Stacks Of Moldy Oldies: My Brief Career As A Disk Jockey
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00:00Stacks of Moldy Oldies, my brief career as a disc jockey.
00:04For a few brief shining months in the 90s, I worked the same boards
00:08and plugged in the same carts as Wolfman Jack, Dick Clark, and Alan Fried,
00:12but on a slightly smaller scale.
00:15My job at a local AM radio station was to convince listeners
00:18that their favorite oldies show, Zippo in the Morning, was actually local.
00:22I recorded brief weather reports, wrote spots for local advertisers,
00:26and occasionally did a live remote broadcast, complete with Zippo swag.
00:31In reality, Jim Zippo lived a comfortable life in Houston, Texas,
00:35and I only spoke to him a few times over the phone.
00:38If anyone bothered to ask, however, he just left the booth a few minutes ago.
00:42Sorry.
00:44I still took calls from local listeners who hadn't caught on to the concept of syndication.
00:49One caller regularly requested the song Georgie Girl by the New Seekers.
00:53By regularly, I mean every hour on the hour.
00:57My pleas to Houston, Texas fell on deaf ears,
01:00although Zippo did play it one time while I was there.
01:03The job ended when the station owner decided there was more advertising money
01:07to be made in the service of sports talk shows.
01:10There was no American Graffiti Melting Popsicle moment with the real Zippo,
01:15but I still hope a devoted listener finally got his long-distance dedication.