{"id":4528,"date":"2009-04-07T07:56:04","date_gmt":"2009-04-07T12:56:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4528"},"modified":"2009-04-07T07:56:04","modified_gmt":"2009-04-07T12:56:04","slug":"steve-cannon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4528","title":{"rendered":"Steve Cannon"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I was first in the Twin Cities, producing for Don Vogel, we’d occasionally joke about where and how far we wanted the show to go.<\/p>\n

Someone’d occasionally chime in “…and someday, we wanna beat Steve Cannon”.<\/p>\n

Then everyone would get a good laugh.\u00a0 Beating Steve Cannon – who’d been doing afternoon driver forever on WCCO even then – was pure fantasy. Cannon – a throwback to an age in radio that seems completely foreign to the casual listener today – dominated afternoons in the Twin Cities for a generation.<\/p>\n

Anyway, Cannon passed away yesterday<\/a> at age 81.<\/p>\n

the 1970s and ’80s, when WCCO dominated the airwaves, Cannon held court as the gruffest, most gregarious of the “Good Neighbors,” making his voice as recognizable to many Midwesterners as everyone’s cantankerous but lovable uncle who never skips the cocktail hour.”It’s awfully tough comparing the 125 people in our hall of fame, but in terms of sheer talent, does anyone stand out above Cannon?” said Steve Raymer, managing director of the Pavek Museum of Broadcasting in St. Louis Park, which honored the legend in 2002.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Cannon was famous for doing his show with three “co-hosts” – all of them characters he voiced himself, live and on the fly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When I was first in the Twin Cities, producing for Don Vogel, we’d occasionally joke about where and how far we wanted the show to go. Someone’d occasionally chime in “…and someday, we wanna beat Steve Cannon”. Then everyone would get a good laugh.\u00a0 Beating Steve Cannon – who’d been doing afternoon driver forever on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-memoriam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}