On Sun, 30 Jul 2006 20:43:34 +0900, "Brenda Ann"
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I wasn't on the left coast for Wolfman Jack in
his heyday, but you would think the whole rock and roll biz depended on
him from listening to the that show.

Often musical trends start in clubs long before the recording companies
get in the picture.


I was out west when Wolfman was in his hayday.. and I can say that he was
quite instrumental in bringing rock and roll to much of the western US, far
beyond the 'local' reach of the stations he worked at. There was much of
rock and roll that was never played on stations in places like Idaho, Utah,
Nevada, Arizona and New Mexico, because of the very conservative nature of
these states. Though my listening to Wolfman and his contemporaries on
border radio didn't start till I was 13 in 1968, they were still a
significant influence in those areas. At that time, stations in Salt Lake
City were still playing 'cleaned up' versions of top chart songs like Lou
Christie's "Lighting Strikes" and "Rhapsody in the Rain", and not playing
some of the chart records at all. We turned to the border blasters to hear
the stuff our locals weren't giving us.

Long before he was in L. A., the Wolfman broadcast out of Del Rio,
Texas late at night on 1570. I remember him from the early '60s and
it was just plain creepy.

''Stan's Record Shop, 728 Texas Street, Shreveport, Louisiana'' was
his sponsor.