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Just goes to show you how times change. When I was a kid I was a disc jockey, working the big markets of Southbridge and Fitchburg, Massachustts, playing all the hits and taking your requests. OK, so I occasionally had to provide live, breathless coverage of the opening of some stationery store who bought ad time from the ad manager (man, WKRP was dead on in its portrayal).
Now, things have changed. Now I get requests like, "can you find so-and-so's speech to the XXX convention."
The latest is a request for Gil Gutknecht. So here it is, complete with his little auctioneer thing at the beginning.
It ain't exactly "Stairway to Heaven."
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