Cumulus Columbus

[MediceneMan]

Hey the guys with the instruments didn't show up one Sunday morning
so I had to turn their 15min segement on in the control room and go in and
help clap and sing gospel back up, oh yeah I had to take the money for all
those 15 minute shows, and Those groups did their on live spots, one was for
a service station that sold food, gas, auto repairs, and new tennis shoes, talk
about a live spot, "Yeah dey got dat auto repair, dat good gas, and dem new
tennis shoes" Mannn! and during the week I did 9a-12n, then production till 3p
and went back on at 3p for pm drive, how nuts was that, on a dang Am, what
the.....Co-Pa-Setic Boys! Co-Pa-Setic.

[Russ L.]

I applied for a job at 'KOR in 1977 when moving down from Corinth for school. I only got a quick handshake amd "no openings" in the lobby from Chuck and Glen. I spent high school years listening to Memphis and Chicago radio and heard that 'KOR was the closest, and really wanted to work there. Instead, got on with Jimmy Eatherton at WACR-AM in Columbus and quit school. I would listen to Don Vaughan on the drive to Columbus every day. I worked with Don for a while when I was GM in Tupelo. I thought he was preaching.

I finally worked at 'KOR for 3 and a half years in the late 80's. The 'KOR legend was fading fast in '85 when I came back out of Texas to take over as PD when Dennis Hudson was GM. The goal was to move the KOR history over to the FM 92.1 and revitalize it. Didn't have much money, and sales rarely if ever broke even, so we were firing with blanks. But I sure had a good time! That many years later, I still got mail addressed to Bill Tanner.

Glen, the King of Rock poster was still there in the 80's, and I wanted it for posterity's sake. But I was gone by the time of the Country flip and move to Columbus.