[rock_n_richieMember]

Hi Rich,

The old WNEW-FM did a tribute to WABC just after they went talk in 1982. 33:00 into the video Bob Lewis starts talking about the theme he used, it plays at 35:20 into the video.

It was done by a doo-wop group called The Eternals.

Richie

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[rock_n_richieMember]

Here’s the song it was based on as well!

[don1400MemberAuthor]

Hi R-n-R, Thanx so much for the info you provided. Yes, I see how the song influenced the jingle. GREAT interview bit in the vid audio as Lewis explains how it all came about, I had no idea. Gonna listen to the whole WNEW thing this weekend.
So I guess now the question is does anyone have this jingle? I can trade an mp3 of all Lewis’s custom Pams jingles dubbed right from the master Jock Jingles tape at WABC in ’67, superb quality.
Thanks again R-n-R, appreciate your reply.
Rich
Green Bay

[IainJohnstonMember]

A very interesting, and currently topical in UK radio, comment at approx 39:15 39:45
about “local radio” versus big coverage area radio – as UK commercial radio slides down
into the abyss of almost every “ILR” now being finally swallowed by either of the 2
foreign-owned networking “giants”.

:^{

[don1400MemberAuthor]

Lain Johnston, I couldn’t have said it better about radio giants swallowing up the local guys. I enjoyed 22+ years of local radio here in Green Bay at one station. 9-1-2000 it all came crashing down as Cumulus bought the owners out. It took about 3 months for Cum to decimate the station. Four news guys released in the first week or so, 2 jocks, ALL part timers were fired in the first month. A great production room was nearly stripped of the good equipment and sent to other stations. EVERYTHING was bottom line. I got lucky though, they transferred me to one of their other stations where I stayed for about 10 years putting up with near daily BS. I finally decided to retire when in December 2010 a message came down from Corporate that ALL small market and many medium market stations would have to let go of any and all Morning show co-hosts.
With that I had enough. I still miss it all today, and would do it all over again.
Rich
Green Bay

[IainJohnstonMember]

“Lain Johnston”

To once again paraphrase Patrick McGougan in “The Prisoner”…

“I am a name, not a spelling mistake!”

Iain … not Lain – I wish JM’s (excellent) Admin would change the default font that shows a capital-EYE as the same visually as a small-letter-ELL !!!

Apart from that, good anecdote from Don about “Green Bay’s Number One” 1400 WDUZ.
:^)

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[don1400MemberAuthor]

My apologies Iain, IIRC I made the same mistake several years when we corresponded. In the word(s) of Homer Simpson “DOH”!!
Rich
Green Bay

[IainJohnstonMember]

Heh heh!
You did indeed Rich!
:<)
Not to worry, not the only one!

(Some Irish friends of ours have got Irish Gaelic first-names that phonetically are absolutely nothing like that what they seem to be from the spelling!)

Anyway, back to the topic…
:^)

[Neil LeibowitzMember]

By 1966 or so, WABC had purchased Jingles for their DJs, as a result, the “jingle” that The Eternals sang for Bob was eventually edited to where Bob would play the “Acapella” portion-“The Bobalooie Show”–and “dovetailed” into the station jingle..HERE: Bobaloo Eternals, station jingles @ 3:36 in clip. By the way–if you listen as Bob says Goodbye–he is talking “TEXT”–as he says “Bobalou saying B-B-L”–the reason being he would return in 12 hours (4 am) for a 2 hour show on Monday. Not bad talking “TEXT” 23 years or so ahead of his time…:)

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[Neil LeibowitzMember]

Boabloo PAMS Jingles: https://www.dropbox.com/s/t0c0aj9n5mp67i2/%27Bobaloo%27%20Jingles.mp3?dl=0
First one -edited acapella from The Eternals. 2nd–Bobaloo jingle out of News into Music. 3rd-Bobaloo Ending Jingle 4.Bobaloo Ending Jiongle (Rare Female Version).

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[ronfilMember]

Here’s my copy that I tried to clean up the best I could. Enjoy!

Ron T

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