THE FANTASTIC BAGGYS Lp TELL 'EM I'M SURFIN signed Bob Barry WOKY p f sloan
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Rare, white label, promo issue. I've had this in my collection since it's release. Radio station WOKY held a release party and DJ Bob Barry autographed it for me "Spin-Cerely Yours." It's been played, but well-cared for. Cover has some normal looking ring and edge wear. Corners have some creases. Spine, seams are all good. Lp is VG+ sound is great with some minor surface noise. Some scuff markings, but no scratches.
Radio announcers come and go. But there is only one "Beatle" Bob Barry.
For 50 years, the former WOKY-AM disc jockey has had the good fortune to be associated with the greatest music group of all time, largely as a result of emceeing their only Milwaukee appearance.
But it almost didn't happen, because Barry initially turned down the opportunity.
When the promoter asked him to introduce the Beatles at the Milwaukee Arena on Sept. 4, 1964, Barry said during a recent interview, he asked: "What does it pay?" When he was told, "'We're not paying any of the DJs around the country,'" Barry said, he "took a pass."
But WOKY music director Arline Quier "talked me into calling back to say I would do it."
That was bad luck for Eddie Doucette, a DJ at rival Top 40 station WRIT-AM, who had already agreed to emcee the show and who ended up introducing the opening acts: Jackie DeShannon, Bill Black's Combo, The Exciters and New Orleans R&B artist Clarence "Frogmouth" Henry ("Ain't Got No Home").
Fifty years ago Sunday, The Beatles were first introduced to middle America on "The Ed Sullivan Show," leading to a national debate over hair ("the boys reportedly wash their locks daily," the Milwaukee Sentinel reported), fashion and, of course, their music, which no one who watched the show with their parents could have imagined would endure.
By the time the band appeared here nearly seven months later, Barry had been dubbed Milwaukee's de facto fifth Beatle by listeners, and had interviewed the band by phone.
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