Odd eBay Find: “60 Minutes with a Bullet”
Okay, this eBay item caught my eye. A button reading “60 Minutes with a Bullet.” Strange title and, technically speaking, not correct style (should be “Sixty Minutes,” not “60 Minutes”). I digress.
Clearly, it had to mean something.
The best I could Google was that there was a show by that name that was on the Fall schedule on CBC Radio One (then “CBC Radio”) in Vancouver in 1980.
Can anyone shed some light on this peculiarity?
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Pop music show hosted by Linden Soles (later of CNN)
A pop music show on CBC AM in the 1970′s, in the 8-9pm slot. Hosted by Terry David Mulligan.
Excellent music and programming by somone actually knowledgeable in the field, not a general CBC host.
I recall very well TDM’s first big segment on Heart, then in Vancouver and ready to break out.
60 Minutes with a Bullet was produced in Winnipeg, originally started as 90 Minutes with a Bullet and was Hosted by Linden Soles. Terry David Mulligan had a different show. I was the tech for the show for most of it’s run.
Used to love the show !
Almost stopped listening to the CBC when it went off air!
Really beat the CFOX 99.9FM hands down!
JtT
I have a necklace – a sliver chain and a bullet with the CBC logo and show name on it. Loved the show. It opened me up to so many great artists and their music.
One of the original GREAT CBC radio shows that didn’t sound like the usual ‘public radio’ drones. In other words, it didn’t suck.
Produced by Jim Millican who later produced the Jack Farr show (The Radio Show) and was one of the reasons the CBC Winnipeg ‘plant’ had such a great rep back then. Malcovish had the good hands and the good ears even back then
but it was Millican who insisted the show sound like a ‘real’ radio show and not wimpy – hitting posts and driving the compressors. There was a fair bit of good natured rivalry between the Winnipeg bunch and the hot shots in Vancouver who were working with TDM and the Great Canadian Gold Rush. For those of us in private radio back then, Bullet and Gold Rush were the only things that caught our interest.
Eeegads – they played pop music.
Actually, I believe when it was 90 Minutes With a Bullet it was initially hosted by Jim Milligan (sp). I’m sure I have an old post card somewhere that he signed with the “Kiss” Live album I won from the show!
I remember this! The name of the show came from the factoid that a bullet fired from a gun in St. John’s would take 60 minutes to reach Vancouver (entirely possible in a thought-experiment kind of way).
–Bob.
When I first listened to the show in the mid-70′s Jim Millican was hosting (and I assume producing) the program as 90 Minutes With A Bullet. Linden Soles eventually assumed the hosting role with Millican producing. Used to listened to it on 740 AM from Toronto or any other CBC affiliate (Montreal, Moncton, etc.) that would come in in New Jersey on a Wednesday evening. IMHO, was best when Millican hosted.
It started out as 90 minutes with a bullet, was reduced to 60 minutes with a bullet. It did have two different hosts over the life of the show. I believe it was on CBC Toronto at the beginning like on a Wed night, then they moved it to Sat or something like that. Late 70′s/early 80′s. And the other comment was right, it was not in the realm of the usual programming.
I have this pin. I got it with a poster that showed about 100 music pins laid out on a cork background. One of my sisters worlked at CBC and gave me those things in highschool because I was/am a music junky. That poster is in my recording studio today and it turned me into a pin junky for I now have over 1500 music pins on flags in my studio (patrons love them!!!) and I only found 3 from that poster. I would like to know who took that picture of the poster and where are those pins now??? I even would like to find copies of that poster. Anybody?
I was born and raised in Winnipeg. I worked in college and commercial FM radio there from 1975-1985/86. Two of my dad’s sisters worked at CBC Winnipeg off and on for years. One was there at the time of 90 Minutes With A Bullet. I still have a 90 Minutes… t-shirt in my collection somewhere that she acquired for me. As mentioned, Jim Millican originally produced and hosted the show and later when it was scaled back to a 1 hour format, Lindon Soles took over the host duties.
There is a connection between the two. Prior to the CBC they both worked for the pop/rock AM radio station “The Big” 1470 CFRW (a CHUM owned station at the time, previously an independent). Millican was a “jock” and went by James A. Millican. Lindon was on the news desk. They may not have worked there at the same time, IIRC. Millican was probably already at the CBC before Lindon came over.