Joe Smith

[Roger Kolakowski]

Hi Joe....

If you "google" "Joe Smith" (in quotes) along with the word WMEX outside the
quotes, you will find several references to his 'MEX days


Roger
WA1KAT

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul B. Currier" <paulcurrier@adelphia.net>
To: <boston-radio-interest@rolinin.bostonradio.org>; "Donna Halper"
<dlh@donnahalper.com>
Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2006 7:45 AM
Subject: Re: Joe Smith


> I'd have bet the barn that Joe was never on WMEX - still would.  Is the
> testimony oral or written, ie a typo perhaps?
>
> Does anyone on the BRI list actually recall hearing Joe on WMEX?
>
> The wise old Vermonter used to say to believe none of what you hear and
half
> of what you see and you'll come out about right.
>
> Paul
> Sandwich
>  Cape Cod
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Donna Halper" <dlh@donnahalper.com>
> To: <boston-radio-interest@rolinin.bostonradio.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, July 04, 2006 8:10 PM
> Subject: Re: Joe Smith
>
>
> >
> > >>Ed wrote--
> > >>  Donna, I have bound copies of "Hearings Before A Subcommittee Of The
> > >> Committee On Interstate And Foreign Commerce House Of
> > >> Representatives...Eighty-Sixth Congress...Second Session On Payola
And
> > >> Other Deceptive Practices In The Broadcasting Field."  (Dates are
> > >> January, February, March, April, May and August of 1960.)  These
books
> > >> contain the testimony of many of the Boston radio people and music
> > >> industry people. Among the many is Joe Smith.  In the testimony he
> > >> states he was at WMEX but his shows were being recorded from outside
of
> > >> Boston, because he was living in New York at the time.  While in  New
> > >> York he was the general professional manager of Dominion Music
> > >> Publishing Company.  This was in 1958 .   I know that these volumes
> were
> > >> also in the library at Emerson when I was there, I graduated in
> > >> 1965.  If you want more information from these books please let me
> > >> know.   .........Edward M. Hurvitz.....shaylee2@verizon.net
> >
> > That's surprising, because the payola hearing reporting from all of the
> the
> > newspaper accounts (Variety, Broadcasting, Boston Globe, Record, Herald,
> > etc) all said Joe was at WILD at the time.  Is that incorrect?  Btw, I
> > still teach at Emerson, so I can certainly check, but the transcripts of
> > testimony that made the newspapers, and I am looking right at several of
> > them, all associated Joe with WILD.  Go figure.
> >
> >
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