By David Meikle (62.252.128.6) on Tuesday, October 15, 2002 - 05:01 pm:

Thanks to Davie G(ordon) for this notice:-
October 19, 2002: The Big 8 Returns to CKLW!

This announcement is taken from CKLW's current web site: On Saturday, October 19th, CKLW will turn back the clock to a time when the station was known as The Big 8. We'll be holding an on-air reunion of former staff from the mid-60's to the early-70's, including such personalties as Bill Gable, Ted "The Bear" Richards, Tom Shannon, Joe Donovan, JoJo Shutty, Scott Miller, Mark Dailey, Johnny Williams, Randall Carlisle, Keith Radford, Joe Evans, Dick Smythe, Bert Serre and more to come! The reunion will be hosted by Charlie O'Brien and happens between 7:00pm and 10:00pm. Listen for airchecks, sample 20/20 newscasts, songs from the era, listener phone calls and of course, lots of memories!

(Site Details from here? mailto:broadcast-airchex@broadcast.net

By g wiz (68.43.160.189) on Tuesday, October 15, 2002 - 06:03 pm:

wasnt johnny williams in a group called tim tam and the turn on"s with the song called wait a minute here she come"s

By Millie (68.40.198.72) on Tuesday, October 15, 2002 - 07:23 pm:

Johnny Williams managed Tim Tam & the Turn Ons.

By MEL&THEN SOME (195.219.7.74) on Wednesday, October 16, 2002 - 12:21 am:

gwiz,I Remember Something kind of mellow by Johnny Williams that got played in the 70s on the british N/Rare soul scene and didnt he do a version of the Just a little misunderstanding track?The record you mention by Tim tam &The Turn ons became a collectors piece over here on a u.k. release.(although,personally not my cup of tea).But the Something kind of mellow I thought/think is a good track as is the other mentioned.MEL.

By Davie Gordon (193.122.21.26) on Wednesday, October 16, 2002 - 07:59 am:

Mel,

The Johnny Williams you're thinking of is a completely different guy - he was from Chicago
and later recorded in Philadelphia in the early
seventies

By MEL&THEN SOME (195.219.7.72) on Wednesday, October 16, 2002 - 01:01 pm:

Many thanks Davie,I am going off the top of my head there.If I knew,then I certainly didnt remember,cheers.MEL.

By Millie (68.40.198.72) on Wednesday, October 16, 2002 - 10:25 pm:

Hey Everyone!
Dennis Coffey and I will be enjoying the festivites at the CKLW reunion this weekend because I work there, and because the producers of the movie and Charlie O'Brien want him in the documentary and on the radio broadcast! We will be happy to report back to the forum on who was there and "what was what". Does the name Rosalie Trombley mean anything to anybody??

By Douglasm (68.113.15.28) on Sunday, December 01, 2002 - 12:21 pm:

Rosalie Trombley was, if my aged memory is correct, the music director of CKLW in the late '60's and early '70's. It strikes me that Bob Seger did a song about her, involving his attempts to get a single listed on the CK chart.
I know this information is incomplete, but maybe it will spark someone elses memories.

By Sue (64.12.97.7) on Sunday, December 01, 2002 - 12:36 pm:

I think "Rosalie" was a tribute; Bob and his manager Punch knew Rosalie well enough that a mere song wouldn't sway her. She rejected it for play on CK. I think she was wrong, it's a great song, especially the chorus ...the lines "everybody's favorite little record girl" and "she's got the tower/she's got the power" ...

By Dennis Coffey (205.188.209.38) on Sunday, December 01, 2002 - 04:29 pm:

Hi Everyone. We did a section of the live broadcast when they were filming the CKLW reunion documentary. It was Rosalie, Millie, Armen Boladian from Westbound Records and me. DJ Charlie O'Brian was the moderator. We had a ball talking on the radio. I also saw my friend Tom Shannon and other DJs there. Mike Theodore and I did the arrangements and conducted the house band for Tom's TV show on CKLW way back when. Pistol Allen, Bob Babbitt and Johnny Griffith were in our band along with three horn players from Windsor.

Dennis

By LTLFTC (12.245.225.79) on Sunday, December 01, 2002 - 04:54 pm:

Dennis ; A promo copy of your "....Black Belt Jones" 45 is currently on ebay. The bidding is already at $155.00 ( ! ) with over a day still to go on the auction.

Steve K.

By g-wiz (68.43.160.189) on Sunday, December 01, 2002 - 10:07 pm:

i went to a wings concert in 1975 or 76 at the old olympia and rosalie thrombley was sitting with bob segar on the main floor about 20 rows back center,