Storm wrote:

Roger Ashby has announced his retirement from the CHUM-FM morning show. .. He also hosted the Sunday Morning Oldies show.

One of my most memorable moments in radio is when Roger Ashby used one of my "factoids" on his Sunday Morning Oldies Show - and it was something that I posted on the original SOWNY board way back in its first incarnation. 

We did an interview with the late, great Gene Pitney on another station a few decades back and when the topic of his 1964 smash "It Hurts To Be In Love" came up, he told us a story I'd never heard before. The song was really recorded by Neil Sedaka, but he ultimately left the label and they didn't want to release it. 

So when they were looking for material for Pitney, they wound up keeping the existing musical track, wiping Sedaka's vocal off the original and putting Gene's there instead. It's why if you listen to it today, you can still imagine Sedaka doing it. It was one of Pitney's last hits, before he exited the charts altogether with "She's A Heartbreaker" in 1968.

I'm not sure why it came up, but I told that story on SOWNY. A week later, I was listening to the Sunday Morning Oldies Show on CHUM and I heard Ashby relate that anecdote just before he launched into "It Hurts To Be In Love." I was pretty sure where he got it from, and I didn't mind at all. Just thinking someone so legendary was reading my words and found them useful was a great reward, All these years later, I still remember it. 

As for Storm and I posting the news at around the same time, well, those things happen. I just finished mine slightly ahead of his, but he outlined some Ashby background that I didn't and I think the news is big enough to justify two separate stories!