Re: Dick Summer

[DonKelley@aol.com]

In a message dated 11/7/2002 10:34:33 AM Eastern Standard Time, mwaters@facstaff.wesleyan.edu writes:

> 
> 
> >Don Kelley wrote:
> >During the top 40 days in the 60's WBZ's lineup was:
> >
> >Carl DeSuze 6 (or whenever he showed up)-9:30
> >Dave Maynard 9:30-12:30
> >Jay Dunn 12:30-3:30
> >Jefferson Kaye/Ron Landry 3:30-6
> >Bob Nelson/Bob Kennedy Contact (talk show) 6-8
> >Bruce Bradley 8-11:30
> >Dick Summer Nightlight 11:30-6 (or whenever Carl showed up)
> <snip>
> 
>   That was the early '60s lineup. In fact, that was so long ago that,
> IIRC, Mr. DeSuze actually was on time most of the time. And you left out
> the Guy Parris agriculture-farm report, at I believe, 5:55 a.m. It was the
> last remnant on WBZ of the really old-fashioned notion of the Class I /
> nowadays Class A stations providing programming to serve the rural
> bondocks. Gave you all the egg prices at the Boston market. Good stuff.
> Browns were worth more than whites -- it's a Boston thing.
> 
>   Toward the mid-60s, they did a change where they had Bruce Bradley start
> earlier -- maybe 7 ? -- and go to maybe 10, with the talk show after that.
> Or maybe they did that when they were still changing programs at the half
> hour (why was that, anyhow?), so maybe it was Bradley 630-930 p.m., talk
> 930-1130. But I think that at some point with Jerry Williams, he started at
> 10 and went to 12 or 1 and then I guess that's where Mr. Glick came along
> instead of music on the overnight.


I think you may be confusing WBZ and WMEX.  In the mid 60's Jerry Williams was on WMEX from 10p-1A, followed by Larry Glick from 1-5A.  The WBZ lineup I submitted earlier was in effect from about 1961 until 1968 (Mark is correct about 6-6:30PM actually being a news block that preceded the talk show.  1968 was when WBZ, reacting to the success of The Now Crowd on WRKO, switched to an FS/MOR-Pop sound.