Bob Fritsch

In the summer of l956 as teens growing up in Bowles Park (public housing) in Hartford, Ct. we would go to the center of the “horse shoe” formed by the Park and under the Milky Way, tune in WKBW Buffalo and “The Sound of the Hound”. Our small group would listen To George for a few hours nightly. He was a stickler for the “original” sound in Rock ‘n’ Roll which by definition meant an R&B bent. Any white artists like Buddy Holly or Carl Perkins were played as originals, not covers. But of course The Dells, The Five Keys, Ivory Joe Hunter, Joe Turner, The Heartbeats and the Clovers were especially wonderful beneath those stars. “Oh What a Nite”!