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WAIM-Wilton E. Hall-No Jungle Music!!!

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As I have said before, Wilton E. Hall brought me into radio in the late 1960`s. He owned alot of Anderson. WAIM 1230, WCAC 101.1 WAIM tv 40 and The Anderson Independent Daily/Mail. He also ran ads in the 1960`s into the 1970`s proclaiming NO JUNGLE MUSIC on WAIM and WCAC. This ads appeared all over his Anderson Indepedent newspaper. Does anyone remember this? He almost fired Ken Rogers for playing a James Brown song. Wilton was a good man, but did have some crazy opinions. Does anybody else have stories of Wilton E. Hall and WAIM? Art, good dialouge about the history of WAIM in the other post.
 
Hmmm. I've read the first post over and over. All in all about 15 times. No matter how I try to interpret the line regarding not playing a specific kind of music, it's impossible to do without arriving at a racial insult being intended. So, until someone can enlighten me as to a different meaning, my question is, why give a bigot more publicity? Besides, a bigot who's a "good man" is still a bigot...even if it is possible to be both.
 
Ssummers. I'm with you. However, the much heralded Wilton E. Hall was a politician so that ought to tell you something. Politicians can be bigots and good men at the same time. It depends on how it is spun. We definitely know that he brought us good times. ;)
 
freqdev said:
Ssummers. I'm with you. However, the much heralded Wilton E. Hall was a politician so that ought to tell you something. Politicians can be bigots and good men at the same time. It depends on how it is spun. We definitely know that he brought us good times. ;)
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Admittedly, I'll be the first to admit that I'm not familiar with the guy or his background since I was from the lower part of the state back then. I'll also be the first to admit that everyone is entitled to a second chance to reinvent themselves and politicians are experts at reinvention. The positioning statement attributed to him was an eye catcher and had all the charm of a old John McCain cocktail joke. I was hoping against hope that there was some meaning for the statement other that a racially charged one, that's all.
 
I worked there in the early 70's. By that time Wilton E. Hall was also well into his 70's. The term "Jungle Music" applied to pretty much all rock sounding music, regardless of race. I had no problem playing many black artist with a bit of a motown venue. Music with a "gyration aspect" was the problimatic music. For years there was a weekend show with "Boogy Boy Wilson."

I'm not saying that ole Wilton was a saint, but remember, the times that he lived in, and the Democratic party politics in South Carolina shaped the culture of the State. The cultrue of the 1920's-1960's was vastly different than it is now.
 
weekender54 said:
I worked there in the early 70's. By that time Wilton E. Hall was also well into his 70's. The term "Jungle Music" applied to pretty much all rock sounding music, regardless of race. I had no problem playing many black artist with a bit of a motown venue. Music with a "gyration aspect" was the problimatic music. For years there was a weekend show with "Boogy Boy Wilson."

I'm not saying that ole Wilton was a saint, but remember, the times that he lived in, and the Democratic party politics in South Carolina shaped the culture of the State. The cultrue of the 1920's-1960's was vastly different than it is now.
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Unfortunately, I'm not too sure of that---it seems the current crowd in Columbia has found new code words to get the same (dispicable) points across. And, lets make one thing clear--a politician cannot be a bigot and still be a good man (or woman).
 
Wilton must have left behind some kind of bad karma ghost because in 1979 the place was full of bad vibes. The TV station was still on but just barely. Hell, I think they may have been showing Army training films. It was a strange, strange place.
 
Yes, in 1979 after his death, the place was sold to Frank Outlaw (the founder of Bi-LO grocery)!!!! Frank actually founded Rock 101!!!! I think that Wilton E. Hall did alot of good things, but was a product of his times. By the time he died, he was in his late 70`s. I do remember that WAIM-TV 40 was showing strange things. They still broadcsted some in balck and white and CBS programming at night. Frank Outlaw updated the station, but is shut down again in about 1981 and returned as WAXA TV 40 in 1984.
 
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