Re: memories of 'RKO

[Donna Halper <dlh@donnahalper.com>]

And you really had to be there when they were recording those screaming
commercials for New England Dragway-- "SUNDAY!!!  SUNDAY!!!  AT BEAUTIFUL
NEW ENGLAND DRAG WAY!!!"  I can't tell you how many takes it required to get
all the names right and still do the spot in that high-energy, frantic
style... ah, they don't make 'em like that anymore.  

A point of trivia-- somebody asked about when WBMS became WILD.  It was
their owners, Bartell, which did it.  The call letters, interestingly
enough, belonged to Bartell's station in New Orleans, which they changed to
WYDE... this was in 1957.

And speaking of 1957-- were any of you in Boston that year during the
newspaper strike???  Radio did all sorts of things to compensate for the
lack of newspapers, including the Yankee Network putting up a huge billboard
on the Boston Common and having somebody climb up there to post news
headlines every couple of hours...     

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