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Sam Marshall
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From: Chandler, AZ USA

posted 27 May 2001 08:48 AM     profile     
Bill Mack just recently left WBAP in Fort Worth. He is going to do something on satellite radio.

I heard WBAP would not let him take his handle of "the Midnight Cowboy" or "the Midnight Trucker." I can't remember what it was exactly.

My dad used to stay up listening to Bill Mack when he had insomnia.

Sam

[This message was edited by Sam Marshall on 27 May 2001 at 08:50 AM.]

Gene Jones
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From: Oklahoma City, OK USA

posted 27 May 2001 10:43 AM     profile     
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[This message was edited by Gene Jones on 01 May 2002 at 05:36 PM.]

Craig A Davidson
Member

From: Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin USA

posted 27 May 2001 12:51 PM     profile     
I thought of another station. It was KXEL-1540 in Waterloo Iowa. Used to play country all the time. There was also one in Shannondoa Iowa the Everly Brothers used to be on but the letters slip my mind. Oh and one more would be WHO-1040 out of Des Moines Iowa. A guy by the name of Mike Hoyer used to DJ there. He was pretty well known at that time.

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Jack Stoner
Sysop

From: Inverness, Florida

posted 27 May 2001 02:27 PM     profile     
I've been picking with Bernie Waldon, a Singer and Bass player that is an ex DJ from Indianapolis. Fred Myers help me out, but I think he was a DJ on WIRE in Indianapolis and at one time also worked at a station in Cincinatti.

WJJD used the Spade Cooley version of Steel Guitar Rag as their theme song in the evening.

Donny Hinson
Member

From: Balto., Md. U.S.A.

posted 27 May 2001 05:22 PM     profile     
Yes, I sure do! That's back when the very few FM stations that were on the air played classical music only. Seems they thought classical music was the only music that required "high fidelity"!!!

Actually, I had a crystal set that I used to run through a Sherwood amp...sounded great to me! AM was more limited by the gear than it was by the freq. (bandwidth).

P.S. Paul, that record you were talking about (where they sent the singer's voice to England) might have been a song called "The Big Hurt", by Toni Fisher.

[This message was edited by Donny Hinson on 27 May 2001 at 05:25 PM.]

Paul Graupp
Member

From: Macon Ga USA

posted 27 May 2001 05:32 PM     profile     
Right on Donny ! That was the one I was trying to remember. Thanks for the Answer !
Regards Paul
jlsmith48
Member

From: blackwell ok usa

posted 28 May 2001 11:44 AM     profile     
Was'nt there a staion XERF Del Rio Texas. I remember baby chickens for sale!!!!
Paul Graupp
Member

From: Macon Ga USA

posted 28 May 2001 07:05 PM     profile     
I mentioned two of the Mexican Stations in my opener but now I'm wondering if there were any others..... Baby Chicks? I wonder if they sold more Motor Cure and Harmonicas
than Baby Chickens? If they'd have had UPS and FedEx in those days, there would be a lot more Billionaires now. Regards, Paul

[This message was edited by Paul Graupp on 28 May 2001 at 07:06 PM.]

Blake Hawkins
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From: Land O'Lakes, Florida

posted 29 May 2001 05:40 AM     profile     
Oops..this was a duplicate, sorry.
Blake

[This message was edited by Blake Hawkins on 29 May 2001 at 05:54 AM.]

Blake Hawkins
Member

From: Land O'Lakes, Florida

posted 29 May 2001 05:48 AM     profile     
Jody and Jack, I also remember Bud Messner.
I lived in Chambersburg, PA in 1948-49. He did a show on the local radio station and promoted his dances with Grand Old Opry acts.
At that time, his steel player was Jack Throckmorton. I still have a 78 rpm record of "Skyliner's Boogie" featuring Jack.
Later I worked with a show promoter in Baltimore, Carl Brenner. He an Bud were good friends.
Blake
Ray Montee
Member

From: Portland, OR, USA

posted 29 May 2001 04:52 PM     profile     
You guys from down south got all the musical breaks! We didn't get much in the way of
radio skips.....but did get WSM quite often. My mom used to crank it in on a little desk top radio. I was hooked for life. Then of course, we were on the main line for Del Rio Texas and their all night country music. Seattle's KIRO used to play the hot current tunes by Hank Williams, Sr., Red Foley, Eddie Arnold, etc. The "101 Ranch Boys" with Leonard T Zinn on steel guitar was an occasional visitor over the radio waves. We used to pick up Billy Jack Wills and his band from Los Angeles when the air was right.
And wasn't that "world's longest yodeler" named ELTON BRITT? On RCA? He did about a half hour note in one of his tunes. Also got to hear Jerry Byrd with his "talking guitar" from WLW Cincinnati. Those were the days; and our La Salle ran great! Thanx for stirring up the fond memories of my musical background. Ahmen...
Ray Montee
Member

From: Portland, OR, USA

posted 29 May 2001 04:57 PM     profile     
I too recall and loved Millie Annis from Grand Rapids, Mich. I was Secretary of the JBFC at that time. What a fan club it was. How about Steel Guitar Echos monthly journal?
And what about all the dj's that would play requests for their listeners and always name the tunes they played so you could dash down to the local record shoppe and buy a copy. I used to pump in hundreds of requests per month for Jerry Byrd and won many JBFC contests. Great fun! Willy Nelson and Ann Jones used to have dj shows over then local KVAN Radio, Vancouver, WA. Live radio shows with local bands were common place then as well.
Paul Graupp
Member

From: Macon Ga USA

posted 29 May 2001 05:58 PM     profile     
Ray; You know, I think you are right about Elton Britt and that long yodel. Jody Carver is sending me some more info on Elton.
I was wondering if you ever heard XEG just across the border in lower California? It was
on the same freq as KING in Seattle and you could hear the country in the background of their regular programming.

I'd hate to say how many postcards I sent in those days requesting Jerry Byrd songs but it was a lot. I was stationed at McChord AFB and Paine Field in the West of
Washington and Larsen AFB and Othello AFS in the East before they sent me to the ROK. I lost track of all my personal things when I went overseas and all the letters and all the issues of Echoes from Millie went to I know not where. Big loss there becasue I treasured all of it. But Jerry was my Hero and I'd do it again today !!

Thanks for the Memories ! BTW I saw Bob Hope in Wash and I see today that he has reached 98. Happy Birthday Bob ! Us old GIs still remember when you were there for us !

Thanks again Ray. Regards, Paul

David Weaver
Member

From: Aurora, CO USA

posted 01 June 2001 08:00 AM     profile     
Interesting e-mail from Marty Martel that I got today. Thought I would pass it along.


quote:
One of the pioneers in country music radio has passed on, and once again we lose another piece of history. The following comments are from Bill Mack.
PAUL KALLINGER "YOUR GOOD NEIGHBOR ALONG THE WAY - FROM DEL RIO, TEXAS..!!"

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Posted by BILL MACK on May 31, 2001 Paul Kallinger
(“Your Good Neighbor Along The Way … From Del Rio, Texas!”)

When I received the news a few minutes ago that Paul Kallinger had passed away last night (Wednesday, May 30th), it immediately came to mind that I had lost a combination of both, friend and hero.
Oh, so many nights I dialed in XERF, Del Rio, Texas during the time I was dreaming I could make it in radio some day. And I hoped I might make it close to being another Paul Kallinger, realizing I could never be as great as the man himself.
I didn’t dial in the giant Mexican border radio station to hear the country music, although I enjoyed listening to the numerous Hanks (Williams, Snow and Thompson). Most of my enjoyment was in hearing the deep voice of Paul as he shouted out the good news about how you could order baby chicks by mail or garden seeds that were “guaranteed to produce the healthiest vegetables and rose bushes to be found on the planet earth!”
Everything ordered was shipped by mail. Nothing advertised on XERF and exploited via the magic voice of Paul Kallinger was available on the shelves at your favorite store. But everything was “guaranteed” to be the best that money could buy … and the cost was always so “very, very little!”
One rumor that circulated heavily stated Paul also shouted the news over 200,000 watts that you could order “autographed pictures of Jesus Christ for only one-dollar each!”
This was, indeed, a rumor. Paul laughed and said, “We had some preachers on XERF that came close to making similar claims, but I never sold autographed pictures of Jesus.”
Paul had been sidelined with health problems for the past several years but was still hoping to get back into radio. He told me he would like to hook up with me on-the-air when he got to feeling better. “Wouldn’t we make a team?” He laughed.
Paul visited my radio show many times, always making me feel a bit inferior when I heard his blessed tones in action behind the microphone.
It was only a few weeks ago that he telephoned me after hearing I was working on my book for Rutledge-Hill. He informed me that he wanted to put his memoirs into print.
Had a publication on the radio life of Paul Kallinger been completed, it would have been a best-selling work of art. It would also have served as a guidebook for the country disk jockeys of tomorrow.
-Bill Mack



Paul Graupp
Member

From: Macon Ga USA

posted 01 June 2001 11:13 AM     profile     
This has been a long and colorful thread. It's sad to see it close on such a great loss to all of us Oldtime Radio Buffs. If there was some way I could dedicate the whole story to Paul, I would do that !!

Maybe just saying it would do as well !!

So as Johnny Cox once said to Curly Chalker:

This ones for you Paul !! Thanks for all you have done for all of us !! We can't forget...

Sincerest Regards to all his family and those thousands of fans and listeners, Paul.

Vern Kendrick
Member

From: Earth

posted 01 June 2001 07:07 PM     profile     
I grew up listening to XERF,WWVA,WRVA,WCKY,and especially WSM,Carl, I think Randy Blake was on CKY into the '50s I remember WKBW,as I grew up in Buffalo,I think Foster Brooks was a D.J.there at that time,much later I worked the wheeling show at WWVA with Jimmy Dickens,and one time we worked Williams Grove in Mechanicsburg Pa.,I think E.T.was on the show with us.....
Frank
Member

From: West Memphis, Ar . USofA, where steeling comes natural

posted 07 June 2001 10:53 AM     profile     
Hello Forum Folks, hows that? what was the station broadcasting out of DEL RIO Texas with the antenna in Mexico. They did a lot of late night stuff for the "Gear Jammers"
also advertized "Wayne Rainey Harmonica Course" Test you memories folks.
Take cars. Frank.
Paul Graupp
Member

From: Macon Ga USA

posted 07 June 2001 12:37 PM     profile     
Frank: Go back three posts from yours for one by David Weaver. I think this would answer your questions. Regards, Paul

[This message was edited by Paul Graupp on 07 June 2001 at 12:38 PM.]


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