Pattern Change songs

[Donna Halper]

>Kevin wrote--
>
>One of my fondest memories goes back to 1969/70 when the FCC allowed 
>Monday mornings between 12AM and 5AM for "testing" Bunch of Emerson people 
>would crank up the mighty 950 in Saugus and take calls. We heard from as 
>far west as Iowa.

Ah yes, the good old days-- when I was a hitline operator at WRKO, I worked 
sometimes with Frank Kingston Smith, who was on the air as "Bobby Mitchell" 
back then.  When it came time for the tech-- whose name escapes me but he 
was a very nice person and I believe he is deceased--  to do the pattern 
change, -- "S'mitch" (as he jokingly referred to himself) and I and whoever 
else was around would all gather in the air studio and holler at the top of 
our lungs PATTERN CHANGE!!! (Luckily the mike was always off when we did 
it-- WRKO was very very union back then, and the tech operated all the 
equipment, while the jock and the tech communicated via hand signals when 
it was time for the jock to speak.)  To this day, when I hear a station do 
that pattern change, I wanna shout it out the way we did it back in 1968-9...