CKLW - Bob Seger - Rosalie (Trombley)

A Tribute to CKLW's Rosalie Trombley.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• CKLW
• Bob
• Seger
• Rosalie
• (Trombley)

[Nakedaza]

Hey nitemoovs: This is true. Thanks for the comments.

Detroit Rocked in the 60's.

Rosalie Trombley and CKLW played a Big Part of the Motor City Sound!

[goodtogonow3]

Is it true that her radio station would not play this song? Supposedly it was a conflict of interest. I love this song.

[Nakedaza]

Rosalie, as the Music Director of CKLW would not add the song to the radio station's playlist when it came out. She was embarrassed by the attention it received and If she added it to the playlist, it would be like tooting her own horn.

Despite her embarrassment, the song was added to the "Gold Book" and was occasionally heard on CKLW years latter.

[videoholic90s]

Great job, great tribute, great music - nice to finally hear this song in stereo! I am a BIG CK fan, even have an aircheck from 1964 (!!) before Drake took them over - I have Johnny Williams and the incomparable Don Patrick doing the news!! ( am I showing my age)? Check out my CKLW videos on my "videoholic1980s" channel, which has footage from the great 1985 WNIC/CKLW Reunion Weekend!!

[Nakedaza]

Hey videoholic90s: Thank's for the kind words. I posted this video in stereo and when I first listened to it, it was in mono.

I listened to it after your post and noticed that it was indeed in stereo.

I just clicked on it again and now it is back to mono.

I don't know what to make of this!

I'm a big fan of cklw from the 1960's. I especially enjoy listening to airchecks from before the Big 8 came to be.

Nakedaza

[kmsdadog]

i named my 2nd daughter after this song....her mom is still pissed at me to this day!!!! too freekin bad i say.....

[signofintent77]

Love this video and all the vintage pics. Rosalie was hot back in the day.

[sbenson500]

I can't believe all the Seger treasures that I'm finding on Utube. Even though I've been a huge fan since the mid 70's, I'm drop-jaw astounded. He is absolutely brilliant.

[BillPierce48]

@TheBabyboomkidof53, my point was that if you want to cite CKLW in the Big 8 days as an example of corporate radio, the situation is far worse today. Formats and corporate control are now much tighter than those Bill Drake and RKO enforced back then. And Rosalie Trombley was no Viking raider, but instead a very personable young woman and homegrown employee who was bitten by the radio bug--and who turned out to have extraordinary skills at pickling and predicting what the public would like.

[TheBabyboomkidof53]

@BillPierce48 I'm afraid you lost me. I cant tell what your on about. I looked at my previous posts to see if I could tell where your coming from but failed. I'm anti large conglomerates holding stations by bunches.their is no room for a "rosalie" in that sitting. they stick their finger in the air to see which way the wind blows then cater to it. vision is the first victim to go in their system.no dj has freedom to play songs other then what the system preselects. as to revisionists, no better.

[BillPierce48]

@TheBabyboomkidof53, to continue: Today there are other options for distributing content, which makes the situation better for many independent artists, but the age of the huge popular mass market appeal of radio stations such as CKLW is gone. Moreover, is radio any better today when giant media conglomerates such as Clear Channel own more than 850 stations?

And you are ignoring the fact that anyone who ever met Rosalie Trombley will tell you she was--and still is--a classy lady.

[BillPierce48]

@TheBabyboomkidof53, I think you're missing the point. History isn't revisionist so much as it demonstrates the quote often credited to Napoleon that it is written by the winners. Top 40 radio dominated the airwaves for almost 20 years, and CKLW was one of the best examples. Some artists, such as Bob Seger, succeeded because of it; others were suppressed by it. Eventually it was made obsolete by other formats that in some ways were more diverse, but also narrower in their audience segment.

[CyberWolf36]

I attended Assumption High School in Windsor graduating in '63. Holy cow, my 50th is coming up soon! We listened to CKLW as I was a boarding student from Vassar, Michigan. Great memories.,

Jim Oss ( retired science teacher )

Wa Keeney, Kansas

[megjonaslove333]

Why is Rosalie Trombley NOT in the R&R Hall of Fame? Her influence on pop music during CKLW's heyday was astounding.

[TheBabyboomkidof53]

@bikecopjoe corporations ruined radio. they are like a viking raid on a defenceless village. rape,pilage,and burn the place to the ground.then move on to the next one. but the internet at least allows us to both play the music the corps wont and tell the true story of the old days as we know it to have been. plus step all over the history revisionists out there at the same time. I hate history revisionists!

[bikecopjoe]

@TheBabyboomkidof53 That's because it's all about money today. Then, people really cared about the music. It is a time and place that will never be repeated. 100 years from now, nobody will even care.