{"id":5886,"date":"2010-03-28T01:45:08","date_gmt":"2010-03-28T01:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fadingad.wordpress.com\/?p=5886"},"modified":"2013-08-13T03:22:19","modified_gmt":"2013-08-13T03:22:19","slug":"77-wabc-harlem-nyc-cousin-brucie-dan-ingram-long-island-boys-the-1965-1977-blackouts-campbell-soup-alison-steele-the-nightbird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/2010\/03\/28\/77-wabc-harlem-nyc-cousin-brucie-dan-ingram-long-island-boys-the-1965-1977-blackouts-campbell-soup-alison-steele-the-nightbird\/","title":{"rendered":"77 WABC &#8211; Harlem, NYC &#8212; Cousin Brucie &amp; Dan Ingram &#8211; Long Island Boys &#8211; The 1965 &amp; 1977 Blackouts &#8211; Campbell Soup &#8211; Alison Steele, The Nightbird"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fadingad.com\/blog\/manhattan\/harlem_wabc_razorcoil.jpg?resize=500%2C667\" width=\"500\" height=\"667\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u00a9\u00a0Frank H. Jump<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WABC_(AM)\" target=\"_blank\">WABC 77AM<\/a> &#8211; Wikipedia<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"580\" height=\"327\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/J5tbovndVg8?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><em>Bruce Morrow<\/em><\/strong><em> (born <\/em><strong><em>Bruce Meyerowitz<\/em><\/strong><em> on October 13, 1937 in\u00a0Brooklyn, New York) is an\u00a0American radio personality, known to many\u00a0New York metropolitan area listeners as <\/em><strong><em>Cousin Brucie<\/em><\/strong><em>.<\/em> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bruce_Morrow\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><em>Daniel Trombley &#8220;Dan&#8221; Ingram<\/em><\/strong><em> (born September 7, 1934 in <\/em><em>Oceanside, New York<\/em><em>) is an American <\/em><em>Top 40 radio<\/em><em> <\/em><em>disc jockey<\/em><em> with a forty-year career on radio stations such as <\/em><em>WABC<\/em><em> and <\/em><em>WCBS-FM<\/em><em> in <\/em><em>New York<\/em><em>. &#8211; <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dan_Ingram\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"580\" height=\"327\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7773uRUFg0k?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Northeast_Blackout_of_1965\" target=\"_blank\">November 9, 1965 Northeastern Seaboard Blackout<\/a> &#8211; Wikipedia<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fadingad.com\/blog\/manhattan\/North_America_blackout_1965.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fadingad.com\/blog\/manhattan\/North_America_blackout_1965-crop.png?resize=500%2C559\" width=\"500\" height=\"559\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Area affected by the 1965 Northeast Blackout &#8211; Wikipedia (click for larger image)<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It&#8217;s funny where my searches will take me when I put together a blog posting. In researching WABC&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Theme_music\" target=\"_blank\">theme song<\/a> on YouTube, I found two great clips (both recently deleted) of two of my favorite DJs of my youth Bruce Morrow and Dan Ingram. The one with Ingram featured the moment the 1965 Blackout began in NYC. I remember I was watching <em>I Love Lucy <\/em>on our two-toned green Zenith black and white TV when the lights began to flicker.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 529px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.oaktreeent.com\/web_photos\/radios_tv%27s\/57_RCA_PORTABLE.JPG\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fadingad.com\/blog\/manhattan\/57_RCA_PORTABLE-watercolor.jpg?resize=519%2C508\" width=\"519\" height=\"508\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">1957 RCA two-toned green Portable TV<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"580\" height=\"327\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cdF-CsxqDko?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It was late autumn and the sun was already going down. My mom Willy was on the phone with her friend Barbara who lived a few doors down in our Laurelton Queens garden apartment. Then the TV tube gave one last gasp and the screen shrank into a glowing dot as the lights went out. Before I knew it, Barbara and her three kids &#8211; Dawn (my first girlfriend) &#8211; and her fraternal twin brothers David and Lester, crying from down the block &#8211; were in our apartment. I was hungry. I found a flashlight and got some candles and our camping stove. I lit some candles and started to make some Campbell&#8217;s Tomato Soup. I was five years old. I have since always done well in emergencies.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fadingad.com\/blog\/manhattan\/campbell-soup-1957-ad-cvr-e3535.jpg?resize=500%2C235\" width=\"500\" height=\"235\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Campbell Soup Co. envelope &#8211; Brass Dragon<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fadingad.com\/blog\/manhattan\/campbells-soup-good-foof-meter-slogan-close-e9861.jpg?resize=500%2C318\" width=\"500\" height=\"318\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Campbell Soup postage meter slogan &#8211; Brass Dragon<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fadingad.com\/blog\/manhattan\/campbell-soup-1957-ad-cvr-back-e3536.jpg?resize=500%2C239\" width=\"500\" height=\"239\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Campbell Soup Company envelope &#8211; Brass Dragon<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">After the 1960s, I became a fan of the WNEW DJs since I was by the early 70&#8217;s an AOR (Album Oriented Rock) listener and we had moved to Howard Beach to escape the oppressive &#8220;bussing&#8221; experiment implemented to racially integrate NYC schools. Jonathan Schwartz, Vince Scelsa &amp; Alison Steele were my favs. I remember calling Alison Steele regularly to request Yessongs. She got to know my voice after a while. &#8220;Hey Frank,&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alison_Steele\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Nightbird<\/em><\/a> would say with her breathy, smoky voice &#8211; &#8220;Wanna here something from Yes?&#8221; \u00a0 &#8220;And here is <em><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Heart_of_the_Sunrise\" target=\"_blank\">Heart of the Sunrise<\/a><\/em><em> <\/em>for Frankie in Howard Beach.&#8221; I was listening to Alison Steele during the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_York_City_blackout_of_1977\" target=\"_blank\">1977 Blackout<\/a>. She had just announced that Yes&#8217; <em><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Going_for_the_One\" target=\"_blank\">Going for the One<\/a><\/em> album was going on sale with an early NY release when the lights went out.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fadingad.com\/blog\/manhattan\/going-for-the-one.jpeg?resize=500%2C500\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Going For The One &#8211; Yes &#8211; 1977<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It was the day before Bastille Day, hot and sticky. I worked a 48 hour shift at JFK that day and the following day I drove to Sam Goody in Green Acres to buy the album. I drove there in record time on South Conduit without any traffic lights. I miss you Nightbird.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 346px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/a\/ae\/AlisonSteele.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fadingad.com\/blog\/manhattan\/AlisonSteele.jpeg?resize=336%2C364\" width=\"336\" height=\"364\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alison Steele &#8211; The Nightbird &#8211; 1937-1995<\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Alison Steele<\/strong> (born\u00a0<strong>Ceil Loman<\/strong> on January 26, 1937; died September 27, 1995) was a pioneering\u00a0American disc jockey in\u00a0Manhattan at what would become the\u00a0archetypal progressive rock radio station in the United States,\u00a0WNEW-FM. She was commonly known as &#8220;<strong>The Nightbird<\/strong>&#8220;. She also became a\u00a0writer,\u00a0television producer,\u00a0correspondent, and an\u00a0entrepreneur. &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alison_Steele\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WABC 77AM &#8211; Wikipedia Bruce Morrow (born Bruce Meyerowitz on October 13, 1937 in\u00a0Brooklyn, New York) is an\u00a0American radio personality, known to many\u00a0New York metropolitan area listeners as Cousin Brucie. &#8211; Wikipedia Daniel Trombley &#8220;Dan&#8221; Ingram (born September 7, 1934 in Oceanside, New York) is an American Top 40 radio disc jockey with a forty-year [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[271,710,1052,1269,1270,1277,1688],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campbell-soup","category-harlem","category-music","category-radio-djs","category-radio-stations","category-razor-wire","category-yes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pXBbJ-1wW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5886"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13848,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5886\/revisions\/13848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}