Re: Bud Ballou

[KEVIN VAHEY <fenway@zip1.ziplink.net>]

On Tue, 29 Apr 1997, Lou wrote:
> "Dudley Ballou, 34
> Former disc jockey
> 
>     Dudley (Bud) Ballou of Medfield,
> 34, a former disc jockey in the Boston
> area, died Friday at Leonard Morse
> Hospital in Natick.  He suffered a
> massive stroke Tuesday.
> 

  Went to a lot of Bruins game with him back in the good ol days.....and I
will never forget one of the funniest stories I have ever heard which he
was a part of.

 Back in the mid 60's Bud and Dale Dorman were working on rival stations
in Syracuse at the same time slot. One night they worked out a prank which
must of driven button pushers in Syracuse (and later the east coast) 
nuts.......Dale would play a song....Bud would play the same song 20
seconds later......this went on the entire night........the next night
they enlisted Jeff Kaye at WKBW to
do the same thing and Jeff worked out something with rival station
WYSL...according to Bud by the end of the week, Dorman was defacto music
director for who knows how many stations between Syracuse and Chicago. The
prank ended when WLS and WCFL did it and finally management woke up.  

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