Houston Retro Radio - Grady McAllister

11/06/2023

This story is misleading as far as location... in my own area of Southeast Houston. As a former reporter myself, I think that "South Houston" should only refer to the city of that name or things in it such as the high school. The location is not in Clear Lake either. The apartment is on a street which intersects with Scarsdale near Southeast Memorial Hospital.

For some reason, many streets in the area are named after places in New York state.

A man and woman have been taken to the hospital after being shot in south Houston Friday evening.

10/06/2023

Here is something for the New York area...

Featuring on-screen lyrics for your viewing pleasure. "Red Skies" by The Fixx. This is the original version, released in 1982.

12/03/2023

This is just one of four pictures I took from the top of the Exxon Building in November of 1967. It includes the the 2016 Main condo building and the Central National Bank building. The bank building, the one with the temperature, housed radio station KTHT (later called KULF.)

28/02/2023

Anyone who wants to replace red radio tower lights with bright white strobes should be castigated.

There may yet be hope for AM radio, a platform that has seen better days.

26/12/2022

A very modern recording of a Ukrainian Christmas song. In 1994, when I had never bought a single Christmas recording, I received a DJ sampler that contained this song. I bought four Chip Davis CD's that year and now have a good selection of Christmas material.

Music video by Mannheim Steamroller performing Carol of the Bells (Audio). (C) 2015 American Gramaphonehttp://vevo.ly/nMJXMf

29/10/2022

A technical issue... I am finding it difficult to switch from my public page, Houston Retro Radio, and my private page. I need to log out of one to get to the other. I used to move seamlessly between the two.

I have not been able to find a straightforward log in and out page. The only work-around I have is to use a different browser for each page. The net effect has been to discourage spending time adding to this public page.

17/09/2022

This is a serious PSA, not a lampoon...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tu3gd2FulwY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tu3gd2FulwY

1010Global.org made this commercial, "No Pressure," for its 10:10 Campaign -- a worldwide campaign to reduce our carbon emissions by at least 10% in 2010. Th...

10/09/2022

More Bardahl ads.

Prime helped Bardahl Oil tell their compelling story through a montage of vintage commercials, print pieces and photos.

24/07/2022

I was covering the news at KIKK, Houston-Pasadena, the day this story broke....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RBLM6qO0g0

March 27, 1977. At 2pm in the afternoon, a thick fog rolled into the usually quiet Los Rodeos Airport in Tenerife, in the Canary Islands where a terrible tra...

04/07/2022

Here is a bit of radio history.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIlClORPX4s

In this video, I'll focus on the development of radio in the 1920s, from the amateur phase that continued into the early years, to the radio craze beginning ...

04/07/2022

I still remembered the lyric and melody after not seeing this ad for 60 years. I learned that you get the girl if you carry around a can of Bardahl. Also, the only thing bad guys do is mess with your car engine.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eh0Jp7QvPeE

Great 1955 animated commercial for Bardahl Oil in 1955

12/04/2022

A former vice president has a birthday. And there were other events on November 22, 1963. This will give you an idea what network radio news was like in those days... Very different from top 40 stations like KILT.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XmBPHLiCqk

November 22, 1963.

26/03/2022

So, you want to be a song writer?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHlxTiR1zsk

In this episode we take a look at a demo I made with Muddy Magnolia's and where it went. 🎸 The NEW Quick Lessons Pro Course ⇢https://quicklessons.pro👂 The...

27/02/2022

Gary Brooker, lead singer for Procol Harum, has died. I still have their first album in my small vinyl collection. This song still blows me away.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2puubv2e0L4

Footage from 1967 of the first Procol Harum line-up. This promotional film was restored and upgraded by Henry Scott-Irvine in 2008. included in the 2015 rema...

20/02/2022

This is the most memorable moment to ever come out of a United Nations session. It may add some perspective to the current world situation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGm0Jz1ZweE

U.S. ambassador Adlai Stevenson gave a presentation at an emergency session of the Security Council. In his presentation, which attracted national televisio...

02/02/2022

President Kennedy, who had more than his share of health problems for his age, whimsically suggested that Americans take 50-mile hikes to get in shape.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2RsB73S8rI

Some people never get their feet on the ground,They're either sitting in a chair or they're laying downTheir bellies are hanging down on their knees,It's alm...

25/01/2022

I never recorded Fred Nehas off the radio. Here is what I found on You Tube. Nehas was like a Houston version of Paul Harvey. He normally broadcast in the evening, but he once began a morning broadcast with, "TODAY IS THE DAY TO GO AFTER THAT BIG ONE!" After 50 years, I could still hear that voice in my head.

By the way, the Balinese Room was destroyed by Hurricane Ike in 2008, and it has not been rebuilt.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ro3tIaNPuyY

A night to remember. The grand re-opening of the Balinese Room on Galveston Island during the evening of May 21, 1966 with Phil Harris. Narrated by Fred Naha...

07/01/2022

The year to market Soylent Green has arrived.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_jGOKYHxaQ

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20/12/2021

Here is the Jethro Tull Christmas version of Bouree, followed by the original version from the Stand Up album.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhzTbrR82lk

Jethro Tull's re-working of 'Bourée' from their 2003 "Jethro Tull Christmas Album". I have also included their original version at the end.

01/12/2021

I only own about 200 LP's at this point, but I still have the British edition of this album.

Brian Epstein actually died in 1967, not 1966.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5338zRJRLxY

'A Collection of Beatles Oldies' was a popular and highly successful Beatles album worldwide for 20 years before being dumped by EMI/Apple in 1987. Whilst d...

28/11/2021

This is the kind of holiday weekend we are having in Houston.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNlbt607hWY

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26/11/2021

Here is a typical O. Henry story with the typical O. Henry "twist" at the end.

https://americanliterature.com/author/o-henry/short-story/two-thanksgiving-day-gentlemen

Two Thanksgiving Day Gentlemen, a Short Story by O. Henry.

24/11/2021

This article is not very informative as to the history of the Houston parade. I don't always follow local commercial events, but this is the first time I have noticed any mention of an H.E.B. parade.
We certainly have not had such a parade for 72 years. I never even saw an H.E.B. store until I went to Bay City, 80 miles southwest of Houston, in the 1970's. Did they just take over the Foley's parade at some point?

https://www.click2houston.com/news/local/2021/10/20/heres-what-you-need-to-know-about-72nd-annual-h-e-b-thanksgiving-day-parade/

Mayor Sylvester Turner announced the details of the city’s 72nd Annual H-E-B Thanksgiving Day Parade since the COVID-19 pandemic.

21/11/2021

I think of a this scene when I think of women in the military. There has been a nuclear war, and people in Australia are waiting to die. A navy man has a drink with his female assistant. You won't see a scene like this in a current movie.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APHbPsGnSag

One of my favorite scenes.

07/11/2021

This week marks the death of Jay Black of Jay and the Americans.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuWkVqum6a8

NO COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT INTENDED. COPYRIGHTS RESERVED BY COPYRIGHT OWNER.This video is used only for non-profit usage and publishing.http://en.wikipedia.or...

07/11/2021

If you are a clock fan, you get real tired of the time changes. I just wish they would have it the same year-round... either with or without daylight time. The cartoon depicts strange bedfellows.

https://www.dispatch.com/story/opinion/letters/2021/11/06/letters-daylight-saving-time-scourge-must-stopped/6280526001/

Letters to the Editor

10/10/2021

Here is more about Hal McClain. In 1981, I just happened to be at a radio station when people were coming in from his funeral. I never really thought about it this way before, but he was the last person I saw my last day in radio.

https://www.upi.com/Archives/1981/09/19/A-Houston-disc-jockey-who-recently-set-a-world/4729369720000/

A Houston disc jockey, who recently set a world record for inverted flight, was killed Saturday in the crash of his plane during an acrobatic stunt at the...

26/09/2021

Here is a handy reference page that you helped pay for. Notice that Hawaii and Puerto Rico do not observe Daylight Saving Time. Neither does most of Arizona. Most of northeast Arizona does, but you have a little "island in time" in the northeast which does not. Indiana used to have a similarly messy situation.

https://www.time.gov/

The National Institute of Standards and Technology - Time and Frequency Division maintains the standard for frequency and time interval for the United States, provides official time to the United States, and carries out a broad program of research and service activities in time and frequency metrolo...

26/09/2021

This is one of my Galveston historical photos from 1981, a time when when roller skating was in flower on the seawall. I had only been using a 35mm for a few weeks. I had a Sears camera (made by Ricoh) that had only a manual exposure.

I would point the camera away from the sun to set the exposure, and then maintain the same exposure when shooting into the sun. This was usually a good thing since faces would have a good exposure even though the background might have blown out highlights. This slide only required a little editing.

This is one of my Galveston historical photos from 1981, a time when when roller skating was in flower on the seawall.

I had only been using a 35mm for a few weeks. I had a Sears camera (made by Ricoh) that had only a manual exposure.

I would point the camera away from the sun to set the exposure, and then maintain the same exposure when shooting into the sun. This was usually a good thing since faces would have a good exposure even though the background might have blown out highlights. This slide only required a little editing.

22/09/2021

As a former reporter myself, I don't buy the argument that a random shooting in a slum should have equal news value. This story has it all: a vivacious young girl with her whole life ahead of her, an oily boy friend with limited impulse control... all heavily documented in photos and videos and set in some of the most scenic locales in America.

https://www.fox13now.com/news/local-news/eyewitnesses-say-brian-laundrie-argued-in-wyoming-restaurant-hours-before-gabby-petito-vanished

One of the last times Gabby Petito was seen alive involved an explosive argument between Brian Laundrie and wait staff at a Jackson Hole restaurant, according to a New Orleans couple who said they witnessed the spat.