Mark Elliot's Old Toronto Radio Commercials: All these are good in their own way, but the calypso song for Honest Ed's is really a trip.
Allen Freed KDAY November 1960: The jocks were on seven days a week! Did they actually work seven days a week or did they tape one day of programming?
Freed was wrong about Chris Montez.
Joe O'Brien WMCA December 21 1960 (part 2): Real world news coverage on a music station.
A minimum of Christmas songs. Good thing.
Bob Hale WLS June 8 1960: Neat easy listening format.
You can just picture three conservative nurses at the hospital listening to Hale's shift every night.
Kevin Nelson CKSL London January 8 1980: An announcement about the Progressive Conservative party on a top 40 radio station. Neat!
Six hours of commercial free music on Saturday nights in the days before cd changers or portable music players.
John Majhor with Brother Christopher (Chris Sutton) June 22 1984: The Major was great. You can hear Brother Christopher's potential.
Plays a song he played in the last hour.
One girl requested a song called "Fake Friends" and dedicated it to another girl. I sense there was a cat fight soon after.
All these girls crushing on Duran Duran.
A Catholic boy's school and a Catholic girl's school got to watch "The Video History of Rock" together. Oddly intriguing.
Caribbana sure came early that year.
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Radio memories run deep for me in Toronto radio mostly My time at CHUM, my friendships with the gang, people I worked with and hung out with after work. I remember one friend Earl who had a talent for talking to people. We would play chess on Queen Street after work while sipping on 25 cent mugs of beer, Those were the days.
If this is Chris, thanks for so many of these great airchecks that allowed me to write these posts back in the day in the first place.
Talk to you soon.
If this is someone else, thanks for stopping by and feel free to comment again as often as you want.
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