Wayne Shayne original evenings at WZUU Milwaukee

[wondorlandohits]

Do you know of him?

 

[pwayne1]

Remember him well from WUBE's Drake Top 40 days, very good Top 40 personality. I heard him also on WZUU in the early "70's, lived briefly in Chicago and got up in 95.7's territory occasionally. He also worked at WGCL
Cleveland and WAPE Jacksonville. My memory is failing badly, but I remember hearing him using the airname
"Sundance" somewhere.

I have an old aircheck from WUBE with him doing Top 40; he stayed on when WUBE went country on 4-1-69,
the pay was good and about half of the Top 40 jocks stayed. If you want, you can e-mail me at [email protected] and I may be able to send you the mp3.

Someone asked the whereabouts of Shayne on this board a few years ago, one response was that he had passed away in the late 80's - early 90's while at WHIO Dayton. I was not able to conirm this.

If you hear anything, I would appreciate it if you let me know.


Phil

 

[Former Dayton radio guy]

Wayne Shayne memories

I was a good friend of Wayne's in his final years. He was old for his years, only in his late forties at the time. I was a young announcer who had landed my first big job, and gravitated toward the grizzled old veteran. He was running the board at WHIO in Dayton, doing weather during breaks in Talknet. I listened for hours to his old radio stories during our pot parties at his small apartment. He was a sad individual, that gave me a perspective that guided me. He left WHIO in 1991 to follow an old programming buddy to Nashville where he hosted an overnight oldies show. He was fired shortly thereafter. He drifted for a while, even sending letters to friends begging them for money, and a return to his beloved Monterrey home. He made it to Kansas City, but passed away from complications of diabetes in 1992. Sad emding for a great talent.