Happy Thanksgiving! Ram and Lester....

I just found this on Facebook on one of Barry Mac's posts...another bit of history!  Picture above and explanations follow:

Cliff McGaha

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.

Barry Clarke McCorkindale

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?

 

Cliff McGaha

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.

 

Cliff McGaha

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.

Barry Clarke McCorkindale

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!

 

Cliff McGaha

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.

 

Barry Clarke McCorkindale

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)

A "Beemobile" For KAAY?

 

 

From Facebook, posted by Barry McCorkindale and commented on by Dale "Clyde Clifford" Seidenschwarz:

 

"

 One of the LIN chain at the time. WBBF didn't want it. Pat Walsh somehow snapped it up.

I did a bunch of remotes in that thing. We did a lot of Toy Hills in it.

It went down in it's own funeral pyre on the way back from a remote in Conway.  I was in the Marine Reserve unit and my best friend Wayne Moss did a couple Toys for Tots events glad we got to work together."

Barry: "I KNEW Dale would have some insight into this, thanks!"

 

Thanks, guys!  Bud S. (staceys4@hotmail.com)