… It died, it just died! …
It’s Monday, May 31st in New England and the 50,000-watt rock powerhouse WRKO is jamming “all summer long” with afternoon driver Harry Nelson at the helm, giving away t-shirts, Beach Boy albums and hundred dollar bills. A thunderstorm is lurking in the western sky and will cause some electrical interference for some listeners tuned into their AM radios that day.
Nelson’s regular guy persona – albeit amped up for the top 40 format – made him a favorite in New England. He never sacrificed the pace of playing the hits for some self-serving personality bit. He was always relatable and friendly within the austere context of the “hits keep coming” style of Drake radio.
In the format geek department: I always liked the weather read out of a stop set with no music under and then into a record after the current temperature and call letters. Nelson, of course, executes this little task flawlessly. And on a technical note, you’ll hear a cart machine seize up and get stuck as a Juicy Fruit gum commercial starts – but never finishes. (Figures it would get stuck during a gum commercial!) It was live radio and even the “Big 68” would stumble now and then.
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