Yeppers. You do realize in about a year, it'll be 40 years since we met?SkinnyJohnny said:
Eric E. Walters. What a character....
I'm doing fine. Trying to move back to California...
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Eric E. Walters. What a character....
I'm doing fine. Trying to move back to California...
Dave, you've always been moving somewhere. I've decided it's time to settle down, at least for a few years anyway.
Hey, I was in St. Louis for 30 years! But I got a taste of California for a while, and want to go back. I have other reasons as well... I can't help it, though. I was born with wanderlust. Not to mention other lusts...
I can't help it, though. I was born with wanderlust. Not to mention other lusts...Good luck in Cal-i-forn-i-a.
Oh my gosh, I was looking for some local (Memphis) radio news and on a wild hair, ran a lookup on WKOR. It's been great to catch up on some of the best folks I ever had the pleasure of knowing and working with.
I wasn't an on-air guy, I worked the business office for Chuck Cooper from 80 to early 84. Had the pleasure of calling Dennis my best friend for a number of years, even after I left, but as sometimes happens, I lost touch. I'm so sad to hear of his passing. He was truly one of a kind. We spent a Christmas Eve trying to put together an Apple computer for his kids. Dennis, Paula, my wife and I, and we all had plenty of Coke that night, some of us added some extra to it. I kept stats for the high school football games we broadcast for Starkville Yellowjackets and Columbus Heritage. Those were some fun roadtrips! We would get together a large group of people and take baseball trips to St. Louis, and the Bob Seager concert on the coast was awesome.
Glen, its good to see your comments on the board. I still remember our little flight to Memphis. I still recall some of the others as well. Mike Grace, Marty, Janet (with that yellow sundress), Keith Miller and the ELO tickets that weren't, Gail Billingsly, Dorothy in the front office, Chuck Cooper's ability to setup a trade for anything, and of course Chuck Courtney. I lost track of Courtney a number of years ago as well. Can't ever forget "Bob Roddy", or the political commercials where the candidates would sing their own jingles that we would all laugh at, Mike Blakney and the mispronunciations that Dennis would run with, and a lot more that I can't begin to remember.
As others have stated, it was a great place to be. I often tell people that the show WKRP wasn't far off the truth concerning the business. Simply put, the people and the place, it was FUN, always!
I wasn't an on-air guy, I worked the business office for Chuck Cooper from 80 to early 84. Had the pleasure of calling Dennis my best friend for a number of years, even after I left, but as sometimes happens, I lost touch. I'm so sad to hear of his passing. He was truly one of a kind. We spent a Christmas Eve trying to put together an Apple computer for his kids. Dennis, Paula, my wife and I, and we all had plenty of Coke that night, some of us added some extra to it. I kept stats for the high school football games we broadcast for Starkville Yellowjackets and Columbus Heritage. Those were some fun roadtrips! We would get together a large group of people and take baseball trips to St. Louis, and the Bob Seager concert on the coast was awesome.
Glen, its good to see your comments on the board. I still remember our little flight to Memphis. I still recall some of the others as well. Mike Grace, Marty, Janet (with that yellow sundress), Keith Miller and the ELO tickets that weren't, Gail Billingsly, Dorothy in the front office, Chuck Cooper's ability to setup a trade for anything, and of course Chuck Courtney. I lost track of Courtney a number of years ago as well. Can't ever forget "Bob Roddy", or the political commercials where the candidates would sing their own jingles that we would all laugh at, Mike Blakney and the mispronunciations that Dennis would run with, and a lot more that I can't begin to remember.
As others have stated, it was a great place to be. I often tell people that the show WKRP wasn't far off the truth concerning the business. Simply put, the people and the place, it was FUN, always!
I forget the name..as you did mine (lol).... wasn't it Clay or Mark? Didn't we all go to a Cardinals game together one year...you, me, Hudson, Courtney, Andy Bob, and Eddie Bynum a.k.a. Mr. Anonymus (who also passed a few years back- he actually was my wife's aunts brother)...I think Mr. A. was drunk before we got to your place in Memphis... we picked you up there and he drank continuously until St. Louis. His overindulgence keep all of us from doing much.
Last I heard Courtney was somewhere in the delta selling State Farm insurance.
Last I heard Courtney was somewhere in the delta selling State Farm insurance.
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glennnn
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Hello Clay: was wondering where you've been since the 'KOR days. Sorry about that flight to Memphis. I remember the plugs got shock-cooled during landing and we had to drive that '66 Mustang back.
tbarber: last time I saw him, Chuck Courtney, or as we use to call him: Court Chuckney was in Greenwood.
GJames
tbarber: last time I saw him, Chuck Courtney, or as we use to call him: Court Chuckney was in Greenwood.
GJames
tbarber said:
Also known as "her uncle."
no... it was her Aunt's brother.... my wife's Uncle's wife.... her brother... no relation. In our family, we try to reach out just a bit farther than others.
Thanks for the witty attempt anyway....
as to my brother's humor.... he's just trying to have something to say. He's already at his sales budget for April and has nothing else to do.
Thanks for the witty attempt anyway....
as to my brother's humor.... he's just trying to have something to say. He's already at his sales budget for April and has nothing else to do.
You boys behave yourselves, or you'll be sent to your rooms!
Wow...the St. Louis Cardinals baseball trips...greeeeat times! We went four or five years in a row. And yes, TB...Mr. A was hammered by the time we got to Memphis. We picked him up about seven o'clock in the morning, and he had a gallon jug of hunch punch...strawberry kool-aid flavored if I remember correctly. We pretty much went straight to Busch Stadium once we got to St. Louis, Mr. A sat in his seat...literally passed out. Didn't see a pitch. Funny thing was, Bob Tewksbury of the Cardinals had a PERFECT game going into the 8th inning...and Bynum hadn't see any of it!! For the record, Lenny Dykstra drilled a double off the left field wall to ruin the perfect game...still, Bynum completely missed a one hitter. Remember it like it was yesterday.
Man, those trips were a blast.
Man, those trips were a blast.
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chuckie
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I only heard about Hudson after a call from Keith Miles one night. Recently Miles gave my daughter, who works at the Hunter-Henry Center at MSU, an autographed copy of his book. I do cherish it. Thinking about those days and surfing for info on WKOR brought me here. I remember TBarber. He did the best impersonation of Joe Phillips that I've seen to date. I remember he did it in front of Joe at the annual WSSO Christmas Party at the Phillips home. I still laugh about that. I remember Rodzilla, too. Lewis changed the password on the Radio Shack computer system before he left and nobody could access billing or payroll. Turns out the password was "Eat Shit". Wonder whatever happened to John Hagle aka "Slash"? What about Janet Fisher? Hudson called her "Fishhead"? Keith Miller produced a cassette of Joe and Norville that was played at one of WKOR's Christmas parties (classic and I have a copy of it somewhere) and Mike Grace produced a J. Touey's spot that won a regional bronze ADDY. I remember Glen James as being just a good guy. Very helpful and supportive ! And Bill Evan taught me the correct way to say "9".
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I have an autographed copy of Dennis' book too. Still haven't read it all yet. I remember his asking me about computers years ago. He hated them. But he was asking if a book could be written on one. That was wayyyy before his book was published. Good question about John Hagle aka "slash". A name given to him by newsman Ron Loggins. Hagle used Mike O'Neal on the air so Loggins called him John slash Mike and then shortened it to Slash. Hagle had a windbreaker with Slash monogrammed on it.
I run into Janet Fisher's mom every now and then. I see Bill Evans on ABC/WABC NY weather sometimes. He's been there close to 30 years now. I see Norvell around town now and then, too. Old WKOR-AM/FM in the 70's and early 80's. It was a fun time and a fun place to be.
I run into Janet Fisher's mom every now and then. I see Bill Evans on ABC/WABC NY weather sometimes. He's been there close to 30 years now. I see Norvell around town now and then, too. Old WKOR-AM/FM in the 70's and early 80's. It was a fun time and a fun place to be.
chuckie said:
Hey, Chuckie! Not too hard to do the Mr. Joe imitation, you know. Just raise your arms, ask anybody if they "have any idea how much it costs to run this radio station?" and you're there. Fired me one day before lunch for something stupid I said, and hired me back after lunch. Still miss the guy.- Tim
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chuckie
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One late night when I was watching TV, I caught a glimpse of an HBO "free trial" on Joe's cable company and I told him about it the next day at work. He asked if I thought people would pay extra for it and I told him "no". So much for my insight. Joe was really an innovator. It wasn't until later years that I realized just how smart he was.
tzbarber said:
Tim, unfortunately, I've never seen you do your Mr. Joe imitation but I have seen one Mr. Jack Talley Barnes (another WSSO alum) do his several times and yours would have to be exceptional to top his. He is still on the air here in Houston every afternoon on KKBQ; in fact, I heard him doing a remote from the barbcue cookoff last Friday. The broadcast world is a strange place; I worked with him at KKBQ for eight years until the station changed hands but never worked with him at 'SSO cause he had left prior to my arrival in the fall of 1978.
Bob
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chuckie
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GJames,
Do you remember that brown Pontiac Bonneville? It was a hand-me-down from you. It was huge. In the Delta we would call it a "sled". My wife called it "Battleship Bonneville", but I was glad to have it. I think Mr. Cooper ( I never called him Chuck) let me use it because I think he felt sorry for me having to ride my Honda to work when it rained.
I wrecked it in the first couple of weeks. Cooper was always very good to me. He and DePriest were into cellular licensing at the time. Remembering that led me into that biz almost 15 years ago. Turns out that it was a good move, so I do owe him a lot. Those days were fun. It has been great to go back for a while.
-Chuck
Do you remember that brown Pontiac Bonneville? It was a hand-me-down from you. It was huge. In the Delta we would call it a "sled". My wife called it "Battleship Bonneville", but I was glad to have it. I think Mr. Cooper ( I never called him Chuck) let me use it because I think he felt sorry for me having to ride my Honda to work when it rained.
I wrecked it in the first couple of weeks. Cooper was always very good to me. He and DePriest were into cellular licensing at the time. Remembering that led me into that biz almost 15 years ago. Turns out that it was a good move, so I do owe him a lot. Those days were fun. It has been great to go back for a while.
-Chuck
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