Posted on 09/03/2020 7:19:24 AM PDT by Impala64ssa
I wondered why he seemed to have disappeared from SiriusXM.
There was a jingle on 77 in late 62 that was done to Chubby Checker’s Limbo Rock. It named all the DJs and ended with ,” hey Sam Holman , Charlie Greer, all the Real Good Guys are here.” At the time WMCA had instituted an FTC suit against WABC for using Good Guys as WMCA had been first with the likes of Joe O’Brien, Harry Harrison, Dan Daniels and B Mitchell Reade. Rather than risk losing, WABC dropped Good Guys and became The All Americans.
I use to listen to him on WABC in the late 60s. Lived in Lebanon, PA and could only pick up WABC at night.
You know, you’re right about that.
Where are Dan Ingrham, Chuck Leonard and Harry Harrison?
I grew up listening to 93 KHJ in Los Angeles with the Boss Jocks: Real Don Steele, Humble Harve, Machine Gun Kelly, Gary Owens and so many more — these guys built Rock ‘n Roll.
He has a channel on Sirius XM radio
Machine Gun Tom Kelly has apparently taken over Cousin Brucie’s old slot on SiriusXM 60’s on 6.
>>Machine Gun Tom Kelly has apparently taken over Cousin Brucie’s old slot on SiriusXM 60’s on 6.<<
Good Lord. What is he, 100?
I do remember Humble Harve’s high speed chase from cops way back when. I think it was HH.
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Here in Pittsburgh my earliest memories of Rock-n-Roll radio are of the Groovie Q-vie, KQV. Where Rush Limbaugh once worked under the name Jeff Christie.
A competitor flipped formats to compete with them and billed themselves as “13Q”. They had this fiendishly successful promotion, “I Listen to the New Sound of 13Q!” They would randomly call people and if you answered your phone “I Listen to the New Sound of 13Q!” instead of hello you’d win fifty or a hundred bucks, which was still substantial money at the time.
It wasn’t long before nearly EVERYONE in Pittsburgh was answering their phone “I Listen to the New Sound of 13Q!”. Businesses, dentists offices, 911... I remember my dad, a stickler for telephone etiquette, gathering us all in the living room and reading us the riot act.
“If I EVER hear any of you kids answering MY telephone “I Listen to the New Sound of 13Q!”...
Years after the promotion had ended you’d still occasionally call someone in Pittsburgh and have them answer the phone “I Listen to the New Sound of 13Q!”
>> “I Listen to the New Sound of 13Q!”<<
Sounds brilliant :)
In 1965 I worked in the mailroom at WABC and would take my breaks by going to the tenth floor where the studios were and they let me watch the live shows through the soundproof windows. My favorite was Big Dan Ingrahm, but I ran into Cousin Brucie one day in the office and managed to get an autographed photo. These guys were great!
I left NY in 1974.
“Jeff Christie” also worked for WIXZ.
“Thirteen-Sixty-WICKS-ZEE!”
KQV used to have a street-level studio in the Chamber of Commerce Building in downtown Pittsburgh with a window facing the street. Large crowds of teens used to gather outside to do likewise.
“Skip the bother and skip the fuss,
take a public service bus.
Public service sure is great,
it takes you right up to the gate.”
Yup. Laura's dad.
You, me and thousands of others. At Connecticut lakes and LI sound beaches!
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