pie8me
77 posts
Nov 11, 2009
10:49 AM
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Remember WVUD, 'The Radio Station' in the 70's and 80's? Here is an informative article about the station on a UD website.
http://www.flyersports.com/cgi/coranto/viewnews.cgi?id=EEVkAkAkAEWpqVMrJp
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samstone
45 posts
Nov 12, 2009
5:34 PM
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I loved that station back in the day. I looked forward to The Wax Museum so I could tape albums. WVUD played great songs on albums, and artists that were not the top 40 stuff. It was part of a movenemt called "underground music". Many artists/songs we would never have heard of if not for this free spirited format.
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Sgot
2 posts
Nov 22, 2009
11:12 AM
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WVUD was great in the early/mid '70s. You'd hear things there that wouldn't surface anywhere else around town... Captain Beyond, Babe Ruth, & Charlee come to mind.
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JohnC
106 posts
Jan 05, 2010
12:52 PM
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My favorite DJ at WVUD was Patty Spitler. What a class act. She ended up at WISH-TV in Indianapolis where she worked for 23 years before retiring in 2004. She was pretty much stone deaf when she retired from Meniere's Disease. She worked daily for nearly twenty years on TV with impaired hearing. Heart of gold and a very nice person...
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Bigmo
29 posts
Jan 05, 2010
1:38 PM
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A big thumbs up to the Patty Spitler post. She was my favorite back then as well.
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KFodor
1 post
Jan 23, 2010
10:57 PM
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WVUD was an early "AOR" or Album Oriented Rock station as Bigmo suggests.
It was a station with student DJ's, but...was professionally run, as a commercial FM station. As a student at Miamisburg High School, I would go over to the station's studios in Kennedy Union and hang out with some of the DJ's.
Patty Spitler was one of the DJ's who made their careers from a start at WVUD. She later did mornings on WTUE before eventually making her move to television. (I have heard from her in the past year via e-mail...and she is well.)
Other graduates included Dan Pugh...who moved to WTUE, then moved to sports at Channel 2, then to CNN as "Dan Patrick". The rest is history.
Alan "Mike" McConnell from WLW also began at WVUD. And that's just a small part of the list.
WVUD was..."the radio station".
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KennyE11
8 posts
Jan 29, 2010
11:00 PM
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KFodor - It's interesting that you omitted ESPN from Dan Patrick's career progression.
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dixiehwy25
5 posts
Oct 31, 2010
7:20 PM
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Where I was at in Dayton, WVUD and WDAO were the coolest stations. Patty Spitler and Turk Logan (WDAO) co-DJ'd a fund-raising dance our Class (1979) at Colonel White held. Big event. It was beyond cool...
I got turned on to jazz guitar when Patty played George Benson's "Breezin'" on Wax Museum. The track "Affirmation" seized me. Bought the album the next dsy.
I participated in a science education program at UD when in high school. Used to walk by the studios and watch the morning DJ. I always got a wave.
Last Edited by on Oct 31, 2010 7:24 PM
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AllenN71
102 posts
Nov 01, 2010
2:42 PM
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A lot of us at Wayne HS thought WVUD was an "underground" station. I seem to remember the theme of playing an album as a complete work of art instead of just excising the "hit tunes". It worked with the Beatles and Grateful Dead. Iron Butterfly... not so much.
Of course everybody remembers the crass jokes about the "v" and the "d" ib WVUD?
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Bigmo
45 posts
Nov 02, 2010
12:57 PM
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AllenN71, yes VUD played an album each evening preceeded by a guitar strum tone to let you turn on your home tape recorder, and shut it off again when you heard the tone after the end of the last song.
Swampy Meadows over at UDPride.com has blogged quite a bit about WVUD.
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samstone
103 posts
Nov 02, 2010
5:44 PM
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Anybody remember WVUD's first commercial? It went, "Beer,Beer,Beer,Beer,Beer,Beer,Beer,Beer,Beer,Beer,Beer,Beer,Beer,Beer........"
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RCINKY
20 posts
Nov 05, 2010
6:59 AM
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Wasn't the album playing session called the wax museum? Also, do you remember the contest they did one time where the started calling themselves munchy carrot VUD?
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wolfcreek
2 posts
Aug 02, 2011
1:01 PM
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For a long time the VUD theme song was Joni Mitchell's "You Turn Me On (I'm a Radio)." Whenever I hear that song now, at the very end when Joni is sort of humming, I can still hear the announcer saying "WVUD. FM 100."
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PaulH
44 posts
Aug 02, 2011
4:53 PM
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Loved WVUD. Specially when cruising in my Vette. 1st car I had with an AM/FM stereo radio. 1971. Thats when I heard Zappa for the first time and DynaMo Hum. I couldn't believe that was coming from a radio station. Parked at Deweese parkway with a date and sipping on some fine wine (Strawberry Hill). Keeping an eye out for cops too.
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thomas6
39 posts
Aug 03, 2011
1:41 PM
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oh yea WVUD,that brings back very good memories,one of my friends had a old chevy station wagon,we hook up house speakers to the ole 8 track/stereo radio,head out smokin a big ole hooter,blasting WVUD,and drive endlessly up and down dixie/keowee i think about 10 mph,waiting to hear the whole iron butterflies inagadadavida,i think that was how its spelled,if we had enough money sometimes go to the drive in.
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pie8me
111 posts
Aug 04, 2011
6:52 AM
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They played a radio serial called "The Fourth Tower of Inverness" on Sunday nights in 1970 or so. It involved a castle who's mysterious 4th tower only appeared under special conditions. The series was actually examining all sorts of metaphysical phenomena. Zen, reincarnation, astral projection and such. It could be quite funny, too. I remember enjoying it as a teenager. It's available online, here is the site with a free sample:
http://www.zbs.org/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=1
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Bigmo
62 posts
Aug 09, 2011
12:12 PM
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One of WVUD's community responsibility deals was airing "The Challenge of Modern-Day Marriage," with Father Norbert Burns. It didn't run on early Sunday mornings when most radio stations run their community programming, it ran on weekdays. Not being Catholic, I always cracked up that a person who will never marry was counseling others about marriage. He didn't have a voice for radio to say the least, talking very slowly and stilted.
Last Edited by on Aug 09, 2011 12:14 PM
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joeferrara
1 post
Aug 10, 2011
6:15 PM
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Does anybody remember: Bob Sweeney, Charlie Van Zant
and Kelley McMannus in the morning?
Last Edited by on Aug 10, 2011 6:15 PM
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