June 7, 2018 • 15 mins
Elvis introduces you to Art Vuolo, radio's unofficial chronicler. Art is making it his business to record Radios great moments for posterity!
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
What would you talk about on your on your podcast
Firms show. All right, here we go, we've got fifteen minutes.
We have a special guest today. Around the table, We've
got Scary, We've got Dave Brody. Hello, those are the
(00:23):
Brooklyn Boys are in. Here's Danielle Straight and Ate and
we welcome radio's best friend. Art Volo was born in
brook where you really we're part of Brooklyn? You're from Uh?
No, No No, I'm not from there. I was born there
in the hospital. They tore it down. Okay, I told
them all they had to do with a few midgate
the place. But now they tore the entire hospital down.
(00:44):
It was the old naval hospital. If I exployed Bennett Field,
that's way out there. It's way out there. Your father
flies as planes there? Yeah, well my father was a pilot.
My last name means fine in Italian. That's why, Yeah, Blovino,
you see him in the airport. They saw the line
for your flight. That's what it means to look at that.
That's why all pilots drink wine before flying. What we
(01:06):
love about what we love about Art Volo is, uh
he is sort of radio's historian in a way. In
a way. Now, explain to everyone how you and I
met back in the early early nineties and what it
is you do that a lot of radio people are
familiar with. Well, what I do is I archive video
radio personalities. There's a guy by the name of Shotgun
(01:28):
Tom Kelly out on the West Coast who with an
eight millimeter movie camera b V before video, and he
went into his station that he was at a B
one hundred out in San Diego, and he did a
video of all the DJs on the air. Now, Shotgun
Tom Kelly, is that his legal born name? No, if
anybody whose last name is Kelly or Duran? Alright, alright, alright,
(01:54):
so so so you started, you took over. Well, I
saw the video and I said, wow, we all know
when an air check of a radio station is listening
to it on tape, how the station sounds. I said,
this is a like video air check. You can see
the body language and see what goes on in the studio.
It's like being with what Gary Brian calls the window
liquor and people that as young kids that wanted to
(02:16):
just put our face up against the window and watch
DJs while they did their thing. It's interesting and it
was just until it wasn't until recently when uh, people
were watching us live on online. The people got to
see what we look like, which I hate, by the way,
I'd rather you hear me and not know what I
look like. But it's too late. There's no more theater
of the mind exactly. So, how many different radio hosts
(02:37):
have you recorded and and distributed through your career? You
probably close to a thousand. Wow. Yeah, And and your
next question of where is it's gonna be? Who wouldn't
let you do it? And there's only been There's only
been three, has only been three Howard Howard Stern. Howard
Stern has never let me in. Rick is hard to believe.
(02:57):
He's a big He's a big radio guy from Los Angele,
Los Angeles, he was, and and uh and who was
the owing Jonathan Bryer and the big radio guy from Chicago? Chicago,
l A and New York. So the three biggest markets. Well,
I'm told that Rick D's didn't want anybody to see
the kind of control board that he worked on because
unlike today's modern control panels you know on the radio stations,
(03:19):
he didn't like the slider controls. He liked the guy
you turned rotary? Yeah, and how come Howard wouldn't want
you in hot does the name of the control marijuana? Howard?
I don't know. Howard is strange, you know, strange. See,
Howard's the best in the business, I know, but he
maybe just I don't know. He's got his own car. Well,
(03:39):
I think I'll tell you why. I think he's mad
at me for the fact that I have a video
of him from a TV station in Detroit where he
was in Detroit at W four Radio in Detroit on
his knees begging into the video camera, please to me
and give me a chance. I just bought a new
car American. I'm quoting exactly what he said, and he said,
(03:59):
give me of teen minutes. You know, he was begging
for listeners because nobody in Detroit had ever heard of
and he hates that sounds like a great thing. But
I'm not gonna let you bash Howardward. But he was
new down he was, and he doesn't like the fact
that I am. But I think that's a great video,
and I would think that he would have put that
(04:20):
something I don't agree with, Daniel. I think he would
like that. I think I just don't think he wanted
you making money selling a video of him. I don't
make any money anyway. Down to Dave Brody, Well, my
question was the three names you mentioned, Jonathan brand Meyer,
Howard Stern, and Rickti's They're all television personalities. They're all
bigger than radio stars. It seems ironic they wouldn't want
to be on video and yet all the guys behind
(04:42):
the scenes that are never on camera. I said yes,
because I'm I'm a freaking loser. Well, and another weird
thing that just happened in Detroit. We just had um
Dick Burton was a very big Detroit disc jockey and
Dick is his daughter worked at Channel seven for twenty
years and another guy from Channel seven in Detroit are
now on the station in Detroit radio. They went from
(05:04):
TV to radio, unusual usually goes the other way around.
And the program director was nervous for me to be
in the studio on their first day on the air
with my camera. I said, they're TV people. Camera is
not going to bother them. He goes, oh, yeah, I
guess you're ye. Radio and TV they're not the same though,
communicating on look, this is boring. Let can talk about
(05:25):
something else. Let's talk about I want to talk about
what like the exciting stuff you do. First of all,
he is radio's best friend, Art Volo. I didn't come
up with that though, don't. It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter.
We love him. He promotes everything we do and it
has for many years. Now. I met you back in
the early nineties here at New York, that's right, and
(05:47):
c CAUs New Jersey. He used to videotape us and
you know, we had cake fights and we had a
lot of fun whatever. Oh now we did back then,
you know, the funny thing. And I shouldn't say that
he got mad at me, and I love this man,
I get at but he got he got mad at
me because because if he didn't want that cake fight
(06:09):
thing on the internet. And yet we look back now
it is one of the best funniest bits ever done
on radio. Again hysterical, I mean it really was. You
must admit, Okay, come on in someone's face, no doubt
of that. Maybe Steve saw your video and said I'm
stealing that exactly. That was a lot of fun and
(06:30):
I and I did a in fact, I did a
video retrospective which you're heavily featured in of ten years,
the first ten years of one. Wait a minute, hold on,
let's back up. You go around the country and you
videotape all these personalities providing content over radio stations and
online whatever, and then you sell it. But but you're saying,
but you don't make money off nobody pays me. But
(06:51):
how do you make a living by the grace of God? Really? Well, no, no, no.
I had a company for thirty three years that published
radio guides so people could find out their favorite radio
stations when they travel on road trips. And I put
out over a hundred million of those little radio guides
in conjunction with radio stations all over the country. So
that's how you made your millions. A very small house
(07:14):
in in suburban Detroit. Okay, so Art, let's talk about
how radio has turned into what it is today. It
really isn't. I don't even call it. I don't want
to call it radio an even it isn't, you know.
And it's just that it's like even I, who love
radio passionately, I go to sleep with my cell phone,
I wake up to my cell phone. I listened to
the radio stations on my cell phone Uh. The other day,
(07:36):
I was driving in New Jersey and I said, this
is so cool. I'm in New Jersey and I was
bouncing between four radio stations that are all on I
Heart Radio, and I could just touch the screen and
switch from Detroit to Miami to New York. It was
great cool. So, you know, a lot of purists who
are from the era of art Follows Days, you know,
(07:58):
when he first started and when I first started. They
don't like this. They don't like the digital digital age
that we're living in. And I hate to say digital
age because even that sounds old. But I find it
more exciting than ever. The opportunities like this podcast for instantly. Yeah,
podcasts are huge. I did one with a guy named
Matt Kundall up in Canada and it was an hour
(08:19):
in seven minutes. It was the second longest one he
ever did ever, and he said it's trending higher than
any that he has, that it's way ahead of everybody else.
We are you shaking your head? Well, you know, we
do the Brooklyn Boys podcast and when we first started
doing the podcast, people were saying, keep it to fifteen
twenty minutes. Nobody can listen for longer than that's why
this is a fifteen minute morning. Well, we started just
talking and doing an hour and fifteen minutes, hour and
(08:40):
twenty and people said longer, we want more. They want
to sit in a car, they want to let it
spend the day with them, and we can't do one
long enough for people. And they wanted to pick up
where they leave off. Right, it's crazy through the week,
it's insane. They listen in minute block. I did I
did want in Detroit and I talked at FM talk
station in Detroit, and I was supposed to go an hour.
It was a five hour show. We had so many calls,
(09:01):
we had so much interest. We went the full five
hours and it went by like five minutes. So let
me ask you this, why do you think, uh, what
seems to be an art form that has lost an
art form right and has has has now been revised
to something new. Why are people so still into it,
even people who weren't around during the golden days of
what they say radio was. Why do you think it's
(09:22):
so interesting? Why radio is so interesting? Yeah, and it's
a very personal meeting. It's very very intimate. I mean,
you wake up to some people take them in the
shower with them into the bathroom. I had three radios
in my bathroom. You know how many radios you need
three radios in your bathot because one right next to
the john that can one overall sink and big bathroom
(09:43):
shower radio. Well, no, it's not that big. I have
five radio surrounding my bed. You won't get your shot
how many radios are in my house and it's only
a fifteen hundred square foot I have no idea how
many radios you just need one, and I go into
most people's house, I have to search for That's why
everybody in the radio business now was excited about Alexa
(10:03):
because they think I shouldn't even say that because somebody
might be listening, might be answering them right now. But
they think this is what's going to bring radio back
into the home. And I hope it does, because there
was a time when radio was very popular with the home.
You had a radio in every room. It's a very
good point you just made about how you know, uh,
Amazon Echo in the Google Home whatever it is, they
(10:25):
are truly bringing back that speaker that plays radio, and
we didn't even know it. They snuck it back in there.
That's pretty cool. And I think that's really very very cool.
And and and you're doing a darn good job. I mean,
you know, I never I never imagined that you were
going to have the car. Not not that you weren't good,
but it's just that it's it's sort of like another
friend of ours, Jim Kerr, Jim Kerr, who's at another
(10:48):
station in New York here. I mean, I knew Jim
when he was fourteen years old, Okay, I gave him
a couch to sleep bar and when he had no
place to go, I picked him up in the middle
of the night when his dad threw him out of
my house. I mean, let me tell you. I mean,
it's it's it's like and now I look at him
and he's the longest running now that I misses off
(11:08):
the radio, he's the longest running New York radio personality,
the nicest person in the world. And I and I
just think, God, I remember when he actually used the
name Jim Curtis on the area. Didn't think he uses
I didn't know that named Jim Kerr. But I have pictures.
I will send you a picture of him with a
little blond hair. And it's so funny how radio is
(11:36):
one of those things that it lingers everything. It just
things like like a bad far But there's so many
there are so many things that were huge and prevalent
in the entertainment business back in the day that really
aren't the same anymore. This is we're kind of holding on.
And a lot of people who are running digital industries
these days say, well, radios, it's a thing of the past.
(11:57):
It's a dinosaur. Well call it that if you want,
but we are we are now digital. We have snuck
an old form form of communication into a new package
of delivery and and it's it's all digital. And I
think a lot of people do want to see what's
going on in the studios and whatever they want to see.
That's why my video air checks the things are so popular.
And in fact, if you go on the internet and
let me do a shameless plug here because I was
(12:20):
first of all, I was very honored a couple of
years ago, and you were inducted. And that was the
same night that they announced that all the videos I've
shot over all the years are going to go into
a special exhibit that's gonna be a permanent exhibit in
the Radio Hall of Fame. At the Museum of Broadcast
Communications in Chicago where people can go in and they
can like in the old language lab and in the
(12:41):
in the high school, and you put headphones on and
you have a screen in front of and a keyboard
and you can just punch up Elvis Duran you want
to see him in the early days and what have you,
and it'll come right up on the screen. So that's
what they're gonna do. And I was very, very flattered
by that, and and and I think that, um, the
thing it makes it so special is is that, uh,
(13:04):
people can now see how it's evolved over the years.
They can see when people were playing records on turntables
and then they had all the records were on put
on tape cartridge that looked like the eight track tapes,
and that's how they played the songs on the air.
And then they went to the c D s and
now everything's in an audio vault on the computer and
(13:25):
you touch screens. And when I think, it's amazing to
watch the evolution over the almost forty years that I've
been videotaping in radio studios from one of the country
or the other. And that's why you know tomorrow night
on Friday the Woods. Tomorrow is the ninth I guess
it is of or the eighth of June. They're giving
me a special award, UH, a lifetime Achievement award, which
(13:49):
I was shocked when I heard about this because of
what I've been doing for the industry, doing what I love.
Let's talk about don't get paid to do this. Let's
talk about one more thing that's advancing in this business,
and that's women in radio. Women in radio. Daniel used
to be just the gig that we were. They were
forced to be just the giggly thing in the corner
who just agree with everything that's right. And now, believe me, Daniel,
(14:11):
when Daniel speaks, she takes over this from this is
he this is her run. I'm not going to giggle.
I do giggle a lot, and I'll tell you like
it is. In fact, one of my very the very first,
one of the very first radio stations I every day
was w i f E in Indianapolis at one time,
great radio station, you know, and they said, uh, they
had an afternoon drive, afternoon drive host that was female.
(14:32):
And that was unusual back very this is n nobody
was doing stuff like that. You know. So it was
really great and now women are all over the place.
I was just at awards banked, but the other night
for a high school radio station, and everybody was a woman.
For the women taking over. Edgie Martinez by the way,
up for the Radio Hall of Fame. You can vote
(14:53):
for her radio vote or thank you Minute Morning Show
What would you talk about on your on your podcast
Firms show. All right, here we go, we've got fifteen minutes.
We have a special guest today. Around the table, We've
got Scary, We've got Dave Brody. Hello, those are the
(00:23):
Brooklyn Boys are in. Here's Danielle Straight and Ate and
we welcome radio's best friend. Art Volo was born in
brook where you really we're part of Brooklyn? You're from Uh?
No, No No, I'm not from there. I was born there
in the hospital. They tore it down. Okay, I told
them all they had to do with a few midgate
the place. But now they tore the entire hospital down.
(00:44):
It was the old naval hospital. If I exployed Bennett Field,
that's way out there. It's way out there. Your father
flies as planes there? Yeah, well my father was a pilot.
My last name means fine in Italian. That's why, Yeah, Blovino,
you see him in the airport. They saw the line
for your flight. That's what it means to look at that.
That's why all pilots drink wine before flying. What we
(01:06):
love about what we love about Art Volo is, uh
he is sort of radio's historian in a way. In
a way. Now, explain to everyone how you and I
met back in the early early nineties and what it
is you do that a lot of radio people are
familiar with. Well, what I do is I archive video
radio personalities. There's a guy by the name of Shotgun
(01:28):
Tom Kelly out on the West Coast who with an
eight millimeter movie camera b V before video, and he
went into his station that he was at a B
one hundred out in San Diego, and he did a
video of all the DJs on the air. Now, Shotgun
Tom Kelly, is that his legal born name? No, if
anybody whose last name is Kelly or Duran? Alright, alright, alright,
(01:54):
so so so you started, you took over. Well, I
saw the video and I said, wow, we all know
when an air check of a radio station is listening
to it on tape, how the station sounds. I said,
this is a like video air check. You can see
the body language and see what goes on in the studio.
It's like being with what Gary Brian calls the window
liquor and people that as young kids that wanted to
(02:16):
just put our face up against the window and watch
DJs while they did their thing. It's interesting and it
was just until it wasn't until recently when uh, people
were watching us live on online. The people got to
see what we look like, which I hate, by the way,
I'd rather you hear me and not know what I
look like. But it's too late. There's no more theater
of the mind exactly. So, how many different radio hosts
(02:37):
have you recorded and and distributed through your career? You
probably close to a thousand. Wow. Yeah, And and your
next question of where is it's gonna be? Who wouldn't
let you do it? And there's only been There's only
been three, has only been three Howard Howard Stern. Howard
Stern has never let me in. Rick is hard to believe.
(02:57):
He's a big He's a big radio guy from Los Angele,
Los Angeles, he was, and and uh and who was
the owing Jonathan Bryer and the big radio guy from Chicago? Chicago,
l A and New York. So the three biggest markets. Well,
I'm told that Rick D's didn't want anybody to see
the kind of control board that he worked on because
unlike today's modern control panels you know on the radio stations,
(03:19):
he didn't like the slider controls. He liked the guy
you turned rotary? Yeah, and how come Howard wouldn't want
you in hot does the name of the control marijuana? Howard?
I don't know. Howard is strange, you know, strange. See,
Howard's the best in the business, I know, but he
maybe just I don't know. He's got his own car. Well,
(03:39):
I think I'll tell you why. I think he's mad
at me for the fact that I have a video
of him from a TV station in Detroit where he
was in Detroit at W four Radio in Detroit on
his knees begging into the video camera, please to me
and give me a chance. I just bought a new
car American. I'm quoting exactly what he said, and he said,
(03:59):
give me of teen minutes. You know, he was begging
for listeners because nobody in Detroit had ever heard of
and he hates that sounds like a great thing. But
I'm not gonna let you bash Howardward. But he was
new down he was, and he doesn't like the fact
that I am. But I think that's a great video,
and I would think that he would have put that
(04:20):
something I don't agree with, Daniel. I think he would
like that. I think I just don't think he wanted
you making money selling a video of him. I don't
make any money anyway. Down to Dave Brody, Well, my
question was the three names you mentioned, Jonathan brand Meyer,
Howard Stern, and Rickti's They're all television personalities. They're all
bigger than radio stars. It seems ironic they wouldn't want
to be on video and yet all the guys behind
(04:42):
the scenes that are never on camera. I said yes,
because I'm I'm a freaking loser. Well, and another weird
thing that just happened in Detroit. We just had um
Dick Burton was a very big Detroit disc jockey and
Dick is his daughter worked at Channel seven for twenty
years and another guy from Channel seven in Detroit are
now on the station in Detroit radio. They went from
(05:04):
TV to radio, unusual usually goes the other way around.
And the program director was nervous for me to be
in the studio on their first day on the air
with my camera. I said, they're TV people. Camera is
not going to bother them. He goes, oh, yeah, I
guess you're ye. Radio and TV they're not the same though,
communicating on look, this is boring. Let can talk about
(05:25):
something else. Let's talk about I want to talk about
what like the exciting stuff you do. First of all,
he is radio's best friend, Art Volo. I didn't come
up with that though, don't. It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter.
We love him. He promotes everything we do and it
has for many years. Now. I met you back in
the early nineties here at New York, that's right, and
(05:47):
c CAUs New Jersey. He used to videotape us and
you know, we had cake fights and we had a
lot of fun whatever. Oh now we did back then,
you know, the funny thing. And I shouldn't say that
he got mad at me, and I love this man,
I get at but he got he got mad at
me because because if he didn't want that cake fight
(06:09):
thing on the internet. And yet we look back now
it is one of the best funniest bits ever done
on radio. Again hysterical, I mean it really was. You
must admit, Okay, come on in someone's face, no doubt
of that. Maybe Steve saw your video and said I'm
stealing that exactly. That was a lot of fun and
(06:30):
I and I did a in fact, I did a
video retrospective which you're heavily featured in of ten years,
the first ten years of one. Wait a minute, hold on,
let's back up. You go around the country and you
videotape all these personalities providing content over radio stations and
online whatever, and then you sell it. But but you're saying,
but you don't make money off nobody pays me. But
(06:51):
how do you make a living by the grace of God? Really? Well, no, no, no.
I had a company for thirty three years that published
radio guides so people could find out their favorite radio
stations when they travel on road trips. And I put
out over a hundred million of those little radio guides
in conjunction with radio stations all over the country. So
that's how you made your millions. A very small house
(07:14):
in in suburban Detroit. Okay, so Art, let's talk about
how radio has turned into what it is today. It
really isn't. I don't even call it. I don't want
to call it radio an even it isn't, you know.
And it's just that it's like even I, who love
radio passionately, I go to sleep with my cell phone,
I wake up to my cell phone. I listened to
the radio stations on my cell phone Uh. The other day,
(07:36):
I was driving in New Jersey and I said, this
is so cool. I'm in New Jersey and I was
bouncing between four radio stations that are all on I
Heart Radio, and I could just touch the screen and
switch from Detroit to Miami to New York. It was
great cool. So, you know, a lot of purists who
are from the era of art Follows Days, you know,
(07:58):
when he first started and when I first started. They
don't like this. They don't like the digital digital age
that we're living in. And I hate to say digital
age because even that sounds old. But I find it
more exciting than ever. The opportunities like this podcast for instantly. Yeah,
podcasts are huge. I did one with a guy named
Matt Kundall up in Canada and it was an hour
(08:19):
in seven minutes. It was the second longest one he
ever did ever, and he said it's trending higher than
any that he has, that it's way ahead of everybody else.
We are you shaking your head? Well, you know, we
do the Brooklyn Boys podcast and when we first started
doing the podcast, people were saying, keep it to fifteen
twenty minutes. Nobody can listen for longer than that's why
this is a fifteen minute morning. Well, we started just
talking and doing an hour and fifteen minutes, hour and
(08:40):
twenty and people said longer, we want more. They want
to sit in a car, they want to let it
spend the day with them, and we can't do one
long enough for people. And they wanted to pick up
where they leave off. Right, it's crazy through the week,
it's insane. They listen in minute block. I did I
did want in Detroit and I talked at FM talk
station in Detroit, and I was supposed to go an hour.
It was a five hour show. We had so many calls,
(09:01):
we had so much interest. We went the full five
hours and it went by like five minutes. So let
me ask you this, why do you think, uh, what
seems to be an art form that has lost an
art form right and has has has now been revised
to something new. Why are people so still into it,
even people who weren't around during the golden days of
what they say radio was. Why do you think it's
(09:22):
so interesting? Why radio is so interesting? Yeah, and it's
a very personal meeting. It's very very intimate. I mean,
you wake up to some people take them in the
shower with them into the bathroom. I had three radios
in my bathroom. You know how many radios you need
three radios in your bathot because one right next to
the john that can one overall sink and big bathroom
(09:43):
shower radio. Well, no, it's not that big. I have
five radio surrounding my bed. You won't get your shot
how many radios are in my house and it's only
a fifteen hundred square foot I have no idea how
many radios you just need one, and I go into
most people's house, I have to search for That's why
everybody in the radio business now was excited about Alexa
(10:03):
because they think I shouldn't even say that because somebody
might be listening, might be answering them right now. But
they think this is what's going to bring radio back
into the home. And I hope it does, because there
was a time when radio was very popular with the home.
You had a radio in every room. It's a very
good point you just made about how you know, uh,
Amazon Echo in the Google Home whatever it is, they
(10:25):
are truly bringing back that speaker that plays radio, and
we didn't even know it. They snuck it back in there.
That's pretty cool. And I think that's really very very cool.
And and and you're doing a darn good job. I mean,
you know, I never I never imagined that you were
going to have the car. Not not that you weren't good,
but it's just that it's it's sort of like another
friend of ours, Jim Kerr, Jim Kerr, who's at another
(10:48):
station in New York here. I mean, I knew Jim
when he was fourteen years old, Okay, I gave him
a couch to sleep bar and when he had no
place to go, I picked him up in the middle
of the night when his dad threw him out of
my house. I mean, let me tell you. I mean,
it's it's it's like and now I look at him
and he's the longest running now that I misses off
(11:08):
the radio, he's the longest running New York radio personality,
the nicest person in the world. And I and I
just think, God, I remember when he actually used the
name Jim Curtis on the area. Didn't think he uses
I didn't know that named Jim Kerr. But I have pictures.
I will send you a picture of him with a
little blond hair. And it's so funny how radio is
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one of those things that it lingers everything. It just
things like like a bad far But there's so many
there are so many things that were huge and prevalent
in the entertainment business back in the day that really
aren't the same anymore. This is we're kind of holding on.
And a lot of people who are running digital industries
these days say, well, radios, it's a thing of the past.
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It's a dinosaur. Well call it that if you want,
but we are we are now digital. We have snuck
an old form form of communication into a new package
of delivery and and it's it's all digital. And I
think a lot of people do want to see what's
going on in the studios and whatever they want to see.
That's why my video air checks the things are so popular.
And in fact, if you go on the internet and
let me do a shameless plug here because I was
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first of all, I was very honored a couple of
years ago, and you were inducted. And that was the
same night that they announced that all the videos I've
shot over all the years are going to go into
a special exhibit that's gonna be a permanent exhibit in
the Radio Hall of Fame. At the Museum of Broadcast
Communications in Chicago where people can go in and they
can like in the old language lab and in the
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in the high school, and you put headphones on and
you have a screen in front of and a keyboard
and you can just punch up Elvis Duran you want
to see him in the early days and what have you,
and it'll come right up on the screen. So that's
what they're gonna do. And I was very, very flattered
by that, and and and I think that, um, the
thing it makes it so special is is that, uh,
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people can now see how it's evolved over the years.
They can see when people were playing records on turntables
and then they had all the records were on put
on tape cartridge that looked like the eight track tapes,
and that's how they played the songs on the air.
And then they went to the c D s and
now everything's in an audio vault on the computer and
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you touch screens. And when I think, it's amazing to
watch the evolution over the almost forty years that I've
been videotaping in radio studios from one of the country
or the other. And that's why you know tomorrow night
on Friday the Woods. Tomorrow is the ninth I guess
it is of or the eighth of June. They're giving
me a special award, UH, a lifetime Achievement award, which
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I was shocked when I heard about this because of
what I've been doing for the industry, doing what I love.
Let's talk about don't get paid to do this. Let's
talk about one more thing that's advancing in this business,
and that's women in radio. Women in radio. Daniel used
to be just the gig that we were. They were
forced to be just the giggly thing in the corner
who just agree with everything that's right. And now, believe me, Daniel,
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when Daniel speaks, she takes over this from this is
he this is her run. I'm not going to giggle.
I do giggle a lot, and I'll tell you like
it is. In fact, one of my very the very first,
one of the very first radio stations I every day
was w i f E in Indianapolis at one time,
great radio station, you know, and they said, uh, they
had an afternoon drive, afternoon drive host that was female.
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And that was unusual back very this is n nobody
was doing stuff like that. You know. So it was
really great and now women are all over the place.
I was just at awards banked, but the other night
for a high school radio station, and everybody was a woman.
For the women taking over. Edgie Martinez by the way,
up for the Radio Hall of Fame. You can vote
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