Alright folks, after some few requests and years of hold-out, I’m posting a couple of my old airchecks; me-on-the-air for your listening amusement. I really date myself here, kids. Starting as weekend DJ at 16, I was hired as the full-time night jock six months later and became program director at age 18. I held a daily air shift for a total of about a dozen years. Another seven years was spent as an off-air PD before I launched my programming consultancy business in ’83, which led to developing the music scheduling software for the Mac, which led to the first scheduler for Windows (Music 1) which is today helping young music radio makers around the globe sound their very best. My good life in this business hasn’t ended yet.
In 1977, I was PD and Morning man at WGLF in Tallahassee where this was recorded. There are two you-had-to-be-there liners in it. The back-story for one is: There were some rumblings that the African leader had, shall we say, eaten of human flesh and his countrymen (and ours) wanted him dead. The second line is about a then-new TV show, “Soap”. In it, actor Billy Crystal played the first openly gay character in a television sit-com.
WGLF / Gulf 104 Tallahassee 1977
Four years earlier I was at KAAY in Little Rock with a 50KW clear channel frequency that could be heard from upper Manitoba to Havana (the station had a fan club there, they sent letters of undying love.) We had to use station-given air names. My ego didn’t like that, but J J Stone was a ‘sticky’ DJ name that was easy for listeners to remember.
KAAY Little Rock 1973
