Talk about a life long Obsession! It started pretty innocently. Lights out, head under the blankets.
I'm listening to a meeting of the Royal Order of the Night People, being conducted by Joey Reynolds,
on WPOP in Hartford CT, My home town. Joey is a certifiable schizo! Voices pop out of the vocal
hole in his head. Hey, It's "the little Italian cleaning lady". She comes busting in, noisily interrupting the
proceedings. Joey was soon Buffalo bound. Wait! That's Ken Griffin coming out of the speaker. And Fats
Fontune. And Rocky Hill is talking to Count Twelve! Geez, Griffin is another schizo, God love 'em!
From a little bomb shelter of a building, located across the Street from a cemetery. WDRC's Dick Robinson
is holding Court, as the sound of kids laughing and jumping into the pool fill my ears. From the swamp
in Newington, WPOP's Lee Baby Simms has the studio curtained tightly. What the hell is going on in there?
Oh my gosh, He's staging a fight between a Boa Constricter and a Mouse!
I gotta ask ya. How could you not get addicted to this disease we call radio when you had the fertile
imaginations of these fine gentlemen to tap into?
So, it's a cold winter night a few months after my father died. My mother looks at this eight year old son
of hers. " so, what do you think you wanna do when you get older?" Here I am, eight years old.
No hesitation, Not a blink of an eye. Says I, Oh, I'm going to play records and talk on the radio!
It's eight years later. Finally! Saturday afternoon is here and I'm sitting in class at Connecticut School
of Broadcasting. My former night time audio companion, Ken Griffin, is telling us about the downside of
the obsession we all share. You know, here six months. You walk in on the boss having sex with the
receptionist and the next day he fires you. Wait a minute! That happened to me, my second job in radio!
I'll ramble at ya later.
UJ
UNCLE JOHNNY, FEEDING HIS OBSESSION ON
COOL 100, ORLANDO,FL!!
