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Kym Landers WHYI/Y100 Talent Search, 1986 (0:21:07)

The R.J. Heim Collection
… Take your road wherever you find it, for that is where the road is, and what is smooth today, is rough tomorrow, and impossible the day after …

[By R.J. Heim]

I’ve known Kym Landers (Mitch Zatto) since WSSJ-Camden (1980). He recommended me for the gig at WFEC. He did the night shift there as “The Wild Child”.

After WFEC, Kym did Hot Hits! at Baltimore’s WMAR-FM. When that went belly-up, he was the 5th and final “Mystery Jock” when Y100 held live auditions to fill the night-time opening in 1986. Here’s his on-air audition. He came-in second place.

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