James A. Hamilton Jr.

I was born and raised in Niagara Falls, NY in 1951 and listened to George (Hound Dog) Lorenz nearly every night to ” . . catch the blues with the Hound” on WBLK-FM as a teen ager, and before that when I was younger, but can’t recall the station. That interlude of the blues, sandwiched between then contemporary Rhytm & Blues and Soul music was Hound Dog’s tribute to the originators of Rock and Roll and American Pop-ular music. Music on the radio used to “run down and sundown” in Western New York state for people of color until Lorenz became a champion of R&B.