Re: names names names

[Scott Fybush <scott@fybush.com>]

>There's a great story told by Clarke Ingram about meeting another guy
>in Pittsburgh (his home town) who was using his name as an air name.
>
>(Clarke also spent some time working for Z100 in New York while Dan --
>no relation -- was on CBS-FM... never caused any problems, although
>you could easily imagine those famous Dan Ingram jingles recut for
>Clarke.)

Paging Ken R? :-)

Clarke's story (and I'm cc'ing this to him in hopes that he'll reply with 
the whole thing verbatim) went something like this:

The station in question was WKVE St. Mary's PA on 97.5, operating from a 
little trailer up a dirt road in a state forest somewhere in northern PA, 
and the jock in question was Phlash Phelps, later heard on a whole slew of 
other stations (none, oddly, in New England; he's now working for XM down 
in DC).

Clarke heard about Phlash's choice of air name, and decided to drive up the 
mountain one night to say hi. You can imagine the dialogue at the trailer door:

PHLASH: "Hi, I'm Clarke Ingram"
CLARKE: "That's funny, so am I!"

The way Clarke tells it, he stayed to do the rest of the shift with Phlash, 
the two became friends, and Clarke even hired Phlash many years later to do 
nights (for about a month!) at WPXY here in Rochester.

Ah, radio.

-s