Robert Craig Savage, WAXC Rochester NY, 1972 (scoped) (0:03:31)

Scoped
… One of the World’s Greater Voices and more modest too …
Robert Craig Savage was part of the original WAXC air staff, but more than that, I’m quite sure he was somewhat instrumental in “guiding” Program Director Larry White to even more blossoming young talent, that goldmine down in New York’s Southern Tier — Endicott, Binghamton, Elmira. Savage had just “been there” himself. This is an excellent clip of a Growing WAXC. Notice that Savage did the Top of the Hour ID. He had a great voice, and it wasn’t long before he caught the attention of CKLW and left WAXC for weekends at the BIG 8. Talk about a huge “Upper” for those aspiring WAXC Jocks, Wow — to hear Savage “skipping” across the Lake at nite — I sat glued to the car radio in FREEZING Watertown , N.Y.

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