My mom said I was born to be a disc Jockey! I loved the beat of music. Just after learning to walk, my favorite place to be was in front of the washing machine. It had a constant rhythm that I enjoyed dancing to. At 3 years old, mom and dad bought me my first record player… and some records… that were favorite’s of theirs at the time in the late 1950’s. My parents were smart… that way, all the songs I played (of which I did over and over) would be songs they liked. I didn’t care about the selection as long as it had a beat and I could dance to it. I grew up in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio in a middle class family. We lived very close to Cleveland, Ohio and I could pick up all of the great radio stations from there and around where I lived… like WKYC, WHK, WIXY, WMMS (the Buzzard), WGCL (G-98), WGAR, WCUE, WHLO and many, many more. But, it was one radio station in particular that influenced me the most and it helped shape my life. That station was CKLW. The “Big” 8 as it was known, was from Windsor, Ontario Canada… across the river from Detroit, Michigan… and across Lake Erie from Cleveland. CKLW had a lot of power… a “50,000 watt blowtorch” as we called it in the radio business. You could hear them all across Canada, the Northern United States and even sometimes on the beach in Florida. I know, because I had my transistor radio on listening to them during spring break in 1976. But, even better was the music they played and the DJ’s that played it. They were “Boss” jocks… playing fantastic Motown soul, rock hits from Deep Purple and soft ballads by the Carpenters. You just never knew what was coming up next! CKLW’s format was created by the legendary Bill Drake. The jocks had deep, powerful, commanding voices. When they spoke, everyone listened. They had fun on the air, had big stars as guests and sounded so “way cool”.
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