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| Date | 2011-08-28 |
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| Message | I went to DM in 71' My great late friend Russ Kimbell and I met Tom Sheridan there. He got us jobs working with Bob Smith aka Wolfman Jack (many stories there I tell you!). Thanks to Bob we went on to KACL and KRUZ in Santa Barbara. Years later I was at WDJF in Westport Connecticut. I remember turning Mr. Hamilton on to a few doobies in the elevator. We became great friends with Mr. Wagner. We lunched with him many times at Musso and Franks. Sadly we watched him pass away at Queen of Angeles from complications of malaria he contacted in WW II. |
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| Message | I noted Norm Silver's comment that the Real Don Steel went to "a screamer out in Corona." That station was KREL 1370AM. I went to work there in Jan. '68 after passing my 1st Phone with the help of God and Ivan Perry at Don Martin. They had a old Collins board and two Sparta cart machines, which had a button to release the cart from the machine when finished playing. The springs had been replaced with very strong ones that shot the cart out like a gun. I was hit in the face more than once. When I would complain about the equipment, they would say, "It was good enough for the Real Don Steel." The manager was Paul Crouch, who now runs the Trinity Broadcast Network on cable and doing quite well, thank you. Jim Shannon |
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| Message | I went to DMS in 1973-74...which led to a 22 year career in radio at every type of music station available as announcer, pd, general manager...well, you know the ropes...you do everything from cutting the grass up to GM...I have wonderful memories of the old building and the great instructors. I was in the class the year we moved up town to the high rise. The studios were better, but the atmosphere was never as retro. Is Don Martin still a school? If you know, email me at [email protected]. Thanks. |
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| Message | I just read that Hamilton Williams passsed away in 2006. He was an instructor at the Don Martin School, my vocal coach and was affiliated with KCBH when I attended DMS in 1970 who became a good friend and trusted mentor. I am sorry I did not learn of his passing sooner. |
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| Message | Many thanks to Marvin Collins for the historic photos he contributed to the KCBH-FM website! And to John Davis who supplied valuable information on the station. If any of you KCBH-FM Alumnae see this site and have a photo to contribute, email us: [email protected] Don Martin grads, do the same! |
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| Message | Went to DM from late '73-'75. Want to say it was the best, remember Bob Luttrel and Townsend, have spent the last 30 plus doing the thing i love the best playing rock & roll. Do want to say hello to Bob Mendelsohn and the rest, will always remember with fondness and gratitude. |
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| Message | I wasn't a very good student... but Don Martin got me going and I'm still going..radio was and is a great career.. mad hatter |
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| Message | From Dave MacNeill (Now in Boston, MA) 4/26/08 1:15PM EDT I worked at KCBH-FM (98.7) in the late 50’s…first year(1957), the Crawfords still ran Crawfords of Beverly Hills on Rodeo Drive (where Gucci is now)…fabulous record & hi-fi store where all the stars shopped. Ronnie Nelson (who looked and talked like Vincent Price) was Crawfords record buyer and the P.D. of KCBH. Concerto from Coldwater Canyon was the only classical program on KCBH then, ran 7 to 11 PM. I believe Jean Crawford (Art Sr.’s wife) may have been the reason for that program since she was on the board of the L.A. Philharmonic (gracious lady). Ronnie (who was the last song-plugger in L.A.=played sheet music on a platform at S.H. Kress downtown before Crawfords) programmed Concerto and I took over the announcing when I arrived from Boston where I had worked for classical WCRB (then AM & FM) for about 6 years. Theme for Concerto (From Coldwater Canyon) was the Pas de Deux in the 2nd Act of Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker Ballet (scene 14, Dance of the Prince & the Sugar-Plum Fairy with the gorgeous harp glissando). It was already chosen when I took over show (I think Ronnie picked it.) I was P.D. then and we got terrific publicity…were burning up the city! (The KCBH buildings are in the first episode of the TV series, The Outer Limits, with Cliff Robertson…Norm remembers talking with him the day that footage was being shot.) 4/26, 1:15 AM EDT |
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| Message | Norm Silvers Re: KCBH-FM Gordon Karrel and Dave MacNeill were handling the bulk of the announcing chores (along with a weekly stint by Bruce Wendell) when I was hired right out of Don Martin in 1959 By the way, I had been in Don Martin with Bob Eubanks, Bill Wintersole (actor), Hamilton Camp (actor,folk singer), Don Reverts (The Real Don Steele), and others who went on to bigger and better things in broadcasting. Don had finally gotten his 1st phone and we needed someone to do a short shift on Sunday mornings. He was a good friend of time, so I put in a good word for him and got him his first ever job in broadcasting. He was an eccentric sort and was scared to death about cranking up the transmitter and turning on the board...but we got him through it successfully and he didn't burn anything up or down. He must have called me a half dozen times his first Sunday. Don got his next full time job at a screamer out in Corona...changed his name, eventually, to The Real Don Steele, and the rest is history. Norm Silvers |
| Date | 2011-08-28 |
| Message | Saturday, April 26, 2008 10:16 AM Re: KCBH-FM Norm adds info to the store (he was still there when I left). Do I remember Sissy? She got me the job at KCBH. I went up to Crawford’s home on the mountain at the transmitter (Crawford converted the KMGM X-mitter building into his home) and when I got out of my car, Sissy came bounding up and grabbed my pants leg, tearing it. Crawford later said he didn’t think they could afford me (that I’d probably leave when I got a better job with more money) but they felt badly because of the torn pants. Little did they know I had almost no money left and was desperate for a job. Crawford’s house was fabulous…his living room had two sets of graded speakers in its ceiling, each carrying a range of frequencies. It was operated from a telephone-DIAL-like gadget which could tune other stations, as well as KCBH. (When you walked up the stairs to the second floor of Crawford’s house, the lights on the stairs would go out behind you, then come on as you came back down. |
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