The Hound had such a profound effect on me as a teenager living in Buffalo New York that years later I dedicated a segment of my dance television show “Disco Step-by-Step” to him. The Hound used to have a part of his radio show that he called, “Make it or Break it” where he would play a new song and let his audience call in to say whether they liked it or not. If they did he would add it to his playlist for future on-air use. If they did not like it he broke the record on the air real close to his microphone so you could hear the actual record being smashed to pieces. That really impressed me… and never forgot it… and years later used the same concept on my tv but used my dance couples to decide if they like the record or not. The segment was called, “Make it or Break it” …. see attached YouTube video… in the video description*** I mention the Hound…see below for description….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CY_MdwnBdX0&feature=player_embedded
***This segment was dedicated to the popular Buffalo New York radio disc jockey and radio station entrepreneur; George “Hound Dog” Lorenz who started this entertaining yet very important segment on his early radio shows back in the 1950s and 1960s. This allowed new entertainers to have their music aired on the radio; something almost unheard of after Top 40 radio later became so popular.