RE: some "Lost 45s"...

["Paul Hopfgarten" <hopfgapr@sprynet.com>]

Yes! Yes! I wasn't sure at first but I DO remember the WRKO (I am the
morning DJ at WRKOOOOOOOOOOO!)

-Paul Hopfgarten
-Derry NH

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org
> [mailto:owner-boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org]On Behalf Of Dave
> Faneuf
> Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2001 5:59 PM
> To: joepappalardo2001@yahoo.com
> Cc: boston-radio-interest@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu
> Subject: Re: some "Lost 45s"...
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> On Wed, 30 May 2001 15:48:10 -0400 "Joseph Pappalardo"
> <joepappalardo2001@yahoo.com> writes:
> > I imagine some PD's would be afraid to air it....fear of someone
> > writing
> > down WOLD in an arbitron diary!
> >
> > I remember Dale playing the song...and instead of announcing it as
> > W-O-L-D...he said "That's Harry Chapin and "wold"" (pronouncing it
> > as a
> > word).  I remember seeing the 45 in a record store before I knew the
> > song
> > wondering what song this "wold" was....
> >
> > When Harry would do a concert in a town with a radio station
> > sponsorship...he would sing the final verse with the stations call
> > letters.
> > Most memrable was when the last verse he sang in Providence was "I
> > am the
> > morning DJ at W-P-R-O-o-o-o!"
> >
> > The crowd cheered!
> >
> >
> IIRC Harry did special tracks for some major market stations, on his
> Greatest Stories LP it was KHJ and I believe he did one for WRKO as well.
>
> In every concert of his that I went to he would insert the calls of a
> station in that local market.
>
> df