RadioActive wrote:

Thanks for the suggestion. We could try it, but I would need to coordinate with Doug first, to make sure he can still sign in under the new name, while we fix the old one. 

Completely agree. I just wanted to quickly post my thoughts on this, in case this was worth a try rather than us losing all of Doug's old posts. One of the things I really appreciate about Boardhost is how many years of archived posts they will retain ... even though I'm using the free version for the oldies board, I've yet to run into any limit on this.

Doug Thompson wrote:

Would it make sense for me to delete my profile entirely and then launch a new one?
 

That possibility crossed my mind, but as someone who occasionally likes to look up something that was said in the past I would personally prefer that it wouldn't come to this (for instance, a while back I was looking at old threads relating to the Roger Ashby Oldies Show, and saw a post from you that was interesting to see again). I'm actually wondering if RA could rename your current one before you set up a new one -- I tried doing that with a spare admin account I have on the oldies board and I was able to do this, whereas that isn't an option I have for my own account here.

RadioActive wrote:

I'd love to believe what you say is true. But every time politics about either PP or JT (who generally have nothing to do with broadcasting) raises its head here, the claws come out by those who support one or the other, eventually leading those behind the keyboard to start insulting each other. So to answer your question, can an intelligent discussion be had about this? The answer should be yes, but in my experience, it always seems to deteriorate to no. 

I wish it were otherwise, but as someone who reads every single post here, it's never really happened. Which is why I prefer not to bring them up at all. But you're right - if people can discuss this stuff rationally without name calling if not outright hatred to those with disagree with them, it could be interesting. But in a polarized world, it just doesn't ever seem to be the case.

I agree, RA. On the former Oldies Music Bulletin Board, people would occasionally express their own political views regarding those of the musicians we discussed, and the admin would usually leave them up. But sometimes that led to responses from people who felt differently, and things could get very negative very quickly when this happened. So that's why I've wanted to just avoid anything like that on the current board.
 

RadioActive wrote:

I recall Peter Noone of Herman's Hermits talking about "Henry" and saying he knew there were other verses, but he didn't bother to learn them, so he just sang the chorus - and not the actual song - over and over. Didn't seem to hurt sales. It was a huge hit. (I can only imagine what the British made of the statement that she refused a "Willie!")

And by the way, in case, you're curious what those missing lyrics are, they can be found here. Listening to the original version below, from 1911 no less, it's not surprising they left them out!

Herman's Hermits' version wasn't released as a single in the UK, although it was included on their debut album there. But according to Wikipedia, Harry Champion changed "Willie" to "William" in later recordings of the song that he made because of the slang meaning of "Willie".

RadioActive wrote:

Thanks for this Doug. One title leapt out at me that I've never heard of before. It's at #35 and it's called "Gordie Howe" by Big Bob & The Dollars. Considering Toronto is and has always been a Leafs town, I'm surprised this made the charts here.

You can read about how "Gordie Howe" ended up being played on CHUM at https://citizenfreak.com/titles/275701-davies-bob-big-bob-the-dollars-moe-chapman-bob-davies-gordie-howe-b-w-you
 

Lorne wrote:

RadioActive wrote:

One more thing about the Peacock-only game. The streamer has announced there will be no commercials at all during the fourth quarter of the big game. I wonder how the folks at TSN are planning to handle that?

I wondered the same thing during the Dec. 23 Buffalo Bills game, when they said that the fourth quarter would be commercial-free. I was doing other things for some of the time that the game was on, but I don't recall any commercials being aired during the fourth quarter.

Just to follow up on this, I didn't see any commercials on TSN during the fourth quarter of last night's game either.

Sorry, but it's "OOnt". You must not be familiar with The Ontario Public Service Correspondence Style Guide.  

On the 1963 chart, Pretty Paper by Roy Orbison is at #17. Others that come to mind that made the CHUM Chart, but weren't on the ones you looked at, include The Little Drummer Boy by The Harry Simeone Chorale, My Christmas Tree by Bobby Curtola, and Do They Know It's Christmas? by Band Aid. 

I had never heard of Dominick either until I saw references to it on The Oldies Music Bulletin Board, the predecessor of The Oldies Music Board that I administer. And going by what's shown at 45cat.com, I think I know why. Their listings of 45s are categorized by the country where they were released, and they only show Dominick as having been released in the US and not in Canada. Monte was from New York City, and the following comment at the 45cat listing for this record might also be of interest:

Didn't chart nationally, but I swear, everyone in the NYC area my age and up knows it.......eee-awww, eee-awww, eee-awww, eee-awww!....John

Hansa wrote:

The wikipedia article on the act doesn't specifically mention 6 pm, but I think this is what The Athletic article refers to - it's in order to protect high school (and college) football attendance! (I assume it's 6 pm Fridays to midnight Saturdays - which also explains why the NFL plays on Sundays rather than Saturdays, generally).

The act withdrew antitrust immunity for any pro football telecast if a high school or college football game is being played within 75 miles (120 km) of the broadcasting station on Friday and Saturdays from the 2nd Friday in September until the 2nd Saturday in December. This provision, intended to protect high school and college football attendance, has the effect of barring national broadcasts of NFL games on those days, since virtually all of the country is within 75 miles of at least one high school game on every Friday night in September and October.

That's right, and thanks for finding that. The article I posted was coming at the situation from a different angle, but I was having trouble finding something that properly explained what I knew in general terms to be the situation -- that there is a law that effectively has meant that the NFL doesn't schedule games on Friday nights or Saturdays during most of the fall to protect college and high school football games.
 

RadioActive wrote:

There was a time - and it was a while ago - that the CFL was on U.S. over-the-air TV. It stretches all the way back to the early 50s when NBC used to show some of the games. 

Here's the TV Guide listing for the historic first CFL game ever broadcast across the border, and yes, it involved the Argos. It was August 28, 1954 (and I even managed to track down the score. Toronto won 13-6.) Is it true a touchdown back then was only worth 5 points as it says in the box trying to explain the rules to an American audience?

Thanks, RA ... very interesting to see that. Re your question, I found the following at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_football#Scoring
Touchdown
Achieved when the ball is in possession of a player in the opponent's end zone, or when the ball in the possession of a player crosses or touches the plane of the opponent's goal-line, worth 6 points (5 points until 1956).

What would have been funny is if people had given you CHUM Charts as "treats". Maybe not quite so funny to you, though. 

I get "Video unavailable" both for the original links and the alternates. But what does work for me is to go to https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBEfO8EwV6W9ecCTJ7lqI4w and then click on the videos for each song. Hope that helps.

Peter, I had the same reaction as you. But you might be interested in my own experience with DNA testing. I have a great-grandfather who said that he was a Baron, the son of a Prince and Duke who was a Marshal of Napoleon. His obituary said that he'd originally been a Catholic priest, but then went on to become an expert lecturer on the origins and history of Freemasonry. My family originally believed all of this, but then my sister and I started doing research that raised suspicions that he wasn't who he said he was. We finally ended up doing DNA tests that confirmed some speculation about his origins that I'd found via my research, which was that he might actually have been a Jewish man who had concealed his true identity -- an identity that would have been problematic for him, because for many years he earned a living by giving lectures against Catholicism that were supposed to be based on his time as a priest (but which I found were largely based on those of a genuine ex-priest). Our DNA tests show that we are about 1/8th Jewish, and since we have no other Jewish ancestry, this must be from him. 
My sister and I were very willing to accept whatever the results of the DNA testing might be ... we were just glad to find out the truth, and we have happily embraced this new aspect to our ancestry. However, some others in our family have been very unhappy with what we've found, because they very much want to believe that we are descended from nobility. Buffy Sainte-Marie is obviously even more invested in being Indigenous, and if DNA testing were to disprove this it would be very problematic for her. So my guess is that she has no desire to do it. I'll add that I have no doubt that if my great-grandfather had still been around when I did my research, he would have been extremely unhappy with it, and that this likely would have led to the same kind of issues that have occurred between Sainte-Marie and some members of her family.

paterson1 wrote:

Then the story behind  John Cougar's first hit Chuck & Diane.

I hope that Gene Stevens didn't refer to "Jack & Diane" as being John Cougar's first hit. He had already charted songs in the Hot 100 at #28 in 1979, #27 in 1980, #17 in 1981, and #2 in 1982, although "Jack & Diane" was his first (and to date, only) #1 single.