My Mom loved listening to Tommy Shannon on KB.

aka "Mad Dad" Commenting in 2023. Listened to Tommy Shannon nearly every night way back when. Live in Connecticut and WKBW came in loud and clear here.

Best 3 minutes 23 seconds of my day. Much obliged.

I always listened to the Tom Shannon show WKBW back then he was one of the best D-J got it in Minersville Pa long way from Buffalo NY

i used to dance to that song on my parents kitchen floor when i was 5. pushing 39 now! what a blast from the past!

one of the best, listened to the tunes on the beach at Crystal Beach Ontario, good memories

My Mom's favorite DJ.

I always listen to Tom from Pa he was one of my favorite DJ

I listened to Tom Shannon in 1960-61 half the night Cheektowaga (Buffalo) on my tiny new transistor radio my parents gave me. Memorized all the R&R songs. My mom even took me down to the station to meet Tom. That was really thrilling for a 12 yr. old. he was really tall! I think I got his autograph too. Great years!

My older teenage sisters were addicted to Tommy's HOT show. We were living in Toronto but Buffalo had WKBW.

Was listening to the 60s channel on Sirius recently. They played Rebel Rouser and the DJ mentioned Tommy and WKBW.

WKBW, Loblaws, Iroquois beer, The Rockin' Rebels, S+H Green Stamps. Take me back there, please.

@chasbodaniels1744

2 жыл бұрын

….. Al Dektebrun’s Sporting Goods

I remember trying to pick up KB Radio and Tommy Shannon from Ottawa Canada. If it wasn't coming in well, we'd try Cousin Brucie from 77-WABC New York

Under ideal conditions, I used to be able to listen to this station in the UK in the sixties.

Thanks Tommy for being such a wonderful part of my youth. RIP.....you will not be forgotten. On the Tom Shannon show!!!

I didn't realize Tom Shannon worked at WKBW. I know he was at CKLW for many years. I know that Dick Biondi also a legendary D.J. then moved to WLS in Chicago. Thanks for this great blast from the past.

Where i live in Maine 20 miles north of Augusta Maine about 8 pm after dark i would listen to either wkbw or wptr which ever came in better . Man those were the days

@5797029

5 жыл бұрын

I did the same from Dartmouth MA 1961-1963.

WKBW had such a deep talent pool - even better than most top 10 markets. Thank you for posting this!

Another one i listen to when i could not get WKBW was WPTR out of Colonie New York that is a suburb of Albany New York I lived in Maine north of Augusta . At night i always tuned into one or the other . Back in the 60's

Loved Tom Shannon in the early 60s. "KB Radio" Picked it up every evening after dark in Springfield, Mass. Blasted the music in my 58 Chevy Impala convertible while cruising the drag on Main St. Back then, it was the best station on the dial.

@sandsoftime1954

8 жыл бұрын

+uconnmike1943 WKBW used to come in like gang busters after sunset, in Boston too.

@chasbodaniels1744

4 жыл бұрын

Those 50,000 watts were directed to the east and southeast of Buffalo by their antenna array. Very little of KB’s signal radiated out to the other 270 degrees of their radius. So Boston, Hartford, Metro New York all heard one of the greatest early Top 40 R ‘n’ R stations in the nation after dark. A couple of years after this airchrck, Tommy Shannon hopped across the Great Lakes to work for 800 AM, CKLW Windsor-Detroit.

@frdjr2527

2 жыл бұрын

@@chasbodaniels1744 Listened to KB on Long Island, NY every night.

when you grew up within ear shot of Buffalo it was Tommy who you listened to here in Canada. loved WKBW

@darrylcpreston4043

Жыл бұрын

And earshot went a long way, with those 50,000 'swinging watts'!

PRICELESS...........................we used to listen to Tommy Shannon Show on my 2nd floor porch with my friends in Fall River MA...thankfully WMEX 1510 turned their power down so we could hear WKBW.

@gianmichaelshannon5974

2 жыл бұрын

Yes,! Massachusetts shuts down early, thank god for Tom Shannon

OMG just found an autograph card from Tom Shannon in 1961, must have seen him in Pa.

I remember late at night I would listen to WKBW on my little transistor radio, from Western Maryland.. The signal would fade in and out.

Listened to his show on CKLW in Windsor!

When I was a kid I used to pick up the WKBW signal at night on the little radio in my bedroom in Western Massachusetts.

@frdjr2527

2 жыл бұрын

I picked up WKBW on Long Island, NY every night from sundown to sunrise. Came in like a local from NYC.

Great. I was there and heard KB all the time. Generated a lifelong love of the music from back then.

@chasbodaniels1744

4 жыл бұрын

Wish I were chowing down on a juicy Beef on Weck right about now!

Remember it well,could only get it good at night,Syracuse NY

Several years ago after hearing Wild Weekend by the Rocking Rebels on the local FM oldies station I found a c.d. titled Tom Shannon Presents The Rocking Rebels at the nearest Barnes & Noble. It was the last copy in the warehouse and according to the person I spoke with it was the last one. I bought it immediately. My 2002 Chevy 1500 Silverado with the Extended Cab has a Pioneer head unit and six Alpine speakers courtesy of my son for my 48th birthday. No amps or anything just pure power and sound. I love to ride through the local Wal-Mart or CVS parking lot and let it rip with Tom's intro for the Rebels. It gets a lot of puzzled looks except for one man about 68 years old who was stationed in Fort Dix NJ. during the time the Tom Shannon was on the air back in the day. He flagged me down and he and I sat there and listened as his wife just shook her head and smiled. He said he enjoyed that short trip down memory lane. Glad he enjoyed it. He was curious how someone just 51 knew about this stuff. I told him I was born 20 years too late.

I was 11 yrs old in 1961, listening to Tommy Shannon on my transitor radio! Wow, he was good looking!

@gianmichaelshannon5974

2 жыл бұрын

Stud master Tommy- handsome and humble

I grew up near Cape Cod, Massachusetts. In the early 60's while in high school I would listen to WKBW late at night. Sometimes conditions were good and it came through clear. Other times it would fad in and out. Loved to hear the Tommy Shannon theme song - Wild Weekend. God, times were great back then.

@5797029

5 жыл бұрын

I am from Dartmouth MA. After the sun went down I listened to them also. 1961-1963 era. I had a small transistor radio to listen to the Red Sox and Curt Gowdy. I also listened to WPTR in Albany. I can still do their WKBW... Buffalo theme in my head today. When they had a winner from a contest they would start their theme music with "Your a winner on WKBW radio Buffalo". Good old days.

@chasbodaniels1744

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, WPTR at 1540 was great listening indeed! So many AM stations are closing down now, including that 50,000 watt powerhouse from Albany. Sad, but demographics and technology march along.

56 years ago! Missing you in Batavia, NY.

Not forgotten. I used to listen every night I could get it to tune in from Old Town, Maine. I remember the Rocking Rebels made the record "Wild Weekend" from that theme song. Loved that show.

I was the last paperboy to the WKBW towers on Big Tree Rd. The techs. had the Buffalo Evening News delivered daily. Great Memories. KMJP CM

@chasbodaniels1744

4 жыл бұрын

The towers were in Hamburg, right?

@alrobinson8829

3 жыл бұрын

@@chasbodaniels1744 Yes, and they still are.

Grew up in eastern panhandle of WV and tuned in WKBW & WABC every night. Usually it rolled in with the current great tunes............good memories

@WDavidStephenson

5 жыл бұрын

Yep, and I also (in VA) heard WOWO and the station in Wheeling.

@chasbodaniels1744

4 жыл бұрын

WWVA?

Gave birth to one of the all-time classic rock instrumentals, a real breath of fresh air in hardly-rockin' 1962!

R.I.P. Tommy

We loved this show. We listened to it as much as we could. We thought it was such a cool show and great music. I also remember Joey Reynolds. What happened to him?

I was raised in Welland, Ontario, about 25 miles from Buffalo. I was in grade 13 at Welland High School in 1962, and we had a Friday night dance in the gym. Tom Shannon deejayed the dance, and Shelley Fabares (Johnny Angel) and Gary Stites (Starry Eyed) performed. Lip-synch of course, but what a show. Don't get that kind of entertainment today

Always listening over in Canada esp @ Sherkston or Crystal Beach in the summer.

1960's AM radio was the BEST!! The time & temp rock jocks were a fantastic breed of their own and Pittsburgh had some of the BEST

@chasbodaniels1744

4 жыл бұрын

The great KQV 1410 went dark a couple of years ago as a sign of the times.

Great memories listening to Tommy in the early 60's in Willsboro NY -- way up in the Adirondacks -- but he made it "fun" -- like radio is supposed to be. . .

@tommytruth7595

4 жыл бұрын

And should still be. Bring back AM radio and the top 40.

One of my favorite DJ's along with Dick Biondi.

@gianmichaelshannon5974

2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely !

Lime Lake!!! Classmates from GI all have memories of Lime Lake. Loblaws!! wow, blast from the past. Remember the Tommy Shannon jingle well. Iroquois Beer!

RIP Tommy . . . Thanks for the memories! :-)

I live in central NH an as a young teen WKBW and WPTR were the two radio stations i listened to at night as I was going to bed.

Listening from Holden, Maine back in the mid-60's. Seems like every Friday night, "two youths died when their car careened off Lake Shore Drive in North Tonawanda."

@chasbodaniels1744

4 жыл бұрын

Those poor youths.

good memories...i went to school 4 and he came in as our substitute teacher.. he was a dj then at wkbw radio..

Loved rhe newscasts at 1/4 of and 1/4 after

I used to get WKBW at night in the Washington, DC, area in the late 1960s (several years after this aircheck). The evening disc jockey was a guy whose name was Bud Ballou. (I hope I spelled it right.) He disappeared in mid-1968 and was replaced by a guy named Sandy Beach or Beech.

@chasbodaniels1744

4 жыл бұрын

Haha, Bud Ballou and his engineer “Stanley”. Great DJ. Bud bounced around after KB, and sadly passed away at a rather young age.

WKBW and 1050 CHUM were the two big stations.

@denisjl100

3 жыл бұрын

peter hogan. man those were the days. my senior public and high school years.

OMG: last heard Tommy Shannon when I left VA for college in '63, but I remembered the jingle perfectly. Ah, the days of 50,000 watt radio. I know major reason I moved to the Hub of the Universe was that Dick Summer on WBZ and his pet Venus flytrap, Theophilus Q. Waterhouse, made Boston sound so cool in the evening hours....

pero qué joyita!!

too young to remember 61. But I have heard it was great times on the radio. My sister was on Buffalo Bandstand for a couple shows in early '60s

love these airchecks,i too remember tom at the big 8 . we are at the other end of the lake in toledo oh. so i am thinking we may have heard kb just dont remember.

@chasbodaniels1744

4 жыл бұрын

Doubt you picked up WkBW in Toledo ... they didn’t reach that far west. Sounds like you heard Tom on 800 AM, CKLW in Windsor, Ontario. They certainly would have hit Toledo.

Very important for future readers - Please google 'Pirate Radio Hall of Fame'. Then look for Keith Martin. Brace yourself for a long read - if you should be interested. Above all it is there you can hear the studio snoop tape of WKBW from the late 1950s or early 1960s. Perhaps someone will confirm the actual year. The clues could be there!! Do tell. Many thanks from Keith who listened 'live' to WKBW years later whilst living as a fresh faced Canadian immigrant in Toronto in 1969! Gosh it can be very, very cold in them there parts!!

Tom was Rockin The Big 8 in Windsor Back in the mid 60's.Ahead of much more music.And 20-20 News..CKLW..The Motor City..

@b3j8

9 жыл бұрын

Oh man, we used to listen to CKLW nights in Fort Wayne Indiana. THE BEST sound around, and great DJ's that played stuff we NEVER heard on WOWO, or WLS. Never logged KBW tho till the 1980's when I was QSL hunting.

@chasbodaniels1744

4 жыл бұрын

Loved Dx-ing those monster signals. Fort Wayne was among the smallest cities to have a 50 kW signal like WOWO.

The very best AM radio stations that I have listened to are KRLA In Los Angeles which is the WKBW of the Western United States, WKBW Buffalo, KIMN Denver, WARM Scranton, PA, WFIL Philadelphia(Now WPVI). The very worst radio stations are in Loser City Tucson, Mexizona & Phoenix, Mexizona, they are way behind the rest of the country. Yuma, Mexizona and even little Kingman, Mexizona are way ahead of Tucson & Phoenix. In the winter of 1960/1961 we had the call letters displayed on the apartment Windows where I lived at Riverview Park Apartments on Hinds Street in the City of Tonawanda, they were just about almost everywhere. I used to listen to WKBW at night when I lived in Newark, Delaware. There in my high school, the majority of us would listen to WKBW at night, one of the stores in a shopping center would have WKBW on loud during their business hours at night for many who were from the Buffalo area that moved to Newark, Delaware who worked for M & G convoy.

@lauramarzz2220

6 жыл бұрын

+Christopher O'Rourke DID YOU EVER LISTEN TO ANY NEW YORK CITY , RADIO STATIONS ? THAT'S WHERE ALL THE RADIO INNOVATORS WERE LIKE ALAN FREED , PETE MYERS A.K.A. ' MADD DADDY ' , MURRAY THE ' K ' & THE ' SWINGING SOIREE ' ALL ON ' W I N S-AM 1010 ! AND B. MITCHELL REID A.K.A. ' B.M.R. & THE WIDE , WIDE WEIRD WORLD ' ON ' W M C A-AM 570 ' ! THEN OF COURSE CAME FM , AND SOMETHING CALLED ' FREE FORM RADIO ' WHICH WAS PIONEERED BY ; ' W O R - FM 98.7 ' THAT PLAYED A CONSTANT TOP-40 + SOME 150 TO 200 NEW RECORDS EACH WEEK + BARRAGE OF OLDIES , INTERSPERSED WITH VERY , VERY LITTLE TALK , AND JUST A FEW COMMERCIALS & 5 MIN OF NEWS AND THAT'S THAT ! IT WAS THE GREATEST EVER AND WAS THE BRAIN CHILD OF ' MURRAY THE ' K ' AND BOB LEADER ' WHOM WAS PROGRAM MANAGER OF WOR- FM 98.7 AT THE TIME BACK IN JUNE 1966 . NEEDLESS TO SAY I MADE SOME 40 OR SO OPEN REEL TAPE EXCERPTS OF ALL THE UN-BELIEVEABLE , NEW , CURRENT AND OLD MUSIC I COULD TAKE OVER THE 4 YEARS OR SO OF IT'S EXISTENCE , UNTIL THEY BROUGHT IN A ' THINK TANK ' AND CHANGED IT ALL AROUND , FOR THE WORST .

@chasbodaniels1744

4 жыл бұрын

@Laura Marzz Yep, you experienced a major shift from AM Top40 to FM progessive! Exciting times for radio nerds and leading-edge music fans. Haha, Mad Daddy on 1010 WINS was a real trip. The free form version of WOR FM lasted less than a year, but Scott Muni, Rosko and Allison Steele “The Night Bird” picked up the slack at WNEW FM 102.7 and really changed the music landscape.

Tom Shannon went on to bigger and better things...@ CKLW, in the Motor City.

RIP

From Flint Michigan you could get WKBW and CKLW Windsor, Ontario.... CHYR and CFCO as well come to think of it.

Memories

So many great memories of my friend, Tom and the guys at WKBW. I know Tom is retired, but what is he doing now? #wondering.

Tommy didn't have one of those faces that were for RADIO only.

you youngster shannon fans from the 60's really missed the best dj that station ever had-the hound. in the 50's. he didn't play no vanilla.

Question. Does anyone remember Summer in the City being played over and over again? Was it Tommy Shannon? We were coming home from Crystal Beach Amusement Park that night?

Does anyone know where i can get a copy of "FROSTY" ? tom shannon either wrote it or sang it. have been looking for years it would mean the world to my mom if i could find it all i know is they went by the russ ???somebody??? trio HELP!

Living north of Buffalo he had a contest on the radio And you can win five dollars and you had to tell him a tongue twister but he repeat it right back to me I didn’t win the five dollars I was probably 11 or 12 years old so that would’ve been in 1961 or 1962 but we got into a long telephone conversation probably telling him things that I really didn’t need to and my mom and dad was coming home In there 59 ford listening to it on the radio I didn’t know we were still on the air You know like my big brother getting drunk and getting in a fight couple of stories like that

Now KB1520 is Sports talk format ESPN 1520

This somg os a. Hum Singer.