Edition #1372 |
Talent: WEIRD BEARD
Station: WAKY Louisville,
Ky.
Date: November 20, 1968
Time: 1:00:43 (UNSCOPED)
27:21 (SCOPED)
Weird Beard put the "wacky" in WAKY.
The man born Burt Mackert was a nightime jock at WAKY from 1966 to 1971. As part of his act, the "dropout from bugle school" would play a bugle over the air. He especially enjoyed playing along with Herb Alpert's "This Guys in Love with You", which has a trumpet solo.
Not to be confused with Russ "Weird Beard" Knight of KLIF and KBOX fame, this Weird Beard left WAKY to take a PD gig at WBBF Rochester, New York. His departure coincided with his death of his son in a drowning accident. Mackert later worked as a dispatcher with the Rochester Police Department. He died November 22, 1995 due to complications from MS. He was 50.
Hear Weird Beard on WAKY
(UNSCOPED) here.
Hear Weird Beard on WAKY (SCOPED) here.
(The Joe Fazio Collection)
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