Dead .......and not forgotten.

Dead..... and not forgotten.


Well, 39 years ago this week the King of Rock and Roll Elvis went on to
meet his maker.  August 16th, 1977.  Remember the week pretty well. It
was just before I was getting ready to go to mortuary school, and was still
in broadcasting at the time.  On that Saturday night, four days after his passing,
I was doing a live broadcast on 1180 WHAM in Rochester. My program was
the Saturday night soft sounds., aired from 7 pm to 12 midnight. I followed
the late David A. Sennett, who was a fantastic broadcaster and a true professional.

I remember the first night I went on the air at 1180. Just before David finished
his show, he turned to me and said..."think nothing of the audience you'll be
talking to tonight...when you open the mic switch, you'll probably get into
over 30 states, Canada, Greenland and some 'skip' overseas."
Wow. I was petrified.  Thanks David for scaring me to death my first night.

Anyway, that first Saturday night after Elvis died, I did the usual soft sounds
which included Anne Murray, Perry Como, Bobby Vinton, you get the
drift... it's was dreamy type music to enjoy your Saturday night by.  And as
a show of respect, we mixed in a few of Elvis's more romantic tunes.

Can't say I was a huge Elvis fan.  I liked some of, but not all of his music. I don't
know if I would have gone to see him if he had played a concert near me.

Funny, his estate is now making more money with him dead than when he was alive.

Funny how that works. Elvis, Beatles and others. True legends for sure.

Will they be 'played' fifty years from now?  Good chance.

Coming up .......

In the works.....

Friday and Gannon......

A few trivial facts about the famous duo...

Jack Webb would pay $25 to any L.A. police officer who submitted a story that was used for an episode of the TV show Dragnet.

Through all 100 episodes of the series, Friday is only seen wearing something other than his regular suit four times: three times for undercover work and once for a scene in his apartment.

Friday and Gannon used a 1967 Ford Fairlane 4dr. sedan as their squad car.

Gannon and Friday's car was known as unit 1K80

Bill Gannon was married and stated he had four children, while Joe Friday was a confirmed bachelor

When Jack Webb revived the show in 1966, it was in response to the growing tide of teen-age drug use, especially LSD.

For the sake of continuity, Friday and Gannon always wore the same outfits in every episode. According to Harry Morgan, he and Jack Webb decided to switch coats for one scene to see if anyone noticed. Because only Morgan was in the scene, no one on the set realized it until the scene had been shot. In the next scene, Morgan has on the correct coat. This is the only incident of faulty continuity in the series' run