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When Cousin Brucie Paid Tribute To Toronto's Own John Donabie
Cousin Brucie has never been on the air in Toronto, but many know him from his years at WABC and SiriusXM. The veteran jock, who at the ripe old age of 87, is still doing a Saturday night show at his old 77 AM stomping ground, says he's never felt as good as he does now. (A bit hard to believe, but OK.)
But he says when he came back to ABC, he knew playing the hits from the 50s, 60s, and 70s, were a given. But he was surprised when listeners demanded even more.
“That floored me,” said Morrow about the fans desire for the original jingles. “I didn’t even think of them. The third thing they wanted, which really knocked me out, they wanted my echo back. I meet people on the street and they look at me and I know what they’re thinking. 'Brucie, your voice sounds different? Where’s your echo?' So immediately I say to them the batteries died.”
As Dan Ingram once noted, "life without echo is really no life at all." How do you argue with that?
Cousin Brucie Talks His WABC Return & The One Guest He Can't Land
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I'm not entirely sure how this came about. But here's a rare moment of the legendary Cousin Brucie paying tribute to one of our own - the great John Donabie, an amazing jock, a terrific talent, a SOWNY member - and a truly nice man.
Perhaps if John sees this, he can tell us how this short phoner came to be.
Hear it here.
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According to an off-board email from John D.:
"I actually got it from Larry Leblanc. He got it for me when he was interviewing him."
Nice to have friends in high places!
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