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.

Submitted by: Peter Steele      From: Cincinnati, Ohio

Memory:

I spent many nights in my cellar hunched over my radio in Springfield Mass. listening to The Hound from Buffalo and later on WPOP in Hartford. My most memorable event was George's orders to boycott Mitch Miller who had called rock the "Comic Book of Music"

Submitted by: Guy MacMillin      From: Westmoreland, NH

Memory: People often speculate about the connection between The Hound and, later, Wolfman Jack. When I interviewed Wolfman Jack, on March 7, 1988, for a newspaper column, I asked him about that. What follows is a partial transcript of the tape I made: Me: The first disc jockey that I ever heard that had the kind of appeal that you have was George Lorenz in Buffalo. Wolfman: The Hound. Me: The Hound, about 35 years ago. Now you must have been listening to him too, right? Wolfman: Oh, sure, I was just a little kid. Me: In Brooklyn? Wolfman: I was living in Brooklyn. Me: Could you hear him in Brooklyn? KBW? Wolfman: WKBW in Buffalo. Me: From the Zanzibar Lounge. Did you ever meet him? Wolfman: No, never got to meet him. He died before I got a chance to meet him. I went on to mention that The Hound was on WPOP in Hartford for a time, on tape, and Wolfman said he hadn't known that. The Hound may have been the first syndicater, he said. Wolfman didn't have much to say about The Hound. I sensed the subject was difficult for him, given what you might call the similarities. But he had been a listener, and an avid one, sitting with his radio on a fire-escape landing in Brooklyn, N.Y. And I have the tape to prove it.

Submitted by: Dr. Roosevelt "Rick" Wright, Jr.      From: Syracuse, New York

Memory: While growing up in Elizabeth City, N.C. in the late 1950's, and "just plain crazy about
radio broadcasting," I was an avid Radio DX'er, and while sitting in my bedroom with my
S-38D Six Band Radio and scanning the AM Radio band, I can never forget the night that
I found 50,000 watt WKBW-AM - "KB" at 1520 khz and "The Hound Dog." With my musical
passion being R&B music ------- The Hound Dog was putting out the sounds of Little
Richard, James Brown, Bo Diddley, Ruth Brown, The Coasters, Little Anthony and the
Imperials, and a host of other greats -- and I was in Radio Heaven. A wonderful radio
historical fact is that WKBW-AM and its' powerful signal, was right next to another
night time R&B powerhouse, WLAC-AM, 50kw, at 1510khz. It was a "fabulous" radio
experience to hear the "Hound Dog" at 1520Khz and "Randy's Record" Mart with John R,
Hoss Allen, and Gene Nobles putting out the hits at 1510Khz. And Wow!!!!!!! both signals
were "Loud and Clear" in Eastern North Carolina. Radio was "magical' during this time!!!!!!

Submitted by: Dr. Mike "the bear"      From: Gettysburg, PA

Memory: Having grown up in the town of Hamburg in the 50's, listening to the Hound was a rite of passage. Many evenings the guys from Frontier Central would gather to listen and howl!

Submitted by: Francis Kasper      From: Middletown, PA

Memory: I grew up in the hard coal region of PA a little town called Mahanoy City. I think it was about 1956-56 I had my first car and me and my girlfriend (Now my wife of 52 Years) would park near a town called Frackville because it was higher up than other towns in the ares so we couls pick up the radio station from Buffalo, Ny. to listen to "The HOUND". So many memories. I still remember some of his commericals like. 'You don't need much bread at the Zanzibar or A buck or two down will hold your purchase at honest al's. I don't know why, but all of a sudden I started thinking about the hound out of the clear, so I thought I would write snething.

Submitted by: Al Benson      From: Spencerport, N.Y.

Memory: I grew up in the 50's and early 60's and listened to the Hound on KB and WINE. I lived in Medina, N.Y and attended DeSales CS HS in Lockport from '57 to '61. I also listened to him on WBLK in the 60's. I actually meant the "Hound" one day at WINE in Amherst. He was a vibrant part of our lives and the music of that era. I wish we had someone like him today. God Bless Mr.Lorenz and his family and may his name and presence live on.
Regards,
Al Benson

Submitted by: Marty Lineen      From: Hollywood, Florida

Memory: I am Marty Lineen in Hollywood Florida USA. I lived in Portland Connecticut from 1955 to 1960. I did not have an FM radio at that time. George Lorenz played the music I liked. The station must have had a lot of power. It came in clear. The best I can remember it was on late at night. Maybe 10 to 12 PM. G! it was fun to hear.

Submitted by: Barry Aston      From: Brookline, Massachusetts

Memory: In the late 50's, I was a teenager living in Melrose, Massachusets.
I was a record collector and into the doo-wop sound as well as blues, Little Richard, etc.

The Hound Dog was on WKBW at that time, and the signal was so strong that I could often get the station on my radio. and I would lie in bed at night listening The Hound. I used to like the Mythical, Magical, Musical Spotlight.

When playing a love song, Hound Dog used to talk about finding a fine pretty with a waist just big enough for "Hound Dog" to put his arm around.

I wrote him a fan letter, and I was very impressed that he took the time to write me back. I wish I still had that letter.

One weekend, a friend and I were on a hunt for R & B records and happened by chance to come across a Rock & Roll show in Hartford, CT. I believe it was the State Theater. We attended that great show. The only group I remember seeing was The Cellos (Japanese Sandman).