13 Facts About Rosalie Trombley

Rosalie Trombley was a Canadian music director of Windsor, Ontario AM Top 40 radio station CKLW, known as "The Big 8".

Rosalie Trombley was known for her ability to select songs that would later become big hits.

Rosalie Trombley broke numerous artists such as Alice Cooper, Aerosmith, and Bob Seger, who later wrote a song about her entitled "Rosalie".

Rosalie Trombley worked for Bell Canada while in high school.

Rosalie Trombley picked the Canadian records she felt stood the best chance of becoming hits for airplay.

Rosalie Trombley acknowledged in a 1982 Billboard magazine article that her station no longer had the "clout" it once did; but despite that, CKLW continued to play a role in breaking hits.

Rosalie Trombley served as music director of CKLW from 1968 to 1984, through the station's top 40 years and into the era when CKLW changed format to appeal to an older audience.

Many recording artists visited Rosalie Trombley to promote their latest single releases, and the walls of her office were lined with gold records.

Rosalie Trombley persuaded Elton John to release "Bennie and the Jets" as a single, because she believed, correctly, that it would be a cross-over hit, appealing to both black and white listeners.

Rosalie Trombley granted interviews only occasionally, including for the 1971 WDRQ documentary The History of Detroit Radio and for the 2004 documentary Radio Revolution: The Rise and Fall of the Big 8, produced by Toronto-based Markham Films.

Rosalie Trombley was inducted into the Motor City Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Canadian Music Week Broadcasters Hall of Fame.

On June 14,2011, a scholarship in Rosalie Trombley's name was announced by St Clair College, for their Music Theatre Performance program.

Rosalie Trombley died from complications of Alzheimer's disease on November 23,2021, at the age of 82 in a long term care centre in Leamington.