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WOLF's Bud
Ballou
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Ballou 8-1am |
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Ballou 8-1am |
"The Bud Ballou
Show" which premiered February 8, 1965 at 5PM on ...
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| The
Bud Ballou Show.... |
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| Dick
Bennett behind the black & white RCA TK60
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| Bud
on the set located... |
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| ...at then WNYS TV in Shoppingtown,
Dewitt |
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| Ballou's caricature on the
desk |
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| Dan
Price with Bud during the break |
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| Bud
Ballou on WMEX survey circa 1971 |
Syracuse's most popular evening disc jockey of all time. He
left WOLF for WNDR in December 1964 and became host of his
own TV dance show which premiered afternoons on then WNYS TV channel
9, February 8, 1965.
According to Rick Ryder, Bud was originally hired
at WOLF for part time/weekend work. His full time day job was at
Western Electric on Thompson Road. Bud was an electronic tech and
quit that when offered full time at WOLF. Most likely the best
decision he and WOLF ever made. Bud left WOLF to move across
the street to WNDR.
Click Here for The Bud Ballou Beatle Hour on
WNDR
When Bud left
Syracuse he went to KBTR, Denver. Then to Buffalo to replace the
great Joey Reynolds on WKBW
Click Here for Bud Ballou on WKBW -
1967
(courtesy of Dale
Patterson).
June 14, 1968
Bud left KB and settled in Boston at WMEX,
Click Here for Bud Ballou on WMEX - Dec.
1969
Click Here for Bud Ballou on WMEX - Summer of
1970
(1970 courtesy of
WRKO.org).
Click Here for Bud Ballou on WMEX - Dec.
1970
(courtesy of Lou
Spinnazola).
Later moving to WVBF where he was
to stay through the rest of seventies until his
death.
Click Here for Bud Ballou on
WVBF
(WVBF courtesy of Northeast
Airchecks).
Bud Ballou died April
15, 1977. Just days after his passing Ron Robin and WVBF
produced a special "Tribute To
Bud Ballou".
It featured some of his favorite
songs as well as rare airchecks of WKBW and one of his first
shifts on WOLF (1/14/62). It aired Sunday evening April 17th,
and was 60 minutes in length but has has been edited for this
presentation. (Many thanks to Louis Spinnazola of Revere,
Mass. for this rare piece of
history).
From the Syracuse Newspapers April 16,
1977
From Boston Globe
Bud Ballou...A
Great Talent...Truly
Missed
(Courtesy Louis
Spinnazola)
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the back of a WVBF survey dated Dec 3, 1979 |
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Many thanks to Richie Norris who sent me a copy of The WOLF
and WNDR years, a video documentary on the radio wars between the two
stations where some of these pictures came from. It was produced by
Nolan Stephany in 1990 with help from many of the old WOLF staff including
pictures from Ron Wray, Dave Laird, Fran McGrath and WIXT among
others.
*Note; Bud Ballou did one shift on WPOP
as an April fools joke orchestrated by WPOP's Woody
Roberts. One of radio's favorite stunts
which probably left WPOP listeners totally confused. On April Fool's Day
1967, the Good Guys traded places for the day with the air staff of
WKBW Buffalo. KB's Stan Roberts filled in for WPOP's Bill
Bland...Dan Neaverth filled Dan Clayton's shoes...Jefferson Kaye became Woody Roberts and Bud Ballou filled
in for Lee Simms.
Courtesy Lee
Goodman
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