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

Memories

September 3, 2016

Bob Miller

from Hamilton, Ontario
As a 14 year old, back in 1956, just starting to get interested in music, I discovered "The Hound" and it was a revelation.…...
August 22, 2016

Tom Pecora

from Buffalo, NY
My first job in radio was part-time, after school at WKBW radio. The Hound was the night jock. He actually took time to talk…...
May 30, 2016

Norman R Lipkus

from Buffalo/Amherst, New York
It was about September 1955. I had just got out of active duty with the Army. As a mechanic, I took a job at…...
April 2, 2016

Allan Suchinsky

from Kensington, Maryland
Showtime in the '50s began daily when I turned on the radio to hear "Dig man, the Hound" and the rapturous "Big Heavy." The…...
January 14, 2016

Dick Foster

from troy, Pennsylvania
All of us in Troy,PA used to listen to The Hound while on a date in the late evenings on our car radios. I…...
February 3, 2015

Lawrence Berger

from La Plata, Maryland
I was born in Buffalo, New York, in 1943 and grew up listening to The Hound. He broadcast from the Zanzibar in downtown Buffalo…...
May 23, 2014

brenda beebe

from san francisco, ca
As a teen in NH I used to listen with my hand on the radio at night for an antenna so the signal was…...
October 28, 2013

Jacqueline Watts

from Buffalo, New York
I love to listen to the hound when I was a teenager I miss him so much....
July 11, 2013

Joan smith

from Chicago, IL
In the early 50's, I was a kid sleeping on the back seat of the Hudson whenever my parents were coming home from an…...
May 19, 2013

Guy MacMillin

from Westmoreland, NH
In your memorabelia section you show a poster for him from WFEA (Manchester, N.H.), so he must have been on there....
May 17, 2013

Jacqueline

from Buffalo, New york
I remember Mr. George Lorenz (the Hound Dog) just like it was yesterday I wish I could go back I love The Hound Dog…...
March 30, 2013

Al Nelson

from Ithaca, NY
Like many, I teethed on the Hound in my high school years (IHS Class of '61). Particularly amazing was the reach of 50,000-watt clear…...

Submit your memories of the Hound!

Got a Story About The Hound? Share Your Memory of George 'Hound Dog' Lorenz and Be Part of Rock 'n' Roll History! Tell us how The Hound left his mark on your life—your story could be featured on our Memory Time page!

Submit Your Memory Now!