Lost a longtime friend this week
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From: Southside Vajenya
Lost a longtime friend this week
A guy I've been friends with since high school died of a massive heart attack Thanksgiving Day.
John's family owned the local radio station, low-power AM and FM. When we were in high school in early 70s, John talked his dad into letting us high school kids have a "deep cuts" show like we heard on the area's rocknroll powerhouse, WQDR in Raleigh.
Mr Cole thought about it a couple days and agreed to let us do it with two conditions: 1) everything we played had to adhere to his licensing agreements and 2) it had to be after the older audience had "gone to bed".
So, from 8:30pm to 11pm signoff, we played rock and roll Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday nights on WHLF-FM in South Boston VA. One boy's dad ran an Exxon station and when Buddy was done with oil changes at noon on Saturday he'd head to Raleigh to Schoolkids Records and spend his whole paycheck on new albums- some of which ended up on air that same night.
John makes the third of the crew to pass. Don Joseph, the voice, passed last year and Henry Jeff Puryear who did the manic introductions died in 2007.
This is the first cut we played, Saturday October 28 1972. RIP John L Cole III. You were a consummate radio man and a hell of a good guy.
*edit* can someone fix the link so it works? 9 times out of 10 on this forum I can't get links to function🤬
John's family owned the local radio station, low-power AM and FM. When we were in high school in early 70s, John talked his dad into letting us high school kids have a "deep cuts" show like we heard on the area's rocknroll powerhouse, WQDR in Raleigh.
Mr Cole thought about it a couple days and agreed to let us do it with two conditions: 1) everything we played had to adhere to his licensing agreements and 2) it had to be after the older audience had "gone to bed".
So, from 8:30pm to 11pm signoff, we played rock and roll Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday nights on WHLF-FM in South Boston VA. One boy's dad ran an Exxon station and when Buddy was done with oil changes at noon on Saturday he'd head to Raleigh to Schoolkids Records and spend his whole paycheck on new albums- some of which ended up on air that same night.
John makes the third of the crew to pass. Don Joseph, the voice, passed last year and Henry Jeff Puryear who did the manic introductions died in 2007.
This is the first cut we played, Saturday October 28 1972. RIP John L Cole III. You were a consummate radio man and a hell of a good guy.
*edit* can someone fix the link so it works? 9 times out of 10 on this forum I can't get links to function🤬
Last edited by rocketraider; Nov 29, 2021 at 09:09 PM.
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I fixed your link. Condolences on the passing of your friend, I have lost a few friends that I went to HS with over the past few years. I think back to the days we were invincible through music with a lot of fond memories of the great times we shared. RIP Frank, Tony, and John.
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