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How much money do you suppose all those very rich athletes put back into the communities they all came from.
America is the World’s customer and because of that, I wonder what plans the rest of the world is coming up with to help us with our economy so we can continue to purchase their products.
Jamie Gold told me she had finally figured out why a lot of people in the building didn’t like me. She went on to say it seemed that all the very talented people loved me, but the others were afraid of me, so they tended to dislike me.
Except for my daughters Candis and Cami plus my niece Christina, I find that women in general are not as innocent as they appear to be.
By failing a couple or three times I finally figured out what I should have done in the first place.
It is said that to be good at anything takes 10,000 hours of practice, so I figure with this writing thing I’m trying to learn how to do I’ve got about 8000 to go. I hope you can hang in there with me.
Jim Hilliard said, Johns, I’ve been reading your stuff, why are you giving away all the secrets. I told him not to worry because I didn’t think there were many people left in radio anymore who understood much of anything I was saying.
Lennon & McCartney said they were too busy trying to rhyme their stuff to be able to also have hidden meanings between the lines also.
My stuff doesn’t need to rhyme so I have a ton of stuff between the lines.
Charlie Minor once said to me as we were leaving Herb Alpert’s office at A&M that even though his boss liked me and liked my special project, nothing would happen because what I wanted to do would take some work. He said they just like to record new acts, and even though they are wrong nine times out of ten, they are all Billionaires.
My Brother Reg said to me right out of the blue as we were sitting on the deck of our place in the beautiful Canadian Rockies one evening over looking Okanagan Lake, he was sipping Tequila, I was drinking Canadian Club … Hey Bro. I’m not into pretentious s#%t anymore he said, I just don’t need it, and I don’t want it anymore. I nodded to him continuing to drink my whisky and wondering where this was going.
He then said, but of course I still need to live in a nice place and I guess I still need to have a decent ride parked in the garage.
I thought about his statement for a moment or two then turned to him and said, so what your really saying to me Bro is your just not going to dress up anymore.
When I was a kid back in the mid 60′s my group The Jury had the # 1 Canadian record in Canada. Does anybody know how long it takes for the Royalty checks to show up ?
My Dad said … Son in this house we work, so you have to get a job. If playing the guitar was work it would be called working the guitar.
I’ve noticed when I pick up my now 8th grade daughter at school all the girls seem to have cell phones in their hands and are texting.
Very few of the same age guys are but then again most of them are still riding bikes and the girls wouldn’t be caught dead on them.
My Brother Reg and I have a lot of things in common, one of them being that fact that school just didn’t seem to finish up in our top 5 of what you would call great achievements.
But his daughter Christina is headed off to England to do some courses at Cambridge.
My Daughter Candis ended up on The Dean’s list at NYU, and graduated from UCLA with honors.
My youngest Daughter CAMI is going into the 8th grade gifted program at Wellington Landings.
What I’m trying to say here is another thing Reg and I have in common is we obviously chose the right Mothers for our children.
Jim Hilliard was once queried about why he tolerated my ranting and raving which I generally did in the vicinity of the sales office.
He responded with … I hate when George does that, but something wonderful always seems to happen soon after he’s done.
Greg Tantum said to me one afternoon at the 5pm cocktail party held daily in my office at KOGO/KPRI in San Diego … So George there I was lying next to this beautiful young radio groupie and she says to me, Greg do you want me to (Wait a minute, wait a minute, I can’t finish this line, my daughters read this stuff)
All women understand the need for alimony and child support until it has to be sent to the EX.
Who you know has always been a way over rated. It’s who knows you, is where all the money is.
Gene Pitney told me at a party in Winnipeg 1963 that we would all be wearing our hair like his little boy look soon, because a group was coming that was going to change the world. That group was four guys that had opened for him all over Europe and they were called The Beatles.
Jack McCoy was the only guy I ever knew that could go out and sell a product first then come back to the office and invent it. But I would recommend the rest of you just stick to selling the product. What do you mean they took all the product away. Stop whining, just keep pretending you have one like you’ve been doing.
Tim Reever told me that selling without ratings creates character.
Ron Chapman told me when we first starting working together that he wanted to become so big in Dallas, he would have difficulty walking down the street.
It is tough to lose when someone has that attitude. We didn’t, and I still don’t think Ron can walk down the street.
My daughter Cami just finished 7th grade and I said to her on the way home … Now that you will be going into 8th grade in the fall will you be treating the new 6th grade girls who are coming to scary middle school, better that the 8th grade girls treated you when you first appeared.
She said no, In fact I wont even talk to them. Dad they are all still wearing Limited Too !
I mentioned to Bill Gardner the other day that you can’t play music on AM unless it’s very special. He told me a few days later that line became his new on air slogan.
Didn’t the old owners of GM get free cars with their deal ? Now that we own it I’m thinkin’ maybe I should try that new Corvette for a while.
OK so I finally figured out why things like the money angel needed to be forwarded to all my friends and family instantly or great harm would come to me.
They of course were collecting e mail addresses.
Now I’m ready to investigate why even when my hands are completely full, no matter how small or how big the purchase is they insist I take the receipt.
Why do I have a feeling that receipt isn’t about us ?
I think most things done for safety reasons today have nothing to do with safety.
There is no morale problem at a wining radio station so you don’t have to have any of those silly motivational parties, but rating parties, well that’s a different story.I’ve been lucky enough to have attended a few of those, and the only way to describe them is … Life changing.
My Daughter Candis told me recently that she embarrassingly lost it with my Grandson Nathaniel and was ranting and raving at him ( I don’t know where she got that kind of behavior, must be from her Mother.) about how he better stop his whining and also stop being so wimpy because when he went back to school in the fall, someone was going to beat him up. Her husband Charlie then interjected with … Candis he is going to Kindergarten, not a prison.
As a few people have come to painfully be aware of over the years. I tend to only tease the people I love.
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