The clout of Bruce Bradley

[kvahey@comcast.net]

Donna has to find Bruce somehow.

If I remember the DC5 story right Bruce embraced them as he was still
smarting from throwing a recording of another UK group in the trash
months before they exploded. It was by some group from Liverpool.

On 3/1/08, Doug Drown <revdoug1@verizon.net> wrote:
> >DC5 became a huge band in the US largely because of one man - Bruce Bradley
> >at WBZ. Bruce heavily played them in 64 when none of the other blowtorch
> signals would as he just loved the band. Remember back then BZ jocks were
> allowed a little leeway in the playlist that was unusual after payola hit.
>
> That was one of the things I liked about BZ.  There were a lot of great Top
> 40 stations out there (WMEX among them), but there was something about WBZ
> that didn't quite fit the mold --- a little more, well, adult: a little more
> sophisticated, a little more laid back.  Even now I can't quite put my
> finger on it.  The freedom the DJs had was obvious, in retrospect.   -Doug
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <kvahey@comcast.net>
> To: "(newsgroup) Boston-Radio-Interest"
> <boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org>; "Donna Halper"
> <dlh@donnahalper.com>
> Sent: Saturday, March 01, 2008 11:04 AM
> Subject: The clout of Bruce Bradley
>
>
> > Today comes word of the death of Mike Smith the lead singer of the
> > Dave Clark Five.
> >
> > DC5 became a huge band in the US largely because of one man - Bruce
> > Bradley at WBZ.
> >
> > Bruce heavily played them in 64 when none of the other blowtorch
> > signals would as he just loved the band. Remember back then BZ jocks
> > were allowed a little leeway in the playlist that was unusual after
> > payola hit.
> >
> > We tend to forget just how powerful BZ was back then. Brucie was
> > always proud he was #1 at night....in Baltimore.
> >
> > Years later it was a shock to my nervous system to hear Bruce doing
> > right wing talk at KMOX in St. Louis.
>
>