The Frantic One
Trip Start
Mar 02, 2006
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Trip End
Jun 22, 2006
Amsterdam,
Netherlands
Tuesday, April 11, 2006
Listen here: The Frantic One on Radio Free Amsterdam (.mp3)
Ernie Durham was my childhood idol. I listened to him on WBBC, 600 AM in Flint, Michigan. I grew up in a little country town outside of Flint called Davison, Michigan, and my life was saved by the rhythm & blues music that was beamed in to me on the radio by Jumpin' John R, Hoss Allen and Gene Nobles at WLAC in Nashville, Ron Knowles on CKLW 800 AM in Windsor, Ontario, and the Frantic One, Ernie Durham, on WBBC. I started listening to this music around 1952-53, before I turned 12, and Ernie D's frantic voice, inspired patter and exquisite taste in music steered me all the way through high school. It's quite likely that I was tuned in to WBBC on the day in the fall of 1958 that this Frantic Ernie D program was broadcast. I'd like to send this one out to Air Ace Dan Carlisle, all the way out on the West Coast of America: It's your host with the most, your ace from inner space, the Frantic One on the scene with his crazy playing record machine, we got that jumpin' jive that's truly alive and the musical sounds to caress your ears, my dears--nothing but the best, and later for the rest!
I also wanted to call your attention to another RFA offering: the special New Orleans music program created by Cary Wolfson last fall for his Live from the Red Rooster Lounge syndicated radio show. When our radio project fully matures, we hope to license everything the Red Rooster has ever done and put it on Radio Free Amsterdam. But here's the one we've got now, and it's a beauty:
Listen here: The Red Rooster on Radio Free Amsterdam (.mp3)
Once again, thanks for listening.
