PARTY MEMORIES!

    WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 12TH., 2018
                   PARTY MEMORIES!

    Every now and then, on special

occasions, I pull out a classic Blog

from "Double Dee's Dusty Dungeon."

    December 12th is one of those days!

    It is "National My Ding-A-Ling Day!"

    According to the web site Holiday Insights

it's a day you "should brace yourself for bizarre

and crazy behavior, from all of the people you

encounter. Even normally conservative people

have been known to go a little crazy on this day."

    The title brings to mind one of the most

memorable Christmas parties I ever attended

when I and my radio partner went a little

crazy!

     It was 1972. In addition to being the News

Director of WILK I wrote a daily comedy skit

about a nutty inventor I called "Mr. Chemistry."

    My buddy Bill Dennis acted the part of the

accident prone professor  while I provided the

voice of his inquisitive next door neighbor kid

Bobby.

    That same year Chuck Berry released the

popular novelty record "My Ding-A-Ling."

    The song tells of how the singer received a toy

consisting of "silver bells hanging on a string" from

his grandmother, who calls them his "ding-a-ling."

    You didn't hear it much on WILK (which

was a Top 40 music station back then.)  One of

our owners, Leon Schwartz, ordered it

pulled from the air as being "objectionable."

     That year, at the Christmas Party, Bill,

dressed as Mr Chemistry, and I, dressed as

Bobby, unveiled the professor's newest

invention. It was an Automatic Gift Selector

Machine!

     When Mr. Schwartz's name was fed into our

apparatus it produced a gold copy of Berry's

recording! With our hearts in our throats we

presented it to our boss!

      Fortunately for us,  though he hated the song,

he loved the joke!

      Isn't Christmas Spirit wonderful!?

     Coincidentally it was our last Christmas at

the station. We both left for "greener pastures"

by 1973. No! It had nothing to do with our gift

presentation!

     But one of my favorite "Ghosts of Christmas

Past" will always feature a little gold record by

Chuck Berry, a DJ in a Lab coat, and a usually

dignified newscaster in short pants and a Beanie

hat with a propeller on top!

     Regrettably I don't have a photo of the affair.

You'll just have to use your imagination!

      Hope you've got some great Christmas

memories, and that all your NEWS is good!