06 September 2013

Boiled or Roasted

It seems that I don’t know what direction this little blog is going. Look for new and exciting—to me at least—changes. Lately reevaluating everything about the Peanut Whistle, I have decided to continue by reviewing the old posts I most enjoyed as a reader myself and the ones with the most mass appeal.


100_0359A first for my 9 year old son and I ; over the Labor Day weekend we attended the Advocare 500 at Atlanta Motor Speedway. Great fun! That’s Luke beside a Plymouth Superbird On display during the race. YeeHaw!

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11 August 2013

Have Another Cup of Coffee

Coincidentally, four years ago today I wrote a post on Burl Womack and his Breakfast with Burl radio show. Through social media we have learned of the local Savannah radio legend’s passing. Mr. Womack was 90. Today I have reposted an edited excerpt:Womack

  The radio station I listened to most as a kid was Z-102 in tiny Savannah, Georgia. Now, I realize that the station was only another Z-100 New York clone. This CHR format over populated the FM dial all across the USA in the 1980’s. Yes, Z-102 was derivative but I enjoyed the station and copied their style often when I became a deejay. One unique element of good old WZAT-FM was Burl Womack (himself positively not derivative). His show, the aptly named, “Breakfast with Burl” was on my car radio every morning on my way to high school circa 1983. Burl played religious music alongside Adult Contemporary and Pop hits of the day; strange combination of “secular and sacred” but, for us locals, it worked! Burl had the number one show on the number one station in the market many years running.

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