Bob Rivers

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Bob Rivers is one of the best-known rock and roll radio on air personalities in the greater Pacific Northwest/Northwestern United States, as well as a prolific record producer of parody songs.

"The Bob Rivers Show" is heard in two northwestern U.S. cities. In Seattle, Washington on classic rock radio station KZOK-FM (102.5) and in Portland, Oregon on "1980s Rock Hits" radio station KVMX "Mix 107.5".

"The Bob Rivers Show" cast includes: Spike O'Neill, Downtown" Joe Bryant, Kaci Aitchison, director Arik Korman, and producer Mike Jones.

Previously, between late 1989 and August 2000, the show aired on Seattle, Washington Active Rock radio station KISW FM (99.9) under the title "Bob Rivers Twisted Radio".

Contents

1 WAAF 'Bob and Zip' Era
2 WIYY '98 Rock' Era
3 KISW 'Twisted Radio' Era
4 Trivia
5 External links

WAAF 'Bob and Zip' Era

Bob Rivers spent almost 6 years at WAAF FM (107.3) in Boston as part of their successful "Bob and Zip" morning show with fellow on air personality Peter 'Zip' Zipfel.

During his tenure with WAAF Mr. Rivers started producing parody and novelty songs, both for the station and for the KATZ/Newcity "American Comedy Network" a radio syndication service that provided comedy material to local U.S. and Canadian radio stations. One of the first parodies he produced was "Breakin' Up Is Hard On You", about the lawsuit and resulting court ordered split up of U.S. Telecommunications company AT&Ts Bell System by the United States Department of Justice. The song was sung to the tune of Neil Sedaka's #1, 1962 hit "Breaking Up Is Hard To Do" and peaked at #69 on the Billboard Hot 100 pop music chart.

In 1987 he released Twisted Christmas, which contained the Christmas music radio hit "Twelve Pains of Christmas", a parody of the holiday standard "Twelve Days of Christmas". "Twisted Christmas" was certified a gold record by the RIAA.

WIYY '98 Rock' Era

In the spring of 1988, during a brief stint at Baltimore radio station "98 Rock" WIYY FM (97.9), Rivers gained some notoriety for an 11-day, on-air marathon during the Orioles losing streak.

KISW 'Twisted Radio' Era

After arriving at KISW in Seattle in 1989, Mr. Rivers released a second album of humorous holiday-themed music in 1993 entitled I Am Santa Claus (the title track was a parody of Black Sabbath's song "Iron Man"). Since then, three other holiday-themed albums have been released, including More Twisted Christmas in 1997, Chipmunks Roasting On an Open Fire in 2000 and "White Trash Christmas" in 2003.

Bob Rivers and his "Twisted Radio" show have also produced a countless number of regular, non-holiday parodies that roast anything from pop culture to politicians, to the various sports teams and players in the Seattle area. These "Twisted Tunes" can be heard for free on his Website; CD compilation albums are also available.

Trivia

Many tracks recorded by Bob Rivers are commonly misattributed to "Weird Al" Yankovic due to similar-sounding vocals. This misattribution has been common as per circulation of his tracks on P2P music-sharing services.

Mr. Rivers was twice voted "Major Market Rock Personality of the Year" by Radio & Records a weekly U.S. radio and music industry trade magazine.

Mr. Rivers was once voted "Billboard's Radio Personality of the Week" by "Billboard magazine" a weekly U.S. music industry trade magazine.

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