Legendary Montreal radioman George Balcan passed away earlier this week from cancer. He was in his seventies. There were a lot of people called to talk about Mr.Balcan`s many years of being on the air. One of the most interesting was a call that CHOM made to the birdman himself- Ralph Lockwood. Ralphie is alive and doing well, and still doing the occasional on-location radio spot (I believe in Pennslyvania, but not 100% sure).He was his usual nutty self. He told a good joke about Viagra, and even managed to put in a plug for the Bar B Barn. Another interesting thing that came up was someone talking about Marc ``Mais Oui`` Denis, and a website that he has with a lot of CKGM and general Montreal memorabilia. It is quite good. The address is www.marcdenis.com
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>Reply-To: "Verdun Connections"
>To: "Verdun Connections"
>Subject: Montreal Radio
>Date: Fri, 7 May 2004 16:21:03 -0700
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Hey Ralph It was a sad day in Montreal when George Balcan passed away this week. I had the pleasure of selling him a lot of jazz albums while working many years at Phantasmagoria. He was also my radio guru someone I looked up to and my guiding light getting my own broadcasting career off the ground. I played some Herbie Hancock for him on Thursday's show and will play some Miles Davis dedicated to him tonight. Thanks for remembering a great broadcaster and artist Mike
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From: multipurposeutensil (Original Message) Sent: 5/7/2004 4:21 PM Legendary Montreal radioman George Balcan passed away earlier this week from cancer. He was in his seventies. There were a lot of people called to talk about Mr.Balcan`s many years of being on the air. One of the most interesting was a call that CHOM made to the birdman himself- Ralph Lockwood. Ralphie is alive and doing well, and still doing the occasional on-location radio spot (I believe in Pennslyvania, but not 100% sure).He was his usual nutty self. He told a good joke about Viagra, and even managed to put in a plug for the Bar B Barn. Another interesting thing that came up was someone talking about Marc ``Mais Oui`` Denis, and a website that he has with a lot of CKGM and general Montreal memorabilia. It is quite good. The address is www.marcdenis.com ..and this post dated May 7th 2004, by none other than MPU,...kept us up to date on the passing of George Balcan,......as well as the whereabouts of old Ralph Lockwood ,who we spoke of a month or so ago,.and the Bar-B-Barn was mentioned in this post as well,........again a topic that reappeared recently in some posts,......so you see as new members join and ask new questions,..we can depend on pretty much any of our members to jump in, with an update (or at the very least ) an opinion (what are the chance's s of a Verdun (ite) -(er) , having ab opinion..........hahahaha .....Ok I'm off ,back to my task of finding some of our elusive topics............ HF&RV
ReplyDeletea verdunite with an opinion Les...never...i'm sure you'd have to beat it out of them...we are such a reserved bunch...
ReplyDeleteby the way Les, thanks for the re-posts...they were before my joining the group...they are great.
ReplyDeleteRemember CKGM http://www.marcdenis.com/ckgm-memorabilia.asp
ReplyDeleteMarch 1970: CKGM's first on-air lineup of the Super 70s
Left to right, standing: J. Lee Smith, J. P. Finnigan
Left to right, sitting: Ron Able, Michael W. Morgan, Robert Bell, Jim Patton, Tom McLean December 1974: CKGM’s Toys For Tots Promotion
Left to right: Dan O’Neil, Marc “Mais Oui” Denis, Steve Shannon, Randy Dewell, Greg Stewart,
Ralph Lockwood, Mike Williams *
Missing from photo: Donny Burns, Gary Bell September 1978: CKGM’s I Love You Montréal Je t’aime on-air gang
Back: Alain Montpetit *, Chris Michaels,
Steve Shannon, Robert G. Hall, Rob Christie
Bottom: Gary Bell, Marc “Mais Oui” Denis,
Ralph Lockwood Steve
Remember this Station in Montreal. Steve
ReplyDeleteCFOX is now an FM rock station in Vancouver (been here for years) at 99.3 on the FM dial, The Fox Rocks was their motto
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