Ian Howarth: Rockin' Radio Days.

Ian Howarth taught in Montreal for many years, and one of his
passions was radio. He knew one day he would want to write a book
about all those wonderful moments and sounds that emanated from
great radio stations like 1490 CFOX, 980 CKGM, and later CHOM
97.7 once AOR became a thing in the early 70's. In this episode
you'll hear names like Dave Boxer, Charles P. Rodney Chandler.
(Chuck Chandler) Marc "Mais Oui" Denis, Ralph Lockwood and many
more.


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Special Thanks to Marc "Mais Oui" Denis for keeping great
Montreal radio memories alive. His fantastic page is here. We
used a small clip in our podcast but there are many more to be
enjoyed.


We discussed things like the Beatles first appearance in Montreal
which Ian later added:


"The band had received threats based on the assumption that Ringo
Starr was Jewish. There were also alleged bomb threats phoned in
to a local radio station. Unfortunately, the Starr threats were
the result of an anti-Semitic sentiment that still runs deep in
this province (McGill faculty of medicine had Jewish applicant
quotas, for example) and the boys were there for the beginning of
what was called the Quiet Revolution, which evolved into a
not-so-quiet revolution when the FLQ got up and running. The
anger towards the Beatles would have been a part of the
Amit-English sentiment going around at the time; the Queen, the
language and in the case of the Beatles was all part of decades
old anger to anything British, the colonizer, a word making a
come back these days."


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