| Author | Gorman, John, 1950-
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| Title | The Buzzard : inside the glory days of WMMS and Cleveland rock radio, a memoir / by John Gorman with Tom Feran.
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| Published | Cleveland, Ohio : Gray & Co., c2007.
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| Description | xi, 289 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
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| ISBN | 978-1-886228-47-4 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | 1-886228-47-7 (hardcover) |
| General Note | Includes indexes.
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| Formatted Note | Contents: Find me -- Welcome to Cleveland -- Radio architect -- A new identity -- "That's my station!" -- Number one -- It's still a business -- Hatching the Buzzard -- The World Series of rock -- Got-ta got-ta get down! -- "We don't go to work; we go to war" -- Continuous party -- The switch -- The voice of rock and roll -- Moving on up -- The Buzzard and the boss -- Coffee break concerts -- Beatles blitz -- Chimps, rats, and buzzard killers -- Into the '80s -- Pride of Cleveland -- Video stars, radio stars -- "Bring the next one on" -- Your modern music station -- Buzzardland -- Taking the fight to the airwaves -- Choosing sides -- "WMMS can call itself anything it wants" -- Departures and divisions -- The rock stops here -- Know your close -- End of an era.
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| Subjects | Cleveland imprints -- 2007.
Disc jockeys -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Biography.
Gorman, John, 1950-
Radio broadcasting -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- History.
Radio stations -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- History.
Rock music -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
WMMS (Radio station : Cleveland, Ohio)
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| Other Authors | Feran, Tom.
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| Other Titles | Inside WMMS and the glory days of FM rock radio
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| LC Card Number | 2007-39778 |
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| | WRHS Research Library: F 34 ZUO R1G671
mq236430: LC class, closed stacks [status: NON-CIRCULATING] |
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