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Who was the guy on the old Q101 tv commercials?

Does anybody know this. I remember seeing these commercials as a kid. A white background with some weird dude with a beird. Any idea?
 
> Does anybody know this. I remember seeing these commercials
> as a kid. A white background with some weird dude with a
> beird. Any idea?
>

That would be Robert Murphy - "Murphy In The Morning."

And it's spelled "beard."
 
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> Does anybody know this. I remember seeing these commercials
> as a kid. A white background with some weird dude with a
> beird. Any idea?
>


Murph! I remember that one well! He was in a straight jacket, getting hauled away to the funny farm. (The happy home, with trees and flowers and chirping birds and basket weavers who sit and smile and twiddle their thumbs and toes HA HA!)
 
Murphy in the morning was a big biller for Q. The Switch parties were very profitable. Q101 was the equivalent of what a Hot AC is today. Very white. Beth, Pat Bentkowski in the morn with Murphy. Good morning show back then, very yuppie oriented.

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> Murphy in the morning was a big biller for Q. The Switch
> parties were very profitable. Q101 was the equivalent of
> what a Hot AC is today. Very white. Beth, Pat Bentkowski in
> the morn with Murphy. Good morning show back then, very
> yuppie oriented.
>
. . . and Danger Dan, Dave McBride, Ellenor(?) Mondale . . . 2nd only to Lujack in my book.


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> Murphy in the morning was a big biller for Q. The Switch
> parties were very profitable. Q101 was the equivalent of
> what a Hot AC is today. Very white. Beth, Pat Bentkowski in
> the morn with Murphy. Good morning show back then, very
> yuppie oriented.

However, "BobX" Murphy's latter morning misadventure helped sink a very interesting radio station in "hot talk" WLS-FM.
 
> Does anybody know this. I remember seeing these commercials
> as a kid. A white background with some weird dude with a
> beird. Any idea?

Robert Murphy....beard and straight jacket...
>
 
> > Murphy in the morning was a big biller for Q. The Switch
> > parties were very profitable. Q101 was the equivalent of
> > what a Hot AC is today. Very white. Beth, Pat Bentkowski
> in
> > the morn with Murphy. Good morning show back then, very
> > yuppie oriented.
> >
> . . . and Danger Dan, Dave McBride, Ellenor(?) Mondale . . .
> 2nd only to Lujack in my book.
> >

and mr. voice - pete stacker (mr. codgers among other characters)

murphy called his morning show "pornography with panache".

the stuff they used to do was hhhhiiiiiilarious.

when they did appearances at the club i used to dj in - the place would be wall to wall on a wednesday night. (the beach parties @ s.o.p. in palatine? yeah!)

for mornings back in the day - nobody could beat murphy....but johnny b...

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"...on a scale of 1 to 10, I give her a 2 - that's only because I've NEVER seen a 1."</P>
 
> > Murphy in the morning was a big biller for Q. The Switch
> > parties were very profitable. Q101 was the equivalent of
> > what a Hot AC is today. Very white. Beth, Pat Bentkowski
> in
> > the morn with Murphy. Good morning show back then, very
> > yuppie oriented.
>
> However, "BobX" Murphy's latter morning misadventure helped
> sink a very interesting radio station in "hot talk" WLS-FM.
>
Correct, that was not his forte. Could there be a home in today's Chicago radio scene for a Murphy return?
 
> > > Murphy in the morning was a big biller for Q. The Switch
>
> > > parties were very profitable. Q101 was the equivalent of
> > murphy called his morning show "pornography with panache".
>
> the stuff they used to do was hhhhiiiiiilarious.
>
> when they did appearances at the club i used to dj in - the
> place would be wall to wall on a wednesday night. (the beach
> parties @ s.o.p. in palatine? yeah!)
>
> for mornings back in the day - nobody could beat
> murphy....but johnny b...

And it seems to me that Q101 flipped to what was initially more AAA than modern simply because they thought that Murphy could work in that format (I had heard that they wanted to flip to country but Murphy said that he would walk if they went there). Turned out he really didn't fit, especially when they did break out the Nirvana and Pearl Jam records after about six months in, and he left when the contract ran out.
 
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