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WHBQ, 1956

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beachguy3b

I'm trying to track down the name of who did afternoons on WHBQ in 1956. This is someone I know, but I have taken on the challenge of finding out the name he used while on the air at WHBQ in 1956.

His last email of hints to me said "Other guys on 'Q at the time were Wink, Jim Hutchinson, Don Franklin and Dewey Phillips." Not knowing much about HBQ in those days (I was busy being a 2 year old in Birmingham) I am hoping someone here knows the answer. So far, all my efforts have failed to elicit the name. He was from Corning, Arkansas, and had also worked in Jackson, TN.

Any ideas?
 
The earliest music survey I have from WHBQ is from 1957.

The four djs shown on the survey are Wink Martindale, Dewey Phillips, Lance Russell and Ray Brown.
 
Jack was a morning guy, and I believe he started there when Wink left. Jack was program director through a good bit of the 60's, and in charge when Bill Drake began consulting RKO stations. Drake promised a 10-point swing in ratings, and Jack tells me when they took out what they had been doing and implemented the Drake formatics there was a 10-point swing... down.
 
Jack was there after my friend; he wasn't able to help, either. Nor was it Lance. I will run Ray Brown past the friend to see if that was it. I've spent HOURS on the internet and have found the lineup after he left, but not with him there.
 
Tommy Bonner? Think he was from a little Arkansas town called Blackton, but even living in the state I have no idea (and am too lazy to Google-Map to learn) how close that is to Corning? I know Tommy went to Memphis State and did a mid-50s stint at Q but thought he was on evenings. And as I typed that another name occurred: Dale Salley, who aired at Q as "Dale Marshall" after coming from KXLR/North Little Rock. Seems like he was a year or two pre-Tommy.
 
This talent is Lee Rodgers, in the SF Radio Hall of Fame, from his time at KGO, KSFO. He was in Chicago at WIND for many years, along with a list of other impressive stations. I don't believe he went to Memphis State or worked in Little Rock, though. He told me he came from Johnson City to Memphis.
 
kudzooter said:
Tommy Bonner? Think he was from a little Arkansas town called Blackton, but even living in the state I have no idea (and am too lazy to Google-Map to learn) how close that is to Corning?
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Now you've gone and confused me. I thought Tommy Bonner was the rather awesome voice of weather on Channel 4 in Little Rock. Who was that?
 
Goat Roper Cowboy, he was that after his time as a student at Memphis State, then a stint at WHBQ. May have been after you'd left Stuttgart -- he would be driving through on his way to Blackton Ar and would stop and visit me at KWAK on a Saturday night. And in our 'not anywhere NEAR ready for primetime' looseness I'd occasionally let him sit down and do a half-hour right before sign-off. That and the number of MONTHS it run before he busted me for reading the sign-off announcement in the bridge to The Hi-Los' "Put Your Dreams Away for Another Day," convince me that Mr. Spann didn't monitor our final hour each day the way he managed to catch every other stumble I had during the first 5 hours of my shift.
 
beachguy3b said:
This talent is Lee Rodgers, in the SF Radio Hall of Fame, from his time at KGO, KSFO. He was in Chicago at WIND for many years, along with a list of other impressive stations. I don't believe he went to Memphis State or worked in Little Rock, though. He told me he came from Johnson City to Memphis.
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What years was Lee Rodgers at WHBQ? I remember him well from his two times in Chicago at WIND.
 
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