Charlie Brown has become a radio legend and has been my friend for over 40 years!One of the original KIX MEN OF MUSIC (heard mostly from 6pm to 9pm on WKIX in Raleigh, NC in the 1960s), Charlie left the air to pursue a career in radio sales and, later, radio station management. His love of being on the air has brought him full circle back in front of a microphone as host of the successful regionally syndicated radio show, "On the Beach with Charlie Brown".
Charlie is a member of the Carolina Beach Music Hall of Fame and a two-time winner of the Disk Jockey of the Year award and serves on the Carolina Beach Music Awards Advisory Board.
That's Charlie on the left with Craig Woolard (Craig Woolard Band) who have helped to host the Cammy Awards Show in Myrtle Beach along with Larry Sprinkle and others for several years.
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You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown! I am proud to know you.
And thanks to Jack Kane for all his work on the WKIX archives and the WKIX Rewound memorabilia.
-- Bob Jones, d/b/a Dalton Hammond
I am not sure how I came across this blog but I am so glad that I did. I am truely one that was influenced by WKIX growing up. Being from Johnston County I listened to Kix all the time in the 1960's. The only other station that I might have listened too would have been WPTF to get a STATE game.
I remember, "your a good man Charlie Brown", Russ Spooner and then Pat Patterson in the morning, Bob Jones mid day, and later Dale Van Horn(rest his soul). "Johnny Dollar(Mrser Pattason), 6 flags over Fuquay, Thundermats Airline(You won't even know your off the ground, cause your not, Thundermats), the top five at five(for about a week in 1967 the monkees had all 5). I must have seen the KIX Kagers play basketball 10 times or more. I have seen the Kix team emcee shows from Memorial Auditorium, to Dorton Arena all the way to the fairgrounds in Wilson and Smithfield. And what about that first beach music festival at Lake Wheeler.
You folks just don't realize how much influence you had on my formative years. Then what happened. Did everyone like me go over to listen to 101.5 and FBI(Fabulous Bob Inskeep, aka, Friday, Famous, Fat,) He, Greg Fischel and Bill Leslie made a good team. Then I discovered Leslie to be a Tarheel fan. I found another station but WKIX was going country. That was the end of the greatest station and radio team ever.
Finding this site brings back so many memories.
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