Rock N' Roll Memory Time
This site is a tribute to George Lorenz and what better way to pay tribute to him than to let his listeners and his biggest fans share their stories of how The Hound influenced, entertained or brought them a measure of pleasure.
Here are the memories we've received posted in order of the most recent received...
Submitted by:
Joe Hamelin
From:
Riverside, CA
Memory:
I spent my high school years sitting by my Zenith Trans-Oceanic radio, midnight to 6, taping WKBW and WLS on my reel-to-reel. Both stations boomed into Utica, NY, where I grew up. The "Hound Dog" was the best thing out there. He and his brother DJs probably cost me two letter grades in nearly every subject across those four years, but I wouldn't trade an hour of it. I still remember the kick of hearing the first airing of "Peggy Sue." What a great time the late '50s/early '60s was to be a kid.
Submitted by:
Doug Stewart
From:
Norfolk, Virginia
Memory:
WKBW had a great signal skip and the Hound Dog was heard loud and clear every night in Norfolk, VA. My friends and I talked about The Sound of the Hound more than we talked about the local stations in Norfolk. One of my greatest teen thrills was when I wrote to the Hound Dog to dedicate a song to my steady girl (who was also a regular listener), and then hearing him do the dedication. The BIG blessing was that she heard it too! WKBW was a BIG part of my growing-up years in Norfolk, VA.
Submitted by:
Gary Scott
From:
Corona, Arizona
Memory:
As a kid growing up in Niagara Falls, the Hound was the absolute greatest on WKBW. His music was earthy, and easily separated from the commercialism of RnR to follow. I 'm sure my deep interest in the blues originates with the Hound. No one who ever followed him at WKBW came close to having an impact on people as the Hound did. The fact that he broadcast live from a bar added an exotic flavor to the whole scene being painted in the mind's eye of a teenager.
Submitted by:
Chuck Long
From:
Tonawanda, New York
Memory:
As a teenager in Buffalo, I couldn't wait till after 7 0'clock to hear the Hound broadcast from the Zanzi bar on William and Monroe. I lived on Monroe St. I would see the Hound get out of his 56 Ford convertible and head into the Zanzi bar to play cool music on WKBW. He was the best DJ I ever heard.
Submitted by:
James A. Hamilton Jr.
From:
Somerset (Franklin Township), New Jersey
Memory:
I was born and raised in Niagara Falls, NY in 1951 and listened to George (Hound Dog) Lorenz nearly every night to " . . catch the blues with the Hound" on WBLK-FM as a teen ager, and before that when I was younger, but can't recall the station. That interlude of the blues, sandwiched between then contemporary Rhytm & Blues and Soul music was Hound Dog's tribute to the originators of Rock and Roll and American Pop-ular music. Music on the radio used to "run down and sundown" in Western New York state for people of color until Lorenz became a champion of R&B.
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