… musta taken a funky pill …
[Description by Uncle Ricky]
This is an early aircheck of Jay Thomas doing nights on WAPE Jacksonville,
where he quickly took over mornings and became Program Director before moving to Charlotte
to work with owners Sis and Stan Kaplan at BIG WAYS.
Calling himself The King Of The City, Thomas’s energy level is very high, and his humor is more cartoonish and less cynical than we remember in later years. He even has
a kazoo as a sidekick! This is also the first aircheck of WAPE in the seventies we’ve heard with PAMS, not Johnny Mann jingles. It’s the NEW WAPE, so I figure this is shortly after the station was purchased by the Kaplans.