Magee Teachers in Bristol. Bob Stroud Retires from Deejaying.

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29

We went to Donovan's Reef in Twin Lakes for trivia and those great 1/2 price drink specials during happy hour.

THURSDAY, JUNE 30

Met the usual group of former Magee Middle School teachers for breakfast in Bristol, Wisconsin, at the Bristol 45 Diner.  We had two newcomers to the "club", Karen and Linda.  Always good to get together with people I worked many years with back in the day.  

I also had an Magee '81-'82 yearbook and everyone got a kick out of that.  I must admit I looked quite a bit like Gabe Kaplan of "Welcome Back Kotter" but with less hair.

This was Bob Stroud's last day deejaying before his semi-retirement from Chicago's WDRV after four decades of work, mostly spent at numerous stations in Chicago, the last 21 with this station.  I recorded a lot of his show on cassette tape.

However, he will continue doing my favorite shows that he does: Ten at Ten, One 45 at 1:45 daily and Rock and Roll Roots on Sundays.

He said how he got into the radio business back when he was 12 and living in Kalamazoo, Michigan, and a friend of him told him to tune into WLS, 890 AM, out of Chicago and listen to a deejay named Dick Biondi...and that got him hooked on what turned out to be a long career.

--RoadStroud

On the Radio

"It was the thing that grabbed ahold of me at eleven and pointed me in the direction that became my life.  The Radio.  Whether the Big 89 or especially WCFL or even my hometown stations in Kalamazoo WKMI and WKLZ, I like to think I speak for many of us when I say we owe so much of our lives' enjoyment to the radio."  Bob Stroud

I totally agree with you. The Beatles on the radio got me into music, something that I still am enjoying.  These were songs played on Chicago's Drive, 97.1 FM.

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ON THE RADIO

ROLL OVER BEETHOVEN--  Beatles
ROCK & ROLL--  Velvet Underground
RADIO GA GA--  Queen

FM (NO STATIC AT ALL)--  Steely Dan
LIFE IS A ROCK (BUT THE RADIO ROLLED ME)--  Reunion
TURN UP THE RADIO--  Autograph
W.O.L.D.--  Harry Chapin

SONG ON THE RADIO--  Al Stewart
RADIO RADIO--  Elvis Costello
SPIRIT OF RADIO--  Rush

Name That Tune (from the above songs):  "B.B. Bumble and the Stingers, Mott the Hoople, Ray Charles Singers."  Answer below.  --RoadDog


"Life Is a Rock (But the Radio Rolled Me)"

What About Those Five Emprees?-- Part 2: From Benton Harbor, Michigan

Being ranked at #3 with their "Little Miss Sad" to the Beatles at #2 with "Help" had to be really something to the  lads from Michigan, especially in those days of Beatlemania.

Their song had originally been released by the Addrisi Brothers.  The song was also done by the Savages in the Tampa-St. Pete, Florida, area in the mid-1960s.

As I said yesterday, I had some problems finding information about them because of the fact they went by several names.

From Rock and Roll Legends site.

The Five Emprees were from Benton Harbor, Michigan, (in the southwest corner of the state) and hit the Billboard Hot 100 in the fall of 1965 despite having to overcome a small record label, limited distribution and promotion.  They had to change their name because of an injunction from a famous Hall of Fame group.  This is when they called themselves the Five Impressions.

Little Miss.  --RoadDog


INSURANCE CLAIMS:  Three women were talking to each other and when two stepped back and one stepped forward I had to have an accident.