In this Chapter, Murray the K goes off, after playing a song that WOR-FM was the first in the country to play, and for a good while it was the only station to play it.Rosko comes on, doing some scat singing to an instrumental I cannot identify, and he is doing his show live from a club called The Cheetah- I don't know precisely how long that continued.Now he was the one we didn't know from other stations, and he was the biggest surprise,His real name was William Mercer, often talked about how he had been a men's room attendant in New Jersey, and went by the name Rosko on air.He had a very interesting delivery, and did unusual things on his show, some of which I will get to.If you are interested, in this Episode I will play THE song that changed my life!It was Rosko who played it, and I was completely drawn to it.I don't know if that has ever happened to you, but it did to me in 1967- and it was when I still didn't have an FM Radio, still listening to someone else's, but now...now it was imperative that I get my own!So after serious thought, I confirm what I always suspected and play for you the song that changed everything for me.And was responsible for my deep and abiding love for our Music that continues to this day.I just hope YOU like it, lol!
Mike