[NJARC] Re: NJARC Digest, Vol 31, Issue 18

[jimimaxi2 at comcast.net]

Per Rich Skoda's remarks,

Allison Steele AKA "the Night Bird" was truly  unique for the times. She was on WNEW FM. I believe on the midnight to 4AM shift that included Saturday night/Sunday morning when she talked  into your soul,or tried to.
Talked a bit too much IMHO after becoming "radio famous".

Rob said - 
"Many teenagers appreciate classic rock music and might be interested to hear what it was like to listen to
the radio when that music was new."

I got hooked on the same FM sound after becoming sick of top 40.
I listened to it most of the time on a huge SWAM/FM portable he brought home from Vietnam.
One of my sons years ago asked me - "Who are the Beatles?" - He knows more about them than I do now, even though I used to win pitchers of beer all the time using tidbits of knowledge about them in bar bets. He's 22 now.
I used to also win beer with Hendrix knowledge and obscure lines from songs. My younger son is a huge fan of Hendrix and Sam Cooke, both without any  prodding from me.

Kids will find out about good music and the times in which it was born, just as I have found out about the good non-Dance tunes of the 40's and the good good standards of the 40's 50's and some 60's I guess from being an addict of reading books about WWII when I was in Elementary and High School.
Playing it in the house doesn't hurt though.

Wasn't Roscoe with a "c and e"? I used to laugh when John Gambling on WOR AM used to try and distance himself from the FM "dark" side.


Jim Curione

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> Subject: Re: [NJARC] Philadelphia Radio
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> Rob,
> 
>   I listened to New York radio more than Philadelphia. Maybe I can fill in some 
> blanks for you.
> 
>   I recall a woman DJ named Allison Steele (sp) who may have been on WNEW and/or 
> WOR-FM. As you said somewhat of a novelty in those times.
> 
>   The letters to/from a soldier may have been read on air (WNEW) by a DJ named 
> Rosko - perhaps others as well. They were possibly excerpts from Pete Hammil's 
> column in a New York newspaper (Daily News?). I might even have on-air tapes 
> somewhere if they haven't already imprinted.
> 
>   As far a Jimi Hendrix goes he is now mainstream. Catch the latest Victoria's 
> Secret commercial on TV and you will hear, I believe, the intro riffs to "Fire".
> 
>   Rich skoba
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