I just found this on Facebook on one of Barry Mac's posts...another bit of history! Picture above and explanations follow:
That's
me in the bathtub. Had a lot of fun doing those ads with Ray. Ray was
so strange. He would not let anybody see him doing Ram's voice. Even me.
He would take my hat and cover his face.
YOU'RE
the one! I'd posted a "Ray & Ram" picture from this time period of
1980 back a couple of years ago, but no one could definitely identify
who "Ram" was. Did you work at the station?
Barry Clarke McCorkindale
I wore several hats. I started as an engineering intern from UALR s RTV
dept. I worked under Dave Montgomery. I became so close with Dave he
was my Best Man when I got married in '85. I helped build and ran the
Portable Party Machine. If you ever saw the T-shirts for the party
machine I designed those too.
I
retired from the audio and video business but noe I have McGaha's Gizmo
Studio. I build and sell Bluetooth Art pieces from old radios. If your
interested you can see and hear them at Consign Design in Maumelle.
Never
met Dave, but remember the name very, very well. And I know about
Consign Design, as I work at Martinous, and we recommend to our
customers who have rugs (NICE rugs) they're trying to sell to contact
them. Sounds like I need to get out there and check out what you got!
Barry Clarke McCorkindale
I got to work with the whole crew from Rockford. C.David Hamilton, Joe
James, Dan Campbell and Jack Randall. They were a crazy bunch. Talk
about being dipped into a bunch of DJs. Dave and I took them out as
hosts to make extra money on The Party Machine. We travelled all over
Arkansas and even up into Missouri. KAAY was the only station they could
get late at night in some of those places. I even did a dance on the
Hogtrain going from Little Rock to New Orleans for the Sugar Bowl
against Alabama. The party machine was built using Cart Machines so we
were the only dance system that could handle the bumpy ride in a mail
car behind the Locomotive.Still remember Jack Randall's tag line he used, I think, every day - "...with the fury of a thousand jungle beasts..."
Thanks to Barry Mac on this Thanksgiving 2020!
Bud S. (staceys4@hotmail.com)
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