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Name: Keno
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Subject: RE: RE: RE:Old NYC radio (SSC)
Date: Friday, July 13, 2018
Time: 9:45:39 AM
Remote Address: 97.107.69.29
Message ID: 316685
Parent ID: 316683
Thread ID: 316679
It's scary to think what kind of life I would have had if it wasn't for The Rolling Stones.
I bet I would had done less drugs in my youth had I not been into the Stones!... and a few of my friends who died from drugs in their early to mid 20s would perhaps still be around today, too. Not that I'm blaming the Stones or rock n roll on my drug use, but the 2 did go hand in hand back then and since the Stones and Beatles did drugs, I did drugs, too.... In the 1950s almost nobody used drugs, everybody was so damn straight and all guys had the same short and conservative haircuts. Then the Beatles and Stones came and everything changed! Yes, Elvis opened up the door wide in the late '50s to that, but the Beatles and Stones tore the door off of its hinges!
If you look up who played the Beatles first in America, you will get 10 different answers depending on which website you visit! Only thing all these site agree on was it seems to be around mid '63, then they got dropped and not played again regularly until the last week of December of that year.
And speaking of WABC radio, it was Scott Muni who introduced New Yorkers to The Beatles.
Was it Scott? Not Cousin Brucie and/or Dam Ingram? Funny, I only remember Scott Muni from the mid to late '60s on WABC-FM (or was he on WNEW-FM?), right when FM radio was starting to really happen and become big. WABC-FM would become WPLJ a few years later, around 1972 or so if I recall. Guess it's still on the air today? But I bet you can recall when most radios didn't even have a FM band and could only get AM stations. WABC-FM just did a simulcast with their AM station until the mid '60s or so as it was.
But Scott started out in NYC on WMCA in the 1950s starting up the "The Good Guys" show on that station (is WMCA still on the air today?). He did go on to WABC-AM around 1960 or so but didn't stay there too long... I was thinking he was gone already by '63. But you could be right. I still got all of their old program guides from 1964-1969 in a box stored away in my closet (remember those?.. still got mine!), and at least by 1964 even Herb Oscar Anderson is still listed on there, but not Scott Muni. Gosh, I bet all of those guys are dead now, other then Cousin Brucie, who is still on SiriusXM's '60s channel today. Also remember Murray the K on WINS (or was he on WMCA, too?). He used to claim he turned on New Yorkers to the Beatles first. I know he died many many years ago.
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