WYBC, the student-run station at Yale University, is where Boom-Boom got his first radio experience. WPOP is where he got his second, replacing Lance Christian on the Saturday and Sunday midday shifts.

His current whereabouts are unknown.

During most of his time at WPOP, Bob hosted the Connecticut Ballroom from 3:00-8:00PM featuring pop records, but he started as a part-time weekend jock.

In a carefully orchestrated publicity stunt, Bob locked himself inside of WPOP's 600 Asylum Street studios on Sunday, January 11, 1959 and played the Children's Marching Song for 12 hours, supposedly in order to get a full-time job. General manager Phil Zoppi and station advisor Ken Cooper played the stunt with a straight face even when 300 Trinity College students marched en masse to the studios demanding some other music be played. Hartford police sent 20 cops to break up the rally and Bob's place on the fulltime staff was secured.

After WPOP, Bob worked at WEXT West Hartford, CT, and later at WHAY in Farmington.

Bob still lives in the Hartford area (e-mail); see his note (10/29/02).

Born Walter Huss, the man known to Connecticut listeners as John Scott grew up in Wethersfield but got his first radio experience at WPAC in Patchogue, Long Island. John got his first Hartford radio job at WDRC FM. Dan Clayton hired him from there to take over the overnight show from Gary Girard. He was replaced by Bob Branigan (#2).

John's radio career took him to WNHC New Haven, CT; WTHE Mineola, NY; CKLW Detroit, MI; WCBS FM New York, NY; WWYZ Waterbury, CT; KDES Palm Springs, CA; KHTX Riverside, CA; KDHI FM/KQYN AM Twentynine Palms, CA.

John lived in southern California, working as a digital editor, producer and voice talent at Cold Call Cowboy Productions; he died May 26, 2005 at the age of 62. See his note. (7/30/01)

John worked at WLAN Lancaster, PA; and at stations in Atlantic City, NJ and El Paso, TX before joining WPOP for the all-night show. But he was no stranger to Connecticut, having been born in Avon.

Bob Paiva remembers John's terrific pipes got him a weekend position at WABC New York, but he was let go after only a couple of weeks.

John took his own life on January 26, 1973 in New Haven; he was 28.

Lou Morton brought Sheldon Sunny Shores to Hartford from WAMS Wilmington, DE. His shift was Sunday nights from 7:30-10:00PM. He was often heard filling in on other shifts.

For several months in 1971 there was lots of motion on WPOP's midnight-6:00AM shift. Bobby Rivers left March 14th, replaced by Bill Coffey. He moved to a daytime shift in July and was replaced by Ric O'Connor. When O'Connor moved to middays in January, 1972 Shores took over the overnight shift. Sunny was famous for his "flip-a-nickel" weather forecasts.

Shores moved on to WLEE in Richmond, VA where he was reunited with WPOP music director Bob Paiva. In 1974 he moved to Florida to go into teaching, doing weekends at WINZ Miami and WFTL Ft. Lauderdale through 1981. He also managed a 24-hour high school radio station. In 1985 Sunny headed west to California.

Sunny is chairman of the math department at San Jose High School; see his note (e-mail) (9/8/02).

This New Hampshire native began his radio career at the age of 15 at WKXL in Concord, NH. He worked at various New England stations before landing at WMEX in Boston. Hired from WDOT Burlington, VT., as music director Tom occasionally did on-air shifts at WPOP. An item in Billboard Magazine (January 14, 1967) said:

"Tom Shovan, formerly with WPOP, Hartford, Conn., has joined WPTR, Albany, NY, and is billed as the world's largest deejay."

After leaving Hartford he worked at many stations. In 1968 he became vice president of operations for the Star Group in Poughkeepsie, NY. Two years later he bought WFIF in Milford, CT. He later worked in promotions for a record company owned by singer Wayne Newton. After several years in Los Angeles, Shovan moved to New York where he ran C.R.N. Media Inc., which distributed syndicated radio programs. He was editor of PULSE, an industry trade publication and distributed syndicated programs like Rick Dees Weekly Top 40 and Dr. Laura Schlessinger.

Tom died in New York April 9, 1999 at the age of 59.

LaMar Simms was one of Connecticut's most colorful - and controversial - disc jockeys. A veteran of WTMA and WONO in Charleston, and WLOF Orlando, Simms came to Hartford fresh from a legal skirmish in San Antonio. He and WPOP's Woody Roberts worked at KONO and both resigned to go to cross-town rival KTSA in April, 1966. KONO went to court and got an injunction to keep them off the air within 50 miles for 18 months. Woody settled into morning drive at WPOP and he installed Lee to replace Ken Griffin from 7:00PM-midnight.

After reading a pimple cream commercial during his first show, Lee unleashed a tirade of angry calls when he described how terrible it is to get close to your girl only to have a zit pop. A Hartford Courant article a month after Simms hit town described him as "the crazy new WPOP disc jockey who doesn't like anything (including Hartford)." A Hartford Times article on January 13, 1967 quoted Lee's feelings about Hartford:

"He dislikes it 'intensely.' He thinks the kids 'dress like slobs.' He says the people are 'impolite.' On the air he contends, 'I'm rude and crude and impolite because you are....'".

Lee was the first to call downtown Hartford's new Constitution Plaza Constipation Plaza. He was arrested for telling his listeners to go there and have a snowball fight. Simms was famous for breaking the music format, going off on lengthy tirades.

When he left WPOP in 1967 he went right back to KTSA in San Antonio, later returning to KONO. His career path took on a Rand McNally quality with stops (some brief) at WKYC and WGCL Cleveland; KCBQ San Diego; WJBK Detroit; back to KCBQ; KRLA Pasadena; KROQ Los Angeles; WMYQ and WLVE Miami; KMET Los Angeles; back to KRLA as Matthew Frail; KPRQ Santa Rosa; KFOG San Francisco; KDUK and KORL Honolulu; KYA FM San Francisco; KOOL Phoenix; KISQ San Francisco and a simultaneous run on WUBT Chicago via syndication.

Lee briefly returned to WPOP in January, 1968 to host 6:00-9:00PM. Point of Hartford radio trivia...Lee's last on-air appearance in Hartford was during the kickoff of WRCQ AM's oldies format on September 21, 1974.

Lee is retired from radio near San Francisco (e-mail); see his note (4/22/08).

A graduate of WTOD Toledo, OH and WTRX in Flint, MI, Jim initially did a split shift on WPOP: 5:00-6:00AM (possibly prerecorded), and 10:00AM-noon.

Jim left WPOP to join the creative staff at MARS Broadcasting, a Stamford firm which produced production aids (like comedy drop-ins and contests) for radio stations. He later returned to WTRX in Flint before joining WCOL in Columbus, OH.

For many years Jim has been a patient at a V.A. hospital, possibly in Massachusetts.

Paul came from WCCC in Hartford where he was known as Paul Scott. He was WPOP's morning show host from 6:00-10:00AM but had a little trouble adapting to the early hours. So program director Del Raycee switched him to the news department. Based on the experience he gained on the Pulse Beat News team, he later spent many years as news anchor at WINS in New York.

Paul is retired from radio. (7/30/01)

Ray Somers logged time at WMMM in Westport, CT and WRFC in Athens, GA before becoming WPOP's Tune Tycoon. He held down the night shift from 7:00PM-midnight, and later 9:00PM-1:00AM. During the day Ray managed the record department at Newberry's Department Store in Hartford. In January 1962 Ray was appointed program director.

After WPOP he worked at WHCT TV (Ch. 18) in Hartford, WHAY in Farmington and WINF Radio in Manchester.

His last known location was WHYZ in Greenville, SC in the early 1990s.

KLIV in San Jose, CA lost Scott St. James to WPOP where he replaced Mike Greene in afternoon drive. He usually used just his last name on the air and made it a point to travel to high schools to get to know the kids who listened to his show. St. James even gave out his home phone number on the air (224-9300). He opened each show with a train whistle, and the words "the Saint James Express is smoking." When Bill Love left for Louisville in August, 1971, St. James took over his morning drive shift. His partner in crime was fellow sports fan Lou Morton. Their frequent guest was then-Hartford Mayor George Athanson.

Scott left Hartford for St. Louis where he worked at KKSS, KSD and KMOX. His next stop was Los Angeles where he worked for many years at KHJ TV, KMPC, KFI and KCBS FM. He also appeared in several TV shows. During 2004-2005 Scott did sports talk at KTRS in St. Louis.

Scott is back in Los Angeles pursuing acting roles (e-mail). (6/3/08)

The Real Neal Steele had the misfortune of being hired two months before WPOP dropped music for the all-news format in June, 1975. He came from WHVW Hyde Park, NY and replaced The Rock & Roll Pig on the night shift.

Neal later worked at WGH Norfolk, VA.

Neal does morning drive at XTRA 99 in Gloucester, VA, play-by-play sports at WLQM in Franklin, VA and is the track announcer at Langley Speedway in Hampton, VA (e-mail). (3/25/08)

Born July 17, 1949, Charley graduated from Bradley University in 1971. He was a member of the WPOP News department and was instrumental in launching the station's switch from music to all-news in June, 1975. He began his broadcast career in 1969 at WIRL in Peoria, IL while still in school. His first sports broadcast was at KSTT in Davenport, IA. He arrived at WAVZ New Haven, CT as news director in 1972.

After Hartford, he moved to Cleveland, working at WERE Radio and WKYC TV. In 1978 he landed a morning news and sports gig at WXLO New York. Later he worked both at the RKO Radio Network, WOR and WABC in New York. He also did major league baseball play-by-play as a SportsCenter anchor on ESPN.

Charley did New York Yankees play-by-play from 2002-2004 but now calls balls and strike for the Los Angeles Dodgers (e-mail). (6/2/05)

A former utility jock at WNHC in New Haven, Dick was hired as a utility man at WPOP from WDEE Hamden, CT. During the week he did news at WPOP using the name Dick Beech; on Sundays he hosted 12:00 noon-4:00PM (and later 10:00AM-1:00PM) music shifts as Dick Stephens. He briefly hosted morning drive between the departure of Roy Cooper and the arrival of Kilroy.

After leaving The Good Guys worked at WKOX FM Framingham, WAAB Worcester and WBSM New Bedford, MA.

Dick passed away in October 1982 at the age of 53; see his daughter's note (5/21/02).

Fred's radio career dates back to the old WHAY and WRCH in Farmington where he was known as Frederick Your Night Watchman. A colleague described him this way: "Never saw anyone work harder to put a daily evening radio show together."

His WPOP duty was in the newsroom during the station's post-music, all-news days, after which he worked at WDRC in Hartford and WBIS in Bristol.

Today Fred can be heard on WJMJ in Bloomfield, CT. (3/1/03)

John started as a reporter at WPOP First Person News and replaced Al Benick as news director in 1964. Under the ownership of Joseph C. Amaturo, the leadership of station manager Leland W. Bickford, and John's tutelage, the station provided morning and afternoon drive time highway reports via helicopter presided over by Captain Ken Knudsen. In those days the station also offered live play-by-play of Charter Oaks football games.

After WPOP John was news director at WNHC New Haven and later worked at stations in New York.

John's current whereabouts are unknown.