Hmmm...very strange...I got a message from somebody who is not a member (under fifty), but follows us anyway...she wanted to know the answers to the radio quiz questions I asked the other day...seems she couldnt find that thread - and neither can I! So as a personal favor Im going to work from memory as best I can...in no particulr order... 1, WHIM-AM, after struggling long after its FM affiliate quit, become a Spanish-language station, Poder, or something like that. Youre probably more familiar with the FM affiliate, which became an elevator music station before moving on to fame as...WHJY-FM! 2. And speaking of WHJY-FM, Carolyn Fox, who really shook things up for a while, started at WBRU-FM as Carolyn Burman (or Berman). 3. And speaking of WBRU-FM, Jerry DelMonte, whose musical tastes so exactly mirrored my own, was the only jock I ever knew with a very pronounced speech impediment (a stutter or stammer), and that is certainly unique in this business. 4. WEAN-AM and WPJB-FM were once owned by the same entity, the Providence Journal-Bulletin, as they were known at that time (remember the old Evening Bulletin?) Thats where WPJB-FM gets its call letters, while WEAN-AMs letter come from what was at one time a major selling factor for the station - Early Afternoon News. 5. The WBCN-FM deejay who went on to rocknroll fame, was, of course, Peter Wolf, of J. Geils Band fame. 6. And WBCN-FMs passing relationship with WCOZ-FM was...they both broadcast out of the Hancock Building in Boston (which inspired the last name of Charles Laquideras alter ego, Duane Glasscock, as the tower was a very tall glass tower...the passing reltionship was in the elevators and lobbies). 7. And the first WBRU-FM alum who went on to a regularly-paid on-the-air job with WBCN-FM was Tracy Roach (Roche?) after a brief stint at WPRO-FM, where she re-invented herself, going from a kinda nerdy type to a major babe. There was another question that I cant remember...maybe Saltys last words on the air? (No school, Foster Glocester, even though it was a summer day). Wait...I just recalled... 8. WGBH-FMs Eric Jackson, their definition of jazz (If Eric Jackson plays it, its jazz), was the son of Sam Jackson, a jazz deejay in Providence, on WGNG-AM, Im guessing. Yeah, I know, that one was tough...but so was this next one... Finally, there was that extra question I tossed in, the one with a major key word...that word was immortality, as in who was the former Providence deejay who went on to immortality with SNL? Somebody guessed Charles Rocket, whos not very immortal - in fact, hes almost nine years dead - but this former Rhody deejay is immortal in that hes been there since Day (or Night) One, and is still there today, last I knew - Don Pardo, who started at WJAR-AM back in 1938!
Posted on: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 05:17:52 +0000
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