George Hound Dog Lorenz, WBLK-FM Depew Buffalo NY 1973 (0:46:50)
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… My dear friend, Dick Clark …
Buffalo radio legend Dan Neavereth introduces the legendary George Hound Dog Lorenz, (d. May 29, 1972), who is featured in this excerpt from a Tribute broadcast by WBLK-FM/Depew-Buffalo, NY. The sponsor is selling Barry White records, so it must have been broadcast in 1973, or later. The program content, however, originated from 1960’s Hound Dog broadcasts on WBLK-FM, or so it would seem.
Sammy Davis, Jr., Little Richard, The 4 Seasons and The Real Geraldine all offer endorsements. Most of us remember Lorenz as a DJ that played lots of blues & R&B, but in this composite of several programs, we hear him playing a much greater variety of music, most of which you have never heard before and will not hear again! However, in the last segment of this exhibit, Lorenz takes us into The Blues Closet, down that long, long lonely corridor. It’s just one magic echoed step into the Blue Room.
The use of “tape echo” on this exhibit is overwhelming at points. I wonder if this was an attempt to re-create genuine “reverb”, or if it was authentic to the original broadcasts.