… You got Hale, takin’ you high through the power of your own mind …
[Description by contributor Greg Barman]
Cecil Hale started as a weekend DJ, gradually becoming fulltime on WVON, then assistant PD and assistant MD. His style was super-tight. This aircheck features Cecil on a rainy Saturday morning shift. Most of Ed Cook’s newscasts are telescoped out, and there are occasional skips in the aircheck either from tape dropout, or sometimes I had paused the tape. I recorded this in Evanston, IL about 20 miles from WVON, hence the occasionally noisy audio.Cecil Hale followed his radio work with a career in record promotion at Phonogram/Mercury records and as a VP at Capitol Records. As of 2009, he is a tenured professor at the City College of San Francisco.