Louisville Radio

[1240WINN]

Great Stuff on both this and the WKLO website. I have thoroughly enjoyed reading, listening, and learning.

I think it has been great that all of the contributors to date have been willing to share so all of us can hear what made Louisville radio special in the first place.

I listened to WAKY more in the "Oldies Station" era, so I enjoyed the Bob Moody and Liz Curtis airchecks. And I definitely think of the Hiney Winery Commercials when I pass the Waddy/Peytona exit.

But my first love is country music, and my memories are mostly of WINN (Hence the ID I selected). I really enjoyed getting to hear the real B.J. Koltee (one of the great WINN DJs of the 70's) on the aircheck here.

And it was neat to see that Moon Mullins had been in touch with John Quincy. Some of the talk on this website is about what a great job Coyote Calhoun has done at WAMZ, but Moon Mullins put together one heck of a country station at WINN. His DJ staff, which included Koltee, Dickie Braun, Karl Shannon, Al Risen, and Bucks Braun, was fantastic. And his playlists were not just cookie-cutter national Top 40 country.

(Off topic question--Does anyone have a year-end WINN survey from 1968-1979 that they would be willing to scan and share? I am interested in how the local Top 40 fared against the national top 40 of that year. I have 1974 and 1975 that I could trade.)

And the WHAS stuff was great, too.

I'm sure that John Quincy is exhausted (emotionally, physically, and financially) from the effort in setting up WKLO and WAKY as websites.

But wouldn't it be totally cool to have a Louisville Radio Website with WHAS, WINN, WTMT, WLRS, WAMZ, WRKA, and all the others added to the mix?

All of us have things we could share (maybe some more than others). I would gladly offer my meager collection (none of which fits with the WAKY and WKLO sites) if interest ever warrants an expanded site.

Any thoughts?

[bruiser]

Were Dickie Braun and Bucks Braun the same person?

I listened to WINN from time to time, as well as WTMT. Now, here is something that I seem to remember, and that is that WLOU was originally a country station, or hillbilly, as it was known back then.

[1240WINN]

Nope,

Bucks Braun (first name Jack) came from the Cincinnati area in the early 70's.

Dickie Braun referred to himself as "Wretched Richard" during his WINN days.

And I think Dickie was about 20 years older than Bucks.

I remember calling Dickie Braun at the station back then and asking if they were related. Nope.

[bruiser]

I remember a fellow who went by the name of Jesse James being on WINN. Seems as if he did a show in the nude once.

[jslone]

Does anyone know whatever happened to Joe Donovan who used to have the overnight oldies programs on 84 WHAS in the 80's & 90's. I enjoyed his program.

[David Stockhoff]

jslone said:

Does anyone know whatever happened to Joe Donovan who used to have the overnight oldies programs on 84 WHAS in the 80's & 90's. I enjoyed his program.

He is retired and still living in the Louisville area. The last I heard, he was doing very well selling, what else, records via eBay. When WHAS moved away from 6th & Chestnut and Joe Donovan moved to WKJK in 1997, it was the end of an era. . . the last "live" disc jockey on AM radio in "Big Lou"!

Great thread, even if technically it doesn't belong.

Can anyone tell me the last song Joe Donovan played (in turn, the last record played on WHAS)?

David Stockhoff
(Still missing "O's & O's" in Big Lou!)