Nightcap

[Kevin Vahey]

By todays standards it was tame but in 65 it struck a raw nerve.
Perhaps WABC did not want to offend Japenese advertisers. He was fired
instantly which makes me think he told management in advance and was
told no and did it anyways.

On 1/3/09, Dan Billings <billings@suscom-maine.net> wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kevin Vahey" <kvahey@comcast.net>
> To: "Richard Chonak" <rac@gabrielmass.com>; "(newsgroup)
> Boston-Radio-Interest" <boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org>
> Sent: Saturday, January 03, 2009 9:52 PM
> Subject: Re: Nightcap
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>> He didn't know it was his swan song at the time but Bob Dayton on WABC
>> said Happy Birthday to the 20th anniversary of the atomic bomb by
>> playing 16 Candles. He vanished never to be heard from again.
>>
>> clip is on musicradio77.com
>
> Why is that so offensive?
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