… flashing blue lights in Chicago mean you’re about to be arrested …
[Description by Dave Mitchell]
I figured up the other day that I’ve worked with about 400 on-air people in my 40 years in radio. If I had to choose the one I thought was best, I’d pick Chris Cooper, hands down. Chris had tremendous timing, a great voice and a sense of humour that could easily crack me up either on or off the air.
Tragically, Chris died about three years after this aircheck of a heart attack. He was only 29 and the heart condition was probably brought on by the rheumatic fever he suffered as a child. He had just finished a gig in Milwaukee and was driving to Houston with his family to a new Top 40 job. They were stopped at a restaurant in St. Louis when Chris suddenly died. Had he lived, I believe he could have become one of the greatest of our craft.