For What it's Worth - Buffalo Springfield

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As I had started telling you earlier . I met "Lou" while I was working the evening shift, cleaning up the station, before the morning guys got there the next day.

I was enthralled by the way a radio station worked and how cool was it when the phones lit up with requests. "Lou" was my first mentor, years before I would meet JJ of Chicago Radio fame. He was a hip character because he wore this funky gold crown and blue satin cape all the time.

But I guess he knew about my fascination with radio (maybe it was the look in my eyes that gave me away), cause just about every evening after I was done with my responsibilities, he would open the studio to me and let me sit next to him on an old swivel bar stool, just watching his every move.

Asking thousands of questions, thumbing thru the stacks of 45's and array of LP's lining the floor on all four walls of the studio.


Maybe it was because I was a young punk trying to stay out of trouble , or maybe I reminded him of someone he knew, what ever the reason,"Lou" taught me a lot about radio. Especially Top 40 radio, knowledge, information, ideas that I would carry with me always in my career.


Top 40 Radio in its heyday, nothing could touch it, that's where I learned, grew up and became a jock, on Top 40 Radio. One of the 1st songs I ever played was by Buffalo Springfield,(For What It's Worth).


For What Its Worth (LP Version) - Brian Stone

Jump forward to 1969, there I sat in a little 1000 watt radio station, in the cool crisp Adirondack Mountains, playing progressive FM Music for the thousands of college students, drinking wine, smoking, and dropping with the longhair flowing. I was reliving all the lessons "Lou" had taught me. How to back time to the top of the hour, how to mix station jingles with a cold intro. How to stand out from the crowd.

But probably I learned the biggest lesson of all. Your dreams will allow you to fly, above the clouds and beyond. My journey had begun.

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