Hopefully, they would've done as a holiday a capella God Bless Tiny Tim
(sung very slow to the logo melody, done by the Johnny Mann Singers for KHJ
in the day).
Mark Jeffries
Saints Spotlight Editor
spotligh...@gmail.com
On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 9:26 PM, Bob Jersey bob.in.jer...@juno.com wrote:
The main reason KFRC never used Boss Radio (they were always The Big
610) was that Drake had used the boss handle pre-RKO when he programmed
crosstown KYA.
My recollection is that, among the RKO properties, only KHJ used boss
under Drake, although countless imitators appropriated the word.
On
Jim Ellwanger, to Mark Jeffries:
To make this thread slightly less baffling for most of the TV or Not TV
membership, here's the previously mentioned classic 20/20 news sounder:
NY old-- sorry, *classic hits* WCBS-FM might still use it during (the now
Scott Shannon-led) morning show... B
There's a TM package for KFRC in San Francisco in its oldies days where the
news sounder was a synthesized version of the classic Drake sounder (KFRC
was owned by RKO and thus was a Drake station, although I don't think they
used Boss Radio).
However, the Drake jingles were never heard in Chicago
To make this thread slightly less baffling for most of the TV or Not TV
membership, here's the previously mentioned classic 20/20 news sounder:
http://www.ellwanger.tv/collect/jingles/audio/drakenews.mp3
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The second person, after Thurl Ravenscroft, to tell you, in Tony The Tiger
character, that Kellogg's (Sugar) Frosted Flakes were grrreat!...
also one of the legendary newscasters of 1970s 20-20 newscasts on
Windsor/Detroit's Big 8, CKLW, where if it bled, it led... and one of those
poor
I'm crashing on something, or else I'd take off on a tangent on 20/20 news,
so I'll just do a quick sidebar (sorry)
Was driving home one day in the Chicagoland area when one of the FM rock
stations (and I'm being vague because I can't remember what station it was)
played, I kid you not, an
