The Bob Green Collection
Bob Green, 1963 
WQAM Fabulous 56 Survey, Week beginning August 3, 1963
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Bob Green of Bob Green Productions in Houston was PD of WKNR, Detroit, a great and legendary Top 40 station. Prior to WKNR, he worked at WQAM in Miami, and after WKNR, he was PD at KULF in Houston. He has about 700 reels of some of the greatest Top 40 radio ever made - and Bob made a lot of it!
Bob says: I began in radio in 1958, and I remember well how radio people would tell me... "now in MY day..." I promised myself that when I got to be the old guy, I'd NEVER say that to an aspiring radio personality. And, I've NEVER said it - but I THINK it all the time. I'm very glad I had the opportunity to work Top 40 in the sixties. Bob's collection is particularly notable (and delightful!) for the focus on production elements and commercial jingles of the era. Bob has demos of his award-winning production online at the Bob Green Productions website, and he invites you to surf on in at your convenience. There is simply no other way to thank Bob for these treasures than to say, Thanks, Bob! |
Great technical quality on this wonderful, comfortable aircheck of Bob Green on WKNR.
From Bob Green Productions, some promos for the 1998 Detroit Radio Reunion produced for Oldies 104.3.
[From Uncle Ricky: We originally believed this one to be from 1963, but a COMMENT (from a dedicated baseball fan) presents a serious case for August 23, 1962.]
[Description by Bob Green]
A discussion on where TV news is headed had me think of this KXOK newscast from 1963. You have to have at least a smile on your face listening to this. The carefree abundance of the use of banks of Mackenzies and the overall approach has many people in stitches. This is how it was done at many of the Storz stations in the early sixties.
But, hey – wait a minute! Is this really so different than some local TV news in 1997? Instead of electronic and musical separators and purely showbizzy copy lines for each item covered – now it’s wild GRAPHICS – along with electronic and musical separators along with questionable showbizzy copy. We have it here with the NBC affiliate. BIG BOLD GRAPHIC for the BIG STORY: FIRE ANTS ATTACK DEFROCKED NUN!
It gives creedence to the old .. “What goes around, comes around.”
A few promos that really define the 24 hour cartoon that was “Keener”. From unique promos, to cartoony ones – there are thousands of these, all produced on a full track Ampex.
This exhibit was originally presented in low-fidelity Real Audio 2.0 on May 12, 1996! On June 29, 2008, it’s been polished from the original reel contribution and processed with our OPTIMOD-PC, and re-encoded in 44 kbps Real Media v8. It sounds MUCH better! But don’t listen to this if your only interest in jingles is the Drake jingle series – there’s one reference to Drake in the entire 15 minutes. Otherwise, this is interesting research. If you’ve ever wondered about the origins of the classic PAMS sound of the 60’s, you’ll find this piece fascinating. It includes Bill Meeks himself (the founder of PAMS), performing in a 50’s jingle for KDNT, Denton, Texas.
This retrospective focuses on the late 50’s and early 60’s classics from WNEW, New York, and KFWB, Los Angeles (Channel 98! Color Radio!). There are many others, as well, including WABC before the familiar “Manhattan” logo was finalized, and even a few early TM jings – a remarkable collection, and strong evidence that much of the history of the radio jingle business was already written in 1970.