… Uncle Sky and Penny said the ‘copter wouldn’t come down here …
Sure, every top 40 radio station eventually got to be LIVE at a Halloween Haunted House. But, in 1978 in Memphis, WHBQ did everything in a BIG way. Our Haunted House (Scream in the Dark) included the scariest of them all: the real Alice Cooper.
The original game plan was for me to be working the Halloween show at Scream in the Dark where we were about to have a special guest. Alice and Bernie Taupin were to come from up above, via helicopter, land and come into the van (My NightMayer) and join me on the show. But the crowd was much too big, it was too windy, and the chopper pilot was afraid to land. Plan “B” went into effect: the two were whisked off to the Q studio, where they shared in the on-air duties. There was nothing like Halloween with Cooper, Taupin and Paul the Night Mayer on WHBQ.