| BOB ROBIN - A great friend and a New Orleans Radio Icon. R.I.P., Bob. Your suffering is over. 11/10/11. |
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PHOTOS OF RADIO REUNION #6 |
| WDSU-TV's Scott Walker continues his father Bob Walker's New Orleans airwaves legacy (Times-PIcayune, Sunday June 19, 2011) |
 THE JOKERS Hear their music too! |
 C.C. COURTNEY His personal site |
C.C. COURTNEY Our tribute site |
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BOB WALKER'S NEW ORLEANS AIRWAVES LEGACYDave Walker column in the Times Picayune, June 19, 2011 - HEREA
Fortier graduate, he spoke the opening lines in "Gone With The Wind."
HERE"2007
ALUMNUS OF THE YEAR" HEREThe
"lost" Angus Lind column from the Times-Picayune on September
16, 2004HEREAngus
Lind column in the Times Picayune, December 16, 2005 - HEREAngus
Lind column in the Times Picayune, December 10, 2005 - HERENew
Orleans CityBusiness Article, August 8, 2005 HEREBob
Walker's Letter To The Editor in the Times Picayune, September 22, 2003
- HEREAngus
Lind column in the Times Picayune, May 16, 2003 - HEREA
complete half hour radio show from the Roosevelt Hotel, early 1960's.Click
above, then scroll down the left side of the page to listen.Features
Blair Kullman, Don Banks, Ben Suddeth and Darlene Gentner.Don
announces, to much derision, that he is to become a father! (1:42)8
minutes of hilarious audio clips featuring Blair, The Fat Man, Ben Suddeth,Darlene,
Nicky Danger and loads of curious phone callers! (1994)45
rpm record released in time for Halloween 1959.Features
the original "House of Shock" theme and open. (4:07)A
real 4 minute Mr. Bingle show...his Christmas Eve show from long ago.Rex
Root Beer, The Friendship House Restaurant, Pontchartrain Beach,Falstaff
Beer, Metairie Ford (New cars for $2121.00), Canada Dry,Tape
City USA, Kreeger's Mamzelle K Shop, Budweiser Beer (Clydesdalesin
the Mardi Gras parades), Maison Blanche, Brown's Velvet Ice Cream.In
1962, inspired by the success of the new CBS-TV show "The Beverly Hillbillies,"WTIX
created and recorded "The Ballad Of The TIX Tigers."Using
the actual TV show theme song "The Ballad Of Jed Clampett" and
splicingthe
banjo on the beginning over and over, a similar fun song was born that spotlightedthe
WTIX DJ's of 1962 instead of the Clampett family.This
fun song is still fondly remembered by many today.The
voice on the song is (WTIX DJ) Ed Ripley. The DJ's he 'sings' about are:Ron
Martin, David Nebel, Bill Baker, Ed Ripley, Bob Robin, Ted Green and Gene
Phillips. The
two sides of a '45 released by WNOE in the summer of 1962, probably asan
answer to the attention WTIX was getting with their "Ballad Of The
TIX Tigers"around
that same time."The Sounds Of The City" (1:30) is a perky song in which the lady vocalist
singsabout
the fun and excitement of landmarks and features of New Orleans ... and
WNOE !The flip side, "WNOE Audio Autographs" (1:30) begins with most of the WNOEDJ
staff at that time mimicking "The Sounds Of The City" as a group,
then greeting thelistener
in their own styles. The only DJ who is referred to as missing because he
is"visiting
Las Vegas" is Skip Wilkerson.The voices who identify themselves are: Dan Diamond, Jim Stewart,
George Hayes,Ken
Elliott ("Jack The Cat"), newsman Glen Sims, Bob Neumann, Ken
Lee and Larry Dixon.Radio
promos announcing the guest singers for 1961, 1962 & 1963.Amusement parks, camps, restaurants, music, and much more by Catherine Campanella at St. Philip Neri School.
