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Post by John Quincy on Sept 3, 2008 9:47:09 GMT -5
We received this on September 1, 2008:
WQHI HI95 was my favorite radio station in Louisville. Yes, even before my brother became the station’s mascot, Mr. Boogie (I’m guessing he was named after the automation equipment).
I noticed no mention of Mr. Boogie – I’m not sure my brother, Donald Wheeler kept any memorabilia from those days. I'll be sure to ask next time I connect with him. Let me know if you find anything and post it to the site. I know there was a TV commercial and printed photo for his appearances.
Best regards,
David Wheeler
Can anybody help us out with this one?
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Post by John Quincy on Sept 3, 2008 12:49:06 GMT -5
This came in on 9/1/2008:
I love your website. Do you have any of the TM WLAP 94.5 jingles of the 70s??? Would love to listen to them again, I used to be a avid listener to WLAP-FM as well as WFBQ-FM in Indianapolis, IN. as well as WSAI-FM in Cincinnati all of which used the TM Stereo Rock Jingles... Sure wish I could listen to those again as I used to pick up all those stations back in the 70s. Really brings back memories, Thanks for the WQHI jingles. Sure wish you could post some of the other jingles as well.
Thanks again, Anthony Collman Louisville, KY
Anybody have these? I'd love to get copies of any of the WLAP AM or FM jingles from the '70s myself.
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Post by John Quincy on Oct 22, 2008 14:31:45 GMT -5
This e-mail came to us on October 17, 2008:
Ran across your Louisville radio site recently, and have a few stories to share.
My name is Lou Snyder. I worked at, among others, WREY in New Albany in the early '70s along with Ed Phillips, and for the late Jerry Bigler at WVEZ full time in the mid '70s and part time through the mid '80s.
At 'REY, our PD Larry Price decided one day that from then on, I would use my real name, instead of my air name, Michael Keller. I thought switching monickers in mid-stream was a bonehead idea. From that day forward, I worked nameless (being introduced at the beginning of my show, for instance, as "and now...here he is.").
At 'EZ I worked midnight to 6am. With there not being much to do then, I occasionally fell asleep and let the tape run out. When that happened, everyone who had their alarm set on our station would wake to their clock radio playing absolute silence. God only knows how many people kept right on sleeping through the first few hours of the workday. I worked at 'EZ with Jerry, Bill Walker and Ed Williamson, who I wish I could find.
I went on to teach Special Ed in Inner City Detroit, before retiring and returning to Louisville, hobbled by Parkinsons Disease in 2006.
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Post by John Quincy on Oct 22, 2008 14:37:13 GMT -5
We received this on 10/18/2008:
Hello John, In 1981, Ron Richardson, Rich Phillips and I moved from WSKZ/KZ106 in Chattanooga to put 100FM on the air in Lexington/Winchester. Bud Walters had just bought the station and Larry Trimmer was the GM. Larry had worked for Cromwell in Terre Haute and Hawesville. Ron was the PD, having held that position at numerous stations, including KZ106. Rich Phillips and I were on air, and Rich also was a member of the sales team. The existing engineer remained on staff during the transition. I can't remember his full name, but his first name was "Steve". He drank about a case of "Ale-8" daily. Charlie Fox came to the station about six months later, and would assume PD duties after Ron Richardson's departure. Mason Lee Dixon (Louisville?) also served a short stint on air. I have a couple of airchecks from the period: one or two of myself, and a station composite. They have been converted to mp3 and I could forward them if you're interested. I also have some tapes from my time at Walter Mays' WTKC "Kentucky Country Thirteen" from late '81 through '82. Mike Green Haslet (Fort Worth), Texas
We responded to Mike that we'd love to have the airchecks, and will post them online as soon as they're received and processed.
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Post by John Quincy on Mar 16, 2009 13:17:02 GMT -5
Gary Scott sent us this on March 15, 2009:
I really enjoy the site. I really liked reading about WQHI, WAKY, WKQQ, and WNNS. Some of the lower powered stations were barely listenable in Jackson County, IN (e.g. WLRS).
Nobody believes me that there was really an all news station on FM in the 1970s. I hadn't been able to find anything about it. I was really disappointed when it became WAMZ. I had left the area when WQHI switched, but was unhappy to learn that it seems to not have been a "happy" transition. There was one briefly in Dallas in the 1990s, KEWS, that was pretty good, but it too didn't last long.
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Post by John Quincy on Nov 18, 2009 4:04:34 GMT -5
We received this on November 17, 2009:
Hey John!
Great website…brings back fond memories!
I got into radio when I was 15 (and a Sophomore at Lafayette) at a now defunct AM station in Paris! Ran the board for sports and religious programming on the weekends.
I’ve been in the business for 20 years now and I can honestly say I’m no where near being rich but I’m doing what I love!
I remember WFMI (I-100) very well. It was the station of choice among my age group! All of my friends listened to Tom “The Icebox” Holiday and Sean Roberts. I remember when Sean did nights and the bumped up to the afternoon drive slot doing the Afternoon Barnyard! I met Sean one summer at a live broadcast at Boonesburough Beach! He knew who I was in an instant because of my girlfriend calling him and crying on his shoulder! I hear Sean is now doing afternoons at a station in Indiana.
My biggest influence in radio was non other than Cowboy Bill Cody of WVLK (now WSM in Nashville)! Cowboy and I used to talk on the phone a lot when I was 8 years old. I knew then that I wanted to be a DJ. Cowboy was very instrumental in getting my career going!
After the sell of I-100 and as I entered my late teens, my attention shifted towards Rock Radio and the antics of Kruser and Company at Double Q! I remember when Tony “TNT” Tilford got his start. Tony started out overnights, then nights and finally to the afternoon drive slot and as the PD. I remember so many jocks and listening to their different styles and honing my own personality.
People listen to the radio for a number of reasons, to hear music, information, weather, etc…I listened because I heard a magic that only the announcer could create! I knew at a very young age that was my calling, and I have Lexington radio to thank for that!
It’s sad that automation and computers have killed a big part of the “live” jock but growing up in an era when you could call the radio station and actually talk to the guy behind the mic is one of the best memories of radio to have!
Keep up the great work! I’ll check back from time to time for updates!
Rory Cundiff Choice Radio Corp. Program Director/On-Air Announcer ESPN AM1600/99.1FM, WKFO/Bandit 101.9FM, WKFC London, KY
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Post by dbsteff on Nov 18, 2009 8:00:33 GMT -5
Hi Everyone;
I enjoyed reading the mail posted here and am trying to recall if the all news station cited here KEWS was the one which found itself odd-man-out after a tower collapse some years ago, due to a small plane clipping th guy wires of a tower shared by numerous stations. There was a mad dash to get back on the air by a number of ststions, which moved to the other tower on Cedar Hill, where nearly everybody....TV--FM broadcasts from. Of course, the AM stations, not concerned with "line of sight" height issues transmit from theit independant locations.....but the tower collapse, at the time, brought on utter Chaos for numerous of the FM stations in the Dallas market.
The reason the matter sticks in my mind is that I had become a fan of the station and its news format, then after the tower incident, it simply vanished. I don't know if they couldn't find alternate place on one of the circulators at "Circulator City" (the broadcast complex at Cedar Hill) or precisely why they simply disappeared.
Perhaps Gary Scott can jog my memory.
Regards
Dan
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Post by John Quincy on Jan 5, 2010 13:34:31 GMT -5
This came from Jeff Kaiser on January 5, 2010:
John, I read in the Louisville paper (Jan 4) that Joe Fletcher passed away December 23, 2009. He was longtime on WAVE 970, and worked at many other Louisville radio stations as well part time. You may have already heard about it though.
I listen to these airchecks on your website at least 3 times a week. Thank you so much for this forgotten talent pool of real people from back when Louisville radio (and Louisville) had class.
I build vintage muscle cars (Mustangs mostly) and remember very well of riding in them when they were new. I currently have two 1969 Fastbacks. One of them came from your area near Fayette County.
Anyways, keep up the good work...and you are very well known here in Louisville by those of us that remember when radio had class and balls. LOL.
One of the airchecks you posted of Mason Dixon (WAKY) is from September 17, 1971. That happened to be my 6th birthday. I played that aircheck for my mother and she about died, as he keeps giving the date while doing his show.
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Post by John Quincy on Jan 24, 2010 5:12:43 GMT -5
Brian Christopher sent this on January 18, 2010:
John I gotta tell ya, I was intrigued with the WLRS page and learned things I didn't know in all the years I worked there. Then it turned ugly for me when I listend to one of my afternoon airchecks from 1984, I forgot how TERRIBLE I was. Ahhh those crazy DJ days. Nice work on the site, I applaude your effort to keeping history alive. It was fun (as bad as it may have been). LOL!
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Post by John Quincy on Nov 16, 2010 15:20:04 GMT -5
We received this from Lee Snider on November 2, 2010:
Wow, I just stumbled upon the website when I was looking for info about WQMF’s “The Show with No Name”. It sure brought back a lot of memories of that time for me.
I was a senior at Elizabethtown High School and would listen to QMF on my way to school. Then one morning there were a ruckus, and machine gun fire, and all sorts of commotion. These two guys had barricaded themselves in the broadcast booth and were demanding their own morning radio show!!! In addition to their own show, they have other demands to be met, but the only one I can recall is their demand for a topless secretary named Buffy!! (Talk about selective memory!)
That summer I moved to Lexington to attend UK in the fall. I was disappointed when I couldn’t pick up the QMF broadcast that far away. In September I moved into a dorm room at Holmes Hall, close to Wildcat Lodge, Memorial Coliseum, and across the street from McDonald’s (where Melvin Turpin was supposed forbidden to enter!). My room was on the 3rd floor, and the window side of the room was facing west. I brought my stereo system from home and hooked it up in the dorm, stringing a long antenna from one wall to the other. I could pick up the signal!!! I was getting QMF broadcasts!!! Once word spread, many of the guys from Louisville and the surrounding areas that were familiar with The Show with No Name would come to my room in the mornings to listen to the show before classes.
I am remembering lots of other little stories that I have but won’t bore you with them here. Just wanted to say thanks for the site and I am sure I’ll be listening to some of the “Beaver Bits” clips in the days to come!!! (d**n those were funny too!!)
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