When Roy Leonard was in Boston

[Kevin Vahey]

Dan

I found a Billboard 'Vox Jox' dated November 21,1964 that says Schwartz was
hired by WNAC to do 7:20 to 1 AM. The same column also mentions Dave Rodman
doing 4:15 to 6 PM.

http://books.google.com/books?id=QCAEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA20&lpg=PA20&dq=jonathan+schwartz+wnac&source=bl&ots=WOrEhj9Hon&sig=Xibk7nFQKEhDZxTo-DDeGuJ1--I&hl=en&sa=X&ei=PIEmUPiwKaje0QH1t4HYDA


I am thinking you heard Schwartz's last weekend show in that kitchen in
November as he was doing Saturday and Sunday afternoons before getting the
night slot.


In any event Roy was let go in 1967 and took a summer fill-in job at WGN
that wound up lasting 40 years.

I don't have many memories of WNAC in those years as my parents listened to
WHDH almost 100%. Then 50 years ago this month I discovered WMEX as a 12
year old.


On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 10:09 AM, Dan.Strassberg <dan.strassberg@att.net>wrote:

> I don't have enough info to argue, but something seems to be the matter
> with
> the 1967 date. Gary is undoubtedly correct about the date of 680's flip
> from
> WNAC to WRKO, but maybe I was wrong about that date coinciding with the end
> of the Roy, Jim, and Gus AM-drive program. I was under the impression that
> Jonathan Schwartz's evening program on WNAC left the air at the same time
> as
> did Roy, Jim, and Gus. Maybe that wasn't the case. I am as positive as I
> can
> be that I listened to Schwartz's last program on WNAC in the kitchen of the
> apartment my late wife and I occupied in Belmont before we moved to
> Arlington on November 12, 1964.
>
> Another way of getting at the date of Schwartz's last show on WNAC might be
> the date of the Sunny Liston-Mohammed Ali heavyweight title fight that took
> place in (I think) Lewiston ME. Schwartz took off what would otherwise have
> been his next-to-last show on WNAC to drive to Maine to see the fight. He
> was back for his final show the following night. Since the date of the
> fight
> (late May 1965, according to a couple of hits at Google), was also after we
> moved to Arlington, I guess that my memory of listening to Schwartz's last
> 680 program in the kitchen of the Belmont apartment is just plain wrong. I
> could have listened to Schwartz in that kitchen, but I couldn't have
> listened to his last show on WNAC there. Sigh.
>
> -----
> Dan Strassberg (dan.strassberg@att.net)
> eFax 1-707-215-6367
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gary's Ice Cream" <
> gary@garysicecream.com>
> To: "'Dan.Strassberg'" <dan.strassberg@att.net>
> Sent: Saturday, August 11, 2012 9:29 AM
> Subject: RE: When Roy Leonard was in Boston
>
>
>  March 1967
>>
>> Gary's Ice Cream, Chelmsford, MA
>>         www.garysicecream.com
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: boston-radio-interest-bounces@**tsornin.BostonRadio.org<boston-radio-interest-bounces@tsornin.BostonRadio.org>
>> [mailto:boston-radio-interest-**bounces@tsornin.BostonRadio.**org<boston-radio-interest-bounces@tsornin.BostonRadio.org>]
>> On Behalf
>> Of
>> Dan.Strassberg
>> Sent: Friday, August 10, 2012 9:54 PM
>> To: Kevin Vahey; Boston Radio Group
>> Subject: Re: When Roy Leonard was in Boston
>>
>> The WNAC morning show featured Roy (Leonard), Jim (Dixon), and Gus
>> (Saunders). The show was called (naturally) Roy, Jim, and Gus. It ended
>> when
>> General Tire flipped WNAC to WRKO. I'm guessing at the year: 1962 maybe.
>>
>> -----
>> Dan Strassberg
>> e-fax 707-215-6367
>>  ----- Original Message -----  From: Kevin Vahey
>>  To: Boston Radio Group
>>  Sent: Friday, August 10, 2012 9:12 PM
>>  Subject: When Roy Leonard was in Boston
>>
>>
>>  Roy Leonard who was a rising star at first WHDH and then WNAC was
>> suddenly
>>  out of a job in 1967 when WNAC-AM became WRKO. He was hired by WGN
>> Chicago
>>  and became a superstar.
>>
>>  He has started a blog and he has posted pictures of his WKOX, WHDH and
>> WNAC
>>  days.
>>
>>  He was Channel 5's first 11 PM newscaster,
>>
>>
>> http://royleonard.com/wp-**content/gallery/50s/**
>> sc0004f782-e1328810067299.jpg<http://royleonard.com/wp-content/gallery/50s/sc0004f782-e1328810067299.jpg>
>>
>>
>>  Roy with Ronald Reagan at WKOX
>>
>>
>> http://royleonard.com/wp-**content/gallery/50s/the-**
>> president-of-screen-actors-<http://royleonard.com/wp-content/gallery/50s/the-president-of-screen-actors->
>> guild-1952-001.jpg
>>
>>
>>  Roy at Channel 7
>>
>>
>> http://royleonard.com/wp-**content/gallery/60s/1966_**
>> leonard-roy-wnac_tv_boston<http://royleonard.com/wp-content/gallery/60s/1966_leonard-roy-wnac_tv_boston>
>> 2-e1329877976661.jpg
>>
>>
>>  Here is one for Donna - Roy with other WNAC jocks in the 60's - who are
>> the
>>  others?     I think Dave Rodman and Jim Dixon are in the pic.
>>
>>
>> http://royleonard.com/wp-**content/gallery/60s/1963_**
>> leonard_roy-wnac_tv_boston<http://royleonard.com/wp-content/gallery/60s/1963_leonard_roy-wnac_tv_boston>
>> 2-e1329877996430-1024x806.jpg
>>
>>
>>  The blog can be seen here
>>
>>  http://royleonard.com/
>>
>>
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