Boston Vintage Radio

[Kevin Vahey]

Jess left in 1991

I have a tape of his last show which was done at the Top of the Pru
Sent on from my BlackBerry® so typos are because of tiny keys

-----Original Message-----
From: "Doug Drown" <revdoug1@myfairpoint.net>
Sender: boston-radio-interest-bounces@tsornin.BostonRadio.org
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 10:37:00 
To: Bill O'Neill<billohno@gmail.com>; <boston-radio-interest@lists.BostonRadio.org>; Dan.Strassberg<dan.strassberg@att.net>
Subject: Re: Boston Vintage Radio

Carl deSuze began his career at WGAN in Portland in 1938, moved to WBZ 
in 1941 if memory serves, and remained there until when he retired 
(1986-ish). 
Was Jess Cain with WHDH right up till the bitter end, when it became 
WEEI?   -Doug


Quoting "Dan.Strassberg" <dan.strassberg@att.net>:
> Didn't Carl DeSuze start the AM drive shift at WBZ in the '30s and
> continue into the '70s or maybe the '80s? Jess began at WHDH as Ray
> Dory's sidekick in either 1956 or 1957 and continued into the '80s or
> maybe the '90s. If my years are correct (and the only one I'm pretty
> confident of is Cain starting at WHDH in '56 or '57), then Cain and
> DeSuze were pretty close in longevity at their respective stations. 
> But without more info, I'd be hard-pressed to say who was at his
> station for the greater number of years. 
>
> -----
> Dan Strassberg (dan.strassberg@att.net)
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>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <billohno@gmail.com>
> To: <boston-radio-interest@lists.BostonRadio.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2010 9:06 AM
> Subject: Re: Boston Vintage Radio
>
>
> >  On 8/31/2010 8:25 AM, Doug Drown wrote:
> >> Thomas -
> >> Your recording of Bob Emery leads me to ask a question: Who is/was
> >> the longest-working personality in Boston area broadcasting
> >> history?  I'm thinking it would have to have been Bob Emery (WGI in
> >> 1921 or '22, up to "Big Brother" in the '60s), but then I think of
> >> Carl deSuze, Dave Maynard, Bill Marlowe, Gus Saunders and others. 
> >> Does anyone have a definitive answer?   -Doug
> >>
> > Not definitive, but I thought it was Jess Cain at WHDH (850 Boston)
> > for continuous in same shift - AM drive. 
> >
> > Bill O'Neill
>