Some Voices that ROCKED Radio !!
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
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.
July 16, 2009 at 9:03 pm
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