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WDJO Sunday Night

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mdr1234

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How do you guys think of this new good guy Kerry Paul???
Where is from??? Dayton??

I've noticed he's playing more garage bands and soul from the 60's and 70's is this a good thing for WDJO??
 
Cary Pall is a contributor to this board at times. He worked at WSAI in the in 1976 or 1977, and I believe he had a small stint at WGRR. He is a good DJ, it is good to hear DJO added an additional Sunday evening show
 
Kerry and a little Ambien and it's a big night for a DJO listener.
 
He's a great Guy, a hard worker a great person to work with.
 
I don't know him. Just havin' a bit of fun. I'm sure he is.
 
Good luck Kerry..... Play some Terry Knight and the Pack "Love,Love,Love,Love,Love" and "Dirty Water" by The Standells.

Still hope something can be done to bring Glenn Sauter's "Hit's of Yesteryear" and "Little Walter's Time Machine" to WDJO....two of the best sydnicated programs out there and sadly missed since WULM dropped "Rock n' Soul Classics" over a year ago.
 
Since CARY is contributing here and not hiding his identity... perhaps we could at least spell his name correctly.

I met Cary years ago at a radio convention... he impressed me and has done some great work.

kirkiefan said:
Good luck Kerry.....
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onegreatplace said:
Kerry and a little Ambien and it's a big night for a DJO listener.
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You are too kind, sir. However, Kevin Metheny, who has been a radio compadre since the 70s, will tell you I have been fielding requests to Harry Small, Larry Tall, Garry Wall, etc etc for most of my life. So I don't worry much about it. A mere misspelling is ok with me.

BTW, any comments good bad or ugly about what we're doing would be welcomed. Too deep? Not deep enough? What artists do you like/hate/don't care about, etc?
 
Cary Pall said:
BTW, any comments good bad or ugly about what we're doing would be welcomed. Too deep? Not deep enough? What artists do you like/hate/don't care about, etc?
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Deep is good.

Loved the "gotta getta woman" song from a couple of weeks ago. BTW, I have no idea as to the actual title & artist so I would appreciate a little education on the matter.

Truly sorry I missed the show last nite.
 
Cary Pall said:
However, Kevin Metheny, who has been a radio compadre since the 70s, will tell you I have been fielding requests to Harry Small, Larry Tall, Garry Wall, etc etc for most of my life.
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Would that be the Kevin Metheny that Howard Stern was so-endeared to? "Pig Vomit" wasn't it? Tell us if your friend survived a predictable nervous collapse courtesy of W-NNN-BC.

BTW, any comments good bad or ugly about what we're doing would be welcomed.
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I really enjoy your show online, Cary! I guess you hear the “I listen online” comment a lot though, but the stream sounds great. I’m glad it [and WDJO] is there - and plan to stay!

Too deep? Not deep enough?
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There’s two questions GUARANTEED to draw fire, but since you asked... [On a net-service] I recently heard a collage of “Believe” songs including a short snip from Wind’s 1969 “It’s Only Make Believe” with a young Tony Orlando. Now there's a "lost 45"... I can’t remember ever hearing that tune after it peaked and disappeared. I wouldn’t doubt for a second that it is within reach of your resources, but might you know of a source for it on CD [I have the single on the prolific Life Records]. Thanks!

johnnyrichards said:
Deep is good.
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Yes, “deep” IS good – always fun – and a lot more settling on a Sunday night than Ambien :D
 
I have known and respected Kevin Metheny since he was Kevin O'Brien... which was after his being Kevin Metheny in the first place. His father Terrell Metheny was a radio giant before any of us.

Kevin=Chicago, Seattle, New York. Now Cleveland of course. And, yes, he is/was Howard's "PV" and has/had considerably more humor than the character in the movie.


hipporadio said:
Cary Pall said:
However, Kevin Metheny, who has been a radio compadre since the 70s, will tell you I have been fielding requests to Harry Small, Larry Tall, Garry Wall, etc etc for most of my life.
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Would that be the Kevin Metheny that Howard Stern was so-endeared to? "Pig Vomit" wasn't it? Tell us if your friend survived a predictable nervous collapse courtesy of W-NNN-BC.
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Re Kevin: I believe that his actual Stern nickname on WNNNNNNBC was "Pig Virus", although that was altered to "Pig Vomit" for the movie, and Stern's been attributed as saying he did that because the character was based on three different people...but Paul Giamatti sure looked and sounded like KM. We first ran into each other at WNOE-AM in 1976, both hired at about the same time by E. Alvin Davis. He was known as Kevin O'Brien and actually had a full head of hair down to his shoulders and I have pics to prove it. We had quite a staff at WNOE...Crazy Bob McLain, Tom Birch (the one with the ratings company), Kevin, Lee Armstrong (Lee Clear, former GM in St. Louis and Memphis) and Allen Beebe, later also at WNNNNNNBC. Jeff Ballentine (Jeff McKay), later PD at WMMX, WBNS-FM and many others, did weekend overnights. And of course, E. Alvin, who later came to WSAI and brought me with him. Years later, Kevin and I competed against each other in Pittsburgh, then worked together for a brief time at WFBC in Greenville, SC. and again as fellow ops managers at Clear Channel. His dad, Terrell, was one of my early heroes from his work at WMCA NYC and WABY in Albany.

The "gotta getta woman" song is "Troglodyte (Cave Man)" by The Jimmy Castor Bunch, circa 1973 on RCA. Sorry I neglected the title/artist info. I will get better at that. And, indeed, I played "Make Believe" by Wind a few weeks back. WDJO's library has tons of stuff! The B side of that is an instrumental called "Groovin' With Mr. Bloe", a track that was later released as an A side on another label credited to the artist Cool Heat. Go figure.

Unless you are a cow in a field south of Florence, KY, I expect to hear "I listen to you online" a lot. Not a knock...directional and/or graveyard AM radio is my first love. One of the greatest radio stations of all time, WOLF Syracuse, got about ten miles at night max. You gotta believe.

Thanks for all the feedback!
 
As simply a "listener', I love reading these Boards since I learn so much from you guys. But I do have a question for Cary. You mentioned DJO's music library. I know they don't just have a bunch of old 45's sitting around, and I think it was Dan Allen who told me several years ago when SAI was on the Oldies format that they had something like a giant I-Pod. Is DJO's library purchased from a recording service of some kind, and how does it rotate tunes, especially after hours. (Hope I'm not asking a question that you can't share the answer, but I understand if that's the case). Is there anything you can share about how the rotation works and the number of tunes you have access to....Thanks.
 
Cary Pall said:
The "gotta getta woman" song is "Troglodyte (Cave Man)" by The Jimmy Castor Bunch, circa 1973 on RCA. Sorry I neglected the title/artist info. I will get better at that.
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I believe you did. It's just that my alter ego, Al Zeimer, happened to be listening when you (back?) announced.

Thanks for responding!
 
FRR said:
As simply a "listener', I love reading these Boards since I learn so much from you guys. But I do have a question for Cary. You mentioned DJO's music library. I know they don't just have a bunch of old 45's sitting around, and I think it was Dan Allen who told me several years ago when SAI was on the Oldies format that they had something like a giant I-Pod. Is DJO's library purchased from a recording service of some kind, and how does it rotate tunes, especially after hours. (Hope I'm not asking a question that you can't share the answer, but I understand if that's the case). Is there anything you can share about how the rotation works and the number of tunes you have access to....Thanks.
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If Cary cant help out here, Rodger does the music programming and usually pops in here.
 
The giant iPod description is accurate, but it goes further than that. All of the audio you hear on any radio station is delivered via a computer-driven audio delivery system. Other software programs help programmers and sales staff arrange the music, promos and commercial matter in a specific order as designed by the programmers.

Most stations get music libraries from outside sources, as it would take literally thousands of man-hours to try to do this from scratch (back in the day, I did spend thousands of hours re-dubbing the libraries at several stations when songs were played from tape cartridges). Some companies like Clear Channel, who service hundreds of their own stations, maintain their own library. (CC does a great job of it, I might add; when I worked for CC, it was rare to not be able to find a good copy of a song in their corporate library. BTW, that mammoth effort is headquartered right here in Cincinnati.)

At WDJO, we go a step further. As time permits, when we find songs that sound better in our own personal libraries, we bring them and dub them in, replacing the commercially-purchased library with versions we know to be better sounding. This is ongoing and is done by several of us who have been collecting stuff for years.
 
Cary, thanks much for your reply. It's these kinds of questions that most listeners never get answers to. Love your show. Hope you guys can hang on for a long time. I was told once that Clear Channel had a great library, but there seems to be a few tunes that NO ONE can seem to be able to find. Maybe I can get those titles to you sometime or maybe you can suggest who I need to talk with to find them. Thanks again.
 
FRR said:
I was told once that Clear Channel had a great library, but there seems to be a few tunes that NO ONE can seem to be able to find. Maybe I can get those titles to you sometime or maybe you can suggest who I need to talk with to find them. Thanks again.
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Would an example be World Of Oz - The Muffin Man? WSAI played it in the late 60's...my 45 sounds awful. I've been searching for that one with zero success...
 
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