Toronto Mike'd: The Official Toronto Mike Podcast - 1050 CHUM: Toronto Mike'd #529

Episode Date: October 18, 2019

Mike chats with Doug Thompson about the history of 1050 CHUM as a top 40 radio station.

Number one on your hip parade, here on Jump 1050 in Toronto! What up, Miami? Toronto! VK on the beat, uh-huh, check, uh-huh I'm in Toronto where you wanna get the city love I'm from Toronto where you wanna get the city love I'm in Toronto where you wanna get the city love My city love me back, for my city love Welcome to episode 529 of Toronto Mic'd, a weekly podcast about anything and everything.

Proudly brought to you by Great Lakes Brewery, Palma Pasta, StickerU.com, StickerU.com, Brian Master from KW Realty, Capadia LLP CPAs, and Pumpkins After Dark. I'm Mike from TorontoMike.com and joining me to help me pay tribute to 1050 Chum's Top 40 Era is Doug Thompson. Welcome, Doug. Brian Masters, a sponsor? How cool is that? He recorded... You want to do that right off the top here? Okay, let's do that right off the top.

I love Brian. I've worked with him a chunk. Well, let's hear, because Brian recorded a message just for you. Oh, beautiful. Here's Brian Master. Hi, it's Brian Master, salesperson with Keller Williams Realty Solutions Brokerage. Doug Thompson is on Toronto Mike today and Doug and I have known each other

for a long time. And more than anything, Doug Thompson has kept the spirit of 1331 Yonge Street encompassing 1050 Chum and 104.5 Chum FM alive. He's got a great website. And Doug, I know you're going to do Mike proud. Well, thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Brian.

Brian had nothing but good things to say about you. So, uh, and Brian, yeah, I pay him well. And Brian is a, uh,

a proud sponsor of the program. So I will let people know right now that if they want to get on Brian's very interesting, uh, mailing list, he sends out snail mail. He sends out a newsletter once a month and it, to get on Brian's very interesting mailing list. He sends out snail mail. He sends out a newsletter once a month. And to get on that list, and there's great value in this newsletter, to get on this list, email him at letsgetyouhomeatkw.com. So letsgetyouhomeatkw.com to get on Brian's

mailing list. So thank you, Brian. Now, Doug, he mentioned a website. You are the official Chum archivist and you administer the 1050 Chum. It's actually the chumtribute.com website. And that is essential for anybody who wants to kind of revisit the, can I call it the glory days? I mean, it's a sports radio station now. It was before in 2001, and it is again.

No, basically, it was started by Bob Lane and I, and then Bob Lane passed away, and then the website kind of died, and Jimmy Waters of the Waters family kept it going for a bit, so we got the chumtribute.com. And it's a great site. It's got everything, though.

I mean, literally, it's got hundreds and hundreds of pictures from the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, 2000s. It's got every single chum chart that was ever published. Which is amazing because there used to be, as I recall, before chum flipped to TSN 1050, or I guess first it was like simulcasting CP24, if my memory serves me right. There was a few things.

It was the team in 2001, 2002. I was creative director there for that. Then they went to oldies again, and then CP, well, then CTV bought it. And it became, they unplugged the music and just stuck the audio from CP24 on there which was not fun When I was talking to Mark Hebbshire this morning

because he recorded his Hebbsy on Sports I mentioned this episode he's a big fan of Chum, 1050 Chum and we were going like a nostalgic trip down memory lane and I was playing some clips and he said who's going to join you for this and I said Doug Thompson, he said that there's no better person on the planet for this episode so I said, who's going to join you for this? And I said, Doug Thompson. He said that there's no better person

on the planet for this episode. So I want listeners who aren't familiar with you to know that they're in good hands for this journey. Well, thank you, Mark, for that one. Yeah.

I was actually hoping that I'd be episode 525 because that's half of 1050. Oh, right. Dabnett Doyle beat me for that. Dabnett got that one. And congrats for saying her name properly.

Well, I've interviewed her a couple of times. Davnet. Now, you worked at Chum. You just alluded to it. So when did, well, I guess I first want to know, when did you start listening to 1050 Chum? 1959. I grew up partially in Oakville.

My father was in the Army, and we moved there in 56, I think it was. And I discovered chum in 1959 and we went to the cne every year my parents would go off and do their thing and i would go to the chum trailer at the prince's gate and just kind of stand there and watch all day they also were at the sportsman show too in the spring and the jocks were all there uh which radio doesn't do today i mean there's maybe street teams or people that just sit there and hand out stuff but there's no jocks there anymore and that was that was the beauty of it all so 59 was when i first started listening

and when did you start working 65 okay yeah what did you do there like just give me some detail on what exactly what would you say you do at 10 50 chum? I did a bunch of things over the years. I mean, I was there for 13 years in total. That was three different times. The first time I was actually, I started as a board operator, which meant I played the records and the commercials and all that for the DJs. And then I moved, but I was always interested in production. That was kind of, I was kind of producing commercials in my bedroom, kind of like this, except it was my bedroom when I was always interested in production. I was kind of producing commercials in my bedroom, kind of like this, except it was my bedroom, when I was 13.

So I had a little setup. My parents had bought me a little tiny tape recorder and I recorded commercials and things. So I was always interested in that. And in two years of being a board op, I moved into the production department because somebody left. And then a little while later, another guy left

and I became production manager. According to my research, I don't know if this could be true, you're going to tell us right now, but you've won 154 awards from around the world for creative excellence. Yeah, yeah. That's a lot of awards. Where do you keep these awards?

They're in a box in the basement, a lot of them. Yeah, a lot of them are framed certificates and things like that. And some of them are actual statues and things. But they're basically in, actually right now they're in storage because I sold my house a year ago. Can you give us an idea of what you would be recognized for? Any specifics? Well, I had several different careers in terms of,

you know, once I left Chum the first time, I moved to LA for a year and kind of got really into the commercial production side. Came back here, started a production company. And that's where the first set of awards really happened. I think the first three or four years we were together, my partner and I, Awards really happened. I think the first three or four years we were together, my partner and I, we won about 80 awards that first few years. Wow.

And then I started to do, I went back to Chum for a bit, and then I started to do radio programs. So I guess the most famous, the two most famous things that you maybe or maybe not know me for, but I did work with Ringo Starr on, I wrote a 24-hour ABC radio special called Ringo's Yellow Submarine. It was back in 1983. You weren't born yet, Mike.

I was definitely born, but I don't recall it, but it sounds cool that you got to work with a beetle. It ran all over the world, but it ran in Canada here too. CKFM ran it in Toronto. And then the other ones were the other biggest ones I did hundreds of radio specials over the years for Telemedia Network

but the biggest ones I guess were with John Candy we did a series first in Canada in 85 called Rock 30 which was the 30th anniversary of Rock and I'd known John for a couple of years because I'd worked with him on commercials when he was still on second city stage.

And then we, he, he really liked radio. He loved radio. So he said, well, let's do more. So we did a 90 minute show that ran on Q one Oh seven and about 70

stations across Canada called that radio show with John candy. Then he moved to LA and he said, Doug, let's keep going. So I moved to LA with he said, Doug, let's keep going. So I moved to LA with him a year later in 89. And we did Radio Candy with the C crossed out in a K because radio stations west of the Mississippi in the US start with K. Right. I miss John Candy. And I can only imagine. Yeah, as you know him personally, I only knew him from his great work, his body of work,

but just seemed like a down-to-earth guy, right? Yeah, of all the people that I've ever worked with, he's the guy that would give you the shirt off his back, even if he didn't have another shirt to wear. Oh man, we lost him way, way too early. That's terrible. Again, I want to reiterate the listeners, we're going to play a lot of clips

and Doug's going to add context to the clips and we're going going to enjoy these clips together, and I can't wait to do that. But again, bookmark. Do people bookmark anywhere? I used to bookmark things. I guess you don't bookmark things anymore, but if you do, remember to go to chumtribute.com. That's the official Chum Tribute site, and Doug's got a lot of great stuff there. Now, before we jump into these clips, I got gifts for you. I want to get the gifts out of the way. This is because you made the trek and you're doing this, and I'm pleased you're here. Great Lakes Brewery.

Aha, I see that in front of me. Sixth Factory. I remember hearing you did a show in 2016 that I heard part of briefly. Maybe it wasn't this one, but it was one with Mark Weisblatt where he drank several of these while you were doing the show. Oh, yeah. Well, he comes in once a month, Weisblatt. He's coming in, by the way, for listeners on Halloween. So October 31st, he'll be back.

And apparently he does his monthly consumption of beer during his visits. And then he takes the rest of his six-pack and he likes to go to the lake and finish it off. Very nice. He's a good little ritual he's got going on there. Well, thank you for that, yeah. And again, they're a local craft brewery and it's fresh, always fresh, and you can find

them in LCBOs or you can go to the retail store, which is pretty close. It's down the street from the Costco, pretty close to Royal York and Queensway. I think it's called Queen Elizabeth. Actually, I'm reading it. 30 Queen Elizabeth Boulevard. You can see it from the Gardner, actually. So thank you, Great Lakes.

Thank you, Great Lakes. Thank you, Great Lakes. That's a box, but this is, I'm pointing to the Palm Pasta box. We have a frozen lasagna for you in the freezer upstairs. So before you leave, Doug, make sure I get you that lasagna. Absolutely. I love lasagna, yeah.

Is it meat lasagna or vegetarian lasagna? It's meat. Is that okay? Well, I'm a vegetarian, but I'll figure somebody who'll find it. Well, that's my bad. You know, Danko Jones, who's a musician, I thought he was taking meat, and at the last second he asked for veggie,

and I might, I got to check what I have. I have a couple of boxes, but they might all be meat. If I'm happy to get a vegetarian lasagna to you, I can bike one to somewhere you're at, and we can take care of you that way for sure. But thank you, Palma Pasta. They're hosting a Toronto Mic'd listener experience on December 7th, which is a Saturday.

So Saturday, December 7th at noon, we'll be recording a live episode of Toronto Mic'd at Palmer's Kitchen. And everybody is invited to join us. There'll be some giveaways and you're welcome to appear on the episode. So Doug, if you showed up, you could pop on a mic and we could have a brief chat. It'll be a lot of fun. I might be bombing Pearl Harbor that day.

Oh, because we are in a time machine today. This is a good point. You might be doing that. So thank you, Palma Pasta. Stickers here for you, Doug. I know you've been aching for a Toronto Mike sticker. Yes, I've heard all about these. Thank you, Sticker U.

They actually just made up some cool badges for this TMLX5 at Palmas Kitchen. So I'm going to pick those up on Tuesday in Liberty Village. But we had a recent episode with the founder of StickerU, and he kicked out the jams, Andrew Witkin. And you should listen to that episode. Thank you, StickerU. Pumpkins After Dark.

I have two tickets. They're PDFs. I'll email you, Doug, to Pumpkins After Dark. You're wondering what the heck that is. No, I've heard about that. I've heard that that i've heard that on some of the shows yeah 5 000 hand-carved pumpkins that illuminate the skies at country heritage park in milton ontario it runs through november 3rd you can save 10 right now everybody

else can save 10 right now by using the promo code pumpkin mike when they go to pumpkins after dark.com uh doug you don't have to worry about saving 10% because you're going to save 100% because I'm giving you two tickets. Can't beat that. Enjoy Pumpkins After Dark. Now I'm just trying to make sure I didn't miss anything. Oh, yes.

I want to read a friend of the show, Milan. He's a tennis player. Okay. Milan. Yeah, in Seinfeld. Yeah. Another win for Milan. Excellent.

I love that episode I want to play a testimonial from Milan regarding Capadia and Rupesh is actually dropping by here tomorrow which is Saturday and we're going to record a bunch of answers to listener questions so if you have a question you want to ask an accountant

DM Toronto Mike on Twitter or send an email to Mike at TorontoMike.com and I'll get Rupesh to answer it and it'll be a lot of fun. But here's Milan. Hello Toronto Mike listeners, this is Milan from Fast Time Watch and Jewelry Repair. We've been using Capadia LLP for many years, providing guidance for all of our corporate and personal accounting needs. for many years, providing guidance for all of our corporate and personal accounting needs. Over the years, Rupesh Kapadia has put together an effective tax plan for his clients.

And the bottom line is, he and his expert team of accountants save you money. Thanks, Toronto Mike. And thank you, Kapadia LLP. And thank you, Milan. Yeah, I just wanted to show you, you got a very rare can of Electric Circus. Wow. I actually went there when it was 99 Queen Street East, back in the old days. Right, that's what it was named after, right.

So, yeah, that's amazing. So this is obviously named after the Much Music show. Well, actually, no, there was a club. Yeah, it was a club at 99, right? Yeah, 99 Queen Street. In fact, at Chum FM, we ran a lot of those spots. I produced some of those when I was a club. Yeah, it was a club at 99, right? Yeah, 99 Queen Street. In fact, at Chum FM, we ran a lot of those spots. I produced some of those when I was production manager. Well, there you go.

This is more Toronto history on this episode. So you got your own can of electric. Now you have to decide whether you actually drink it or keep it for posterity. I'm saving one behind me here, too. So is that all the sponsors now? Yeah, we're ready to rock. Okay, now, Turnabout is fair play. I don't recall

ever hearing any episodes where people gave you anything so i'm gonna do that so here here's a chum star sign for your sign which is cancer that's from 1970 now i know why you wanted to know my birthday i was like why does doug want to know my birthday so amazing thanks so much man and two uh chum car signs which was also from the 70s promotion. Oh, my God. These are, like, how rare are these? Like, do you have a, well, that's amazing. I have a bunch of those, yes.

But, yeah, that was the mid-70s. Oh, it's even got the, would I win the cash and prizes today? Not now, no. I don't think Bell would give you anything. And from our actual collection of real chum charts, these are real mint original chum charts, some from going back to 62 through the 70s. So there's 10 of them for you.

Oh my gosh, yeah. I've seen pictures of these on your site. And I remember looking at the Ashby one when he was retiring there. And these are awesome. Yes. Okay, there's Ashby right there. There's Roger, yeah. Look at that nice stash on Roger Ashby one when he was retiring there. And these are awesome. Yes. Okay, there's Ashby right there. Yeah, there's Roger.

Yeah, yeah. Look at that nice stash on Roger Ashby. This is tremendous. Thank you so much. They're going now. On eBay, they've always been a bunch of chump chars. I think the 60s ones would probably go between $9 and $12, and the 70s ones go around $6, something like that.

So you got $30 there. Oh, my goodness. If you want. When I was talking to Hebbshire, he worked at Global for many years at Sportsline and he was talking about he worked with Bob McAdory at Global. And we were talking about his work at 1050 Chum and I see here I've got the back of Bob McAdory.

The interesting thing about that cover, they misspelled his name. Yeah, there's an E there. It's E-Y. Copy editors missed that one here. Oh, I name. Yeah, there's an E there. It's E-Y. Oh, copy editors missed that one here. Oh, I see. Sponsored by Clairol. Okay.

I do need some Clairol, actually. But this is awesome. So thank you. Oh, there he is again. Oh, yeah, there he is with the E there. I got you. Bob McAdory. Watch out, Shaq.

Here comes Mac. Oh, very good. The song was looked at. Here comes Shaq kind of thing. Right. Eddie Shaq, right? Is that the deal? Chum's Palomine Valentine Contest.

Okay, I'm going to thoroughly enjoy these Chum 1050 chart. Those are originals and quite rare. Hey, Mike Cooper. Well, we'll hear a lot of these voices on this episode, which is awesome. Okay, so help me. So what we're going to do here is, Doug, you're going to provide the context and set me up,

and all I'm going to have to do is click play, and then we're all going to listen together. Okay, well, the first one, you've got to go back to 1957 when Alan Waters, who had bought Chum in December of 54, really didn't know what to do with it. He was losing, I don't know how much he was losing, but he was losing a lot of money every month. I don't know how much he was losing, but he was losing a lot of money every month. And he was on vacation at Christmastime in 56, I think it was. And he heard a radio station in Miami called WQAM, which had just gone top 40. And it was owned by Storrs Broadcasting, who really started top.

It was really top 50 radio. Top 40 became a slogan that they called it later, but everything was Top. In fact, Chum was Top 50 until 1968 when they switched to Top 30. Anyway, he heard that station and thought, well, maybe I could do that on Chum. He came back and decided to do that. So on May 27th, 57, he turned Chum into what became a Top 50 station or or rock and roll radio station 24 hours a day. But he kept the guys that had been on there before, to his detriment, some of them. Anyway, there were a couple that shouldn't have been doing rock and roll or even top 50. But they eventually retired and went into sales and public service and all kinds of things like that.

And the station started to really start to take off once a program director named Alan Slate got there from Edmonton. And Alan Slate is, I don't use this word lightly, but Alan Slate is a genius. And he really took that radio station to heights that I don't even think Alan Waters had figured it would do because it eventually sold for $1.7 billion dollars the whole company so they did quite well well but a couple of the promotions uh that they'd had one of the ones

was the walking man and this is a contest kind of interesting they had a contest that the prize originally was a thousand dollars if you could find chum's walking man now there's no way to distinguish who the walking man was going to be he was just a normal guy so imagine today walking up to somebody saying are you the chum walking man you need to get arrested or punched or stabbed or shot or whatever depending on what city you're in right and but what they did was they couldn't find anybody that found him so they dropped the prize to 500 and they still couldn't find anybody so then they dropped the prize to 500 and they still couldn't find anybody so then they dropped the prize to 250 and that's where they said okay we got to do something so

they decided to get a guy they said the chum walking man will be wearing bermuda shorts this was in the summer uh and he'll be a dunda sorry young and queen at 12 noon and then they then slate uh the genius that he was, sent all of the Chum on-air jocks to wear Bermuda shorts down there at Queen. And so it was pandemonium. Literally, there was a traffic jam. Toronto cops went nuts.

There were 10,000 people there looking for this walking man that was going to give them $250. And Chum had to do an editorial, which you're going to hear at the end of this little clip piece, where they had to say, sorry, we're bad. So these are the promos for that and then the editorial.

The Chum Walking Man. This Tuesday, a man will walk the streets of Toronto, find this man, and win $1,000 in cash. The Chum Walking Man could be anywhere. If you approach him and say, CHUM is my favorite station, you will win $1,000. Say to everyone,

CHUM is my favorite station. Listen for clues on Chum, and Tuesday, find the Chum Walking Man. The Chum Walking Man. The Chum Walking Man. The way I walk is just the way I walk. The Chum Walking Man might give you $500. Tell everyone you see, CHUM is my favorite station. If you tell it to the Chum Walking Man, he'll give you $500.

Listen to Chum for important clues. The Chum Walking Man. A man walks the streets of Toronto. Find this man and win $250 in cash. The Chum Walking Man could be anywhere. If you approach him and say CHUM is my favorite station, you will win $250. He could be a neighbor, a man you work with. Say to everyone, CHUM is my favorite station. Listen for clues on CHUM and find the CHUM walking man. CHUM speaks up. An editorial feature. From time to time, CHUM in editorial form has criticized various civic endeavors or individuals. This time, CHUM's editorial attack is directed at our own operation. This station sincerely regrets any inconvenience or hardship

which was caused pedestrians and motorists during the finale of our Walking Man promotion at the intersection of Queen and Yonge Streets. CHUM at no time visualized the effects of this promotion. In particular, our apologies to the Toronto Police Department and a sincere thank you for the superb performance of the traffic officers in quickly clearing what has been reported superb performance of the traffic officers in quickly clearing what has been reported as one of the largest traffic jams in the history of toronto

needless to say if chum had foreseen the consequences of our walking man finale it would not have been staged at young and queen absolutely now the voice of that that editorial by the way was uh chum newsman harv kirk who eventually went on to do Harvey Kirk at CTV News. Awesome. That was great. That was great. So, yeah, it's fun to go back and listen to some of those things. Now, you've got to remember, though,

the thing about Chum in the late 50s to the mid-60s, it was quite corny. There was a lot of corny stuff on there, elephant jokes and uh bucks for yucks where they give you a buck that kind of stuff and i put a little montage together just to show you how corny some of them were of just some of the promos from the 50s and 60s and then we'll play later some from the 70s you'll see the difference all right here we go some promos a rap at the door a cheery hello and you'll know it's time to play box for we go some promos. Box for Bix!

A rap at the door, a cheery hello, and you'll know it's time to play Box for Bix. If you have any one of Bix Pickles, 33 wonderful products, when a Chum announcer calls at your home, he'll give you $1 plus a tangy product sample. Watch for our mobile cruiser when Chum comes to your home to play Box for Bix!

Chum's Clean Bean Contest. Do you have an extra wide part to your hair? A neat head of skin? Then send a picture of your bald head to Chum's Clean Bean Contest. To the person judged the best bald-headed beauty, we'll send $25 and guarantee one free head shine. Both men and women

are eligible for this contest. Send a picture of your own or a friend's polished pate to Clean Bean Chum Toronto. Crazy. Fake it and make it. When a new Cadillac limousine with Big Daddy

is your personal chauffeur, simply sit in front of a chum microphone with another contestant and perspire. The person who perspires the loudest wins. Naturally, you'll be supplied with a bucket of water that you can slosh around and perhaps a water gun that you can squirt against the mic. To enter, simply send your name, address, and criminal record to Fake It and Make It, Care of Fix Television Contest Department, CHUM Toronto. address and criminal record to fake it and make it care of fixed television contest

department, CHUM Toronto. What's the good word? Tell us in one word why you listen to CHUM. We'll award $25 to the person sending us what we consider the best answer. Simply send us a letter or card

containing the one word that best describes why you listen to CHUM. Send your entries to OneWordChumToronto. When you're driving along in your car. Yes, when you're driving along in your car, keep tuned to 1050 to play Chum's exciting game, Lucky License. When you hear your license number read on the air,

phone CHUM within 30 minutes and Chum will make one month's car payment for you. That's right. Chum will make one car payment for you if you hear your license number and call us within 30 minutes. Keep listening. You may have the next lucky license. CHUM presents the typewriter contest.

Silly stuff. Just listen to this typewriter contest. Silly stuff. Listen to this typewritten message. Simply guess what was just written by our typewriter. Mail your answer to CHUM. Our jackpot is increasing 10.50 every day. Now write to type CHUM Toronto. Whispering. Whiskers. CHUM announcers have sworn we shall not shave until the United Appeal reaches its objective. Here now are three CHUM DJs One. Two. Three.

You guess who they are, write down their names in the order you heard them. The listener sending us the first correct answer that we select will receive $50 from CHUM, and a $50 donation will go to the United Appeal from CHum in their name. Send your answers to Whispering Whiskers. Chum Toronto. Who is that lady I saw you out with last night? What do you mean, bud? Just what are you inferring? No, no, it's a joke. A joke? You call my girlfriend a joke?

No, just the end is a joke. What? Now just a minute, smart guy. Please, let me explain. Chum will pay $25 for the funniest or most novel answer to the old question, who was that lady

I saw you out with last night? Send your answers to who was that lady, Chum Toronto. Now you understand. Yeah, 23 skadoo, boop, boop, ba-doop. That is silly.

There you go. Very corny and silly. I was going to say cheesy, but fun. Yeah, they were a lot of fun. But they gave away a buck. They gave away two bucks. They gave away $10.50, as you heard a lot. Right.

So that was really what was going on at Chum back then. A lot of that stuff, one of the last voices, the last two voices there were John Sprague, who was the Housewives DJ, and Alan Farrell, who was the promotion manager. He also came from Edmonton after Alan Slate, as did Chum DJ Mike Darrow. And so, I mean, Alan Farrell, the late Alan Farrell, was really a corny kind of guy. He liked those kind of puns and things like that.

So that's why there's a lot of those puns on Chum at the time. He left in 67, I think it was. So, yeah, the thing about Chum that was why it was successful, it was actually successful twice, really. The first time was in the late 50s into the mid-60s. Alan Slate left at that point. It kind of lost its way a bit, and then a new program director

named J. Robert Wood came in in about 68 and took it through to the end of the 70s, and that was the second era of Chum's successful situation. But the beauty of both eras was that the talented guys on the air

were matched by the talented people behind the scenes, like Alan Farrell and other people like that, that were writers, producers, and all kinds of things that were going on. One of the things that Chum did, certainly from 59 until at least 64, there had been a guy that used to use little song snippet break-ins called Dickie Goodman. This was back in the 50s. He had a partner at the early days

called Buchanan and Goodman. And they had a number three hit on Billboard called The Flying Saucer, something like that. Anyway, and he went right through to the 70s. He had Mr. Jaws as a hit in the 1970s. And again, he was using little song snippets to answer certain things. So Chum did that every year for the Maple Leafs,

and they called it the Maple Leafs Forever. And they kind of did a spoof on Foster Hewitt. So if you pass three, you're not going to play three, you're going to play four, all right? We kind of did a spoof on Foster Hewitt who apparently was not real thrilled about it. So they did Faster Foster and Faster Foster's Father.

And they used the same little song snippets that Dickie Goodman did to talk about the Leafs and things. So this is one of those. Hello sports fans from coast to coast. This is Faster Foster. And this is Faster Foster's father with another, uh, what's the name of the game they're playing, son? A multiplication.

That's the name of the game. Thanks, son. That's okay, Dad. I'd better handle the interviews tonight. Whipper snapper. We'll get along. Won't we, Dad? There's the opening face-off,

and Dick Duff just leaped into the audience and is twisting with a young lady. Dad, there's a change in the New York lineup. Instead of Langlois in defense, you'll see... Liz sure gets around. Pulfer now has Spencer's arm behind his back. Listen to that lady in the front row. has Spencer's arm behind his back. Listen to that lady in the front row. Break it. Now it's Wilson. He comes right in on goal and knocks Johnny Bauer flying into the air. Johnny Angel. Johnny Angel. Johnny Angel. The puck goes to Prentice who takes a slap shot that goes wide. Oh how it hurts to miss you so. Police have taken control and listened to the fans shout, yell, and scream. Shout, shout, yell, yell,

scream, scream. Must be an echo in here. Here's a note, Dad. Despite rumors, Bathgate will definitely play tonight. Uh-oh. Trouble's back in town.

Hey, there's Mahavillich with Keon and Nevin. They certainly remind me of the famous kid line of... There's a whistle. Litsenberger's going off for high stockings, but he can't get into the penalty box. Let me in, wee-oo. He always calls the ref wee-oo. Dad, the fans don't like that last call.

Look at the stuff they're throwing out on the ice. Pretzels and a monkey wrench Tennis racket, army cuts Pumpkin seeds and coffee fuzz Now the referee is shaking his fist at someone in the crowd and saying If you throw that thing at me I'll jump right on your head

While we're waiting, if you folks turn to page six in your lucky program, you could win. The play's still stopped, and Punch Him Black seems a little anxious to hear the ref's decision. The Leafs take over, and Harvey and Horton are tangled up on the boards. Harvey's saying something. Dad, young Conacher's dressed to play tonight. I wonder if he can fill his father's shoes. These nights

in Charlie's shoes are killing me. Shaq just slid into the gold mouth and dumped Gump, who gave him a lump. Dad, Shaq's filling his bad knee and is asking for time out. Give me time, oh give me a little time to ease the pain.

King Clancy won't like that. Remember what happened last time they lost the game? King cast to children in the fiery furnace. Here comes the final bell. And here's our three star selection. And here's our three-star selection. Doop, doop, doop. Tonight's three stars are the three Fluky Dooky Brothers.

This is Faster Foster reminding all the youngsters listening that if you can't win... You cheat a little bit. And this is Faster Foster's father saying... Oh, my Scotland, I am coming home to you. Every year they would do that for the leaf season. Man, oh, man, I can't even imagine a station today giving that much time to a bit. Some of their bits got a little longer than that.

But one of the other things that Alan Waters was very, very strong about was public service. He really, really wanted to give back to the community. And I mean, in 60, I think it was 67, he started, no, he had this before. He had the Chum Kids Crusade, which eventually became Christmas Wish. But it didn't happen until like 70, 71 it became Christmas Wish. But he was always giving back and things like that. And we'll hear this a little bit later on, but Chum was very big on jingles, talked about the station and all that kind of stuff. I've got a montage of that later.

But one of the things that they had done was about a minute and a half song about Toronto that they paid for. It was done in Dallas,allas texas by these jingle companies that were there and it doesn't even mention chum once literally not once but and they what they did they pressed this up as a 45 and gave it out to uh listeners sponsors and this they were all over the place was around 1962 that they did this one. All of them brought out the city to, that's Toronto, the queen city by the lake. There's business, banking and industry, building our city today.

Casa Loma, beautiful parks, it's a great spot to work or play. That's Toronto, a wonderful place to be. Toronto, a wonderful place to be. There's O'Keeffe Center for Music and Drama. In August, we go to the CNE. And right at the heart, there's a Sparkview City Hall. In the fall, it's football. We root for the Argos.

Bay Street handles our deals. We're making history at the University of Toronto. See the Leafs play hockey down at the gardens. Drive along Yodford to 401. Everybody's going places. Falling movies, golf or races. Toronto's full of happy places. The expressway to the subway Every day's a happy day in Toronto Our hometown Wild. It's amazing they couldn't stick chum in there once. No, they didn't.

They decided not to on that, but they had plenty of other jingles that we'll play later. The interesting thing for me was when I got here in 65, my father had been posted to Edmonton, so I was there. And I got here on a Saturday. And how did I get here? I took the train. And I went from Union Station all the way up to Chum at 1331 Young Street by St. Clair there. And there was actually a Saturday switchboard. They actually had a live switchboard person on Saturday. And I was 18 at the time. And I said, I'm starting work here Monday.

Can I go into the control room and kind of see? The woman didn't believe me. She didn't believe that I was actually there. She was actually in the traffic department as well. And on Monday when I did come in, she said, I'm sorry I didn't believe me. She didn't believe that I was actually, she was actually in the traffic department as well. And on Monday when I did come in, she says, I'm sorry, I didn't believe you. But the thing that I wanted to say was that, because they mentioned the subway and that jingle.

Literally, I had nothing to do until Monday morning now. So what do I do? So I rode the subway, which at the time only went from Union Station to Eglinton. Back to Union Station. That's all there was. So then I'd get a chocolate bar and I'd eat that. And then I'd had to wait till Monday. Crazy. That's crazy. That's crazy. What do we got next, Doug? This is fantastic. Early on, see, I used to listen to these. Most of the guys that I listened to as a kid when I was

growing up in Oakville were still there when I got there. The only one that wasn't was Albalisca, but we'll get into him in a minute. But Mike Darrow had come in 1959 from Edmonton. And Mike was this huge, tall, six foot three, good looking guy. He was a singer. And in fact, he left in 65 to go and host an ABC television network show called Dreamhouse or something like that. He came back and did some global work as well. But this is just an excerpt of Mike's show from 1961. I want to show you that it kind of shows you the silliness of the contest because they

have to have listeners call in and sing the little section of the song Blue Moon by the Marcells. But what you will hear on here is Chum was a little more than just a rock and roll radio station. They had serious news people. They had at one point there was something like around 18 or 20 people in the newsroom. Can you think about that now? Can you imagine? It's crazy.

Even now CFRB and Newstalk 1010 and Chum together, which are owned by Bell, don't even have that many at all. And they had reporters everywhere. But they would hire people to do commentaries. And one of the people they hired was Pierre Burton, the very famous author and commentator. And he literally did 12 commentaries a day. commentaries a day. One of the morning ops would pick up the tape. They'd bring it into the station in the morning. They'd put them all together. And he had his own little jingle and everything. And there is an episode of Pierre Burton on here.

Mike Darrell. Mike Darrell. Mike Darrell. There you have the number one tune of the Chum Parade, the Marcells and Blue Moon. And don't forget our Bucks for Bom-ba-ba-bombs contest. We ask you to sing a certain line. And if you do it and you phone us and you do it and we'll tell you exactly when to call we'll give you a dollar plus a copy of the record blue moon and all you have to sing is this bomba bomba bomba bomba bomba bomba bomba dang a dang dang pa ding a dong ding blue moon oh i'm so great don't know. I don't understand it really. Those Marcells, they get $5,000 a week.

And I only get $50. And we both sing the same words. He's back again. Here's Pierre. Chum's Mr. Burton is on the air. The disease that really baffles medical science is the one that we all get, the common cold. And from Washington yesterday came news that a government scientist believes the cold has a

chance of being conquered in less than 10 years as polio was conquered. It can be done by a crash program of intensive research, he says, but the program would cost a billion dollars, and the money is not available. You would think it would be that, you wouldn't think it would be that hard to get, would you? More money is spent on defense than it would be spent in the common cold, far more, and yet incalculable human misery, not to mention man-hours of labor by the millions, would be saved by some defense against this disease in fact the crash program would probably pay for itself and yet i don't imagine that the billion bucks will be forthcoming because we're spending all our money on missiles rockets atomic submarines and space

shots to the moon pierre burton will emphatically come back again in one hour from now with another comment this time he talks about the battle going on between the lobbyists of butter and margarine. 17 after 4. And that just fades away. So, I mean, the corny contests, again, silly things like that. But Pierre Burton literally would record those at home. And he did that for an entire year. So can you imagine, five days

a week, it would be like 11 or 12 comments and he'd have to come up with these ideas for a minute. I think that makes him the original blogger, I think. Yeah, could have been. Could have easily been. Now, the thing about Chum was that they always had great morning men. They always had guys that really, really

made a mark in the market. Jay Nelson, of course, was on the air for 17 years on Chum, and then later Tom Rivers and John Major, all kinds of different guys. Brian Henderson was on for a long time to the end there. But he wasn't the original morning man in 57. That was the original program director named Phil Ladd, who Alan Waters had found in Lubbock, Texas. Anybody who knows Lubbock, Texas knows that's where Buddy Holly's from. And he had been a program director of a stores radio station there in Lubbock. They brought him up.

Didn't quite work out. He did the morning show and programming. He realized he wasn't going to really work as the morning guy, so they found this guy in London, Ontario, Al Beliska, who'd been in Kingston and a couple other places. And he was like the happy Hungarian. Beliska was one of these guys that was just funny as it all get out. And one of the things that he did every day was these corny jokes again called the world's worst jokes. And he did that a couple of times in the morning, and they repeated them again later on in the teen guy show,

Dave Johnson, at night. And they really were corny jokes. But he ended up writing something like five or six joke books that sold in Canada all over the world. And he syndicated his jokes for a while. And Ark Records in 64, I think it was, put out an album of the world's worst jokes, but they weren't the chum ones

because he'd already left by that point. But this is an example of Albaliska's world's worst jokes. These are the world's worst jokes. Look at the old shoe I found. It's size 14. That's a really big shoe. George, I have a cousin who was born in Poland. What part of Poland?

Oh, he's a North Pole. Say, did you hear about the rooming house tenant who jumped out the window? Is that an actual fact? Well, no, it's just a rumor. An old uncle of mine died, George, and threatened to haunt me. But I'm not worried. How come? He hasn't got a haunting license.

Oh, they are pretty bad, aren't they? There you go. Silly kind of things like that. But Beliska was, by the time I got there, he'd already left. Two years. He'd left in the fall of 63. But I saw him and talked to him a few times at the CNE and all of it. And he was really a funny guy. They call him the morning mayor or the happy Hungarian, because he was Hungarian.

And he really was kind of a messy guy. And he would always spill things and all kinds of stuff. So he was always upset that people would laugh at him at Inside Chum. You know, I'm not a messy guy, but he was a messy guy. And he just got tired of being, I guess, kind of made fun of. And when CKEY, which was Chum's early rival, offered him the job at the morning show in 63, he took it. Assuming that most of his listeners would go with him,

unfortunately for Al, they didn't. And Alan Slate and Alan Waters found Jay Nelson in Buffalo, WKBW Radio and Television, brought him in in late, well, he started December 2nd of 63 63 and he was on the air till uh 2000 and he literally was the morning man that most people remember now you know people like bare naked ladies they all grew up to jade elson that kind of stuff but the thing about uh what as i was talking about the behind the scenes people at Chum that were as important as the on-air people. A lot of these, a lot of radio stations have one guy that's either the morning guy or night guy that's a singer, right?

Everybody wants to be a singer. But Chum actually had, over the decades, they had a bunch of really good ones. And they all, for the most part, made the Chum chart. Really, the first one was the original All Night guy. It's not on this montage, but it was a guy named Hank Noble who recorded his under the name of Billy Guitar. I don't have that one on here.

I have the record, but I just didn't put it on there. But Al Belisca had a contest to write a song, and that ended up becoming... What the heck was the name of that song? Anyway, I'll think of it in a second, sorry. But Mike Darrow, the singer, he was a real singer. He was actually a professional singer. Now, in 1959, Johnny Horton had a hit called The Battle of New Orleans.

Yes. And so Gary Ferrier, the great writer at CHUM, who later became the CHUM FM program director and then left to go write for Johnny Cash. He wrote a parody of that called The Battle of Queenston Heights that Mike sang, and it made the Chum chart for four or five weeks. Al Beliska's song was The Battle of the Dying Cowboy. That made the Chum charts for four or five weeks. And then we had the Chummingbirds, which was Mike Darrow, John Sprague, Bob McAdory, and Gary Farrier.

And they had a bunch of hits. They used to perform at the CNE, and they used to do all kinds of concerts. And they had a hit called The Brotherhood of Man. That's on here. And then we had Gary Farrier himself. Most of these things involved Gary Farrier because he was one heck of a talented guy. Still is. And he plays a mean jazz piano. But he wrote a song in about, I think it was 64, when the Beatles had hit, called Ringo Deer, which was a Christmas song

about a deer called Ringo. And then in 65, he did a Bob Dylan parody called Like a Dribbling Fram, where he just kind of made up nonsense words and like that. Now, in the 70s, there was Mike Holland, who was a more serious singer. And Mike had a couple of hits. He had one hit on here as Homer Bunt, a Blue Jays song, and then he had one of his own. So these are just short snippets of the songs from the various chum jocks.

You've heard about the battle that was fought in New Orleans when the British had some trouble with their ranks. Now I'd like to tell you all about the war at Queenston Heights where the British chased 4,000 frightened yanks. What a great victory for the British. One of history's most heroic fights. What a sight so fine when that long red line drove the Yankees off of Pleasant Heights. This is Al Beliska. That's not him singing. Ha, ha, ha. used to roam Soon I will

see them no more Those hills have always been my home since first I learned to ride And there many times have I passed the day, while close by my side was the laughter gay of my love soon to be my bride. The Canadian Presidential Radio and Press Conference is about to begin.

Yes, well, I believe we can begin the questions. You, sir? What do you think about politics in Canada? Let me answer it this way. For my part, I think it would be an excellent idea. The sooner they start, the better. Yes. Mr. President, everyone knows of your interest in football. Do you plan to play a game of touch with the Toronto Argos?

Well, as a matter of fact, no. From what I've heard, the Argos didn't touch anyone all season. Mr. President. Yes. Sir, how did your little sweetheart enjoy our animal farm on Center Island? Jackie loved it. Yes. With your New England background, have you seen Boston play hockey lately?

No, I haven't, and neither has anyone else. A man who lives in Africa is just like you and I. He wants to love. He wants to live. He doesn't want to die. He loves to see his children and to hold his baby's hand. This man is you, this man is me, another leaf of God's great tree, a tree of life that's known as the brotherhood of man. They call him Ringo, Ringo, Ringo dear. I ring along, Ringo, Ringo dear. Ringo, Ringo, Ringo dear. He's with Santa Claus this year. I used to have these argyle socks. I kept a box to gloom of my room to my girl named Cheryl and said,

you're a square head. Argyle socks are out, boy. Well, she only said it once because I'm no dunce and a puff to karate chop right on top of her swan-like neck. And she said,

heck, you wrecked my swan-like neck with a karate chop on top of a pup, boy. She began to cry. She wanted to die. So said I. There's nothing worse

than moldy pie and a lunch pail when you're in jail Stealing ginger ale of Jerry Vale She'd gotten the mail from a frail jailer Who'd failed and she'd dropped a grail On the third rail on the Santa Fe Trail Failed on an old nail in the sail By a snail who was old and cold and bold

Cause he'd rolled up her nose How was your birth? I said how is your bird? I said, how is your bird? Are you cleaving your scram? Is your clam in a jam? Like the dribbling of the pram Do she want love? Do she want love? Beauty won't love.

Beauty won't love. A woman set me free. We got the Blue Jays. Blue Jays. Blue Jays. We got the Blue Jays. Yeah, the last two were Mike Holland. That very last one has been played on this program before.

I've dusted that off and played it a few times. I think it's fantastic. And I once wrote about it at TorontoMike.com. And Mike Holland, that's not his real name, but Mike. Mike Bouyer. Right. He wrote me a note from somewhere in the States where he was living.

Right, to basically say hi and to let me know the story behind the song. Very cool. Yeah, he was a real singer. Most of those other ones were just novelty records. And, you know, that's the thing about my generation growing up with radio as it was then. I got, because there was nothing else,

there was no YouTube, there was no Spotify, there was no nothing, other than radio and television. And television didn't play much music, except for Dick Clark's American Bandstand. We had jukeboxes, right? Well, we did have jukeboxes in restaurants, yeah. But I got an incredible musical education from listening to the radio. And a lot of people did that across the country and across North America

because radio stations played a lot of different songs. If you look at the chum charts from the 60s there, you'll see not only pop, rock, there's country in there. Jim Reeves had a number one hit in Toronto. There were a lot of novelty records. Even into the 70s there were novelty records. You don't hear a novelty record on the radio today, ever, anywhere.

And then there were instrumentals. There was even some jazz stuff. Dave Brubeck had a hit called Take Five. So there was a wide spectrum of music. That's why I love all kinds of music today. You're right. The top 40, as we used to call it, or we still call it, I suppose,

was, you're right, far more diverse. I mean, it wasn't that, in the late 80s, when I was listening, I'd be hearing a Def Leppard song next to, I don't know, a Janet Jackson song. It was just, it was all over the place. Well, now everything's niche casting, right? So you listen to Sirius XM, they go by decades, but you can't hear the various things that you could

on one radio station. Right. Which is why Chum was so greatly successful. And the other thing is, one of the things we, one of the songs in that little Faster Foster thing, montage there, was My Boomerang Won't Come Back by Charlie Drake. Now that was a number one song on Chum,

a novelty record, a number one song, as was a song by a Scottish singer named Andy Stewart, a Scottish soldier, was also number one. But to go back to Charlie Drake for a second, he was a British comedian that was produced by a guy that would have tons of number one records. Just a couple of years later than that, George Martin. Oh, yes.

And that was George's first real hit in north america charlie drake my boomerang won't come back but okay things happened in 63 with chum things were getting a little complacent and i said albaliska left in the fall but prior to that ckey found this guy that i know you've had on on toronto mike david marsden. But back then in 63, he created this character called Dave Mickey, which was kind of, I think he mentioned it on the show. It's kind of a cast between Dick Biondi, who was on WLS in Chicago, a little bit of Jerry Lewis in there as well. And I listened to that whole episode,

and he didn't play any of his Dave Mickeys. And I know he can't do that anymore because he's David Marsden now. He talks like that. But I asked him actually to do it once and he really couldn't do it anymore. That was a crazy kind of character that he had. And I wanted people to hear what Dave Mickey... Dave Mickey scared the crap out of Chum

because he was so good. And he just grabbed the teen audience like instantly. And this is what Daveave mckee sounded like it's all a gold on us the gold last two at the night time all the day making sure right to you on five okay a nice letter today from port hope ontario there from all the 10 a people up at the port oh my and uh they're going to have a big beach party but they didn't tell me what it was and i presume it's tonight but i don't know but anyway if it's tonight they're out there on the beach having a party and they said that i was going to supply a big beach party, but they didn't tell me when it was, and I presume it's tonight, but I don't know. But anyway, if it's tonight, they're out there on the beach having a party, and they said that I was going to supply the music there

because they're going to use radios and things there. So hi to the great 10-A. It says around 9 o'clock if possible. Okay, there we are. All right, to 10-A up at Port Hope High School having a swinging ball. Join the good guys here at CKEY for your swing and some of the time. I'm Phil and Mandel tonight from Steve and Bobby and Bird there, and I'm all supposed to say hello to Porky Buck out there.

Yes, Porky Buck as in Porky, think of a jig there, and I have a dog named Porky. It's about that time at 24 and I... Time for a golden record. You'll remember the Marble Lens' solid gold sound on 580 here. C-K-E-Y in Toronto. Hey, I like this sound, man. This is solid gold on the David Mickey Show at the night time.

Until 11, live and in color. Here's the big sound of the Marble Lens. And out of the past it's beach one four five seven eight nine you can have this dance and there he goes that's he scared uh alan slade and alan waters and everybody at chum they thought oh god there go our teens if they did go they went to dave and uh chum said what the heck are we going to do so this was in the spring of early spring of 63 so they had to go much bigger than Dave Mickey and the only thing they could do was go to Dick Clark Dick Clark besides having his tv show American Bandstand had a syndicated show in the

U.S. called the Dick Clark Radio Show so they brought that into Toronto he came in and did it live a bunch of times but most of the the time, he was just on tape. They had cartridges, tape cartridges. And he would ask Dave, hey, Dave, Dave Johnson was his co-host. What time is it right now? Or they recorded every second of every hour. And there was a two-hour show from 7 to 9. And they did that for a year.

And then Dave Mickey actually left after six months to go to television. So that kind of helped things along. But this is the opening of the Dick Clark radio show, which was Dick Live here in Toronto on May 27th, 1963. Winds East at 10. Chum News was presented by Rothman's King Size Cigarettes. The Chum Time, 7 o'clock.

Live from the terrace in downtown Toronto. Now in person for his very first show on CHUM, here is Dick Carr! Let's get up and start the fire! God bless you. Thank you very, very much. Woo-hoo! Why, thank you. David, how are you, my good man? Fine, thank you, Dick.

Thank you. You know, Dave, you told me when we got here at CHUM, I was going to work with a partner, and thank you, I didn't realize she was going to be that gorgeous, the weather girl. I'm the partner, Dick. You're my partner here? You can't win them all, you know. Oh, we hope you'll have fun tonight. We have a few things planned for you.

This is the first of a series here on CHUM, and if you want to dance, if you want to hoot and holler, join in, and we'll swing along. David, we got the music all set to go? All ready, Dick. This is the thing by Leslie Gore called It's My Party. See, that was live from the Mutual Street Arena at the time. And they had a huge audience. And actually, he brought in Freddie Cannon. Some of these names might not be familiar to you but I'm soaking them in

I'm soaking them in Freddie Cannon who had a ton of hits in the 60s they brought Bobby Crutola in Ronnie Hawkins was there I know those two names and Little Caesar

no it wasn't Little Caesar sorry it was Richie Knight and the Midnights were also there and it was a live show for two hours and then the rest of the year except for three or four times

when Dick came into town were all on tape let me just say I listened to the CKEY clip And it was a live show for two hours and then the rest of the year, except for three or four times when Dick came into town, were all on tape. Let me just say, I listened to the CKEY clip there from Dave Mickey. Firstly, I think guys my age would be blown away if they didn't know about Dave Mickey and the legend of Dave Mickey. If you told them that was David Marsden, I think their brains would melt. But also, he slips in there that, of course, the CKEY was at 580, and we also, guys my age, know it as 590.

So when did that switch happen? I'm just curious. CKEY was owned by Jack Kent Cooke for a long time, and then he decided to move to the States when he didn't get the television channel that CFTO became. And so he sold it to RKO, which was, sorry, he didn't sell it to RKO. That was CKLW in Windsor. He sold it to Westinghouse, Group W Radio.

And Mickey was in during that era. And he was just one of those guys that was so unbelievably good. I love Dave Marsden. He's one of my favorite people of all time. And that Dave Mickey show was literally scared Chum so much that they had to go and do the Dick Clark show. Hired the big gun. And then later on, CKEY hired, which was a couple of times, a couple of stations took shots at Chum.

And later on, CFTR, which is now 680 News, but at the time it was music, they actually did kind of take over a little bit with the ratings. Not too much, but a little bit. But CKUI tried in the 60s, never really made it. But one of the things is they got Al Belisca. They took Al Belisca in the fall of 63, and that's when Jay Nilsen came in. And when Belisca had the world's worst jokes, Jay had Hello Toronto, which was just like a candid phone call where he'd phone up unsuspecting people and be these characters. And that was a lot of the premises were written by Alan Farrell, the promotions guy I mentioned before.

And Jay, my production studio was right beside the AM control room. And the studio that Jay used to record the phone calls, he had a little tape recorder in there, and he'd just make phone calls for a couple hours, was literally a glass from me. So he would use, Jay would use the names of people on the station. So on this particular one, and I didn't know about this,

I had no idea at the time, but this was around 67, that he actually used my name. Until a couple of years ago, when somebody had taped all of these but this was around 67 that he actually used my name. I until like a couple of years ago when somebody had taped all of these and sent them in, I had no idea that he'd use my name, but this is what Jay did. He phoned people as a,

as a silly character and put them in kind of strange situations. This is a hello Toronto. Hello Toronto. 13 before eight o'clock. You say you just got married, you say you're going on your honeymoon, and you say you got a practical joker for a friend, and then you're listening to some monkey business, right? Pet shop.

Oh, hi, you the pet shop people? Yes, sir. Yeah, look, Doug Thompson's the name. I just saw your ad here. I'm kind of a practical joker. And a friend of mine is getting married on Saturday. Mm-hmm. And you got monkeys, huh?

Mm-hmm. Now, look, here's the plan. What would it cost me? You see, what we want to do, we know the hotel. Hello? Yes, sir. I can't talk too loud. I'm here at the office.

Mm-hmm. We know the hotel they're going to stay at, you know? Mm-hmm. And I would like to have, hotel they're going to stay at, you know? And I would like to have, when they go to the room, you know what I mean? Yeah. When they open the door, we're going to have six monkeys. Oh, boy. Jumping all around, you know, and making noise and stuff.

Just really messing the place up. Yeah. What would it cost to rent the monkeys just for, you know, just for the weekend? I don't think you're going to be able to rent one of those, not for something like that. Okay, look it, I'll tell you what. If I did buy the monkeys and we put them in there, would you be willing to take them up to the room?

Sure, why not? Yeah, no, here's another idea. Would you, could you kind of stand around in there and say, while these go with the room, we could get you a little trainer's outfit. Yeah. You know, like one of those little caps they wear, the organ grinders? Yeah.

And you just tell him it goes with the room. He might punch you in the mouth. Yeah, I know. Yeah, but who's going to get the punch, me or the monkey? No, you, pal. Yeah, I don't think it's worth it. Well, Eddie's a nice guy,

but I think if we goof him up on his honeymoon, he'll really get bugged. Yeah, that is true. And you know, when they get mad at the... Well, I'll be in London. I got a flight to London that particular weekend, you see. Yeah, yeah. So, look, would you give him a little card? I'll give a card and say, how's this for a practical joke?

Your friend, Dougie. Yeah, sure. You will? Sure. How big are you, pal? I'm small. Oh. I'm five feet six. You're going to get clobbered. Yeah, sure. You will. Sure. How big are you, pal? I'm small. Oh, I'm five feet six. You're going to get clobbered. Yeah. Do you have your own teeth? Yes, I do. And I don't want to lose it either. Now, when could you be at the hotel? I don't know. It depends on what it is.

Look, that's a joke or that's for real? It's a practical joke I'm playing on him. Yeah, you're putting that on him, but that's not a joke you're pulling on me now. No, no, no, you'd have to take the monkeys there and be there. No, I have to go and take the monkey at the hotel the night they're going to go for a honeymoon. Yeah. And you want me to wait for him and give him the monkey. Yeah, and you... And a card. Yeah.

And if you get mad, I get the punch. Yeah, you got it perfect. Yeah. Ah, you forget about the whole thing. Why? I keep my monkey and you keep your punch. Wait, wait a minute. Did you ever listen to the radio?

Yes. Did you ever listen to Jungle Jay? Yes. That's who I am. Ah, that's what you are, eh? Yes. You sure? Pardon me for laughing, folks.

It's 10 minutes before 7 o'clock and 37 chum degrees, and the high today will get up to 35. The wind is right now from the northwest at 7 miles an hour. Would you like to ride in my blue car? Crazy, Jay. He did that for, God, three, four, five years. Crazy. Every day. Now, they would take those tapes, and then they dated them down, of course,

to be like three minutes long. And those temps were, of course, Fahrenheit because you hear it at 37. You're like, oh, sounds hot. Yeah, yeah. Well, the interesting thing about Jay was that, and Chum too, Chum was very good. Alan Slate was, like I said, a genius at being able to figure out promotions. And when the Beatles came through, the Beatles actually only played in Canada in three cities, Vancouver, Toronto, and Montreal. And they only played Vancouver in 64 because there was a riot and Brian Epstein was afraid the Beatles were going to get killed. So he never went back to Vancouver ever because it was like

they were all just charging the stage. And they didn't go back to Montreal either after 64. They were all just charging the stage. And they didn't go back to Montreal either after 64. So the only place that they were actually 64, 65, 66 was Toronto. And Jay Nelson in 64 did the afternoon show. Harold Ballard, who owned the Gardens, brought the Beatles in twice. He didn't tell Brian Epstein in that story. Right.

But then he had to pay for the Beatles for the second show. Now, Al Belisca did the night show. He did the emcee for the night show. But after 64, it was all Jay. So Jay did all the shows, 64, 65, 66, except for the night show in 64. And this, Chum really took over the Beatles. They became the Beatles station. C-K-U-I tried.

But Chum had a show called Ponch and Trudy, which was Dave Johnson, who was a little pudgy, so they called him Ponch. And he had this girl from England originally who was at a high school here in Toronto named Trudy Medcalf. And she was the president of the Ontario Beatles Fan Club,

officially sanctioned by the Beatles in Liverpool and London. And she would come in every week and she'd record a bunch of shows with Dave and he'd play them on his show at night, 7 to 10, and talk about the Beatles, what was going on with that. Chum paid for her and her father and her friend to fly to New York in 64 and meet the Beatles and see them on Ed Sullivan and all that. And literally, Chum kind of owned the Beatles. So this is just kind of a quick montage of some of the Chum Beatle promos that they were running back in the mid-60s. Do you like the Beatles?

Then listen to the Punch and Trudy Show. She loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah. Each night, 8 to 8.30, Ponchy Dave Johnson talks to Trudy Medcalf about the Beatles. Trudy is Canada's expert on the Beatles, and she is president of the Ontario Beatle Fan Club, affiliated with and recognized by the Beatles International Headquarters in England. Trudy will tell you all about the Beatles, their public and personal lives, all the information about the Beatles, their public and personal lives, all the information about the Beatles

and what they're really like. Dave Johnson will feature the big hits of the Beatles plus their hot new records. Listen Monday through Friday 8 to 8.30 for the Punch and Trudy Show where all the

Beatle people meet. Hey, Beatle people, you can flip your wig. It's another hairy contest on CHUM. Simply draw a Beatle haircut on a picture or drawing of anyone or anything. It could be a photo of yourself, your family, a famous person, or something cut from a magazine. The funnier the better.

Then send it to CHUM. We'll award $10.50 to the five we like best, plus the Beatles' newest album, Twist and Shout. The next 50 runners-up will also win this fabulous album. Paint or draw a Beatles haircut on a picture right away and send it to the Beatles Flip Your Wig Contest, CHUM Toronto 7. This is a pompous CHUM announcement.

What started as low, angry buzzing in the night behind drawn blinds has swelled into a symphony of protest. Guileless CHUM, in our innocence, began a contest asking our listeners who would beat the Beatles. Which artist would next take their place as number one on the chum chart? Oh, sorry day. Outraged Beatle fans threatened to storm the station. The militia is on 24-hour call. So we cry, stop! We were wrong.

Please, go to your homes. And in the warmth of your hearth fire, comfort your family. Somehow, somewhere, someplace, we shall make amends. Le contest est mort. Vive les Beatles. The contest is dead. Long live the Beatles Monday, get ready to call

On the Beatle Line Starting Monday and five times daily every day We'll ask you to call us on the Beatle Line If you have Canada Dry, Low Calorie Orange or Ginger Ale Or Hostess Potato Chips Each time the first 20 people to call will win a pair of tickets to see the Beatles' first movie, A Hard Day's Night, at a private showing Wednesday, August 12th at four theaters,

the Odeon Parkdale, Glendale, Kingsway, and Scarborough, plus a chance to see the Beatles in person at their Toronto concert and at their New York concert. Listen Monday and be ready to call on the Beatle Live. John proudly introduces the president of the Beatles Canadian fan club, Trudy Metcalf. I'm delighted to report that CHUM

is once again accepting members for our Beatles fan club. Because of the tremendous interest created by the Beatles' trip to Toronto and because CHUM is now broadcasting on increased power of 50,000 watts, we are again welcoming members to the Canadian Beatles

fan club. Just send your name and address and 25 cents to Beatles Fan Club CHUM Toronto 7. You'll receive an official membership card in the Beatles Fan Club, a wallet-sized photograph of the Beatles, and the latest edition of the Beatles newsletter,

including actual photographs of their Toronto appearance. So send your name and address and 25 cents to Beatles Fan Club, CHUM Toronto 7. Get your letters in right away. Thank you, Trudy. 25 cents. Now, here's the thing. Literally, she sent out a newsletter like every couple of weeks.

Everything was there. I haven't talked to Trudy in a long time. She's now a doctor. Oh, wow. So she's done very well for herself. With a PhD, I think, too. Anyway, Chum paid for everything. They paid for the mimeographing.

They paid for the postage. They paid for everything. They paid for the mimeographing, they paid for the postage, they paid for everything. And Trudy was just a teenage girl, you know, we didn't have money for that. So Chum took care of the whole Beatles fan club for her. And some of the early Chum charts from that era,

64, 65, 66, that have the Beatles on them, are really really rare and go for big bucks, so that's why I didn't give you any of those. I was looking at my collection there. Oh, no, 66 that have the Beatles on them are really, really rare and go for big bucks. So that's why I didn't give you any of those. I was looking at my collection there. Oh, no, no. No, they go for like 25, 30, 45, any number of priced ridiculous prices.

Right. Now, as I said, Jay was the MC for every concert in Toronto except for the one on Nighttime in 64. And this, thanks to my friend Piers Hemmingsen, who got this audio, is Jay emceeing the Beatles in 1965. He introduces the Beatles at Maple Leaf Gardens. Why did I tell you this?

He was coming off the stage, and you know what he said? He said, I almost heard my drum which is kind of cute okay I was gonna do 45 minutes but I know you wanted to see the Beatles right okay what what what if I told you there was going to be another intermission? Wait! I'm only kidding!

It's a gag, just a joke. Oh dear, we could stand here for a while. I think they saw them in the corner there on the stage. All right, hold it down. The telegrams after four section. The CHUM. Our pride of being back in Toronto. The Beatles! Can you imagine trying to play with little amps with that screaming? Unbelievable.

No wonder they couldn't hear themselves. Wow. I'm not even sure it matters, right? They're just happy to see them. They were just happy to be there, yeah. The interesting thing, though, as I said, Alan Slate left Chum in 66. I think I said that.

We have to go back and play that tape again. Yes, you did, for sure. Okay. And Chum kind of dropped it a little bit, and they brought in, Alan Waters brought in an American program director who nobody liked. And all the DJs actually got up en masse and went up to his office and said, no, this is, either we go or he goes.

And to his credit, Mr. Waters said, okay, he goes. And he created a committee, and we know what a committee is, right? It makes a camel out of a horse. And Larry Solway, who was this talk show host and a creative guy, a very funny guy, actually, he became program director for Chum AM. Gary Farrier became program director for Chum FM when it switched in 68 to underground radio. Bob McAdory was music director already.

John Sprague, who was a midday housewives DJ, became the public service director, and that's kind of how they ran it. So Larry Solway found this guy. Dave Mickey was still in the back of their minds, because Larry Solway had been there from 57. So he was been there a long time. He remembered Dave Mickey. And there was a guy in the States, in Boston, Massachusetts, named Jack Armstrong. And Jack Armstrong was as fast a talker as Dave Mickey was. So we brought him into CHUM in 68, and he lasted about a year. And again, he was as fast-talking as Dave Mickey.

And this is a little bit of Jackson Armstrong from 1968. 69, sorry. I want the world now. This is Count Dracula. I'm about to bite you on the neck for a little liquid refreshment I'm not really putting the bite on you you

know oh Jackson Armstrong you're good afternoon it's 709 show mystery star time it's hungry power of your narrators Mark Lindsay no million

dollar we get every other one from yesterday 28 degrees on the outside you know it is a it's a Sunday night and we get good things for you and every other one

comes from yesterday until midnight tonight if you'd like to hear a specific oldie maybe or something off the server, you can phone [phone] right now and make a headline request. Just give us the area you're calling from, the song you'd like to hear, and your name, if you would, pretty please.

And the area that gets the most calls, that'll be the one we'll mention. We're getting a lot of calls from Dallas for you so far tonight. 10-50, Chum Jack Armstrong. Oh, honey. Now, stop, stop it now. I'm living in shame. Ain't it wonderful? Oh, ain't it grand, man?

Don't knock it if you've never tried it. It's absolutely true, develop. Diana Ross, this is a free sound number five. Will you hear it first on Chum? Mama's cooking bread. Yeah, he had that character called the gorilla that he did. The interesting thing is that all of the jocks at Chum, except for the all-night guy Bob Lane at the time,

had operators board operators who did it for him jack couldn't work with an operator because they weren't as fast as he was so there was no operator he did all that himself standing he liked to stand and just play the cards and do the voices and and hit the vocals and and talk like that unfortunately they brought in uh kind of a modified what they called a drake format which was being big in KHJ and LA and CKLW and all over the country. And Jack didn't like that format. He said, we beat that format already. I don't want to do that.

And he kind of did a show in 69 that was about the third the speed of that. Hey, it's chum star time and here we go and unfortunately bob wood came in and fired him that night and he went off to do uh other things i think he went back to boston but he was on wkbw in buffalo for a long time he was in la for a while he was in san francisco jack was a great guy unfortunately he passed away in 2007 uh in north carolina where he's from but uh he was he made an impact just like dave mickey had at cky and chum jack armstrong made an impact in 68 and 69 at chum too listeners it's almost dizzying to keep up with him like you're just listening to him it's like it's like it's yeah he got faster than that too i just i just pulled a little snip

of that but but one of the things about aboutum was that the call letters were CHUM. Now, when you think about call letters, a lot of them sometimes mean something. Like CFRB stands for Canada's First Rogers Batteryless. CFCF in Montreal, which I don't even think is on the air anymore, used to be Canada's First, Canada's Finest. And sometimes they're named after the owner and things like that. Chum just meant chum. It was a British guy, I think, that came up with it back in 1945 when chum was first on the air. And it just kind of meant nothing. There are a couple of stations like Seafund in Vancouver, just as a happy station.

So chum was just chum. But they never really said chum that much all the jingles were chum the disc i noticed that yeah chum chum it didn't happen until 68 69 when they actually said well this is stupid why are we saying chum it's chum so that's what they did but all of the jingles and things like that they had they did use chum in certain words like chumometer, chumbrella, things that would lend themselves that way, but everything else was CHUM. So I did a jingle montage of jingles from the 57 era up to the oldies era, which is in the 2000s. And this kind of shows you the difference in the jingles, how they went from CHUM into the 1050 CHUM in the late 60s. Number one on your hip parade, here on CHUM 1050 in Toronto.

This is C, C-H, C-H-U, C-H-U-M,C-H-U-M-10-50 on your dial. Toronto! It's a Wednesday-type morning. Keep your date with the station that's great. 1-0-5-0-C-H-U-M-radio. On this Wednesday night morning CHUM 1050 Toronto He's a go-go, Duff Roman C-H-U-M 1050 Toronto

Jump for fun, jump for fun C-H-U-M 1050 Toronto Do-do-do Music, music, music, music C-H-do-do! Music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, C-H-U-M! Woo-hoo! C-H-U-M!

Woo-hoo! Music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music Armstrong. 1050 Chum, CHUM Toronto. 1050 Chum, Toronto. Hit radio. 1050 Chum. Yeah, that last one was from the 80s. Sounded like it. Yeah. It was definitely an 80s jingle.

So, I mean, that was kind of the evolution. Sometimes they did say chum in the early jingles. But like, for example, at Wednesday morning, they had three different jingles for every day of the week. So they had 21 different jingles, you know, Monday morning to Monday afternoon, Monday night, that kind of thing. Right. And they had weather jingles.

There was all kinds of jingles for everybody. And it was, the jingles made it exciting. And most top 50, top 40 radio stations had jingles. There's a lot of nostalgia, I think, when you hear a jingle you heard when you were young and a teenager. It's like it brings you right back. Yep. Let me just see what I got here. Oh, yeah.

Okay, so we move into the 70s now. We move into the 70s. J. Robert Wood had come in from CHLO in St. Thomas, just outside London, in 68. And there was a consultant out of Los Angeles named Ted Randall, who also was a very important influence on Chum in the late 60s. And he and Jay Robert Wood changed Chum a lot in that a lot of the corny disc jockeys, most of them had left. Mike Darrow and Daveson had left in 65 bob

mcadori john sprague left in 68 uh bob lane came off the air and became the program director at chum fm after gary ferrier left to write for johnny cash uh and uh so they brought in a lot of uh americans let's say uh there were a lot of amer, other than Roger Ashby and Mike Cooper and a couple of Jim Van Horn, who I know you've had on your show. Yes. They were pretty much Americans. And I'm going to get to some of those guys in a little bit. But they were

different. And Chum was a very tight radio station. He got rid of all the corny stuff. And I think you'll hear the difference between the corny promos of the 50s and 60s that we played earlier. difference between the corny promos of the 50s and 60s that we played earlier. These are some of the promos from the 70s produced by some amazing people like Warren Cosford,

who was a great production guy there, Bob McMillan, a guy named Zeke Zdebeak, and dare I say me, and some of that. But you'll see how it's changed, how it became more production oriented and much forget the corny it's all gone so these are promos from the 70s remember when helen byan of toronto john michael gerald norton of willowdale of

helen byan of toronto gerald norton john willowdale of Whitby picked up the telephone and said, I listen to Chum. I listen to Chum. I listen to Chum. I listen to Chum. I listen to Chum. Stand by. You could be next on the line for the phrase that pays $1,000 cash.

T-H-U-M. Hi, this is Donny Osmond. The Osmond Brothers are throwing the most incredible party of the year. Beginning this afternoon at 3, the Chumjocks will be passing out exclusive invitations. Keep listening for your chance to win yours. If you do, you'll get to meet the Osmonds and spend some time with them. Plus see them at their super C&E concert August 23rd. We're really looking forward to that show.

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What's your name? Ed Jennings. Ed Jennings. Okay, you're a star sign winner. And we've got a little envelope here that says compliments to 10-50 Chum. Might be a lot of money in there, man. Why don't you open it up right now? Go ahead.

Check right into here. He's opening it up. He's sticking his little fingers in the envelope. Holy mackerel. Holy mackerel, a $50 bill. $50. I think it's in the envelope. Holy mackerel. Holy mackerel, a $50 bill.

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You and a guest will fly American Airlines to New York, where you'll join a limited gathering of friends for the world premiere of the new Stones album. Plus, your autographed souvenir copy will be presented to you by Mick Jagger in person. It's the event of the year from the station of the year. Your CHUM star sign and your CHUM Car Sign are the only ways to win. I have a chance of winning that one. There you go. Yeah, well, that was Terry Steele there who did that.

The early promos were a guy named Ron Morey. He'd been actually on a bunch of CKOC radio stations, and he was literally doing his first kind of promos and commercials. He eventually went off to New York and made millions of dollars doing voiceover. Great pipes on that guy. Oh, God, yeah. He's phenomenal.

He's one of the best announcers on the planet. Do we still have number 14 there? Yes, of course. I followed your lead. Sorry, yeah, I switched that. One of the other things that Chum was very famous for, particularly in the late 60s and early 70s, was doing radio specials.

And the first one that I ever did at Chum was with Duff Roman in 67. RCA had sent him to New York to interview the Monkees, and he interviewed a couple of the Monkees and a bunch of the fans and brought that back and we put that together into a one-hour special that ran in 67 in 69 our program director j robert wood wanted to beat ckfh who was now trying to beat our ass and they they were playing rock and roll cky was long gone it played beautiful music now but ckfh was coming on

and it was still owned by foster hewitt at the time and they had some good djs that chum eventually stole people like chuck mccoy and john rody and people and duke roberts people like that but uh we did a um a documentary they were going to bring in the drake history of rock. So Bob decided like maybe a month before it was going to air that we were going to do a 28 hour documentary on the history of rock. Larry Solway, who is the creative director wrote it. Uh, I produced it.

Uh, we brought in an announcer from Indianapolis named Chuck Riley to voice it. He did a lot of these documentaries over the years for chum. um, and that ran in uh in 69 in 70 uh the beatles were breaking up and bob said we got to do a beetle special so we did a 12 hour beetle special now the other shows had only run on chum the beetle special was the first one that went outside chum and literally uh we gave the chum gave this the program away for the cost of the tape that it

cost to dub those 12 hours so stations got it for free all across the uh the world actually they took this special so this cut 14 here is just a kind of a montage of of one of the segments from the beetle special in 1970. It was January 1964, and the biggest upheavals in the annals of recorded music was about to happen. The time was right. The rock had gone out of rock. And even Elvis, one of the greatest rockers of all time, began to issue ballads upon his release from the army.

In any study of the Beatles, it is important to note the significance of the mounting social attack on rock, Presley's abdication from the throne, the depression that prevailed in America with the assassination of its president, the payola scandal, and the increasing popularity of folk music. The quality of music was rapidly deteriorating. And by 1963, a pop scene so stagnant and disorderly, only the Beatles could save it. Well, then we came back to Liverpool and Beatles, then we went to Hamburg and Beatles, then we came back to Liverpool and Beatles, and then we made a record. Brian Epstein, the man who called the shots for the Beatles, hadn't been likes.

As early as November 1963, he had been in New York pre-promoting his famous foursome. He had them booked for two Sullivan shows, February 9th and 14th, plus a pair of concerts at Carnegie Hall on Lincoln's birthday. That was either a touch of patriotism or brilliant promotion on the part of promoter Sid Bernstein. So far, it was a secret. Capitol Records spent $50,000 to let it out of the bag. The Beatles are coming. It was a poster proclaiming the event, one of thousands, followed up immediately by

Beatle brochures and records being sent to every disc jockey in the country. The Beatles were coming. If you lived in New York, you would be an eyewitness to the single most important event in music history. If you didn't, and all you could do was wish you did i'm five and one quarter miles from touchdown passing the outer marker

Radio stations throughout the city broadcast the easiest route to Kennedy International Airport. There were traffic jams from Brooklyn to the Bronx, and local cops were tearing their hair out. If anyone was lucky enough to finally make it, they would have found thousands of screaming teenagers already there, waiting to welcome their conquering heroes. It was May. The incredible throngs of fans were on the verge of panic. You could feel it, stemming from the observation deck of the runway to downtown New York. There was enough human mass on that one night to bring a cool February temperature up by at least 10 degrees. Inside, you couldn't move.

It was like a Christmas sale at Macy's or Gimble's, with ten times the pandemonium. It was as though someone had dropped 10,000 hysterical kids into one room, locked the door, and yelled fire. It was like chopping your way through a living jungle of cigarette smoke and sweat. It was staggering. Nobody expected this kind of reaction. Pan American Airlines got more than a million dollars worth of free publicity just because it was one of their birds the Beatles had boarded in London. Next time a flight would be followed so intently by the world would be years later, when Apollo took off for the moon.

Twenty feet low glide path, mile and a half from touchdown. On course, two-five to the heading. Coming up to the glide path nicely nicely now, 15 feet low. Going east, approach slice now. Coming up nicely now, 15 feet below glide path. Over the end of the runway, take over and pitch your approach radio. February 7, 1964, the day the Beatles invaded America. Ringo Starr listened on his transistor radio and shut it off in

disbelief. Paul and George glanced out the window and rubbed their eyes just to be sure. John and his wife shuddered. Below them, a few thousand feet beneath the silver belly of Pan Am Flight 101 was a scene of utter pandemonium. So this was America. Even when we came over to America the first time, we were only coming over to buy LPs. So you see, there was a lot of production to win.

I was going to say, good job, Doug. That was amazing. Actually, that particular part was produced

by Warren Costner. Okay, good job, Warren. But yeah, Warren did a great job.

We split the production on that, the 12 hours, and I do have to say that it was not written

by Larry Solway, it was written by one of the, probably the greatest radio writer that

I've ever worked with or known in the entire world, a guy named Bill McDonald. Bill wrote that, and he wrote the Elvis Presley special later in the 70s for Chum, The Evolution of Rock, a couple of the top 100s of the year, that kind of stuff. So, and eventually Bill moved to LA and became world famous. And that voiceover guy just gives it that weight of, I mean, this sounds big time, you know. Chuck Riley. Chuck Riley was an interesting guy. We used him on the Radio Candy show in LA too

because he was in LA at the time by then. And he had certain peculiarities that, Chuck was unique, let's put it that way. He would say things like, instead of saying the Bee Gees, he would say the Bee Gees, because it's like Bee Jesus, right? So Bee Gees. And you couldn't get him out of this. You'd really have to coax him to say it the way you wanted him to say it.

But he was a curmudgeon, but a great, great, great boy. He's also passed away now, unfortunately. But one of the things, as i mentioned the the 70s jocks and uh i've got a big montage here and what i'm gonna do if mike will allow me while this plays uh i'm gonna do what i did as a board op when we had a song that was over four minutes long because this is five minutes and something i'm gonna go to the washroom so here here's the montage of the chum jocks from the 1970s and 80s. This is Dick Smythe,

Chum Contemporary News. And now from Toronto, more music with Jay Nelson. 10-50 Chum. Morning, welcome into the Jay Nelson Show. It's eight minutes after seven o'clock.

My wife got a brand new pair of Italian shoes Saturday. We know they're Italian because they pinch her. Ladies and gentlemen, you're listening to John Rohde. 10-50 Chum, Toronto.

Been a big arrest in Nashville, Tennessee at the premium meatpacking company. It seems though the police discovered nine or ten of the employees there smoking ham. Didn't seem natural or something. Here's Norman Greenbaum on Chum. Johnny Mitchell, 10-50 Chum. Here's a young lady called Nino Tempo. And her brother April Stevens, the other way around, I think. Anyway, she used to sing with the big bands back in the 40s, as you might remember.

Her and her brother got together and made some rock and roll music in 1963 called Deep Purple. Nice song. J. Michael Wilson, 10-50 chum. This week, I just had a call, Michael, from an authentic Canadian cowboy. Who was that, Rodney? Well, I didn't catch his name, but he is the foreman on a big cattle ranch down near Orangeville. Oh, which ranch? It's a place called the ABC Lazy Q Double Diamond Circle Bar X Triangle P Double Hot Ranch.

How many cattle he got? They only got three, Michael. How come only three? Well, he says not many of them survive the branding. Uh-huh. More music, 1050 Chum. 9-17. Tom Rivers is on Chum's Million Dollar Weekend.

I'm challenging anybody to play more music than I do. Can they do it? No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. 1050 Chum, C-H-U-M, Toronto. Hello, lover. It's 9 o'clock from Chum in the checker. Turned up on a Thursday night exclusively to turn you on. Don't leave me now.

Can't do without you. I dig you. I'm taking the shade. 1228 from Canada's music leader. This is Roger Ashby. Sunday afternoon, Shredney Van Star's jump is coming up in a matter of minutes. Evel Knievel makes his jump at 5.30. Ceremonies are whatever you want to call it.

You can end away at 4 at Maple Leaf Gardens. Steppenwolf and a straight shooting lady. Anybody see the debates last night? Boring! Has the same effect on people as a Valium. 1206, Mike Cooper with the Andrea True Connection. Chum. It's kind of appropriate, huh?

Get the theme going, you know, make it flow. Just picture yourself surfing with the music, man. You're riding the crest of the wave right now. Oh, yeah, right? We made that one. Let's go for another one now. 624, the most music time Duke Roberts show. These are the spinners.

Could it be? I'm falling in love. Good love. Here it comes. I got my shoulders back. I got my chest out. Got my shoes off. I'm ready to do some partying right now on the Rock of Toronto Chum. John Major here with 53 minutes of music.

This is our 1050 Chum. John Major here with 53 minutes of music this hour. 10-50 Chum. Hi, hi, hi, 12-15 at your music station Chum. And this is Terry Steele after this weekend. I think the weatherman got confused when he was back

in university with cold fronts, warm fronts, and tavern fronts. Second weekend in a row he really missed. Completely. It's been nice.

I play this because I love you, baby. It's the best way I can say it. Silly little love songs from wings at the speed of sound. Paul McCartney. The best music. 10-50 Chump. Say now, look at that, 902.

In the magical kingdom of boogie, you guys got covered inside your radio. Not only that, but you also got chances for yourself to win a pair of tickets to see the Stones. A Calhoun Rolling Stones t-shirt and a copy of the latest Rolling Stones LP. In moments, here's BTO. Oh, that's okay. Everything's running a little slow today. 802 at Chum in Toronto. This is Bob McGee. I know. I know it's tough out there. Has been all day. And the buses are still not running.

But look on the bright side. At least you won't get stuck behind one of those smelly things tonight. Mm-hmm. Mm. Good morning, Toronto. It's 1210. I'm your chum. This is Jim Van Horn with your rock and roll.

Elton John is here with Crocodile Rock. Oh, yes. 704, this is Daryl May and Chum with up to 50 minutes of music this hour. I tell you, even if you're horizontal, there is hope for you. Cause I got the good stuff, baby, I mean good

spinners from a band band! C-H-U-M 1050 Toronto Request line number 8709 111, call me right now, we're going to be doing requests and dedications for the rest of the evening until 12 midnight Gene McDaniels, our chum

Talk about him, yes indeed He just took a hundred pounds of clay, and he got a hernia you understand I mean, but look what he created, my Chris He took a hundred pounds of clay. And he got a hernia, you understand what I mean? But look what he created, my Chris. He took a hundred pounds.

Wolfman Jack. Yeah, Jay Robert Wood brought him in a bunch of times in the 70s to do live shows. And eventually

that was taken over by Scott Carpenter who did the graffiti show. And yes, by the way, I did wash my hands. I heard Bob McGee in there

and I was thinking, man, still on the air. Yeah, on Elementgee in there and i was thinking uh man still on the air yeah on element yeah and in toronto he's been on the air for oh god well he was in vancouver before he actually i'm not sure i should tell the story anyway but but bob was actually not bob mcgee he was on chum twice he was on chum as a different name and I'm trying to think of what that name was. Then he went to Vancouver where he became Bob McGee and then he came back to Chum. I'll think of it.

I've been trying to get Bob on this show. Really? Because I reached out to somebody at Element FM and I haven't been successful, obviously, but if you can put in a word. I see Bob most mornings because I'm in there. So I'll put in a word. We'll see what he does.

Awesome. You heard in there, I mean, there were a couple of Canadian jocks in there, Roger Ashby, Chuck McCoy, and Mike Cooper, of course. Mike Cooper went on to great fame at Easy Rock and then CHFI, where he only retired in the last, what, a couple of years. Yeah, he was on with aaron davis for years yeah for a long long time well mike was not the smartest he's a smart guy but don't get me wrong but he wasn't the smartest disc jockey at chum because when bob wood said to him i need a

volunteer for somebody to sit on the ferris wheel for 22 days mike said said, I'll do it. He won a car, actually, to do that. And he did break the Guinness Book of World Records. And this is basically the final one. He finally broke the record, and he comes off. This was the actual newscast on Chum with Mark Daly, who unfortunately is no longer with us either. This is Chum News at One. I'm Mark Daly.

Actually, it's a minute before one and the hour is upon us. A world record is being set right now at the Canadian National Exhibition and Chum's Mike Cooper will very shortly by 60 seconds have the record for time spent on a Ferris wheel. A new world's record to be listed in the Guinness Book of World Records. I understand there are thousands of people down there. Mike has had his five-minute break earlier in the hour. We hope he's going to be able to come off very shortly and at least say something to us. We understand Mike is planning to stay on the wheel

after the usual break to secure a solid new world record. People at the Canadian National Exhibition gathered around the centre Ferris wheel on the midway, cheering on Mike Cooper. Let's hear a real big round of applause for Mike, the new world record holder oh it's incredible there are thousands and thousands of people here and everybody's asking me how i feel i feel like canada's answer to the space program tell you the truth about the only

canadian astronaut we got that made it 22 days it's absolutely incredible there are thousands and thousands of people here today oceans ofceans of them. I love you all. Thanks for showing up. Chum is number one, right? All right. I don't believe I did this stunt. I really don't. Thanks very much. Listen, I've got to thank a bunch of folks.

One, I've got to thank Chum for all the help on the ground they've given me. Well, I've done my share in the air. I've got to thank the thousands and thousands and thousands of people with the cards the gifts and the letters i've received all the moral support that i've been given in the last 22 days and i'm speechless at this point and i tell you i'm so glad it's over i tell you but i'm going on i'm going on for another i guess i'll go on for about another seven hours or so give the next sucker something to go for that tries to do it next year. Thanks again. Thanks a million. Congratulations, Mike. The best music. 1050 Chum.

I think somebody did beat it in a year or so after that. Again, that was what Chum was famous for, doing those kind of things. Can you imagine anybody doing that today? No. Those kind of promotions just don't exist. Yeah, it's a different time for radio, that's for sure. And I personally don't remember listening to 1050 Chum

back in the Top 40 era. But even now, this trip down memory lane, I'm so thoroughly enjoying this. So I'm so glad you curated it. Are we at hour three yet? Yeah. Okay, not quite. I should tell the people listening in their cars,

at home, wherever you are, three more clips to go. Yeah, we're almost done. Don't worry, don't worry. You can go to the bathroom after I'm done too. But as we mentioned, the specials, the radio specials, Chum was very, very famous for that. And they would do, at the year end, they'd do the top 100 of the year, which they would send out across the country to all the Chum stations

that were owned by Chum at the time. And they gave it to the Canadian Association of Broadcasters and stations ran it for free. The Evolution of Rock was a monumental, that was 64 hours. Wow. And that was, again, written by my ex-creative partner, Bill McDonald. Wow. And produced by, unfortunately, I wasn't there at the time. I would have loved to have worked on that show, but I didn't.

But it was produced by the late Zeke Zdebyak, Bob McMillan, and again Warren Cosford, who was the executive producer on that. And literally that thing ran all over the world. Again, it was voiced by Chuck Riley, who did the Beatles special. And it ran on several hundred radio stations around the world, and in 77, it won the Billboard Magazine Award for Best International Syndicated Special of the Year. This is just a sample from The Evolution of Rock. And now, ladies and gentlemen, The Evolution of Rock,

the music that made the world turn round. Music that made the world turn round. 1976. Once again, the craze that had the world turning on its heels is the disco phenomenon. With thousands of clubs geared to the disco groove, dancing regained the prestigious position it had lost for almost a decade. A flat-footed rock and roll was back on its feet in somebody else's shoes. What was left of the pop pie was left to whatever music was macho enough to dig in. The musical menagerie even included television,

with more than a couple of tube tunes snaring a share of the 76 charts. 1976 also finds the unprecedented rise to the top of American politics for a humble peanut farmer from Plains, Georgia. Not since the Kennedy climb in 1960 had a presidential candidate so inspired all ranks of the social register. If I can tap the greatness that's in you and in the American people, we can make our nation's government great and a source of pride once again. 1976, the year a sex scandal rocked Washington as Elizabeth Ray makes hay. The year all the president's men proved to be the picture to see. And the year the mystery medical menace of the decade came to be known as the Legionnaire's Disease.

I hadn't had any side effects real feelings since I got back in 1976 the disco duck was anything but a quack Barbara Walters made off with a quick million dollar contract with ABC Mars got a Viking visitor does have a reddish hue to it and look at that sky CVS are hot and the Fonz is Mr. Cool. 1976. From the deaths of Mao and Howard Hughes to the birth of the Bicentennial. I declare open the Olympic Games of 1976. The year Montreal hosted the Summer Olympics.

Cincinnati's Big Red Machine manhandled the New York Yankees. The Montreal Canadiens copped the Stanley Cup and Pittsburgh stole the show at the Super Bowl. 1976 also found mid-'60s music vets like the Beach Boys and the Beatles back in the top ten. Rock stardom is bestowed on Peter Frampton, reinstated on John Sebastian, formerly of the Lovin' Spoonful, and Eric Carman, formerly of the Raspberries. 1976, Welcome Back, Cotter, and happy days were instant hits on TV, and the Bay City Rollers battled their way into the pop charts.

1976, a year of outstanding achievement and optimistic attitudes for the future. A season with a reason to dance begins now as it happened then again that was the brainchild of jay robert wood who said we've got to do a special like this and he was he was another genius that uh that took jump to the heights in the late 60s and uh through the 70s 64 hours he said? 64 hours. It got expanded. It ended in 76 because that's when they produced it. It got expanded 77, 78

eventually over the years. It was a phenomenal... I want to listen to it now. Is this hiding anywhere? Actually, I've been thinking about putting an hour a week up on Chum's site, thechumtribute.com so I think we're probably going to bring that one back

for sure. I'd listen, that sounds cool it was a great probably one of the greatest documentaries ever produced for a music special for radio, and it was done in a radio station it was done in a small little studios for the most part it was crazy

I mean these guys were working hours. I got to go back to the Beatles one for just a brief second. Sure. Because we did the 12 hours and because J. Robert Wood had said, we got to get this done in like two weeks. So Bill McDonald went off to a hotel for a week just to write it. And then he brought the script back and we actually started producing it. So I was producing my segment in a tiny studio, half the size of this place. And I had literally

less than a week to do eight hours of the 12. And so I'd done something to my foot. I scraped my foot and I wasn't able to go home because the deadline was coming up. I didn't go home for five days. Six days straight, actually. I did go home. I apologize for that. I lied. I worked all night and all day and then at seven o'clock in the morning I went home, had a quick shower, and came right back to Chum and kept going. At the end of the final edit of the last hour, my foot had swollen up to twice the size. Warren Cosford, who co-produced the show with me and the Evolution of Rock, said he could hear me

coming down the hall because I was clumping. I don't clump, clump, because I couldn't take my shoes off. So when I made the final edit on Saturday morning on the last hour, Geet Sromo, my good friend, and his wife Barb took me to the hospital, Western Hospital, where I was for a week while they just kind of let the foot deswell, as they say. So radio is hazardous to your health.

I was going to say, some gave all. There you go, Doug's story. Amazing. Okay, we're almost done here. One of the things about Toronto Mics is that I can't listen for an hour and a half. I can't listen for two hours. It takes me three days to listen to some of these things but we're only got two more to go uh but one of the great things that chum always did and you have to give credit to to people like jay

robert wood alan slate and especially alan waters who who let all these guys just go and do their thing because he knew sales and he he was a great broadcaster through all those years, but he let the broadcasters do their thing. And one of the things that they let the guys do, except for Jack Armstrong, he didn't get to say goodbye. He got fired. And a few other ones didn't get to say goodbye. But most of the guys got to say goodbye.

Mike Cooper got to say goodbye. Tom Rivers got to say goodbye a couple of times. We'll get to Tom in a second. And Jay Nelson, after 17 years and 23 days. He says in this little air check, 17 years and 24 days, but he was wrong. Because he started on December 2nd, 63, which is a Monday. And this was December 24th of 1980. So he really only worked 23 days. But they allowed, they had a whole, like Bell, to all Bell's credit,

they gave Roger Ashby a huge send-off for Chum FM when he retired in December of last year. All credit to them for that, for doing that. They could have just let him, goodbye. But they didn't. They had a whole thing, and they had a whole thing down at the Sheridan Center and everything. And the same with Jay.

Jay's last show was literally a celebration. They brought in catering. I think Jay got a little drunk by the end of the show because they brought in booze and everything, alcohol and champagne. But this was Jay's final, final minute on 1050 Show in 1980, December 24th. They've given me some space here to say goodbye. It's not goodbye, actually. It's thank you. That's what it is. Thank you for 17 years and 24 days. I think somebody said it before me, busting my buns or

something like that. It hasn't really. It's been fun, and I enjoyed it, and I'll see you all on television, and I'll be still working for the Chum Group. And you've been just a great audience. I don't know about you, but this Christmas Eve is going to be very special for me because I'm receiving a gift. And the gift is getting up at a reasonable time

but the other thing is not being able to get you up at a reasonable time. I just want to say thank you and goodbye. It's been 17 years and 24 days.

Absolute fun. You don't get to do that in radio anymore. You're just gone now. That's the sad part about most of them. You know, it really is sad. And as we wrap up here, the final, final, final thing. I mean, Chum had so many incredible disc jockeys. I worked with a lot of them.

Probably Bob McAdory was one of the wittiest that I ever worked with. And I learned more swear words from Bob McAdory than I even knew existed. Jim Taddy. Have you had Jim Taddy on the show? No guy. Okay. Jim Taddy married Bob McAdory's daughter. And I gave them some pictures. They didn't have much of Bob. So I gave them some photos from the archive, copies of the photos from the archives and things. And Bob was a tremendous, tremendous talent. He went on to Global for many, many years

doing that entertainment desk show. Dave Johnson was great. Brian Skinner was great. Duff Roman is one of the best. Bob Lane became one of my great mentors. He mentored me a lot, and I worked with him on the archives from 2003 until he passed away. But for me, the all-time, I mean, and Scott Carpenter was one of the most incredible disc jockeys.

His energy was, like, unbelievable. But for me, my favorite all-time chum disc jockey,-50 chum disc jockey, was probably Tom Rivers. Now, Tom had a storied career at chum in that he was there four times and he was fired three times and came back four. He literally was there in the late 60s, early 70s. He got fired again. He got fired on his birthday at one point, the final time, and he wasn't doing what uh they wanted him to do he was doing all kinds of comedy bits and he was a very funny guy uh but he wasn't uh

really doing they didn't want that so he kept doing it and of course what's going to happen when they do that they fire him they fired him on his birthday now revenge is sweet tom crossed the street to cftr and beat chum in the ratings at some point. But he did come back when Chum was oldies in the 2000s and was there not quite to the end until he passed away. But Tom, pound for pound, and he was like 6'5", 6'4", really tall, and a big guy. He had the most talent of anyone I ever heard.

So this is my tribute to Tom, just a nice little montage of Tom Rivers. This is Peter Dickens, Chum Contemporary News, and now from Toronto, more music with Tom Rivers. Headline requested from beautiful downtown Markham. The Guess Who is back in action. This is Albert Fleischer. I know his brother Corwin.

I'm Tom Rivers. Animal House was on television on the weekend a couple of times. So was Jaws 2, as a matter of fact. But I've seen them both before. I wanted to see something new for a change. So I watched the Leafs beat the Rangers. I'm on. I'm talking to Mr. Rivers now.

Thank you. I have one envelope left here, Mr. Rivers. One envelope. Yes, the answer is MP. MP. MP. Rivers. One envelope. Yes, the answer is M-P. M-P. M-P. What did James Bond's boss do after ten beers? Ladies, come with me.

Thank you, Mr. Rivers. We'll see you on Monday. Okay. Okay, Swampy. Don't go in the deep end, ladies. Thank you very much for stopping by at 837. Here's the Slow Sheep Pointer Sisters from Chum. Wow, El Rivo.

Hey, man, you don't look very good. Yeah, I just mentioned I got the flu coming back. You got a touch of the flu, eh? Yeah, I really do, Roach. A little bit of the virus hitting you? Yeah, I think so. Here, man, try some of this. What is it, Roach?

It's my special nasal spray, man. Oh. Every time I take some, I feel real good. I'll try anything once. Okay, man, man. Oh. Every time I take some, I feel real good. I'll try anything once. Okay, man, here. Okay. How do you feel now? I feel much better, thank you, man.

Don't mention it, man. It's okay, bro. You sound better already. Now, Sewell Josa of Atomic Coke. Tell me the sum of the combination that cracks the lock. This hour is between 75 and 85. Sewell, what's your answer? 47.

What? 47. Sorry, turkey, you lose. 10, 50, chum. Between 75 and 85, he says 47. As your attorney, I advise you to think. Next hour, a combination. We'll give you another crack at that thing next hour.

From the album, who's next? Whoa! Get fooled again? Peter Thompson and the award-winning who? Rocking with Shotgun Tom Rivers. It's 525. You're 50, Tom. Well, it's times like this that you just want to kind of curl up and say,

Yeah, mama. I thought you'd dig that. Here comes Roy Head. All right. He's one of the ones from 1965. Out there in the sunshine making a lot of... Hey! Well, that's it.

About two and a half years, I met a lot of people in this city that I can truly say they're my friends. Tom Rivers is moving on. It's not a time to be sad. It's a time to rejoice. And look out,

West Coast, because here I come as I say to you for the last time Rock on mother And he went to K100 in Los Angeles that day That time Thank you for the Tom Rivers montage I woke up to Tom Rivers on 680 CFTR And when Evelyn Mackle came on the program

Oh yeah, oh that's nice She brought me the CFTR 680 logo that I remembered as a young'un. And I got to say, this whole thing was absolutely incredible. And I truly appreciate you taking the time and curating these books. Hope it didn't bore anybody. Hope people weren't bored here. Do you really want to know anyone who was bored by that? You don't want to know somebody like that. Well, maybe somebody who's two years old.

Two years old. to know somebody like that. Well, maybe somebody who's two years old. Two years old. Thanks again, Doug. And again, everybody should be checking out

chumtribute.com. You've done some great work there. Thank you, Mike. And that brings us to the end of our 529th show. You can follow me

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