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AIRCHECK OF THE WEEK
For week of July 6, 2008
Weekly issue #486

Subject: JIM BRADY
Station: CFTR Toronto
Date: August 12, 1981 (last show)
Time: 15:39

Jim Brady's 1981 move from CFTR to CJCL was big news at the time

(Description and graphic courtesy Dale Johnson)

Jim Brady was CFTR's morning man from 1973 to 1981. Brady in the Morning eventually overtook the legendary Jay Nelson at CHUM.

Brady left CFTR briefly in 1978 for a stint at KOPA Phoenix, returning two months later. His final show at CFTR the second time around was on Wednesday, August 12, 1981.

Brady left for CJCL Metro 1430, the former CKFH, where he was morning man and program director. After a brief stay there, Brady had stints in Calgary and Winnipeg before returning to the Toronto market at country station CFGM. Brady later worked in Los Angeles and Ford Worth, Texas. His career began in his hometown of Toledo, Ohio in 1964, and included a stop at CKLW Windsor/Detroit in 1968. He retired from radio in June, 2008 after returning to Toledo at WRQN-FM.

We have Jim Brady's final CFTR show (the second time around). You'll also hear the voices of newscaster Mike Robbins and deejay George Hamberger, who came on each day at 10:00 a.m., right after Brady signed off with "come get me mother, I'm through!"

Hear Jim Brady's final CFTR show (the second time around) here.

(The Dale Johnson Collection)

More 1981 airchecks here!

Subject: THE GARBAGE SONG with JIM BRADY
Station: CFTR Toronto
Date: 1970s
Time: 2:39

Jim Brady at Toledo's WRQN-FM, his final radio stop

"It's become a soulless corporate entity." So Jim Brady told The Toledo Blade when he announced his retirement from radio in June, 2008. So ended a fabulous career that included stops in Windsor, Toronto, Fort Wayne, Ind., and Dallas. Brady planned to continue in real estate, and start an Internet radio station playing music from the '50s and '60s.

During his time as CFTR morning man in the '70s and early '80s, Brady was known for his fabulous "bits", including "The Song of Inspiration" and "The Garbage Song."

Enjoy "The Garbage Song" here.

(The Jim Brady Collection via Bill Dulmage)

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