To all the programmers, consultants and CORPORATIONS that have put radio where it is today…HEY..GET OFF MY LAWN !!
A while ago I put up a post about the good days in Radio when Personality shone brighter than the sun. Got a lot of great comments sent my way about that too. So, I decided to give you a bit more of what was, and will probably never happen again.
I’m sure that there was a ton of complaints when radio left “dramas and comedy shows” in the dust and went to music formats. Now I’m sounding like everyones great grandfather by complaining about the mindless, no personality, boring, cookie cutter radio formats of today, compared to personality driven radio of a few years ago. If you don’t like it…Hey, Get Off My Lawn. I worked in personality radio and let me tell you that was the best job you could have!! It was fun going to work everyday. To be paid on top of all that was just amazing!!
There were a ton of folks that I looked up to in the biz, sorry I haven’t got air checks of them all, but here’s a quick sample from back in the day. JUST KEEP CLICKING THE LINKS TO MAKE THEM WORK…CHEERS
Scott Shannon was copied by many. You can’t copy a true ORIGINAL!! What a guy!!
Here’s a bit of Scott talking about a funny call on Pirate Radio…enjoy
WPLJ – Mojo Radio Talking About Pirate Radio in LA (1991)
Spyder Harrison from back in the day…he hasn’t changed that much either. You can hear him on XM today. At least there are still some real Radio People left that know talent.
Take a listen to Spyder when he was called “The Jammer”
Spyder Harrison as The Jammer on WHTZ – Z100
Now we move to Winnipeg Manitoba Canada. A nice bit fro Murray David Collins from CKRC
Have a listen and enjoy
CKRC-MDCollins
Now no picture but a great break…or announcing between songs…this guy cooks. Coyote McCloud from Atlanta
Coyote McCloud WQXI
This just a BRIEF sample of some of the guys, that the wanna be’s coming up in Radio wanted to be like. If you’re in radio and have comments..please post. If you have any old airchecks…please send them on for a future post about how radio should be. Put people and personality back into radio. Your ratings will soar!! Thanks to Bill Jones (click his name) and Lex the Dutch Guy a true “Radio” Guy
Thanks for the read and listen
Bryan Cox
Voice demos at Cox Marketing
Posted by Doug de Nance on July 11, 2009 at 3:13 am
Big Bry, thanks for letting me listen my way back to my roots. Those airchecks took me back. Back to lying in bed after my parents turned out the lights, then staying up all night listening to CHUM on a transistor radio hidden under my pillow. Back to hearing the voices again in my head of the guys who were my teenage radio heroes – Doctor Dan and Don Kennedy and Norm Edwards on CKXL, later Humble Howard and The Ripper when FM first came on the air in Calgary. I so wanted to be them – and I got my chance in the late 70’s when I scored the midnight shift at 610 CKYL in Peace River. I could have made more money on unemployment insurance than I did spinning vinyl discs six nights a week, but I got to pick the records I’d play. It was the coolest thing ever. It still is – in a few weeks I get to pick the records and re-live that glory, playing all those classic songs when Dr. D lives again “live on the radio” guest hosting the Sunday Morning Oldies Show.
Posted by Voices that rocked » The Voiceover Boblog on July 16, 2009 at 9:03 pm
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Posted by Murray David Collins on July 12, 2010 at 1:05 am
From “MURRAY DAVID COLLINS”
Yep those were the radio days at C.K.R.C in Winnipeg working the night time rock shift from 7 Pm to Midnight!! Lived in a penthouse apartment (with shag carpeting) who ever heard of shag carpeting back in 1974?
Was driven by limousine to work on the second floor of the Free Press building on Carlton Street in downtown Winnipeg.
Remembering the days when I would have to exit through the back of the building after my shift so the girls outside wouldn’t get me.
Back into the limousine for the ride back home.
Boy when we went through partys from midight till 7 or 8 in the morning (7) daze a week we had different chicks coming over every hour while others were leaving.And boy did me and my room-mate get laid!!
Then there was the story of throwing a 12 case of glass beer bottles off of the 17th floor landing on a taxi sign which he had on his roof of his cab.
Needless to say he woke up incrediably fast but it did end in my eviction from the building.Then there was the story of my roomate getting drunk one night and streaking (butt nakes) in front of the Salisbury House (which was downstairs of our building and stayed open 24 hours a day.
Best known for donuts and coffee (screw this Serious Coffee & Starbucks) these days?
How this story ends is we left our clothes at the back of the building and pried the back door open so we could get back in after our streak!!
Some dumb mother F_ _ K locked the door upon our return and had moved our clothes inside.Another reason to get evicted………………..
Definitley the best time of my life in 1974.
Hope you all enjoy the air-check which Brian Cox posted.
I sure would welcome your comments.Feel free to e-mail me!!
Yep spinning that viynal was great especially watching the “Capitol” label spinning round and round.Remember those yellow & orange labels?
If you do you should be retired now!!
Murray David Collins