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    January 18, 2016 3:51 pm  #1

    Ms. C.
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    RAMBLIN' LOU SCHRIVER . . .

    . . . joined Hank Williams, Johnny Horton, Jim Reeves, Patsy Cline, Marty Robbins, John R. Cash, Farren Young and Tex Ritter, among others, in Hill Billy Heaven yesterday



     

     

    January 18, 2016 4:22 pm  #2

    RadioActive
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    Re: RAMBLIN' LOU SCHRIVER . . .

    From a 2014 profile in the Buffalo News:

    "In the 1950s, he made his mark as deejay and program director at WJJL in Niagara Falls, and by performing at the Grand Ol’ Opry and the WWVA Jamboree. WWVA was a fabled station in Wheeling, W.Va., dating to 1935.

    He left WJJL when the station changed focus. “My boss was not a country fan, so I left in ‘64 to go to Buffalo. I asked, ‘Can I buy the records?’ He said, ‘You can have them.’ ”

    After a colorful stint at WWOL, a station converting to country, a station came up for grabs, and so he founded WXRL."

    Western New York’s soul of country music 

    Buffalo News obit

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