February 24, 2025 • 32 mins
Stan Bell is Black History in Memphis TN. Check out his story.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, we're back up in here Black History Month
and this is the final weekend. Okay, I am stormy.
Thank you guys for joining us for the show. Listen,
let me tell y'all some Let me tell you y' all,
black history is in the building.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
And he goes by the name of Stan Bell, serving
you will, pushing more power than the doself stand Bell.
Speaker 4 (00:28):
Yeah, that's your that's your FA. But I like it. No,
diggity no, I like your things, right, thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
But Stan Bell, Yes, black History in the building. Last week,
I told you guys that Stan is probably the only DJ.
He he's kind of like a I wouldn't call him
fly jock, but I would call you a a room
to room job. Because we got four radio stations in
(01:09):
this building that you have been on different shifts at
some point down.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, we gospel, let.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
Me see, yeah, get gospel, R and B.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Hip hop, uh huh uh huh and d I a
mm hmm.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
Heritage.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:38):
See how they worked, See how I worked. God is amazing.
I didn't see it coming. He's particularly on the ninety
five point seven, our sister station. You're right, Uh, I
didn't see that happened.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
So that's a g r h H. You got a
g r h H g r H kind of like
a egot, but a g r h H gospel R
and B hip hop in heritage, Harry Wow.
Speaker 4 (02:03):
Acrosstick.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
So yeah, going from room to room, how did it
feel staying Yeah?
Speaker 4 (02:09):
I did kind of feel like one of your colleagues,
Tom Joyner, just not on the plane, right.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
Yeah. So that's the beauty of it all because a
lot of people, no doubt in the audience, think that
I'm getting in my calm driving one station right when
you got to be you put some miles on that,
because they don't realize we're all in the same I'm
walking from room to room. But it's like you do
have to have another mindset and you go into each
(02:36):
you know station. Yeah, because sometimes you can, you can
get confused. I've slipped a couple of times.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Yeah, me too. Oh oh yeah, and you don't sometimes
you don't even know you slip.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
Website w Yeah, that it happens.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Okay, So you you you started hip hop and I
know that was lovely. Oh yes, that's where you got
your fame. What is it your name to fame? That's
where you got there.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
Yeah, because Stormy the ninety seven experience. Stormy experience, the
ninety seven experience was a dream come true.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
I know, you know, and you probably met everybody when
you worked on K ninety s being the man.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
I mean you look scrap book back, you know, because
the scrap book, but.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
You know everybody. I mean, I'm talking about singers.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
But you know what, as you know, Stormy comes to
the territory. Yeah, back in the day, artists would come
to the radio station, thanks yeah for being an early
believer music. And if they were coming to a concert,
they're going to perform, do a show in the sing
just to be part of course. Yeah, I'm going to
the station. We would thank everybody for the support and
it's and sell some tickets at the same time, and
(03:50):
to tell the jock thanks to the play my next single.
So it was every time a show came through, that's
how we got to meet these folks. Yeah, and uh
and and I mean I remember walking in the concert
with ll cool J and with him before his performance,
during it and afterwards he said, man, they love me
this LL you with thought he was, I mean, I said,
(04:11):
so this is how entertainers act. After the show and
he said, man, they still love me. I think it
was his comeback. Remember the mama said, knock you receive this.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
I think I was here for that concert and I
came down.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
They still got love for me. This was before Joe.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Did because he was still fine. I mean, excuse me,
go ahead.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
Yeah, And he was amazed that scarface when he came.
He was like, man, you know, and everybody was speaking
to me. They saw him there, but they said, man,
y'all got a different kind of love. Radio autists. When
they see in public, they gonna call you out. Yeah,
he said, man, but I'm Scott Face, so they So
I'm saying this to say this our audience Memphis knows radio.
(04:53):
They love their personalities. They don't mind speaking calling you
out with wherever you are and Scott Face.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
I never said this before.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
And another somebody else did this, comedian and he said, man,
the Memphis Memphis listeners showed love to their personalities. So
to your point, yeah, I've made quite a few. I
mean the list goes on. You name it. Yeah, Michael Jackson,
Prince James, did you interview Michael Jackson preaching Frank FRANKI
Beverley I'm gonna tell you what. Michael Jackson K ninety
(05:21):
seven had a promotion. Yeah, we're sending five lucky listeners
to the Grammys. And I was one of the chaperones
they selected, you know, one of the jocks you know,
had to go and back then. Of course, you know,
it wasn't like we could do now we could take
you know and record cell phone and all that stuff.
(05:42):
It wasn't fancy and it wasn't spark like that. I
just got a chance to wave at him and sit
on the stage at the Grammys, you know where he
actually performed. This was like eighty eight, Wow, eighty eight
gram eighty eight. Simpson was there, he was, I mean,
I met that Oh Kylon, world famous, legendary. Kylon was
(06:03):
a listener and he went, what sure he was one
of the winners.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
Yeah, And that's kind of how he got bit by
broadcasting bug. He loved what we were doing. We had
a fantastic promotions director.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
You're so you.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Were his his mentor And don't even know it.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
We kicked it too. We went to New York. We
Kyle and I kicked it man. You know all the
you know, all the winners. It was like five winners
and their guests, so that's like ten yeah, and I
was I was a chaperone. We had so much fun
and we met the stars and they were just everybody
was excited because you know, Michael Acus, what he performed,
I think that was when he was doing was it
(06:42):
the Billy Jean and what he was in the height
of his career. I mean, well, now the Billy jing
was probably what year was that album? Was that eighty
seven I want to be starting something and all of
that stuff, you know, the Thriller, So it was prior
to that. It was prid matter of fact, it was
who was the one? Well, he he did his moon
(07:02):
walking all that. It might have been the it wasn't off.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
Was there was Billy Jean? That was eighty three that
he did Billy Jean.
Speaker 4 (07:08):
He sure was eighty three, so we were there. No,
it was after that the eighty seven.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
He was still hot.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
He was hot, he was still hot, all of.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
That, you know, Liberian Girl and all that. Of course
he did all this old stuff too, so but that's
what it all started, meeting all these entertainments. I mean
the Prince. Prince was probably the first major celebrity that
I ever met, went backstage where he got an autograph
when I was a student. But I was a student
at UT Martin, and he gave a show nobody believe
he's coming out of Prince Saint. I was doing college radio. Yeah,
(07:38):
yeh w U TM one ninety point three FM.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (07:43):
And so while I was on the ass of the promoter,
you know what was said, man, you know, saying I
don't think about bringing Prince out. You're sure, You're sure,
you bring the little Martin. And sure enough he got
a sign booked and all that kind of stuff and
promoted and said put a little flyers all over the
school campus. And I was on the air. He even
came by, not Prince, but the water came by, just
(08:04):
to make him confirm because people was our princes are
not coming us, so you know. And and so I
met him. I was That was the first big show
that I am c. I was nervous as all get out,
stormy wow. And it was Prince is nineteen eighty two,
Prince Roger you know zapp.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
Yes, and the Time, oh my goodness.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
Time came out first, then Roger Chopman, and then Prince
was the headline days. Time was hot Cool, Doom Doom,
Doom doode cool in the stick ever since.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Jimmy jam My goodness.
Speaker 4 (08:46):
To your point, all of those these stars. I mean,
it's part of the territory, right, especially when in the
eighties and the nineties, when these when these new artists
were kind of cutting their teeth and they were just
so happy to be on the radio, and they were stationed. Yeah,
if self is worth thing, back then, it'd be all
over the place. You don't take pictures. They had the
(09:08):
glossy you know, in the five by seven of that
eight by ten. They were passing out and signing. That
was the big thing in there. But yeah, we met
quite a few folks down the line.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Eighties or nineties music. Which one do you like the most?
Speaker 4 (09:21):
I would say, believe it or not. I love the seventies,
but I do. I'm a I'm almost seventies kind of guy,
you know, seventy seven right in there.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
Okay, but but but but you know, but you weren't
on radio in the seventies.
Speaker 4 (09:36):
I was on college college radio. Part of the seventh
I was right in the ladder part of ok So,
the best of My Love, you know, the oceans and
good stuff, you know, and coming into the Evelyan Champagneking.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
You around that time.
Speaker 4 (09:52):
That was like mid seventies there, But I was I
was towards the ladder part of the seventies. Tenny Pentograds.
The whole town was laughing, you know that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
That's good.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
Yeah, And so I really like the seventies music. And
when I got to ninety seven and eighty six, eighty
six after working the Jackson as we talked before about
the year and but but eighty six, I remember stuff
like the early Midnight Stars. I mean stuff that when
they tried to make a comeback after you know, the
(10:24):
Freakazoid era and the night night Rider and all of that,
you know in the slow chain which is like four
and then they tried to make a comeback. One of
the first songs I played it was headlines by Midnight Star.
You might have been in the Big Rock Dead was
it before that? Yeah, yeah, it was eighty six.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
It was after six eighty six. I think I was
doing gospel.
Speaker 4 (10:48):
Okay, wow? Hey, why okay?
Speaker 1 (10:51):
No? I was powered no radio station kpb A and
where Pine, Arkansas.
Speaker 4 (10:57):
Wow. So eighty six, why I got started? You know,
only if I missed his last time. But I was
a part timer, you know, I was just so excited
to be Okay. If guess who trained me work the board,
the late great Joe P. Washington. I don't know if
I heard about him, call him mister backtrack.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
I heard about him all. And for those of y'all
that are just joining us, it is the pulse. I
am stormy talking to the one and only stan Bell.
What name is Spanish flag? What you got him?
Speaker 4 (11:27):
DJ? Spanish fly word? Yes?
Speaker 1 (11:30):
I love that, Oh my god, thank you. Yeah. So
stand Bell is giving us some history up in here.
You're telling us some things. Now, now let's move to
B one on one. Sure where you went kicking and screaming.
Speaker 4 (11:44):
I did, and did.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
So tell me about BE one on one.
Speaker 4 (11:49):
That was a blessing in disguise. Didn't even know because
it ain't even.
Speaker 5 (11:54):
You know.
Speaker 4 (11:55):
They did me, uh all of a subliminal favor or
what was a divide in favor. They gave me more
longevity in the business. Had I been on K ninety seven,
you know, if they say okay, you know you want
to say on the long go right ahead, probably wouldn't
have done it. Maybe two more years and didn't even
know what.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
Wow, So you think K ninety seven the hip hop?
Do you think that's an aging kind of a thing.
You think you age out of that? And that's what
yeah tell you. And I didn't want to age out
of it. When I went kicking and screaming, I didn't
you know, I didn't think forty is young. Yeah, yeah,
now you know we're looking back right.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
Then. I think they didn't want to tell me, well,
you kind of you know, your time down there, but
they knew that one on one was coming up. Yeah,
and they knew the format and they thought I could
probably sega.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
And you did into that, yeah, but.
Speaker 4 (12:49):
They really gave me how would I say, perpetuity longeviney
and I didn't even know it. Yeah, Like I probably
wouldn't be a gift yea, Yeah, I would kick screen.
But I should have been saying thank you Jesus, you know,
for for foresight, for you know, future sturistic, you know,
career longevity. But I was just I was so into
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it's the roll call and talking to the young folks,
and I knew it was working and the great a
revenue was being generated, and man, I loved coming to
work during that area. That's seven and midnight was my
stick seventy eleven. Right in there after I got off,
it was quiet storm, you know, so that that was
the best time of my life in radio, to be
(13:31):
honest with you, jelling with those students, I got a
quick store for you, I think because when I came aboard,
I had to I had to be able to do
something differently than the other jocks. You know, you don't ape,
you don't ate any jock style. You don't want to ate.
But he said, you know you as soon as you
get on there, they are you try to be like
(13:52):
Herb the k Yo Leah, Herb Kneeling former WDI A personality.
He was my guy I used to listen to growing
up up, you know, high school days and my mentor,
and he was the one responsible for me kind of
getting into this business. But Herb, I when I got
out of college, you know, or when I was in college,
I knew I was kind of imitating him, but they
(14:15):
didn't really know, you know, the audience on the college scene,
they figured that was my style. What I knew I was,
you know, just like yourself. You probably got somebody you
look up to, you know, female in the business somebody.
You know, you got to start somewhere, you do, so
you're going to sound like the person who brought you in,
the person that you inspired you, a one that you
then you become yeah yeah right, and you have to
(14:36):
evolve into your own stand yeah yeah. So what I
ended up doing too to make stand different had the
ease out of herb style, still knowing how he did things,
but I kind of evolved into stand Bill the bell ringer,
uh you know, DJ stand Bill and all that. But
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Mama tell you what my number one but the it
was becoming involved in the schools, going to the schools,
talking to the kids. I got that mindset and I
started start saying mascots of every school, you know, I memorized,
and eventually going to all these schools visiting, I knew
it was you know, manasas Tigers, Mailroads, go to Whitecats,
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having a Wildcats, south Side Scrappers, Otside Cougars, Kirby Cougar's
Central Warriors BT. You know. So all of that was
my stick then because I was dealing with the young
folks their mascots, so that let them know, Man, you connected,
you connected, He knows about us.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
So probably is. You're probably the reason. And this is
stand Belle in the background, y'all here.
Speaker 4 (15:39):
Oh, pull up some memories, mud. I was yeah, is
when I had the hot tip face.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Wanted yeah, but it was yeah, it was still it
was still live. So so you did that. We don't
even know the year, but I do know that Memphis forgotten.
They they found this that that that Instagram page they
found you, uh huh. And then I see soul Studio.
Speaker 4 (16:16):
There, Soul Studio is. I did a little research and
that's uh. If you know Terry, what's the guy freak
Master forgot's given name. He had the song out some
some freak Master shake or something. He had a song,
he had a good song song out, but his artist
name was freak Master. But he had a nice little
(16:37):
song that kind of caught on that kind of novelty.
But people in Memphis knew it was so he had
also had a studio, so he had the cameras back then,
and so s O L E yeah, l E Y, Yeah,
I think of his name later, but yeah, he's a
good guy. He's talented, and he had the fourth thought
(16:58):
to record.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
Yeah, and then Tracy, but they had the forethought to
or record this.
Speaker 4 (17:08):
Now, how long ago was that? Is that one?
Speaker 1 (17:13):
Jesse? Yeah, this was about twenty weeks ago.
Speaker 4 (17:17):
Storm It that all the rest can get the FM
out was a classic theme song that was done in
nineteen eighty seven. Yeah, Mega Jam Studio and man, you know,
I used to hang out with these guys, you know,
I just go in the studio, you know, and they said,
(17:38):
made you. We got to give you a theme song. Man.
You I had just moved from part time to officially
like seventy eleven on in the Night.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
Yeah, and he said you need to intro.
Speaker 4 (17:47):
Man, I said, you know what I think I would need?
Was that the thing? Though?
Speaker 2 (17:53):
Then we're well doing?
Speaker 4 (17:54):
Yeah, you know I heard the theme. So I'm gonna
tell you who else was big with the theme songs.
And I don't know if I beat up Griggs.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
Yeah, I bet you. Greg Street got a lot of
what he got from you, because I I worked with
Greg Street and in Dallas. Yeah, And I'm when you're
saying that you did. Was was things that Greg was doing.
Greg knew the schools, he would go to the schools
(18:23):
and the principles. He was just really into the community
like that. I'm sure he still is like that today,
And I bet you he watched you. Let me tell
you something, being I was in Arkansas, little rock people
all over the country when we'd get together at these conventions. Yeah,
we watched people in l A and Chicago and stuff
(18:44):
like that. But but Memphis, you watched what people in
Memphis were doing, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (18:51):
So I bet you Memphis was the standard. And even
before I got on the air, you know, at least
the lips of the world of the incredible Jimmy Smith's
Pam Little Girl with Bobby oj Is, the world of
Melville Cooking, Joneses of the world, James Organs of the world,
Bill Atkins of the world. You know, I mean in
that era, the John Skywalk. I don't know if you
(19:14):
remember him, but man, you know, there's so many greats
came through. Yeah, you know, Lawrence was Gregor Gregory, Michael Siggers,
you know, uh, he came through it. We watched doctor Lawrence,
Gregory Jones, I mean Doc Jones, you know, so big shoes,
the fields that shoulders were standing on. And I mean,
you know, but I've loved every moment of this ride.
(19:34):
I mean since eighty six to the present, and I
remember as if it were yesterday knty seven eighty six
to two thousand and one, the yell went kicking and screaming.
It went over to uh V one on one. At
the time I went over, it was just kind of
was it smooth? I think they had just flipped it.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
Okay, okay, it was smooth one on one.
Speaker 4 (19:54):
That's why scream. So I dont want to love stuff,
you know, LDD love battle loves us on the there.
But I was just I was still that hype guy.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
Yeah. I was twenty something.
Speaker 4 (20:03):
Yeah, and and you know, you know when I started
K ninety seven, so by the time I got to
to one on one, I was about forty. So it
brought in a younger cat and uh and I went
on into we were only one. I embraced it. And
let me say this. I don't know if I've ever
said this on the radio or not before, but uh,
I did not crack that mic for about a week.
(20:27):
Can you imagine what, Yeah I did crack. I was
I was like I was.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
Still still kind of felt out of element.
Speaker 4 (20:32):
Yeah I was. I was. I was just I was
still kind of you know, bitter. So I mean, you
think about You've been on the station fifteen years, so
you felt probably felt a little like little slight it
a little long. Yeah, I guess the next thing is
out the door. I was thinking, you know, me, out
the way, I can pacify me. We're not firing you,
(20:54):
but we putting you over here. Man.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
It was setting you up for success.
Speaker 4 (20:58):
They were and didn't even know it.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
You had three most stations to go. Yeah, because a
lot of people don't know that you actually did another station. Yeah,
you did Hallelujah and you're on wd I a now.
But in that you did a station in Detroit too.
Speaker 4 (21:16):
Oh wow, see you bought that. Oh I forgot about that.
It was MIXT ninety two point three. Nah, yeah, Format
Format center. Who you call it, you know, Premium Choice,
you know it's different names. Yeah, but yeah, you're right
stowing me. I forgot about that. Yeah, you did the
Detroit thing. Of course, I didn't have to go physically
(21:39):
to Detroit unless they called me in and say, okay,
holds the show. We'll fly you in for the weekends
so the people can hear, you know, and see how
the announcers. But that was a joy too, just to
learn the culture. You know, to get the notes about Detroit,
you know, Southfield, you know, shout out to a east side,
west side, you know, shout out to a was it.
(22:00):
I'm traffic. You know all these you know, the the
suburbs and the areas and the you know, the districts,
and you know little Caesars Amphitheater, which is now I
think is that Retha Franklin Amphathet. I mean, okay, so
that was a good book, and that that station is
still successful. I think the number one or two in
the market, Troy. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
See look at you watch all right, y'all, it's the pulse.
I am stormy and Black History Month. You know, all
this month I've been checking in with some folks, and
a couple of those folks that I checked in were
people around here that's making history. Because we don't always
toot our own horn, you know what I'm saying. Uh,
And so I wanted to toot some horns Tracy, but
(22:41):
they uh, because a lot of people don't know her
history and why she is perfect. As the program director
for w d I A and Stan Bell, who has
been on four radio stations. Young people take notes. If
you want to do a black history Uh, story this week,
your teachers asking you for something. Stan Bell is the
(23:02):
only radio DJ that has had a literal radio show
on four of the top radio stations in this market.
Hallelujah FM. He worked nights V one O one, three
to seven. He's drive time is what they call it.
W d I A he is currently doing, and V
(23:23):
one on one he's currently doing. But w d I
A mornings and K ninety seven?
Speaker 2 (23:29):
What did you do?
Speaker 4 (23:30):
Was your shift? K A seven start off? Of of course,
squash storm midnight till.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
Ever shift under shifts except for midday?
Speaker 4 (23:37):
That's true.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
Wait, what shift did you do when you were doing Detroit?
Speaker 4 (23:40):
Detroit was? Matter of fact? It was two to six. No,
I followed, I followed franket oursel I was, I was
six to ten.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (23:52):
And then I did a weekend show, you know, ten
to two.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
See him talking about see him talking about hein't done
it all except for midday. Sounds like, yeah, you're gonna
do mid day's next.
Speaker 4 (24:03):
I don't have that tea and I ain't got the
hot selimited sound bite. I can't do all they inspire
me or look, I don't know who holds tomorrow, but
I do know.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
Come on here.
Speaker 4 (24:17):
I can't do all that. I'm the stick to the roll.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
Bell ringer up in here. Okay. So what was it
like when you were doing Hallelujah FM?
Speaker 4 (24:27):
A lot of inspiration right there. They truly are the
inspiration station. I'm gonna tell you something I do kind
of miss.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
You did a good job over there, good.
Speaker 4 (24:34):
Time over there. I learned a lot. I learned a
lot more about the artists, you know, and tight tribute
was coming up, you know, and of course Kirk Franklin
and man in the Mississippi Mass Choir. Chance to learn
here you know, Korean hotst On when she first broke out. Yeah,
you know, I mean I really do miss it. I
won't talk too much about it. It might try to
(24:56):
call you back because I'm you know, but I mean
it's a really good station, yea, and brought to get
a great audience, love inspiration. They love their gospel. But
the way ninety five point seven was they got a
different kind of how would I say five about the
music that they still play. So I treasured every I
did it for about I guess about two years and
(25:20):
was successful.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
Yeah, so with every role you have played, and now
d I a tell me how it feels to be
at d I A. I do know one thing. Them
folks love some stamps w d I A listeners, Yeah.
Speaker 4 (25:41):
Yeah, love some good hearing that from you sometimes you
just never know.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
You know, it's the truth. And I believe this is
what I believe. I know you say you have big
shoes to feel. I believe that people who still may
be missingby, if you don't mind me saying it, they
still love you. Yeah, they still love you.
Speaker 4 (26:08):
I'm gonna tell you how this thing happened. I believe
it was divine obviously. But you know I've always.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
Said, have you always wanted to do mornings?
Speaker 4 (26:16):
No? I never you know, No, my thing was the night.
I just always wanted to do nights eleven, you know,
because early on. But you know, as you get older,
you're kind of like, you know what, even when I
got to do the afternoon drive thing, I was like,
I'm not feeling the afternoon, you know, because you know,
you know, I believe it's because I thought it was
(26:37):
just it wasn't energetic enough for me, you know, because
I always thought the afternoon is the kind of dignified
you on your way home, you know. And but you
still give them a little some sum But I wanted
to be that hype guy in the evening, so, you know,
that's what I thought. You know, seven to midnight was
gonna do for me, and it did. But going to
afternoon drives more more stability. You got a different responsibility.
(26:59):
You know. Folk on the way home was I like
to say, their next place of responsibility. Those who worked
two jobs were not. So I really enjoy now. Of
course afternoon was ov but my thing was meant, you know,
the evening shift. But you know what, the morning is
not as bad as I thought. The alarm clock goes
off storm at four thirty every morning, and I hit
this snooze. Maybe one time I get on back, I
(27:21):
get on up. But now it has become a little
easier for me to get up and to do it.
When I was that mornings are yeah, more's a little
different piece of the pie. You gotta have stamina number
one if you're gonna do it every day, you know, uh,
and to get up there early. But and I was
just always one. I said, how did Bobby do this?
How did these morning guys do? C? J? Morgan? How
these morning got even herd? The k my mentor ended
(27:42):
up doing mornings on K ninety seven, when he had
been the seven to midnight gap for so long. Three
seven over at that time magic one oh one or
you got here in Memphis. And but but now it's
and I think what helped me being a school teacher,
you know, I had I was up anyway about six,
(28:03):
getting ready for school to start a seventy fifteen high
school level. So getting up now about an hour and
a half earlier. But it's it's now, it's easy. And
I'll say this, No, I didn't want to do mornings,
but I believe in this success usually comes to those
who are too busy to look for it.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
Yeah, got a little hiccup there, that's why it stopped.
Speaker 4 (28:23):
Yeah, yeah, that's it.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
That's good.
Speaker 4 (28:25):
Yeah, yeah, you know, because I was of my own business,
you know, and Bobby Bobby oj rest his soul. I
think it was twenty thirteen actually when I first worked
at WDIA. You know, I don't know if you remember that
or not, but I was doing evenings, that's.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
Right, because I was over there too.
Speaker 4 (28:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
Yeah, I was doing similar to what I'm doing now.
It was three to six, and then you were coming
on pretty much after me.
Speaker 4 (28:47):
Yeah. Yeah, and even I think I want to say, yeah, yeah,
Kylin would do the he would I think he was
said he would.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
It was Bobby, it was Bev, Kylon me and then
you Yeah.
Speaker 4 (28:59):
And I think Jane's love had somewhere in there.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
She been there and Colin was with her.
Speaker 4 (29:04):
That's what it was. Yeah right and uh and then
that's my first introduction to the D I A at
the time. So it's been a good run. It still
is a good you know, yeah, it's it's a it's
a journey. You know, it's a destination because you don't
know what's next. But I'm enjoying the ride. Man, It's
it's been really good. I love the w D I listening,
I love them in the morning, and they have and
(29:26):
I will say this transparency. And I was in the
hot seat, but obviously you know, look who you're following.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (29:33):
And so once I've kind of established my own style
niche comfortability, if you will, comfortability uh and and then
and then they embraced it. What we're doing. I'm so
grateful to iHeart them, grateful of Tracy.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
Even even the people that are missing, like I said, yeah,
they love stan Bell how could you not?
Speaker 4 (29:53):
And some of Bobby's relatives email me and and connected
with me and say, you know what, h we couldn't
think of a the person to succeed him. And that
really made my heart feel glad. So it's easy getting
up in the morning, you know, got a job to do.
We're not willing neely and trying to figure out what
we're going to do. And now I think we've got
an actual show. We've got an actual show.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
Yeah, you got a show.
Speaker 4 (30:17):
Two things, a show two things, and I think that
was vitally important to have. We're doing two uh two
great features that I would like to call it per hour,
you know, so listeners can expect. You know, it's no
surprises less no surprises. You know, if you come in
and sign on strong. I don't play a lot of
(30:39):
slow songs, but you know this that thing out you
try to jam that thing, popping it out off the die.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
Well, listen, we've got to run and yeah, I know
hardness So sweet sorrow, isn't it?
Speaker 4 (30:52):
You got that song? It's time to go now, I
got that one. Not today, that's the old school gladdys.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
But listen, thank you Stan for being here.
Speaker 4 (31:01):
I appreciate you.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
This has been fun and I hope y'all that are
listening have found it to be that that way as
well as I. I have the hiccups for I don't
know why they just came out of nowhere, but.
Speaker 4 (31:14):
Something before you go? What you got your fingertips on
the pulse of the community. Oh, that's try, that's why
you know, That's how they named it at Yeah, you
bring in the folk in here. You letting folks know.
And uh, you're doing an outstanding.
Speaker 1 (31:27):
Letting folks know. And like I said, because we don't
always get we do get celebrated, but there are some
things about the folks in this building that people don't
get to celebrate all the time. Like I don't think
people know that you've done that, and they need to
know this man four shifts on four of the top
(31:51):
black radio stations in Memphis, Tennessee. If that ain't black history,
I don't know what it is.
Speaker 4 (31:56):
It is to God be the glory, come on here
for the things he has done.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
I am stormy. It is time for us to get
out of here. Thank you, Stan welcome. You want to
say goodbye to your lovely wife?
Speaker 4 (32:08):
Oh yes, Sister Bell cann't do it. Oh we the
peach in my cobbler, the sugar in my teeth, I
know that's right.
Speaker 5 (32:17):
The sugar on my grits, I said, grits and you
gotta hey, got to have it, and parents on my
scrambled eggs. Now that's old school land.
Speaker 4 (32:29):
That shore is bell gotta going on.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
Thank you again, Stan I appreciate you for taking the
time out to talk to the good people. And y'all
make sure you call him and tell him how amazing
he is. All right, hey, thank you guys for joining
us for the pulse, keeping our fingertips on the pulse
of our community. I am stormy. Thank you stan Bell.
God bless you guys. We'll see you next week, same time,
(32:56):
same station. Have a great week.
All right, we're back up in here Black History Month
and this is the final weekend. Okay, I am stormy.
Thank you guys for joining us for the show. Listen,
let me tell y'all some Let me tell you y' all,
black history is in the building.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
And he goes by the name of Stan Bell, serving
you will, pushing more power than the doself stand Bell.
Speaker 4 (00:28):
Yeah, that's your that's your FA. But I like it. No,
diggity no, I like your things, right, thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
But Stan Bell, Yes, black History in the building. Last week,
I told you guys that Stan is probably the only DJ.
He he's kind of like a I wouldn't call him
fly jock, but I would call you a a room
to room job. Because we got four radio stations in
(01:09):
this building that you have been on different shifts at
some point down.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, we gospel, let.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
Me see, yeah, get gospel, R and B.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Hip hop, uh huh uh huh and d I a
mm hmm.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
Heritage.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:38):
See how they worked, See how I worked. God is amazing.
I didn't see it coming. He's particularly on the ninety
five point seven, our sister station. You're right, Uh, I
didn't see that happened.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
So that's a g r h H. You got a
g r h H g r H kind of like
a egot, but a g r h H gospel R
and B hip hop in heritage, Harry Wow.
Speaker 4 (02:03):
Acrosstick.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
So yeah, going from room to room, how did it
feel staying Yeah?
Speaker 4 (02:09):
I did kind of feel like one of your colleagues,
Tom Joyner, just not on the plane, right.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
Yeah. So that's the beauty of it all because a
lot of people, no doubt in the audience, think that
I'm getting in my calm driving one station right when
you got to be you put some miles on that,
because they don't realize we're all in the same I'm
walking from room to room. But it's like you do
have to have another mindset and you go into each
(02:36):
you know station. Yeah, because sometimes you can, you can
get confused. I've slipped a couple of times.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Yeah, me too. Oh oh yeah, and you don't sometimes
you don't even know you slip.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
Website w Yeah, that it happens.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Okay, So you you you started hip hop and I
know that was lovely. Oh yes, that's where you got
your fame. What is it your name to fame? That's
where you got there.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
Yeah, because Stormy the ninety seven experience. Stormy experience, the
ninety seven experience was a dream come true.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
I know, you know, and you probably met everybody when
you worked on K ninety s being the man.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
I mean you look scrap book back, you know, because
the scrap book, but.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
You know everybody. I mean, I'm talking about singers.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
But you know what, as you know, Stormy comes to
the territory. Yeah, back in the day, artists would come
to the radio station, thanks yeah for being an early
believer music. And if they were coming to a concert,
they're going to perform, do a show in the sing
just to be part of course. Yeah, I'm going to
the station. We would thank everybody for the support and
it's and sell some tickets at the same time, and
(03:50):
to tell the jock thanks to the play my next single.
So it was every time a show came through, that's
how we got to meet these folks. Yeah, and uh
and and I mean I remember walking in the concert
with ll cool J and with him before his performance,
during it and afterwards he said, man, they love me
this LL you with thought he was, I mean, I said,
(04:11):
so this is how entertainers act. After the show and
he said, man, they still love me. I think it
was his comeback. Remember the mama said, knock you receive this.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
I think I was here for that concert and I
came down.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
They still got love for me. This was before Joe.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Did because he was still fine. I mean, excuse me,
go ahead.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
Yeah, And he was amazed that scarface when he came.
He was like, man, you know, and everybody was speaking
to me. They saw him there, but they said, man,
y'all got a different kind of love. Radio autists. When
they see in public, they gonna call you out. Yeah,
he said, man, but I'm Scott Face, so they So
I'm saying this to say this our audience Memphis knows radio.
(04:53):
They love their personalities. They don't mind speaking calling you
out with wherever you are and Scott Face.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
I never said this before.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
And another somebody else did this, comedian and he said, man,
the Memphis Memphis listeners showed love to their personalities. So
to your point, yeah, I've made quite a few. I
mean the list goes on. You name it. Yeah, Michael Jackson,
Prince James, did you interview Michael Jackson preaching Frank FRANKI
Beverley I'm gonna tell you what. Michael Jackson K ninety
(05:21):
seven had a promotion. Yeah, we're sending five lucky listeners
to the Grammys. And I was one of the chaperones
they selected, you know, one of the jocks you know,
had to go and back then. Of course, you know,
it wasn't like we could do now we could take
you know and record cell phone and all that stuff.
(05:42):
It wasn't fancy and it wasn't spark like that. I
just got a chance to wave at him and sit
on the stage at the Grammys, you know where he
actually performed. This was like eighty eight, Wow, eighty eight
gram eighty eight. Simpson was there, he was, I mean,
I met that Oh Kylon, world famous, legendary. Kylon was
(06:03):
a listener and he went, what sure he was one
of the winners.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
Yeah, And that's kind of how he got bit by
broadcasting bug. He loved what we were doing. We had
a fantastic promotions director.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
You're so you.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Were his his mentor And don't even know it.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
We kicked it too. We went to New York. We
Kyle and I kicked it man. You know all the
you know, all the winners. It was like five winners
and their guests, so that's like ten yeah, and I
was I was a chaperone. We had so much fun
and we met the stars and they were just everybody
was excited because you know, Michael Acus, what he performed,
I think that was when he was doing was it
(06:42):
the Billy Jean and what he was in the height
of his career. I mean, well, now the Billy jing
was probably what year was that album? Was that eighty
seven I want to be starting something and all of
that stuff, you know, the Thriller, So it was prior
to that. It was prid matter of fact, it was
who was the one? Well, he he did his moon
(07:02):
walking all that. It might have been the it wasn't off.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
Was there was Billy Jean? That was eighty three that
he did Billy Jean.
Speaker 4 (07:08):
He sure was eighty three, so we were there. No,
it was after that the eighty seven.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
He was still hot.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
He was hot, he was still hot, all of.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
That, you know, Liberian Girl and all that. Of course
he did all this old stuff too, so but that's
what it all started, meeting all these entertainments. I mean
the Prince. Prince was probably the first major celebrity that
I ever met, went backstage where he got an autograph
when I was a student. But I was a student
at UT Martin, and he gave a show nobody believe
he's coming out of Prince Saint. I was doing college radio. Yeah,
(07:38):
yeh w U TM one ninety point three FM.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (07:43):
And so while I was on the ass of the promoter,
you know what was said, man, you know, saying I
don't think about bringing Prince out. You're sure, You're sure,
you bring the little Martin. And sure enough he got
a sign booked and all that kind of stuff and
promoted and said put a little flyers all over the
school campus. And I was on the air. He even
came by, not Prince, but the water came by, just
(08:04):
to make him confirm because people was our princes are
not coming us, so you know. And and so I
met him. I was That was the first big show
that I am c. I was nervous as all get out,
stormy wow. And it was Prince is nineteen eighty two,
Prince Roger you know zapp.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
Yes, and the Time, oh my goodness.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
Time came out first, then Roger Chopman, and then Prince
was the headline days. Time was hot Cool, Doom Doom,
Doom doode cool in the stick ever since.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Jimmy jam My goodness.
Speaker 4 (08:46):
To your point, all of those these stars. I mean,
it's part of the territory, right, especially when in the
eighties and the nineties, when these when these new artists
were kind of cutting their teeth and they were just
so happy to be on the radio, and they were stationed. Yeah,
if self is worth thing, back then, it'd be all
over the place. You don't take pictures. They had the
(09:08):
glossy you know, in the five by seven of that
eight by ten. They were passing out and signing. That
was the big thing in there. But yeah, we met
quite a few folks down the line.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Eighties or nineties music. Which one do you like the most?
Speaker 4 (09:21):
I would say, believe it or not. I love the seventies,
but I do. I'm a I'm almost seventies kind of guy,
you know, seventy seven right in there.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
Okay, but but but but you know, but you weren't
on radio in the seventies.
Speaker 4 (09:36):
I was on college college radio. Part of the seventh
I was right in the ladder part of ok So,
the best of My Love, you know, the oceans and
good stuff, you know, and coming into the Evelyan Champagneking.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
You around that time.
Speaker 4 (09:52):
That was like mid seventies there, But I was I
was towards the ladder part of the seventies. Tenny Pentograds.
The whole town was laughing, you know that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
That's good.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
Yeah, And so I really like the seventies music. And
when I got to ninety seven and eighty six, eighty
six after working the Jackson as we talked before about
the year and but but eighty six, I remember stuff
like the early Midnight Stars. I mean stuff that when
they tried to make a comeback after you know, the
(10:24):
Freakazoid era and the night night Rider and all of that,
you know in the slow chain which is like four
and then they tried to make a comeback. One of
the first songs I played it was headlines by Midnight Star.
You might have been in the Big Rock Dead was
it before that? Yeah, yeah, it was eighty six.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
It was after six eighty six. I think I was
doing gospel.
Speaker 4 (10:48):
Okay, wow? Hey, why okay?
Speaker 1 (10:51):
No? I was powered no radio station kpb A and
where Pine, Arkansas.
Speaker 4 (10:57):
Wow. So eighty six, why I got started? You know,
only if I missed his last time. But I was
a part timer, you know, I was just so excited
to be Okay. If guess who trained me work the board,
the late great Joe P. Washington. I don't know if
I heard about him, call him mister backtrack.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
I heard about him all. And for those of y'all
that are just joining us, it is the pulse. I
am stormy talking to the one and only stan Bell.
What name is Spanish flag? What you got him?
Speaker 4 (11:27):
DJ? Spanish fly word? Yes?
Speaker 1 (11:30):
I love that, Oh my god, thank you. Yeah. So
stand Bell is giving us some history up in here.
You're telling us some things. Now, now let's move to
B one on one. Sure where you went kicking and screaming.
Speaker 4 (11:44):
I did, and did.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
So tell me about BE one on one.
Speaker 4 (11:49):
That was a blessing in disguise. Didn't even know because
it ain't even.
Speaker 5 (11:54):
You know.
Speaker 4 (11:55):
They did me, uh all of a subliminal favor or
what was a divide in favor. They gave me more
longevity in the business. Had I been on K ninety seven,
you know, if they say okay, you know you want
to say on the long go right ahead, probably wouldn't
have done it. Maybe two more years and didn't even
know what.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
Wow, So you think K ninety seven the hip hop?
Do you think that's an aging kind of a thing.
You think you age out of that? And that's what
yeah tell you. And I didn't want to age out
of it. When I went kicking and screaming, I didn't
you know, I didn't think forty is young. Yeah, yeah,
now you know we're looking back right.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
Then. I think they didn't want to tell me, well,
you kind of you know, your time down there, but
they knew that one on one was coming up. Yeah,
and they knew the format and they thought I could
probably sega.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
And you did into that, yeah, but.
Speaker 4 (12:49):
They really gave me how would I say, perpetuity longeviney
and I didn't even know it. Yeah, Like I probably
wouldn't be a gift yea, Yeah, I would kick screen.
But I should have been saying thank you Jesus, you know,
for for foresight, for you know, future sturistic, you know,
career longevity. But I was just I was so into
(13:10):
it's the roll call and talking to the young folks,
and I knew it was working and the great a
revenue was being generated, and man, I loved coming to
work during that area. That's seven and midnight was my
stick seventy eleven. Right in there after I got off,
it was quiet storm, you know, so that that was
the best time of my life in radio, to be
(13:31):
honest with you, jelling with those students, I got a
quick store for you, I think because when I came aboard,
I had to I had to be able to do
something differently than the other jocks. You know, you don't ape,
you don't ate any jock style. You don't want to ate.
But he said, you know you as soon as you
get on there, they are you try to be like
(13:52):
Herb the k Yo Leah, Herb Kneeling former WDI A personality.
He was my guy I used to listen to growing
up up, you know, high school days and my mentor,
and he was the one responsible for me kind of
getting into this business. But Herb, I when I got
out of college, you know, or when I was in college,
I knew I was kind of imitating him, but they
(14:15):
didn't really know, you know, the audience on the college scene,
they figured that was my style. What I knew I was,
you know, just like yourself. You probably got somebody you
look up to, you know, female in the business somebody.
You know, you got to start somewhere, you do, so
you're going to sound like the person who brought you in,
the person that you inspired you, a one that you
then you become yeah yeah right, and you have to
(14:36):
evolve into your own stand yeah yeah. So what I
ended up doing too to make stand different had the
ease out of herb style, still knowing how he did things,
but I kind of evolved into stand Bill the bell ringer,
uh you know, DJ stand Bill and all that. But
(14:58):
Mama tell you what my number one but the it
was becoming involved in the schools, going to the schools,
talking to the kids. I got that mindset and I
started start saying mascots of every school, you know, I memorized,
and eventually going to all these schools visiting, I knew
it was you know, manasas Tigers, Mailroads, go to Whitecats,
(15:18):
having a Wildcats, south Side Scrappers, Otside Cougars, Kirby Cougar's
Central Warriors BT. You know. So all of that was
my stick then because I was dealing with the young
folks their mascots, so that let them know, Man, you connected,
you connected, He knows about us.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
So probably is. You're probably the reason. And this is
stand Belle in the background, y'all here.
Speaker 4 (15:39):
Oh, pull up some memories, mud. I was yeah, is
when I had the hot tip face.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Wanted yeah, but it was yeah, it was still it
was still live. So so you did that. We don't
even know the year, but I do know that Memphis forgotten.
They they found this that that that Instagram page they
found you, uh huh. And then I see soul Studio.
Speaker 4 (16:16):
There, Soul Studio is. I did a little research and
that's uh. If you know Terry, what's the guy freak
Master forgot's given name. He had the song out some
some freak Master shake or something. He had a song,
he had a good song song out, but his artist
name was freak Master. But he had a nice little
(16:37):
song that kind of caught on that kind of novelty.
But people in Memphis knew it was so he had
also had a studio, so he had the cameras back then,
and so s O L E yeah, l E Y, Yeah,
I think of his name later, but yeah, he's a
good guy. He's talented, and he had the fourth thought
(16:58):
to record.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
Yeah, and then Tracy, but they had the forethought to
or record this.
Speaker 4 (17:08):
Now, how long ago was that? Is that one?
Speaker 1 (17:13):
Jesse? Yeah, this was about twenty weeks ago.
Speaker 4 (17:17):
Storm It that all the rest can get the FM
out was a classic theme song that was done in
nineteen eighty seven. Yeah, Mega Jam Studio and man, you know,
I used to hang out with these guys, you know,
I just go in the studio, you know, and they said,
(17:38):
made you. We got to give you a theme song. Man.
You I had just moved from part time to officially
like seventy eleven on in the Night.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
Yeah, and he said you need to intro.
Speaker 4 (17:47):
Man, I said, you know what I think I would need?
Was that the thing? Though?
Speaker 2 (17:53):
Then we're well doing?
Speaker 4 (17:54):
Yeah, you know I heard the theme. So I'm gonna
tell you who else was big with the theme songs.
And I don't know if I beat up Griggs.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
Yeah, I bet you. Greg Street got a lot of
what he got from you, because I I worked with
Greg Street and in Dallas. Yeah, And I'm when you're
saying that you did. Was was things that Greg was doing.
Greg knew the schools, he would go to the schools
(18:23):
and the principles. He was just really into the community
like that. I'm sure he still is like that today,
And I bet you he watched you. Let me tell
you something, being I was in Arkansas, little rock people
all over the country when we'd get together at these conventions. Yeah,
we watched people in l A and Chicago and stuff
(18:44):
like that. But but Memphis, you watched what people in
Memphis were doing, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (18:51):
So I bet you Memphis was the standard. And even
before I got on the air, you know, at least
the lips of the world of the incredible Jimmy Smith's
Pam Little Girl with Bobby oj Is, the world of
Melville Cooking, Joneses of the world, James Organs of the world,
Bill Atkins of the world. You know, I mean in
that era, the John Skywalk. I don't know if you
(19:14):
remember him, but man, you know, there's so many greats
came through. Yeah, you know, Lawrence was Gregor Gregory, Michael Siggers,
you know, uh, he came through it. We watched doctor Lawrence,
Gregory Jones, I mean Doc Jones, you know, so big shoes,
the fields that shoulders were standing on. And I mean,
you know, but I've loved every moment of this ride.
(19:34):
I mean since eighty six to the present, and I
remember as if it were yesterday knty seven eighty six
to two thousand and one, the yell went kicking and screaming.
It went over to uh V one on one. At
the time I went over, it was just kind of
was it smooth? I think they had just flipped it.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
Okay, okay, it was smooth one on one.
Speaker 4 (19:54):
That's why scream. So I dont want to love stuff,
you know, LDD love battle loves us on the there.
But I was just I was still that hype guy.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
Yeah. I was twenty something.
Speaker 4 (20:03):
Yeah, and and you know, you know when I started
K ninety seven, so by the time I got to
to one on one, I was about forty. So it
brought in a younger cat and uh and I went
on into we were only one. I embraced it. And
let me say this. I don't know if I've ever
said this on the radio or not before, but uh,
I did not crack that mic for about a week.
(20:27):
Can you imagine what, Yeah I did crack. I was
I was like I was.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
Still still kind of felt out of element.
Speaker 4 (20:32):
Yeah I was. I was. I was just I was
still kind of you know, bitter. So I mean, you
think about You've been on the station fifteen years, so
you felt probably felt a little like little slight it
a little long. Yeah, I guess the next thing is
out the door. I was thinking, you know, me, out
the way, I can pacify me. We're not firing you,
(20:54):
but we putting you over here. Man.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
It was setting you up for success.
Speaker 4 (20:58):
They were and didn't even know it.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
You had three most stations to go. Yeah, because a
lot of people don't know that you actually did another station. Yeah,
you did Hallelujah and you're on wd I a now.
But in that you did a station in Detroit too.
Speaker 4 (21:16):
Oh wow, see you bought that. Oh I forgot about that.
It was MIXT ninety two point three. Nah, yeah, Format
Format center. Who you call it, you know, Premium Choice,
you know it's different names. Yeah, but yeah, you're right
stowing me. I forgot about that. Yeah, you did the
Detroit thing. Of course, I didn't have to go physically
(21:39):
to Detroit unless they called me in and say, okay,
holds the show. We'll fly you in for the weekends
so the people can hear, you know, and see how
the announcers. But that was a joy too, just to
learn the culture. You know, to get the notes about Detroit,
you know, Southfield, you know, shout out to a east side,
west side, you know, shout out to a was it.
(22:00):
I'm traffic. You know all these you know, the the
suburbs and the areas and the you know, the districts,
and you know little Caesars Amphitheater, which is now I
think is that Retha Franklin Amphathet. I mean, okay, so
that was a good book, and that that station is
still successful. I think the number one or two in
the market, Troy. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
See look at you watch all right, y'all, it's the pulse.
I am stormy and Black History Month. You know, all
this month I've been checking in with some folks, and
a couple of those folks that I checked in were
people around here that's making history. Because we don't always
toot our own horn, you know what I'm saying. Uh,
And so I wanted to toot some horns Tracy, but
(22:41):
they uh, because a lot of people don't know her
history and why she is perfect. As the program director
for w d I A and Stan Bell, who has
been on four radio stations. Young people take notes. If
you want to do a black history Uh, story this week,
your teachers asking you for something. Stan Bell is the
(23:02):
only radio DJ that has had a literal radio show
on four of the top radio stations in this market.
Hallelujah FM. He worked nights V one O one, three
to seven. He's drive time is what they call it.
W d I A he is currently doing, and V
(23:23):
one on one he's currently doing. But w d I
A mornings and K ninety seven?
Speaker 2 (23:29):
What did you do?
Speaker 4 (23:30):
Was your shift? K A seven start off? Of of course,
squash storm midnight till.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
Ever shift under shifts except for midday?
Speaker 4 (23:37):
That's true.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
Wait, what shift did you do when you were doing Detroit?
Speaker 4 (23:40):
Detroit was? Matter of fact? It was two to six. No,
I followed, I followed franket oursel I was, I was
six to ten.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (23:52):
And then I did a weekend show, you know, ten
to two.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
See him talking about see him talking about hein't done
it all except for midday. Sounds like, yeah, you're gonna
do mid day's next.
Speaker 4 (24:03):
I don't have that tea and I ain't got the
hot selimited sound bite. I can't do all they inspire
me or look, I don't know who holds tomorrow, but
I do know.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
Come on here.
Speaker 4 (24:17):
I can't do all that. I'm the stick to the roll.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
Bell ringer up in here. Okay. So what was it
like when you were doing Hallelujah FM?
Speaker 4 (24:27):
A lot of inspiration right there. They truly are the
inspiration station. I'm gonna tell you something I do kind
of miss.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
You did a good job over there, good.
Speaker 4 (24:34):
Time over there. I learned a lot. I learned a
lot more about the artists, you know, and tight tribute
was coming up, you know, and of course Kirk Franklin
and man in the Mississippi Mass Choir. Chance to learn
here you know, Korean hotst On when she first broke out. Yeah,
you know, I mean I really do miss it. I
won't talk too much about it. It might try to
(24:56):
call you back because I'm you know, but I mean
it's a really good station, yea, and brought to get
a great audience, love inspiration. They love their gospel. But
the way ninety five point seven was they got a
different kind of how would I say five about the
music that they still play. So I treasured every I
did it for about I guess about two years and
(25:20):
was successful.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
Yeah, so with every role you have played, and now
d I a tell me how it feels to be
at d I A. I do know one thing. Them
folks love some stamps w d I A listeners, Yeah.
Speaker 4 (25:41):
Yeah, love some good hearing that from you sometimes you
just never know.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
You know, it's the truth. And I believe this is
what I believe. I know you say you have big
shoes to feel. I believe that people who still may
be missingby, if you don't mind me saying it, they
still love you. Yeah, they still love you.
Speaker 4 (26:08):
I'm gonna tell you how this thing happened. I believe
it was divine obviously. But you know I've always.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
Said, have you always wanted to do mornings?
Speaker 4 (26:16):
No? I never you know, No, my thing was the night.
I just always wanted to do nights eleven, you know,
because early on. But you know, as you get older,
you're kind of like, you know what, even when I
got to do the afternoon drive thing, I was like,
I'm not feeling the afternoon, you know, because you know,
you know, I believe it's because I thought it was
(26:37):
just it wasn't energetic enough for me, you know, because
I always thought the afternoon is the kind of dignified
you on your way home, you know. And but you
still give them a little some sum But I wanted
to be that hype guy in the evening, so, you know,
that's what I thought. You know, seven to midnight was
gonna do for me, and it did. But going to
afternoon drives more more stability. You got a different responsibility.
(26:59):
You know. Folk on the way home was I like
to say, their next place of responsibility. Those who worked
two jobs were not. So I really enjoy now. Of
course afternoon was ov but my thing was meant, you know,
the evening shift. But you know what, the morning is
not as bad as I thought. The alarm clock goes
off storm at four thirty every morning, and I hit
this snooze. Maybe one time I get on back, I
(27:21):
get on up. But now it has become a little
easier for me to get up and to do it.
When I was that mornings are yeah, more's a little
different piece of the pie. You gotta have stamina number
one if you're gonna do it every day, you know, uh,
and to get up there early. But and I was
just always one. I said, how did Bobby do this?
How did these morning guys do? C? J? Morgan? How
these morning got even herd? The k my mentor ended
(27:42):
up doing mornings on K ninety seven, when he had
been the seven to midnight gap for so long. Three
seven over at that time magic one oh one or
you got here in Memphis. And but but now it's
and I think what helped me being a school teacher,
you know, I had I was up anyway about six,
(28:03):
getting ready for school to start a seventy fifteen high
school level. So getting up now about an hour and
a half earlier. But it's it's now, it's easy. And
I'll say this, No, I didn't want to do mornings,
but I believe in this success usually comes to those
who are too busy to look for it.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
Yeah, got a little hiccup there, that's why it stopped.
Speaker 4 (28:23):
Yeah, yeah, that's it.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
That's good.
Speaker 4 (28:25):
Yeah, yeah, you know, because I was of my own business,
you know, and Bobby Bobby oj rest his soul. I
think it was twenty thirteen actually when I first worked
at WDIA. You know, I don't know if you remember that
or not, but I was doing evenings, that's.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
Right, because I was over there too.
Speaker 4 (28:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
Yeah, I was doing similar to what I'm doing now.
It was three to six, and then you were coming
on pretty much after me.
Speaker 4 (28:47):
Yeah. Yeah, and even I think I want to say, yeah, yeah,
Kylin would do the he would I think he was
said he would.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
It was Bobby, it was Bev, Kylon me and then
you Yeah.
Speaker 4 (28:59):
And I think Jane's love had somewhere in there.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
She been there and Colin was with her.
Speaker 4 (29:04):
That's what it was. Yeah right and uh and then
that's my first introduction to the D I A at
the time. So it's been a good run. It still
is a good you know, yeah, it's it's a it's
a journey. You know, it's a destination because you don't
know what's next. But I'm enjoying the ride. Man, It's
it's been really good. I love the w D I listening,
I love them in the morning, and they have and
(29:26):
I will say this transparency. And I was in the
hot seat, but obviously you know, look who you're following.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (29:33):
And so once I've kind of established my own style
niche comfortability, if you will, comfortability uh and and then
and then they embraced it. What we're doing. I'm so
grateful to iHeart them, grateful of Tracy.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
Even even the people that are missing, like I said, yeah,
they love stan Bell how could you not?
Speaker 4 (29:53):
And some of Bobby's relatives email me and and connected
with me and say, you know what, h we couldn't
think of a the person to succeed him. And that
really made my heart feel glad. So it's easy getting
up in the morning, you know, got a job to do.
We're not willing neely and trying to figure out what
we're going to do. And now I think we've got
an actual show. We've got an actual show.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
Yeah, you got a show.
Speaker 4 (30:17):
Two things, a show two things, and I think that
was vitally important to have. We're doing two uh two
great features that I would like to call it per hour,
you know, so listeners can expect. You know, it's no
surprises less no surprises. You know, if you come in
and sign on strong. I don't play a lot of
(30:39):
slow songs, but you know this that thing out you
try to jam that thing, popping it out off the die.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
Well, listen, we've got to run and yeah, I know
hardness So sweet sorrow, isn't it?
Speaker 4 (30:52):
You got that song? It's time to go now, I
got that one. Not today, that's the old school gladdys.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
But listen, thank you Stan for being here.
Speaker 4 (31:01):
I appreciate you.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
This has been fun and I hope y'all that are
listening have found it to be that that way as
well as I. I have the hiccups for I don't
know why they just came out of nowhere, but.
Speaker 4 (31:14):
Something before you go? What you got your fingertips on
the pulse of the community. Oh, that's try, that's why
you know, That's how they named it at Yeah, you
bring in the folk in here. You letting folks know.
And uh, you're doing an outstanding.
Speaker 1 (31:27):
Letting folks know. And like I said, because we don't
always get we do get celebrated, but there are some
things about the folks in this building that people don't
get to celebrate all the time. Like I don't think
people know that you've done that, and they need to
know this man four shifts on four of the top
(31:51):
black radio stations in Memphis, Tennessee. If that ain't black history,
I don't know what it is.
Speaker 4 (31:56):
It is to God be the glory, come on here
for the things he has done.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
I am stormy. It is time for us to get
out of here. Thank you, Stan welcome. You want to
say goodbye to your lovely wife?
Speaker 4 (32:08):
Oh yes, Sister Bell cann't do it. Oh we the
peach in my cobbler, the sugar in my teeth, I
know that's right.
Speaker 5 (32:17):
The sugar on my grits, I said, grits and you
gotta hey, got to have it, and parents on my
scrambled eggs. Now that's old school land.
Speaker 4 (32:29):
That shore is bell gotta going on.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
Thank you again, Stan I appreciate you for taking the
time out to talk to the good people. And y'all
make sure you call him and tell him how amazing
he is. All right, hey, thank you guys for joining
us for the pulse, keeping our fingertips on the pulse
of our community. I am stormy. Thank you stan Bell.
God bless you guys. We'll see you next week, same time,
(32:56):
same station. Have a great week.
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