If You Were a Rock & Roll Record

Here's a blast from the past...sorta. Back in my disc jockey, talk show host days I worked at WKPA and WYDD, two stations that served the Pittsburgh market. While there a group of us got together and decided to record a couple songs. We recorded three in all, this one, "As Long as I Got You," and "Hey Baby. The song posted here is our version of the Freddie "Boom Boom" Cannon hit, "If You Were a Rock & Roll Record." The group was entitled Justice Burtner and A.M. Drive, and this song, believe it or not, got us a national recording contract with Laurie Records (as you can see on the spinning record in the video). I don't know how many copies we sold, but members of the group probably bought most of them... the song didn't go anywhere. "Hey Baby" and "As Long as I Got You" were much better songs vocally, but Laurie chose not to pick them up.

The members of the group were: Dave Justice (Disc Jockey), Chuck Burtner (Disc Jockey), Ron Spinelli (me -- talk show host and station manager), Karen Barnes (disc jockey -- a beautiful young lady who unfortunately passed away some years ago) and Gail Seldon (station public affairs manager). Try not to laugh too hard when you hear this one. I'll post the others as soon as I figure out what kind of video should go with them... remember, these were made before music videos were popular (1979-1981).