… I’d like to teach the world a thing, uh, to sing …
[Description by Uncle Ricky for contributor Bill Cooper]
Mike Phillips, from his 1960 senior class yearbook picture at Benson High.
In this exhibit, you will hear Mike Phillips (1942-2006) subbing for Bob Anthony on KGW/Portland, Oregon. It’s from June of 1975. Here’s a tight, polished Top-40 AM doing it right in 1975.
A year earlier, Phillips was on WXLO-FM in New York. He was KGW PD at the time of this aircheck, and he does a fine job here! He’s tight and contemporary  a veteran jock pumped to be playing popular music in 1975.
Phillips was taken by pancreatic cancer on October 16, 2006 at the age of 64. He was 33 in 1975. He still had much of his career to come, working in program management for NBC radio and as Program Director for KRTH-FM from 1990-2001.