Magic on You tube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2EI2KxaFtc

Note the dual stereo mics, akg 202e....and the gates executive console.. itc cart decks..  Framingham studios on Mt Wyate Avenue...

Here's some of Magics resume

This is from the website LA Radio.   He also worked at WHBQ, the place where Jed Duvall from WIBC was PD for about a year.  HBQ is one of the stations that sort of is in the broadway musical Memphis, though the story is more about the other AM in town. 

Magic more memories

 

Again from Bob Christy.

 

George and I were talking several weeks ago about how stupid it was that we didn't try harder to partner Magic and Shotgun as a team. The shows were so damn good, the two summers we had them together on WVBF may be some of the best radio ever done. None of us thought "team" in those days...too bad!  (if anyone has tape on this I can make it digital.- I do have the technology)

 

Black shirt, black pants and too much aftershave

More of Magic

 This from Bob Christy


When Jay Williams) and I were trying to get him straightened out financially by hiring an accountant to help him, then listening to Magic attempt to explain why $300 a month for pot was a budgetary essential. It worked though and it may have been one of the best things we have ever done, right Jay? Of course then Gwen left him and it was chaos again.

 

Magic was great with kids and they all loved him.

 

Magic would have a meeting with Jay, I'd ask him how it went and he would tell me everything Jay said using Ed Sullivan's voice.

 

Magic filling the pregnant pause in Lee Micheal's "Do You Know What I Mean" with a perfectly timed mouth fart.

More memories of magic

 

From Bob Christy;

When I was the PD at WHDH, Magic, recently divorced from the lovely Gwen, was working at WHBQ and had no where to go for the Holidays. I had him come to Boston to do Holiday fill-in and spend Christmas with us. He did 5 spectacular shows, so good in fact, Dave Croninger wanted me to fire Sean Casey and put Magic in PM drive. I talked Dave out of it  by telling him what he had heard the past week was everything Magic had and all we would get from then on would be variations on those themes. The Christmas morning "A little doe in your pocket" was amazing!  

(you should have shown Sean the door, as it might have mellowed him by the time he got to WROR where I had to deal with him stealing all the carts for his drop ins)

 

The dinner with Magic, Shotgun Tom and Wolfman Jack at Anthony's Pier 4, Magic and Shotgun, imitating the Wolfman perfectly all through dinner, the entire waitstaff and the other diners laughing their asses off and me driving home with aching ribs from laughing so hard.

 

Discovering the why I had a body print every morning on the shag carpet in my office (closet?) at WVBF, Magic was "shagging" Alida Roger's assistant on the floor virtually every night after his shift. He had discovered his house key worked in my lock!  Alida was the traffic director of both WVBF and sister AM WKOX..

 

Figures he lived in Natick

Also home to Doug Flutie, I lived in Natick as did several people from WRKO.  And our most famous resident was the late Bud Ballou.

From Bob Christy,  magics longest PD.

Magic worked in radio for over 35 years, he worked for me for almost 5, the longest time he ever worked at one station and for one PD.

 

His wife (stolen from Al Casey) Gwen looked like Morticia and she was a strange case. I went to a barbecue she threw for her redneck Mom and Dad when she and "Mag" lived in Natick. Her Dad, who could have been in the cast of Deliverance, had one of the strongest Southern accents you could imagine. Magic, stoned and drunk at the same time, sat across from Gwen's Dad and mimicked his accent perfectly, he did for the entire week they were there.

 

The times I would drive to Magic's house and rouse his lazy ass out of a "sick" bed and drag him to work or grab him by the shirt collar and march his ass to the studio to get on the air. He played sick so many times that none of us believed him anymore. I don't think he believed it either because he almost died of a burst appendix when he worked at WVBF

More wisdom from the Magic Christian

How he thought the ideal vacation would be "two weeks in an iron lung, so I wouldn't even have to breathe."  Or the time his mailbox fell off the house, and he didn't bother to put it back up.  After a week or so, the mailman told him that he couldn't, wouldn't deliver mail to Magic's house until he got a proper container.  After a few days without mail, Magic put a nail in the top of a broom handle, hung a bucket from the nail, and leaned the broom against the front door frame.  Never heard any more about that problem.   He may not have really listened to anyone, but in those early days, he was almost always fun to listen to.

(that from Jay Williams at DMR...Jay was Magic's GM at WVBF)