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On the Front Cover:
Caption reads: Poor Columbus thinks he finds the Missing 'W' but it turns out to be a missing 'M' from a radio station in Madagascar. Unfortunately, Columbus has always had trouble reading, writing & spelling the alphabet.
At the time, the Missing 'W' contest had been running for a month. Stolen the first time by 'The Riddler' in 1967, 'Dr. Strangeletter' (voiced on promos by Morning News Guy & Production Director, Bob Raleigh #5, Bill Miller) did the dirty deed again in 1972.
Unlike the first time the 'W' was stolen and located on the 'Welcome to Virginia' sign on the Woodrow Wilson Bridge, the letter in question was found by Congressional secretary, Jeannie Patton of Alexandria on the 'Olde Georgetown 1751' sign on the left side of M Street in the District. For her efforts, she was awarded $5,000.00, much to the chagrin of the 'Doctor'. Read more on the three different times the Missing 'W' contest aired on PGC.
Columbus discovered DC on 08/16/71, originally doing nights at PGC, coming from WCOJ in Coatesville, PA. A local graduate of Suitland High, he moved to middays in 1972 when Tom Allen left to program sister station, WMEX in Boston and wound up in mornings early in 1975 when Harv Moore left for WYSL in Buffalo. Late that year, Columbus left for the Production Director gig at WLS.
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Note:
Gilbert O'Sullivan's, 'Alone Again (Naturally)' would end
the year as the #2 song on the PGC
Top 100 of 1972.
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#1 on WPGC Today in 1972
Few groups have three lead singers. But the aptly named, Three Dog Night did with Chuck Negron, Cory Wells and Danny Hutton trading off turns in front of the mic. The trio first came together in 1967 and worked with Brian Wilson under the group name, 'Redwood'. Together, the band under their new name would rack up an impressive 12 Gold albums and 21 consecutive Billboard hits, seven of which also went Gold. Of the three singers, it was Hutton who did lead the least often. But one in which he did was a hit of enormous proportions, 'Black & White', hitting #1 nationally and spent it first of two consecutive weeks at #1 on the PGC All Hit Music survey on 09/09/72. See enlargement.
By the time of its release, the song itself was nearly 20 years old, having been written in 1954 and was inspired by the Supreme Court's ruling on Brown vs. Board of Education, outlawing segregation of public schools. Fittingly, Folk star, Pete Seeger recorded it in 1956 followed by a version by Sammy Davis, Jr. the following year. In its original incarnation, the opening verse included lyrics that specifically mentioned the Court's ruling; 'Their robes were black, their heads were white, the schoolhouse doors were closed so tight. Nine judges all set down their names, to end the years and years of shame'. Various covers of the song thereafter omitted the original verse as did Three Dog Night's when they included it on their, 'Seven Separate Fools' LP in 1972. Hear Pete Seeger's version in 1956.
The members of the band typically only wrote a handful of songs for each album, often relying on contributions from up and coming songwriters. Among the hits they had penned by others were, Harry Nilsson's, 'One', Laura Nyro's, 'Eli's Comin', Randy Newman's, 'Mama Told Me Not To Come', Paul Williams', 'Out In The Country', 'Family Of Man' and 'An Old Fashioned Love Song', Hoyt Axton's, 'Joy To The World' and 'Never Been To Spain', Leo Sayer's, 'The Show Must Go On' and 'Easy To Be Hard', co-written by James Rado (brother of PGC's Ted Radomski, the first of the two 'MacNamara's) among others. Sadly, Cory Wells passed away on 10/21/15 at age 74 from sepsis while battling multiple myeloma. Chuck Negron had been ousted from the band in the mid '80's due to a drug habit while Danny Hutton is the 'One' lead singer still with the band on the Oldies circuit today. Read more on the group. |
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