paterson1 wrote:

CHYM in Kitchener, then at 1490 and on AM, played Dr. Demento for a few years on Saturday evenings at 8pm.  The program ran for two years, 1975/76.  When the show was cancelled, Dr. Demento's small but very loyal audience phoned in and wrote letters to management trying to convince the station to bring back the good Dr.  I was an operator at CHYM and took many of the calls on Saturday evening for a few weeks with upset listeners disappointed at the cancellation.  

Management probably didn't listen, did they?

I recall it on CHUM-FM in the early to mid 80s on Sunday Nights.  Then it was the Sunday Funnies, or we'd switch to Comedy Bowl or Pink Flamingo Room on Q with Wolyshyn.

newsguy1 wrote:

I loved DD.
Also Chicken Man. (he's everywhere, he's everywhere!")
 

Big Doug wrote:

I remember tuning in to Q107 one Sunday night and hearing what he called 'The BLUE Flamingo Room', where he told VERY politically incorrect jokes that wouldn't even come close to airing on any broadcast medium today.

Yup!  It could be pretty raucous.  Weird to think this was the same guy that hosted a morning show on 1010 only a wee bit over a decade later.

It went by almost unnoticed, but Saturday was the final show for Dr. Demento, after decades of playing crazy novelty records on air. Barry Hansen had announced his retirement earlier in the summer, and had been doing retrospective shows in preparation for the final one this weekend. 

"To mark the occasion, Demento treated dementors and dementoids to the longest nationally broadcast Dr. Demento Show ever, a three-and-a-half-hour-long extravaganza, counting down Demento’s “top 40 most demanded demented discs and tapes” from across his career."

The Doctor is now 84 and has earned his rest - he has been on the air in one form or another since 1970 - an astounding 55 years.

Dr. Demento ends 55-year run as radio's weirdest DJ

Fitz wrote:

What I do remember is that the Pink Flamingo room was started by another NY alum. John Morris using the name Johnny Spadina. Possible that Ted W took it over later. No one at the time confirmed that Morris on CFNY was Spadina at Q but the voice was unmistakable.

Hmmmm ... I seem to remember hearing the name Johnny Spadina, but I can't be sure.  I remembered hearing Woloshyn Sunday nights in 1983 or 1984.  Maybe some Q people can chime in.
 

Fitz wrote:

Not sure if this will help but I dug up one of my own recordings and here's a very short snip of John Morris on CFNY from 1978.
John Morris 1978 CFNY
 

Yeah the voice does ring familiar.  Wow you are the encyclopedic master of airchecks.

Fitz wrote:

I know for a fact that  "Johnny Spadina" started the Pink Flamingo room on Q but I don't recall an official confirmation that he was John Morris. I know of at least one person who would know as they were at both stations around this time but they don't post here and perhaps I should reach out to them. 

Perhaps I'm confusing the Comedy Bowl being hosted by Ted, and then leading into Pink Flamingo Room.  That could be the case.  Anyway, perhaps someone else knows.
 

Fitz wrote:

That's too kind and I think there's a few others that fit that bill. 

... and Dale P
 

Just remembered one thing. In 2017 I found a tape from KSAN FM that had Doctor D on it. I was not sure that I should post it bc of rights and so I reached out to him and he said I was ok to post bc that was one of a few shows that he did not have a personal copy that was not in his archives

Here it is:
Doctor D on KSAN 1980