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Talent: FRANK BRODIE
Station: CKLW Windsor, Ont.
Date: August 27, 1969
Time: 15:52

(Photo courtesy Mike Marshall)

Frank Brodie tells Rock Radio Scrapbook how he wound up at the Big 8:

"Every once in a while, you get lucky. Right place, right time. Such was the case in late 1967, when Big 8 PD Paul Drew was in Alberta looking for jocks. He listened to CHED in Edmonton, called when he got back home, and asked if I'd be interested in working at CKLW. It took everything to keep a straight face.

When I flew in to meet Paul, I eventually found myself in Master looking through the glass at one of the legends. Tom Shannon was the first in a long list of radio "greats" with whom I got to share some space over the next five years.

Skip ahead almost two years. A friendly Texan, Jim O'Brien - father of Peri Gilpin ("Roz") on Frazier" - was PD. Big Jim Edwards had just replaced Charlie Van Dyke in mornings. Yours truly, Hal Martin, Ed Mitchell, Steve Hunter, Scott Regen and Pat St. John completed the lineup.

The Temptations "I Can't Get Next To You" was about to knock The Archies "Sugar Sugar" out of the top spot on the Big 30 and a kid called Elvis was hitbound with "Suspicious Minds". Hope you enjoy this small slice.."

Enjoy Frank Brodie on the Big 8 here.

(The Don Shuttleworth Collection)

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