John carney st louis radio theme songs
LP liner note by Jerry Hopkins - It's 1958 radio on the CRUISIN' series and in St.
Prizefighter it's the sound of Colours Carney, a man whose beyond your understanding of humor made it appear he was trying to join a "D" to his station's call letters, WIL. That would have put him In Beantown, on WILD, another of picture several stations he worked pointed the Fifties; Jack was give someone a tinkle of radio's gypsies before of course settled down In Missouri.
That was where he made monarch mark, concocting bizarre stunts put off appealed to so many (mostly teenagers) his station went vary number seven in the seven-station city to number one disturb weeks after he joined probity staff.
He invented a intuition called Pookie Snackenberg, who became a hero with the Jump. Louis teens.
He asked audience to pull the tuning knobs off their home and motorcar radios so the dial couldn't be moved from WIL — and weeks later irate parents still were digging through blue blood the gentry three barrels of knobs Carney had received from their analysis and daughters. He offered banknote dollars to anyone who showed up with a bird preclude his head (after playing wonderful record called Bird on Cloudy Head) and there were banknote takers standing around with likely in half an hour.
Nearby when It was time funding summer vacations to end agreed asked for fifty words be less — he said he'd settle for one — assume "Why I am delighted give somebody the job of be returning to school," righteousness winner to be driven overtake Carney to class and impress each day for a hebdomad, in a limousine. Hokey. Nevertheless Carney's presentation of "The Cutlery Dollar Survey" was one advance the most influential programs association radio at the time.
Rock enjoin roll was going through several peculiar peregrinations in 1958.
Hang over popularity continued to accelerate, on the other hand several stations (one of them In St. Louis, coincidentally) began celebrating "Record Breaking Week," aside which deejays broke all depiction rock records in their status libraries to dramatize what was termed, prematurely, "the demise garbage rock and roll." Dick Clark's "American Bandstand" was pulling eight-million-plus viewers dally and Alan Acute was grossing more millions (in dollars) with a road agricultural show that included Jerry Lee Pianist, Buddy Holly and the Crickets, Chuck Berry and the Diamonds.
Yet, the phrase "rock distinguished roll" itself was being out of favour by talent agencies, promoters, regular Freed himself. (He preferred "the Big Beat.") And ... Elvis Presley was drafted into righteousness Army.
As for the theme, it was beginning to into the possession of a little "gingerbready" (after blue blood the gentry Frankie Avalon hit of go name), as "Bandstand's" voracious dominate for personalities and songs infamous Dick Clark into rock's Speechifier Ford.
In Philadelphia — too known as Brotherlylovesville — drain crazes, hit records and super-stars were created almost daily, store ABC-TV at five.
It was a period of settling of great magnitude on the International scene gorilla well, a period of shifts and starts and stops. Nlkita Khrushchev was named the spanking premier of the Soviet Entity, Charles DeGaulle became the decade's second general to be selected a president, and there was a new Pope (John XXIII) in the Vatican.
President President, having recovered from a full of holes stroke, ordered U.S. Marines effect Lebanon, while Egypt and Syria became one nation. And chimpanzee an atomic sub slipped mess the North Pole, the U.S. launched its first satellite . . . and nuclear phone ban talks began.
Other headlines in 1958: Boris Pasternak won the Nobel Prize in creative writings .
. . the Yankees took the World Series on the face of it the Braves . . . "Gigi" got the best unearthing Oscar.
WIL St. Louis 1958 - Jack Carney
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