The late newsman Ed Little wouldremember being in the room as packages containing female lingerie were opened; sent from Maryland by an obviously big fan. In 1974, Jeff Kaye became the afternoon drive host on KBs competitor WBEN, effectively ending any future reworking of the covering of the invasion half of the show which remained mostly unchanged through the different broadcasts. This page is not available in other languages. (Buffalo Stories archives). "My daughter Sarah is a former Countess Pulaski," said the proud father. The primary difference in each is the news guy, disc jockey and the music at the start of the show. Born in Boston, educated in suburban Philadelphia, Lawrence considered Washington, D.C. his home. Having the good fortune of working with top talent I knew that the station was headed for the top. Read more . The Mods, formerly The Buffalo Beetles from Buffalo Teen News magazine. McDonald's has closed its U.S. offices through Wednesday and told its corporate staff to work remotely as it prepares to announce a round of layoffs. They have continued their careers . For a period of time, Dick just disappeared from public view. The first broadcast on that snowy night was the James Cagney classic film, Yankee Doodle Dandy. The famous Jeff Kaye produced and narrated look at KB in 1971, with jocks Danny Neaverth, Jack Sheridan, Don Berns, Sandy Beach, Jack Armstrong, Bob McCrea, and Casey Piotrowski, with Kayes thoughts and insights on each in between. During the same era, Johnny Barrett and Perry Allen as a stunt fired Dick Biondi on the air for playing an unauthorized Elvis record. Neaverth recalled that his first radio work was as a young teenager, when he, his longtime friend and collaborator Joey Reynolds, WEBR jockey Danny McBride, and others set up a closed-circuit radio station at a Boys Club in Buffalo, under a sponsorship deal with a local pizzeria that "paid" the jockeys in free pizza. Youll hear snippets of disc jockeys Stan Roberts, Fred Klestine, Jay Nelson, Dan Neaverth, and Joey Reynolds at work, followed by a Henry Brach newscast, and a quick excerpt from Irv Weinsteins documentary Buffalo and La Cosa Nostra. Many KB commercialsand contests follow. It starts with The Perry Allen show, with an Irv Weinstein KB Pulsebeat Newscast with some of the great writing and style Irv would become known for in Buffalo over the next 40 years. Rick Azar & Tom Jolls", "Legendary 7 Eyewitness News broadcaster Rick Azar has died", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rick_Azar&oldid=1098589138, This page was last edited on 16 July 2022, at 15:16. The masterful promotional folks at KB knew that by sending out this warningwith hope of it being published, that people would flock to hear, as Jeff Kaye puts it in the intro to the 1971 version of the dramatization, what all the hubhub was about. Its the 1960s version of dont click on this link. (Buffalo Stories Photo). As host of the "Don Weeks And The WGY Morning News" for almost three decades, Weeks is one of the Capital Region's most well-known and respected radio personalities.
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