Submitted by: Jim Rogers      From: Port Orford, Oregon

Memory:

I grew up north of Niagara Falls. I always got a kick out of his ad for money lenders "Big Bob and Pal Al the Happiness Boys", and "Mama Goldstein's top of the vine wine." And his closing, "I want all of my pretties and all of my daddies to play it straight on the street; and the Hound says, 'later for you baby...LATER'"!! always left me feeling a little sad that the evening's program was over.

Submitted by: John Carleton      From: Citrus Heights, Ca

Memory:

How great to find this site,...I graduated from Cleveland Hill HS in 1960, and the Hound was Must listen to fare every evening. We never missed a car show in Buffalo, especially knowing the Hound was spinning records live from there. There's a memory from Hans Ylmar, who lived across the street from where I worked. (I remember his dark green Studebaker) !! John C

Submitted by: Al Garner      From: Vancouver , British Columbia

Memory:

I remember seeing Little Richard at the Club Zanzibar in 1956-57. Of course I found out the he was playing there thanks to the Hounds promotion on the radio. Also around 1954 my friend and I would sit up in his bedroom smoking cigarettes listening to George. Thanks George RIP

Submitted by: Steve C      From: Buffalo, NY

Memory:

Short & sweet- I came to the US in the late 70s, so I didn't know about the Hound Dog - but I saw Carl Perkins at Melody Fair in the late 80s. Between songs, he stopped and said "Whenever I'm around Buffalo, I make a point of mentioning one of the guys who broke me in - I'm talking about Hound Dog Lorenz". Good enough for me!

Submitted by: Floyd Stearns      From: Warsaw, NY

Memory:

I was in my early teens when I used to listen to the "Hound". Also, I was a member of his fan club. The membership card had George's photo on one side. I wish I still had that card. The man totally rocked!!

Submitted by: Ed Hatch      From: Lake Hopatcong, NJ

Memory:

Used to listen to the Hound on a green portable Motorola radio I had as a kid, growing up in New Milford. NJ, at night in the winter that thing could pull all kinds of stations, just had to orient the case in the right direction. Loved the intro,, what sounded like Chinese blocks being hit, "Dig man,,, THE HOUND,,The hound's around coming to you from WKBW". 

Submitted by: Bob Bronstein      From: Williamsville, NY

Memory:

Music aside,my outstanding memory was meeting Hound Dog Lorenz at remote broadcast from his sponsor S&E wholesale on Niagara Falls Blvd. AAAOOOO!!

Submitted by: jim      From: flagler beach, fl

Memory:

So glad I found this site. Too many memories to recall but what a treat to hear the Hound loud and clear just like so many years ago. Many thankx to his son and or whoever made this possible. Western NY , North Collins, Hamburg, alive and well.

Submitted by: john ellis-allen      From: sudbury, ontario, canada, canada

Memory:

I remember listening to The Hound Show about 1955 or so. I was living in a tent just beside Algonquin Park in central Ontario, called the Halburton Highlands. I had an old Phillips portable radio, and strung copper wire all around the trees and plugged it in to the radio as an extra antenna. Picked up WKBW on clear nights. The hound's around! I'm rockin on record daddy-o/ from the Zanzibar tavern in Buffalo.... Then I got to hear Elvis Presley for the first time singing Blue Suede Shoes. I'll never forget that night, it was so beautiful outside, and WKBW music floating over the quiet lake breaking the stillness with ROCK AND ROLL. Party on George.

Submitted by: Marty Angelo      From: Los Angeles, CA

Memory:

The Hound had such a profound effect on me as a teenager living in Buffalo New York that years later I dedicated a segment of my dance television show "Disco Step-by-Step" to him. The Hound used to have a part of his radio show that he called, "Make it or Break it" where he would play a new song and let his audience call in to say whether they liked it or not. If they did he would add it to his playlist for future on-air use. If they did not like it he broke the record on the air real close to his microphone so you could hear the actual record being smashed to pieces. That really impressed me... and never forgot it... and years later used the same concept on my tv but used my dance couples to decide if they like the record or not. The segment was called, "Make it or Break it" .... see attached YouTube video... in the video description*** I mention the Hound...see below for description....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CY_MdwnBdX0&feature=player_embedded

***This segment was dedicated to the popular Buffalo New York radio disc jockey and radio station entrepreneur; George "Hound Dog" Lorenz who started this entertaining yet very important segment on his early radio shows back in the 1950s and 1960s. This allowed new entertainers to have their music aired on the radio; something almost unheard of after Top 40 radio later became so popular.