Memories of Downstairs at CJOR

[Jack Bennest]

Fred Lichota has been very generous with his material saved for posterity and is the donor for all of this info on CJOR that I have posting on several threads including some sound bites. He is looking for more.

I must add that some of the following material has appeared before but not at this quality of resolution. I must ask Fred how he did it.

[Jack Bennest]

One of the great guys I got to work with - Bud Bolton - a former LG
20/20 NEWS man

http://www.bcradiohistory.com/Music/Bud ... -01-10.wav


Another veteran of Vancouver radio was Hal Rodd

http://www.bcradiohistory.com/Music/Hal ... -02-05.wav

Love him or hate him - the one, the only....Burns

http://www.bcradiohistory.com/Music/Pat ... -08-17.wav

[Jack Bennest]

More


Http://www.bcradiohistory.com/Music/SandyPrice.wav

http://www.bcradiohistory.com/Music/KentKalberg.wav

http://www.bcradiohistory.com/Music/DonRamsden.wav

http://www.bcradiohistory.com/Music/jackator.wav

http://www.bcradiohistory.com/Music/jordan73spot.wav

[soundguys]

[quote="Top Dog"]One of the great guys I got to work with - Bud Bolton /quote]

He certainly was. I have fond memories
of Bud from his CHED years in Edmonton.
One of the best !

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[Jack Bennest]

what were those years of bud at ched?

we don't have a handle on bud's movements

ov, lg and or - and you're right in a 40 year career you tend
to get around

[soundguys]

what were those years of bud at ched?
we don't have a handle on bud's movements

Mid to late 50's, maybe into the early 60's.
I'll try to confirm exact years later.

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[cart_machine]

One of the great guys I got to work with - Bud Bolton - a former LG
20/20 NEWS man

http://www.bcradiohistory.com/Music/Bud ... -01-10.wav

I just can't picture Bud doing 20/20 news. Not with that kind of read and writing.

I can't find out much about him, TD. A glance through the city directories shows Russell A. Bolton at CKLG in 1969-70-71-72. Then he's not listed in the directory after that and all through his CJOR years; I even checked in the Valley directories in case he had moved there.

cArtie

[Jack Bennest]

well now that you have got his real name I am in business

Thanks JB



JB think lady second from left is Sandy Price

[johnsykes]

If my memory isn't totally shot, I'd suggest Sandy is the lady beside Mike Dixon.

[Jack Bennest]

First lady from left is happy hooker
Second lady from left is a guy
Third lady from the left is Sandy
and the Fourth person is Mike

[Mike Cleaver]

Love Sandy's cheapo plastic Sony cassette recorder mic besides the much more pro EV 654 being held by Mike.

[cart_machine]

Love Sandy's cheapo plastic Sony cassette recorder mic besides the much more pro EV 654 being held by Mike.

What I don't understand is why CJOR had two reporters at something. Or was Sandy on a practicum?

cArtie52

[Neumann Sennheiser]

Xaviera "The Happy Hooker" Hollander was a pretty huge pop icon at the time.
Combine that with a relatively intimate booze/schmooze event (evidenced by wine glass in hand held by unidentified young boy toy) and what might have been a slow news day for reporters with time on their hands.
Possible scenario: Mike Dixon, on his way out the door, says: "Sandy, I'm heading out to this Happy Hooker thing. She's just upstairs in the Grovesnor Lounge and I think there might be a couple of free drinks. Wanna come?"
Sandy: "You bet, just let me grab a cheap Sony cassette mike or something so it at least looks like I'm on the job".

[hazmat]

During this period, when the Christmas holidays would roll around,
newsroom czar Erwin Swangard ruled that all the beat reporters
must take turns on the desk, and read a few newscasts so that the
regular deskers could munch some well-earned turkey at home.

I always felt for these poor schmoes, who were obviously wayyyy out
of their comfort zone. Sitting behind the desk in master control, you
could actually hear them squirming as they fumbled through the
newscast. It was surprising to me (I suppose it shouldn't have been)
how a normally-confident-sounding Bill Joyner, for instance, would
be discomfited by a simple 5-minute rip-and-read. As I recall,
Sandy became so soft-spoken as to be almost inaudible. Joyner's
accent became thicker than ever. I don't remember Dixon ever
having to go through this exercise at all. Top Dog had left the building
by the time I got there, but I wouldn't be surprised if he sweated his
way through a few casts as well...

Oh, what a lost opportunity for rare aircheck tapes! But that would have
been cruel.

Haz

[Jack Bennest]

Which reminds of the story at CHWK - stop me if you have heard it - of me reading a ten oclock major on Saturday night and tearing off the paper from BN but forgetting the top piece of a breaking story.

I could not make hide or hare out of that and sounded like a bumbling idiot.

Only in radio.

and JB - reading newscasts even with only Jerry Landa listening to you through the night was scary. He was a task master as to perfection.
I learned the ropes on nights