Jack Michaels, Roy Wood, WSAR Fall River MA. July 30, 1975 (0:16:36)

… We’re all cryin’, they’re floodin’ me out …
A custom greeting from Tavares (natives of New Bedford, MA.) opens this composite recording of WSAR morning newsman Roy Wood (Mike Scott) working his last morning show with Jack Michaels. Roy (aka Christopher Jordan) declares that “the life of a Disc Jockey is not for me”, and departs for WFEC in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.Jack Michaels was the second morning man during the “Roy Wood era”, but it’s obvious that the entire group at WSAR enjoyed working together with or without gerbils. By the way, Sidney Pithias never sounded better, and we’re still waiting for those airchecks from Norm Thibeault.

Assurance for the actual date of this broadcast is offered with the news that the U.S. Congress approved their own pay raises (during a recession — sound familiar?) with a vote of 214-213. That would make it July 30, 1975.

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This site is now operated by the North Carolina Broadcast History Museum. 

We want to thank the board of ReelRadio, Inc. for their stewardship since the passing of the founder Richard Irwin in 2018.  It has not been easy and they have maintained the exhibits for future generations to enjoy.

I met Richard Irwin, aka Uncle Ricky, when we were freshmen at East Carolina University.  We both had worked at local stations in our hometowns.  No one was more passionate about radio, especially Top 40 radio, than my friend Richard. 

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Richard Irwin’s hope was that his site would live on long after his passing. He said, “I hope REELRADIO will survive as my contribution to the ‘radio business’. The business is allowed to forget me, but the business should never forget the great era of radio that we celebrate here”.

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Carl Davis
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North Carolina Broadcast History Museum