There’s very little WE can say that conveys the excitement generated by 13 Waves during it’s heyday of the mid-late 1970s. Some of the best and brightest broadcasters in Southern New England graced the air on WAVZ – and a few of them have posted comments about this recording below.
If you read the comments before listening, do yourself a favor now, and see why this AM station OWNED the New Haven market, at a time when AM stations were already in steep decline as music stations. Oh, if this had been put on the sister FM station, we’d be listening to 101 Waves instead of KC 101… but would that have been such a bad thing? We can only dream, I suppose.
Also, sample this WAVZ aircheck from 1973…
And, recording of John E Walker on 13 WAVZ from December ‘75!
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There are some jocks I always remember whenever I hear a particular song because of a funny break they did. Willie had a great one with Alice Cooper “Only Women Bleed.” His break ended with, “Only Women Bleed…Period!” Judge, I always think of you every time I hear “More Than A Feeling” by Boston. After giving the title of the song, you followed with “that answers the question of what you get when you pay more than $5.00 at a massage parlor.” It was quite a risque line for it’s time and gave me a great laugh. Judge, although I barely knew you, I can honestly say you were one of the reasons I was so proud (and still am) to say I work(ed) at 13WAVZ. Hey Franco, where you at? One more quick story, but this goes back before any of us were at WAVZ. My introduction to WAVZ was with Mike Holland back in 1972. He was the night jock (7-12 I think) and this was before Paul Drew consulted and changed everything around. Mike was the one responsible for my interest in radio. He was messing with my girlfriend at the time and I went to the station to discuss it with him. Ends up he and I both dumped her and I found myself a career in radio. Last thing I heard, Mike was in Canada, but doing horrible because of illness. If anyone knows anything about him, please let me know. Thanks. Shane on the weekend.
I remember Bill Shane at WGUF in Naples,Florida. It was a great group, with Mike Bode at the helm. I was in mid-days and Mike Bode was PD and on the air in the morning drive. Great times! I am now in California, teaching.
Woww! it’s a real trip hearing the great stories from the awesome Jocks of the GREAT 13-WAVZ error.
I too, like Franco had the honor of being a WAVZ Music Researcher. And later had the opportunity to work on air in the studio after the switch. (Clearly not the same game though). But it was magical being in that studio and on the air at 15-years old.
Pete Stone (Salant) recruited me in circa 1978 to be a WAVZ Researcher. It was the coolest experience of my life and very sensational, being on the opposite side of the studio glass, while the likes of Stone, Bush, Floyd and Willie B. Goode were on the air. And While I never met Lee Roberts, Bill Shane, The Judge, It’s great reading their replies and hearing their aircheck. have a ton of their air-checks. It was a blast being part of Willies Fire Escape Parties too! How he never locked himself out of that building, I’ll never know! You really got a birds eye view of all three studios; news, production and on air. Just being in the company of these great jocks gave me an MBA in broadcasting and I pick up great on air habits that I would take to my first gig working for Joe McKoy at 14-NVR and again later on in 1986 at Pete Stones 1220-Winner Radio. I learned more just being with these Pros than at the Broadcasting School in Stratford that I attended.
I must have had some vision at the time and appreciated the WAVZ studios, I took color pictures in 1978 and even have some of the jocks behind the mic. I got Willie interviewing the group GQ in production. And it was great being given the green light to use production to cut demo tapes. Willie gave me my first on air name; “Smokin’ Jim Brady” Willie is the best at coming up with stage names!
As a WAVZ Researcher, we were paid in everything but $$$. Which was really cool! CWH one day told me to take what ever I wanted in the closet. And instead of grabbing a Pink 12″ Disc that day, I snagged a brick of red and white 13 WAVZ Bumper Stickers still sealed to this day.
J.J. McKray
Franco, unfortunately, I think I have just about every picture of WAVZ including CWH Music Directors office, but I think the 75 Pinto that Lee Roberts refers to had long been turned into scrap metal by the time I was at WAVZ. But I do have shots of the WKCI/WAVZ green and white Pepsi Van, if that is any consolation!
You may want to check out John Long’s website http://www.oidar.com for that 75 WAVZ Pinto!
Gentlemen (as the late Bill Patrick used to say !
I hadn’t read the posts here in about six months, there are so many wonderful new contributions from old friends. Jim, thanks for keeping things moving as de facto moderator! Willie, Curt, Frank, Bill Shane (where ARE you?), Lee (with whom I recently e-chatted for the first time since back in the day), Chuck, Judge/Hal (so weird that I’m now PD of WPOP, where you made such a huge impression before coming back to 13WAVZ, Chief Tom, who taught me most of what I use even now in my obsession with audio processing, and even all-grown-up David Lacombe! I learned SO much from working with and for your Dad.
In this business, everything seems to come around again. Today, after 20+ great years as a self-employed programming consultant, i’m back at WAVZ. It’s totally surreal.. I’m PD of WWYZ Country 92.5 and WPOP, ESPN Radio 1410 Hartford, where we originate live drive time sports talk programming simulcast on WAVZ, ESPN Radio 1300! Along with my responaibilitiea in Hartford and providing daily live, local content for WAVZ, i assist my boss, who’s Operations Manager of CC/Connecticut (and the best boss a guy could hope for, seriously) by handling programming duties for WAVZ and WELI.
Our ptoduced, spoken legal ID on WPOP features the old Johnny Mann “Drake” jingle singing in perfect sync behind voice guy Jim O’Brien — he says “You’re listening to ESPN Radio” and the singers join him for the rest of the sentence, “14-ten, WPOP Hartford!” Time being as fleeting as it is, I haven’t done that for WAVZ’s legal ID, and so many different jingle logo melodies were heard on 1300 in New Haven between 1970 and 1980 that there really is no heritage jinglr logo associated with WAVZ. It does sound cool on WPOP, though, at least for me and the few listeners “of a certain age” who remember the time from 1968 to 1971 or ‘72 when WPOP played jingles that sounded exactly like KHJ and WRKO and CKLW and WOR-FM.
I’m so lucky to atill be working in my chosen career after 38 years, and getting PAID to do it!
And how ironic is it that WILLIE B. GOODE has the clearest, most vivid memories of any of us, of those memorable years at 13WAVZ?!!
Side note for those who are dying to ask: I regret to inform you that there will be no KC101 30th Anniversary Reunion Weekend. Or even a 30th Anniversary *minuter.* Trust me on that.
Sorry for the typos in the previous post — I wrote it on my iPhone on that tiny little keypad.
HI STONER…..GREAT READING YOUR POST.GLAD YOU ARE DOING SO WELL IN CT,,,INCLUDING WAVES…HOW COOL IS THAT AFTER CLOSE TO 30 YEARS.THE REASON I REMEMBER SO MUCH ABOUT 13/WAVZ WAS BECAUSE IT WAS SUCH GREAT RADIO WITH AMAZING PEOPLE.TRYING NOT TO APPLY THE STROKE I LEARNED SO MUCH FROM YOU ON HOW TO DO GREAT RADIO,IF NOT MY CAREER PATH WOULD HAVE PROBABLY BEEN MUCH DIFFERENT.I ALWAYS HAD THE PASSION BUT YOU SHOWED ME HOW TO USE IT IN A PROFESSIONAL MANNER.I AM NOT SPEAKING FOR ANY OTHER JOCKS BUT I BELIEVE YOU WERE A MAJOR INFLUENCE ON THEIE CAREERS AS WELL.KC WAS COOL BUT WAVES WAS THE FREEKIN BOMB….TOTALLY SMOKIN RADIO AT ITS BEST..HOPE TO CATCH UP WITH YOU IN 09.HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU AND YOUR FAMILY.GNARLY/SMOKIN..IT PAYS TO LISTEN TO WAVES.
HI AGAIN GUYS…SORRY FOR MY TYPE-O…I DONT HAVE AN I-PHONE LIKE PETE….I WAS JUST SLOPPY…LATER.
I just got off the phone with Smokin’ Willie B who called to wish me a New Year! We hadn’t spoken for awhile, so it was great to hear from him! Pete told me awhile back that there wouldn’t be a 3oth Anniversary KC101 Reunion, so there it is above me in black and white…oh well, radio just isn’t the same anymore!
To Lee Roberts: I have some airchecks of you from KC101 and 99X, so please contact me if you’d like to get copies of them. (matt at bigappleairchecks.com)
Happy New Year to all my aircheck and radio friends!
Hey! Happy New Year! I spent a short time at 13 Wavz on the overnight flight in the mid 70’s. Had a blast. Willie B and Pete how the heck are you? Also worked at KC101 in the 80’s. I recall we could not give the temp as 77 or 66 – so as not to confuse our listeners with New York stations…those were the days! (or daze…)
Hi guys,
Sorry for the quick “sidebar” message — but for anyone here who worked at, or grew up with, “Super Music C-O/WWCO in Waterbury” (as I know Chuck Wagoner, Franco, Danny Lyons, and a few others did, we’ve just set up a Facebook group and are starting to gather up folks there to reminisce.
Simply go to Facebook.com, register (free and only takes a minute) and then search for Super Music C-O or WWCO and you’ll find us. Or email me at mikegrayeb@hotmail.com if you need help.
Thanks and peace from a longtime KC-101 fan who was too far away to hear WAVZ but remember when the late great Jack Mitchell and when Danny Lyons left C-O to go to the Elm City!
- Mike
Thanks to WAVZ:
Les Garland showed me how it’s easier to make a a “High” audience laugh!
Chuck Martin proved, “All radio stations are toilets, they just flush differently”
Johnny Walker theorized that Lava Lamps made a blind date more interesting.
Bob Rivers could use profanity many times on the air. It was every time I held an ignited cigarette lighter, under the outdoor temperature sensor, as he ended his quick, weather update.
Bob Rivers proved a 3-stack cart machine was not a good place to keep your McDonalds burgers warm. Ketchup & tape heads don’t mix.
Pete Salant became a poor advisor of where to rent an apartment. Shortly after moving in, to where Pete suggested, there were 2 murders. 30+ years later I’m still finding .38 slugs in my furniture.
I was the only DJ to ever cause Dan Kopps (owner)to charge into the control room, while the mic was on, ordering me… “No more hatchet jobs on the Phone Company”.
Finally, thanks to WAVZ, which was an outstanding experience, I was able to find gainful employment elsewhere.
HEY GUYS….JUST SAW WHERE JB105 IN PROVIDENCE IS NOW AN INTERNET STATION.I WORKED THERE IN THE EARLY 80s.I CANT UNDERSTAND WHY THEY WOULD BE FEATURING CURRENT HITS…THE HEYDAY OF JB WAS 75-83…..I WROTE A DETAILED E_MAIL TO THE PD BUT HE NEVER GOT BACK TO ME……THE POINT OF THIS POST IS WOULDNT IT BE COOL IF 13/WAVZ RETURNED AS AN INTERNET STATION WITH THE ORIGINAL JOCKS VOICETRACKING? PLEASE NO CURRENT STUFF…ANY THOUGHTS FROM THE WAVZ MEN? GNARLY/SMOKIN
Has anyone put together a WAVZ tribute site yet? I have lots of station related things from 60’s including a call card from whne the station first when on the air in ‘48?
Anyone knows where some of the 60’s DJ’s are doing like TJ Martin, Ed Flynn. I know Tracy passed away.
I loved working at WAVZ in 1967 and 1968 with Bill Beamish, T J Martin, Ed Flinn,
Bob Terry, and of course Lee Manson was the Program Director.Went there from WNLC
in New London..
I worked the evening shift from 6 PM following Bob Terry.
Those were great days. All the wonderful contests. Remember the WAVZ Millionaire
give away contest?. The staton was at 152 Temple St. Phone number I still remember 777-4767 for all the spin it and win it calls. We were the WAVZ Straight Shooters.
Dan Kopps was the owner of the station in those days. I am living in Nashville,
I came here in 1969 as a record producer. I still miss being on the air and those great fun days at the House of Zodiac in West Haven, as I also managed Tommy and the Rivieras Band at the same time…. I sure wish I had an air check of my show from those days. I am 74 years young now,,, I listen to the station on
line a lot and it is still the hot station tht it alwas was.
ED Read
Tom,
Ed is at WATR Waterbury CT doing 10-1
Franco
http://www.francoslasertag.com
Willie B… GREAT IDEA!!
I’ll even be your intern again!!
Willie -
I’ll do Music Research again!
McKray
I like the idea too! I do music research.
Greetings, All!
Count me in for a 2-3 midday or afternoon shift. I might even be able to dig up the old 13/WAVZ shotgun.
Let’s discuss this. That’s the way radio is heading anyway. Why not put the old team together, even in our dreams?
Lee
If you guys do this is there any way I can be involved…. I miss radio so darn much!!! Maybe just one little weekend gig? Building helicopters pays great but they don’t put mics in Blackhawks.
- West
Hey Willie- Great idea. Anything I can do to help, just let me know. I’m sure if we all pool our resources we shouldn’t have a problem coming up with 1000 songs (maybe that should be 1300). I know I have some old memorabilia in boxes somewhere; now if I can just find them. Hey Pete Salant, I’m still in Naples, FL right where you left me. For those of you who don’t know, Pete was the consultant for the old group H&D based in Hartford. They bought this stand alone FM in Naples, FL and sent me down from Q-105 to program it and get it back on track. I took it from a 5.0 to 10.5 in one book (Birch) and they turned around and sold it to this asshole named Art Arkillian. I left the station, but stayed in balmy Naples. Now I sell ratings services for Eastlan Ratings and I love it. If you need an alternative to Arbitron, let me know. Paul “The Morning” Mayer, you were great! I love the Dan Kopps story. Nothing like having the owner bitch you out while your mic is open. I once opened my mic when the owner was yelling at me just to shut him up. His name was Carl Falvo or Falvey. He used to work at WDRC in the 60’s, but he was running this great station in a toilet bowl town called Clearfield, PA. Okay, I’ve rambled enough. Hats off to all former WAVZ jocks and jockettes.
Well:
What do i say. I have read every post here ( long exhaustive process) and I must admit that
i got some huge laughs, and even a little misty eyed at the memories. There was no doubt that we all were a part of something special. Who cared about the mortgage, about the pay, about the world and it’s state. Then was a simpler time. Rock’n Roll, girls, screamin on the radio, gettin blown away, that was the juice!!
Pete’s intuitive talent was apparent. Tight playlist, killer jingles, keepin the rap to a minimum, all part of the winning formula. Wizz bang on air rpoduction, cross promotion..everything all delivered in an upbeat compelling fashion. And what about call out research. Who the heck was doing that then. Pete was, and Curtis W assisting. major talent. Proud to have to worked with them.
As for my on air colleague The hottest shit collection of on air talent at the time. Willie B, Lee, The Stoner. And the hijinx, me reversing the air cleaner on the V6 Pinto wagon. Almost got canned for that. Sneaking out the back stairwell…oh hell. Glad to know you guys are out there, all the best to you. Thanks for the trip back to a period of my life that I will cherish forever.
13 WAVZ…TURN IT UP LOUD!!!
BUSHMAN
HELLO MR. BUSH…..SOME OF MY FONDEST 13/WAVZ MEMORIES ARE YOU AND ME STICKER SPOTTING AND GOING TO CONCERTS,,,,,WAVES MAN GET OUT OF THE WAY………WE HAD MORE FUN RAISING HELL ON THE STREETS OF NEW HAVEN…GLAD TO SEE YOU ON THE SITE….HOPE YOU AND YOUR FAMILY ARE DOING WELL.REMEMBER THE TIME YOU TOLD THE JOCK ON THE AIR AT WADS IN ANSONIA THAT HE WAS FUCKING LIGHT?DIDNT WE HAVE A GOOD TIME THEN??????MAKE WAVES AND WRITE IT DOWN….RIGHTTTTTTTTTT…SMOKIN
Willie –
Schedule me for a weekend/fill on-air slot!
J.J. McKray
Ok… lets roll with this tentative plan to get
13-WAVZ.COM or 13WAVZ.COM I personally own the domains, so I know that they are available!
JOCK SHIFTS: 2-HOURS
JINGLE PKG: SAME GREAT ONES
PD: SALANT? (WILL HE DO IT?)
MD: CURTIS W?
MUSIC FORMAT: SAME 1300 PLAY LIST
Special Guest Jocks: Bring em’ on
JOCKS:
MORNINGS (ROTATE)
JUDGE
JERRY
PAUL MAYER
MIDDAY (ROTATE)
LEE ROBERTS
LYONS
STONER
DRIVE (ROTATE)
BUSH
FRIENDLY
SHANE (DON’T FORGET THE DOG!)
JOHNNY WALKER
NIGHTS (ROTATE)
SMOKIN’ WILLIE
CURTIS W
WEST
CHARLIE WAGNER
JAY SCOTT
OVERNIGHTS:
KIRVEN
NIGHT BIRD
WEEKENDS/FILLS
J.J. MCKRAY
FRANKO
Hi Jim, I got a home studio, the music, etc… hows about a once in a while appearance?
Hi Steve –
Any on air experience?
J.J. McKray
Domain WAVZ Man
13-WAVZ.com
13WAVZ.com
Yep. WMBZ, WGKX, WMC-FM Memphis, KOUL Corpus Christi, WEZL (briefly) Charleston SC, WINQ Winchendon MA, WHAI Greenfield MA about 4 times, WXLO Fitchburg back in ‘84. And then, there’s this one I have posted here on Airchexx. I dunno, I bet I can do the format. It would be a hoot working with some of the best I’ve ever heard.
Count me in for a weekend shift! Experience: WGLI, WNYG, WAPP, RadioSamantha.com and fill-in’s on Studio 108/WEBE. Just ask Pete how good I was! Thanks! Magic Matt
The Return of the legendary 13 WAVZ coming to
13WAVZ.com
Great thanks Steve and Matt –
Sounds like you guys have great on-air experience, but can you sound like the days of 13-WAVZ?
Some Jock Criteria:
Can you hit every post and vocal?
Do you remember C H R I S T I E???
Can you relate to greater New Haveners?
C A N Y O U E X E C U T E T H E F O R M A T
Can you be a WAVZ MAN?
Can you scream 13 W A V Z on mic until your eyes pop out of your skull?
We’ll run it by Salant (if he’s on with us) and we should be able to get you guys an air shift.
I think we’re going to have a great time with this!
MAKE WAVZ
J.J. McKray
Domain WAVZ Man
13-WAVZ.com
13WAVZ.com
13-WAVZ.net
13WAVZ.net
I can spit to New Haven… so yea I can relate (I’ll just drive around the city for a week and memorize every landmark). The wife grew up here.
Lesseee… Christie, Yellow River (wasn’t that the color of the Housatonic?)
I’m pretty good at executions
….”I can see Daniel waving goodbye.. (oops wrong song)
I can just see myself screaming 13WAVES in this little bedroom studio with the wife sleeping. There is an assortment of frying pans at her disposal hahahaha.
Yea this could be a lot of fun.
If nothing else, I’ll be happy to publicize whatever you come up with for a 13WAVZ.com station on this website. Somebody who makes good graphics come up with something, maybe an old bumper sticker scan and we’ll make it a clickable link
Great idea, Willie.
I’m a little busy. It’s official, I’m now PD of:
WWYZ
WPOP
WELI
WAVZ
Among other things I do at CC/Connecticut. So I’m a little busy. But it would be a hoot. Jim, glad to see you’re set with the domain names!
J.J. McKray’s taking the ball with Smokin’ Willie B. Goode aka Gnarley Charlie and running with it.
I’m not a betting man, but I’d be willing to wager that 13WAVZ.com is going to get a boat load of on line hits! (no pun intended).
Tell us how you can contribute with:
Voice Tracking: _____________
Music:_______________
From the Error Promos: ____________
From the Error Spots: _____________
Let’s bring back the same 13- WAVZ Screamin’ Radio format from the 70’s, no holes barred.
It would be so cool to put up some Curtis W. WIllie B. Goode cross raps (remember those) Curtis W…. “Later”
Let’s shoot for a combination of the Pete Salant and John Long format .
In time, we me might be able to sell a few spots too! How do you like that Pie In The Sky Dream, especially in this economy). How about pitching THE RUBBER MATCH and Chuck & Eddies in New Haven.
Let’s throw some ideas around on how to track this and get it up on line.
My thinking is to build a continous loop of programming and just let it roll even if we initially only start with a few jocks.
As we get more content, we add to what we have. This is’nt rocket science.
Let’s fire this up!
J.J. McKray
I have some idea on how to do internet radio, having been involved with radiomaxmusic.com (not anymore). We used to do our own shows with our own libraries…. we all had the station jingles, sweepers, etc. I used OtsDj, did it ‘live’ so I could really feel the show as opposed to tracking, where its just not the same…. recorded it live into Adobe Audition and uploaded the file to my server where the guy who runs the internet station downloaded it and put it in his audio chain. Thats how I did it. Email Bob Shannon at CBS-FM, he did shows there too and can also give you insight.
Somebody has to have some kind of server and broadcast delivery system, automation, etc… not quite as involved as a regular station – you don’t need Scott Studios (or is it Google now?…). Hope that helps.
THE MORE I THINK ABOUT THIS THE MORE STOKED I GET…STONER I TOTALLY UNDERSTAND THAT YOU ARE KINDA BUSY THESE DAYS….PD OF HOW MANY STATIONS??? STEVE WEST SEEMS TO HAVE A HANDLE ON WHAT IS NEEDED FROM A TECHNICAL STANDPOINT AND SEVERINE IS CHOMPIN AT THE FREEKIN BIT…I WAS LISTENING TO MY BUD J.J.WALKER LAST NITE ON 70s ON 7 AND I WAS THINKING HOW COOL IT WOULD BE TO CRANK OUT THIS AMAZING MUSIC AGAIN ON 13/WAVZ.ITS GONNA TAKE A LOT OF WORK TO MAKE THIS PROJECT A REALITY BUT IT SOUNDS LIKE A FUN VENTURE ESPECIALLY AFTER 13/WAVZ.COM COMES TO FRUITION.MORE TO COME HOPEFULLY..GNARLY/SMOKIN…
Guys;
This is what I think will do the trick:
An easy to use voice-tracking program. I use “Station Playlist” to do this. It’s a simple to use voice track and automation system, plus they have the ability to stream our stuff for about 30 dollars a month, something that I would be willing to drop two dollars a month on, if we have ten sincere, solid announcers that want to do this. Take a look at StationPlaylist.com.
Getting to the internet isn’t so hard, I can take care of that.
Music is easy, I have most of it already. I’m running an Oldies station in Colorado kind of on the side, the music’s mostly all there.
What all of us would need is a Station Playlist license, install on your system, then voice track like normal, then send your voice tracks and playlists back to home base, if it’s my computer, that’s fine and dandy. We would have to talk to Station Playlist to see if we could get a deal on ten licenses. On the jock’s end, it requires a computer, and a way of getting voice tracks into it, be it Cool Edit Pro/Adobe Audition or some other recording program, and a microphone. I like Cool Edit becuase is had on-board compression for your mics, just like the old Kepex/Gain Brains we used at WAVZ.
We can give accurate weather forecasts by logging on to the National Weather Service website, promos can be cut by any one of us, special weekends aren’t any big deal. We could rock the Elm City without cracking a sweat. I think we could even look around for an AM that might be interested in some low-cost programming, let them do the leg work on the financial end. If that happens, we then need to worry about BMI and ASCAP, maybe even SESAC.
I suggested two hours because I cut a four hour show every day using this software, and it takes me about five minutes to voicetrack an hour. We can all afford 15 minutes a day, I figure. We can throw some old stuff on the air, Lubal’s and other old advertisers. We can preface them with some slogan, like “Sounds of the Seventies” or whatever we pick.
I recommend a Classic Hits format. That will include all of the music of the late sixties and through the seventies. It doesn’t make much sense to use Eighties music, because by then WAVZ was “Music of Your Life.”
Mr. Kopps and Mr. Monahan probably won’t mind us using their names in the I.D., but Pete Salant should probably give us some kind of blessing since WAVZ is still a living, breathing entity on the air.
This is do-able, my friends. I’ll help coordinate if need be. I’ve already committed to a two hour shift. I have a funny feeling if we put an ad in the New Haven Register, we could have a significant listenership.
Lee
Lee (and others), please contact me via email. If you guys do this you’ll need a website and some other things, and we at Airchexx might be able to help the WAVZ alumni with some of that.
Count me in! I’d rather voice track than sit for 2 hours doing a show. I don’t think it’s up to Pete, since Clear Channel owns the stations, so that could get tricky legal wise. I vote for Lee as PD!
Lee … solid technical plan.
Jocks that are committed:
- Lee Roberts
- Willie B. Goode
- Peter Bush (Confirmed today)
- J.J. McKray
- Magic Matt (Big Apple Airchexx Fame and Former WEBE 108)
- Steve West
Thanks!
HEY GUYS…I LIKE LEE AS PD…HE HAS SOME SOLID IDEAS AS HOW TO DO THIS.I LOVE TO VOICETRACK AND MAKE IT SOUND TOTALLY LIVE…BEEN TRACKING FOR TEN YEARS FROM THE DAYS OF THE NOW DEFUNCT STAR SYSTEM….ANOTHER DEMERIT FOR CLEAR CHANNEL FOR TAKING IT OVER AND SHUTTING IT DOWN….I BELIEVE MAGIC MATT HAS A GOOD QUALITY AIRCHECK OF ME ON WAVZ IN 1978….MAYBE HE CAN PUT IT ON THIS SITE TO BRING BACK THAT INCREDIBLE AUDIO,SPED UP MUSIC AND A YOUNG SCREAMING JOCK NAMED SMOKIN WILLIE B.GOODE….HOPE MORE TALENT GET INVOLVED.GNARLY/SMOKIN…..ON 13/WAVES………
Hello again, everyone!
I’ve been looking around for material for the webacast, and it seems like I’ve hit a snag finding jingles, promos and things like that.
When we were at 13/WAVZ, it was shotgun jingles and quick weathers. Two years before, it was “New Waves 13.” In the sixties, the jingles were longer and told a story. My suggestion is if anyone can find a studio quality aircheck, let’s splice the jingle out of it. Remember, too, we had jock shouts. Anyone who can come up with theirs, great. Otherwise, we can do what Pete ingeniously did, we’ll do our own shouts. Whisper segs were a part of our era. I believe Pete voiced them. Maybe we can talk him into doing another set of them. We gotta find the shotgun jingle from 1977/78.
When we put this on-line, we can match up the jingles to the era music we’re playing. If we play Devil Woman by Cliff Richard, we’ll use the shotgun. Play Let’s Stay Together by Al Green, we’ll use the New Waves 13 package and so on.
We have to find the John Long promo from 1975! Does anyone know if Sunshine is still in town?
Steve, thanks for all your generous offers. I’m sure we’ll be in touch. Matt, did you get those other airchecks? Willie B., JJ, Peter Bush, you’re all the bomb!
I’ve got some DBX compressors laying around. They should be more than adequate to get the air sound we want, especially if we run a couple in series. Remember, 13/WAVZ was fairly dense, compression-wise, on the air!
I want to try and put together a demo for everyone. If you can get me some jingles, that’s great for a start.
The wheels are turning in my head, gang! Let’s light this candle!
Lee
Guys…whats the deal with 13WAVZ. com. Is it going live?
saw my name and a shift suggestion some where..
BUSH
Count me in as a jock. I have temporary access to Cool Edit Pro (Adobe Audition). I’ll buy it for my home and set up a home studio this Summer. I’ll start digging for anything I can find from the WAVZ daze.
Shane on the weekend
I may have a couple shot gun jingles from 1978 around in my collection.
Guys, some of you know me and some don’t, but I loved WAVZ as a teen, especially in the Paul Drew/John Long years and have a LOT of airchecks. (in fact, the clip that started this whole string came from my collection). Does anybody know whatever happened to Ron Foster. He was there in 73 and 74. I’ve got lots of tape of him. Also, a guy named Bobby Scott, who I believe did weekends in 74. Pat Brody? Steve Warren? Mike Dean? They were all there in 1974. Also Buzzy Hart, one of the original jocks in the “New Waves” lineup of 73. I know that Brian Phoenix runs a party DJ outfit called Phoenix Mobile Music in Maine. (great jock!). So much talent there. Oh, yeah… Quincy McCoy was also at WAVZ as the “Super Q” in ‘73/74. Tome Britton (aka John Larrabee) was there in ‘73 and 74. Remember the “Great Britton Ripoff” contest of April 1974? News people: Anne Avery, Jackson Kaine, Neil Stevens and of course Charlie Steiner. (i’ve got a funny aircheck of him announcing school closings during a blizzard in November 1973 and going “yay!” Where are they all now?
Andy B… I forgot your email address. Would ya email me? steve@airchexx.com Thanks
So, I guess this question is aimed right at Pete Salant. Would corporate go for a weekend recreation of 13 WAVZ on the current sports station? Surely it would get more of an audience than what they have now, considering all the major sports games can be heard in NYC on WFAN / WABC / WCBS.
Think of NJ 101.5 which does talk all week, then goes to a 70s hits music station format with original JAM jingles all weekend. Why couldn’t we pitch the same general idea to the bosses at CC? I’m sure we’d cost the station next to nothing. Then we could fall under the station’s umbrella with respect to royalty fees, etc. for the internet version.
Comments?
TO ANDY B AND HIS TIME WARP…..RON FOSTER IS IN DALLAS,CHARLIE STEINER DOES RADIO PLAY BY PLAY FOR THE DODGERS.WHICH YOU CAN HEAR ON XM.NO CLUE ON THE WHERABOUTS OF YOUR OTHER HEROES INCLUDING THE LEGENDARY BUZZY HART WHICH RHYMES WITH FART.HOPE THIS HELPS…..LOVE THE MEMORIES BRO…
Hey you guys… its me CASH Sunshine with that “$100.00 cash Giveaway” that made me famous in New Haven and with the New Haven PD! Remember John long set me loose on the streets of greater New Haven with a $10,000.00 to give out over a two week period. The press was all over it and so were the Cops. Two weeks later John Long through me on the air and I told all the listeners that it was me on the streets handing out the CASH! The rest is history “CASSH SUNSHINE.”
Love the comments on this site. Jim Severine/aka J.J. McKray started, great job starting dialoge! Hey J.J. I used to listen to you WJBX while I a=was DXing in PA and on KC-101 when you were the “Chucker” and later in NYC when you were on 96.7 GMX.
Smokin’ Willie B. Goode the man who ruled the Elm City in the night time on WAVZ!
J.J. and WIllie I am up to doing a gig on 13-WAVZ.COM. I understand Severine has the rights to the domain name and others! Smart!
Hi to Salant and Lee Roberts too!
SUNSHINE
Take care
Paul Sunshine Resnik! What am I doing working at
‘HCN in the land of snow & cold? Shouldn’t you be back here on 105.9, or at least PLR (I swear there’s a WHO song on every time I punch up 99.1!). Warmest personal greetings.
Steve, you would not believe how well the WPOP/WAVZ combo does, revenue-wise, as ESPN Radio 1410/1300. Last year we grossed more than most FM stations do in similar sized markets. Unfortunately, I can’t pull high school softball or Yankees baseball or even ESPN Radio off WAVZ to do a reunion or revival weekend. We’re rated by money, not listener share. It would be eargasmic, though. Would I ever love to be part of that! How ironic is it that I’m the company representative who has to say “no!” But the buck does stop here at the PD’s office.
I think I may have a cassette (given to me for the KC101 20th Anniversary Reunion Weekend) of the 3 tempoed shotguns we used, that were made by crossfading “13 Q” with acapellas from the TM Shockwave package that brought you “The New Waves.”. It wasn’t until 1978 that we were able to buy real jingles and jock sings (not cheap shouts for the most part). I’ll look through my boxes of tapes and let y all know what I come up with.
Well, Pete, that’s okay I expected that answer. But I had to ask. Yea it would be a hoot to bring in the old gang just for a day. But honestly, unless there was some promotion involved, nobody’d make it a point to listen. The internet station… now THATs a great idea that could grow wings and take off, even if it’s very slowly at first. And we’d all have fun with that. I love the ideas you guys are throwing around. Keep em coming!
Tell ya what. If you or anyone else involved with 13 WAVES wants to do a demo, I’ll post it on airchexx and add a poll to see how site listeners react. There’s a challenge to any you guys wanna give it a try. It’d be fun to listen to, at least!
Pete:
Great to see your postings. Catch this….
To ride on some of the ideas that have been thrown your way, and since WAVZ was scoring 10 shares and was an enormous presence in Greater New Haven, with just about everyone listening, in the 70’s, why not run short nostalgic 13-WAVZ aircheck clips during the game breaks a few times an hour, exiting spots going back into sports talk on weeknights/weekends. i.e Spots – WAVZ Airchecks – Game Talk (The “What’s old, is new again approach). If anything, it would entertain listners, more than confuse them and perhaps make them feel 30-years younger. It’s solid retro programming material and I’d be willing to bet CC would love it. This would break up any talk monotony with music, jingles and personality, etc. You edit the stuff down to a 30- sec to 45 -seconds, or what ever. (Same idea as the stuff we hear on most radio talk show today, music coming out of spots into the talk show host). THIS WOULD BE HUGE! Instead of just music, listners would be rekindling their favorite 13-WAVZ jocks/personalities, shot gun jingles, into “FREAK OUT” by Chic etc. It would be a great synergy. The same concept with the POP brand may even fly on WPOP.
I’ll send you my consult fee.
The best!
J.J. McKray
Cash Sunshine! I was living in New Haven when you came into town. It was the most exciting promotion I’d ever heard. John Long sure knew how to generate publicity; “hey, there’s some crazy bastard out on the street in downtown giving away money.” It was very inspiring and remains one of the reasons why I have always been so proud to be a part of radio. Sorry I never got a chance to meet you, but hopefully we’ll be cross-plugging each other on the 13-WAVZ internet streaming site.
Bill Shane
Hey Shane:
Thanks for the kind words! I heard you on the air in FLorida last year…great set of pipes! Yes, John Long was a great PR man, especially the stunt with me giving out the cash! Sometimes he pushed it too far though. For example, there was the time that he and Brian Phoenix were driving over the Q-Bridge in the Elm Cit-AY in the WAVZ News Car, long was riding shot gun and in a rush to get back to 152 and told Phoenix to get in the break down lane and hit the gas. Phoenix a kid, did, but also asked, isn’t this illegal and what if we get busted? Jon Long replied, don’t worry, I’ll tell the cop that I am the New WAVZ Program Director. Sources have it reliably so, as they were coming around bend, sure enough, a CT. State Trooper was parked in the break down lane. Long (Sometimes his own worst enemy) gets out of the WAVZ cruiser and introduces himself to the cop. Seconds later, long is sitting in the back of the Troopers Paddy Wagon in cuffs. A great story that had to be shared by SUNSHINE on 13-WAVZ!
Love all you guys! (not really)
CASH Sunshine!
HI STEVE….LOVE THE NEW LOOK OF THE SITE….HEY SUNSHINE,WHATS UP DUDE??????YOU WERE ANOTHER GREAT JOCK ON 13/WAVZ AND THE NEW WAVES….I CANNOT SLEEP UNTIL WE HEAR FROM BUZZY HART…..KEEP ON SMOKIN…..GNARLY/SMOKIN…
Smokin, Gnarly, Kenyon, whatever… Lack of sleep is REALLY bad for folks pushing 60, so tell ya what… Although there’s no way I can produce Buzzy Hart in person, I can produce him on a mint copy of a Programmer’s Digest LP
segment called “A Visit With WAVZ”. 22 minutes or so highlighting the energy of the 1st generation New Waves format from Summer ’73. Also, I’m sending Airchexx.com a CD of 7 “off the original reel” New Waves contest promos from 1972/73. I got these from a reclusive aircheck freak who wishes to remain nameless (where he finds this stuff is beyond me!). But wait, don’t touch that dial! You’ll also get 60 minutes of WAVZ from 1965 through 1976 – composites of Bill Beamish, Mason Dixon, Joe Hager, Judge Harrigan, Pete “The Stoner” Salant – and that’s just half the CD! But, if it you order in the next 10 minutes (cause we can’t do this all day…), You’ll also receive a full unscoped hour of Cliff Rockin’ Kenyon (not CANYON, as I’ve already been told), doing his thing on July 20, 1976 at WFIF, Milford CT. Small town summer radio with 45s and carts! Does it just get any better! Steve West, send me your snail-mail address and all this stuff goes out tomorrow morning!
From your friends at the New Waves!
HI ANDY B….DUDE,THANKS FOR REMINDING ME HOW OLD I AM….ACTUALLY I AM FEELING GREAT AT 58..IT COMFORTS ME TO KNOW THAT MOST OF THE WAVES JOCKS FROM THE 70s ARE ALSO IN OR AROUND MY AGE BRACKET…IN FACT SOME MAY EVEN BE OLDER.HEY LETS FACE IT YOU CANT STAY 25 FOREVER BUT I AM THANKFUL TO STILL BE DOING WHAT I LOVE AND STILL HAVING FUN BEING A PART OF RADIO IN 2009….NEXT YEAR WILL BE 40 YEARS ON THE AIR FOR ME IF I LIVE THAT LONG.I WOULD LOVE TO HEAR THAT CLIFF KENYON AIRCHECK ON FIF WHEN I ACTUALLY WAS 25….THANKS BRO AND IN CLOSING, INQUIRING OLD MINDS ARE CURIOUS…….WHAT STATIONS HAVE YOU WORKED AT IN YOUR CAREER?????LATER..GNARLY/SMOKIN,TRUCKIN AKA THE GEEZER OF THE AIRWAVES….
Hi Willie! Yeah, I’m kinda up there in age, too, but doing pretty well. Hey, drop me an email amd I’ll send you out a copy of the WFIF aircheck. It’s truly a classic! I’m out of radio now, but for 18+ years I did the Saturday night oldies gig at WPKN-FM in Bridgeport, CT. Vintage jingles, commercials, promos and liners, too – very cool stuff. Sort of recreated the 1967 radio sound for 4 hours on Saturday evenings. Lots of listener requests snd interaction…it was a ton of fun! Hope to hear from you.
Hey Gnarly –
Davie Woods, one of your listners from 95.5 WPLJ. And a former WAVZ listner back in 1977 when I was at the Uiversity of New Haven. You used to give shout outs to me and my dorm party at UNH.
Davie Woods
Manhattan
HI ANDY B….15 FIF THE SOUND OF AMERICA…..WOW…..I COULD GO ON FOR HOURS ABOUT THAT GIG.ANCIENT BOARD,CUE BURNS ON MOST OF THE RECORDS,2 CART MACHINES WHICH MEANT YOU HAD TO MAKE SURE YOU RECUED YOUR SPOTS AFTER THEY PLAYED OR YOU WOULD BE TOTALLY SCREWED.WHEN I WAS THERE I COULDNT WAIT TO GET OUT BUT LOOKING BACK 33 YEARS LATER IT WAS QUITE A TRIP.STATION HAD A KILLER SIGNAL UP AND DOWN THE CT.SHORELINE AND EVEN SLAMMED INTO NANTUCKET.AS YOU MENTIONED IT WAS A DAYTIMER AND SOMETIMES RIGHT BEFORE SIGNOFF YOU COULD HEAR WTOP IN YOUR HEADPHONES.I WORKED WITH SOME COOL PEOPLE AT FIF INCLUDING JAY SCOTT,DENNIS MURRAY AND MY OLD ROOMMATE BILL SHANE WHO ALL ESCAPED TO WAVES.PETE SALANT AKA MIKE STONE DID MORNINGS THERE SHORTLY BEFORE I ARRIVED.AS I RECALL HE HAD TO BOLT RIGHT AT 9am IN ORDER TO GET TO SOME OTHER TOILET IN NORWALK BY TEN TO DO MID-DAYS.THOSE WERE THE CRAZY DAYS OF RADIO IN THE 70s.THANK GOD MOST OF US WERE ALWAYS HIGH……MY PD AT FIF RANDY WEST WAS AMAZING….TALK ABOUT GETTING SOMETHING OUT OF NOTHING.ALL THE SWEEPERS,PROMOS AND JINGLES WERE ALL DONE BY RANDY WITH HORRIBLE EQUIPMENT AND ABSOLUTELY NO BUDGET.THAT WAS THE ONLY STATION I WORKED WHERE I NEVER AIRCHECKED…..HEY WHAT THE FUCK IS A SKIMMER??????I AM AMAZED THAT YOU ACTUALLY HAVE A CLIFF KENYON AIRCHECK FROM THAT CRAZY SUMMER OF 76 AND ITS EVEN UNSCOPED?????DAMN….IT WOULD BE A TREAT TO RELIVE THOSE DAYS AGAIN….MAYBE STEVE WEST WOULD BE KIND ENOUGH TO PUT IT UP ON AIRCHEXX..IF YOU ARE CALLER 15 YOU WILL WIN A TEN CENT HOT DOG FROM THE MERRITT CANTEEN IN THE WORST PART OF BRIDGEPORT..EVERYTHING WAS A TRADE AND IF YOU WERE REALLY LUCKY YOU MADE IT TO THE BANK ON TIME BEFORE YOU WERE SINGING RUBBER BALL BY BOBBY VEE.RADIO DAZE FOR SURE..THANKS..GNARLY/SMOKIN/CLIFF TRUCKIN KENYON…….WHAT A LONG STRANGE TRIP ITS BEEN……CRANK IT UP AND BURN A PHAT ONE………………
Willie – very cool inside scoop on WFIF! I’ve printed it off and saved it in my “radio booty” folder. On the FIF aircheck I recorded that long-ago July, you were “Cliff, in for Randy”. I guess Randy was on vacation or sick that day. Yep, the imaging sure was “The Sound Of Amererica”. The Bicentennial took place just 2 weeks earlier. My favorite spot/PSA on the aircheck is from a local sewer cleaning company reminding listeners that LSD is a one-way trip!
Taking LSD kept you from being able to do a job – like sewer cleaning!
Love the description of FIF’s studio hardware! WPKN-FM is only 1 step above. You got to know where all the dead spots on the pots where. I used to crank the Compellor up to max during my gig because the station processing default setting was next-to-nothing. (it helps to have a copy of the key to the transitter room!) We had consumer-grade CD players from the 1990s that sometimes wouldn’t open, especially when you’ve got like 10 seconds left to cue up the next tune because you’ve been chatting on the phone with a caller and lost track of time! My email address is andybologovsky@optonline.net
Send me a mailing address and I’ll gladly send you an unscoped copy of the WFIF check.
The Beauty no longer on Duty,
Andy
I posted the WFIF aircheck for all of you. Andy, thanks for sending it!
Steve
Steve,
Thanks a LOT for posting the WFIF aircheck. Just a small correction – I did tape this aircheck back when I was 17 and lived in Milford, but I never worked at WFIF. (just a listener). Really nice scoping job, by the way!
“This is a gift from Andy Bologovsky, who worked at WFIF for a time. This particular aircheck is presented to the 70s WAVZ staff, many of whom worked here before the step up to Kopps-Monahan a few miles down the road.”
Well, I can fix that easy enough. As for scoping, sometimes it’s a black art much like the way we all used razor blades to cut tape for production. Gotta know where to splice the music so it sounds seamless.
No, actually I took my time doing that one right. Glad you like it.
Pete, Lee, Willie B… and anyone else who might be interested. I was thinking, who might want to do an hour or two (recorded) that I might post here as a special 13 WAVES Memorial weekend? Maybe airchexx.com’s way of celebrating Memorial day, since apparently WABC Rewound is (from what I hear) going to be internet-only this year. You need jingles, promos and old spots… the latter I have some now that Andy B. sent me so many CDs, plus the killer 70s library. I can produce with voice tracks or you can if you have the ability. I’ll post as many hours as people wanna do.
If you’re interested let me know and I’ll get it together – we got just under 2 months.