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Clarafication of Cooke and Captain/ Cooke and Crockett radio teams

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I was reading on a few of the posts on here about Cooke and The Captain and Cooke and Crockett on the radio when back when. There was some slight confusion.

A bit of clarafication on the "Cooke and The Captain" and "Cooke and Crockett" teams from the guy who has been there since day one...lol.

I was doing mornings at WNOW-AM (WQXA's AM) back in 1978...when they were getting ready to change WQXA from beautiful music to Top 40. I can still remember all of us in the building helping to record music from vinyl to carts and reel-to-reel ( l rememeber they used a combo of carts and reel-to-reel...the reel to reel being leftover from Beautiful Music automation)

The very first morning person on the newly launched Q-106....was Liz Curtis. (an incredible talent) Then Jim Cooke was brought in...and he teamed up with "The Captain."

Cooke and The Captain did mornings on Q-106 til June of 1981...when Cooke was first dismissed. I filled in on mornings with The Captain on Q-106 for three weeks in July of 1981. Then..as Dan stated above...Dan Steele was hired and did mornings with the Captain.

Then Jim Cooke was brought back to Q-106 and re-teamed with The Captain. It wasn't quite the same the second time around. The Captain was let go and moved to Florida. I was teamed up with Jim Cooke at Q-106 in July of 1985. We were a team at Q-106 til November of 1988....when Cooke left to go to LASER 104 in Allentown. I left and joined Jim in Allentown in January of 1990. We were together doing mornings in Allentown til mid-summer 1991. Jim returned to York...I stayed in Allentown. This is when Jim Cooke teamed up with the "real Davey Crockett" and did mornings at 98 WYCR.

I returned to the York area in August of 1994. Jim Cooke and I re-teamed together at SOLID ROCK 92.7 Starview in mid-September of 1994. We stayed together thru the change from SOLID ROCK 92.7 to 92.7 THE EAGLE. Jim Cooke and I did mornings together at 92.7 THE EAGLE til April of 1998....when I left. Jim left THE EAGLE as well shortly thereafter, and went to 98 WYCR again for awhile. He has since left the area.

I was hired by OLDIES 96.1 (now 96.1 WSOX) in August of 1998, and have been there ever since.

Hope this clarifies some of the YCR....Q-106.... Jim Cooke and Captain and Real vs fake Dave Crockett teams.


The "fake" Dave Crockett (lol)
 
Re: Clarafication of Cooke and Captain/ Cooke and Crockett radio teams CORRECTI

Correct to my own post. Jim and I started in Allentown in January of 1989...til mid-summer of 1990.
 
Thanks for clarifying everything. I know you guys made the rounds in the York/Lanc/Harrisburg area. Next time we're back to visit EPA, I'll have to give 96.1 a listen. Last I knew until recently it was a religious station.
 
If I remember correctly, didn't one of these people (Captain or Cooke, or Steele or Crocket) have something to do with Saturday Night Live? They had written for the show or something. Am I making that up or am I remembering something real here? Anybody?
 
Hey Baxterspots:

You are thinking of Edd Hall. He did mornings briefly at Q-106 with The Captain during 1980's as well. He used the on air name of "Don Ryder". He was a writer for David Lettermen before he came to Q, and he left Q-106 to go back to write for Lettermen. He was most recently Jay Leno's announcer...before John Melendez. Edd and The Captain put out a comedy album while they were at Q-106.

Crock
 
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