Scott Muni, WOR-FM New York April 8 1967 (0:07:07)

… . . . he has sort of an intuition, he knows what I do before I do it . . . …

[Description by contributor Artie Altro

When WOR-FM was new, each DJ had a favorite engineer. I was the favorite engineer of Scott Muni, and engineered most of his show (except for the required Union breaks.) When my first child was born on April 8, 1967, Scott did a big thing about it on the air — an indication of how loose the format was then.

Unknown to us at the time, the child was born with severe brain damage. She lived with us for 16 years, then went to a group home only a mile from where we lived. She passed away in 1994, at the age of 27, from stomach cancer. I have three other children born after her.

Scott Muni passed away September 28, 2004. He suffered a major stroke in 2003.

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