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Talent: DAVE BOXER
Station: CFCF Montreal
Date: August 27, 1968
Time: 5:22

(Description by Marc Denis)

From 1963 to 1966, Dave Boxer is the undisputed champion of Montreal's English-language evening radio landscape on Cuff Cuff (CFCF 600). Armed with his trusty "fanortonizer", a trombone-like whistle used to announce his contest winners, and surfing high on the wave of the British musical invasion, Dave Boxer is "the cool daddy-o on the radd-io" that thousands of teens tune into weeknights, 6-11 p.m. ... with transistor radios tucked strategically under the pillow, anticipating the latest Beatles, Dave Clark 5 or JB and the Playboys hit.

By the time of this aircheck in August of 1968, Boxer is in his final days on Cuff Cuff as rival 1470 CFOX is now the teen buzz for English language Top 40 music in Montreal. Dave would soon be joining, for a short period of time, the equally-troubled 980 CKGM, a station he appeared on in the early '60s prior to his heyday on CFCF and an address two years away from its major renaissance as a hit music monster.

Boxer would later work in radio sales for Standard Broadcasting in Montreal, returning to the airwaves on 95.9 CJFM's Solid Gold Sunday Show in the late-70s to mid-'80s before finally moving on to other business ventures in Vancouver. He's still out on the west coast, now semi or fully-retired.

You will hear in the final two minutes of this brief but magical aircheck the nightly signature Boxer show-closer over Boots Randolph's "The Shadow of Your Smile" and the big "Elevensville" send-off "into the land of the giant marshmallows to sleep deliciously ... dee-lli-ciously..."

Enjoy Dave Boxer on CFCF here.

(The Dan Kowal Collection)

(Dave Boxer CFCF August 1968 aircheck reproduced and posted here through permission by marcdenis.com (Marc Denis's CKGM Super 70s Tribute Page). This aircheck cannot be duplicated or distributed without prior written permission and consent by the proprietor(s).)

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