Boom Boom Brannigan passes on

[Dave Doherty]

Could be. I don't know where he was before WGY.  He was about 30-35 in 1970 
and had a six to eight year old daughter at the time.

-d


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From: "Gary's Ice Cream" <gary@garysicecream.com>
Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2010 11:03 PM
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Subject: RE: Boom Boom Brannigan passes on

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> Was this the same Don Brown who had been PD at WLLH til about 68 or 69?
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> From: boston-radio-interest-bounces@tsornin.BostonRadio.org 
> [mailto:boston-radio-interest-bounces@tsornin.BostonRadio.org] On Behalf 
> Of Dave Doherty
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> To: Doug Drown; boston-radio-interest@rolinin.bostonradio.org
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> I worked the summers of 1969, 1970, and 1971 at WGY.  It was, as you say, 
> an
> amazing place.
>
> When I first started, they had a full-time Record Librarian!
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> The FM was an IGM punch-card automation system housed in three racks in 
> what
> had been the echo chamber - a long, fairly narrow room with a speaker on 
> one
> end and a microphone at the other.
>
> Charlie King was the operations manager, and Don Brown had just started as
> Program Director.  I spent quite a bit of time with Don, who was the guy 
> who
> brought on Jack "Shannon in the Morning" Murphy after Bill Edwardson left
> for greener pastures (Cleveland? Detroit?). Don was trying to tighten up 
> the
> format, and it was a hard go with some of the older engineers, whose DNA
> seemed to include dead air between events. The engineers were, of course,
> all NABET guys.  One fellow had been on staff at WGY for close to 50 
> years,
> and several had forty or more.
>
> Before that, I spent some time working at WOKO while I was in high school.
> Geoff Davis was the morning man there when I started. I never met him,
> though, because he did his show from a studio in his home.
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> From: "Doug Drown" <revdoug1@myfairpoint.net>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2010 11:09 PM
> To: "=?utf-8?b??=" <boston-radio-interest@rolinin.bostonradio.org>
> Subject: Re: Boom Boom Brannigan passes on
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>>>>I worked summers as a tech at WGY, pushing buttons and
>> whatnot for Bill Edwardson, Jack Shannon, Harry Downey, Earl Pudney, and
>> Steve Fitz.
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>> - Dave Doherty
>>
>> What a great opportunity!!  WGY, in its prime as GE's flagship, was one 
>> of
>> North America's greatest, class-act radio stations.   The histories of
>> WGY, WGFM (WRVE) and WRGB are amazing.   I'd love to hear some of your
>> memories.   -Doug
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