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Talent: JACK SPECTOR
Station: WCBS-FM New York
Date: July 27, 1985
Time: 8:57

Jack Spector loved and lived radio. Few on-air personalities have enjoyed the simple pleasure of being on the air more than the man who signed off his show with the enthusiastic "look out street, here I come!" He has been described as a man "born to be on the radio."

Spector mastered one of the trickiest arts of broadcasting - being one-on-one with the listener. He always sounded like he was talking to you personally. Warm, friendly, upbeat, he had a style that seemed to perfectly suit New York radio. By all accounts, he was a nice person off the air as well.

Spector is perhaps best known for his 1-4 p.m. show at WMCA during its glory days in the 1960s. He reappeared at WCBS-FM and entertained with the popular "Saturday Night Sock Hop", before leaving in 1985. On March 8, 1994, Spector was on the air at WHLI-AM in Hempstead, N.Y., when he died of a heart attack. He was 72 and he died doing what he loved best - radio.

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