{"id":252,"date":"2007-05-29T08:44:25","date_gmt":"2007-05-29T03:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/keenerpodcast.com\/?p=252"},"modified":"2008-10-13T11:32:45","modified_gmt":"2008-10-13T15:32:45","slug":"mort-crowley-john-landecker-art-vuolo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/?p=252","title":{"rendered":"Mort Crowley \/ John Landecker \/ Art Vuolo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" hspace=0 src=\"https:\/\/keener13.org\/images\/mortcrowley_sm.gif\" align=left border=0>Some new and extended air check material from three guys who influenced or were influenced by WKNR. <a href=\"https:\/\/keener13.org\/jocks\/mort_crowley.htm\">Mort Crowley<\/a> was Keener&#8217;s first morning man. Hot off the heels of a succesfull run in the AM drive slot at WLS and just prior to a long career in St. Louis, the Mortacular Morning Show had a short, memorable run on WKNR. It ended suddenly when Mort quit on the air in March of 1964, after Michigan Bell threatened to cut off Keener&#8217;s phone service unless the station cut back on call volume. By today&#8217;s standards, it feels like Mort was totally justified in his anger, and even as he edges toward the door, his work on the air during his last day in Detroit is stellar. <br \/><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" hspace=0 src=\"https:\/\/keener13.org\/images\/aircheck.gif\" align=baseline border=0\/><a href=\"https:\/\/keener13.org\/MortCrowleyQuits0364.mp3\">Hear it here<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" hspace=0 src=\"https:\/\/keener13.org\/landeckervuolopics.gif\" align=left border=0\/>In 1967, down the road in Ann Arbor, WOIA was the only commercial FM station in town that played popular music in stereo at night. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vuolovideo.com\">Art Vuolo<\/a>, who made a career out of creating radio guides for people who travel, and who is legendary in the industry as broadcasting&#8217;s video archivist, earned an on air slot in the late evenings. He was fond of the &#8220;drop cart&#8221; sound effects that guys like Dick Biondi had perfected over at WCFL and made the most of the station&#8217;s stereo signal by featuring an hour of the stuff during his shift. Even more instersting is the guy who reads the news in this ultra rare aircheck. It&#8217;s a young <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Landecker\">John Landecker<\/a>, practicing his craft as the WOIA news guy. We hear both at the dawn of their long and successful broadcasting careers (and listen closely for the Keener reference). <br \/><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" hspace=0 src=\"https:\/\/keener13.org\/images\/aircheck.gif\" align=baseline border=0\/><a href=\"https:\/\/keener13.org\/LandeckerVuolo0567.mp3\">Hear it here<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[22,81,138,137],"class_list":["post-252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-keener","tag-air-checks","tag-art-vuolo","tag-john-landecker","tag-mort-crowley","wpcat-2-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=252"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":380,"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions\/380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}