#Cousin Brucie' Morrow

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Bad movie I have Dirty Dancing 1987

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Photo by Leslie Bryce.

“I remember interviewing them, and in those days, honestly, George wasn’t the most exciting Beatle. As a journalist, you’d go after John or Paul of Ringo. George’s introspection made us afraid of getting too much of the mortal sin for a broadcaster, namely dead air. But in retrospect, that was very wrong. I think now that if we had given George the courtesy and respect he deserved, his whole persona might have changed. But none of us did that. It was the other three who got 90 per cent of the action. When he was interviewed, George was always direct, never flowery with his words. He answered succinctly. If he could answer in two sentences, he never made it into a paragraph. He had kind eyes. When you spoke with him, he looked directly at you. You knew there was sensitivity at work.” - Bruce “Cousin Brucie” Morrow, Here Comes The Sun: The Spiritual and Musical Journey of George Harrison (2006) (x)

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Does anyone have the audio of this interview:

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Bruce Morrow FINAL SHOW on 77 WABC New York | August 7 1974

Bruce Morrow FINAL SHOW on 77 WABC New York | August 7 1974

 WABC 77 New York – Bruce Morrow FINAL SHOW – August 7 1974 This aircheck features New York City’s Legendary radio personality Bruce “Cousin Brucie” Morrow, on his final night on WABC. He started in New York radio min 1959 at WINS, but Cousin Brucie became synonymous with rock and roll during his 13 years at 77 WABC New York, in the 1960s and ’70s. Brucie was a nighttime powerhouse,…

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‘Cousin Brucie’ to Exit Sirius XM’s ’60s on 6 Channel After 15 Years on the Air

‘Cousin Brucie’ to Exit Sirius XM’s ’60s on 6 Channel After 15 Years on the Air

In a surprising move, longtime Sirius XM on-air personality Cousin Brucie Morrow will depart the ’60s on 6 channel after his show this Saturday night, August 2.

The 84-year-old Morrow, whose real name is Bruce Meyerowitz, has been a fixture on the channel hosting nights weekly from Wednesday through Saturday since 2005.  He joined Sirius XM shortly after CBS-FM switched from Oldies to an…

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#OTD #OnThisDay #ThisDayInHistory #September28, 2004: #RIP: Scott Muni, American disc jockey, who worked at the heyday of the AM Top 40 format and then was a pioneer of FM progressive rock radio (b. 1929) dies. (Th 5/10/18: Although Wikipedia gives his birth year as 1930, Zachary Taylor Martin, Muni's last producer at Q1043, and Charlie Kendall, who saw his FCC license, indicate he was in fact born in 1929, according to their posts in the WNEW-FM Fan Club Facebook page). Rolling Stone magazine termed him "legendary". Born Donald Allen Munoz in Wichita, Kansas, Muni grew up in New Orleans. He joined the United States Marine Corps and began broadcasting there in 1950, reading "Dear John" letters over Radio Guam. After leaving the Corps and having considered acting as a career, he began working as a disc jockey; in 1953 he began working at WSMB in New Orleans. His mentor was Marshall Pearce. In 1955 he took over for Alan Freed at station WAKR in Akron, Ohio, and after that worked in Kankakee, Illinois. Muni then spent almost 50 years at stations in New York City. He became a Top 40 broadcaster at 570 WMCA in the late 1950s, just before the start of their "Good Guys" era, and did a number of record hops in the New York area. In 1960, he moved to rival Top 40 station 770 WABC. There he did an early evening show called "Scotland's Yard" and was among the first WABC DJs to capture the attention of the teenage audience for which the station would become famous. He also participated in the competition to cover The Beatles on their first visits to the United States, and thus began a long association with them. In 1965, Muni left WABC and ran the Rolling Stone Night Club while doing occasional fill-in work for WMCA. Muni had explored some opportunities beyond radio: for a short time he co-hosted a local weekly television show on WABC-TV 7 with Bruce "Cousin Brucie" Morrow, and he would go on to record the spoken single "Letter to an Unborn Child", about a soldier with a premonition, which was released in 1967 to little acclaim. Muni decided to return to radio, and in 1966, he joined 98.7 WOR-FM, one of the earliest stations in the country to program free-form Progressive Rock music. The progressive format did not last at that station. In 1967 Muni moved to 102.7 WNEW-FM, which had been running a format of pop hits and show tunes, hosted by an all-woman staff. This time, the Progressive Rock format really took hold, with WNEW-FM becoming a legendary rock station. Muni stayed there for three decades as the afternoon DJ and sometimes program director. Muni was described by fellow WNEW-FM DJ Dennis Elsas as "the heart and soul of the place". Under assorted management changes during the 1990s WNEW-FM lost its way, and in 1998 Muni ended up hosting a one-hour noontime classic rock program at WAXQ "Q104.3", where he worked until suffering a stroke in early 2004. Muni was known to his listeners by the nicknames "Scottso" or "The Professor", the latter to emphasize his rock expertise. While he sometimes spoke in roundabout phrases and succumbed to progressive rock radio cliches such as "That was a tasty cut from ...", he also conveyed on the air and in his professional relationships a gruff immediacy that was a by-product of both his time in the Marines and his earlier Top 40 skills. His low, gravelly voice was instantly recognizable and often lampooned, both by other disc jockeys and by impressionists such as on Imus in the Morning. A bizarre exchange occurred in August 1972 when a hostage-holding bank robber called Muni on the air and engaged him in a long, often nonsensical conversation; the two peppered their post-hippie speech with discussions of Bob Dylan music and requests to hear the Grateful Dead. The incident became part of the inspiration for the 1975 film Dog Day Afternoon. Muni specialized in playing records from up-and-coming, or sometimes just-plain-obscure, acts from the United Kingdom on his weekly Friday "Things from England" segment. He also hosted the syndicated radio programs Ticket to Ride and Scott Muni's World of Rock. Muni was friendly with many of the musicians whom he played, and they would often stop by the studio to visit on-air. He played poker in the studio with the Grateful Dead, and he would let Emerson, Lake and Palmer browse the station's huge record library and put on whatever they liked. An oft-related story tells that he was interviewing Jimmy Page when the guitarist suddenly passed out from the aftereffects of the Led Zeppelin lifestyle. Muni calmly put on a record, revived Page, and completed the interview on the studio floor. Muni was close to John Lennon and his family, and after Lennon's murder he vowed to always open his show with a Lennon or Beatles record, a pledge that he kept for the balance of his career. He died on September 28, 2004 at the age of 74 in New York City and is buried in St. Gertrude's Roman Catholic Cemetery in Colonia, New Jersey. Muni is included in an exhibit display of important disc jockeys at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The DJs at Q104.3 keep Muni's promise to New York listeners and still start their noon hour with the "12 o'clock Beatles Block". Muni was inducted into the Rock Radio Hall of Fame in the "Legends of Rock Radio-Programming" category for his work at WNEW in 2014. He was inducted into the National Radio Hall of Fame in 2015.

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TV Guidance Counselor Episode 486: Clint Conley

This week Ken welcomes bassist and singer from Mission of Burma, long time Chronicle producer and personal hero Clint Conley to the show.

Ken and Clint discuss the nexus of punk rock and television, finding interesting things in New England, growing up just outside NYC, having a father "in the business", grad school at BU, the interaction of the high brow and lowbrow, the arty and the boneheaded, weirdo bands, Cousin Brucie, Ed Sullivan, rock bands on TV, the importance of 1966 for Youth Culture, Batman, Gallant Men, copycat shows, Combat!, Secret Agent, The Rifleman, Man from U.N.C.L.E., plat spinning, vaudeville acts, Hollywood Palace, Boris Karlof, seeking out all the horror movies, Channel 9 and 11, Alan King, Ed Sullivan giving extra time to Sly Stone, The Rascals, Raymond Burr, fearing iron lungs and quicksand, the worthless nature of Tucker Carlson, Candid Camera, Prank Shows, Hulabaloo, Richard Pryor and George Carlin on young rock n roller John Davidson's show, My Mother the Car, Vic Morrow, the Twilight Zone disaster and E! Network's re-enactments, Eric Burden and the Animals, Gidget, band names, Night of Whirling Death, Wild Wild West, Car 54, Where Are You?, having a VCR in the 1970s, hating Lost in Space, being scared of Billy Mumy, taping Iggy Pop on Dinah Shore, the greatness of Green Acres, meeting Mary Tyler Moore, W.C. Fields tribute by his own son, The Smothers Brothers, The Amazing Randi, Johnny Carson: GOTCHA!, The 100 Foot Wave, and the greatness of Barry Jenkin's The Underground Railroad.

Check out this episode!

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Beatles, Feb 4 Free 4 All #232-'Cousin Brucie' Morrow Talks Beatles    Download  

The Fab 4 Free 4 All cast members are joined by legendary DJ and author 'Cousin Brucie' Morrow.

Video:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XV5AziixIas

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Cue Up the Shirelles: Cousin Brucie Is Back at WABC-AM Radio When Bruce Morrow, the octogenarian disc jockey, announced recently that he was leaving SiriusXM after 15 years, his fans mourned the loss, filling his Facebook page with memories of how his booming voice has entertained them since childhood.

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Cue Up the Shirelles: Cousin Brucie Is Back at WABC-AM Radio

By BY JULIA JACOBS Bruce Morrow, who some fans thought would retire after leaving SiriusXM this month, is returning, at age 84, to the station where he worked in the 1960s. Published: August 11, 2020 at 05:02PM from NYT Arts https://ift.tt/2XRkb7Z via

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A Video History of the American Radio Personality! (Enhanced)

A Video History of the American Radio Personality! 190 Video Clips that fly by in 22 minutes

Radio Airchecks Videos Vuolo Video Air-Chex vuolovideo.com kurtkelly.com/voice-over-videos.html Talent Name: Station & Market: Drew & Mike (TV clip) WRIF Detroit Shotgun Tom Kelly B-100 San Diego Charlie Tuna KTNQ Los Angeles Steve “Super” Cooper WIFE Indianapolis Diane Shannon WIFE Indianapolis Chris Edmonds WEFM Chicago John R. Landecker WLS Chicago Jeff Davis WLS Chicago Tom Graye WLS Chicago B. J. Hunter (Ashwood) WABX Detroit Scott Shannon & Joey Z-100 New York Brant Miller WLS Chicago Robert Murphy WKQX Chicago Kurt Kelly WKQX Chicago Randy & Alan Gardner WLW Cincinnati Hollywood Hamilton Z-100 New York Len “Boom” Goldberg WMMS Cleveland Dick Purtan WCZY Detroit Joey (3 seconds) WFIL Philadelphia Howard Stern W-4 Detroit Big Jim Hall KSFM Sacramento Amy Lewis KRAK Sacramento Stoney Richards KLAC Los Angeles Howard Stern WNBC New York Alison Steele WNEW New York Larry Lujack WLS Chicago Fred Winston WLS Chicago Chuck Knapp WLS Chicago John R. Landecker WLS Chicago Scott Regan at the WNIC Detroit Reunion Brother Bill Gable at the WNIC Detroit Reunion Byron MacGregor at WNIC Detroit Reunion Super Max Kinkel at WNIC Detroit Reunion Tom Shannon at the WNIC Detroit Reunion Gary Burbank at the WNIC Detroit Reunion Big Jim Edwards/Davis WNIC Detroit Reunion Michael Spears/Hal M. WNIC Detroit Reunion Buck & O’Connor KDWB Minneapolis/St. Paul Munson & Patrick WENS Indianapolis G.Osborn/Andy StJohn WLKI Angola, IN Charlie Brown KUBE Seattle Randy Michaels WLW Cincinnati Kid Leo WMMS Cleveland Denny Sanders WMMS Cleveland Arthur Penhallow WRIF Detroit Steve Kostan WRIF Detroit Bruce Vital KIIS Los Angeles Robert W. Morgan KMGG Los Angeles Bobby Rich B-100 San Diego Gary Kelly B-100 San Diego Mark Larson KFMB San Diego Tad Svenson KLUC Las Vegas Bill Lee KPKE Denver Dick Clark/Barsky WYTZ Chicago Bob & Tom WFBQ Indianapolis Jim Turner WDBO Orlando Paul W. Smith WJR Detroit J. P. McCarthy WJR Detroit Gary Bryan Z-100 New York Randy Michaels WLW Cincinnati Joey Reynolds KB Reunion Buffalo Danny Neverath KB Reunion Buffalo Rod Roddy KB Reunion Buffalo Jay Thomas KPWR Los Angeles Bill Lee (3 sec.) WKTU New York Cathy Fox WTIC-f Hartford Ron Chapman KVIL Dallas Moby KEGL Dallas Bob Steel WTIC Hartford Charlie Tuna KRLA Los Angeles The Real Don Steele KRLA Los Angeles Phil Hendrie (DJ) KLSX Los Angeles Bob Coburn KLOS Los Angeles Gino Mitchellini KLOS Los Angeles Hollywood Hamilton KIIS Los Angeles Randy West (guest anc) KIIS Los Angeles B. J. Hunter KOOL Phoenix Angela Mid-days Allen KOOL Phoenix Scott Miller CKLW Detroit/Windsor Magic Matt Alan Z-100 New York Steve Dahl/Garry Meier WLUP Chicago Kevin Matthews WLUP Chicago Wally Phillips WGN Chicago Bob Collins WGN Chicago Ron Brittan WJMK Chicago Dick Biondi WJMK Chicago Bob Shannon WCBS-f New York B. J. Steel WRKS New York Harry Harrison WCBS-f New York Dan Taylor WNBC New York Paul Smith WINS New York Byron MacGregor WWJ Detroit Bill Cunningham WLW Cincinnati Casey K & Jim Ochs WCZY Detroit Charlie Hackett Z-103 Tallahassee, FL Denny Schaffer WLOL Minneapolis Bobby Wilde KDWB Minneapolis John Lanigan WMJI Cleveland (WIXY) Don Beno WCFL Chicago/Morris, IL Dave Robbins B-96 Chicago Rush Limbaugh EIB Net New York Lynn Samuels WABC New York Sean Hannity WABC New York Phil Hendrie KFI Los Angeles Kim Carson WCZY Detroit Crystal Parker & friend WZPL Indianapolis Donna Rowland WBEB Philadelphia Denny Schaffer WVKS Toledo Larry Waches while at Bobby Poe Conv. Wash DC Phlash/Trey/John O. B-106 Fort Wayne, IN George McFly B-96 Chicago Rick Dees KIIS Los Angeles Kevin O’Neal/Ian Case WKDF Nashville Rob Williams (news) KWK St. Louis Karen Hand (news) B-96 Chicago Ron Lundy WCBS-f New York Jack Armstrong reunion WIXY Cleveland (WMJI) Dr. Ron Rose KFRC San Francisco Wolfman Jack WSM Nashville Hy Lit WOGL Philadelphia Big Dan Ingram WCBS-f New York Scott Muni WNEW New York (FM) Cousin Brucie Morrow WCBS-f New York Tom Joyner WGCI Chicago Alan Berg KOA Denver Bob Kelly WCWA Toledo The Real Bob James WNBC New York (promo) Garth Brooks (at CRS) Promo Nashville Elvis Duran/Valerie S. Z-100 New York Scott & Todd WPLJ New York Coyote McCloud Y-107 Nashville Rich Brother Robin KCBQ San Diego Doug Banks WGCI Chicago Fred Winston WPNT Chicago (FM-100) Howard Stern WXRK New York Dr. Laura Network Los Angeles John Mason WJLB Detroit Danny Bonaduce WKQI Detroit Tom Leykis/Geoff F. WXYT Detroit (remote) and more.. Likes: 5 Viewed:

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Gas Pump Girls (1979)

Plot Summary:

The night after June graduates from high school, her uncle Joe has a heart attack that leaves him unable to run his gas station. June convinces her friends to work with her at her uncle's gas station, both to help out her uncle and stay close to her friends for one last summer. June and her friends turn her uncle's gas station into Joe's Super Duper, and its youthful, feminine style is a hit. Mr. Friendly, the owner of a gas station across the street, tries to put Joe's Super Duper out of business with crooked tactics. For a time, June and her friends outwit Mr. Friendly on their own, but they're eventually forced to seek the help of Mr. Smin, a local gas supplier. Mr. Smin sets June's uncle up with a job at Mr. Friendly's gas station just as summer ends and June's gang part ways for college.

Notability Alert:

Maybe the strongest justification for my reviewing Gas Pump Girls is that its Wikipedia entry begins with a warning that the film "may not meet Wikipedia's notability guideline for films."

Bookend Alert:

The film opens and closes with narration from actual radio personality "Cousin Brucie" Morrow, announcing the start of summer at the film's beginning and the end of summer at the film's conclusion.

Off the Wall and Down to Earth:

Gas Pump Girls shifts between three distinct tones: Gas station-themed softcore pornography, wistful story of young adults learning about themselves and each other, and underdog story about young women fighting for their right to run a small business.

Sex Sells:

June and her friends manage to compete with Mr. Friendly's more professional gas station by turning theirs into a "sexy" gas station. June paints her uncle's gas station pink and decorates it with hearts. She outfits herself and her girlfriends in skimpy uniforms. One of June's friends even uses an intercom to invite motorists into their gas station in a sultry voice, encouraging customers to think of just pulling into the gas station as a sexual experience.

The first act features an astonishing volume of gas station-related double entendres, but this glib setup suddenly gives way to a story that's a bit more invested in its characters than cheap laughs and titillation. Much like its plucky young heroines, the filmmakers seem to think of sex as a convenient, attention-grabbing gimmick rather than a full-fledged identity.

Unexplained Costume Change:

Roughly halfway through the film, the ladies' uniforms at June's gas station switch from pink t-shirts to orange tops with no explanation. The performers did seem to pull down their pink t-shirts quite often. There did appear to be a practical need for a costume change, but the filmmakers evidently lacked the time, money or desire to completely remove the original costumes from the film or explain their disappearance in the context of the story.

It's Not Very Effective:

June's gas station is in trouble when it suddenly stops receiving fuel deliveries.

Multiple scenes that seem like they would resolve this conflict end up having no impact on the story. First, a scene of two of June's friends dragging hoses across the street to Mr. Friendly's gas station at night. That's followed by a scene of June's gang apparently siphoning gas from Mr. Friendly's station the next day while pretending to fill up a car and distracting the attendants. But in the next scene, June's gas station still has no fuel to sell. What were they just doing for the last two scenes? Why didn't it help?

Later on, June's fuel delivery person agrees to lead her to his boss, Mr. Smin, who she could persuade to restore her gas station's access to fuel. A long scene of June and her friends driving to Mr. Smin's office ends in anticlimax when the security guard at the front gate won't let them in.

Wardrobe by Tom of Finland:

Some of June's classmates-turned-gas station employees include a greaser gang called the Vultures. When June and her friends attempt to siphon gas from Mr. Friendly's station, they pretend to fuel up a car they will drive to the beach. Everyone is dressed in beach attire: June and the other girls are in bikinis. The Vultures sport swim trunks, as well as leather gloves and jackets for some reason.

Countdown to Ecstacy:

While one greaser buddy lounges in the back seat sporting swim trunks, leather gloves and a leather jacket, another fixes a funnel under a car. Its license plate, "MEN 321," is visible as the greaser dude peeks out from under the car.

Cartoonish Middle Easterners:

Mr. Smin, a local gas supplier, is from the middle east. His company is called "Pyramid Petroleum Products," and he is introduced surrounded by belly dancers. It's said that Mr. Smin will only talk to sheikhs, and June and her friends must disguise themselves as sheikhs and belly dancers in order to be let into Mr. Smin's office.

Camel-Eating Alert: 

An actual middle eastern man observes June and her friends in costume, and remarks in a subtitled comment, “if those are real sheikhs, I’ll eat my camel.” 

Convenient Recovery:

Uncle Joe has a minor heart attack on the night of June's high school graduation, leaving him bedridden until the last day of summer, opening a window for June to take over his job for exactly the length of time she and her friends are off from school. Uncle Joe's recovery is not announced, discussed or celebrated. He just shows up in the film's final scene, healthy and back at work.

We Can Do It* (*Until a Man Needs His Job Back):

It's clear that Mr. Friendly is opposed to the idea of women running a gas station. June seems to become committed to defending her right to do so, but at the end of the film she seems satisfied with her uncle being given a job, and completely abandoning the enterprise of managing a gas station. It could be that June felt like she made her point and was ready to move on to bigger and better things. But it's just as likely that June only felt the need to work while her uncle was unable to.

Where Have All the Gangsters Gone?:

Early in the film, Mr. Friendly, the owner of a competing gas station, hires a pair of gangsters to rob, murder, and summarily intimidate June and her friends out of business. June's friends manage to knock the gangsters out with two-by-fours. After the crooks hit the ground, they disappear in a scene change, never to be be seen again. No one seems to ever call the police about the matter, even though June broadcasts the gangsters' threats over the gas station's intercom system, which is audible from the street. What happened to the gangsters is never explained. They never return to try to finish the job they were paid to do, nor does anyone else acting on their behalf.

After this temporary setback, Mr. Friendly abandons all intention to get rid of his competition gangland-style. Even after June explains to Mr. Smin that his employee Mr. Friendly tried to have her murdered, Mr. Smin apparently doesn't call the police about it, either. It seems he only forces Mr. Friendly to hire June's uncle Joe.

It's possible -- even likely -- that Friendly and Smin are both criminals, and Smin is overlooking Friendly's attempted hit to protect himself. But this certainly casts a shadow over what is supposed to be a happy ending. The next chapter of this story could easily involve June entering witness protection -- at best.

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The Garden State Arts Foundation will present a concert featuring three classic-rock icons — Tommy James & the Shondells, Darlene Love, and the Ventures — June 14 at 7:30 p.m. at the PNC Bank Arts Center in Holmdel, with disc jockey Bruce “Cousin Brucie” Morrow hosting. Tickets are free, but must be requested in advance by mail. For information, visit gsafoundation.org.

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Bruce Morrow FIRST SHOW on 101 WCBS-FM New York | June 5 1982

Bruce Morrow FIRST SHOW on 101 WCBS-FM New York | June 5 1982

   WCBS-FM 101 New York – Bruce Morrow FIRST SHOW – June 5 1982 This aircheck features Bruce Morrow’ s very first show on WCBS-FM. Morrow would eventually spend over 20 years on CBS-FM. Bruce is joined on this aircheck by his friend, and former WABC jock, Les Marshak. Bruce started in New York radio in 1959 at WINS, but Cousin Brucie became synonymous with rock and roll during his 13…

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Cousin Brucie Exults in His Return to AM Radio in NYC After Exiting SiriusXM: ‘I Missed the Audience’

Cousin Brucie Exults in His Return to AM Radio in NYC After Exiting SiriusXM: ‘I Missed the Audience’

Hot on the heels of his big announcement that he is leaving SiriusXM satellite radio, Cousin Brucie Morrow revealed Tuesday that he will return to his roots hosting “Cousin Brucie’s Saturday Night Rock & Roll Party” on 770 WABC in New York.

“It’s part of one of the most amazing moves I’ve ever made in my life,” Morrow tells Variety. “I was with SiriusXM for 15 years, and they were good years, but…