zed wrote:

Gordon Lightfoot is a humble man and after a 90 minute concert when I had the chance to speak with him for a minute I said, I was hoping to hear Black Day in July. His response, a classic "can't do them all".  

I seem to recall an interview some years ago where he was asked about playing the song live, and doesn't anymore  because he doesn't want to bring politics into a show where people are supposed to be enjoying music and having a good time.  Or it may have been because it was a specific song for a specific time and he doesn't want to relive that particular era anymore.  Perhaps he has changed his mind.  Anyone recall him playing it live recently?

I only heard this song ONCE...on a university radio station in the mid 70s.  I ended up recording a small snippet of it on cheap cassette that I still have to this day.  It sounds like a Night At The Opera outtake, mainly because it was produced by Freddie Mercury, with BrIan May's unmistakable guitar sound in the mix as well.




But why wasn't it a hit? 
https://manfrommanhattan.wordpress.com/
 

Here's a few more:

CHEX - Peterborough EXaminer (newspaper)
CFMP - FM Peterborough (employees used to call it C-FUMP)
CKQM - Quality Music
CKLW - Leamington Windsor
 

How about some Can-Con?  




 

Peter the K wrote:

ig wrote:

If I had a choice when hiring, I always used to go with Humber when I could. 

Funny you should mention Humber.

I remember applying for Humber's Radio program back in 1980.  At the cattle-call I attended, Stan Larke (the head of the program at the time) essentially tried to talk the prospective students out of of it.

He started the day by telling everyone the "reality" of the business and that graduates weren't likely to go out of school and right into the morning show host position in a major market.  He spoke about what life would be like for the first few years after graduating in a small market doing overnights. (back when you actually could work overnights) He pretty much laid it out rather accurately but, unfortunately, he was for the most part talking to high-school kids (and I include myself in that cohort) who knew better because  they were the greatest thing since the cart machine and that Wally Crouter was just keeping the chair warm until they came along.

Wound up at Conestoga (Despite being accepted at Humber, but I lived in Kitchener) and had the honour of being taught by, among others, Phil Stone (who started the Humber programme).  The problem was, I was too damned naive to fully understand the treasuretrove of knowledge these people had.
 

 I had the exact same experience at about the same time.  I remember getting an acceptance letter (yes, I was actually accepted) that basically said what you just re-iterated.  When you graduate, you're going to start at the bottom, you might have to sweep floors and other such lowly chores, so don't come here if you're not prepared to work for nothing for a few years.  I was actually INSULTED by their tone, and decided to accept admission to my second choice, Centennial College.  A good program, but not a fit for me AT ALL.  Ah, the road not taken.  

RadioActive wrote:

Loved Rocketship 7 when I was a kid. It's become common trivia that Dave Thomas (aka Boreanaz) is the father of David Boreanaz, the co-star of the Fox TV drama "Bones." (Maybe if Promo the Robot guest starred one time, I'd actually watch the show!) His dad, of course, was the weatherman at a Philadelphia station for decades after he left Buffalo, under the name "Dave Roberts." 



Rocketship7.com

You have to be a real old timer to remember when a guy named Virgil Booth was the announcer who did the station IDs at the old WBEN-TV. That would have been the late 50s and early 60s.

Actually, there was an episode of BONES that featured Boreanz's character coming across a picture of the Rocketship 7 cast and him commenting about how he (Booth, the character) loved the show growing up.