Submitted by: GARY NAVOYSKI      From: Lockport, N.Y.

Memory: Great Tribute. I Will never forget the Hound. Listened to Hound in the mid 50'S on WKBW. Great music and ads like[NO FAKERY AT SCHROEDERS BAKERY] [RHYTHEM LAND] [THE ZANZIBAR] and many many others. Spent many nights listening. Don't let it die at least before I do.

PS Heard the Hound in Virginia while I was in the service, don't remember the station 1962-1963

Submitted by: Toni      From: Elmira, NY

Memory: WOW - No local stations played RNR but at night we could listen to WKBW- the station only came in at night so in secret I would listen in my bedroom. The Hound played all the original versions not the cleaned up cover versions. He played the pure music not the Pat Boone stuff. Many long but not lonely nights spent soaking up the best in RnR from The Hound.

Submitted by: Steve Burnside      From: Niagara Falls, Ontario Canada

Memory: I recall driving around Fort Erie Ontario in my 55 Chev with other members of my band, (about 1960)to find a good reception spot so we could listen to the RnB hits by Bobby Bland, Lowell Follsum and others. This was the ONLY place we could hear them as there wasn't any Blues radio in Ontario at that time ... George launched me into a Blues career that still keeps me going and recording 50 years later ... I saw George at the Elvis show in Buffalo in 57 and was as eager to see him as I was Elvis ... saw him again at the Buffalo Auditorium about 1962 with the Platters and the Drifters ... my band plays "The Big Heavy" and I think of The Hound Dog often, and how much his show meant to me and what an influence it had on those of us fortunate enough to have heard him on the air ... Steve Burnside www.burnsidebluesband.com

Submitted by: Bill Henry      From: Deland, Fl

Memory: This site is a tremendous tribute to the hound! I have watched it grow for quite a few years.

I was born and raised in Getzville N.Y. outside of Buffalo. Most people probably don't remember this about the hound, but most Buffalo people remember ramblin' lou, a local dj and station owner, he is still around today! Back in the early, early 50's or late 40's ramblin' lou had a country band called "the tnt cowboys" George was his bass fiddle player! Before he became the 'hound'

I remember the band coming to our farm for corn roasts. They played in the local bars around N. Tonawanda. My mother was a record distributor for RCA. They would drag me to everything. Been to the 'zanz' as a little kid. Still love r&b today. Cosy eggelstons 'Big Heavy' still sends chills down my back. Keep up the great work!!!

Regards, Bill

Submitted by: Michael Petti      From: Colonia, New Jersey

Memory: Around 1962 I started listening to George Lorenz over WNJR in Newark, NJ. The Hound's trademark use of words was apparent in an ad for Dom's Auto Sales: "Shiver across the river to Daddy O Dom's for a great deal on a set of wheels." Members of "Danny & the Juniors" were interviewed on WCBS-FM in New York. They attributed their success to Hound Dog when he was on WKBW. This is because his show was heard in several states.

Submitted by: Jim Kalka      From: Johnson City, New York

Memory: Talk about memories,where does one start when talking about George Lorenz and WKBW! I was fooling around with an old tube radio one night about 1957 and heard something I had never been exposed to before. I think it was something by Larry Williams. The DJ who introduced the record had a voice like a gravel road, but I was hooked.I tuned in every night from then on until that awful night when the ol Hound Dog wasn't there anymore.

I continued to listen, but it was never the same again. When the sound of the Big Heavy came over the air at 7:15 all was well with the world. Nobody else was playing artists like Link Wray,Bo Diddley and the likes. If George liked a certain tune he would play it over and over again.Finding this site, is like finding an old friend I havn't seen in years. I just hope the old HOUND DOG is still spinning records upstairs when we all get there.

Submitted by: Barry DeLong      From: Cleveland, Tennessee

Memory: Two underage white lads from Ontario discovered "The Blues" 'way back in 1957 down on William Street in Buffalo. Before hanging out in The Zanzibar, Club 123 & The Moonglow after dark (underage...), we looked through records in the Record Shop on William Street, and met George there. He always steered us straight on musical choices, and we're both still deep into the Blues to this day!We blame him entirely, and still thank him!
Barry DeLong & Tony Dotchin

Submitted by: Chuck Lund      From: Waterbury, Connecticut

Memory: We had "Wild Man Steve" (Steve Gallon)on local radio here in Waterbury, so growing up with both the Wild Man, and the Hound (on WKBW and also Syndicated on a Hartford radio Station), We were sure getting the Best that Music had to offer.

It led me into Radio at that time, when I created the "NiteOwl Show" on local Radio. Most of what I played were the great Hits of the time, and cointinued playing them as they became "Great Oldies". I Tip My Hat to George Lorenz for helping Me to decide, what part of My Life would be dedicated to. I did 30 years in Radio, and loved every minute of it. I retired My Show on New Years Eve 1997. It was a Wonderful ride. Thanks George!

Maybe someday, in that Great Big Studio above, We can spin a few together.

Chuck "NiteOwl" Lund.

Submitted by: Fr. Laurence Girard      From: Clearwater, Florida

Memory: As a teener in Buffalo WKBW was our station every evening, with the Hound.

Thanks for the great memories

Fr Laurence

Submitted by: Larry Wood      From: Bowmanviile, Ontario

Memory: I tripped across the houndog by accident, on FM radio to boot. It was in the early '60s and his show was coming through WBLK in Buffalo. My dad had bought our first FM radio, about which I knew nothing. At that time the only music on the FM band was elevator and supermaker tunes. Always a radio addict, I decided to give it one try, about 7:00 o'clock one evening. Very slowly I moved the tuner. Had I failed and discovered that the FM band played only dull, longhair stuff, with the attendant boring, snoozing announcers, I would have pulled the plug and used the radio as a door stop.

Viola!! Eureka!!! Somewhere in the middle of the band I heard heaven, The Hound Dog George Lorenz. It opened with the customary hoowwwwwwlllll, followed immediately by 'Shakin' Sugar' by the Lonnie Woods Trio. I was hooked.

There wasn't a DJ accessible to my radio about whom I didn't know something, in the U.S. and here in Canada. I liked many of the others but loved The Hound.

God Bless you, Sir. Make you rest in peace. Also, please put in a good word for me because, with any luck, someday I'll be there, too, once again listening to the Hound Dog Show'.
"HooowwwwwwLLLLLLLLLLL!"

Larry Wood
Bowmanville, Ont.