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Larry Lujack Is My Hero

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This has nothing to do with Buffalo-Rochester, but it does have to do with radio. And attitude. And why I LOVE THIS GUY!!! ;D

Legendary Second City "Superjock" Larry Lujack tells
Robert Feder of
the
Chicago Sun-Times that he "couldn't care less" that he
never got to say
goodbye to listeners before he was fired as morning
co-host on WRLL-AM
(1690). Lujack, who was among the casualties of Clear
Channel's
decision to
pull the plug on its "Real Oldies" format, adds, "I
really think that
format
could have worked and could have been very profitable.
But as long as
we
were on a signal that went nowhere, it never really
had a chance."

Lujack, who served as sidekick to morning host Tommy
Edwards, working
from
his home in Santa Fe, New Mexico, told Feder, "I
really have no desire
whatsoever to go at this full-time again. I much
prefer being a
part-time
adorable sidekick guy. That way if it bombs, you can
always blame the
other
guy.

"Given the fact that I am still charming, still
delightful, and still
blessed with the God-given ability to pleasure the
listeners in every
conceivable way, you would think that some station
manager would be
eager to
throw money at me. But with the idiots running radio
stations these
days,
who knows?"

Lujack added, albeit sarcastically, "If I can't get
anything going, I
just
might consider filing an age-discrimination lawsuit or
pulling a Diann
Burns
and screaming racism. That would be my emergency
backup plan."
 
I read his book "SUPERJOCK" about 25 years ago. It was excellent. I'm surprised it was never made into a movie. Right after I read it, WKRP came on TV so maybe that took the wind out of it. He is one of radio's most talented and I agree with most of his views.
 
I read his book "SUPERJOCK" about 25 years ago. It was excellent. I'm surprised it was never made into a movie. Right after I read it, WKRP came on TV so maybe that took the wind out of it. He is one of radio's most talented and I agree with most of his views.
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I read his book in the mid 70s - everybody who was trying to get a radio career going back then seemed to be reading it.

I too miss those great days of personality driven radio. KB made great use of voicetracking with Jackson Armstrong in their former Oldies format. Too bad some enterprising person can't round up a lot of great classic jocks from around the U.S. and Canada and start a voicetracked classic dj network. While the general public doesn't know much about classic dj's(with the exception, perhaps, of their own listening area), it could catch on because the TALENT would be so strong. If nothing else, such a concept might make a great streaming audio website.

Just a thought.
 
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