Steve Karmen has been a commercial jingle writer hero of mine since I first heard his work in the early 1970s. He wrote a book in 1989 titled "Through The Jingle Jungle". Karmen was also business smart. He retained the copyrights to his commercial work as opposed to being a jingle writer for hire and the client wound up owning the publishing and the copyrights. 

Here in Canada, we had several amazing commercial jingle creators - Doug Riley, Tommy Ambrose, Larry Trudel, Mort Ross, Ben McPeek, Hagood Hardy, Ralph Cole, David Fleury and Terry Bush, whose Anti-Drug Addiction jingle, "Do You Know What You're Doing?" was released as a single on RCA. Quite a few stations not only played the PSA, but also the single.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcYeQxSFa8Y

In Vancouver, Griffiths, Gibson, Ramsay was the top dog. Their 45 release on Attic Records was a full length version of the A&W Rootbear tuba theme, "Ba-Dum Ba Dum" released under the name Major Ursus. I know stations played it, but have no idea if it ever charted anywhere.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBeIMckHrnk

Another of my all time favs about DJs and my final one on this thread is a rockabilly number from 1959 by Boyd Bennett and His Rockets on the King label in the U.S., "Cool Disc Jockey".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LvXc71-0io

And while not specifically about radio itself, "The Disc Jockey's Theme Song" by Steve Allen 45 from 1957 is kinda cool.

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

When I started at CHUM Toronto in February of 1965 as a board operator/producer, almost half of the ads were 'live reads' by the DJ on air. When I moved into production in 1967, management decreed a change to record these former live reads, and by the early '70s, almost ALL the commercials were recorded, including live tags.

Having attended dozens of Canadian Music Weeks and all of the RadioDaysNorth America that's attached to CMW, it does seem rather frivilous to change the name that's build up a very positive international reputation. And that rep was because of Neill Dixon and his team.

Changing the name to Departure makes it sound more like a travel agency or airline. But hey, he who pays the bucks (or in this case, some of the bucks), gets to make the rules.

And in keeping with the SOWNY handle, WMCA Good Guy Gary Stevens was born in Buffalo.

https://radioinsight.com/headlines/294917/radio-remembers-gary-stevens/

That article RA, plays down Bob's previous experience. McAdorey started at CHUM in 1961 and left in '68, so he was a highly popular DJ for 7 years. He also had a weekly TV show on CFTO called "Hi Time" and  wrote a weekly column on music and pop culture for the Toronto Telegram's After Four section.

So they missed a lot of Mac's previous work in that article. 

Although there was no individual credit for this, I produced that 28 hour CHUM special in 1969. It took me several weeks, but I have to say, it was not my best work.The narrator Chuck Riley, flew in from Indianapolis (where he was a DJ) over several weekends. Larry Solway wrote it based on research by RPM's Walt Grealis. We had no time to research and include artist interview clips (although I managed to sneak it a couple that were not in the script). 

The program got such rave response from CHUM listeners that it was repeated in early January 1970. 

I don't know how many other stations aired this as the script had CHUM mentions throughout all 28 hours.

The story beneath that CHUM Limited ad refers to CHUM's Evolution of Rock, aired in 1976 and this was a masterpiece. It took 3 producers and a full year to produce. Written by former CHUM writer Bill McDonald and produced by CHUM's Zeke Zdebiak, Bob McMillan and Production Manager Warren Cosford. The EOR went on to win Billboard Magazine's "Best International Syndicated Special" in 1977.  

It was also narrated by Chuck RIley, but this time Warren Cosford flew several times to Indianapolis to record him.

Both specials were commissioned by CHUM Program DIrector J. Robert Wood.

The Warner Music Canada CHUM chart was for a 40th anniversary edition in RPM magazine.

Wish I still had that hair! Thanks for something I'd totally forgotten about RA.

I wasn't at CHUM when this was published. Former CHUM writer Bill McDonald, CHUM executive Hugh Batchelor, Geets and I had started a creative commercial company called That Commercial Place. The writer did get one thing wrong. I most certainly did NOT start Pete 'N Geets in commercials. They were doing Fairview Electronics spots before we started doing them for The Wool Bureau, The Turkey Board of Ontario, Parc Safari Africain (Montreal), Chelsea Clothes For Men (Detroit) and many others. Geets and his wife Barb had been my best friends since Geets came to CHUM in 1967. He and Bill McDonald were the Best Men at my wedding (Yes, I couldn't choose just one. I had two Best Men).

I did end up working in Hollywood for 4 years in the late 1980's.

I interviewed Richard Perry back in 1982 for a Canadian syndicated radio series on record producers. He was such a great interview with great stories about recoring Ringo, Nilsson, The Pointer Sisters, Barbra Streisand and Burton Cummings.

If you ever see the movie, "American Hot Wax", Richard plays a producer in a recording studio doing a doo wop song that Alan Freed visits. 

HR Departments are NOT for the employees benefits. They are to shield and protect the corporation FROM employees.

Moses deserves every bit of credit for CITY TV's innovations, but John Martin should be the man credited for making Much Music the success it became. 

The Producers of this doc, Rob Richards and Denis O'Neil were former CHUM newman and later webmaster and Head of IT Richard Maxwell (real name Rob Richards) and morning man Bob Magee (real name Denis O'Neil).

Not that it matters now, but there were a couple of errors in Peter Goddard's article.

# 5. Mr and Mrs. Waters took a vacation to Florida over Christmas 1956 which is where he heard WQAM (a Todd Storz station). After talking with the station, Waters decides to take CHUM's format to Top 40 (really Top 50).

# 9. Bob Laine didn't start at CHUM until April 1958 (one year later than Goddard states). Bob first heard about CHUM on May 27th, 1957 and decided to get into radio. His first job was as a copywriter at CFRS in Simcoe. Bob was with CHUM for 44 years, not 39 as stated in the article.

# 24. CHUM's 'Walking Man' contest was in 1959 not 1960 as stated and while the prize for finding the walking man started at $1000, the final amount awarded decreased to $250.00.

 

The unruly Vancouver crowd for Elvis was repeated 7 years later in 1964 with The Beatles. The crowd was getting out of control and MC Red Robinson was sent out on stage in the middle of a song by Beatles manager Brian Epstein and told the crowd to to settle down and to back up. The concert ended rather quickly and The Beatles got on a plane that day and left Canada. They never returned to Vancouver to perform. 

Elvis Presley actually crossed the border into Canada twice. Once in April for Toronto and Ottawa and again in August for the Vancouver concert.

Although CHUM had not yet changed format to Top 40 by early April when Elvis came to town (that wouldn't happen for almost two more months), CHUM's country DJ Josh King MC'd the Maple Leaf Gardens concert.