Re: Boston Network Radio Affiliations: 1950's and 1960's.

[brouder@juno.com]

I believe Dan is right about WBZ's original "Live Five."   Alan Dary was
hired specifically to be one of the jocks for the new, local
presentation; he started 3/19/56.  There is a WBZ jingle package in
existence which has themes for only Carl DeSuze, Dary & Leo Egan. 
Unfortunately it is undated.  I have nothing else which sheds light on
who worked there in 1956

The WBZ weekly music survey for June 30-July 6, 1957 shows photos of the
"Live Five:"  DeSuze (6-9:30A), Dary (9:30A-12N), Marlowe (12-3P),
Prescott (3-7:30P) & Bassett (7:45-11P).  This lineup remains intact
(with some time changes) on the surveys through June 24-30, 1958. 
However, the May 14-20, 1958 issue has a reference to Leo Egan in Carl
DeSuze's column.  It indicates he was Carl's morning news guy.

I have a WBZ aircheck with Leo doing morning drive news on 8/3/59.  My
next aircheck of him is doing the same thing for WHDH on 6/21/61.

While this is spotty evidence, it bolsters Dan's recollection that Leo
Egan originally played records before moving into news.

Ed Brouder
Man From Mars Productions
http://www.manfrommars.com

On Wed, 16 Jun 1999 11:37:14 +0000 Dan Strassberg
<dan.strassberg@worldnet.att.net> writes:

>"...in a recent post, somebody supposedly listed the names of the
original live five, and got at least one name >wrong. One of the original
live five was Leo Egan who, I think, was on from 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM. I
remember 
>his theme song, which began with "Here comes that Irish fella." Egan's
name was missing from the posted list. I >think that John Bassett, whose
name appeared on the list, and probably was on WBZ at the time (hosting
Program >PM), wasn't one of the original live five. I think that Bassett
became a member of that group a bit later, when >Marlowe left for
WNAC....

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