R.I.P Steve Fredericks

[Kevin Vahey]

Jack I was certainly not trying to demean Brenda in any way.

Steve's producing core back then was Geoff, Howie Lapides, and Paul Burke
(Brownstein)

They replaced Doug Boyle and Steve Kissell.

Kissell left when he was drafted and went to Vietnam. Sadly he passed 10
years ago.

Doug went to work for the Father's Bar chain and I haven't seen him in 40
years.




On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 12:37 PM, JackM <wvnh@wvnh.net> wrote:

> It irks me to see a nice person referred to as "the girl from Brookline".
> LOL!  Her name was Brenda and she was a sweetheart. Steve was my best man
> and Brenda was my wife's maid of honor when we got married in April of '71.
> Wish I knew where she was now.
>
> And Geoff Fox has Steve pretty much nailed. I was there as MD from July of
> '69 to early '71. I seem to remember Geoff and Doug Boyle splitting time as
> Steve's producer then but it's been 40 years and I could be wrong.
>
> Personally, I feel bad that I kept putting off getting back in touch with
> Steve after he went to Philly. It was always "yeah, I really should do it"
> and then moved on to the other pressing issues of my life at that time.
> Procrastination is never a good thing.
>
> Jack Marshall
>
>
>
> From:
> Kevin Vahey <kvahey@gmail.com>
> Date:
> 4/11/2012 6:44 PM
>
> To:
> Donna Halper <dlh@donnahalper.com>
> CC:
> Karen McTrotsky <karenmctrotsky@gmail.com>, boston-radio-interest@lists.**
> bostonradio.org <boston-radio-interest@lists.bostonradio.org>
>
>
>
> I met the girl from Brookline - who would become Steve's wife. Steve would
> have gone to Chicoutimi if need be. Geoff Fox remembers the Steve from
> Boston. http://www.geofffox.com/MT/**archives/2012/04/10/on-the-**
> passing-of-steve-fredericks.**php<http://www.geofffox.com/MT/archives/2012/04/10/on-the-passing-of-steve-fredericks.php>On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 5:08 PM, Donna Halper <
> dlh@donnahalper.com> wrote:
>
>> it was asked--
>>
>>  Isn't leaving historic icon WCAU...to go to Mac Richmond's WMEX for
>>>> a late night talk show a step down?
>>>>
>>>>  Actually no, back then.  Mac had come from Philly, where he ran an ad
>>
> agency (with offices in DC as well, if I recall correctly); it was while in
> Philly that he heard and later recruited Jerry Williams; and Mac still had
> a lot of contacts in that area of the country.  Working at WMEX was still
> seen as a good career move because being a talk host in Boston was very
> high-visibility, and usually got you lots of publicity.  And while I am not
> accusing the late Mr Fredericks of anything, Dan is correct in mentioning
> being clean and sober.  Some career moves were fueled by needing to get out
> of a market and start again somewhere else, often as a result of drug or
> alcohol problems.  It was the industry's dirty little secret and few
> discussed it.
>
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