Robert Gordon Robinson was born in Comox and moved with his family to east Vancouver when he was five. He fell in love with radio as a kid.
He hosted Vancouver’s first ock ’n’ roll radio show on Nov. 13, 1954, when he was 17 years old. He was MC of the first ock ’n’ roll concert in the city, Bill Haley and the Comets, on June 27, 1956; MC of the Elvis Presley show at Empire Stadium on Aug. 31, 1957; and MC at the Beatles gig at Empire Aug. 22, 1964.
“I noticed in The Vancouver Sun that Jimmy Stewart was in town, so I called Theme For Teens . ‘Oh, h-i-i-i Allan, it’s Jimmy Stewart.’ And they believed me. Robinson started off doing half an hour a day, and within six months was doing five hours. Rock ‘n’ roll was exploding, and Robinson rode the wave. He was so popular, 10,000 kids showed up at the Kitsilano Showboat to watch him spin records.
“The best gig I saw had to be Elvis,” he said. “There was nothing like it beforehand. He was the first guy to rent stadiums. I’d MC’ed shows, but standing in front of 20,000 people was nerve-racking.” He teamed up with Les Vogt for a Roy Orbison tour, which did very well. So they gave Orbison a bonus, and Orbison was stunned: he said it was the first time any promoter had ever done that.
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