In 1966 after moving to Lewiston, near Niagara Falls I first heard the Hound on WBLK. I couldn’t believe that music was coming from the FM radio (mostly beautiful music then) I was hooked alright. I convinced my Mom to drive me into Buffalo get chicken at Scotty’s on Fillmore, and to Audry and Dels to buy the songs I heard on the Hound’s show. And the radio bug had me.
I never met him, but I listened every evening..and I loved that tape echo (Ampex 601 at 7.5 ips?) Later at my first job at WHLD in the ” Falls” “with studios in the lovely Parkway Motor Hotel..” I used that echo on the few hours I was able to play music on Sundays..and the other announcers there kept saying “Who do you think you are..the HOUND or somethin?”
I used to go to lockport and watch JR Ried at WUSJ, and I heard Sandy Beach for years on KB. Today I have 36 years of broadcasting behind me, and currently run a successful voiceover/production business thanks in part to
George Lorenz!
(an aside: I began using my middle name “Laurence” as my last name for on-air reasons..and more than a few times listeners asked me if I was related to George “LORENZ” !! I should be so lucky!)
Thanks Hound “..time to pick up on a great big handfull of horns..WBLK..”Is zat you Hound?..yeah baby..”I wanna make a delication”…go ahead..”I wanna
delicate to Johnny, and to Sierra, and to my Mama, and Gordon, and Frannkie..and hi to my cousin Tom-Boy..ok baby..okay