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Since this was a 1976 song, I was volunteering at a community station and we didn't play music. This was a year before I began on commmercial radio.
What version garnered more airplay? WITH or WITHOUT the Wolfman?
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The WITHOUT Wolfman version was played very heavily here in the Twin Cities on U100 AM-FM during its final weeks. Once KDWB-AM took over the U100 FM signal that September, I didn't recall hearing "Boogie" there or anywhere else locally.
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The WITHOUT Wolfman version was the ONLY version ever played on all the Boston stations.
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I was living in the Seattle area in 1976. Of the 3 Top-40 stations in the market KTAC played the "no Wolfman" version. I don't recall hearing the song on either KJR or KING.
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Some information: There was a syndicated Wolfman Jack program back then on radio. The stations who didn't carry that program didn't want to air the song with Wolfman. The Promo copies had a version without Wolfman for those stations who didn't want to spotlight the competition in any way. This issue might have even hampered the song's chart success a little.
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Interesting background info, KentT... Thanks!
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KentT wrote:
| Some information: There was a syndicated Wolfman Jack program back then on radio. The stations who didn't carry that program didn't want to air the song with Wolfman. The Promo copies had a version without Wolfman for those stations who didn't want to spotlight the competition in any way. This issue might have even hampered the song's chart success a little. |
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Do you have anything to back this up, or is it just speculation? The Wolfman was everywhere in the mid-70s, and several songs had guest appearances by him ("Clap For The Wolfman", some Canadian act did a remake of "Hit The Road Jack" around that time too, I don't know if it was the real Wolfman or a soundalike in "Don't Call Us We'll Call You"), he even put out a couple singles himself.
I'm guessing it was just a creative decision by Private Stock records to offer an alternate mix of the song & had nothing to do with the Wolfman's syndicated show.
Edited by Hykker on 16 September 2009 at 5:35am
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Our station aired a syndicated Wolfman oldies show on the weekend, but I am certain that this was during the 1980-81-82 time period. While it is certainly possible that the Wolfman was also doing this type of a show back in the summer of '76, I'm not that sure. I know he signed a contract with 660AM/WNBC in late 1974. This was right around the same time that WNBC lured away longtime WABC night jock "Cousin' Brucie" Morrow, as WNBC made their most serious attempt to cut into WABC's NYC market ratings dominanace.
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Mutual Radio Network had a Wolfman Jack show aired on weekends back then in syndication on some Mutual stations. There was a Varese CD reissue of the album and this was explained in the liner notes.
Edited by KentT on 22 December 2009 at 8:24am
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Kent, my experience has been that some liner note writers take more care to research the accuracy of their statements than others do. I have unfortunately found a good number of inaccurate statements made within liner notes. Even as recently as for one of the new James Brown 45 Hip-O Select 2-CD volumes. Liner note info there initially threw Pat and I for a loop when I guest reviewed it for him, and then mentioned the statement to Pat for clarity - we soon 100% disproved it's accuracy. I'm not saying that your Wolfman Varese liner note info is necessarily wrong, Kent. Just keep in mind the horrible gaffe inside the "History-America's Greatest Hits" liner notes. For "Muskrat Love", it laudes Dewey, Gerry And Dan for their "stellar remake of the Captain & Tennille original"!! This is wrong. America's version was the original. Although not a Top 40 hit by them (probably resulting in it sneaking past the writer's awareness), it was released as a 45 back in the summer of '73. This was more than three years before Toni & Daryl's remake hit the Top 10 in the fall of '76.
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I've found a lot of mistakes in liner notes, too. And as for the subject of this thread, I'm reminded of a mistake regarding the Flash Cadillac & Continental Kids CD on Varese Sarabande (albeit, not a liner notes writer's mistake.) I was working with Varese shortly before they started working on this CD, and when they did start, even though I wasn't involved with the project, I encouraged them to include the "without Wolfman Jack" version on the CD as well as the "with" version. They did. But when I inquired about using a stereo version of the "without Wolfman" version, Varese asked the band and they responded that it only existed in mono - the band supplied the mono 45 and that's why there's a mono version of that on the CD! I had recorded the song off the radio back in 1976 and still had the cassette - which was "without Wolfman" IN STEREO - so I don't know why the band denied its existence (they probably just didn't know any better), but I didn't know where my radio station had gotten its stereo version, so there was no info I could give to Varese. This occured long before John Platt explained to me (and us on this board) just where the stereo version existed.
Of course, the fact that there weren't going to be any master tapes used for this CD (Private Stock stuff) made this mistake less painful (for me) because it meant, as a fan of the song, I'd need a good cleaned vinyl version of the song in stereo, which I eventually got with John P's help - he did a nice cleaning and I tweaked it a bit more to make it CD quality.
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Hykker wrote:
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IIRC, you're thinking of the Stampeders (same group that did "Sweet City Woman").
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In my listening area (in 1976) Rhode Island, they never played the Wolfman version. I only ever heard the non-Wolfman.
I remember being very angry when I bought the 45 back then, got it home and stuck it on my record player, and it had Wolfman talking all over that awesome song.
So I had to make due with my K-Mart Cassette recording off the radio station...for YEARS! :-(
I have the track now, and it is SO great to hear it without you-know-who.
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hykker wrote:
I don't know if it was the real Wolfman or a soundalike in "Don't Call Us We'll Call You"
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I'm reasonably sure that it was Jerry Corbetta doing an impression of the Wolfman.
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The station I worked for played this track first in the market, "With Wolfman Jack" and we didn't even carry the Wolfman Jack program (And we were a staunchly Mutual affiliate to the network's demise). Our PD felt like Wolfman's part, rea1ly made the song.
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sriv94 wrote:
hykker wrote:
I don't know if it was the real Wolfman or a soundalike in "Don't Call Us We'll Call You"
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Actually, it was Wolfman Jack himself who contributed the brief "Stereo 92" line in Sugarloaf/Jerry Corbetta's "Don't Call Us, We'll Call You". But there were other hit songs that had imitations of Wolfman's trademark gravelly voice... Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show's "The Cover of 'Rolling Stone'" and the Pipkins' "Gimme Dat Ding" immediately come to mind.
Just a few weeks ago, I listened to streaming audio of an old syndicated Wolfman Jack show and it made me feel like I missed out on a golden era of radio. Unfortunately, his career had pretty much wound down by the time I was even old enough to know and appreciate who he was.
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Interestingly, I was at a used book store an hour from my
house that sells used records and found a 45 of "Did You
Boogie" for $1. It looked hardly played, so I bought it
and lo and behold it's the stereo non-Wolfman version
(PVT-1184-1; it has "AZ" followed by what looks like 2
stick drawn seagulls a 1/4 turn or so afterwards).
I'm so used to the Wolfman version from the "Have A Nice
Day" series that this sounds off. I don't remember
hearing this song much back in the day, so I don't know
what version was played in the Milwaukee area.
A year or two after this record came out, however, I had
an opportunity to stand in a long line to meet Wolfman
Jack and get his autograph. Even though I was probably
12, I thought of him as a huge star back then. Ahh, the
days of radio personalities.
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jono wrote:
I'm so used to the Wolfman version from the "Have A Nice
Day" series that this sounds off. I don't remember
hearing this song much back in the day, so I don't know
what version was played in the Milwaukee area.
Jon O.
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I don't even remember the song at all. I don't think it was played around the stations in STL. I'm probably wrong about that though as I seem to be saying that a lot.
I'm guessing if they did play it, it must have died out quickly.
I listened to a non-Wolfman version on youtube, and it didn't ring any bells for me. I'm going to pull down the Have a nice Day series and listen to the Wolfman.
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I've had several 45 RPM singles of this track, all of them
are Wolfman Jack version. Jono, where are you from? In the
Eastern Tennessee area, all I've seen is Wolfman Jack. I
saw your deadwax info, thanks. I hope to find a copy.
Edited by KentT on 03 March 2022 at 8:37pm
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Sorry for the misposting earlier. There was a US military
recruiting Wolfman Jack show from recruiters. This was his
Armed Forces Radio Show on Public Service transcription
discs. As weekend air talent and studio engineer when "Did
You Boogie" was new, these discs were common fare for me
as fill ins when I needed to repair automation equipment
in the day. We didn't play them all the time, but when we
needed fill in music on the AM side, those got saved for
me to air.Went through storage, and found I had one. It is
also US Air Force.
Edited by KentT on 03 March 2022 at 8:48pm
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