HEARTY CONGRATULATIONS TO ROCK 'N' ROLL DISC JOCKEY LEGEND - RED ROBINSON - CELEBRATING FIFTY-FIVE YEARS OF BRINGING MUSIC TO THE PEEPS ! ROCK ON !!

Fifty-five years of Rockin' and Rollin' on the radio ! !

No mean feat that ! ! !

Add all the other things that the once-red-locked one has done and the mind boggles.

We raise a filled-to-the-brim glass of West Coast Canadian bubbly

to this tireless individual and wish him well

in all endeavours planned and on all of the paths that lay ahead for him, his family and his beautiful wife Carol.

From DJZigZag and all the Management and staff of WAGRadio

Photo provided by: Phil Mackesy

Photo: Red and Clarence Dixon of the Four Knights circa 1955

LOOK TO THE BOTTOM LEFT IN 'ZIGZAGZ CHARTS' TO SEE A BIT OF CKLG AM / FM HISTORY PLUS THE 1967 'BEST OF' GROOVIN' BLUE CHART...

THIS CIRCA 1967 PHOTO SHOWS CKLG's PROGRAM DIRECTOR FRANK CALLAGHAN AT THE AM CONTROL BOARD.  

FRANK HIRED THE 24 YEAR OLD BILL REITER (DJZigZag) TO CREATE THE FIRST NEW WORLD AFRICAN MUSIC PROGRAM HEARD ON CANADIAN RADIO.  ALTHOUGH, AT THE TIME, MR. CALLAGHAN THOUGHT GROOVIN' BLUE  WAS SIMPLY A BLUES SHOW.  

THE 1967 'BEST OF GROOVIN' BLUE' CHART DESCRIBES, BETTER THAN WORDS, WHAT THIS ALL-INCLUSIVE BLACK MUSIC RADIO PROGRAM WAS REALLY ABOUT.

Photo: Don Hamilton

Courtesy of Mike Cherry, General Manager Sky Valley Radio

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DJZigZag & Sweet Daddy Fonk Circa 1996 @ CHMB AM VanCity

FUNK SHUI - Coming soon to WAGRadio 180.2 FM / 1802 AM

Sunny "Sweet Daddy Fonk" Wong and DJZigZag bring the combined listening habits of more than one hundred years to funk up you shui.
The audience drinks from the pool of literally hundreds of thousands of hours spent by "...one old white guy and an elderly Chinese gentleman" listening to New World African Music.
Included in this mix are thousands of hours attending live music venues. Sweet Daddy Fonk and ZigZagZ remember Hank Ballard & The Midnighters' 1959 Seattle Eagles Auditorium performance plus James Brown's San Francisco Cow Palace appearance in 1971. Add to these, the recently seen live performances by D'Angelo, Don Byron, The Mad Professor, Chico Hamilton and Beres Hammond.
The two SoulMateS "Funk Shui" program highlights the music of their favourite artists including Jully Black, Kool & The Gang, The O'Jays, Michael Rose, Donny "Mr. Soul" Gerrard, The Temptations, Bobby "Blue" Bland, Gerald LeVert and Glen Washington - to name a few.

Photo: Shepherd Wong

Back, back, back, back before 'back in the day'

The 1970 CKVN [VanCity] survey is courtesy of former CFMI FM / CKNW AM music director Ted Wendland.