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The Top 25

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Johnny Morgan

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Stole this idea from the NE Penna. board. All due apologies and other sundries to the folks over there.

Who are the Top 25 radio people in Cleveland of all time. Not just jocks, but also newsmen, owners, sales folks, engineers, management, etc.

This might be interesting. Please provide a short explanation why named person is important. Don't have to name 25, but throw out a few names YOU think are most important.
 
Don't remember if he was ever on the radio but if he was Ernie Anderson aka "Ghoulardi" would be near the top my list . He taught us toStay sick and Turn Blue I'd also cast votes for Doc. Nemo, Big Don Allen,Allen Douglas and Dick Liberatore.
 
Back in the day (late 1960's?) Charlie and Harrigan and Big Jack Armstrong. But should they count since they were here for such a short period?
 
The Top 25? OK. Here you go: from the era when I lived in NE Ohio (1950s-60s) (Harry) Martin & (Specs) Howard, KYW/WKYC, Johnny Holliday, WHK, Bruce Charles (News Dir.), WHK, Jim Runyon, KYW/WKYC, Bill Randle, WERE, Johnny Walters, WHK & WIXY, Don Imus, WGAR & WHK, Ted Alexander, WELW, WMJI & too many others to remember, Jim Stagg, KYW/WKYC, Don "Your LEEEEEADER" Armstrong, WKYC/WIXY, Bob Friend, WHK, WMJI & WAKR, Allen Michaels, WHK, Carl Reese, WERE, WHK, +, Keith Morris, WHK, Pat Fitzgerald, WHK, Jerry G, KYW/WKYC, Jay Lawrence, KYW/WKYC, Tom Carson, KYW/WKYC (news, sports), Dave Engel (news), WHK, Pete "Mad Daddy" Myers, WJW & WHK, Alan Freed, WAKR, Al James, KYW, WHK +, Joe Mayer (KYW, WHK, WGAR), Ray Otis, WHK & WIXY. I left Cleveland in 1966, so don't really know any of the jocks after that.

Don Williams
Orlando, FL
Former WHK Good Guy ('65-'66)
 
Thank you DonOnTheRadio!
That right there IS the Cleveland Radio Hall of Fame.
 
don you have a fantastic memory!!!! i remember listening to jerry g growing up when he did mornings on wakr1590. his skits with sam and serena were legendary and provided inspiration for gary the broadbank burbcasting to go into big fat, gilbert gnarley and earl pitts in the 1980s. i think jerry g spent some time in the cincy market after leaving neohio. let me know when you get the book put together. thanks-david5258
 
Re: The Top 25/David 5258

David,
Are you sure you're not thinking of Jerry Healey?? Healey was the long-
time morning jock at WAKR and I worked with him there after leaving WIXY
in 1973. Healey stayed for another year but then left sometime in 1974.
That's when Charlie Greer returned to WAKR after being at WABC in NYC
all those years. I heard Healey on the air late night from Cincinnati at the
old WCKY 1530, I believe. This was several years ago and I don't know
whatever happened to him.
Jerry G (Ghan) or Jerry G. Bishop as he later became known went
went straight to WCFL in Chicago to work for his old Cleveland boss Ken
Draper. Jim Runyon and Jim Stagg also went from Cleveland after leaving
KYW/WKYC. After Chicago, Jerry moved on to San Diego, where he's now
been for the last umpteen years. I don't know if he's still on the air because of all the station sales and format changes, but he was a long-time
fixture on standards station KPOP 1260. I believe he owns a restaurant or
two there also.
Chris "The Mighty" Quinn
 
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