Rush on WOR? Yay!!!! I grew up listening to Bob and Ray and Jean Shepard and Bob Grant on that station so it’s all good. Seriously, I’m not a fan of Joan Hamburg so it’s even better.
I miss my mom getting us up and listening to John Gambling reading school closings. That was magical.
What’s going to happen to Joan Hamburg? For out-of-towners, she’s a 78-year old yenta who has been pushed all around the clock on WOR, most recently bumped to the noon spot against Rush. She mostly talks about restaurants, travel, stuff like that. Not too political. When Rush moves to WOR, he’ll take her spot. I kind of feel sorry for her. She’s been on WOR for about 40 years.
Bob Grant, the man who started it all.
Levine thinks he’s funny with the :”get off my phone!” shtick.
Bob was doing that back in the ‘70’s, when Levine wasn’t even an itch in his ol man’s pants.
(Well, maybe Levine is older than I think, but he was just a babe in the woods back then.)
WOR picked up Bob when ABC got weak shaky knees (and folded like a “cheap camera”) after Bob said something that was 100% true. Forget what it was, but WOR has always been eating ABC’s lunch. After the faggots at Disney bought the channel, it was only a matter of time till they cut Grant off at the knees.
“Pusillanimous Pipsqueaks,” all. Gavones and gagazoets. The “march of the gavones.”
Grant was ahead of his time.
WOR was a great station back in the day. Talk radio as we know it was born there. Long John Nebel was the prototype for Art Bell. Shepherd wasn’t political, but he proved that you could be a success just talking for 45 minutes straight. They normally had 15 minutes of news each hour, instead of the 5 minute potty break we have now.
Yeah, loved Shep on WOR. Mom used to listen to Dorothy Killgalon (sp) she once said they had stopped making waffle ice cream cones, Mom sent her some I remember listening and sure enough she got the cones and nibbled on some, thanking my Mom. It was a big deal at the time for Mom!
Man....I envy you. Jean Shepard....LIVE!
Totally with you on all points. I quite fondly recall the AM transistor radio on the kitchen countertop... WOR was on every morning. In the afternoon when mom was getting dinner ready, Bernie Meltzer was always on. I even remember the drives home from my grandmother’s in the ‘62 Ford Falcon Station Wagon... and Jean Shephard was on.
A few years back I found I was back in NJ again... and I set up an AM radio in the kitchen... mornings when I would be starting a soup stock or egg salad or some meal prep, I would just leave the radio be... and it would go from Rambling with Gambling to Joan Hamburg... I could not stand Joan, but there was just something “right” with the world because WOR was still the same... coming out of a lo-fi mono counter-top transistor radio speaker... as God intended.
I have been predicting for a while Rush would go to WOR AM. That station will get popular real fast.