by theallniter » Sun Oct 04, 2009 1:56 pm
Ah, yes, CKVN. 1970's
Where the question could be asked by this, as I was then, non-imbiber - - why would J.T. (this week's PD) be walking toward me with an old teapot whose top had aluminum foil stretched loosely over it?
Ah, yes, CKVN. 1970's
AND Oh, boy! "Hunky" Bill K. is just getting his engine revved at a meeting with the jocks (most sitting on the floor) and who walks in (after we were told not to be late to meetings) but dual-pig-tailed Don Francks with his black child strapped in a papoose-carrying arrangement on his back and yes, yes, OH JOY IN KITS-VILLE - - he is going to engage Mr. K. in philosophical and cultural debate over a point that the 'VN Sales Manager so-wanted to make his own. Lean back on the wall and enjoy this bit of theatre.
Oh good times at 'VN high.
Oh, and I have , like Letterman, a CKVN admission...
Over my career in private radio, I have always rummaged through the needy-children's-vinyl basket (the cardboard box of 45's and albums the station doesn't want) and have, under the cover of darkness, taken the New World African Music (Black records) for my own collection. I'd say sorry... but for the past fifty-plus years, I've felt I was on a mission (and you know what the righteous are like). Anyway, I found a Fats Domino LP in the N-C-V basket at 'VN and even though Fats wasn't my favourite singer anymore, I took it anyway. It was kind of a strange LP cuz it didn't have a real jacket - only a white jacket with a small pasted-on sticker with a red border. The album, the sticker stated, was called "Fats". It never got released. It was, in retrospect, a "real find". Now, before you think too badly of me - what with the children and all - - remember, this vinyl collecting thing takes on drug-like proportions. I mean, by now, I assume you've all heard (some say rumour, some say gossip) that well-known radio man Ted Wendland, badly maimed three men-of-the-cloth in Toledo, Ohio in a desperate gamble to acquire an out-of-print 78 of "Sugar Bee" by CLEVELAND CROCHET & The Sugar Bees on Goldband records. So...
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