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WARMLAND MIGHTY 590 REUNION AUGUST 14, 2010!!!

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oldies4ever

WARMLAND MIGHTY 590 REUNION AUGUST 14, 2010!!!

Hi everyone-
I know its a ways away, but wanted to fill everyone in on the First Annual (I Hope) Warmland Mighty 590 reunion to be held in Conjunction with the Pocono Drag Lodge reunion, August 14, 2010, from 9 am to 5 pm. What went together better than cars, Pocono Drag lodge, and the best station ever, anywhere???
I hope to get as many former WARM personalities, workers, fans, radioheads up at the reunion, which will be once again held at the drag strip on Meadow Run road, in Bear Creek. Last years reunion was a huge success,and we are adding the WARM reunion, hopefully a small reunion of the Lyndwood dragsters that were built in Wilkes- Barre, and the Alison P. Suter blues band will be giving a free concert!!! Joey Shaver has promised me that one way or another he will have the "SUNDAY-SUNDAY-SUNDAY" pdl spot that ran on WARM, and we will be dropping WARM Jingles in between the tunes. Please get me your email addresses so I can get you on a mailing list; mine is [email protected]estions would be greatly appreciated and would help make this a memorable event!!

Thanks

Charlie Hulsizer
Organizer
 
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oldies4ever said:
Hi everyone-



Joey Shaver has promised me that one way or another he will have the "SUNDAY-SUNDAY-SUNDAY" pdl spot that ran on WARM, and we will be dropping WARM Jingles in between the tunes
Organizer
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I hope the kingle compnay in Dallas , TX don't hear about playing those jingles. They own the old PAMS stuff and love to get their attorney's on anyone's back. You'd need Perry Mason to get you out of it. If push comes to shove, Shaver will blame YOU. Remember, they used to call him "Little" Joey Shaver.

That will be some reunion. Isn't most of the old WARM staff passed away unfortunately? Plus, no one gives a darn about anyone from the 70s or 80s that worked there.
 
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Hi- well for someone who uses the moniker WARMLAND, I expected a little more encouragement than what you gave us! Come on up and help us celebrate; I'm going to invite folks that are currently involved with the station....Cars and the mighty 590 go hand in hand; its what blasted out of the dashboard in the 60's!!

Thanks for the input!

Charlie ;D
 
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oldies4ever said:
Hi- well for someone who uses the moniker WARMLAND, I expected a little more encouragement than what you gave us! Come on up and help us celebrate; I'm going to invite folks that are currently involved with the station....Cars and the mighty 590 go hand in hand; its what blasted out of the dashboard in the 60's!!

Thanks for the input!

Charlie ;D
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Best of luck to you. I must tell you that from what I heard over the years. There were plenty of staff members burnt bad after the golden days ended. This would be the 70s into the 80s. When KRZ hit the air waves, it got pretty nasty at the old Mighty 590. So there is more ex staff's members than one that has ill feeling about working there.
 
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I wrote this when WARM was off air and presumed dead.

We first met some 30 years ago. I was a youngster just getting my feet wet in my chosen profession. Every morning while I headed into work we would spend the drive together. I learned a lot. The things I was taught just by listening lasted me a lifetime. I was a country boy in the wilds of Vermont. This was a big city powerhouse that just reeked of professionalism. This was my first job right out of college. If I recall correctly I was paid the princely sum of $85 a week. I know that I worked far more than 40 hours back then so my hourly rate was probably well under $2. But my new friend made me sure that better times could be at hand. I thought to myself as I listened and learned that someday, maybe someday I would be good enough to be on the air at WARM.
Because, you see, WARM was legendary in those days. Hundreds of miles and several states away I heard the booming signal of 590 in my crappy car as I headed to my crappy low paying on air gig. I am going to use a radio term. WARM came into Springfield Vermont like a “Local.” It was one of those huge flamethrower radio signals that blanketed the country. For various reasons we will never see it’s like again. But more than just a huge coverage area WARM was, for a radio guy, the ultimate in professionalism. Listening in the small farm community in Vermont I learned what big time slick radio sounded like. It seemed that WARM did everything right. The news was crisp and authoritative. The music was spot on. The disc jockeys sounded, well, they sounded warm. Friendly and funny and like you had a friend in your car. It was something to aspire to.
A few years later I moved to this place. I would like to say it was to work at the legend. Instead it was my mission to put the legend out to pasture. The station I put on the air in 1980 knocked WARM out of first place in very short order but truth be told the wheels had already started to come off. FM was eating AM’s lunch. I was just in the right place at the right time. Not that it wasn’t heady stuff at the time. WARM was on life support by the end of the 80’s and if it was a horse it would have been shot by the new millennium. And now it’s gone. Not worth fixing say the fat cat owners who pulled the plug. Another radio term. WARM is now “dark.” Kind of says it all.
 
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pdjames said:
A few years later I moved to this place. I would like to say it was to work at the legend. Instead it was my mission to put the legend out to pasture. The station I put on the air in 1980 knocked WARM out of first place in very short order but truth be told the wheels had already started to come off.
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With South Park in Mind...

They Killed WARM...You Ba$$ tards! ;D
 
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As I read PDJAMES's reflection of WARM, I couldn't help but hear the theme from The Good, the Bad and the Ugly in my head.
 
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I understand that Don Paul (Dominick Paroby) died several years ago.
 
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fryman said:
I understand that Don Paul (Dominick Paroby) died several years ago.
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Don Paul was a great broadcaster. When he was at WARM he was doing news. For some reason he switched shifts with Steve Sanders (spelling ?) Steve went to news and Paul to the overnight shift. Something happened at all of a sudden...Don Paul was at WICK doing a talk show. He soon after went to Altoona and was working there was many years. I can't think of the call letters after all these years. What ever happened to Sanders ? I am not sure if Tommy Woods was at WARM by then. I am thinking the summer of 68. many Tommy can fill in the blanks?
 
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A little light to shed, and I mean a little.

By 1968, I am certain Tom Woods was gone from WARM. If I'm wrong, Tommy, nail me.

I worked for WARM seven years, and I never once heard the name Don Paul. Please, don't take that as any lack of respect, but I have no idea who this guy was.

However, Steve Sanders is another matter. The goofiness of radio at the time was beyond belief. Steve Sanders was the jock originally known as Steven Allen Scott. Steve Sanders was his name the second time around at WARM. Neither of those names were his given name and, as I recall hearing, neither was even close to his real name.

The station in Altoona that's been referenced was likely WFBG. Another WARM connection to WFBG was one Michael Quinn, whom I do believe came to WARM from WFBG and returned to the same after he left Avoca.
 
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Vince Sweeney said:
A little light to shed, and I mean a little.

By 1968, I am certain Tom Woods was gone from WARM. If I'm wrong, Tommy, nail me.

I worked for WARM seven years, and I never once heard the name Don Paul. Please, don't take that as any lack of respect, but I have no idea who this guy was.

However, Steve Sanders is another matter. The goofiness of radio at the time was beyond belief. Steve Sanders was the jock originally known as Steven Allen Scott. Steve Sanders was his name the second time around at WARM. Neither of those names were his given name and, as I recall hearing, neither was even close to his real name.

The station in Altoona that's been referenced was likely WFBG. Another WARM connection to WFBG was one Michael Quinn, whom I do believe came to WARM from WFBG and returned to the same after he left Avoca.
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Vince:

Sorry, not correct. Steven Allen Scott worked at WSBA under the name of Steve "Boom Boom" Cannon. He was a great personality and was not Steve Saunders. Saunders had very little to offer in the way of being a personality and was better off on news. Scott/Cannon used to call in to his friend on WBZ...Larry Glick. I do recall him telling Glick he was in Scranton and Glick laughing and making all the usual coal miners jokes.

I had also seen photos of both Scott and Saunders and they are 2 different people.

Scott was one of the best jocks to ever work at WARM and he was not there long, being offered a job at a bigger market. There are some old WARM surveys around with his photo.

Don Paul left WARM in a hurry during the summer of 68 and ended up at WICK doing a talk show and also was soon gone. AAccording to a friend, Yes he did work at WFBG for a long time.

Michael Quinn came to NEPA from Altoona to work at WILK. George Gilbert thought his WILK rating were getting too good and offered him the over nite shift at WARM to get him off WILK.
 
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Interesting stuff, warmland, thanks for sharing the info. I remember Steven Allen Scott; the guys used to say the singer Linda (every little star) Scott was his sister and I believed him, as an impressionable 10 year old!!!. Another reason I got into radio!! Great talent, like the rest of the WARM team!!

Thanks

oldies4ever ;D
 
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oldies4ever said:
Interesting stuff, warmland, thanks for sharing the info. I remember Steven Allen Scott; the guys used to say the singer Linda (every little star) Scott was his sister and I believed him, as an impressionable 10 year old!!!. Another reason I got into radio!! Great talent, like the rest of the WARM team!!

Thanks

oldies4ever ;D
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He was great. He called his show "The Steven Allen Scott Radio Broadcasting Network", broadcasting form the rice patties of Olyphant. He was there twice, first time as the overnight guy. Maybe that why Vince was confusing him with Steve Saunders. Scott even did some phone talk overnite with various celebrities. It's amazing that the powers that be at WARM at the time let him do it. Remember WARM was the only station that didn't play Hey Jude at the time, because they thought the line "Let it in and let it out was about drugs LOL. Also, Revolution the Jude "B" side was way too heavy for WARM's playlist.......Amazing
 
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