WAKY Phrases

[John Quincy]

How many on-air phrases do you remember that were associated with WAKY?

Here are a few to get you started:

1. "WAKY Oldie"

2. "From WAKY's direct line to the National Weather Service..."

3. "Put me to work Reed."

[Young Daniel King]

admin said:

How many on-air phrases do you remember that were associated with WAKY?

Here are a few to get you started:

1. "WAKY Oldie"

2. "From WAKY's direct line to the National Weather Service..."

3. "Put me to work Reed."

John: I'm not sure this is the type of "phrase" that you're looking for, but I loved hearing it.

On one of my lost WAKY airchecks from the early-mid sixties was this from Jay Reynolds. Record fading and Jay pops on RAPIDLY...If you're not satisfied with this

radio show then rip off this portion of your radio dial,

send it along with your eldest child to channel 79 and

we'll send you back a DJ from the Home of The Fabulous

Five. .... That was FUN radio.

[GilHerbigJr]

My favorite phrases were: When the jocks would remind us to say "HELLO WAKY!" when aswering the phone and of course "WAKY LOVES ME!"...my all time favorite phrases

[Mike Griffin]

On Danny King's lost Gene Snyder Airchecks...Gene was heard to introduce Neil Sedaka as Neil Sedakie on wakie. ....it stuck with me. I used it when I worked at WAKY and Neil re-did "Breaking Up Is Hard To Do." Probably very hoakie in the '70's but I never let something like that stop me. Thanks Danny for bringing those air checks into WREY when we both worked there.

By the way, Gene was a four-letter man in high school. All of them were Fs.

And then there was Dude Walker's "Dig it Louisville."

[Young Daniel King]

Mike said:

On Danny King's lost Gene Snyder Airchecks...Gene was heard to introduce Neil Sedaka as Neil Sedakie on wakie. ....it stuck with me. I used it when I worked at WAKY and Neil re-did "Breaking Up Is Hard To Do." Probably very hoakie in the '70's but I never let something like that stop me. Thanks Danny for bringing those air checks into WREY when we both worked there.

By the way, Gene was a four-letter man in high school. All of them were Fs.

And then there was Dude Walker's "Dig it Louisville."

Mike: Thanks for the reminder about Dude Walker's "DIG IT LOUISVILLE".
I loved that!

[Travis]

I liked a station ID that was often heard in WAKY's later years. It said:

"We're the station you grew up with. And we've grown up, too. W-A-K-Y Louisville"

If WAKY were somehow revived, that one would do well to be brought back. And if Bob Todd still has his pipes, a remake of his X-Years Ago drops would be in order. I can hear one of them in my head even now:

(BOOM!) "Thirty-Five Frick'n Years Ago, Today!

Just kidding. ;D

[dudewalker1]

Mike, your memory continues to amaze me. Thanks for remembering my saying "dig it Louisville. And thanks to Young Daniel as well. Its always nice to be remembered in some form or fashion. By the way Mike, it was good to see you again at the reunion.
Best to you both,
Dude Walker

[Travis]

Dude, we're fortunate that one of your "Dig it, Louisville" outbursts was captured on an aircheck and is available on this site.

The quality suggests that a so-called bull's nut microphone was in use (as opposed to the early '70s AKG mic) and that the Grundy Plate Re-verb was heavily cranked at the time. Dig it, indeed.

[John Quincy]

Here's another one:

"WAKY: The station with all the concerts."

[Travis]

The jocks had their phrases as well:

"You know what? What? I get paid for this nonsense." ---- Weird Beard

"I don't like that song, but that's ok because I get paid for playing that." ---- Weird Beard

"Nothing but the finest." ---- Weird Beard

"The big 79 with Mason Lee Dixon cooking, smoking, toasting and burning." ---- Mason Lee Dixon

"This is Gary Burbank telling you and only you... (insert whatever, here)." ---- Gary Burbank

"Johnny Randolph reminding you: no matter where you go, there you are." ---- Johnny Randolph

"12 midnight. Time to rock around the clock with John Locke." ---- John Locke

Note: On John Locke's phrase, I'm not sure if he said this going into Bill Haley's 'Rock Around the Clock' following the station ID or if he said it coming out of Haley's tune. He may have went directly into Haley's tune from the station ID (since it had no intro) and then said the line coming out of the tune.

This is a real stretch for my memory, but I do know that for a while in '67 or '68, John Locke's show did start right at midnight, he always played Haley's tune as his first song and said that phrase. I'm just not sure of the order.

[John Quincy]

And the phrases just keep on comin'!

"Fun-lovin' WAKY"

[GilHerbigJr]

after a news break....."and now, with Most Music....___jocks name_____on WAKY!"

[Travis]

Speaking of phrases...

Weird Beard recorded a short phrase which would be heard on WAKY for at least 2 years, possibly more, even after he had left for Rochester, NY, in 1971.

The phrase was actually a tag that only ran about 2 to 3 seconds, but was generally added to the end of any promotional spot that promoted an upcoming event on WAKY (such as a WAKY name it and claim it weekend).

Recorded in Weird's voice, the tag featured a bouncy piece of music with Weird merely saying...

"Weekends are better on WAKY"

Mike Griffin was production director at that time and may have well been the one who was adding that tag to the weekend promotional spots.

[John Quincy]

While technically not a WAKY phrase, it was cut by WAKY's Dude Walker and played for years after he left Louisville. How many times have you heard this one?

"Town (horn honks) and Country (banjo picking) Ford."

[Max]

Well, what do you know? Dude Walker did that? Mmm, mmm! And I still think of that little diddy whenever I pass a car bought at Town and Country.

Dude!! You've left an imprint!

Personally, the one WAKY phrase I always think of is Bill Bailey's simple "...it's [time check] on W-A(drawn out)-K-Y, good morning!"

[1240WINN]

And from the oldies station era, Bob Moody would introduce the Sunday night program with "This is WAKY, Louisville. We're on Fourth Street, and It's Sunday Night!"

[bruiser]

Are we talking about catch phrases, jingles, or what?

Anyway, here's a little something they used to use: "It's magic memory time, WAKY radio, 7 9 0".

[Young Daniel King]

admin said:

How many on-air phrases do you remember that were associated with WAKY?

Here are a few to get you started:

1. "WAKY Oldie"

2. "From WAKY's direct line to the National Weather Service..."

3. "Put me to work Reed."

This, I believe, was a jingle but the words have stayed with me since the early 60s and I'm 58.

"In the good ole summertime........in Louisville it's summertime..keep your radio on for more fun in the sun with W AAAA K Y Y"

Magic memory time.....INDEED!

[Ben Pflederer]

Young Dan:

Yes, it was a jingle used in the mid-60's regarding summertime. There were jingles telling you "Time to turn, so you won't burn". Rudy could not air those, since it was night time in Big Lou. There were jingles for every season and holiday. Do not remember who or what package they were on. There were jingles for ever day and even portions of the day.

Do you remember the phrase "Rock On"? I know Rudy used it many times. "Party On", and "Let's Party" was sometimes used. (Probably more than it should have ;D)

How about regarding weather: "From the boys at the bureau and the WA-KY radar weather eye". "From the radar weather eye on the 5th floor of the Kentucky Home Life Building, ......" There were a lot of "Silver Souvenir" records played also.

[Travis]

Yo, Rudy!

Since you ran Sunday morning programs around the time of the jingles (described above) do you recall running one with the following words:

It's Sun-day morning
Time to go to church
And while you're on your wayyyyy
Tune your ra-di-o to W-A-K-Y
Se-ven-Nine-Ohhhhh
Your Sunday morning ra-di-oooooo

I found that one on a cart in the main production room in 1972 and found it quite catchy. See the thread for 'Sunday Morning Programming' on this board.

And now, speaking of WAKY phrases...

There was a period in time when the jocks would come out of a tune with this line:

"W-A-K-Y, music radio super 79"

They would say that line before saying anything else, so it must have been a mandatory requirement at the time. Looking back, there were many such lines over the years, but that one has always stuck with me. Of course, the calls would sometimes be pronounced as "Wacky" rather than the individual letters.

I'm also reminded that opening lines (be they on the intro or extro) were often customized to promote, and associate, WAKY with an upcoming event. You may have heard this one on some of the airchecks:

"W-A-K-Y Iron Butterfly time... "

As Weird Beard would say, "Nothing but the finest."

[Ben Pflederer]

Travis:

Yes, I most certainly remember that jingle. It was on a big disk, which was transferred to cart. The "High School" jingles were also on a disk, which was later transferred to a cart that was bigger than normal, of which the Spotmasters would hold. Maybe Young Dan remembers those jingles when Rudy was having fun in the night-time. ;D

Regarding "WAKY Music Radio" you mentioned. If I remember correctly, we may have gotten into a little trouble with that phrase.

I vaguely remember the Beard using those phrases. Maybe it was after I left and was just listening to him.

[Travis]

The Sunday morning jingle sounded as if it had been part of the package you described. Glad you were able to remember it.

Weird Beard said a lot, and loved to toy with english, but I've only quoted the lines he said the most. Here's another one:

"I like that song a whole big bunch"

Regarding large cartridges in cart machines: another post is coming, but in a new thread.

[Mike Griffin]

[glow=deeppink,4,300] Finork --Gary Burbank
cause im a cool doo-doo-head! [/glow]