• Get involved.
    We want your input!
    Apply for Membership and join the conversations about everything related to broadcasting.

    After we receive your registration, a moderator will review it. After your registration is approved, you will be permitted to post.
    If you use a disposable or false email address, your registration will be rejected.

    After your membership is approved, please take a minute to tell us a little bit about yourself.
    https://www.radiodiscussions.com/forums/introduce-yourself.1088/

    Thanks in advance and have fun!
    RadioDiscussions Administrators

Your All Time Top 5 Top 40 Jocks

6

60sguy

Guest
Along the lines of "What radio station first turned you on". Who are your All Time Top 5 Top 40 Jocks?

Mine are (in no particular order) Dan Ingram, Joey Reynolds, Jack Armstrong,
Art Roberts and Larry Lujack.<P ID="edit"><FONT class="small">Edited by Call Me Sherlock on 04/04/06 01:11 AM.</FONT></P>
 
OK, I'll bite...

Once again, in no particular order:

Jack Armstrong, Larry Lujack, Don Imus (when he was still alive), Berns/Beach/Neaverth (OK, I cheated, but I can't pick just one), and Jeff Kaye.

I know I'm Buffalo-heavy, but that's where I mis-spent my youth...
 
> Along the lines of "What radio station first turned you on".
> Who are your All Time Top 5 Top 40 Jocks?
>
> Mine are (in no particular order) Dan Ingram, Joey Reynolds,
> Jack Armstrong,
> Art Roberts and Larry Lujack.
>
1. Dan Neaverith in his Oldies 104 (early 90's) days."Good time good morning wake up show"
Excellent humour when it came to contests.
To quote him: "I plug my ears when announcing the song of the day, so I can say to my listeners when they call, Gee...I wasn't listening at 7:15 this morning either, which covers me Morally, and legally!"

The rest in no particular order:

Tarzan Dan, Jesse&Gene, (current behaviour pending at www.Jesseandgene.com )
Mike Steel and Mark Richards.
(If I seperate Canada from the states, there's room for Christopher Andrews,and Steve Gregory in Canada, along with Shred&Regan and Pete Berinni in the States. <P ID="signature">______________
"If you never say NO, How much is your YES worth?"
</P>
 
Dan Ingram, Joey Reynolds, Jack Armstrong, Art Roberts and Larry Lujack.

Wow! Those are excellent choices, although I'd substitute Ron Britain or Dan Neaverth for Art Roberts.
 
1. Don Imus (late '70s-early '80s): The voice, the timing, the style.

2. Bill Lee (late '80s-early '90s): Artful. A true original.

3. Don Geronimo ('80s): Did everything well that makes a good jock.
4. Doug Banks ('80s): A very smooth, sharp tongued, super post hitting monster.

5. Jo Jo Kincaid ('80s): Smooth and sharp. Always made top 40 sound even hotter than the hottest hot hits music.
 
> Along the lines of "What radio station first turned you on".
> Who are your All Time Top 5 Top 40 Jocks?
>
> Mine are (in no particular order) Dan Ingram, Joey Reynolds,
> Jack Armstrong,
> Art Roberts and Larry Lujack.
>
<font face="times new roman" size="3" color="660033">
Not bad. Being a radio junkie, it's difficult to name only five. I could name twenty good jocks that did what they did extremely well, from the Big-8 balls 'n boss jocks to personalities; from screamers 'n cookers to midday smoothies. Let's not forget AOR jocks who knew the music and created a vibe. But you did specifiy Top 40, so here goes:

<p align="center"><font face="times new roman" size="3" color="660033">The Entire Caste

Jackson Armstrong & Gorilla, WKBW, CHUM, 13-Q

Dan Ingram, legendary WABC Keemosabee (couldn't get away with that today)

Greaseman, WRC, WAXC era, Master story-teller lacking discretion on Martin luther King Day (no-excuses accepted) at AOR DC-101

Dan Neaverth, WKBW

Jeff Kaye, WBZ nights, WKBW nights & middays

Ron O'Brien, WCFL

Joey Reynolds, WKBW, WDRC

John Brodie, CHUM and CKLW

Wolfman Jack, XETRA, WNBC

Big Jim Davis, CKLW

Rod Roddy, WKBW, KLIF

Dick Kemp, WHK, WYSL, WIXC

B. Mitchell Reed, WMCA (airchecks)

Don Berns, WKBW, WTRY

Don Wade, WKBW

J. Michael Wilson, CHUM and WGR

Jason Bojohn, WGRQ

Frank Benny, smooth as silk on WGR, his WUBE airchecks qualify for Top-40

Bud Balou, WKBW, WMEX

Roger Ashby, CHUM-AM

Jim Scott, WKBW, WLW

Jack Sheridan, WYSL

Super Shannon, WGRQ

Fred Klestine, WKBW

Tim Kelly, WYSL, KTSA, WKBW

Bob Savage, CKLW

Doctor Don Rose, KFRC airchecks

Larry Lujack, WLS

Johnny Holiday, CKLW

Honorable mention: Larry White, WAXC

Unknown DJ: one Mike Melody WNIA circa 1968

<hr>

<p align="center"><font face="times new roman" size="3" color="660033">Distilled Top 5

Jackson Armstrong & Gorilla, WKBW, CHUM, 13-Q
Dan Neaverth, WKBW
Greaseman, WAXC, WENE
Don Wade, WKBW
Doctor Don Rose, KFRC airchecks
</p>
 
mine are:

Larry Lujack, Tom Rivers, John Landecker, Bob Dearborn and Terry Steele.


> Along the lines of "What radio station first turned you on".
> Who are your All Time Top 5 Top 40 Jocks?
>
> Mine are (in no particular order) Dan Ingram, Joey Reynolds,
> Jack Armstrong,
> Art Roberts and Larry Lujack.
>
 
Leon Marguerite - WBBF
Dick Biondi - WKBW
Arnie "Woo Woo" Ginsberg - WMEX
The Greaseman - WAXC
Boom Boom Branigan - WPTR
 
> Honorable mention: Larry White, WAXC

There's a tweak!

No way...but, thanks anyway! The rest of your list shows that you have far better taste than that.

And you, sir, are one of my All Time Top 5 Favorite Painters! And Mike, you know I enjoy your posts here on Radio-Info.
 
Easter Hairs

> And you, sir, are one of my All Time Top 5 Favorite
> Painters! And Mike, you know I enjoy your posts here on
> Radio-Info.

Hey, Ceiling White is one of Mike's favorite colors. It matches his painter pants. The only problem is when he forgets to wear his painter hat. Then, it ends up streaking his normally dark, full head of hair.

But even that's better than when Mike is painting with colors. If he forgets his painter hat on those days, he ends up looking like a refugee from Elmwood Avenue...
 
This is a fun game that the whole family can play...which of course will give us many generations of fine radio personalities.

Since Dan Ingram, Jack Armstrong and Joey Reynolds have been mentioned so many times, I'm going to set them aside in a class by themselves and go for these five:

Klaven and Finch, Sandy Beach, Ron Landry, Jungle Jay Nelson and Victor Lisle.

WHO???

Victor Lisle, WKLL (Utica) and later simulcast on WKRL (Syracuse). Probably the best unknown DJ I ever heard. Able to inject mountains of personality into a top 40-style heavy rock night show. Incredible pipes, funny, relatable, and everything a great DJ should be. Unfortunately he got sucked up into small company politics and moved into production/imaging, which is production/imaging's gain. He's currently at Clear Channel in Houston.
 
>
> Don Berns, WKBW, WTRY
>
>
Good Lord, Mike...you remember WTRY? You ARE a radio junkie!!!
What a waste of 6 months of my life that station was...

Thanks for remembering...I think.
 
> Along the lines of "What radio station first turned you on".
> Who are your All Time Top 5 Top 40 Jocks?

For all of us, that list probably coincides with another list---the 5 jocks who kindled each of our passions about radio, before we ever drew a paycheck from an employer with call letters and a dial position.

For me that list, in more or less chronological order from the time I first heard each of them, is;
-Danny Neaverth, WKBW/WHTT
-Jackson Armstrong, CHUM/WKBW
-Dan Ingram, WABC/WCBS-FM
-John Landecker, CFTR/WLS
-Larry Lujack, WCFL/WLS
 
Top 5 Top 40 Jocks All Too Modest

>> Honorable mention: Larry White, WAXC

>> No way...but, thanks anyway! The rest of your list shows
>> that you have far better taste than that.

You're much too modest. The WAXC-WBBF wars of the early 70's were quite the sporting event for a Buffalo kid who drove to the Rochester area to visit friends and family. It was hand to hand combat between two very good radio stations. The jock line-up was impressive. The on-air production sharp. Example, the way WAXC would back-time a song intro at the top of the hour to smack the legal ID right up the the vocal. Very nice. Was WAXC a combo-shop or did engineers/board-ops handle things like that?

Equally impressive, WBUF, which was a runaway train during your tenure. Superbly and timely crafted radio station that played "the hits of yesterday and today."

> And you, sir, are one of my All Time Top 5 Favorite
> Painters! And Mike, you know I enjoy your posts here on
> Radio-Info.

Much obliged. Yet there are times when my posts are seemingly insignificant, petty and vindictive. There are many fine contributors to this board, such as yourself and many others, as threads like this often demonstrate.
 
Re: Easter Hairs In Living Color

> Hey, Ceiling White is one of Mike's favorite colors. It
> matches his painter pants. The only problem is when he
> forgets to wear his painter hat. Then, it ends up streaking
> his normally dark, full head of hair.

Not to mention the problems it creates when I forget to wear my pants!

> But even that's better than when Mike is painting with
> colors. If he forgets his painter hat on those days, he ends
> up looking like a refugee from Elmwood Avenue...

Mrs. R says it adds a certain youthful appearance. Brrrrrrrrowwwwwwwww! It also helps hide some of the dry, flaky stuff that Selsun Blue doesn't seem to take care of. By the way, Gunky was mildly disappointed that we weren't joined by a new crew member last Monday. He was left to harrass Sniffy, the guy we're certain took the gig not because he's a good paper-man and edger, but for the aromatic fringe benefits.
 
All Time Top 5 Top 40 Jocks, Early Years

> Good Lord, Mike...you remember WTRY? You ARE a radio
> junkie!!! What a waste of 6 months of my life that station was...

I could have mentioned the WICE era, but who among us can endure listening to airchecks from our "formative years?!" WTRY couldn't have been that bad a gig. Apparently Jeff Kaye thought enough of your work there to bring you to The Show. BTW, did you not post at one time that you'd been hired at KB prior to your original start date and something temporarily nixed the deal forcing you start six months later?

> Thanks for remembering...I think.

If only I could remember the assigned reading for my finals back in the day as well, I wouldn't be painting and wall-papering for a living.
 
All Time Top 5 Top 40 Jocks, Medium Rare

> This is a fun game that the whole family can play...which of
> course will give us many generations of fine radio
> personalities.
>
> Since Dan Ingram, Jack Armstrong and Joey Reynolds have been
> mentioned so many times, I'm going to set them aside in a
> class by themselves and go for these five:
>
> Klaven and Finch, Sandy Beach, Ron Landry, Jungle Jay Nelson
> and Victor Lisle.
>
> WHO???
>
> Victor Lisle, WKLL (Utica) and later simulcast on WKRL
> (Syracuse). Probably the best unknown DJ I ever heard. Able
> to inject mountains of personality into a top 40-style heavy
> rock night show. Incredible pipes, funny, relatable, and
> everything a great DJ should be. Unfortunately he got sucked
> up into small company politics and moved into
> production/imaging, which is production/imaging's gain. He's
> currently at Clear Channel in Houston.


Mohawk Valley Memories. Wait a minute. Has someone poached the infamous Desi Bell handle?
 
Re: Top 5 Top 40 Jocks All Too Modest

>Was WAXC a combo-shop or did engineers/board-ops handle things like that?


Wow! Thanks, Mike. As Keith Luke once wrote on this board, it's nice to be remembered.

WAXC, at least in the early years, was staffed by board ops. Some were inherited from the bottom of the union seniority list of WHEC-TV when the radio station was purchased from Gannett.

Most of those guys were used to the slow pace of the TV control room and had no interest in radio where they had to cue & play records, jingles and commercials every three minutes.

I remember one night being in my office and hearing dead-air. As I ran down the all to the radio control room, I discovered an engineer with the monitor turned down so he could relax and listen to the sound of WEZO-FM. He had patched the 'EZO signal into an equipment rack speaker.

Then there was a time when I was threatened with a union grievance because I
had the audacity to issue one of the engineers a memo regarding his job performance.

Situations like this certainly made the first few months of the station's existence challenging. Thankfully, things improved as time went on.
 
Re: All Time Top 5 Top 40 Jocks, Early Years

> I could have mentioned the WICE era, but who among us can
> endure listening to airchecks from our "formative years?!"
> WTRY couldn't have been that bad a gig. Apparently Jeff Kaye
> thought enough of your work there to bring you to The Show.
> BTW, did you not post at one time that you'd been hired at
> KB prior to your original start date and something
> temporarily nixed the deal forcing you start six months
> later?



Actually, Jeff Kaye offered me the all night show in 1969 (apparently my show on WICE was getting decent ratings and the PD at WPRO pulled in a favor to get me out of town), but I was just about to leave for basic training in the Air Force (I pulled a few strings to get into the National Guard as opposed to moving to Canada, if you know what I mean...although here I am all these years later; go figure), so I turned him down. I can honestly say that I hadn't learned anything further about broadcasting in my short time in Troy. Jay Clark had too little time to work with me and after attempting to work with GM Art Simmers I spent the rest of my time trying to get out. Jeff didn't really recruit me; I called him and begged for work. Fortunately there were two openings just at that time: Stan Roberts had just left for Boston...and I can't recall the other one right now. This whole period of time was just a little more than a year, BTW.

Also, you hit the nail on the head about "air checks fromn our formative years". I consider WTRY to fall in that category, although it's eons better than WICE or WDRC. Ed Brouder sent me some tapes of WDRC a few years ago and I almost didn't recognize myself!
 
Re: All Time Top 5 Top 40 Jocks, Medium Rare

Wait a minute. Has someone poached
> the infamous Desi Bell handle?
>

Nope-I just figured out the many fun things one can do in "My Accounts"

;-))
 
Status
This thread has been closed due to inactivity. You can create a new thread to discuss this topic.


Back
Top Bottom