Category: Red’s Mail

  • #1 Buddy Holly Fan

    Red, My name is David Agius and I am writing this email to you from Malta. I lived in Australia for 30 years between 1963-1993.  I have been hooked on Buddy Holly‘s music since 1956, and I have been playing his records ever since.  I collect everything and anything that has to do with Buddy…

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  • April remembers…

    Hi Red! I love your show on the Red Rock Diner Saturday evenings… I grin from ear to ear, trekking through the memories that all those neat songs bring back (from the late 50’s and early 60’s).  I  remember the first time I heard of you when I was in elementary school, you came to …

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  • C-FUN Memories from Johanne

    Hi Red, I was going through my trunk and found a high school essay I did in 1965 (or around there). You were kind enough to give me an interview, plus – to my thrill – allow me to answer phones as I was also a president of the Bobby Curtola Fan Club. Just for…

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  • An old friend says “hello”

    Hi Red, When I was 13 years old, I listened to your radio show on CJOR every day. Being a spunky young teen, I gathered my courage and went down to the radio station with the hopes of meeting my hero, Red Robinson. You not only invited me into your studio, you encouraged me to…

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  • Longtime Listener

    Hi Red I just wanted to let you know that I am enjoying your Saturday night Red Rock Diner. I have been listening to you on the radio for at least 50 years! I remember sitting and doing my homework when you were pumping out the hits on CKWX 1130 a number of decades ago.…

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  • A Bridge To The Past

    Red, In the mid 50s, before Kelowna had a bridge, the watershow at the Kelowna Regatta featured a reworded Version of Cross Over the Bridge with the lyrics changed to “Bennett, give us a bridge.” Your show today brought back that memory and I had forgotten that the original version was by Patti Page. It…

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  • John Lennon’s Hair

    Red, In about 1964 or 1965, I won a locket containing a swatch of John Lennon’s hair. It was a contest put on through one of the record stores in Vancouver (perhaps A&B Sound), sponsored by either C-FUN or CKLG. I think I won because I bought so many of the Beatles’ 45 RPM records!…

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