Ron Jacobs, KKUA Honolulu HI 1976 (0:13:46)

The Ron Jacobs Collection
… Would you please play ‘Tear The Sucker Off The Roof’? That’s not the way it works, folks …
Whodaguy Ron Jacobs
Old School Deejay
1955 ~ 2007

Ron Jacobs is currently CarPoolTunneled out.

Keyboarditis.

“Liner Notes” might be forthcoming.

(Hey, all other RJ material on ReelRadio comes with minutiae-filled facts and titillating anecdotes.)

NOTE: As Whodaguy,
Ron Jacobs was PD and morning drive at #1 KKUA-Honolulu, 1976-79. During those years, Senator Barack Obama attended Punahou School; freshman though senior years. Jacobs blithely claims, “I was Obama’s morning man!” Why not? Both guys were born in Waikiki, O’ahu, Hawai’i. The young Obama and old man RJ dined at some of the fine barter deal restaurants on Kuhio Ave.

Picture of Ron Jacobs with whodaguy t-shirt, in studio Picture of Ron Jacobs with pasta on his head, eating pasta

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