The Dick Bailey Era

Click HERE for a compilation of jingles from the Bailey era
(a RealAudio file)
 

The Crazy Kat himself!

Rich Phoenix
 

Newsman Frank Scafidi

P.D. Paul Michaels
 

Darlene Tardive, Bill Squartino, Jackie Rose, and Paul Liefer
 

Morning man Barry Shandalow
and News Director Ann Williams (dec.), December 1977
 

Salesmen John Baumgarten and Cal Stein, December 1977
 

Music Director Wayne Scott and DJ Jackie "Blue" Rose, December 1977

By 1978, most of the staff members shown above had left WRAN.
 

Much of the WRAN staff in 1979.  From left to right:
Steve Table (afternoons), Frank Anthony (news director),
David Kruh (evenings), Kenny Lee (mornings),
Kevin Bowland (mid--days), and Bob Bobber (news)
 

Mid-day man Kevin Bowland in the air studio, circa 1979
 

Morning man and Big Band Parade host David Kruh (right),
with unofficial co-host Bob Pepitone and our guest,
an Al Jolson sound- and look-alike

And at great risk to his middle-age diginity, the webmaster has posted his WRAN aircheck at this LINK
(Truth is it took him three years to compile enough talk-ups to make an aircheck this good...)
 

A party for our new wallpaper (it was a trade, of course) in 1980.  L-R Steve Table,
former chief engineer Ed Benkis, Dick Bailey (owner), and Ed's wife.

This is a true story:  Do you see the brown shirt upon which Nick Sullivan (the Program Director
from 1977 to 1979) is laying?  It was a sleeveless shirt that so enraged Dick Bailey that he fired
Nick when he refused to go home and return in "proper business attire."  Nick went on to WMTR
and ended up on the air in Philadelphia.  No word if he still owns the shirt...
 

So what was it like working for Dick Bailey?  If the previous story
didn't tell you, then the following memo will say it all: