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oidarman
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New for your weekend listening pleasure, The Birdman gives away a new Corvette. Amazing that they only cost about 12 large in '79. Bits of Janis (Fulilove) Gordon too. Enjoy, there's more coming!
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lash
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Birdman was a great talent! Aside from Dee's who was the best of the best on HBQ?
lash said:Birdman was a great talent! Aside from Dee's who was the best of the best on HBQ?
I think Bob Landree was a huge talent, and would have made a great morning guy. I just found out recently that he's still in radio out west. Q also had a great night female talent after Dick Edwards (another great one)...I think her name was Sherry...Medford, maybe? Oidarman, you may have to help out with that one...and of course Rob Grayson...Rob, I know you're lurking out there somewhere.
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knozall
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Sherry Medford was at the Q.
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oidarman
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For your dining and listening pleasure, two new vintage samples of the Q: Janis Gordon News and Larry 'The Man O' Steel. Enjoy!
and of course Rob Grayson...Rob, I know you're lurking out there somewhere.
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I shudder to think what fun we could have if we were able to re-assemble the staff John Long put together at the Q. Dees and McKeever mornings, Dr. John and Stu Robb middays , Bob Landree afternoons, Dickie Doo Edwards 6PM to 10PM , Sheila 10PM to 2AM, Walt Jackson overnights. Rick Collins pulled a few shifts, and I was the weekend/swing guy (Robert Grey), which at the time was a full time position, then took Sheila's shift (but not her place) when she went to Houston (and I came back from 13Q). Within the year before I started working there, Dude Walker, Mason Dixon, Jon Rivers, Tom Dooley, Bob McLain, and Tony Maddox had all bounded from the Q to places like Dallas, San Diego, DC, Philadelphia, Tampa. Radio and Records listed WHBQ's chart every week as a "parallel 1" station, on the same page with KHJ, WLS, WABC and the other biggies.
WHBQ had a 10.7 share 12 plus in the '76 fall book (prior to Dees), then a 13.7 in the spring with Dees in place, actually beating WDIA, which was unthinkable. Rick had an 18.3 in his first book at the Q. All "fantasy" numbers now, I know, but still quite an achievement and quite real at the time.
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I shudder to think what fun we could have if we were able to re-assemble the staff John Long put together at the Q. Dees and McKeever mornings, Dr. John and Stu Robb middays , Bob Landree afternoons, Dickie Doo Edwards 6PM to 10PM , Sheila 10PM to 2AM, Walt Jackson overnights. Rick Collins pulled a few shifts, and I was the weekend/swing guy (Robert Grey), which at the time was a full time position, then took Sheila's shift (but not her place) when she went to Houston (and I came back from 13Q). Within the year before I started working there, Dude Walker, Mason Dixon, Jon Rivers, Tom Dooley, Bob McLain, and Tony Maddox had all bounded from the Q to places like Dallas, San Diego, DC, Philadelphia, Tampa. Radio and Records listed WHBQ's chart every week as a "parallel 1" station, on the same page with KHJ, WLS, WABC and the other biggies.
WHBQ had a 10.7 share 12 plus in the '76 fall book (prior to Dees), then a 13.7 in the spring with Dees in place, actually beating WDIA, which was unthinkable. Rick had an 18.3 in his first book at the Q. All "fantasy" numbers now, I know, but still quite an achievement and quite real at the time.
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oidarman
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Thanks to Rob Grayson for a new treat under the Q Memory Christmas Tree at www.oidar.com! Happy Holidays to Dickey, Robert, Bonnie, Landree, and other Q Alums!
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oidarman
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New Year Treat! Dees & McKeever from the Spring of 1979! Enjoy!
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oidarman
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Ooops for got to give the address: www.oidar.com
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PaulBWalkerJr
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I know Rick Dees worked for 56HBQ at one point. When was that?
A friend of mine who works at 56 HBQ in the late 50s or 60s still lives in Memphis.
A friend of mine who works at 56 HBQ in the late 50s or 60s still lives in Memphis.
PaulBWalkerJr said:I know Rick Dees worked for 56HBQ at one point. When was that?
A friend of mine who works at 56 HBQ in the late 50s or 60s still lives in Memphis.
Umm, he had a few listeners at WHBQ back around the 1976-78 time frame ;D
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FMSales
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radiosaur said:PaulBWalkerJr said:I know Rick Dees worked for 56HBQ at one point. When was that?
A friend of mine who works at 56 HBQ in the late 50s or 60s still lives in Memphis.
Umm, he had a few listeners at WHBQ back around the 1976-78 time frame ;D
"Yes suh, Mr. Dees."
An all-time classic.
FM Sales said:radiosaur said:PaulBWalkerJr said:I know Rick Dees worked for 56HBQ at one point. When was that?
A friend of mine who works at 56 HBQ in the late 50s or 60s still lives in Memphis.
Umm, he had a few listeners at WHBQ back around the 1976-78 time frame ;D
"Yes suh, Mr. Dees."
An all-time classic.
Trivia time (easy for the old-timers):
Who was the voice in that drop? (Grayson, don't give it away!)
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Keef59
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David the Worm?
BogusBoy said:Wythe Chandler?
Ding! Ding! Ding! Ding! ;D
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aeulgr1
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What about Lena Wayback? I loved that name.
"Yes-suh, Mr. Dees."
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"No, suh, Mr. Dees"
...was the voice of the former Memphis Mayor Wyeth Chandler. Rumor has it those were the only two bits Dees got Chandler to do into a mic.
But he shure got more mileage out of than you can imagine.
You're right....a true Memphis classic.
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"No, suh, Mr. Dees"
...was the voice of the former Memphis Mayor Wyeth Chandler. Rumor has it those were the only two bits Dees got Chandler to do into a mic.
But he shure got more mileage out of than you can imagine.
You're right....a true Memphis classic.
Bat Fastard said:"Yes-suh, Mr. Dees."
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"No, suh, Mr. Dees"
...was the voice of the former Memphis Mayor Wyeth Chandler. Rumor has it those were the only two bits Dees got Chandler to do into a mic.
But he shure got more mileage out of than you can imagine.
You're right....a true Memphis classic.
Yes, indeed, the late mayor made those drops. I have to wonder if Dees ever tried to get Elvis to do anything for him (or if he did, what happened)...
I also wonder what Elvis thought of Dees. As Oidarman points out in his book, Dees had the nerve to parody Elvis while he was still around...and in his hometown, to boot.
The Jelly Doughnut prize goes to BogusBoy and Bat Fastard!
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