Word: hyski
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Dates: during 2001-2001
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...Love Again," Lee Andrews and the Hearts' "Long Lonely Nights" (co-written, according to the label, by Douglas Henderson). If Jocko was baritone, Hy Lit was a nervous tenor. A would-be-pro baseball player from the University of Miami, he called his listeners "babycakes" and himself "Hyski O'Rooney McVoughtie O'Zoot." (Why oh why is Lit's peripatetic paradiddle patter embedded in my pre-teen muscle memory, especially considering that the rest of my musculature has amnesia?) Hy moved down the dial from WHAT 1340 to WIBG 990, when that station acquired a 50,000-watt transmitter...
...nice-guy John R. Gambling soothers. At 10 a.m., the round mound of sound Tom Donahue ("I'm here to clear up your face and mess up your mind"); who later moved to San Francisco and became the founding father of freeform FM. And from 2-6 p.m., before Hyski revved up the nightly Wibbage wattage., Niagara owned afternoon drive-time...