Re: The All New WMEX

["Terrence M. Wood" <terry_wood@prodigy.net>]

Donna, I graduated from High School in 1959, and was doing the Woo Woo thing
then, so he was there in '59

Terry
- ----- Original Message -----
From: Donna Halper <dlh@donnahalper.com>
To: <boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org>
Sent: Friday, December 18, 1998 6:16 PM
Subject: The All New WMEX


>Lucky me, I just came upon a couple of segments of two Arnie Ginsburg shows
>from early 1961-- one has the "We're Gonna Rock Down to Mal's" commercial
>and the introduction of the Ginsburger!  But the station is being called
>"The All New WMEX"-- okay, stations can call themselves 'new' for years, I
>suppose, but had WMEX recently changed format or added different jocks?  It
>was my impression that they went top 40 around 1959 (the Richmond Brothers
>bought the station in  the summer of1958), which would make me wonder why
>in February of 1961, they would still be calling themselves 'new'.  Had
>Arnie just joined them, perhaps-- although I thought he joined them in
>1960... anyone remember?  I was a WCOP fan and had listened to Arnie on the
>old WBOS, so not knowing at the age of 13 that I would someday care deeply
>about who did what on what date and for what station, I didn't make a
>mental note of it... anyone else have a chronology on who worked at WMEX
>before Arnie got there or why they might be calling themselves All New in
>early 1961?
>

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