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The Daddy G Oldies Show - 8th November 1998
(Credit: The Reporter-Herald)

WELCOME!!!!This site will have the text version of a article done by The Reporter-Herald,from Loveland Colorado(November 8,1998) of my radio program/website "The Daddy G Oldies Show.

I was interveiwed by Felicia Jordan. I thank Felicia and Loveland's Reporter-Herald.

I wanted to let YOU know that "The Daddy G Oldies"is the best and unusual alternative to "other" oldies shows and my mission:is to play the best and very rare oldies from The Billboard Top 40/HOT 100 Hits from 1954-79, R&B, Gospel, B/Side Hits and Flops (I have over 6,000 songs) to offer and to bring a memory or two and or hit a button with that listener..

The program has been audience tested and I NEVER HAD A NEGATIVE RESPONSE of the show......I feel that the show is ready for syndication and I would be happy if only ONE station gets it!!! I wanted to let stations to know that I am ready for them.Contact me if you need info to send a demo which will be air-ready... By Felicia Jordan 11/8/99 Reporter-Herald/Loveland Colorado ON THE INTERNET Gerald Gaule relishes finding the oddities and clunkers among the gems of The Top 40 charts. Oddities such as Neil Diamond covering” La Bamba,”or “Tutti Frutti “ as sung by Pat Boone.

Even a 1967 version of “Wild Thing” done by a Bobby Kennedy impersonator. Gaule, 36, a longtime disc jockey from Oregon, produces a unique radio show every week from his new home in Loveland. It’s an oldies show with a new twist. Instead of broadcasting over the AM/FM airwaves, Gaule sends his radio show out to listeners over the Internet. He’s part of the new world of Internet Broadcasting,in which radio stations make their programs available via the Web to a worldwide audience.

“Internet broadcasting has gotten so big,”Gaule said”There are(thousands)of stations worldwide and 30 stations I can think of in Colorado that broadcasts and Webcast too”. Gaule’s show,”The Daddy G Show”,airs at 3 p.m.Sautrdays on Gigastation,an Internet station based in Stayton,Oregon. Instead of spinning a radio dial, listeners use a click of a mouse to tune in to the show,which Gaule records at home and sends to the radio station. Gaule got the name ”Daddy G ”from a 1953 R&B hit ”A Night With Daddy G With The Church Street Five”. “I liked the song, (and) I’d never used the same name before”Gaule said.”I was known in The Northwest as Mighty Jer”. Gaule worked for years as a disc jockey in the Northwest,sometimes full time and sometimes moonlighting..

He and his wife moved to Loveland in 1997 to pursue a job opportunity at an electric company. Gaule brought some of his old radio equipment with him. “I wasn’t sure what I was going to do with the equipment,” he said.”I contracted myself out for production work. ”Then he got the call from an old friend in the radio business ,asking him to produce a weekly show for his new Internet radio station. Gaule records about three different shows a week in his small basement studio,playing Top 40 hits and oddities from 1954-1979. “I play B-sides and flops and cool covers that haven’t gotten much airplay,”he said. “I try to give something different to the people who listen to oldies stations.So many stations play the same thing over and over every 12 hours. It’s repetitive. You can set your watch by it,”he said. “I tell the story behind the songs, and I offer a lot of trivia,”he said.

Gaule uses Billboard’s Top 40 reference books to find old song titles. He plays songs from his personal collection and hunts down obscure songs through a network of contacts on the Internet. “One gentleman I deal with has about 6,000 songs,”he said. The man willingly makes recordings for Gaule and sends them to him. One song Gaule hasn’t been able to find is a 1967 version of ”Wild Thing” done by a Bobby Kennedy impersonator. He insists it’s one of the funniest things he’s ever heard. “I had a copy of it,and I think I gave it away to someone accidentally,’ he said.”I’ve been looking for it since.’That’s been the hardest one to find again. “It made me laugh so hard I fell out of my chair.” Gaule doesn’t follow a specific format in his shows.”I go by whim, whatevere strikes my mood, whatever I feel like playing, ”he said. ”I keep track of what I’ve played in the last show and try no to repeat it.” He isn’t paid to do the show. ”It’s the only gig I’ve done for free that I actually enjoyed,”he said. ”It’s worldwide. That’s what I like about it,” he said. ”I have an awesome amount of fun doing it. I can come down here any time I want, and no one tells me what to play. ”Time absolutely flies while I do the (show)” he said.

FROM 'RADIO WORLD' 12th September 2001

'OLDIES BEYOND THE FRINGE' PAGE 24

He calls himself ”Daddy G’ and his DJ style isn’t fancy. But he does play the top 40 from 1954 through 1979.

Soft-Spoken Gerald Gaule is the “man behind that curtain” who plays rare versions of songs and features legends of the rock world on his streamed oldies show
(Visit http://members.tripod.com/~K32SGTV/sandee.html.)

“I like to play ’B’sides of hits, flops maybe Elvis doing a gospel tune or even something by Johnny Cash when he was part of a quartet,”said Gaule. ”The glory of the Internet is that there are thousands of fish in the sea who want to express themselves,” said Gaule. ”I’m 37 now .I’m just a radio nut and have been since I was three years old.”

Links:

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Daddy G - 4th July 2004