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Terry David Mulligan: From RCMP Officer To Radio Jock
Some might find this bio on the unusual turn in the career of the Canadian radio great Terry David Mulligan, whose history goes way back to the 60s and 70s, surprising. (I remember when he was on CKFH back in the day.) What I never realized was before he took up the mic, he took up a badge and a gun as a member of the RCMP.
"The leap from the RCMP to rock radio is the kind of character arc screenwriters dream of. He was a Mountie in Red Deer, an icon of Canadian order and tradition. And he threw it all away for a turntable and a stack of records.
“I went from being a Mountie to being a disc jockey in the same town, which was really tricky,” Mulligan recalls. “The kids didn't trust me, and the Mounties thought I was just the dark side of the moon. I had turned against them.” This wasn’t just a job change. It was a defection. He tells the story of phoning his father to announce the news. The response was a click and a year and a half of silence. The disappointment was absolute."
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TDM, as well as hosting on MuchMusic/Citytv, has acted in a lot of movies and tv shows, and I mean a lot! When I worked for Citytv I produced a promo for a mini-series called “Atomic Train” starring Rob Lowe. It wasn’t that great but Mulligan played a reporter. Since he was one of our talents, he figured prominently in the promo, you’d think he was the star almost! Nice guy to work with BTW.
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This is the exact opposite of CFTR's Bob Callihan (SP?) who once did top 40 radio for 680 CFTR. Today he is a cop.
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I knew I had this around somewhere.
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After the Open Lid the next place I heard TDM was on the CBC and a show called The Great Canadian Goldrush.
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RadioActive wrote:
I knew I had this around somewhere.
Nice one! You must have quite the collection of radio related promotional material RA, you should put a book together!
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Many of us collected CHUM/CKFH/CKOC charts back then. I still have all of mine. Even some of the extremely rare #2-36 FH charts that likely were never available in record stores. I would phone the station weekly to have them mail me a copy.
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Many of us collected CHUM/CKFH/CKOC charts back then. I still have all of mine. Even some of the extremely rare #2-36 FH charts that likely were never available in record stores. I would phone the station weekly to have them mail me a copy.
I don't believe I ever heard about the # 2-36 before but I just went to the CKFH site and they have a few including some contributed by you. One of them has the song Homburg by Procol Harum which has the great line Your multilingual business friend / Has packed her bags and fled, ( too bad Mr Bluffs is gone- sorry could not resist) That song also charted on CHUM I think.
I also have quite a few of the regular CKFH charts and I have two of these CKFH lists as opposed to charts: Here's a pic of one. Took it a long time ago and so it's not properly aligned.
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I have all the CKFH Charts from #1 to #107, which came out in January 1972. It was a good run!
I'm not sure when the "chart" you photographed was from but before the official charts first came out in 1970, they used to publish this bizarre hybrid thing led by music expert Joey Cee. This one offers the Top 100 of 1968. You gotta love how "Tiny Tim" is listed as one of the three in the "New Male Artist" category!
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I have all the CKFH Charts from #1 to #107, which came out in January 1972. It was a good run!
I'm not sure when the "chart" you photographed was from but before the official charts first came out in 1970, they used to publish this bizarre hybrid thing led by music expert Joey Cee. This one offers the Top 100 of 1968. You gotta love how "Tiny Tim" is listed as one of the three in the "New Male Artist" category!
The two lists I have I think are both from the summer of 1968. Mace's charts on the FH site also predate the regular chart and are fascinating. lots of songs that did not chart on CHUM or they placed much higher than they did on CHUM.
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