… Sock your soul to ’em, Fat Daddy, sock your soul to ’em …
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I cried when I first heard this aircheck  they were tears of joy for music and radio that I hadn’t heard since I was a 15-year-old disc jockey in North Carolina. If you grew up in the South or in a major market where you were privileged to hear a formatted Sixties Soul station, you will share with me an absolute delight in hearing this wonderful aircheck from Fat Daddy (Paul Johnson), The Magnificient High Priest Of Soul, on Baltimore’s WWIN, July 14, 1966. And no, I can’t understand everything he says, but it’s so much fun to listen!
If you ever wondered where John Waters got the feeling for Hairspray  this is it! I considered this to be a type of “Free Form” Hit Music radio. Despite all the format and structure, Fat Daddy just talked over the vocals as he pleased. Damn, what a glorious time it was!
I asked contributor Peter Kanze for a comment on this one, and he offered this:
STAGING IS EVERYTHING.
I’ll add that we didn’t need one corporation to own eight stations in a market to have this kind of “diversity” on the air in 1966.