Bob Bolton on 79 WQXI Atlanta | August 1969
Sep 07, 2005 
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Another on reel from Karl Phillip’s collection of goodies…
Bob Bolton from his show, Summer ’69.
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Thank you for this aircheck.. And did you catch the voice of the one and only Skinny Bobby Harper? Yes, Good old Bob Harper on the air at the mighty
790 WQXI . What A Station , I miss this station so much. Now only a sports station,
a pretty good one , I must add, but still this was real am top 40 in the big A..
Great to listen to “Bashful” Bob Bolton. Had the pleasure of working with Bob at WBBQ in the mid 60s. Always top rated, a great personality with lots of wit. At BBQ he ran a “Pepsi Party” Saturday nights and sometimes had some wild scavanger hunts. Those were the good ole days of Radio !
Bill I wish I knew where Bob was now.
Rex – I now work with Bobby Harpers daughter here at my business.
Karl
thank you so much for this.
wqxi was a big part of growing up in atlanta and a big influence on becoming a musician.
Bob Bolton (GM) = 775 289 2077 at KELY (AM) & KCLS (FM)in Ely Nevada
Bob helped get me into Radio at WBBQ and we worked together at WQXI. He left for WOWO & I woke up, recognized I was in the wrong business and moved on in 1974.
Hello Mr. Laurie, my dad ran Macy’s in Augusta and advertised on BBQ.
Very unique to hear of the old days & good times. MMD machine, Bolton Out to Lunch Bunch, “with a pheasant under glass, or a chubbie decker”
Dave Weiss – remember an Oglethorpe broadcaster who hung around during your overnights at QXI? Send me an e-mail.
Dave Weiss – Contact me – Tomm Rivers, Lee Logan and I are looking for you! ronsfo@aol.com
Still not sure if I’m in the right business – And thanks getting me in at WQXI !!
R.P.
Great hearing an aircheck of Bob Bolton. I listened to him when he worked at WFBR in Baltimore in the 80′s.
Thanks QXI for posting the Bob Bolton aircheck! In Augusta, all the kids in my neighborhood were glued to WBBQ – Tiger Radio in 1967-69. The on-air contests and rapport with the audience was FANTASTIC! And the music was amazing. During the summer, they would have ‘Underground Hour’ on ‘BBQ FM. That’s where I heard the full-length version of ‘In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida’for the first time. AND they were the only AM station around that played the full-length ‘Crimson & Clover’. I had a collection of reel-to-reels and weekly top 40 lists that I cherished and were unfortunately lost.
Thanks for the memories!!
the ad’s are so awesome
Taber Pontiac, Big Chief Taber, Milo Hamilton, RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRight every time……….how great to hear that again… the major malls at the time n dekalb, greenbriar, lenox square………..minnie pearl roast beef!i remember that down across from Green’s just east of the old Sears on Ponce (just a short table-dance away from the Cleremont)
and Sears Junior Bazaar, my sister and her friends (fernbank) loved that stuff
I decided to Google my name and was blown away by reading about the folks who remembered me in the “bad” old days of radio with WBBQ, WQXI, WFUN and WOWO. That was a great run but radio broadcasting still is for me. I’m presently the Corporate GM for too many radio stations in Nevada and Colorado. It was more fun when we did the scavenger hunts in Augusta, Georgia. Please contact me if you’d like to hear what happened after the 70′s. Dave Weiss did well with Procter and Gamble and had another interesting career after radio. Mike Dineen “Dino” who followed me to WQXI from WBBQ is still in Augusta and still in broadcasting. My best to all of you. I’ll celebrate 50 years in broadcasting next year and really did start with WBBQ when I was 13—honest!!!
I worked with Bob at ‘FUN IN MIAMI RADIO’ WFUN……..We were great friends back them…would love to hear from you Bob.
Bob…..Hi there. Friend sent an aircheck tape from QXI (produced just months after I left Atlanta for California). The voice immediately sent me back to adventures we shared in Augusta; XKE running out of gas & early morning walk along the Savannah River canal with the sounds of rushing water, wild boars in the distance & the babblng of a drunk named Harry who came out of nowhere & joined our walk! Tea leaf readings & a toast to the Queen of England with a favorite college professor…A touching funeral for a hamster…visit to the roof of Forest Hills VA bldg…bike trip to Savannah……fun times. E-mail if you remember any of these!
Hi Bob – Big R (Randy Robins) says hello. He and I are still in touch with each other. I will be at the Georgia Radio Hall of Fame Awards and Dinner celebration this coming Saturday here in Atlanta. We have a Quixie in the 60′s reunion planned. http://www.grhof.com…there is audio of me at WGST from 1974 after my Navy stint. Remember me ?
I grew up listening to Bob as a teen. Got into radio
and was working at WAUG several years later in Augusta Georgia. He called me on the request line and complimented a bit I had done. I still remember that to this day. He was my hero and he called me! I later worked for WBBQ and stayed in touch with him for many years. Haven’t talked to him in a long time but he was one of the most naturally funny and warm air talents I have ever heard. I have an aircheck of him doing the Pepsi Party on BBQ about a year before he went off to ATL to work at QXI. Bob, wherever you are, you will always be a GREAT broadcaster.
John
Hi dad,
It’s Bill… your son. I haven’t heard from you in, ohh, 15 years or so. I hope you end up checking this site sometime in the near future. Anyways I have no idea how to get in touch with you but I thought you should know you are having a grandchild soon. Look me up sometime.
William H. Bolton
Wow- you’re still in radio, Bob- awesome! You were sorely missed in Augusta when you left for the big city. (“Car One” incorrectly predicted you’d be back in a month.) There was nothing like Saturday nights with your Pepsi (later “PK” Party)and your sidekicks, Terry Quick and Robert Solomon. Some smitten lady often called you (was her name “Mabel”?) The time (August ’68?) Rick Allen got mad and quit while Mike Randell and Mike Dineen went to National Guard bootcamp was the best- we got to hear you for 8 full hours a day! Congratulations on 50 years. You were a good friend to a bunch of us lonely teenagers and turned us on the the best music ever.
Dear Bob,
Awesome you are still around!! Good to see your doing well. I have been looking for Dave Weiss too. Contact me if you have time, meet you at a Wishbone Chicken spot.
Its amazing what you find when you’re just feeling nostalgic and prowling around on the web. As a kid growing up in northwest Ohio, my radio was always tuned to WOWO at night. Many nights I drifted off to sleep listening to Bob Bolton (I mean that in a good way). Though this check isn’t from WOWO, it was great to hear Bob and his good-natured sense of humor again after almost 40 years. God, it couldn’t have been that long ago…
I remember Bob Bolton from WQXI in Atlanta when he worked the 12 Noon-3 P.M. shift. I listened to him often-the time flew by very enjoyably. Bob was great-truly unique in personality, wit, and knowledge.
Hope you are doing well, Bob.
Joe Carpanzano
just saw your 5/1/08 entry
please send me an email
Dave Weiss
David Weiss e-mail me jd4cranch@yahoo.com
Hi folks,
After two years, I thought I’d google myself and just want to tell you all how much I appreciate your comments. Especially those who listened to me on some pretty good radio stations in our past. It’s so nice to hear I had an impact on you. I still believe in our industry but am so disappointed with what great talents have been relegated to do. That’s voice tracking. Some are doing this for multiple markets they’ve never lived in or even visited. Overall, our business has “lost its flavor”. In past years, I used to delight in taking trips throughout our great Nation and listening to “the flavor” of each market I drove through. Some were really great and the rest were just wonderful because they were delivered locally. Local radio ended 15 years ago. That’s sad. Anyway—here are some call letters for you in my past and I’d love to hear from you if you were listening to me along the way;
I too am from Augusta, Georgia – lived and worked there until I was 29. Then, like Bob Bolton & Mike Dineen, I grabbed an offer and went Atlanta.
But early on, when I was very young (11, 12, and 13 or so) Bob Bolton and (to a lesser but still large extent) Mike Dineen, were my on-air roll models. They greatly fueled my then “consuming” desire to get on the air. I followed their footsteps as best I could. First to WFNL. But I could not break through to WBBQ. My future lay in what would eventually develop into the phenomenon of Talk Radio. And so those “altered paths” took me to Atlanta for Morning Drive at WRNG, then to Dallas at Mid morning WFAA, then on to mid days Miami WGBS WNWS AND and finally, for the past 20+ year, to mornings on KFYI in Phoneix.
I believe that my ability to blend humor and news/talk throughout my program “germinated” in listening to Bob and Dino on WBBQ – and even DX listening through all the the static when they were in Atlanta, Ft. Wayne and Philadelphia.
I met Bob only once, and then sonly very briefly one evening when I was pestering him for a job to work as his assistant on the old PK (Pepsi-Kelly) Party on WBBQ Saturday nights 8-midnight. I got the job. THAT was going to be my “foot in the door” to radio. Alas, I was only 13 and it was my Dad who said, “NO.” I was more than heartbroken. I was devastated.
But now I realize that what happened from that “moment in time” made the difference as to how my life evolved. Today at age 57, I’m still getting to do the #1 program in Phoenix on KFYI.
But best of all, for me it’s now just a hobby. It’s not my job and that makes it FUN! Radio is still FUN after 40+ years on the air!
My “real work” is being President & CEO of WestStar TalkRadio Network, syndicators of The Kim Komando Show (which we conceptualized and launched and which is heard now on over 400 stations nationally together with a host of other music and talk radio national programs.)
I did not get to do what I thought I wanted which is what Mike and Bob did (and did very, very well!) and many times regret it. But, to a larger degree, and even though I never met them personally, what I learned from them is still with me each day.
Thank you Bob & Michael. You taught me the basics of formats, style and delivery – and you had no idea.
And maybe one day we will meet and I can say thank you in person.
Best to all!
I’ve recently uncovered a stash of Bob Bolton airchecks from WFUN, and one of his last shows on WHK, and a friend of mine is converting them to digital. If Bob is reading, let me know if you’re looking for these!
I can’t tell you how much I enjoyed listening to these air checks from WQXI. I grew up and still live just down the road from Atlanta in Griffin, GA. The teens in Griffin listened to QXI back in the 60s. These brought back a lot of great memories from my youth. Thanks so much for sharing with us.
We are trying to locate Bob Bolton, having a school reunion class of 1963.
If you you know where he is, would like to contact him.
Please E-Mail me at smaciaszek@knology.net
Thank You,
Carolyn Hatcher Maciaszek
Class of 1963 ARC Augusta, Georgia,