Bob
Walker has been a fixture of New Orlean's
drive-time radio for over 30 years. The original
New Orleans 'Oldie King' now brings us his internet
radio series call 'New Orleans Jukebox
Gold'. The tunes are fabulous and the
history lesson is something of a wonder. If
you ever wanted to know what New Orleans was
like in the 50's, 60's and 70's, listening to
these shows are the next best thing to having
lived it....
Radio's "Oldie King" Bob Walker...
Retired from terrestiral radio after 38 years
on 4/9/03
See Bob's
Radio Shrine for the most comprehensive
collection of New Orleans radio memorabilia
online.... Also if you'd like to email Bob,
send it to bob@walkerpub.com.
Listen to Bob each weekday morning
from 8:00AM Central time in higher quality audio
on the NewOrleansRadio.com stream.
:: New
Orleans Jukebox Gold - The Series
:: Other
Gems of New Orleans Radio History
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Mr. Bingle Story
Listen
To - Mr. Bingle - hear his story
and original theme song A real 4 minute Mr.
Bingle show...his Christmas Eve show from long
ago. Anyone out there remember Mr. Bingle? How
'bout the WDSU
TV show theme that went:
"Jingle, Jangle, Jingle, here comes
Mr. Bingle...
with another message from Kris Kringle.
Time to launch the Christmas Season,
Maison Blanche makes Christmas pleasin.'
Gifts galore for you to see,
each a gem from... MB."
Thanks to our own Bob Walker, Jeff Kent and
Paul Yacich, you can click on the link above
and take a walk through New Orleans' christmas
past. In memory of Oscar Eisentraut, THE Mr
Bingle of TV.
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Leon Kelner Orchestra
Live
Radio Broadcast From The Blue Room
in New Orleans in 1962. Thanks to Frank Castigliola
in memory of his Dad Angelo Castigliola Sr.,
who played lead trumpet with Leon Kelner's band
at that time.
Also Thanks to "Teen Angel"
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Morgus the Magnificent introduced the "House
of Shock"
On Saturday, January 3, 1959 at
10:30 PM on WWL-TV, a new star was born in New
Orleans. Morgus
the Magnificent introduced the House of Shock
and his weekly experiments (that always went
awry), wrapped around a horror movie from the
classic Universal Pictures monsters collection
from the '30's and '40's, which were being released
for the first time to television. Morgus' first
movie that night was "Frankenstein,"
followed in January by "Dracula,"
"Werewolf Of London" and "The
Invisible Man." Morgus rode into a lifetime
of fame with his program, along with these just-released
horror classics.
In
those early days New Orleanians couldn't get
enough of Morgus. To help satisfy their hunger,
the 45 record "Morgus' Experiment"
was released before Halloween 1959. Here it
is in its entirety, including the original theme
and narration from the "House of Shock"
as a wraparound to the experiment.
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WTIX Appreciation Night At Pontchartrain Beach
From
1955-1963, WTIX always ended the summer at Pontchartrain
Beach with its Appreciation Night. What shows
they were! The hottest singing stars and groups
all together in a free show each year on the
Beach stage. Thousands turned out and cheered,
and the stars signed autographs by the circular
stairs behind the Beach stage after the show.
Listen now to the actual WTIX
radio promos for the great shows of 1961,
1962
and 1963.
Where were you in the crowd??
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The Ballad Of The TIX Tigers
In 1962, inspired by the success
of the new CBS-TV show "The Beverly Hillbillies,"
WTIX created and recorded "The
Ballad Of The TIX Tigers."
Using
the actual TV show theme song "The Ballad
Of Jed Clampett" and splicing the banjo
on the beginning over and over, a similar fun
song was born that spotlighted the WTIX DJ's
of 1962 instead of the Clampett family.
This fun song is still fondly remembered by
many today.
The voice on the song is (WTIX
DJ) Ed Ripley. The DJ's he 'sings' about are:
Ron Martin, David Nebel, Bill Baker, Ed Ripley,
Bob Robbin, Ted Green and Gene Phillips.
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45 released by WNOE in the summer of 1962
"The Sounds Of The City"
and "Audio Autographs" were the two
sides of a '45 released by WNOE in the summer
of 1962, probably as an answer to the attention
WTIX was getting with their "Ballad Of
The TIX Tigers" around that same time.
"The
Sounds Of The City" (1:30)
is a perky song in which the lady vocalist sings
about the fun and excitement of landmarks and
features of New Orleans ... and WNOE !
The flip side, "Audio
Autographs" (1:30) begins
with most of the WNOE DJ staff at that time
mimicking "The Sounds Of The City"
as a group, then greeting the listener in their
own styles. The only DJ who is referred to as
missing because he is "visiting Las Vegas"
is Skip Wilkerson. The voices who identify themselves
are: Dan Diamond, Jim Stewart, George Hayes,
Ken Elliott ("Jack The Cat"), newsman
Glen Sims, Bob Neumann, Ken Lee and Larry Dixon.
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New Orleans Nostalgia
Do you remember listening to AM radio in the
1960's and hearing those unforgettable jingles
of companies and products that were New Orleans
institutions? How about Pontchartrain
Beach, Rex Root Beer, Falstaff
beer, Tape City USA, Browns Velvet? Hear those
old jingles and classic radio spots from the
1960's
by clicking here.
The Jokers (#1)
