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1968: Super Mouth arrives at CHUM
It was a big occasion at the time. I remember listening to Big Jack's first show at my grandparents place at 6 o'clock on a Sunday night. He lasted eight wonderful months at CHUM.
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Thanks for posting this Dale. I did not realize that Harpers Bizarre's "Come to The Sunshine" got air play on CHUM.
Don't remember hearing the first show but I do remember listening to him in my parents bedroom in the lat e summer of 1968 and I think he played Jimi's version of "All Along The Watchtower" and The Chambers Bros "Time Has Come Today" plus something by the Stones and he referred to them as The Rolling Uglys as he does on this air check. Now for some reason I thought he started calling them that because they chickened out of releasing their Beggar's Banquet album with the cover below but his use of the name predated that controversy.but I think he spoke about it.
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One thing from the old Star article jumps out at me.
"Armstrong... figures he has four to six years left as a night disc jockey..."I don't know of any good jocks who are older than 28. After that, you want to get out or maybe drop back into an afternoon or morning slot." He hopes to stay in Toronto, "because I'm fed up with moving."
Little did he know what would happen just over half a year later. Also interesting to note that at the time when he talked about no good night jocks after age 28, he was 32.
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There may be a 'typo' in the Toronto Star article. If Armstrong was '32' at the time of the article, his year of birth would be 1935, not the 1945 stated in Dale's Rock Radio Heaven list. It would make more sense for him to be '22' at the time of this article given his comments about moving from night time radio by the age of 28.
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Damian wrote:
There may be a 'typo' in the Toronto Star article. If Armstrong was '32' at the time of the article, his year of birth would be 1935, not the 1945 stated in Dale's Rock Radio Heaven list. It would make more sense for him to be '22' at the time of this article given his comments about moving from night time radio by the age of 28.
That's right. He started in radio in 1960 at the age of 14!
Be sure to watch the video.
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This makes a lot more sense given the quote. I guess if Bob McAdorey can be program director of CHUM in a previously cited article on this board, then Jackson Armstrong can be 32 in this one.
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In the other case I very much understood how the writer could have gotten mixed up and simply not realized it ... in my many years of putting together research-related material, I saw how easily that this could happen to me and to a lot of other people (unfortunately, it's basically just a part of being human). But this one is the sort of thing that fails the "reasonableness check", which one of my former supervisors taught me to use to catch the most obvious errors even if you don't know a subject all that well.
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Lorne, I thought we wrapped this up on the other post, but apparently not. This error is EXACTLY like the other error. Unless you have some personal connection to the previous author which would colour your judgement, I don't know how you can't agree with that. Since the early 1980's, I have researched and written literally a thousand hours of fact base music programs. I've spent more time than I had, double and triple checking my information.
Just for the record, in 1968, I was 22 years old and the Production Manager at CHUM AM and FM. Jack and I compared our ages back then and he was 8 months older than I was.
An error is an error is an error. Sloppy reporting.
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