The Dave Saviet Collection
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Dave Saviet began his career in broadcasting at WRKL, a 1KW daytimer in Mt. Ivy, New York, in the mid '70's.
Since 1978, Dave's been busy as a technician for the CBS Network in New York City. He says he's been fortunate to have worked with the best in the business, like Charles Osgood, Charles Kuralt, Doug Edwards, Dan Rather and many others. He engineered Walter Cronkite's 20th Century for a number of years and worked with Dan Ingram and Cousin Bruce Morrow, to name a few.
In addition to the impressive collection of airchecks that Dave is sharing with Repository visitors, he also collects classic 45's and QSL's. Dave says that in his years with CBS he's had so many wonderful assignments that it would take a book to list them all. He also says that he has been very fortunate to not to have moved all over the country, like many broadcasters. We are very fortunate to have Dave's collection available in the Repository. Thank you, Dave! |
[Descriptions by Uncle Ricky]
Even if you have no interest in unscoped airchecks, listen to the first five minutes or so…. Rosko’s monologue following White Rabbit is what it was all about. This legendary radio talent passed away on August 1, 2000.
Contributor Dave Saviet sent this to me as Rosko, WNEW-FM, 1967. That’s all. Portions offer fidelity much better than even a studio recording from the time, so let’s assume that some of this has been re-constructed for our enjoyment.
Now, Rosko left WOR-FM on October 2, 1967, and he promotes a Carnegie Hall concert on Thanksgiving Eve, so this show from November 13, 1967 must have been one of his first on WNEW-FM. Rosko didn’t like the WOR-FM format, and what he wanted to do, apparently, was play a lot of the very coolest music of the day, with very little formatic structure or spoken contributions on his part  after he said what he had to say, of course.
I can’t imagine a better “image” exhibit for the Fall following the Summer Of Love. This is flat out emerging Album Oriented Radio and a few selections won’t be familiar to Top 40 listeners. Who voices that Marine spot? Sounds like a famous NY voice. And the NAB Who Listens To Radio spot begs the question: Is 150 million people less or more than those who are listening in 2010?
This is the last hour of Dandy Dan Daniel‘s regular weekday show on WCBS-FM New York, from December 31, 2002.
There’s a nice sampling of Sixties in the music mix, and Dandy Dan is as tight as he was at WMCA almost forty years earlier.
For the most part, WCBS-FM sounded great in this period, but why was it necessary to roll a percussion track under Daniel’s extended talk sets? Hey, we’re all adults here. Can’t we handle someone talking to us without something going thumpa thumpa boompa boom in the background? Sure, the kids in urban areas live with noise 24 hours a day, but why does a New York radio personality with decades of experience need a rhythm track when he talks? To add insult to injury, the track isn’t long enough and has to be re-started.
Douglas Jocko Henderson headlines this two-part exhibit from the WCBS-FM Radio Greats Reunion of June, 1995. Jocko is joined by one-time Cleveland DJ Eddie O’Jay for most of the show. A cameo appearance by Dan Ingram is featured in Part One. Jocko’s son Doug Henderson, Bobby Jay and Jimmy Castor are heard in Part Two. All but two of the recorded commercial announcements have been removed, but the live reads by Jocko and O’Jay are intact. Throughout the three hours, Jocko promotes and demonstrates his Get Ready Accelerated Learning Package, which uses rap and rhythm to help children pay attention in school.
Jocko Henderson &
Leo Rogers, Record PromoterJocko Henderson said he was neither “the imitator nor the duplicator, but the originator.” In the ’50’s, the Ace from Outer Space would commute from Philadelphia to New York’s WOV (later WADO) nightly. He hosted shows at the Apollo Theatre in Harlem and at Loew’s State, Broadway’s first rock & roll review. His Rocket Ship Show at the Apollo was legendary. Wires suspended him from the ceiling, and he would fly onto the stage in a rocket with theatrical smoke, rapping for his audience. Jocko’s Rocket Ship Show was a nod to one of his idols, Hot Rod Hulbert, who had worked in Henderson’s home town of Baltimore.
Jocko Henderson passed away at the age of 82, on July 15, 2000. He would have been 77 for this 1995 Radio Greats appearance, which was his last. It features a few musical rarities and lots of the fast-talking rhymes and “googa mooga” for which he is remembered.
Douglas Jocko Henderson headlines this two-part exhibit from the WCBS-FM Radio Greats Reunion of June, 1995. Jocko is joined by one-time Cleveland DJ Eddie O’Jay for most of the show. A cameo appearance by Dan Ingram is featured in Part One. Jocko’s son Doug Henderson, Bobby Jay and Jimmy Castor are heard in Part Two. All but two of the recorded commercial announcements have been removed, but the live reads by Jocko and O’Jay are intact. Throughout the three hours, Jocko promotes and demonstrates his Get Ready Accelerated Learning Package, which uses rap and rhythm to help children pay attention in school.
Jocko Henderson &
Leo Rogers, Record PromoterJocko Henderson said he was neither “the imitator nor the duplicator, but the originator.” In the ’50’s, the Ace from Outer Space would commute from Philadelphia to New York’s WOV (later WADO) nightly. He hosted shows at the Apollo Theatre in Harlem and at Loew’s State, Broadway’s first rock & roll review. His Rocket Ship Show at the Apollo was legendary. Wires suspended him from the ceiling, and he would fly onto the stage in a rocket with theatrical smoke, rapping for his audience. Jocko’s Rocket Ship Show was a nod to one of his idols, Hot Rod Hulbert, who had worked in Henderson’s home town of Baltimore.
Jocko Henderson passed away at the age of 82, on July 15, 2000. He would have been 77 for this 1995 Radio Greats appearance, which was his last. It features a few musical rarities and lots of the fast-talking rhymes and “googa mooga” for which he is remembered.
[Description by Uncle Ricky]
This aircheck of portions of a Dan Ingram Saturday morning show on KBOX in Dallas is from December, 1959. It’s probably a few months older than the Repository’s first Dan Ingram KBOX aircheck, which was circulated in the ’70’s via Programmer’s Digest. This one is longer and the fidelity is marginal, but the content is fabulous. KBOX was always heavily produced and that’s clearly demonstrated with this exhibit.
As has been pointed out before, Ingram was already very, very good in 1959  he just wasn’t in New York, yet. Following KBOX, Ingram was at WIL in St. Louis.