Word: station
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Robbie D is delivered in a keening, rapid-fire wail that is recognizable only to dogs, seismographs-and teenagers. Not that the kids understand it all; sometimes, when Mr. Hip Lip, as he is also called, starts "makin' with the shakin' " on Detroit's WCHB, the station runs a write-in contest called "What Did Robbie Say?" Nobody really knows, least of all Robbie. The important thing is that Rockin' Robbie and dozens more like him have given radio an advanced case of the screaming meemies...
...pushing 30. Their natural habitat is the "jock booth," where, surrounded by stacks of 45-r.p.m. records, they suck on lemons, spray their throats, turn the treble up and the bass down, and wail. During an average three-hour program, they cram in six five-minute newscasts, twelve station breaks, 35 records and 54 commercials...
...Spoonful's She Is Still a Mystery at 3:43 KHJ, break-the-bank time on the Real Don Steele show pow-pow-pow-pa-dow, umph!" Though incoherent to untutored ears, the spiel mentions all the essentials: name of the show, title of song, performer, time, station identification and promotion-all in ten seconds. Marvels one executive: "He really makes clichés come alive...
...place, in fact, is safe from the rock jockeys any more. Now that the BBC has gone mod with a new pop station called Radio One, Britain is jumping to U.S.-style disk jockeys. The most popular is lion-maned Emperor Rosko, 24, who is better known in Hollywood as Producer Joe Pasternak's son Michael. Rosko sports a marmalade-colored fur coat and travels in a Rolls-Royce with his bodyguard, tapes his show and sends it to Radio One from Paris, where, speaking passably good French, he is also the country's No. 1 disk jockey...
...Darwall's sets were pleasant enough to look at, but they filled the stage, forcing the action, especially in the second act, into an unsuitably small area. The late Lewis H. Smith supplied excellent costumes, though some of the women were wearing fabrics too lavish or bright for their station. The makeup, like the lighting, was unfortunately slap-dash...