The clout of Bruce Bradley

[Dan.Strassberg]

I'm pretty sure that Bradley is still in his 70s--early 70s, probably.
I remember him from one of his first gigs--at WROW in Albany. That
would have been around 1954. The station had a full-service/MOR format
(no rock; it was the CBS affiliate for the Capital District) and even
without the kind of music for which he ultimately became famous, I
thought he was incredibly talented. He was already married and, I
believe that during his tenure at WROW, he became the father of twins
(no, I don't recall their gender, if I ever knew it). I do recall that
he was rather young (early 20s, I believe) to already have two kids.

Now, you're probably going to say "70s, 80s, what's the difference?"
My answer is, wait until you are in your 70s. I don't think you'll
look at it that way.

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "SteveOrdinetz" <hykker@wildblue.net>
To: <boston-radio-interest@lists.BostonRadio.org>
Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2008 9:49 AM
Subject: Re: The clout of Bruce Bradley


>  Donna Halper wrote:
>>Bud wrote--
>>
>>>  So if he thinks he's getting some sort of revenge by refusing to
>>>discuss or acknowledge time in Boston he's wrong, because nobody
>>>seems to
>>>know why he seems bitter.  It's kind of sad, in a pathetic sort of
>>>way.
>>
>>Some people in the biz are just bitter, angry people and that's how
>>it is for them.  At some point, Bruce's life began to turn
>>unpleasant, and today he would prefer to move forward rather than
>>look back. Maybe Boston has bad memories for him-- divorce,
>>alcoholism, whatever.
>
>
> I'm tending to believe the former.  Several years ago I came across
> a link to an article on (containing some interview segments with)
> Bruce after he lost his last St. Louis market gig.  Apparently, he'd
> made some politically incorrect remark that was taken as racist and
> he was toast.  The article and interview made him come across as an
> extremely bitter man who took every setback in his life as a
> personal insult.  The article went on to say that he was estranged
> from his children, and that his wife had left him.  What a sad way
> to spend one's golden years, though as the saying goes, that
> crotchety 80 year old was probably a crochety 30 year old too.
> I though't I'd saved the article, but it must be on some
> long-crashed hard drive.