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Larry EC-OH

Larry EC-OH

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I was thinking today about all the great farm broadcasters we used to listen to while in the barn milking (by hand of course). I remember Herb Plambeck and Jack Shelley on WHO (Des Moines, Iowa). For those of you blessed to hear Jack on the radio, his voice was pure magic. There was another farm broadcaster from a Cedar Rapids station (I think WMT) that had an early morning program called "Down on the Farm". Can anyone remember who that was?
Who was your favorite farm broadcaster?

Larry
 
Lynn Ketelsen has always done a nice job. Should be on in 18
minutes.

http://www.linderfarmnetwork.com/

Paul
 
Jay Gould on WOWO Ft. Wayne, Ind. His theme song "in a little red barn on the farm down in Indiana, let me lay my back on a stack of new mown hay, in the farmyard where the barnyard folks are pally, let me dilly dally all the live long day." (by Nancy Lee and the Hilltoppers) Then Jay'd come on and say "sit down on the wagon tongue or bale of hay for a visit with our guest this morning". Those were the days when we often heard "Moline mighty mo, moline rarin to go, Moline machines have more power, do more work every hour" then they'd talk about tractors like the new 5 Star.
 
We used to get a short program in the 70's
featuring two guys called "Captain Stubby and
Charles Homer Bill". Very entertaining and usually
ag/rural themed.

And of course Paul Harvey was always on the radio
at noon meals.
 
Larry EC-OH; good topic. I try to listen to a Vernon County gentleman, Orion Samuelson, shortly after noon on a local station. 'Big O' also does 'Your Money' on WGN. Orion celebrated 50 years of broadcasting last year.

I also agree Paul Harvey was great, though maybe not a farm broadcaster. Wish they would replay his 'Rest of the Story' as it is timeless. Paul was a 'wordsmith'.
 
Dave Thorell on KRVN. If you guys never heard him
you missed out on some of the funniest TRUE stories
ever. Him and the Supreme Commander!!!
 
I agree on the Big O. I listen to (actually view) him every Saturday morning on RFD TV with This Week in Agribusiness.

I really do miss Paul Harvey as well.

Larry
 
I don't know if he was my favorite but we listened to Marshall Wells from WJR on the barn radio while we done chores every morning. Then later on it was Howard Heath from the Ann Arbor radio station.
 
I wasn"t on the farm--but WCCO in Minneapolis which was a 50,000 watt clear channel station had Maynard Speece for many many years. He almost always had a companion broadcaster with him but I forget their names right now.
 
I agree with you about Jay Gould. I remember the announcer by the name of Bob Seavers that was on there with him.

Like the others have said, I miss Paul Harvey, also.
 
I don't remember the guys name, but I laughed so hard I had to pull over one morning. He told about going in one of those portable toilets at a farm show. It wasn't real clean, and he was making like an acrobat to prevent touching the seat, walls, and the open (and well splattered) urinal at his elbow. He stood up to do his cleanup, with his shirt-tail in his teeth, when some bruiser ripped the door open, just as a wagon load of people was going past. What a shot - britches around his ankles and shirt tail in his teeth. The people on the wagon all clapped as they drove away, and one crusty old gal hollered, "Are you gonna be here again next year?!!"

He was my favorite farm broadcaster, but he was a visitor of sorts - not on every morning.
 
HARRY ANDREWS W I B C 1070 INDIANAPOLIS he was a crusty old fart! his sidekick for a long time was Al Pell that now does ag-day and u.s. farm report.
 
Eddie Stubbs on WSM in Nashville. 20 years ago he use to do a bluegrass music show in DC that I could pick up. When the wind blows right, I can get WSM in here PA.
 
We listened to Orion on the Sparta station - WCOW I think - when he first started broadcasting many years ago. He hasn't changed much after all the years.
 
Orion Samulsen, early mornings either wkmo or wgn,some 50,000 W CC can't remember, and
Barney Arnold, WHAS Louisville, KY
 
I only remember listening to the Brownfield network on the radio. But I couldn't wait to get out of church to go home and watch the US Farm Report with Orion. I mainly watched it for the IH 86 series commercials. (A cab as quiet as your car!) I still watch Orion on TV and we had him speak at a conference I help put on a few years ago.
 
I remember the Deacon, "The only hired man in the great northeast who's wired for sight and for sound." then he'd sign off with "Grab it and slam it and I'll see you in the mornin'."
 
Does anyone remember Bob Miller on WLW In Cincinnati out
on "Everybodies Farm" broadcasting at milking time .
 
Jay Gould on WOWO out of Ft.Wayne, IN. Most of his buddies are long gone now, Nancy lee and the Hilltoppers only a memory, but Bob Chase still broadcasts. long live AM radio.
 
We had a radio in the cow stable for as long as i
can remember when I was a kid. People said it had
a calming effect on the cows and they milked
easier.
Here in my part of New York State, the farm
broadcaster everybody listened to from the early
forties right up into the sixties was Charles John
Stevenson. His radio name was "The Chanticleer" as
he came on at about five in the morning.
He was broadcast by WGY out of Schenectady which
was one of the earliest, if not the earliest
broadcast stations in the country and quite
powerful in it"s day.
 
I remember Marshall Wells too being on in the morning whlle having breakfast and finishing up chores before I got ready for school and getting on the bus here in Hillsdale County, Michigan.......But, man oh man, that was quite a while ago..?Late 1940"s-early 1950"s. Wonder what ever became of Marshall Wells? Guess I"ll try to look him up.
 
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