HUGH WILSON...Thanks For My Career
He died on January 14, 2018 at the age of 74.
Rewind the clock a few decades and I was a young man just getting into the hip hop art form of DJ'ing.
I was in high school and every week I would tune into the exploits of a crazy, zany family of co-workers at the fictional radio station WKRP in Cincinnati. I loved how the ensemble cast Venus Flytrap (Tim Reid), Johnny Fever (Howard Hessman) and the rest found their joy in music and communicating their love for music to an audience over the air.
Little did I suspect but even at the moment...WKRP was influencing me as I was creating mix tapes for my friends at Atlantic City High School.
Through the years every TV show that was about radio or TV has influenced me in positive ways from WKRP giving me a raw passion or Murphy Brown inspiring me to be the best original Raymond Tyler I can be, to all the shows that have come after.
WKRP however was the first.
Perhaps the most important lesson I learned from WKRP is that mistakes don't make you a loser or lesser. In fact with live radio you are going to mistake. In fact in following your life's goals mistakes happen. Quitting is what makes you a loser and sometimes it effects people you never know.
I know how the cancellation of WKRP effected me, because I had spent years hoping the show would return to CBS one day. Sadly, WKRP's cancellation has left a hole in my creative life that will never be filled.
Today I enjoy a wonderful career making people I will never see happy by playing music and telling them stories about the music, my life and how mistakes can lead you to greater stories.
HUGH WILSON thanks for my career and for one of my favorite phrases in TV History....
WHILE THE SENATOR INSISTS HE WASN'T INTOXICATED...COULD NOT EXPLAIN HIS NUDITY....
Through the years every TV show that was about radio or TV has influenced me in positive ways from WKRP giving me a raw passion or Murphy Brown inspiring me to be the best original Raymond Tyler I can be, to all the shows that have come after.
WKRP however was the first.
Perhaps the most important lesson I learned from WKRP is that mistakes don't make you a loser or lesser. In fact with live radio you are going to mistake. In fact in following your life's goals mistakes happen. Quitting is what makes you a loser and sometimes it effects people you never know.
I know how the cancellation of WKRP effected me, because I had spent years hoping the show would return to CBS one day. Sadly, WKRP's cancellation has left a hole in my creative life that will never be filled.
Today I enjoy a wonderful career making people I will never see happy by playing music and telling them stories about the music, my life and how mistakes can lead you to greater stories.
HUGH WILSON thanks for my career and for one of my favorite phrases in TV History....
WHILE THE SENATOR INSISTS HE WASN'T INTOXICATED...COULD NOT EXPLAIN HIS NUDITY....
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