… This is Big Ron, I know I need a cold shower, I’m going to take one right now …
[Description by Uncle Ricky]
This recording of the new “Album” version of WRKO opens with Big Ron O’Brien interviewing John Belushi just before the WRKO Christmas Concert at The Boston Garden. Not a small promotion, especially combined with an ongoing call-in contest for album winners of any LP from the current Warner-Elektra-Atlantic catalog.
Big Ron has fun with newsman Bill Rossi, and this is an exceptional exhibit of a legendary talent and late-model RKO Boston Top 40. In addition to the Belushi interview, you’ll hear O’Brien stop the “short” version of a Chicago song and run around the studio searching for the ALBUM version – after all, they were New Englands’s Album Station! Nevertheless, The Pointer Sisters customize their hit (LP or not) and note also the announcements regarding limited commercial content. In this generation, it was called “less is more.”
Big Ron O’Brien died from complications of pneumonia on April 27, 2008. He was 56.