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Wibbage Reunion

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Big Jay

What a wonderful day to give the original and some slightly later WIBG jocks their due. They DID pave the way for MANY stations around the nation, but WIBBAGE was truly one of a kind, programming FOR Philadelphia and the Valley via LOCALISM. Anyone ever hear of that?

Hats off to the organizers of this even at the Broadcast Pioneers and to Sam Lit for giving SO much time and effort to not only the audio portions which were a thrill to hear, but for keeping the members on the head table focused. Although that was difficult at some moments, Sam did it with respect.

I met SO many wonderful friends and some new aquaintances. I was told by Ed Hurst that giving an autograph in a men's room was a first. I just couldn't pin him down anywhere else. Pardon me for my indiscretion, but it's now a keepsake and memory that CAN'T be flushed.

So Sam, when are ya gonna start promoting me as a guest on HYLITRADIO.COM next Thursjay?

BE BIG!
WIBBAGE LIVES in the hearts of so many people.
Big Jay Sorensen
 
Amen to that Jay! I was never without my transistor radio as a kid I always listened. Funny you mentioned Ed Hurst who to my knowledge was never on WIBG.
I don't have a men's room story but I do have a Steel Pier Story. Back in summer of '68 I was a dancer on the steel pier show at 17. Were taping a show on a Sunday afternoon and we were behind the great Marine Ball Room (at the water show featuring the diving horse and clowns and Gene Hart as announcer), I said to Ed, who was probably in his early fiftees at the time "why don't you give the show up for a younger guy, turn it over to Bobby Gail! Ed gave me a look that could have melted a block of ice as he said "Listen boy do you eat!!! I was very embarrassed and would like to apologise to Ed for that statement.

Also does anyone know what happened to Bob Gail? He was a neighbor that lived on Temple Rd. in West Oak Lane where I grew up.
 
Bob Gail tragically ended his own life around 1979; he was a co-writer of the Buddy Holly Story screenplay. My Steel Pier story involves dancer Bobby Nixon, of the famed Eddie & Bobby Nixon brothers...hard to remember a time when a TV show had dancers, who themselves, had their own fan clubs. Bobby Nixon did modeling, acted in TV spots, then entered radio as a jock at WBUD, and WEEZ when they were both Top 40, WEEX in Easton using the name Matt Kincaid. I gave Bobby his last job in radio at WQFM-FM in Scranton-Wilkes Barre; he died in 2001.
 
Thank you Kevin,
I now remember that when I was a government source inspector for Navy Broadcasting in the early 1990's at Pierce Phelps off of City Ave, that there were several employees that had worked at WIBG and WPHL and someone told me that there were rumors that he had taken his life but I wanted a second verification here. I can still here ED Hurst yelling "BOBBY GAIL" on Sunday mornings when we taped the first of 2 shows. Someone drove the first show back to Mermaid Lane in Wyndmoor and the secods show was aired on the following Saturday.

Speaking of WIBBAGE, one of the employees I met at Pierce Phelps was at one time woorking at WIBG and he had a very heavy accent and every other word out of his mouth was the "F" bomb. Does anyone know the guys name. He was a very colorful character but not so nice to have during meetings. I had the difficult job of purchasing video equipment for our Navy carriers and had to watch endless episodes of Married With Children which was the video feed during testing Boy did I ever milk that job! All the video was on Super 8 format at the time which replaced U-matic tapes.

By the way I know there isn't any video from the Steel Pier Show days but I have some of my pictures posted on the Broadcast Pioneers web site and at
www.steelpier-com .
 
athegymtday said:
I apoligise the link to the pictures is www.steel-pier.com.
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Yo Marty!! Is that you. What are you doing on here. Get off of this phone!!! Oh wait, why don't you tell the story of when you and me were in production at the brand new facilities of 1590/WEEZ, and at about 1:30AM on Halloween 1976, some neighborhood prankster in Aston, undid a guyed bolt and caused of the towers to fall. Do you remember that? Remember going out back after the crash and seeing one of the towers missing? And we couldn't believe it?
 
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