Boom Boom Brannigan passes on

[Doug Drown]

I remember hearing some startling stuff on WGY around that time, too.  
It was a long way from being a rock station, but it seemed Brown was 
trying to move it in a somewhat more contemporary direction, probably 
to enable it to remain competitive.  -Doug



Quoting Rick Kelly <rickkelly@gmail.com>:
> On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 11:08 PM, Dave Doherty <dave@skywaves.net> wrote:
>
> > 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. 
>
> I remember Don Brown as PD at WGY... he really started playing more
> current music, and Bill Edwardson was very upset and left.  I recalled
> hearing Blood, Sweat and Tears on WGY at that time - and that was a
> real mind blower.  A friend of mine claimed to hear "Signs" by the 5
> Man Electrical Band on the station during Brown's regime, but I can't
> see that being true. 
>
> -Rick Kelly
>