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Welcome Visitor from Foulke AR

Welcome to someone from Foulke, AR (yes that's the name of the town, near Texarkana)
They were looking for Bozo and Gary Weir. Hope they found it interesting.

I have written about our Foulke monster promotion. Here is the link:
http://kaay1090.blogspot.com/2007/12/kaay-fouke-monster.html

Beaker Street Clyde Clifford KAAY

Much has been written and commented on this blog about Beaker Street. If you are new to this blog just enter Beaker Street in the search box in the upper left and click search this blog.

Here is a site with some Beaker Street background music. Click on it and do your best Clyde Clifford impersonation.http://www.beakerbrothers.com/

Leave a Comment

Your comments help keep this blog going. Got a question about KAAY? You can leave an anonymous comment by clicking on the word "comments" on the right hand side of the bottom of this post. When the box opens type you comment in the box. Then scroll down and move the dot to the word anonymous. Then click on the box that says publish this comment. It may take a day for your comment to appear.

Dick Price & The Singing Pig Program heard from!

My gawd...got a new computer and was trying to navigate about on it and lo and behold there was an inquiry from someone with a VERY long memory!
Dick Price alive and moderately well, if somewhat super-annuated.
Did I read right that Fred is in Huntsvfille? I worked there twice @ WAAY-TV for about 5 years.
I'm trying to remember the weather guy who also left TV here in Little Rock and went to H'ville.
We lived next dock to each other @ River Valley marina (Ken Rainey?)
I would like to once again clear up the Singing Pig thing...I was NEVER the Singing Pig...the PROGRAM was called the Singing Pig.
Talk Show on KAAY. "Never try to teach a pig to sing...wastes your time and annoys the pig."
My bride REALLY gets panties in a wad when someone calls her Ms. Pig.
Anyhow: Thanx for remembering. After radioing for 4 decades the KAAY gig was the most fun I ever had.
Dick Price
dickprice@bigfoot.com
501 258 7194

A friend's CD

This has nothing to do with KAAY. A friend of mine, Jim Terry has written and performed a CD entitled "Parker and Terry Black and White Memories". He has made a music video of one of the songs, "In the Wink of an Eye".

Enjoy:

A note from Gary Weir

Having portrayed Bozo The Clown in Arkansas for 25 years I remember alot of personal appearances, especially the one at the Hot Springs Mall. What fun it was! Being Bozo was a wonderful career and I was saddened to hear about the death of Larry Harmon, the original Bozo The Clow on television.

Racoons Caused the Channel 7 Tower Collapse KATV

Not really. I just wrote that headline because it will bring in lots of hits to this site. My counter can tell me often why someone found this site. I have written a lot about both raccoons and the KATV tower collapse. These two topics bring in tons of readers. Sorry, I don't have anything new about either topic. If you do, please email me at once. (ajlinds@yahoo.com)I have had no response to the free $50 gas card. Here are the details:

http://kaay1090.blogspot.com/2008/06/free-gas.html

Great Rock & Roll Remembered Piece

Yes, KAAY is mentioned in this story along with many other great top 40 stations. What I really enjoyed were the show posters and music surveys.

Take a look:

http://www.kioa.com/audio/MA06RocknRoll.pdf

My Hometown Video

Sometime ago I did a project for a Seniornet class that was learning Windows moviemaker. I used the "My Hometown" jingle for KVLC, Little ROck. Here is the You Tube Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkFL1i76JsI&feature=email
Here is a comment left from a You Tube viewer:

I remember listening to KAAY radio station back in the 60s,great station although I could only pull it in at night.I remember disk jockeys like Doc Holliday and listening to Beaker(sic?)theater on the weekends and hearing "underground music" as they called it.Good old days!

Sonovox Jingles

Written and posted lots about Sonovox jingles here. I ran across a company in Great Britian that will customize you a sonovox jingle for $20 (American). They also have some free stuff but I didn't take the time to fill out a lengthy form for a free checkout. If anyone does let me know what their stuff sounds like. You can be sure its not "PAMS OF DALLAS".

Here's the link:

http://www.freeradiojingles.co.uk/

My Hometown Montgomery WAPX

If you have any of the My Hometown jingles please email me at ajlinds@yahoo.com.
Here is My Hometown- Montgomery WABS. Special thanks to Russell Wells for these.

My Hometown Birmingham WSGN

As you know I really enjoy jingles. On this blog we have posted several of the "My Hometown" series created by PAMS of Dallas. Thanks to Russell Wells, I will be able to post many more. He sent me a CD of several that I can share with you.

Here is Birmingham WFGN:

Must See Bozo Picture

You must see this picture of the KAAY Comandoes with Bozo:
http://kaay1090.blogspot.com/2006/03/kaay-commandoes.html

Gary Weir & Bozo The Clown

With the passing of Larry Harman (Bozo), it caused many of us to remember our old friend Gary Weir. Even though Gary never worked at KAAY, he was good friends with Jerry Sims and myself. We all worked together at KXLR.

As Jerry and I moved to KAAY, Gary got into television and eventually became the Little Rock Bozo the clown.

Here is an interesting bit I ran across on the web:

Another Bozo show watched from time to time by my kids was beamed out of KARK-TV in Little Rock, Arkansas. Gary Weir played the red-haired, white-faced Bozo for our state. I was able to book my children on the show. Unfortunately, the day they were supposed to appear was a snowy, blizzard-like day where we lived in eastern Arkansas. Even the main roads were closed. I was unable to call to cancel the appearance, the phones being out of order because of the inclement weather. This was not the case in Little Rock, in central Arkansas, where the weather was cold but no snow. About a week later, I received a personal letter of an irate nature from Bozo stating that because my kids didn't show up when scheduled they would be blacklisted and would never be able to be on the Bozo show. I may be the only person who ever received a threatening letter from Bozo the Clown.

Postscript: My daughter did meet Bozo later on a school trip. We still have a large autographed picture of Bozo with his arms draped around her. She kept quiet about the letter.

Gary loved kids and I'm sure he was not aware of the weather situation.

I also found an interesting video clip from Channel 16. On this clip Gary does the voice over, and I will have to assume he also was Bozo:

Another 4th of July Hit

A KAAY Happy 4th of July

KAAY History

I write so much about KAAY, I am always happy to find a good short history.
The current KAAY website has a great short history:

http://www.1090kaay.com/Article.asp?id=603927

Waylon Holyfield

I have previously written about Waylon Holyfield. (use the upper left search box and search this blog for previous). I went to Little Rock University with Waylon and celebrate his success.

I also remember trying to find "Arkansas You Run Deep In Me" which he wrote.

I found a my space link that has a bio and a player with the song:

http://www.myspace.com/waylandholyfield

Comment of WLS & John Rook

Doug Krile has left a new comment on your post "WLS & John Rook":

What a great read! Thanks a million for the link! Between KAAY and WLS, I cut my listening-teeth during the 60's.

Doug is commenting on the post immediately below this one.

The section about the GM at WLS at the time, made me really appreciate even more the GMs at KAAY. You have seen the video of Lind Carl Voth the second GM.(and there will be at least one move part of the video soon) That will give you a good feel for the management style during the formative years of KAAY. Then as Pat Walsh became GM we were all treated to a completely different management style. Some of us may have not really understood his style and especially wives of men employees. Pat was one of a kind, and had a way of getting the best out of everyone.

I'm sure the atmosphere of WLS and many other large stations was charged with the sales vs programming vs management.

Pat was a master at getting programming people into sales. And we all know sales is where the money is.