioneers of Dallas radio in there but none from Houston that I know of. People like Alfred P. Daniel, the Dean of Houston Radio, Judge Roy Hofheinz and Will Horwitz. Those last two would have been as revered in the industry as Gordon McLendon if they'd spent all their careers in radio but they went on to other things that they are more known for. Lee Segall who had a hand in launching Vox Populi on KTRH in 1932 then created Dr. IQ in 1937; both went on to big network success and Segall moved to Dallas and owned and operated KIXL AM/FM and possibly deserves credit for creating the good music format.

Then again maybe what we need is a Houston Radio Hall of Fame to make sure all these get recognized.
 
20ozwilliehoppe said:
I'm amazed at Chuck Tiller's knowledge of this radio market. Keep it going, Chuck. And you mentioned some radio newsmen for the Hall of Fame including Robert B. McIntyre and Jim Carola. I checked the orginizations website and McIntyre was inducted the very first year in 2002 and Jim Carola in 2004. I'm still amazed at the destruction of KILT. An agency rep who calls on our station said Hudson and Harrigan were down to a .03 in mornings, which I think is about 22 or 23 in the market. My reaction was that it can't be true but she insists it is. Anyone got any legit book information. BTW, I see signs of the "things" that chopped away at radio now happening at our station and all other TV outlets. How about some well known TV faces working as contract labor. Anybody got a Way Back machine for sale?
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Thank you for the correction. I had forgotten and RB and Jim already occupying those positions in TROHF. (Uh-oh, the memory is starting to fade!) The preceding info from Hrhwebmaster is some of the best you will find anywhere on the web concerning the history of Houston radio & TV.

Go to his website here:

http://houstonradiohistory.blogspot.com/

By the way, he isn't just some guy who has thrown together a website. He, too, needs to be nominated. In addition to other stations in his beginning in Texas radio, he was on the air at KAUM, KILT and KIKK, just to name a few. He is Bruce Williamson. Check out his website and learn about those who paved the way for the rest of us on the air in Houston.
 
Bruce himself is more than qualified to earn his OWN nomination! From his days as PD of KODA, to his work on the air at KILT, and IMHO, his days doing afternoons for that time that I was moved to mornings (is this history repeating itself or what) he was KILLER on KIKK!

Go Bruce! He is getting one of my slots.
 
I worked with Bruce at KTBC AM/FM in Austin for a time back in the 60s, before they changed the calls to KLBJ. I can tell you that Williamson isn't his real name. It's the air name he picked to cover his real last name, for reasons I still think are funny.

With his permission I will reveal his real last name.
 
The fact is, we know his last name too. He signed the program logs and transmitter logs with his real name. Out of respect to his privacy, we used only his air name.
 
Happy to see my old friend Royce Guinn mentioned. I also saw another old friend, Buddy Clark (Cantu) mentioned. Great person and a whiz in production.

Where is he now?

Jim Shannon
KULF '70-'74
 
Chuck Tiller said:
Before there was Bacon and Lamb on KILT
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I've been meaning to ask about them, Chuck. When were these guys on? I seem to recall my aunt who lived in Houston mentioned them once.
 
Thanks for the mentions guys. The thought that I belong in there with the likes of RB, H&H, Jim Carola and so many others that I worked with or listened to is mind-boggling. There are so many who deserve to get in there before me and with the limited number who can make it each year, I wouldn't even vote for myself.

Jim - Yes, I'm still in the WPP, though for additional reasons now. BTW I remembered you, finally. Jim embarrassed me greatly a few years ago by claiming to have worked with me at KTBC back in the Pleistocene. I thought he was crazy but he knew so many things about me I finally had to concede we must have been in the same building at one point. A mind is a terrible thing to go to waste.

Jim's memory is about a thousand times better than mine so if he ever claims he's losing it, he's pulling your leg.

I have been in touch with descendants of both Tim Nolan and Bob Byron and one of these days will pull together a piece on them for the history. No one will ever touch what Fred and Randy did but those guys deserve to be in the TRHOF (along with Candea and Presley). Besides building KILT into a juggernaut in the 80s and 90s, don't forget Rick was Captain Jack (uh oh - am I remembering that right?) and had incredible numbers on KILT AM at a time when AM was supposed to be dying. Those are the ones I'd like to vote for this year.
 
jd said:
Chuck Tiller said:
Before there was Bacon and Lamb on KILT
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I've been meaning to ask about them, Chuck. When were these guys on? I seem to recall my aunt who lived in Houston mentioned them once.
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The year was 1963. The following link will take you to a Billboard "Vox Jox" article. This link should automatically take you to about the middle of the page. You will se a mention about the Houston radio personalities who were at a Arabian Shrine Temple event.

http://books.google.com/books?id=TA...Q6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=dick Lamb on kilt&f=false

They were the team of Tommy Bacon and Dick Lamb. Dick had been back and forth between KLIF and KILT in the early Top 40 McLenden days. They were only around a short time. i was 12 years old and remeembering them as very funny. I know of no airchecks about this team.

 
Has anyone mentioned Weaver Morrow. Worked with him at KRBE back in the eighties. He waxed my butt at racketball. Last I heard from him, about ten years ago, he was selling brokered electricity.
 
Ten years ago Weaver was doing mornings on Sunny 99.1. Heck, he was doing KODA mornings as of just a few years ago. He's looking for radio work now; you can find him on Facebook. And yes, I'm voting for him on my TRHF sheet. And as I've mentioned before, few people currently on Houston-AREA radio have been on the air as long as Mary McCoy, who's at KVST in Conroe. Skipper Lee "the Mountain of Soul" has been on about as long...few others. They've got my vote.

I used to enjoy working with Bruce Williamson at KILT because he was such a hoot. So funny, I remember his tongue-in-cheek pronunciation of the word "patio" in commercials, saying something like, "and don't forget all the fun they'll be having -- ON the POTTY-oh."
 
Michael, I agree about Mary McCoy. I had the pleasure of working with her in 1974 at the 3rd station in my career, 900 KIKR, Conroe. When I arrived, Mary had been there for quite some time under it's previous call letters, KMCO.
 
I voted for Mary and her on-air partner at KVST, Larry Galla, last year. Had the pleasure of working with her at KMCO back when I was about 15 years old. Her and her husband Errol are two of my favorite people.

I had the pleasure of getting Larry started at the other Conroe station I worked at, KNRO, when he first got into this blessed business. Sure was proud of him when he ended up at KIKK-AM as their PD, some years later.
 
Errol too has earned the right. There have been a handful of engineering types over the years who made it in, including KILT's Danny Woodard.

PS-I also recall Bruce's REAL last name AND phone number by heart. *Who of you (except Brucie can say that?)
 
You're right, Erroll deserves to win this year. And when Larry Galla left the air on KIKK, there were pickets and protesters in front of the station, right? I've never heard of that happening before or since, have you? Phil, Erroll, Larry, Mary, Weaver, Skipper, Bruce...well, my ballot's about full. Oh, and don't forget Jim Rose, folks...
 
Let me jump back to the Weaver Morrow comments: I had him on as a guest when I started to experiment with a live internet broadcasts. He was FANTASTIC! Always great stories and a hell of a nice guy. We would always seem to run into each other at the coffee machine when we were all under one roof at 360 Post Oak.

Dave Crockett
www.crockettVO.com
 
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