Re: Drake "killed" Good Guys Radio

[Douglas Broda <dougbroda@mindspring.com>]

I agree.. conditionally. :)

As I have never lived near Boston, all I've ever heard of him is the Cruisin'
tape, which I wore out and replaced with another. If that is representative of
his style, then I agree unconditionally. That tape made me a fan...

Now you're gonna spoil it and tell me that he was nothing like that recreation
in real life, right? :)

Donna Halper wrote:

> The style of radio Arnie did was unique.  He was very 'in your face' about
> his defects-- his lack of a deep voice, his very ethnic name, the fact that
> he never worked on the Jewish holidays-- Arnie did not try to be a house
> name, and he did not try to be bland.  He could laugh at himself and he
> could laugh at top-40.  He saved his money, very quietly owned a piece of a
> radio station in Maine, and he never let his success go to his head.  Much
> of what he did would probably not work in our pseudo-sophisticated age, but
> he gave me hope-- if HE could make it in radio, then a woman or a minority
> or a person without a deep voice could too, as long as they had a sense of
> humour and a love of radio... we can't just blame Drake-- as time passed,
> the novelty of Arnie wore off, as radio-- and society-- changed...



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