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"Where is..." redux

K

ksfury

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Was sent a link to the original "where is" post from a former STAR guy. Seeing someone ask about Kevin Fury made me laugh out loud. I can't believe that anyone even remembered my extremely short stint on air. The Spice Girls were telling us what to do if we wanted to be their lover, Dunkan Sheik was Barely Breathing, Aqua was a Barbie Girl, and Squirral Nut Zippers were trying to keep the swing revival going.

Some things I remember:
-Loz's excellent training
-Louie G stinking up the studio with food...and his own smells
-sleeping through a Sunday morning alarm clock causing two hours of dead air after the pre-programmed overnight show went off the air at 6AM
-getting yelled at by morning show guy Steve (?) in the parking lot because he came in to see want the hell was going on with the 2 hours of dead air when I overslept,
-the "Wild Orchid" poster in the hallway (featuring the now ghetto
Fergie from Black Eyed Peas)
-Watching Dave Savage drink all the sodas from Bill S's Coke Machine
-Watching Bill S count all of his quarters from his coke machine profits
-the easter egg hunt that went terribly wrong...
-spending my saturday morning cleaning up a trashed garden nursery because of a scavanger hunt promotion gone wrong
-beauty queen/super short time DJ Kim Clarke distracting the male staff
-getting polaroids from a 14 year old's slumber party as fan mail
-switching from CD's to that computer system that made going to the bathroom during shifts a reality.

Most of my time was on the AM station running Yankees, Giants, and BC Iceman games.

Anyway: Kevin Fury died a quick painless death when he decided to leave Binghamton to get a Masters Degree in Museum Studies. He has never graced the airwaves since.

I live as just plain old Kevin now, in Raleigh, NC, working at the NCSU Library doing history exhibitions.

I'm off to make a speedie,

Kevin
 
> Some things I remember:
> -Loz's excellent training

With "Kung Fu" grip!

> -Louie G stinking up the studio with food...and his own
> smells

I used to have to pull the lettuce from his subs out of the fader slots when I followed him on the air.


> -Watching Dave Savage drink all the sodas from Bill S's Coke
> Machine

That guy lived on that soda machine.

> -Watching Bill S count all of his quarters from his coke
> machine profits

By the way - that soda machine is still in use in our break room in our new building. Bill sold it to Jacko, who sold it to Louie, who sold it to someone else, who sold it to someone else, and it just changed hands again.

> -getting polaroids from a 14 year old's slumber party as fan
> mail

You got those too? How about "Robert" calling at all hours?

> -switching from CD's to that computer system that made going
> to the bathroom during shifts a reality.
>

We had "Champagne Supernova" for that.

> Most of my time was on the AM station running Yankees,
> Giants, and BC Iceman games.
>

I think a lot of us started there. Bill hired me in 1994 to run Syracuse games and move over to Star until I left in 1997. I came back in 1999, became PD of the AM station, and now am engineer. And Louie still stinks us out - although not with food...

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Jon Scaptura
Binghamton Radio Archive
http://www.BinghamtonRadio.com
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Wow...I remember most of that (BLEEP). Kevin, you may not remember me, but you used to pull a Sunday airshift, after I was graciously handed my 1st ever radio gig by Jacko, feeding Reel to Reels for the Godsquad and then doing Casey's Top 40 (NOTE: NOT American Top 40, Hah.) The cleaning of the garden nusery on Hooper Road because of that promotion will stick in my mind forever; that contest was probably the most successful promotion in terms of TSL/Cume that the Binghamton market EVER had, EVERYONE listened to Star back then. When 100 P1 listeners start trashing local hair salons and gardens on Hooper Road in search of thousands of dollars in ca$h hidden somewhere, wow, that was good radio. Jacko was brilliant.

And lets not even go and talk about Kim Clarke. Still in my top 10 of hottest chicks ever in radio...I'll NEVER forget my FIRST TIME EVER cracking the mic. I talked up "Bitter Sweet Symphony" by The Verve, while Kim Clarke was sitting within a 3 foot radius with her perkies looking right at me. I about (BLEEP) my pants. Still to THIS DAY, whenever I hear the last :30 seconds of Natalie Imbruglia's "Torn" in an elevator somewhere, I laugh my ass off; She was sprinting down the old MAJAC hallway after going to the Coke Machine, was running out of song...and I just remember seeing them bobble up and down in slow motion for a good 3 seconds, just like in the movies. To a pimply 17 year old kid, cracking the radio mic for the first time....it was the best of both worlds. Hah. Hope all is good to everyone...

Scap,- what happened to Robert the caller? I still have him on a CD somewhere...
BTW- Kim, I hope you don't read this...but if for some strange reason you do,-
Call me...I'm a Radio Superstar now.

-J.J.
101.3 KDWB
Minneapolis/St. Paul
(fellow CC Jedi)



-spending my saturday morning cleaning up a trashed garden nursery because of a scavanger hunt promotion gone wrong
-beauty queen/super short time DJ Kim Clarke distracting the male staff
 
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