Talent: GLENN (BIG G) WALTERS
Station: CKFH Toronto
Date: 1961
Time: 15:06 (UNSCOPED)
3:35 (SCOPED)

He talked the talk, and walked the walk.

Able to do virtually any music format - from Top 40 to progressive rock to easy listening and more - "Big G" Glenn Walters could certainly talk. And, as evidenced by his tour of 14 radio markets in a 40-year career, he did the "walk" too. His nephew, Rick Walters, tells us more about the incredible career of "Big G" Glenn Walters:

"Glenn was a great story teller, he loved to tell stories some true others were half true, others were totally fabricated. it was so enjoyable listening to his stories. I think today Glenn may have been more successful in radio than the time he spent at stations like CFTR etc. where it was get in and get out but you better entertain. When he spoke I was captivated, I don’t know if it was that I was enamored or just the way he told the stories or both. He was a great communicator, something that is missing in radio today. There are only a few good communicators today, to me those are the ones who are great at their craft, but that’s a whole different topic. I wish I could give you a year to year run down of the stations he worked at but I was just a kid and a lot of the stations we couldn’t pick up any way. I know he worked in Niagara Falls, London, Toronto, New York, L.A, Hawaii and Thunder Bay but I know there were small stops along the way.

I remember him telling me he was working in North or South Carolina and the huge bulbs they used at the transmitter to keep the station on the air were in the control room, yep the same room. He said it was a little intimidating, every time you cracked the mic all you could hear in your headphones was this constant hum from the tubes, imagine that happening today!! Glenn  loved radio and all he every wanted to do was play radio but the industry was changing rapidly and the fun was becoming secondary, more importantly he was a good man with a big heart, I really do miss him and the wonderful stories."

Walters is the only man to jock at each of the three Toronto rock stations CKEY, CFTR and CFTR (he was only missing CHUM for the career "Toronto Grand Slam"). From 1961 to 1964, Walters was a Good Guy at CKEY. In 1967, he succeeded Tom Fulton as host of "The Whole Bag", a late-night progressive rock show at CKFH that was a pioneer of the genre. He returned to Toronto in the mid-1970s at Top 40 CFTR.

Enjoy Glenn (Big G) Walters on CKEY (UNSCOPED) here.