The Daily Tar Heel Thursday, August 21, 19865
WTRG, 100.7 FM, spins classic rock in the Triangle
By JIM ZOOK
Editor
Point of information: Radio
listeners tuning in to 100.7 on the
FM dial Aug. 14 were not listening
to a fickle disc jockey aimlessly
spinning the fight songs of the
Triangle's three major universities.
Featuring an adult
' contemporary format, WTRG-FM
signed on the air last week and
offers area listeners yet another
choice to turn to for rock'n'roll.
WTRG, whose call letters are
derived from "The Triangle" area,
will feature "classic hits" program
ming with music from the mid
1960s through 1980, said Johna
than Crawford, the station's
general manager.
"People ask us to describe our
radio station," Crawford said. "We
like to describe it as a mixture of
Motown, The Big Chill, Wood
stock, Saturday Night Live,
Animal House, Beverly Hills Cop
and David Letterman. We just
believe that it is a format that
evokes feelings in people."
The station's initial 24 hours of
broadcasting apparently caught
people's attention. Crawford said
that approximately 1,100 calls
poured into the office asking why
the station repeatedly played the
fight songs from UNC, N.C State
and Duke.
"Those are three of the best songs
from this area," Crawford said.
"They're not often heard on the
radio, so we decided to play them.
It got a lot of media attention." ;
At 4 p.m., Aug. 15, "Time Won't
Let Me," a 1960s classic by The
Old stars come out for PBS rock 'n' roll hour
By ROBERT BARR
Associated Press Writer
NEW YORK - What becomes
a legend most? Modesty, in many
cases, and some of the names
rounded up for "Fabian's Good
Time Rock 'n' Roll" have much to
be modest about.
The special airs Saturday on
public television stations, which
hope to take the money and run.
If public TV has rock, it must be
fund-raising time, and that's what
this show is about.
"Fabians Good Time Rock 'n'
Roll" was made a year ago as the
first show produced specially for
pay-per-view television.
It's ugly video, probably one of
the dimmest and least professional
presentations you'll see this side of
public access. With nothing else
going for it. the hour rises and falls
on the music. Does it ever.
Fabian is as out of tune as he
was when Dad wore a ducktail. His
rendition of "Like a Tiger" may
make a few sentimental hearts
flutter, but it leaves no clue to his
past popularity.
The singer is a weirdly awkward
stage presence, reminiscent of
Richard Nixon in the days when
he was shopping the new Nixon
around on "The Tonight Show"
and "Laugh-In." He's got a sharp
haircut, though.
Wisely. Fabian lets other stars
dominate: The Coasters sing
"Charley Brown" and "Poison
Ivy," the Crystals sing "He's a
Rebel" and "Da Doo Ron Ron,"
Actor try outs
for fall plays
Play Makers Repertory Com
pany, the UNC Lab Theatre, and
the Department of Dramatic Art
will hold open screening auditions
for all students interested in per
forming in fall productions by the
three organizations. The auditions
will be held Saturday Aug. 23 from
2 p.m. to 1 1:30 p.m. in Paul Green
Theatre. Interested persons must
sign up for an appointment in
Graham Memorial Hall Room 104
before 5 p.m. on Friday Aug. 22.
Those auditioning should prepare
a memorized selection from Sha
kespeare and a memorized contem
porary selection, with the total
audition time not exceeding 5
minutes.
Support
March of Dimes
and Little Anthony whines, "Tears
on My Pillow."
Lou Christie, with a haircut that
makes him look like a smarmy
Shetland pony, prances around as
if you must, simply must, be
awfully glad to see him. "You
thought I was gonna be 300 pounds
and bald, huh?" he tells the
audience.
It takes Bo Diddley to do it right,
dispensing with the inane hi-there-remember-me
stuff and simply
rock in'.
No one ever did more with one
chord than Bo Diddley, and the
raw. throbbing energy of his well
worn repertoire is as infectious now
as it was 30 years ago.
For the record, Diddley works
up to a three-chord ditty that
proclaims, "you never get too old
to rock 'n' roll." At least he hasn't,
He's one of those pioneers whose
contributions were never properly
" recognized or compensated, but
he's outlasted a lot of people who
stole his act. The best tribute to
the man with the square guitar is
the way the back-up band swings
in behind him. With Christie, they
loafed.
The program might well have
ended with Diddley, but there's a
big surprise left. Chubby Checker,
Mr. Twister, is still fat and still in
good voice as he dashes through
a frantic set including "Good Golly,
Miss Molly," "Pony Time," "Sce
nicruise," "Whole Lotta Shakin'
Goin' On." and, of course, "The
Twist."
The special finishes with everyb
ody singing Chuck Berry's "Johnny
B. Good."
That's fitting. The Bo Diddley
beat, the Chuck Berry songs, will
be remembered a long time after
the last shattered copy of "The
Gypsy Cried" is tossed out.
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Crawford said that WTRG
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noting that calls have come in from
"listeners 50 miles south of Norfolk
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station to build "from the ground
up." He has been with other adult
contemporary or album-oriented
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