Re: WMEX Memories

[Russ Butler <oldradio@earthlink.net>]

"The Voice of the Turtle" was on WCOP 1150AM which also had
Martin Brookspan with a classical music show followed by Sherm Feller's
talk/interview show.  I think that Nelson Bragg ("The Mayor of Milo,
Maine")
did a live audience, western music show from the large Copley Square
studio.
I'm thinking around 1950-ish.


Dan.Strassberg@att.net wrote:

> Wasn't Larry (Lawrence Raymond) Welch (AKA The Voice of
> the Turtle) on WMEX in AM drive around then? Or was he
> on a different station--WORL maybe?
>
> Welch was very talented but had a serious drinking
> problem (which I believe eventually killed him). I think
> he came to Boston from WKBS in Oyster Bay NY (now WTHE
> Mineola).
>
> >So I was going through some old Variety clippings, and found one
> from July
> >of 1958.  It mentioned that WMEX, "Color Radio", had just introduced
> "The
> >Beachcomber", who goes around to Boston-area beaches seeking out
> people who
> >are listening to WMEX on their portable radio-- winners receive free
>
> >records... And Variety listed an airstaff that was interesting--
>  for one
> >thing, it announced the arrival of Donn Parker from Freeport New
> York, who
> >would be on the air as "The New Boy In Town" (now, I recall a later
> "house
> >name" of "The Jones Boy" which used the Mills Brothers' 78-era song
> "The
> >whole town's talking about the Jones boy", but I do not recall Donn
> Parker
> >using "the new boy in town"-- that couldn't have been a WMEX house
>
> >name...).  Other airstaff were Larry Logan (who?) doing morning drive,
> and
> >also on the air was Dan Donovan (now THAT was a house name) and Mel
> Miller.
> >
> >

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