Baby It's Cold Outside.....

ReturnOfTheCoolOne
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Well, actually it's not.

Cold outside, I mean.

But the frost has touched down at Harvey O's place.

Or, to be more precise, Mr. Frosty has surfaced over at Mr. Oberfeld's blog.

And, yes, we are talking about 'that' Mr. Frosty.

Forst became "Frosty" in 1960, when he was hired by CFUN. There he teamed up with Al Jordon, Dave McCormick, Ken Chang and Brian Lord to become the Good Guys, who were on air 24 hours a day with modern music, bringing the local radio market into the modern world.

Three years later, a lot of the CFUN staff had moved on. Forst took his father's advice and went to CKNW, where he was hired by program director Hal Davis in 1964. From there he worked his way up to a million dollar salary contract, top ratings, and 31 years as the morning voice of CKNW. His ratings in Canada are unsurpassed.

And what's more, he's hangin' out in the comment threads.....if you go to this post you'll see what I mean.....pay special attention to the top and bottom of the thread.....it's pretty entertaining.

In a whacky, "better-days-of-a-Lotusland-long-since-past", kind of way, of course.

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Just to keep everybody up to speed, one of the commenters that outs Mr. Forst at the end of the thread, AG Tsakumis, used to work for Wee Willy V. which, I think, explains the subtext to his comment (which is at the very bottom of the thread).

In the old days, B.t.Z. (ie. 'Before the Zalm'), when I was in gradual school and my then girlfriend, now wife, C. made most of the money (such as it was), we lived in an apartment in Kits (back when you could still rent 'em - heckfire we even moved down the street once). Anyway, C. was hooked on Mr. Forst's morning radio show (truth be told, I think she kind of liked that 'On-The-Buses' segment with Bill Good Sr. even more). Unfortunately, however, one day tragedy struck. Apparently, that very morning Frosty said something disparaging (gasp!) about The King, Richard Brodeur, who by then was pretty much on his last legs as the Canucks pre-zeppelin-sized leg pad goalie. Anyway, when I got home from the lab later that night (with the telltale residue of a revello on my lips) there was big, hand-written sign above the kitchen tabl that said 'Frosty Must Go!' in 144 pt type....I think we listened to Hal Wake for a couple of weeks straight after that.....


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