(New pics added) Come on in if your remember Cousin Bruce on WABC

[jkc]

I remember surreptitiously listening to Cousin Brucie, long after my bedtime, by the expedient of hanging a transistor radio by the loop on its leather carrying case on the rear of my bedframe, and running an earbud wire thru the bedclothes and under my pillow case, permitting listening to the current Top 40 on WABC's 50,000 watt nighttime clear channel carrier. Also, similarly, WLS from Chicago, and CKLW, from Windsor, Ontario, whose then program director, Rosalie Trumbull, hit-maker in the midwest, was memorialized by Bob Seger in an early regional hit record titled Rosalie, the refrain of which was "Rosalie --- she's got the tower, she's got the power ..." Also listened to another 50KW clear channel station from New Orleans, featuring mostly contemporary country --- call sign escapes me --- any help?

 

[BLACKHAWKNJ]

Ah yes, fond memories of listeing to "Shep" on WOR. Came on at 10PM, as a 12 year old I had quite a struggle with the Sandman to stay awake to listen to him. His "A Christmas Story" was originally entitled "Duel in the Snow, or, Red Ryder nails the Cleveland Street Kid." He also did a Fourth of July story entitled "Ludlow Kissel and the Dago Bomb that struck back."

 

[Frank46]

Cousin Brucie and Allison Steele, now that's a couple name I haven't heard of in years. Course Don Imus and Roberto Santana Banana when they used to "nuke" folks at the 6am show. You'd call in a name and he or she would get "nuked". Darn near had a stroke when someone called in my boss's name and he got "nuked". Couldn't keep a straight face when I had to attend the morning meeting that day. Course the boss was highly ticked off about that one. Thanks for the memories. Frank

 

[enfield]

"Dennison's, a men's clothier, Route 22 Union New Jersey. Where money talks and nobody walks."

 

[Stainz]

I remember the 'Good Guys' on WABC - then we moved from Bayside, LI to Indianapolis - then to my folks birthplace in Birmingham. My late-50's huge red leather cased Emerson portable 6 transistor radio with it's 'Magic Wand' rotatable ferrite loop antenna, which had point to point wiring, transistors in sockets, and used two huge 9V batteries in parallel, had been joined by my homebrew two transistor regenerative receiver - then a Lafayette Radio tube set and a 100 ft long wire. Still interested in distant AM stations - WABC came in well at night in Birmingham - I also found XERF, 1570, just across the Rio Grande from Del Rio, TX - running 250kw - and carrying 'Da Wolfman... Wolfman Jack!'.

Being frugal, I would solder three D-cells, wrapped in tape and in series with three in the other side, making 9V at higher capacity than the two original batteries - and at a fraction of the cost - and everybody had D-cells. More Cousin Brucie for my lunch money! That radio was ruined when a storage building's roof leaked while I was in the USN... miss that radio. I had started listening to short wave radio by then - a long way from NYC & WABC 770 and WINS 1010 by then, anyway. Great memories - thanks for jogging the memories!

Now, did I already take my pills this AM... must still need my shower...

Stainz

 

[dasnake]

email brucie

has anyone thought of emailing "the cuz" at serius/xm, he has an addy that he tells everyone to write to, he may love some of these memories.

 

[PDL]

So why hasn't anynone mentioned the Happy Huggy Bear or Kemosabe club/card from HOA and Dan Ingrahm respectively.

I've also got some Muni Money laying around from a church dance that Scott Muni MC'd when he was with WABC.

 

[S&W-Keeper]

I remember him well, we used to listen to him in high school.He had a great radio voice.

 

[Uncle Larry]

Also Dan Ingram, Herb Oscar Anderson,Charlie Greer, Scott Muni

Can't forget Murray the "K".. on WINS. William "B" Williams on WNEW.. Ted Brown and The Red Head in the AM

Palisades Park... Bergen Mall.. FREE Concerts..

Ahh the memories of my yewth...

Ahhh, the memories of my "yoot"
I remember when Charlie Greer (Mrs Greers skinny boy, Charlie) was a jock at WAKR (Akron Ohio) and used to do sock hops in the gym at Simon Perkins Jr High.....gosh...I'm starting to feel old

 

[LTC]

I carried a Happy Huggy Bear Card for a while in the 60's.

LTC