It was the Bicentennial Summer of 1976… And as the nation was celebrating the 200th Birthday of the USA with all kinds of fife and drum music… Here in Buffalo… The NBA Buffalo Braves were being musically celebrated all over the Buffalo radio dial with the McAdoo Song… A goofy song all about the Braves Forward Bob McAdoo… 1973 NBA Rookie of the Year and  1975 NBA MVP. The best part about it… It was sung by Big Mac’s Teammate…. Buffalo State College Grad Randy Smith.

To Hear the McAdoo Song Click Here!

To See and hear more great Buffalo memories, visit the rest of Steve Cichon’s Staffannouncer.com.

More classic Rick Jeanneret Highlights here…. For the first page… Made up of Goal calls and pictures of Rick…. click on the previous post arrow above.

To the left is a picture of the scoreboard from the Aud… Simply because I can. In the later years, a rotating ad space lightbox was also added to the bottom. For More audio and visual Aud Memories, click on my Milt Ellis page… He the only PA announcer the Sabres ever had at Memorial Auditorium. 

Click to Hear the Classic Fight Calls:

Steve Dykstra vs Bob Nystrom: This one was on a tape in the drawer of the WBEN sports office when I started there in ‘93… Its an all time great call.

Kevin Maguire vs Stephane Quintal

Mike Hartman vs Lyndon Byers  Sabres vs Nordiques (!!!)  Rob Ray vs Claude Lemieux

Steve Shields vs Garth Snow: I was at this game…. And watched Steve Shields skate the length of the ice to rip into Snow. I also made getting a copy of this highlight one of the first things I did when I went to work at Empire.

Chris Gratton vs Joe Thorton  Andrew Peters vs Kip Brennan  Rob Ray vs Paul Laus

Saves: Grant Fuhr  Darren Puppa  Dominik Hasek Miracle  Dominik Hasek Oh Brother!  Marty Biron

Classic Moments: Rene Robert OT  Alexander Mogilny  May Day!  Dave Hannan OT  Derek Plante OT  Jason Woolley OT  Byron Dafoe  Richard Smehlik  Randy Wood  Michael Peca  Bob Sweeney  Elvis!  Roll the Highlight Film

More Highlights from the staffannouncer archive to come…

Including Some Ted Darling Highlights!

Last year, the Buffalo Sabres put out a CD chock full of Rick Jeanneret Highlights (many of them aquired DIRECTLY from staffannouncer.com!) Now that the Sabres have moved on to selling a Rick Jeanneret DVD… And since I get 5 or 6 emails a week asking where that CD can be found….  I’m loading up many of the highlights from the 2005 CD here…. Along with some RJ photos.

I’m doing this in installments… Find below the Goals from the disc…. Soon to come… Fights, Saves, and Classic Moments.

This CD was originally sold to benefit the Sabres Foundation… A great charity. Please consider Buying the Rick Jeanneret DVD… or simply making a donation to the Sabres Foundation if you’ve enjoyed these highlights.

 GOALS:

Don Luce Hannu Virta Craig Ramsay Gil Perreault Gil Perreault Dave Andreychuk John Van Boxmeer Dale Hawerchuk Alexander Mogilny Alexander Mogilny Pat LaFontaine Yuri Khmylev Pat LaFontaine Donald Audette Pierre Turgeon Curtis Brown Stu Barnes Matthew Barnaby Miroslav Satan Derek Roy Daniel Briere Max Afinogenov

Be sure to also check out the Rick Jeanneret T-shirt… and many more Sabres Highlights and Games available on CD.

staffannouncer.com gets dozens of hits with people looking for the Carl Yastrzemski song… It was the masterwork of Longtime Boston Disc Jockey and WHDH Morning man Jess Cain. Sung to the tune of “Allelujah!,” The Yaz Song was an add-on to the LP record put out by WHDH following the unlikely 1967 season… Which saw the Red Sox fight their way into the World Series.

A word of Warning before you click…The Song is VERY infectious. You’ll be singing it for hours, if not days. Consider yourself warned…. You’ll be walking around singing “CAAAAAAAAARL Yastrzemski…. CAAAAAAAAARL Yastrzemski…. CAAAAAAAAARL Yastrzemski…. The man we call Yaz, We Love Em!”

The Carl Yastrzemski Song

Here’s a Quick good one…. I’m not even sure where I got it from(probably from Bob Skurzewski… Thanks BOB!)… So if this appears somewhere else on-line I apologize.

Tom Shannon started in the Radio Business over 50 years ago… Though his last pit stop in Buffalo saw him spinning platters (and still contributing) at WHTT-FM… And he spent some time at WGR… He’s best known for his time at KB Radio. Tom’s first stint at WKBW was from 1958-62…. This aircheck explains (and plays) his show’s theme song, and then the big instrumental Top Ten hit “Wild Weekend,” by the Tune Rockers, which Tom adapted from the melody of that theme song. It’s from Tom’s second stint at KB… roughly 1983-86. Of partictular interest to me… Wild Weekend is the song to which my wife and I were first introduced as husand and wife at our wedding reception (Don’t tell Tommy, though… I don’t think we paid ASCAP fees.)

By the way… The above picture… Is of Tommy (4th person from left, left side of table) and Friends at the Town Casino. Why? Why not.

Tom Shannon plays Tommy Shannon Show Theme… And Wild Weekend.

 Spam is annoying…. But for a while there, I was getting spam with some VERY creative names in the “From” line…. I’ve been saving them in my trash folder for a while… But just the other day decided to take screen shots of the names and give the server a rest.

By all accounts, I have a pretty cool and interesting job. I spend my day wandering the Niagara Frontier talking to Newsmakers and regular people, often finding myself in the midst of the announcements and events that shape the lives of WNYers…

It sounds glamorous, but sometimes the important assignments can leave a reporter ragged… Like the night I slept in the car outside the State Police Barracks in Fredonia at the height of the Ralph “Bucky” Phillips hunt… Or the 5 days without a shower (!) covering Hurricane Katrina down in Louisiana.

I’m not looking for sympathy here… I’m just lamenting the fact that no one, on any story I’ve ever been on, looked as “Movie-Star Cool” as WKBW Radio News Director Jim McLaughlin did in this 1971 picture taken at the height of the Attica Prison Riot. His tie know slightly ascue, curly locks ever-so tussled, and the caption decribes him as “with cigar.” (Not to mention the extra cigars in the breast pocket.)

Chances are, no matter the era, that I’d never look that cool doing my job (OK, you’re probably right… Never look cool period.) Though I might have been smoking a cigar, I’d probably be standing there Like WKBW’s Jim Fagan or Bob Buyer from the Buffalo Evening News… Just as weary, but without the pinache.  Even given that I know I wouldn’t have been the cool Perry White style reporter….. It still would have been great to work side-by-side with Jim McLaughlin (with cigar).

Here it is…. Just in time for the holidays, the All-New Puckett Dance ‘06.  I met Tom Puckett’s sister and her boyfriend out one night… He had the orginal Puckett Dance as the ringer on his cell phone, and he requested an updated verision of the song.

Following Tom’s very well received stint hosting talk during the October Surprise storm, I edited up some of those shows, put them to music, and the net result is Puckett Dance ‘06. 

Fans of the orginal song fret not…. It’s been incorporated into the all-new version.

Click here for Puckett Dance ‘06

I’ve just re-opened a huge box of stuff that I got from Buffalo Radio vet  JR Reid when he moved to sunny FLA…  Its mostly transcriptions (acetate records that were cut right at radio stations in the days before audio tape), as well as some interesting paper items from the time before KB became the King of the Rock and Roll Heap… 

WINE was one of a handful of radio stations trying to break in on the Rhythm Music Craze (should read Rock’n Roll) in the mid to late 1950s in Buffalo. 

A Quick History of 1080 in Buffalo  

WINE had become the call letters following a change from WXRA…. WINE soon became WYSL. WYSL then moved to 1400, and the call letters became and stayed…. WUFO.

Here are the stars of WINE Radio… Hernando and Poopsie… Tap Taplin, Greyt Scott, and Jimmy Lyons.

Click on these links for WINE sounds… These are all from Transcriptions (more to come!) from WINE radio… And I’ll bet haven’t been heard in over 50 years!

Fats Domino promos WINE & Greyt Scott

Greyt Scott station Promo WINE

French Donut Shoppe WINE Commercial dated 11/58

Please add your comments on WINE or that geat era between the start of Rock and the dawn of KB… where home grown Rock radio was all over Buffalo’s dial… or email me with any sounds or visuals to share here!

Look for more stuff from WNIA, WWOL, WYSL, WBNY, and other great Late 50’s Rock’n Roll Stations to come!