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Post by bruiser on Aug 12, 2005 8:40:54 GMT -5
Those were the day my friend We thought they'd never end We sang and danced forever and a day Those were the days my friend
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Post by Travis on Aug 12, 2005 9:05:46 GMT -5
Back in 1972, WAKY began to play Black Sabbath's 'Iron Man' (Dude Walker, who had been WAKY's music director, surely must have been in Chattanooga during this time).
I believe 'Iron Man' was the only tune on the album that was authorized to be played, but late at night I would hear Mason Lee Dixon slip in 'Sweet Leaf' from that same album. The tune featured a cleverly edited and repetitious cough at the start of its intro and old Ozzy would sing praises to a particular leaf that... well... if you know Ozzy, I need not say more.
Rarely do I hear 'Sweet Leaf,' but whenever I do I'm reminded of where I first heard it. WAKY!!!
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Post by Mike Griffin on Aug 12, 2005 16:43:27 GMT -5
The WHAS Late Show song wasy "Syncopated Clock." You can hear a version of it at this website: www.q-q-p.com/SYNCOPATED_CLOCK.htmInterestingly I recall the title because the song was on one of the albums in WAKY's production library. It was taken by WHAS so I never used it in our production, but there you go. To give WAVE-TV equal time...WAVE used to broadcast color bars with a voice over by Livingston Gilbert describing which colors were which so you could adjust your TV. Does anyone remember the movie theme song that accompanied WAVE's color bars?
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Post by Kevin on Aug 12, 2005 17:20:43 GMT -5
That's the song, Mike.
Man this board can find anything.
I am not sure what the song was for your WAVE3 question, but I do remember one day going with my dad to the Floyd Street studios and outside near a garage, WAVE had several big boxes of old 78 record's they were throwing away.
They let anybody come and take all they could. Man, there was a ton of stuff records. Some of them were bigger than 78's.
When we got home and played them they had tons of intro's and jingles and old radion shows (soaps, too)
And they were all vinyl.
While my dad was going thru the records, a guy named Bernie gave me a tour of the WAVE studio. Livingston Gilbert was anchoring the news and we watched for a few minutes. Then we walked into the radio area, but I can not remember who the DJ was.
I had forgot about all this till recently. I was about 9 or 10 years old so I guess it was 1971 or so.
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Post by Mike Griffin on Aug 12, 2005 18:54:57 GMT -5
Kevin, that is a pretty awesome memory. Any of those disks still around?
I had some high school class tours of both WAVE and WHAS but nothing special. I do recall an old tube type video tape machine at WAVE. Lots of racks...it means somethng to me because I saw the later evolution of machines.
I'll give the color bars background question another day or so before I give the answer.
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Post by Max on Aug 12, 2005 19:44:55 GMT -5
I was going to say the Sound of Music, but that was WDRB's. I would suspect it was something with strings, like maybe Mantovani or 101 Strings. I only just barely remember someone describing colors...I may have even been in the 'oven' (b. 1963). I seem to recall that, although they looked nothing alike, Livingston having a seated posture much like David Brinkley, kind of leaning forward and ever so slightly to the (our) right.
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Post by Mike Griffin on Aug 12, 2005 20:01:39 GMT -5
I'm not sure when color bars ended...I know they were still being broadcast in 1967...that was a year that we moved and I saw them at our new house. I can't say how much longer they ran after that. Of course by the late 60's solid state TVs were replacing tube TVs. They were more stable and fewer user knobs so the need for color bars declined.
I had not heard of the colors cyan and magenta before so another public service by WAVE, teaching colors that were unfamilier in our little sleepy Southern Indiana town.
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Post by G Clark on Aug 12, 2005 21:52:38 GMT -5
The song that was played during the color bars was Breakfast At Tiffiny's by the legendary Henry Mancini.
When I was growing up in Oldham County, we had one of those old RCA color tv's with a round picture tube. I think that they would show the color bars every night right before the six o'clock news.
First in Kentucky, First in Color. This is W-A-V-E TV Louisville
Gary
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Post by Mike Griffin on Aug 12, 2005 23:27:10 GMT -5
You got it! www.moviegrooves.com/m3u/breakfast-low-7.m3uI believe you are correct about color bars always showing before the 6PM news. We also usually watched The Flintstones which in 1967 was on WAVE before the news...then we watched the news.
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Post by Young Daniel King on Aug 13, 2005 7:18:42 GMT -5
You got it! www.moviegrooves.com/m3u/breakfast-low-7.m3uI believe you are correct about color bars always showing before the 6PM news. We also usually watched The Flintstones which in 1967 was on WAVE before the news...then we watched the news. Mike: The voice over on the color bars was done by Bill Gladden, WAVE's weatherman.
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Post by Travis on Aug 13, 2005 17:53:27 GMT -5
I vaguely remember the color bars thing on WAVE-TV and was going to take a guess at the background music, but G. Clark (Gary Clark?) beat me to it.
I would have been wrong anyway because I thought it might be David Rose's 'Holiday for Strings,' but that was actually the theme to the old Red Skelton Show.
Regarding large transcription recordings:
I have seen similar large transcription records, described by Kevin, at the Louisville Free Public Library during the 1970s. They were far larger than the old 78-RPM records my parents had and were only recorded on one side. The recorded side appeared to be vinyl while the other side was an exposed metal which resembled aluminum, but I'm not sure if that's what it was.
Were these acetate recordings? Just what is (an) acetate, anyway? It comes up from time to time.
Anyway. During the early '70s, the turntables in WAKY's main production room were very large (in diameter) and appeared to be designed for playing those huge disks. I believe the diameter was 16 inches as opposed to the standard 12 inch turntable. And I believe my parent's 78s were 10 inch in diameter.
Go to page 1 of the photos on this site and look at the image of Jason O'Brien as he works with a turntable in the main production room. Note how much larger the table is than the LP that is on it. This was not the case in WAKY's control room. An LP fit right to the edge of the turntables up front.
Another odd thing about those large recordings at the Louisville Free Public Library was that they played from the inside out. You actually set the needle at the edge of the center label and it would track its way to the outer edge. I wonder if the records that Kevin got from WAVE did that?
It's ironic when you consider that today's music CDs play from the inside out, just like their vinyl counterparts in their early years. Is history in some way repeating itself? Hhmmmm.
Anyway. I'm rambling like my ex-wife and need to end here. Still, if anyone can tell me what an acetate recording is, please do so. Thank You.
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