Re: "Your Mother Should Know"

["Joseph Gallant" <notquite@hotmail.com>]

I believe "Your Mother Should Know" first went on the air circa 1971
of 1972 on WBRS-FM, the station at Brandeis University in Waltham. (I
don't know if Sam Poulten was a student there at the time).
Although today, some WBRS shows are hosted by people who aren't
Brandeis students, perhaps it was different in the early 1970's. If
that was the case when Sam was doing "Your Mother Should Know" for
WBRS, once he graduated (and under the then station policy, might have
had to leave the station), he looked around for another station where
he could be able to continue doing the show. Hence, the arrangement
with WBOS-FM.
I would suspect that during most of the years "YMSK" has been on the
air over commercial radio stations, that Sam Poulten has had to buy
airtime and sell spots. However, as WHET was big-band/standards at
the time "YMSK" aired there (ca. 1976-78), it's possible that since
the show's range included the very beginning of the "big-band era"
that he may have been on WHET's payroll, with the station's regular
salespeople selling spots, and not doing it on a brokered-time basis.
I would also think it was on WNTN (probably as a brokered-time show)
following Anthony Martin Trigona's dumping of big-band/standards from
WHET in the Spring of 1978.

Joseph Gallant
<notquite@hotmail.com>

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