The Radio Pioneer Who Unleashed Rock 'n' Roll on the Airwaves and Ignited a Revolution!

Memories

December 21, 2006

Barry Simmons

from Auburn, NY
"Movin 'n Groovin at the Zanzabar man." Throughout the 50s, we didn't get into a car that the radio wasn't set on "KB" for…...
December 11, 2006

Steve Binkowski

from Sarasota,, FL
I can remember waiting for "The Hound" to "come around". I guess I was lucky my parents didn't think that Rock & Roll was…...
December 7, 2006

Gord McWilliams

from Toronto, Ontario
Used to go down to Sunnyside Beach on Toronto's waterfront. Had about 100 ft. of extension speaker wire from my car running out to…...
November 20, 2006

Robert Urbaniak

from Williamsville, New York
I first started to listen to George "Hound Dog" Lorenz back in 1956 when he was on WKBW 1520 radio. I was just turning…...
November 16, 2006

Pat Kelly

from Grand Island, New York
I remember him broadcasting from the Zanzibar Lounge. He also had "names" for things like your car was your "short" and you were told…...
November 13, 2006

Stephen Keast

from Slaterville Springs, NY
I used to listen to The Hound as a young teenager;hearing for the first time those great songs by black performers that simply weren't…...
November 6, 2006

Jim Dallas

from Oakland, California
I grew up in Buffalo, N.Y. and have great memories of listening to "The Hound". My cousin could even get him in Ocean City,…...
October 21, 2006

Rod Deming

from L.A., CA.
"To all you cats and prettys, Dig man, The Hooouuuunnnndddd!"...
October 5, 2006

Butch Hebert

from St Albans, Vermont
In the mid 50's a group of us would climb into a the car of a friend who was old enough to drive and…...
September 22, 2006

Melvin Parker

from Whitney Point, NY
I recall the time when in 1955 I had a tube AM radio I would listen to the Hound on WKBW. He drove around…...
September 6, 2006

Tim Mellenger

from Depew, NY
Back in 1957 I went to the Masten Ave. Auto Show. I was 13 years old. It was my first time out alone. The…...
September 2, 2006

Richard Carpenter

from Adams, Massachusetts
I am 69 yrs old, I remember listening to the Hound on my AM radio as I lay on my bed in Adams Mass.…...

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