Yes I'm Working at a radio station

It was for one, maybe two weeks. A contracted assignment tofill in for one of the radio show directors of marketing.I was to stand-in for her and assist others. This job came through our staffing company that mymother launched in the later 80's. They had an immediate need for someone inmedia relations, so they contacted her. She was busy filling positions elsewhere, already scheduled for one place temporarily while she ran this office so she asked if I wanted ' a change of pace '.

Sure why not, I only placed one client and the other leads were unimpressive closed curtain-call interviews with no hope, so I jumped at the chance. Little did I know that this type of position would lead meinto music from behind the scenes as well as on the listening end in my own home ! What a difference an environment, sound studio, recording area, microphones, soundbooths, etc etc makes when you go there to earn money. I found my basic instruction for front desk--thats what this chick did for that week but turns out her baby came first so she would come back the following week, but doing PR.

This radio station rotated its staff, unlike WKRP in Cincinnati, remember that show? So rehearsed and not even close to what a radio station operates on: tolerance, patience and very good music. This song by Will To Power and not originally sung by Peter Frampton, made a good day, great ! It was a favorite in the offices so it made it to the public intercom every morning. "Jam'n 92.3" Years was the time I worked here for the short stint, but it proved very encouraging. WLYT changed its call letters to WRQC in 1983. This radio station is no more but some of the people are still around and working for another favorite channel in Ohio magick 105.7

Anyway, 92Q was before WZAK even on the dial because WZAK was 93.1 but 92Q held her own for nearly a decade I believe if not two and made a music-appreciator out of me. It takes work to re-record a song to sound good in a station this small. The building had three stories but the full third floor had small studios to record in. I remember this ad running on our computer screens 92.3 WRQC ("All Hit RADIO--92Q") I remember the pride in making listeners feel good about what was being played over the airwaves, this was a good positive song about transformations and acceptance of. I appealed to it because a woman sang about love, pure untainted compassionate powerful LOVE. A will to power was their name and she sang her heart out.

The layout of the recording studio seemed immense. One whole wall was acoustic panels perfectly fitted together at the seams. About 1/2 way up the wall beginning from thebaseboards was a stack of speakers, Marshall Crates to be exact, one on top of the other within a foot from the ceiling. These simple constructed boxes were reading to amplify generously A minors, F sharps, and voices of performers that rocked one gently.

One evening after my shift had ended and I punched my time card, I strolled through the back hallway. I found one of the radio personalities still hanging around the station until the next disc jockey was starting her shift. I can't remember his name or I would tell me but he ended up over at majic 105.7 a few years later. Anyway, I asked him if I could pretend to sing to a bunch of people as if in 'a recording session'. He said sure why not and proceeded to start with this work-station favorite: Baby I love Your Way. I stood in the very middle of this 'acoustical heaven' and pulled the microphone down. It was off but he flicked a switch and my voice could be heard over hers. I sang anyway and projected it more gently so we almost sounded like a duo. It was brief but for that moment out there, I found me and music , singing especially, were copulating effervescently . . .