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Welcome to
Bob Walker's Original
NEW ORLEANS RADIO (+ TV) SHRINE!
Lotsa great radio & tv stuff here, so
plan to spend a while
with pictures and memorabilia I've collected during
my radio years plus memorabilia sent by visitors!
Pages below contain text or pictures ...
or both! Enjoy!!
The Original KOOL Wake-Up Club
Listen to 8 minutes of hilarious audio featuring Blair, The
Fat Man,
Ben Suddeth, Darlene, Nicky Danger and loads of curious phone callers!
(1994)
New Orleans Radio Shrine
WALL OF FAME
Tribute Pages
"CONSULTANT"
... Begins with "cons"
and the very word hisses like a snake...
the poison fruits of broadcast radio.
EDITORIAL ON CORPORATE GREED
AND INCOMPETANCE:
WHY RADIO TODAY SOUNDS SO BAD
...AND WHAT YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT
by BOB WALKER (Rated PG)
CLICK HERE
GROWING UP IN NEW ORLEANS IN DE OLE DAYS:
New Orleans memories received in e-mail from listeners and visitors.
Friends from the old neighborhood...radio & tv personalities...national
celebrities...
Click on a page number and enjoy as they share their New Orleans memories:
STUFF TO READ:
Alumni Magazine - BILL ENGEL - FORMER WTIX GENERAL MANAGER
"2007
ALUMNUS OF THE YEAR" HERE
Newspaper - THE BEATLES' VISIT TO NEW ORLEANS - SEPTEMBER 16, 1964
The
"lost" Angus Lind column from the Times-Picayune on September
16, 2004
HERE
Newspaper - MR. BINGLE'S CREATOR FINALLY GETS A TOMBSTONE
Angus
Lind column in the Times Picayune, December 16, 2005 - HERE
Newspaper - KING BOB & T-BEN TOGETHER AGAIN
Angus
Lind column in the Times Picayune, December 10, 2005 - HERE
CityBusiness - WWL-AM RATINGS SLIDE
New
Orleans CityBusiness Article, August 8, 2005 HERE
Newspaper - GIANT MEDIA CORPORATIONS AND LIES
Bob
Walker's Letter To The Editor in the Times Picayune, September 22, 2003
- HERE
Newspaper - BOB WALKER RETIRES FROM RADIO
Angus
Lind column in the Times Picayune, May 16, 2003 - HERE
FUN OLD RADIO STUFF TO LISTEN TO:
Listen To - Airchecks
of those great 60's & 70's DJ's
Listen To - Beatles
concert finalist to win tickets on WTIX- September 1964
Listen To - Blue Room
live broadcast featuring Leon Kelner
A
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.
Listen To - Blair & The
Fat Man. The ORIGINAL New Orleans oldies Wake Up Club show.
Features
Blair Kullman, Don Banks, Ben Suddeth and Darlene Gentner.
Don
announces, to much derision, that he is to become a father! (1:42)
Listen To - The Original
KOOL Wake-Up Club
8
minutes of hilarious audio clips featuring Blair, The Fat Man, Ben Suddeth,
Darlene,
Nicky Danger and loads of curious phone callers! (1994)
Listen To - Morgus'
Experiment
45
rpm record released in time for Halloween 1959.
Features
the original "House of Shock" theme and open. (4:07)
Listen To - Mr. Bingle
- hear his story and original theme song
A
real 4 minute Mr. Bingle show...his Christmas Eve show from long ago.
Listen To - Pontchartrain
Beach jingle & radio commercial on WTIX 1962
Listen To - New Orleans
commercial radio jingles from the 60's
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 (Clydesdales
in
the Mardi Gras parades), Maison Blanche, Brown's Velvet Ice Cream.
Listen To - The Ballad
Of The TIX Tigers
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
splicing
the
banjo on the beginning over and over, a similar fun song was born that spotlighted
the
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.
Listen To - WNOE's "The
Sounds Of The City" and "Audio Autographs"
The
two sides of a '45 released by WNOE in the summer of 1962, probably as
an
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
sings
about
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 WNOE
DJ
staff at that time mimicking "The Sounds Of The City" as a group,
then greeting the
listener
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.
Listen To - WTIX Night
at Pontchartrain Beach
Radio
promos announcing the guest singers for 1961, 1962 & 1963.
Listen To - JD The DJ. Airchecks,
commercials, jingles, pictures and more from WRNO and others.