Forward Power wrote:

Dion's "Abraham, Martin & John".

If you choose this one please play the Moms Mabley version - from 1969. It's much more moving....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFIYVDrFphg

 

Simple Minds - East at Easter
Marillion - Easter
Cafe Del Mar - A Man Called Adam (Easter Song) 
Patti Smith Group - Easter

 

CFCO Chatham was the station where I started in radio as an operator.

After being there for only 3 months the station was sold to a man named Hildebrand. The day he took over everyone was terminated except for the morning person. That was Frank Proctor. David Crichton who had been hired only a few months before myself was also fired.

The new Program Director was a guy named Sandy Hoyt.



 



 

thank you IG for this reminder. I hope you don't mind I have shared it on my Facebook....

Ummm - er - what is this soup or bowl you speak of? OK. I'll have the soup. 

Cable?!?! What is this cable you speak of?   

This is a fun thread. 

The one thing no one has mentioned are the call letters. Since the 102.1 frequency was close to the Buffalo station the Allen Brothers decided on the call sign. 

CFNY - they said with a smile. The letters N and Y together often refer to New York.:-)

In the same way the letters in NYthespirit.com refer to CFNY. :-) We have never hidden that. 

For those who may not have listened - my shows are very much like The Spirit Of Radio. Here's last Friday list of what I played.....

Friday January 10, 2025
Rob Stuart - A Beautiful Thing
George Rondina & Imagination Machine - Dancing On A Highwire (Rob Stuart's Highly Wired Mix)
After The Fire - Der Kommissar (7" mix)
Peter Gabriel - Road To Joy (Dark-Side Mix)
Aretha Franklin, Carole King, Celine Dion, Gloria Estefan, Mariah Carey, Shania Twain - A Natural Woman
Bryan Ferry - Knockin' On Heaven's Door
USA For Africa - We Are The World
Elton John & Alessandro Safina - Your Song
Art Of Noise feat. Duane Eddy - Peter Gunn
Mick Jagger - Sweet Thing
Aztec Camera - Walk Out To Winter (extended)
Wallflowers feat. Mick Jones - Reboot The Mission
Blancmange - Living On The Ceiling
Bruce Springsteen - Sad Eyes
Skruffy Group - Ride Captain Ride
Queen Esther Marrow - Walking In Memphis
Brian Eno/John Cale - Spinning Away
Jon & Vangelis - I Hear You Now
Bronski Beat - Smalltown BoyP4
Pink Floyd - One Slip
Crowbar - Oh What A Feeling
Shawn Phillips - Ballad Of Casey Deiss
Moody Blues - Are You Sitting Comfortably
David Bowie - Lazarus
Sufjan Stevens - Mystery Of Love
Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel - Sebastian
Beatles - She's Leaving Home
Thermodynamics - Future Noise (Tomorrowland Cut)
SLAVE To The SQUAREwave - Starrs (Ambient Vocal Mix)
Toni Childs - House Of Hope
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds feat. Kylie Minogue - Where The Wild Roses Grow
Simon & Garfunkel - The Boxer
Elton John/Passenger - Let Your Song Go (mash-up)
Dee Long - Good Night Universe

Thanks for allowing me to share...d

I had a Logitech. It no longer works. I now have SONOS and it works with everything. A bit of a learning curve but the audio is tremendous. Especially for NYthespirit. Geets was visiting the other day. He enjoyed. :-) 

When CFNY-FM began broadcasting from the CN Tower, we held the Push Button Breakfast with listeners winning tickets to the event. The Mayor of Toronto pushed the Button...a plane circled the tower hauling a Welcome CFNY sign and away we went. 

Each of the 200 listener guests left the CN Tower following the breakfast with one of these radios....

Standing ovation!!! Our time being together at CHUM-FM was grand and filled with many memories. And those DJ meetings with the great Bob Laine...so many smiles we each hold dearly to this day.

I am a big big fan of Dick Biondi. Listened every nite when I was a teenager. Who knows? He may have had some influence on that Dave Mickie guy. Many years later we, along with a couple other DJs, were put into the R & R Hall of Fame together. Meaning - I got to spend almost a week with him in Cleveland. It was so wonderful. Can you imagine?

One night, that week - Joey Reynolds invited both Dick and I to join him for his all night show on WOR-FM New York. Joey was doing his show from the broadcast studios located in the very top tip of the pyramid of Rock Hall. Damn it was great. Imagine sitting next to Dick Biondi in front of a mic with Joey doing his thing. 

Thanks mic'em for remembering. 

 

mic'em wrote:

Marsden, I know you won't remember me, but I worked at CKMW the year before and into the change into the ethnic period. I was the morning jock, then was followed by Maie Potts at 10am. I did evenings for the first 6 months in 1985 and have great memories of conversations with Ron Bruchel. What a fantastic experience it was for me. It was my last radio gig, when I was let go , I never did get another broadcasting job. Rubbing shoulders with the likes of Live Earl Jive and Beverly, and all the other so talented people who walked that hallway at 83 Kennedy Road was the best  time of my life, other than my children being born , and marrying my wife. I wish you great health David and happiness.  

Hi mic'em - I really don't know all of the real names of folks posting here. However, it is great to hear from you and I'm delighted to hear your story. 83 Kennedy Road was quite a lot of fun. It was also a gathering of very professional people such as those you have named. Happy you got a taste of what I believe radio is really about. 

Fun. Creative. Professional. Caring. Plus a few other adjectives. 

It's not appropriate for me to pass judgement on others, but there are still some over the air radio stations in our country doing good stuff. 

Again thanks for remembering those moments mic'em. I'm sure you found something great to put your life into. Love is at the top of that list, so good for you and the family.

That's what it's all about.  d

BTW - Earl Jive, Ivar Hamilton, All Nite Andre, and a few others are doing weekly shows at NYthespirit.com. We are celebrating our 10th year together. 

 
 

Ummmmm.... Do they have my number? 

Joey Reynolds - has been recognized by Cleveland's Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. About 20 years back several of us got the same honour. At the time Joey was doing all night shows at WOR New York. 

On one of the evenings we were in Cleveland Dick Biondi and myself were invited to sit in on the Joey Reynolds Show. Joey's other guest that night was Les Paul.

That week Joey's show was done from the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Studio - which BTW was situated in the highest point of the pyramid. 

When I was a teenager Dick Biondi was my favorite DJ. Big influence. Some have said Mickie was a copy. With that in mind you can imagine what a total thrill that all night show with these two giants was. d





 

Mr. Carson's two Head Writers for the last decade or so were from Toronto....and yes they had a band in the 80's in Toronto when they were just kids. 

I don't have permission to give their names. Both are wonderful folks and one has returned to Toronto with family.