Boston Vintage Radio

[Dan.Strassberg]

So DeSuze was at WBZ approximately 10 years longer than Cain was at
WHDH. Even if it turns out to be wrong, it sure sounds credible to me.

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> 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>
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> 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.
>>
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>> 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
>>
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